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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Flowering Yellow Jabo Scion
« on: March 26, 2024, 11:41:06 PM »
 I have a big flowering yellow jabo and another member was kind enough to trade scions with me for cross pollination.  As such, I had to prune my tree.

I have some nice diameter branches if you want them.

$5 each min 2
$12 ship




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: March 25, 2024, 03:06:26 PM »
Was awesome hosting you tropicaltoba!

My home is always welcome to passer's by if you have the time. I am pretty conveniently located if you're going from SF to LA, in fact, you'll probably save 15 min driving on the highway pass I live on anyways - but you'll lose more time with the tour added.  ;D

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I know the discussion is about a more jungle / tropical type climate, but just to make you all laugh, I'll chime in from SoCal. If I stopped doing maintenance, I would wager about 75% of my stuff would die of thirst in the first year, and those that didn't die of thirst, would have their roots eaten by gophers in under 2-3 years because my landlord doesn't care about plants and pressure is super high here in the forest.

This is a reality I will have to face, at least for my in ground plants, since I rent where I live. I will be pulling out everything I can when the time comes, but some stuff just can't come out.

You all who get regular rain should thank the sky-gods.

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It kind of does hurt to try if you are asking for essentially free labor, free fruit, and subsidized shipping. Lots of real nice folks on here, but there is a limit to their kindness. The prices people charge on here are super reasonable. Save your pennies for awhile and pay the money for the experience, I promise, it's worth it. If  that means you have to wait til the next season, that's just something you gotta do sometimes.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cheap Guajava Seedlings / Sleeves
« on: March 22, 2024, 12:54:40 PM »
Anyone have a source for guajava rootstocks? I can find airlayered plants here in nurseries for $40-$60 for 3g's but that's kinda steep. I want to propagate some of my rare psidium, which I've found graft onto guajava just fine.

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Pity. I just picked up simpson show stopper. I what if I can graft onto that.

I tried many eugenia cross species grafts last year with minimal luck. Get some CORG seeds or seedlings and grow them out, then hit me up when you're ready in the future.

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Funny, I must be cursed.

I bought one that was nearly 8' tall and put it in ground maybe 18+ months ago it's very healthy but no blooms. The second one I got is nearly 5' tall in ground and same thing. Grrr...  >:(

Prune it. Guava fruits at the tips.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Variegated Feijoa Scions
« on: March 21, 2024, 01:28:35 PM »
Wow! Scions arrived today and I’ve already got them grafted.
Thanks so much for making these available!

Glad they worked out for you. I tried to send some good stuff!

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Can they root from cutting?

Not that I know of. I have tried a few times with various methods.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: March 19, 2024, 07:07:29 PM »
Forgot to mention I did get these fabulous yangmei scions, and I am excited to see if they work on this Californica. If they kill the plant again, I swear to god, I give up other than seedlings. This Californica has been in ground since around Sept or Oct last year and has been growing robust.









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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: March 19, 2024, 04:27:11 PM »
I had purple pearl and the "giant" one they were selling as well, rats got a ton of them but they keep popping up. I should net a few seedlings. I have 4 or 5 seedlings out in the yard that are looking pretty good right now as well. I'll get some photos.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Variegated Feijoa Scions
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:48:19 PM »
Just about out of these. Last chance. I have either bigger, or smaller wood now - pencil size is out.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Do you leave leaves under trees?
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:13:03 AM »
I leave all my leaves and pruning under the tree they came from.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Trees
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:12:13 AM »
JCorte, Didn’t know about the spice zee, I’ll do that. So when you have a small green fruit set manually remove the flowers?

Robert, the grafts didn’t work very well on the cherries. The union is super ugly. They look to be growing ok for now, but already figured I’d have issues. Many didn’t work. Do you have Adera? I have some branches I can do in Adera now so I can transfer for next year. They look like they’ll hold up till then. 

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I’ve had fruit off one of the orange (I have two),  the other flowered last year but didn’t produce. The fruit on the orange was very good, but I’ve learned to wait till a big crop before passing any judgement.

1 San Marcos
2 ScottR
3 Ben’s Beaut
4 El Dorado

Orange is not of the same vein. It’s sweeter and doesn’t taste like cherry of the Rio grande to me. It wasn’t  as complex but is certainly something I look forward to eating.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Trees
« on: March 18, 2024, 02:07:25 PM »

Update on this cocktail stone fruit


And citrus cocktail

Really happy with how both of these are progressing, although I will always wish I stumped the citrus first...

Forgot the cocktail apple




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Variegated Feijoa Scions
« on: March 17, 2024, 11:55:41 PM »
I will be shipping tonight's orders tomorrow, just need to grab some more flat rate boxes.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Variegated Feijoa Scions
« on: March 17, 2024, 04:15:28 PM »



Was incredibly lucky to do some grafts of this, and access scions. It’s  the only variegated feijoa I know of personally, but seen a few online. Supposedly it is fruitless, but it wasn’t planted close to other trees. It does flower though, and it’s a great pattern.

I have various sizes of wood from 3/8” to toothpick. Lots of pencil size and a bit under.

$20 each pencil size scion - minimum 2
$30 for bigger wood
$12 ship flat rate USPS

PayPal via friends / family only


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Did some CORG pruning and have some scions available.

Lots of Orange CORG, good caliper pieces, bit smaller than a chopstick
$10 each

Ben’s Beaut
$10 each

El Dorado
$10 each (one big one available, about chopstick diameter)

“San Marcos”  this is my seedling and it’s the best CORG I’ve tried so far
$20 each

Minimum 4 scions can mix and match

Shipping via small flat rate $12

Payment via PayPal Friends / Family




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Just a mini Rant about Youtube
« on: March 16, 2024, 05:20:53 PM »
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What part of Santa Barbara has ancient beach sand?

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Where did you come across the deeper analysis of their farm's economics?

John Chester inherited a significant sum of money, and they admit they had investors in the movie, but it's a single line and not expounded on afterwards. Their AMA on Reddit is honestly kind of hilarious. They didn't answer any of the financial questions. If you have the time, there is quite a bit of PI work in the thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/u7csbn/we_are_john_and_molly_chester_of_the_biggest/

Thanks.
What does PI stand for?

Private Investigator

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Canadian in California where to go
« on: March 15, 2024, 10:12:33 PM »
From LA to the Redwoods is a great drive, I've done it many times, hopefully you're taking the 1 and the RV isn't too big. There are some nurseries in the LA area that are worth a look: Champa and Mimosa, which have a lot of nice tropical and sub-tropical plants at very decent prices. There are a few collectors I know of between LA and SB, but they're not on TFF.

If you're driving up the 101, you are welcome to stop by my place, also a Canadian, but been living here for 10 years. It is pretty much on the way, and there is ample room for an RV to park.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Please help, multiple plant emergencys
« on: March 15, 2024, 04:12:34 PM »
Amazon carries a lot of Fox Farms products. A bit pricey, but worth it for rare, treasured, and pricey plants.

After years of trialing other soils, I find OF to actually be an outstanding value. I can run stuff in it for years at a time. My cherry tomatoes are on their 3rd year in the same pot, just throw some slow release on top and they're good to go.

This doesn't even account for the substantial reduction in plant and seed losses.

By the time you're collecting really rare stuff, the soil is more of a rounding error compared to how much time, money, and effort you put into these things.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Please help, multiple plant emergencys
« on: March 15, 2024, 12:04:17 PM »
A lot of your issues will be solved with a better medium, imo. Get a well draining, heavy on the perlite / sand type of soil that is not so wood chip based. Every single time I've used those types of soils, looks like Kellogg, I have lost seedlings. Recommend FoxFarm Ocean Forest, check your local hydroponics store.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cacao questions
« on: March 12, 2024, 08:01:14 PM »
I did a bean to bar chocolate class. This didn’t include fermenting the beans and all that part, they showed up dry. It took two days, and is crazy work.

If you are successful such that you can just get fruit that’s your prize. Don’t bother with the notion of bean to bar. You’ll need to roast, then crack the beans, use a winnower to collect the chaff, and then use a melanger to polish the chocolate before tempering. I was going to go headlong into it as I’m a chocolate fiend but decided the several thousand dollars of equipment and effort needed was genuinely not worth it at all. I can buy a lot of primo quality chocolate with that money and it shows up in my mailbox and I eat it.

If you really want to try to do this, at least first sharpen your teeth with pre roasted beans here:

https://shop.chocolatealchemy.com/?_gl=1*1vpumv0*_ga*NDU2OTU0MjkxLjE3MTAyODc4OTY.*_ga_TX234303R1*MTcxMDI4Nzg5Ni4xLjAuMTcxMDI4Nzg5Ni4wLjAuMA..

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I don’t have the details on the merging.

They grow the same for me. I haven’t experienced die back on either of other than a few inches from frost on the leaders.. The CORG is a stronger grower, from my experience. I find my calycina to be lankier and droopier.

There is very little difference between them, this all said. It’s just the fruit shape, it is also more tart and metallic flavor, and the leaves being drier and narrower as far as I can tell. I will have a few other calycina cultivars this year to test.

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