The Tropical Fruit Forum

I also have my GH on concrete (asphalt anyways) and think it's a winner for the winter. If we get consistent sun during the day, it holds temps nicely. Last winter was rough, it was flooding all the time and barely any sun to heat it up.

Good looks Louie, I am also an SB collector, hope to meet you! Amazing you're pulling that off here.

Here’s my green sapote just hanging out in an industrial parking lot.

Anyone have some seeds for sale or trade of Psidium striatulum I'm looking. I had this species in the past and lost it due to planting in a spot which got flooded for 2 weeks.

Give me a couple weeks and I can send some fruit.

Satya, the farm sounds like a great place to be.

+1, that place sounds epic. Hope you'll allow visitors!

I have grafted papaya's in the past.Looks like a strong plant

Thought about it, the way it branched out is cool, just hard to get a plant with a nearly 2" trunk that's ready to go here in CA.

They are "feminized"

I somewhat regret not waiting longer to see if these were male or female. It's such a hog of a papaya now I don't have the heart to take it out. I was watching hummingbirds flying in the middle hitting the flowers, and the flowers smell like fruit loops. I think it'll stay as an ornamental. There's a brewery in the same parking lot so I highly doubt I'd get any fruit off of it anyways if female... Customers would drunkenly steal the fruit.

Awesome to see this from you all down south. I really wish I were in San Diego county these days...

Definitely want a couple of these, if you'll ship!

I am skeptical of any drain rock or sheeting / netting success long term unless it's a complete basin with walls above ground. Gophers can go as deep as 6'. My neighbor trenched down 3' and used aluminum lath as subterranean fence, they got underneath it. A family friend used chicken wire and about 4 years later it had rusted out and they were in the gardens. They tunnel right under the lath as well, and then your roots just end up air-time. I need to pull my raised beds up to check this out, at some point, just a ton of work... God... I hate them!

Trapping has proved very successful for me on my 1 acre planting area, but bordering a national forest, the gopher pressure is immense and never ending. At this point, I trap them half for my orchard, half for sport. I'm at 25+ this year, I think, but I extended my trapping range out to my neighbor's and side of the highway and that has really made a noticeable improvement.

I want to build one of those generator type deals. I heard legend of a local commercial trapper who would put traps on the sides of the orchards, smoke bombs at the bottom, and then the generator exhaust at the top... What a campaign!

I have a neighbor who has been an awesome helper with my greenhouse. I make sure to share plants, food, drinks, and offer to pay (which he always refuses) and he has been wonderful. Having a huge meaningful collection of rare plants is a serious weight on your shoulders... It's tough to leave and trust someone.

I offered to pay him $40 per day, it's an easy 1hr at my place on a hot day, even with drip irrigation installed.

My suggestion is to find someone who is really into plants of some kind. Houseplant people have WAY more challenging conditions in a lot of ways, some of those things are super picky. Maybe there is a club in your area? Anyone who has or takes care of pets also, is going to understand the conditions.

Plantinyum,
Any issues witch phytotoxicity with that regiment? I’m always worried that sprays will damage new growth or flower buds. I heard star fruit doesn’t handle oil sprays well. Also how much is neem oil, vs an ultra fine hort oil. The canola oil product with pyrethrine was 30usd per litre, which is ridiculous. I need to get over my “eco” obsession and use an ultra fine mineral oil compound which is half the price.

Haven't noticed any issues personally, even with hefty doses of Neem, Hort soap, and now this mix of plant oils I've been spraying for mites with. Never an issue, even spraying in AM and sun rising directly after. Fruit still sets on sprayed flower buds, but I try not to spray open flowers when possible.

Getting spooky 👻
Pink, white, strawberry asking for help the lemon isn’t shy of the cold

Strawberry guava is as bullet proof as lemon. Send it. Mine were absolutely loaded with snow and didn't defoliate or even blink.