The Tropical Fruit Forum

Received this email today and sharing it for those interested in picking up this new variety and attending the presentation.

If anyone is already familiar please share your thoughts/experience, thanks 🙏
-Joe

Looking to buy guava rootstock, ideally 10 guava seedlings in 1 gallon containers with pencil size diameter trunk girth, I can drive to meet for pick up from palm city south to homestead. Please DM me with price/availability.

Thanks,

Joe

Selling scions 5$ each with 6 scion minimum and 10$ shipping. Sale ends Saturday 3/4 at 5:30pm all orders will be shipped out on 3/6 with tracking number provided. First come first served via direct message time stamp while scions last.

Trees were defoliated to stimulate bud formation, scions will be cut and wrapped in parafilm. Scions will be pencil to 1/2 in thickness and 6in long. 

Happy to answer any questions,

-Joe

Fernandez

Fernandez


Painter

Went out today to assess yard post storm Nicole, noticed one of my salaks is flowering. Seems of all the things this took a beating as the long fronds catch the wind while shallow weak roots… if planting out where high winds are a concern place in protected area 👍

Wondering if these are male or female flowers or still too soon to tell?






Here’s a great link on different types: https://www.thesnakefruit.com/blog/snake-fruit/what-is-salak-bali/

Originally bought these seeds from Han sun as “honey salak” and have a few growing out in my yard now, hoping to try this fruit someday and todays news reignites the hope!





-joe

Really curious to try this, as I enjoy dried figs and dates in my morning oatmeal and on their own which I hear it’s similar?

If anyone is selling please reach out.

Thanks
Joe

Hey Forum,

I was visiting a friend recently and remarked on the leaves of a plant I’d never seen before and he gave me an off shoot of what he described as “I don’t know what the hell it’s called but it produces a giant edible potatoe and here grow one too.”







Can anyone ID this?

Thanks,
Joe

Hey Forum,

Going to be selling some mango scions if anyone is interested. Here are the terms: Sale is open now and closes midnight Friday 7/15/22, first come first served while supplies last, all scions are 6$ ea with minimum order of 5 scions plus 10$ USPS priority small box shipping. Example minimum order is 40$ shipped. All scions will range in size from 1-2 "pencil" size girth and 6 in length, they will be wrapped in parafilm (optional unwrapped if wrapping in buddy tape yourself) and separated into individually labeled ziplock bags. All orders will be shipped out Monday 7/18/2022 which should reach you by Friday that week. Tracking numbers will be sent out individually via DM. Payment is accepted via PayPal friends and family.

Scions available:

Sweet Tart (limited)
Orange Sherbet (limited)
Lemon Zest
Super Julie
Prete

The "Prete" mango, is my seedling Ivory mango which I have written about on 7/27/2021 on this thread scroll to last page https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=6398.875

Below are two pictures of Prete next to Super Julie.







Prete is my last name and translates to priest in Italian, where the name comes from.

Thanks for reading,

-Joe

Hey Forum,

Wanted to put this out there and see what others may be experiencing, but for two seasons now I’ve been trying to cross ‘painter’ fka ‘cherilata’ with other annonas in my collection and I’ve come up completely empty handed when it’s used as pollen parent. I’ve tried painter x sugar apple, painter x geffner, painter x el bumpo, painter x dream and nothing sticks when used as pollen. I’ve found painter is receptive to sugar apple pollen and I’ve gotten a few fruits to set as female parent. Has any one else tried these crosses and achieved fruit set as pollen parent?

This is an observation, but it sent me down a rabbit hole and I came across this article : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378316/#!po=0.925926

Evidently, sometimes Annona hybrids can be naturally occurring Triploid or Tetraploid variants which can have an effect on their ability to reproduce. In this paper it is mentioned that:







So I’m curious if it’s possible that ‘Painter’ may be a triploid hybrid which would explain why none of the pollen is working 🤷‍♂️ I guess to confirm this would require a flow cytometer to karyotype a leaf sample 🤔.

-Joe

Hey guys,

Has anyone tried grafting matoa onto longan or any other rootstock?

Cant find any info on this, if it’s compatible or not.

Thanks,

-Joe

About half the fruit forming on the tree has blush on it, I’ve never seen ice cream mangos with blush could this be some metaxenic effect maybe?

Then here’s a panicle that grew leaves at the end and is flushing again off the tip of the panicle 🤷‍♂️😂

-joe

https://www.eater.com/22618349/pakistani-mangoes-chaunsa-anwar-ratol-buy-usa-whatsapp-shipping-supply-chain

-Joe

Going to eat these avocados in next day or so, if anyone wants the seeds I’ll send them to you for 20$ , available to US residents only. DM me if interested.

Thanks,
-joe

Here’s a seedling papaya of waimanolo x-77. I have two of these trees growing now and I think it’s interesting to note that my fruits are more melon shaped than the x-77 solo “pear” shape images I’ve seen online. Also my trees aren’t dwarf like x-77 is said to be. I’ve nicknamed it “tree cantaloupe” because the flesh is firmer than average papaya, like a cantaloupe , and the flavor is like a mild mango meets passion fruit sans tartness. I was also growing the sunrise solo papaya but I’ve since culled them because I prefer the x-77 seedlings.












-joe