The Tropical Fruit Forum

@aerakrimes is my main
@kgogarden is my half-assed plant only account that I should update more than once a month probably

@kgogarden is now @sbfruittree

set a trap to catch
id put hot sause around area and hot pepper flakes around base of tree

+1 on trapping all rodents.

My season is here starting off with a good size Cosmic Charlie.

Sabara was bulletproof.

While I can somewhat attest to that, it has seen 25f a couple times, and two days of snow last year, it is not bulletproof. It fully defoliates and after the snow this year it has more or less taken a whole year off from fruiting and growing well.

I don't think you're helping these trees at all by leaving them below 40f. They're parked and not growing at all anything below that.

Red, white, scarlet, aureana etc are not as cold tolerant as sabara which, other than Campo Ramon and Grimal, is the only "cold hardy" jabo.

I tried putting "skittles" psidium sp (it has same leaves as guineense) onto Guajava and it grafted up fine and is growing robustly on my guajava tree. I have a feeling that *most* psidium should be compatible with each other.

I have cattleianum yellow and red, they both grow nicely, and with far more frost resistance than guajava. Guineense appears to be closer to guajava in its cold hardiness, or lack thereof. What I do note is that cattleianum will take lots of water and grow / fruit best with more than less. I don't know if you'll really make big headway using cattleianum as rootstock, honestly. A big plant with lots of fruit desires lots of water.

Awesome! Welcome to the forum, nice to see another 805'r

I keep 4 trees in one pot that are in desperate need for a repotting. They’ve definitely experienced mid 30s in my greenhouse with no problems. Two of the trees briefly flowered for the first time this year after growing from seed 3 yrs ago

Could you post a photo of the whole plant?

I have some I'm testing out here in 9b, but they're kinda under some oaks. Hope they'll take some frost! There is a huge thicket of them established down in town at Franchesci Park, so there is a chance, but that's 10a.

This one is in one of the best spots on the entire property. It used to have a cherimoya but it died, it seems to be doing pretty well.


This one has been in ground for some months, hasn't grown much at all but I see some promising signs at the nodes.

I alredy see some odd yellowing on several buds so i quess the massacre is about to begin.....

If little buds go yellow I'll push them off, it's satisfying. I caution you to be confident that the fruit has actually set or not, I often lose them a week or two after pollination. Sometimes even 3-4 weeks later. If the bud is wiggly at all, it will fall off and it's not a set. If it's firmly attached, it's set.

Youre a legend Kaz

He really is! Thanks for these Kaz!

Kevin, if your seedlings grow well, I'll send you scions to graft, assuming my grafted plants make it.

Janet

Appreciate it Janet, will be at least a year by the looks of how slow things establish in my yard. It seems there is a 2 year wait for any real growth, then it goes well. I'll get a photo of my in ground seedlings soon.

Kevin, My m. californica has died back too all the grafts from excellent wood from Brad finally died some seemed to be going to push then failed. I cut back all the trucks one is still green at ends so time will tell. But I'm leaning towards Kevins, way of thinking lost two  grafted plants from original buy now this is 2nd time i grafted to m californica with no success so might be time to say no more for me too 
I applaud all the folks who have successfully grown yang mei and I wish you all fruitful future growing 

I have some seedlings for you next time I see you, to help assuage the pain! I have had much better luck with them, and for the price of one fruit (which I enjoyed anyways) it doesn't hurt if they die on me.