The Tropical Fruit Forum

It's possible.  There are vendors up in Granville Market, BC that sells them. 

Hi Simon

Good idea with utilizing a good Polyembryonic seed as the primary rootstock.  I'm allowing my Sweettart to hold fruit this year in hopes of gaining some good quality fruit and seedlings.  I'm skeptical that my tree will survive another wet winter unscathed.  The anthracnose seems to be a major issue in the winter.  Does Maha Chanok produce good fruit from seed?   Tropical Acres mentions that it is a mono seed variety. I have a seed from FL that I planted out to create another CSMR.

Yesterday, I added a large Kent seedling next to the current batch of seeds.  I'm hoping that'll help things along as the Tommy doesn't seem to fair well with heat stress. 

Hi everyone! 

My name is Bryan.  It's my first post and I'd like to share a project/experiment that I am attempting inspired by the famed Simon Grows on this forum.  I grow out of the Pasadena area in Southern California.  I'd say I'm in zone 10A with the highest temps typically being around low 100s and lowest at mid to high 30s.  I've been obsessing with this hobby, now lifestyle, since winter of 2021.  This amazing hobby has led me down the rabbit hole of rare fruit collecting.   It's awesome, and I'm glad I found it.

Currently, I grow Peaches, Pluots, Aprium, Pluerry, Plums, various varieties of figs, Papaya, loquat, Mandarin, Oranges, lemons and limes, lychee, starfruit, black sapote, sapodilla, guamachil, Atemoya, Cherimoya, Wampee, Longan, Avocado, Jaboticaba, and of course mangoes as my favorite fruit.  I even managed to sprout some market bought Durian, but that's for another post. 

-The Project/Experiment-

Inarched grafts of mango seedlings per the technique of Simon.  Seedlings were directly sown into the ground under my sweettart tree that experienced severe anthracnose infection from this past winter.  I decided to plant under this tree in an attempt to switch the scionwood over to this CSMR.



Grafts were made on July 10

On the left: Ataulfo x Ataulfo
On the right: Tommy Atkins x Ataulfo

I'll merge the pairs together in a week.  Hopefully it works.  Now my dilemma is deciding on which seedling I should keep as the main rootstock for creating the final scafolding branches.  I am thinking to leave the largest Ataulfo seedling as the main due to their supposed anthracnose infection; but I wonder if I will be making a mistake and lose out the more aggressive growing nature of the Tommy seedling.  Any suggestions from the experts?  I should add that my existing Sweettart is a 5 year old FL tree, in the ground since May 2021 and likely grafted onto turpentine.  It is positioned under an 80yr+ Southern Magnolia in my backyard.  It gets pretty moist and humid during wet winters and fungal presence is high from aggressive mulch and compost applications since 2021.