The Tropical Fruit Forum

Sale pending...Thank you everyone!

Hello Everyone,
Sizing down the collection...and now some more rarer varieties are up for grabs!
Unfortunately, I am starting school, so no shipping or delivery available. I am located near Chattanooga TN, so about 2 hours from atlanta, knoxville etc...Plinia Sp. Tronco Vermelha 3g $50

7 gallon myrciaria floribunda $70

7 gallon novaks cauliflora graft...has flowered before as scion was from fruiting tree ( : $125

Campo aromaticum 1 gallon $35

Variegated sapodilla 7 gallon nice variegation $75

Grafted anomaly jabo in 1 gallon $50

grimal x sabara hybrid 7 gallon $50

UMFG white jabo in 5 gallon pot $50

Campo Ramon 1 gallon $25

Navel Costada 1 gallon $25

De umbigo jabo $20 (I have a bunch of other random new jabos around this size please ask for more!) I don't want any right now!!!

Zona De Mata 3 gallon $40

Inga Laurina dwarf inga that makes yellow fruits - can fruit at 2-3 feet tall! $25 or free if you buy $100 worth of trees

Jim Neitzel's (I hope I spell right) Giant Leaf Pitanga Seedling $30

Plinia Sp. Do Mato 3 gallon $50

Villela A-13 1 gallon $50....I also have a very nice 1 gallon D-7 jabo for $250

Branca Vinho 7 gallon from Adam,,,I think may be a red lol
$50


*I have a 1 gallon variegated red jabo for $100 that looks ok with curly leafs too.
Grafted 3 gallon grandifolia for $125
Acu Cannaa 3 gallon $50


Also have sabara rootstocks for $5 each...up to 25-50 available. They are about mechanical pencil thickness and can be grafted with small-medium scions this spring.


I also have more random rare grafted jabos available...Just ask around lol.
I give discounts if you buy multiple or even all of them!
Prices are flexible to a certain extent. I'd like to sell these all if possible.

Once again, no shipping or delivery at all. I have to study for exams even this summer so no time unfortunately.
The trees may have some red spots on the leaves because it is cold here, but they will easily bounce back once it warms up.
They are grown in promix and just need a new home.
I find it too hard to take care of all of them, and the last thing I want to do is move 100s of trees in and out of the greenhouse when I am studying for finals


I'll be posting some more trees here in the future too.
Thanks for looking!

Actually I think its the heat. My gauge annoyingly resets at 5pm so I never see the day time temps inside the greenhouse on work days, but I have the day off today at it was just 98 and going up. It looks worse right now then it did this morning (super wilty looking). I sprayed everything down at the temps already back down to 90, but on my work days, I'll probably need to take it out every morning.  That or throw a frost cloth over the greenhouse to keep it a bit cooler. I know it can get to 105/106 in there on hot days if its fully closed, but I have had it completely open, so wasn't sure how hot it was getting. Too hot it seems.

Ah ok probably the huge temp swings then.
After 40s I’ve seen burnt new growth.

Why not? Because I said many times that I won’t be growing mangoes because when I eat a mango, it gives me pimples even at my age. Too hot, maybe.

Type IV hypersensitivity due to compounds in mango?
Contains urushiol which poison ivy has too.
I can’t comment as much as I don’t live in Cali, but some people like seedlings as Florida grafted trees on turpentine will flower themselves to death due to cold.

There is a thread here about mangos for people in SoCal I forgot the exact name though

It’s a guy who is drop shipping trees from China.
Can’t comment on anything else though as I don't deal with them.

My goals are to thin down the collection.
No need for 100 jabo varieties

I am focusing more on pineapples (easy to grow low space and quick to fruit. I have at least 30 planted in ground and I aim to hit 100 by 2027… and yangmei (mine are doing good and I have flowers…also quick to fruit (1.5 years to flower from graft)

Also I hope to upload more consistently to YT @ryanstropicalfruits

Other than that, keep on growing and taking care while weeding out bunk fruits like many Eugenia’s etc

Hello,
How does it taste?
Thanks

Any big trees or mostly smaller stuff? Always looking to plant something nice

Mostly smaller stuff like 3-7 gallons
It’s weird though you know…too big to ship, but nothing super amazing or anything😂

If you want to post pictures of the flowers we can let you know what kind they are.
Some are also hermaphrodite which is nice so you don't have to worry about male/female

I'd recommend keeping it in partial shade...
did you repot it when you got it? They seem to be very sensitive when young.
Also, keep in mind that they are less cold tolerant than regular mangoes and will need protection when below 50 for good measure.

Hello everyone,
I will be going to CA next week.
Any suggestions to go visit fruit related/nurseries/collectors etc.
Probably will make a run to SD, and then a run to LA area

Will try to hit ONGs again, and maybe a couple collectors in the area, but not sure what else is there to see.
Same with LA area, just know of a couple friends in the area I visited last year.

Thank you all for the help!

Yep,
nothing you can do at this point or worry about.
 

It's the maturity of the scion that help fruit quicker...but also rootstock vigor...
If you have a large rootstock and graft a branch from a small seedling, the grafted one should fruit better due to more nutrients coming from rootstock vs. seedling itself.
People will do this with mangoes where they smell the sap, and once they think it's worth growing, will graft the seedling branch to a big tree to speed up production.