The Tropical Fruit Forum

A old trick that they do in Mexico is to girdle the seedling tree best to do in Fall that will stimulate tree to flower following year. Have not it on loquat tree but not avocado before! You want to cut about 1/8" cut all the way around trunk down to wood that traps energy in top half until trunk heals and grows over the cut and hopefully forces to flower!

seedling looks really good Kevin, must like the soil there! And for the seeds must be your spit

I get about 80-90% take on fresh passion seeds and I soak overnight in Ga-3 or strong blk tea then plant next day with bottom heat. Best to plant in individual  seed tray. Then when seedling gets second level of leaves I transplant into pint pots then into 1-gal after they fill pint pot with roots. Fresh seed is best older seeds get poor take or none atoll.

Will be interesting to see how that Ilama grows for you Kaz!

I tasted a A. Chiri 'Inca Gold' fruit Kaz, sent me he want by opinion because I have a fruiting seedling of Inca Gold not sure of source but got my tree in 2002 at CRFG conference in Orange County but don't remember what city. Any way I tasted the 'Inca Gold' today and was very rich in butterscotch, caramel, flan type taste profile not as moist as sweet potato but not as dry as other dry type lucumas I grow. You can eat skin too with no disagreeable flavor fruit was maybe richer than my seedling fruit but very good I think best of Ice cream or smoothies. And only one small seed and another small misshapen seed. Very goo flesh to seed ratio highly recommend this variety.

Kaz, that was a big old tree did it just get stumped down ? What is your opinion of fruit taste? Thanks for posting!

I second, Brads advice you've got big root system waiting!

Yeah, papaya trees are magnets for spider mites I have used hard water spray to knock off plants but the best thing I've used is a product called 'Circadian Sunrise' by Circadian Crop Science. I bought another product from them called 'All Phase' that knock peach leaf curl out of my peach and nectarine trees good stuff.

Thanks for answer that is very helpful to me

Cool, thanks for reply will have to look for that variety.

Checking back in on the SB lucuma duo. Both trees are flowering, one is loaded. The other had a big spring crop. It may be that there is an early bearing and late bearing one. They said they’d give me a call in November when they are ripe

Nice looking fruit Kevin, await taste results!

The tree you show in pic's looks good and healthy I would graft on upward facing branches towards top of canopy! Alos, agree with brad best time for grafting avocados in Ca. is Dec,-Feb. outside, if you have potted trees can graft almost all year long in green house (Jan.-Sept.). Also I use single edge razor in ex-atco holder for softer younger wood with cottony insides! I cover outside grafts with white paper bags until growth starts then tear bag open a little more each week to expose growing graft to more sun slowly!

What type of graft were you doing ? Also it's better to select upward growth branches because sometimes smaller side branches will be aborted by mother tree!
Pic's of tree could help also!
Robert