The Tropical Fruit Forum

There's cooking star fruits and eating star fruits. I think grocery stores mostly carry the former. A ripe star fruit is a lovely fruit.

i would get seeds from known cold hardy avocados. and try a bunch.

western tent?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/damon_tighe/4133588095/

Sorry for the lack of focus

Been meaning to reply to this thread. I've done this for a few years on jaboticaba with no ill effects, but i did it on an avocado last year and it ended up burning a stripe on the tree and probably will kill it. Trying a bridge graft to save it, but not optimistic.

Do you know jack?

I just grafted a bunch with zills topping method. If it doesn't work hopefully I'll get some shoots to work with.

I read about this years ago, so now when I get compost I get it 6 months to a year in advance and age it out.  I try to encourage it to cook some more, hoping the heat will help degrade it.

I've heard this works as well from the woman that runs El Corazon/Agriservices in Oceanside. I think she said 2yrs for mulch to take a contaminated site (not the much itself in that case) to undetectable.

Thanks Shane!

Will certainly take you up on that-

watched a couple youtube videos about exotica and it looks amazing- although most recent vid I could find was from 3 years ago so will confirm before going-

Does anyone know the fruit policy at quail/ san diego botanic? can you pick as you please?

Officially you're not supposed to take any fruit. If i see a fruit I've never tried, I risk getting yelled at. If you go midday in the middle of the week the place is empty. They don't have many impressive varieties, though there's a Kei apple by the gardening shed that's quite good.

That's the kind of fruit i get when i cross pollinate on my ligularis.

Great event Brad! Thanks for hosting. And thanks everyone for bringing fruit. I tried lots of new varieties that I loved. The perfumy Sugar Dragon dragonfruit and Dapple Dandy stood out for me. Sugarcane was awesome. Great catching up with folks and meeting new people. When i got home i found a bunch of rose apples i could have brought. doh!

I was watching a video this weekend and there was an interesting sidebar about mangoes that refrigerate well. I think it was Dot that supposedly tastes excellent even after 2 months of refrigeration and looking dry and wrinkly. They mention Keitt too. In another thread here bsbullie mentions Mallika dehydrates well, but that wasn't about refrigeration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Y5ZaCjzxg
around 16:20

So I'm curious what varieties do this? Seems like an easy way to extend mango season.