The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thry will throw out root suckers everywhere and easily take over your yard.  Careful where you put blackberries if you dont have a lot of space.

3 ft spacing is fine, just realize that they sre very aggressive and will fill in and spread.  Especially the thorny upright ones.  They are the most agressive and invasive type.

Agreed! In my yard, started producing in 2nd season, grew wildly and yes, suckers abound; after harvesting the 3rd season, I pulled them all off...: too much maintenance and very thorny. (I heard those thorn less variety is not a good producer).

Thanks again for the replies guys, I decided to cut off half of the panicles, leaving the other half alone; let see what's going to happen with them this coming Spring...

Thanks Behl, I noticed that too, but Drip depot’s free shipping minimum is $49 compared to $149 at Sprinkler Warehouse, as a small backyard grower the Drip depot serves me better...

Sorry to see what happened to your plants around the house. In my area where I live in the flat land, the wind blows "only" about 20 -40 Mph; so practically no damage suffered, but I guess since you are on a hill, the wind is stronger.

 I try to make a habit of checking the wind and night temperature  in the Fall and Winter here in SoCal, but sometimes still forget and caught me by surprise...
Hope no serious damage in your orchard, Brad!

Wow, that is plenty of info about "Peggy" mango, right here at this forum; interestingly I couldn't find any when I Googled it earlier.
Thanks a lot Oolie!

The 4yrs old budwood I obtained from my own "NamDocMai" mango is now holding a single fruit on a Manila rootstock for the first time. (While the original grafted NDM tree I bought in Sept. 2014 did not produce any fruit yet).
But from the looks of it, I am doubtful if it is an NDM if I compare it to other NDM mango photos elsewhere:
 


Hope someone(s) can help me guesstimate of what kind of mango do I have instead?

Thanks Millet for sharing a useful and important info.
Hoping to continue reading your valuable opinions...

I am looking to do the same thing to the CnC I just lopped.

FG is still under patent, but I would not be opposed to approach grafting, but that would mean seeking out an already grafted one which is far more difficult than getting the budwood of an off-patent but similarly appreciable variety.

I've already decided some of the tree will be an apricot. Maybe there are some similar low-chill pluots that members of this forum could recommend.

Yes Oolie, thanks for the added info, I was thinking maybe the OP needs to go get to purchase the tree instead, thus providing multiple potential scions, since OP likely needs to do multiple grafting on the multiple sprouts that would normally come out from a topped tree. The concern that we have in SoCal is the chill requirement of the FG; Dave Wilson site says it needs 500-600 hours, but I see OP said this is for Santa Barbara region, which is further North than LA/San Diego. My tree is still young, in fact it fruits the first time this season even in my less than the chill requirement specified above, so Santa Barbara's location should be an advantage in this department.

Just for and added note, I even regard the FG flavor to be even better than the rave reviews of SpiceZee nectaplum: a lot juicier, sweeter and as the name implied "imploding" flavor like a grenade, as one magazine described it...
(I didn't bother typing more earlier since it was awkward to do so on a tiny smartphone screen...). By the way, I still can't figure out what CnC stands for, it shows I am still a newbie...

Correction: Double check the chill hrs. of FG: "300-400 hours below 45°F"  Samu 09/11/19

Looks like you are on your way to becoming tropical fruit tree growers, congratulations!
Glancing at your photo, seems like you got plenty of open space available and having the favorable climate where you live, a great combinations to growing more fruit trees!
Wish you more successes in the future!

Your young avocado trees look so healthy.
I also notice that you use adjustable mini sprayers to irrigate them. That's
what I use on some of my trees, besides using drip lines as well.
I am thinking of yanking my very slow growing Holiday (bought in pot)
with a direct seed in the ground planting; learnt it from Simon's thread.
Thanks for sharing those pictures, Brad!

Just wanted to update this old thread; while googling around, I found someone who stated living in Orange County zone 10a-10b (SoCal) was able to grow and fruited to maturity of Soursop tree she grew from seed.

She (user name "Diana ---") also included some photos of the fruit(s) while it was still hanging and when she cut it open, her first entry was dated June 30 2017, in case you want to jump to it.  Here's the website where I found it:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2186787/do-you-have-a-soursop-that-is-producing-fruit-for-you

So, there is one proof that I can find, hope this will give encouragement to others and myself. So, I intend to plant the 2 seedlings that I have into the ground...soon!

That fruit looks like still hard to touch, so it’s crunchy. If you can wait for snother week or two, they become softer, sweeter and bigger at a fast rate. Sorry tor spelling error, hard to correct on iphone...