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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB: Double delight / Desert Delight nectarine
« on: April 14, 2025, 03:36:51 PM »
Anyone in the San Diego area have scions for these two nectarines?
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Temperate Fruit Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: ISO Cot-n-candy scion
« on: February 26, 2025, 01:20:34 PM »
Yes I have. thanks
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: December 30, 2024, 07:53:26 PM »
so on changyn.shop, it said all their plants are hermaphrodite grafted? what does this mean? I thought all the varieties on there are female.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Taiwan Ruby (pink flesh, crunchy type) Guava Review
« on: November 19, 2024, 10:44:31 PM »
Which of those Viet nurseries you listed are in San Diego? Do you have their address/phone?
I got my red diamond and green diamond (crystal) from Indonesia about 5 years ago through Ebay. The original plants died already. What I have now is a graft of a graft. So the plants are small. I'm now do a few grafting, so no branch is available for exchange or sell.
I have not tried ruby x supreme because it is a soft guava. The Vietnamese nurseries such as EKT, O2, Kim Le, Mimosa, Van, Vietnamese Garden Nursery, etc... are carrying ruby supreme in 5 gallon for less than $80. They are the sources of guava varieties in the US.
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Temperate Fruit Buy, Sell, & Trade / ISO Cot-n-candy scion
« on: September 21, 2024, 12:59:42 PM »
Looking for cot-n-candy scion within driving distance of san diego area.
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Newcastle apricot
« on: June 27, 2024, 07:41:37 PM »
I've heard of this apricot variety from a stone fruit group on Facebook. It was an LE Cooke variety and he said it was the most consistent producer for a low chill climate. He had it a while back when he was still living in Carlsbad. It is almost non-existent in the US despite it was grown in California. Anyone know anything about this variety?
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: top work apricot in july
« on: June 26, 2024, 02:05:01 PM »
Seng..I noticed you are in mira mesa. Moorpark and Tilton required 600+ chill hours. That's a challenge. I also have flavor delight (no fruit, 2 year old). I also have a santa barbara peach (some fruit not as much as last year) and a 4 in 1 pluot (flavor grenade, splash, geo pride, and emerald drop). Have you ever had a big crop on any of your tree?
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: top work apricot in july
« on: June 21, 2024, 01:54:53 PM »
Seng..what variety do you grow? do they fruit consistently?
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: top work apricot in july
« on: June 20, 2024, 04:28:33 PM »jtnguyen333, it might be not enough water.
I checked the soil and it was still moist from all the rain in april/march. Do you water extra when it is fruiting?
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: top work apricot in july
« on: June 20, 2024, 02:58:05 PM »Apricots are known to bloom but have very poor fruit set under low chill conditions. I've never been able to find an explination as to why. I wonder if Apricot pollen viability is effected by the temperature causing a cultuvar that is reported to be self fertile to no longer be effectively self fertile. If it blooms well enough, maybe grafting some other low chill apricots would give it the bump it needs.
This year it bloomed and has a good amount of fruit set but about 3/4 of them fall off when they were about size of a quarter. Same as the year before.
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: top work apricot in july
« on: June 19, 2024, 03:54:29 PM »During this time of the year, there is no scions to graft to.
Don't top work. Just graft on smaller branches. That was what I did to my apricot.
Your tree do not fruit most likely the chill hour issue. Find low chill ones like:
-cot-n-candy.
-flavor delight
-katty
-gold kist
May be I will do that. The one in the picture is a gold kist -- very unreliable production.
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / top work apricot in july
« on: June 19, 2024, 12:40:23 AM »
I have this apricot for 5 years now. The total fruit I got from 5 years is less than 20. So I decided to stump it soon. Is mid-summer the the right time to stump a couple of main branches and do a bark graft? The tree has 3 main branches. Each branch is 2.5" to 3.5" in diameter. I will stump 2 of the 3 and graft something else onto it.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: September 15, 2023, 01:34:45 PM »
My 1 remaining plant (out of 10 that I bought) that still survive in a 7 gallon pot. It was labeled as a dong kui male but it looks like a seedling. Wonder if I can take an air layer of the main trunk?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Alano Sapodilla Fruit set
« on: September 12, 2023, 03:12:25 PM »
This year, my alano sapodilla has thousand of flowers but no fruit set. All the buds seems to be drying and dying off. Is there a way to improve the fruit set? I give it extra water & fertilizer this year. Does it need to be cross-pollinated? Location zone 10a/b.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB AVOCADO SCIONS BUDWOOD looking for Russell, Jan Boyce, Queen, Sharwil, etc.
« on: April 07, 2023, 12:09:19 AM »
I'm in san diego. I got budwood for Queen.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado thread
« on: April 03, 2023, 02:03:42 PM »
Brad..how does it compare to a reed?
This Nimlioh fruit fell off early but was still pretty nice. I can tell it will be really good in a few months. The tree produced a few fruit for the first time this year and is still holding a couple.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado thread
« on: March 27, 2023, 01:00:44 PM »Brad, do you think this long cold, wet winter may have affected the fruit quality on the Malama?
At this point, I think I'm finished collecting avocados. Hopefully the scions I got from you in January take, this long winter has kept them dormant.
Looking forward to trying your varieties, but I've also come to the conclusion I need to streamline. I'm tired and overwhelmed from too many projects and variety trials.
Janet
Are you growing the Linda in your collection?
I think it just doesn't grow well in CA and the fruit don't taste good. It's not worth growing here. The weather probably doesn't help but the fruit did get large and were not really watery but they have a grassy flavor that's off. It's got a thinn skin also. I have too many projects too, it's annoying. Why do we do it to ourselves?
Hopefully your grafts are going soon. Mine have all started growing now. But it has taken a lot longer than expected.
Here's the top picks for me
Sharwil, Hass, Reed, Nabal
2nd tier but still great are
Pinkerton, fujikawa, Gwen
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: February 16, 2023, 02:17:09 PM »
I only have 1 tree survived from both group buys (not the latest from dec 2022). It is labeled as male dong kui. I've read somewhere on this forum that the male trees from the group buys are not necessarily male trees but just a fail grafted male tree so they are just tree grown from rootstock? Can anyone confirm?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Avocado Scion Wood
« on: January 19, 2023, 01:10:52 PM »
PM sent.
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / source to buy rootstock
« on: September 04, 2022, 04:23:08 PM »
Is there a good source to buy a couple to rootstock for stone fruit trees?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Brazil Palora Cuttings
« on: July 07, 2022, 12:27:07 AM »
Brad..do you have any hana cutting to sell?
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Citrus General Discussion / Tango mandarin flowering again
« on: July 06, 2022, 12:27:24 PM »
My tango has a flush of flowering at this time of the year. The amount of bloom is almost as much as in the spring? Has anyone seen this before? For background information, this tango had a big flushed of blooms in the spring but set very few fruits.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: leaves cupping / curling
« on: June 10, 2022, 12:30:22 PM »
It's an multi-grafted tree. I think this part is the ponkan.
with updated picture it looks like a kumquat, nagami type or hybrid?
When I have seen this type of cupping it seemed to be caused by the tree becoming too dry at some point and beginning to shrivel. Even after proper watering the curled leaves never returned to normal, but new leaves grew fine.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: sign of citrus greening
« on: June 09, 2022, 12:11:38 PM »
Maybe..before this, I sprayed with a mixture of insecticidal soap + spinosad to prevent leaf miner but I only sprayed when it's cool. I also sprayed with a mixture of micronutrients + seaweed extract + fish hydrolysate (all organics).
It looks to me like you may have sprayed your trees with either a homemade or incorrect application of an insecticidal soap or nutritional spray. Then the leaves burned and the plants went into a state of shock.
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