The Tropical Fruit Forum

Just found this on the ground under my tree. Biggest eugenia stipitata my tree has made so far, these fruits smell amazing. Too sour to eat out of hand though. Anyone have ideas of what to do with the fruit? When u get a bunch of them at once I was thinking jam or juice

Hi!

I decided to document all the fruit trees I've planted in the yard.  Have a few different reasons for doing so: 1 share the info and pics of what I have with forum members, 2 hopefully clear up any mis identifications, 3 document what I've planted for friends and family incase somthing unfortunate should happen to me. With that being said feel free to ask any questions, and please challenge any identification u think I may be incorrect about. Also I may include some info about plants that seems irrelevant to forum members but that info would be for my family/friends to reference. In the future as the plants flower, fruit, and get bigger i can update details and photos. I'll be numbering the plants starting with #1 for reference. I'm starting in the front of my yard by the street and will work my way to the back of the yard. If I have more than 1 plant of an sp. I'll label them with a letter as well as a number. The letter (abcd ect) will reference those. A will be closest to the highway and then B the next closest and so on. Some plants of same sp. If any of this is confusing and u have any suggestion on how i should list things differently please lmk. I'll try to update with new plants and photos at least once a week. This going to take a long time to complete lol
Im Starting this list with everything I have planted outside my fence on the roadside and will work my way through the yard from there. I'm not going to include most of the trees my Dad planted (mostly citrus and avocado) because the varieties names are lost. Not including my 5 loquat cocktail trees because I just lost my reference sheet identifying what branches are what variety, super big bummer.
#1 i have labeled as "tropical olive". It has not flowerd yet


#2A canistel seedling flowering


#3 eugenia sp. Blackberry(may have mixed up tags on this one) not flowering

#4 mammea africana not flowering

#5 elephant apple not flowering


#6 red flesh salak from Frankie's. Only salak I'm keeping, it's fruiting. Thorns are shorter and wider than other salaks I've seen, by far the best flavor I've tried for salak!



#7 cut nut, not flowering g

#8B canistel seedling, it's flowering and the better tasting of myb2 seedlings. If u purchased canistel scions from me u got these plants.



#9 labeled pitomba but possibly mixed up tags. Looks like mybother pitomba though. Not flowering yet.

My tree has been fruiting for it's 3rd year and is pretty loaded up with fruit currently, lots if flowers that smell amazing. Wanted to offer the seeds, I'll start stock piling them. Selling seeds as a $50 pack, the pack will have 25+ seeds. Will ship the seeds in an envelope and pad seeds with bubble wrap. Only going to accept 1 order at a time, so I don't get ahead of myself. Will update the thread as more seeds become available.

Aloha Zack

Just harvested my first cheena from fruitlovers nursery. The fruit was almost too ripe when i picked it, and seemed like it was starting to ferment. Not as much of a sugar bomb as Sri gading and texture was even softer which could have been from overripe. Flavor was more on the pineapple side, my son and I like the Sri gading alot more flovarwise. The fruit was so ripe pulling the flesh out was messy because the skin was just falling apart and covering the pulp. There was no latex inside the fruit and there was a ton of pulp. Was surprised the seeds were so small

I have one ripe fruit of annona slyvatica it contained 8 seeds total. Selling them for $45 which includes $12 shipping. No more fruit on the tree so this is all I have to offer. It looks and tastes like a baby rollinia

Aloha Zack

Was just walking through the yard and noticed my e. Pisiformis is flowering for the first time. A couple months back I took out some bananas that were shading it and it's been flushing growth ever since.

Hi forum members,

I was doing some grafting the other day and got the idea to post any available scions I have in hopes of trading with forum members. I plan on taking all the scions in a couple of weeks and sending everything out at once. Please PM me if u want anything and let me know what u have to trade. Im mostly interested in scions of plinia sp. Although open to anything u have to offer including plants. A few days before I ship everything I'll update this post with prices of anything that isn't alredy accounted for, so members without anything to trade with will have a chance to build their collection. Scions will be small, medium or large. Small is chopstick or a bit thinner, medium will be a but thicker than chopstick, and large will be about sharpie thick. To anyone who has purchased scions from me in the past and didn't have success, you can reach out to me. If you paid for a variety and had zero success I'll send you free scions if cover the shipping. Some of the scions I'm offering iv never grafted so I'm unsure of the difficulty or compatibility for certain things like ingas, cupuassu or gowak. So please do your own research. Sorry if the way I listed this is hard to understand, still new to making posts on the forum.
I have the following scions available:

Hi I have an achacha that I'd like to dig up and relocate to another place in my yard and would like to get any advice that will help the relocation be successful. The tree is about 7 years old, reason I'm moving it is because I stupidly planted it 8 feet away from a 40 foot royal palm. The royal palm drops huge fronds and seed pods that damage the achacha. It only had 4 leaves when I planted it in the ground and it's a miracle the achacha survived all these years under the palm. This last year my achacha took a few hard hits and some branches cracked at the main stem giving ants a place to enter the tree. I sprayed a sealer over the wounds which seems to have deterred the ants. Finally realized that the larger my achacha gets the more chance there is for it to get hit by the dropping palm fronds. Especially with the horizontal shape the tree is taking. At this point I'm convinced the best chance the tree has will be relocating it. My plan is to move the tree when there is wet weather expected sometime around October, in the beginning of our rainy season and the days are getting shorter. About 6 weeks before the removal I'll dig into the ground deep as I can with my mud gun in a circle around the tree about 2 feet from the trunk, and do it again at 3 weeks. That way the roots don't all have to be cut on the day of removal. Also was thinking I should prune the tree back about two thirds prior to moving it. I figure I'd need 3 friends to help pull the root ball up and help man handle it to the new hole. Then lots of water for the achacha while it gets used to its new home.  If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it. I'd be pretty bummed if I killed it durring the move but I think the tree is gonna take a direct hit one of these days and die anyway.

Aloha Zack