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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pouteria lucuma
« Last post by Reedo on Today at 11:31:43 PM »
Quote from: sc4001992 on Today at 09:41:51 PM
I went to a CRFG member's house to pick up my Marcus Pumpkin cuttings and he has 3 large lucuma trees. At least one had fruits, the trees are tall (over 20 ft) so its hard to see what the fruits look like. Maybe when I go back there I will get up on the 10ft ladder and try to get a photo of the fruit to show.

Anyone know how easy it is to graft the tree to a seedling?

I might go over to Alex's place and get a scion wood from him if he has the moist variety that you guys like. If you know which variety is the best tasting let me know and I might check with Alex. I'm not really into lucuma, just checking for Aastair really.

The person who lives here in Fullerton said I can take a few cuttings since we are trading right now.

When I looked up and saw his fruit on this large tree, it seemed to be the pointy tip fruit. Like the first one in the photo above, not the SD fruit.

They seem pretty easy to graft. Maybe similar to citrus or avocado. I had 3/3 succeed a couple years ago in my passive greenhouse. I haven't grafted any in ground yet. Nate at Wildlands did a bunch last year, so he might have better info.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Question: Anyone Growing Marcus Pumpkin Avocado?
« Last post by canito 17 on Today at 11:21:26 PM »
Pooor quality fruit. Only big fruit. Great disappointment
Like pura vida avocado (Long fruit with fibers)
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« Last post by achetadomestica on Today at 11:01:34 PM »
Quote from: Fygee on Today at 05:47:22 PM
What are the Maui mulberries like? Never heard of them.
I originally got the mulberry from ebay from Hawaii and they called it Maui.
It is a smaller mulberry very sweet and this year it was the earliest to put out
fruit in my collection by a month. It is a very clean tree in humid Florida and a
heavy producer. A customer came by and tried the fruit and bought cuttings.
It also roots fairly easy
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / What is going on with the leaves?
« Last post by garden_novice on Today at 10:38:40 PM »
Orange Sherbet has a bunch of leaves that look like this top side and underside. I only sprayed copper once months before this happened. Is this anthracnose or Bacterial black spot? It's also affecting some of the new buds. Florida 9B interior



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« Last post by achetadomestica on Today at 10:22:13 PM »






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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Productivity of kumquats and their hybrids
« Last post by poncirsguy on Today at 10:08:58 PM »
I have found that the Meiwa kumquat taste very  good on own  rooted seedling trees.  They are also quite tasty on Flying dragon rootstock
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: General Questions on Avocado Tree Next Steps
« Last post by aguacate_hombre on Today at 10:01:16 PM »
Looks like the buds on the scions in my previous photo (Mar 19th) have stopped growing.  They look the same today as they do in the photo.  I see many other buds growing out below the graft which I have been removing.  Any other suggestions at this point?  Special fertilizer?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Questions about Lilly pilly (syzygium oleosum)
« Last post by Lumi-Ukko on Today at 09:59:22 PM »
Resurrecting this thread to see if anyone can definitively answer a question I have regarding growing Lilly Pilly from seed. I have circa 20 plus seeds I collected from a random tree I saw. The fruit were a magenta colour so I'm not sure exactly the type of Lilly Pilly. Tasted pretty good so figured I'd try to grow them. Anyhow, the germination rate was incredible with almost all seeds germinating within two weeks.

Even more surprising was the number of stems that came up per seed. Polyembryonic on another level. Some seeds sent up 8 stems!

Here is where I am a bit at a loss. There's very little information I can find on what to do with these stems. Should I/can I divide them into separate pots? Or should I cut away all but one stem? If latterly so, is there a hard fast rule or do I take the strongest looking stem? My last concern is if taking one stem, am I taking a tree of one sex or are all trees self fertile?

To reiterate, I never really expected such a successful germination rate, considering my forays into other fruit seed growing.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pouteria lucuma
« Last post by sc4001992 on Today at 09:41:51 PM »
I went to a CRFG member's house to pick up my Marcus Pumpkin cuttings and he has 3 large lucuma trees. At least one had fruits, the trees are tall (over 20 ft) so its hard to see what the fruits look like. Maybe when I go back there I will get up on the 10ft ladder and try to get a photo of the fruit to show.

Anyone know how easy it is to graft the tree to a seedling?

I might go over to Alex's place and get a scion wood from him if he has the moist variety that you guys like. If you know which variety is the best tasting let me know and I might check with Alex. I'm not really into lucuma, just checking for Aastair really.

The person who lives here in Fullerton said I can take a few cuttings since we are trading right now.

When I looked up and saw his fruit on this large tree, it seemed to be the pointy tip fruit. Like the first one in the photo above, not the SD fruit.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lujan Jaboticaba - 7b in Ground Test
« Last post by K-Rimes on Today at 09:38:50 PM »
Yangmei seedlings, with trunks only a few millimetres wide, don't even blink in 27-30f here, even being 100% under snow. I would suggest that they'll be winners out there.
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