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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Kauai White sugarloaf slips
« on: March 04, 2024, 03:29:44 PM »
1 regular, 1 medium. 2 large slips

36$ plus postage



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado Bark Grafting
« on: February 09, 2024, 03:40:45 PM »
Theres been a lot of people asking me for scion wood to do bark grafting of avocado trees lately.  Its not just 1 or or 2, its 5 or more people all wanting to do this in February.  Im telling everyone the bark will not slip right now.  You can do cleft grafts but I don't think the bark grafts will work out.  Thats why I have been doing this grafting work in December.  The trees still have sap flow and can be bark grafted.  Thats working quite well the last few years. 

I'm just putting this here so people can understand the best timing for doing avocado grafting and top working. 

If you want to stump a large tree, the best time to do that is mid summer.  It takes 2-3 months and you will have plenty of new growth to graft onto in December-April.  That would be small cleft grafts. 

If you want to top work a tree with 1-2inch diameter branches or main trunk, you can cut it back in early december (in southern CA) the sap will still be flowing and bark will peel off and be able to do bark grafts.  Or you can wait until it warms up again and do it in maybe April.  By that time, the grafts will be seeing a lot more heat and will be hard to get good takes if you live in a hot interior area.  If its a mild coastal area, spring and even summer grafting is not a problem.  Just shade the grafts until well healed and thry are fine.

If you want to do cleft grafts, of course the timing is not critical.  It is just getting the stumping and bark graft timing down that is more important.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Dr white cherimoyas
« on: January 27, 2024, 03:12:25 PM »
I just have a little extra cherimoyas that Im looking to sell.  Just a couple boxes worth.  Its Dr white fruits.  7$ per pound.  I only am shipping to CA unless you want to pay for expedited shipping outside of CA.  The reason is just so the fruit make it there in good shape. 

If I dont respond to your PM, I am already sold out. 

Thanks!



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Need buddy tape
« on: January 14, 2024, 09:43:39 PM »
I need a roll of buddy tape if anyone has one to sell. 

Thank you

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Whitewashing trees
« on: January 08, 2024, 11:59:38 PM »
I don't know if you guys paint your exposed avocado and mango bark white.  If you live in rural San Diego you probably should since they get sun burn easily.  I always have used a paint brush to do it in the past.  And never did it enough because it is kind of a big pain. 

Well I bought a 38$ knock off makita cordless paint sprayer off Temu and let me tell you, it is so awesome.  I painted over 100 trees in just a couple hours.  It's so quick and easy.

You guys with big operations should get one, it rocks big time. 



 




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cherimoya seeds
« on: January 04, 2024, 12:30:01 PM »
50 seeds for 10$ shipped



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Hard to find dragonfruit cuttings
« on: December 02, 2023, 05:36:08 PM »
I've got some pieces of

Desert king (plants or cuts)
Thick king
Godzilla
Rainbow
Orange giant
Palora
S8
Black
Australian yellow ISIS
Golden gold
Boreal

Plants 30, cuts (1ft) 15$

Prefer local pickup but I can ship some pieces.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mangos in san diego
« on: November 01, 2023, 09:47:01 PM »
Did you guys get some mangos this year?  I have a bunch of mangos coming into season if you guys want to make it into a mango tasting party. 

My wife was looking at this one today and it fell off.  No idea what kind it is.



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Avocado scion wood
« on: September 22, 2023, 12:27:50 PM »
Lots of people have been asking for them lately so heres a list.

Postage is $8.50 for a small flat rate box priority mail.

5$ per stick wrapped in buddy tape, premium bud wood only.

Fuerte top worked
Hass
Reed
Fujikawa
Nabal
Murishige
Sharwil
Mexicola grande top working very soon.
Mexicola top worked
Lamb
GEM
Hellen
Anaheim

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lychee harvest
« on: September 02, 2023, 05:35:10 PM »
My first real harvest of lychee.  Simon planted this air layer from Leo Manuel's Brewster here around 5 years ago.  It has maybe 35 or 40lbs this year.  Pulled 10lbs off a d it's still loaded. 







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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Reed Avocado fruits
« on: July 02, 2023, 05:03:33 PM »
Large Fruit, super creamy and oily.  3 for 10$ plus postage





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Avocado Fruit mix box
« on: April 21, 2023, 11:18:37 AM »
I have a few extra avocados if anyone wants a sample box.  Janet, Winn, John I have your boxes going out first.

I've got these varieties:

Sharwil,
Pinkerton,
Nabal,
Green Gold,
Hass,
Carmens,
Gwen

30$ for a box plus postage. 


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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Mandarin fruit for sale
« on: February 17, 2023, 12:47:53 AM »
I have some gold nuggets, dancy and shasta golds for sale.  We have way more than we cannuse.  Will send boxes for cheap.  10$ plus postage for a medium size box.  The fruit are really nice ones very juicy. 

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Citrus General Discussion / Gold nugget self destruction
« on: February 03, 2023, 07:12:47 PM »
This tree is really hard on itself.  It breaks branches and loads up so much fruit it's hard on the tree.  Too much of a good thing.







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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Bartlett pears
« on: January 28, 2023, 02:05:32 PM »
Anyone growing these?  I am looking for a couple scions to buy or trade.

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Citrus General Discussion / Lime graft to myer lemon?
« on: January 23, 2023, 03:35:30 PM »
Is there any graft compatibility issues with regular large limes grafted on myer lemon tree?  The neighbors want some lime grafts on their lemon tree. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado seedling fruited
« on: January 14, 2023, 07:02:11 PM »
This tree is a volunteer off a nearby fuerte tree.  Dropped fruit, sprouted, grew and a few years later made a few avocados.  It actually tastes pretty nice and its early.   Seed is kind of big, otherwise it seems decent. The tree is growing like a beast and if it fruits every year then it may be a keeper.  If anyone wants to grow it I will give you scions for free.





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Pineapple slips
« on: January 12, 2023, 12:12:17 AM »
Mix pack 75$ plus postage.  Only have 1 mix pack available.

6+ MD2, 1 white sugarloaf, 1 Josephine, 1 tropic gold, 1 mini crown(big fruit small top, smooth), 2 Maui pine(smooth cayane cross).

These are all smooth leaf and big fruit types and the MD2 are my own selected line that make really big fruits.  Extra sweet low acid, we just harvested 5 fruit and they were very sweet.



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Sugarcane cuttings
« on: January 12, 2023, 12:03:05 AM »
Mix pack 50$ total shipped

Include 2 pieces of Jamaica stripe, 1 san Diego yellow, 1 big stripe.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cherimoya Scions
« on: January 11, 2023, 08:17:40 PM »
3 Scions for $10 plus $8.50 for postage.  Minimum order 9 pieces.

Honeyhart
Fino De Jete
Knight
Pierce
RaulGrande#1
RaulGrande#2
Leo Manuel#3 (cherimoya/atemoya)
Rudy#20
White (big fruit, extra vstrong and prolific)
Vietnamese (extra furry, similar to white more )
Slowpoke (late fruiting season extender)





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Bacon Avocados
« on: January 05, 2023, 05:15:21 PM »
I have a ton of these, cant eat em all.  2$ each for big fruit plus postage.  They make good rootstock seeds also.  Been using them for rootstocks in my orchard and they do great.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado top work video
« on: December 24, 2022, 07:52:26 PM »
Heres a video of top working 2 year old in ground seedling tree.  Sorry it went pretty long but all the relevant info is in there.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j6plo20ELdY&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Avocado scions
« on: December 15, 2022, 12:21:15 PM »
Ill keep this open until end of January.  I've started doing my grafts here now.  A lot of the mexican types are getting top worked so tell me if you want it sooner than later.  5$ plus postage

Mexicola grande,
Mexicola,
Ardith,
Pinkerton,
Bacon,
Reed,
Hass,
Nabal,
Sharwil, sold, may have more after filling orders.
Murishige, sold
Fujikawa,
Fuerte,
Nishikawa,  (limited)[/s] sold
Malama, (limited) sold
Carmen (limited) sold
Jan boyce (limited) sold
Green gold (limited) sold

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lychee variety change
« on: December 03, 2022, 02:05:23 PM »
Has anyone ever top worked lychee or longan? 

What happens when you stump a lychee?  Do they come back reliably?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Micro sprinklers used
« on: November 26, 2022, 07:20:00 PM »
These are what I use for the first 2 years on my trees.  Now my trees have graduated to bigger tips and I have no use for these. 

They are 30 cents each new.  I'm selling for 10 cents each.  I have around 200 of them.  Some have some calcium buildup, they can easily be cleaned up by soaking in vinegar.  The cap comes off and they are fully cleanable and can be made like new over and over forever.  These go on 1/4" tubing and a stake and point at the tree to make a circle.




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