The Tropical Fruit Forum

Saw this this morning, African pride on cherimoya seedling.
Here's hoping..., first time seeing this far from my graft attempts.
Just wanted to share...excited. 

just had a senior moment....read the post and was wondering why you were selling the seeds on amazon (dot com)....only took me like 10 minutes to figure out you meant the actual amazon.  lol

D'oh!

You are not the only one, Jeff!   

For me, I love a good Peach. Though I heard the newly introduced Pluots are on a whole nother level of greatness.

I certainly hope so Clay, since today I just bought Pluot Flavor Grenade bare root, and another Pluot Flavor King is on back order. (I am told that I need another plum for pollination).  I just have a little concern that my location doesn't get enough chilling hours at some years, but maybe you have no problem there in Temecula, right?
Cheers!

Yes, it's a very good idea to get your plant's inventory updated, it's beneficial to the poster as well as to other members in this forum, as was already stated.

As an alternate, I just listed my plant inventory/wanted list in docs.google.com's spreadsheet, then pasted it's url into the URL box of the Modify Profile page. To open it, one would need to do a copy and paste. (This box was probably originally intended to be filled with your home page's url-if you have one, so this method may not be acceptable to the Moderators.)

To make it simpler, and probably more convenience also since one needs only do one click right there at the forum's discussion page without going through the steps to get to the Modify Profile page, I pasted my spreadsheet's url right below my "Signature"; just like some people here do it already, to show their home page or their custom signatures...

Cheers!

edit: make the link shareable

What cause my young jackfruit leaves to look like this?
(First photo is the top side).

Looks like I need to do something to it, but
don't know what's the correct action to take... 

Thanks!

Quote from: Samu on February 02, 2015, 01:50:46 AM

Wow, that's a giant one, Simon!
I got nothing to show, mine are still too young, and of unknown varieties.
(Well, one of them is from Home Depot with no mention of it's variety.)
Well done!

Really?  You planted unknown varieties?  You shall be banished from this forum forever!

Sorry John, I hope you are not serious! 

Let me try to explain how this happened:
The other young cherimoya that I have is a seedling from my own tree I used to own for about 25
years, until we moved out from the house last year. As I mentioned somewhere, I have no idea what
the variety was; I just know it's the envy of our neighbors and relatives. In fact, I didn't know that there
are other cherimoya varieties out there! I still remember vividly I bought it from the same lady that is
now running the Mimosa nursery in the new location in Anaheim on Crescent Ave., but she was at the old Lincoln ave. location 25 years ago...; and again: no label to indicate what variety it was...!

Now that I now know there are other varieties (thanks to this forum), I will either top work these 2 or graft something better onto them...

"Did a quick survey and wanted to report the status of lychee bloom in my yard.

Mauritius.......2 trees, both blooming."

I got a Mauritius in a pot purchased few months ago, now it's showing this in many branches.
First time saw this, hope they are blooms. I wonder if anyone knows if Mauritius can fruit in SoCal?
Should I move this into the ground now?

@oscar I've wanted to plant nitrogen fixers around my trees but idk what does well in my tropical climate, what do you recommend

Quote from: davidgarcia899 on January 16, 2015, 04:18:36 PM

@oscar I've wanted to plant nitrogen fixers around my trees but idk what does well in my tropical climate, what do you recommend

Perennial peanut does very well here, and looks very nice with it's yellow flowers. You need a clean slate to plant it into as it doesn't compete well, especially with grasses. Once established some people here complain it grows all too well. But i don't have that problem as i mow my whole orchard. They are very easy to start and spread from cuttings.
I also have some native desmodiums and clovers that grow wild here. I encourage them and they've taken over very well certain areas of the orchard. If you mow regularly and low to the ground these types of plants tend to take over as they're not phased by the mowing, and grasses can't reseed themselves.

Oscar,
I like the idea of replacing our water hogging lawn with drought resistant ground cover (once established) that still look decent all year long; so your idea of Perrenial peanut is very intriguing to me. I notice through googling that they are readily available mostly in Florida and some of the Southern States but have not been able to find the nursery who carry this in SoCalifornia. Where did you get yours if I may ask? Thanks!

"If a triple Braided Longan variety fruit tree is too radical, perhaps the following solution is more adequate:
2 Variety Longan Cocktail Fruit Tree: Sri-Chompoo and Biew-Kiew varieties braided together and planted in the same hole"

Leo,
I like the idea of planting 2 longan variety in the same hole. Any reason why you pair Biew-Kiew with Sri-Chompo? I already have 3G Chompo, so, am contemplating of getting BKiew...
Thanks!

Wow..., so many activities coming up in our area too!
I will definitely plan to show up, at least  to a couple of them,
trying to not get too far behind from all of you guys... 

Thank you socal10b and fyliu!

Look delicious!
Never tasted Seelengkeng, nor Pulasan. Are they similar?
Wondering if any of those can bear fruit in SoCal...

Thanks Mike, Harry and Rob, for your time rendering your valuable opinion.
So, to summarize:
 -It's quite normal for the Soursop to loose leaves at 60F or lower
 -Stop watering
 -Stop fertilizing (this winter only?)
 -Bring it in or leave it outside?