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I got my red diamond and green diamond (crystal) from Indonesia about 5 years ago through Ebay. The original plants died already. What I have now is a graft of a graft. So the plants are small. I'm now do a few grafting, so no branch is available for exchange or sell.
I have not tried ruby x supreme because it is a soft guava. The Vietnamese nurseries such as EKT, O2, Kim Le, Mimosa, Van, Vietnamese Garden Nursery, etc... are carrying ruby supreme in 5 gallon for less than $80. They are the sources of guava varieties in the US.
jtnguyen333, it might be not enough water.
Apricots are known to bloom but have very poor fruit set under low chill conditions. I've never been able to find an explination as to why. I wonder if Apricot pollen viability is effected by the temperature causing a cultuvar that is reported to be self fertile to no longer be effectively self fertile. If it blooms well enough, maybe grafting some other low chill apricots would give it the bump it needs.
During this time of the year, there is no scions to graft to.
Don't top work. Just graft on smaller branches. That was what I did to my apricot.
Your tree do not fruit most likely the chill hour issue. Find low chill ones like:
-cot-n-candy.
-flavor delight
-katty
-gold kist
This Nimlioh fruit fell off early but was still pretty nice. I can tell it will be really good in a few months. The tree produced a few fruit for the first time this year and is still holding a couple.
Brad, do you think this long cold, wet winter may have affected the fruit quality on the Malama?
At this point, I think I'm finished collecting avocados. Hopefully the scions I got from you in January take, this long winter has kept them dormant.
Looking forward to trying your varieties, but I've also come to the conclusion I need to streamline. I'm tired and overwhelmed from too many projects and variety trials.
Janet
Are you growing the Linda in your collection?
I think it just doesn't grow well in CA and the fruit don't taste good. It's not worth growing here. The weather probably doesn't help but the fruit did get large and were not really watery but they have a grassy flavor that's off. It's got a thinn skin also. I have too many projects too, it's annoying. Why do we do it to ourselves?
Hopefully your grafts are going soon. Mine have all started growing now. But it has taken a lot longer than expected.
Here's the top picks for me
Sharwil, Hass, Reed, Nabal
2nd tier but still great are
Pinkerton, fujikawa, Gwen
with updated picture it looks like a kumquat, nagami type or hybrid?
When I have seen this type of cupping it seemed to be caused by the tree becoming too dry at some point and beginning to shrivel. Even after proper watering the curled leaves never returned to normal, but new leaves grew fine.
It looks to me like you may have sprayed your trees with either a homemade or incorrect application of an insecticidal soap or nutritional spray. Then the leaves burned and the plants went into a state of shock.
I hope it is not HLB by the way. I don't want to be a pessimist, but that disease has just been burned into my brain from seeing it everyday. It has been a heart breaking disease to watch here in Central Florida. Kindof like being forced to watch your home burn to the ground without being able to do anything to prevent it. I have several dear friends in the industry among them are one in his 80s and another in his 90s. They remember Florida before AC and Disney. Few people have worked harder or longer to earn what they have and it breaks my heart to see them working to the bone when someone in the corporate world would have been retired for 20 or 30 years by this point. Neither of them would have stayed at it if they thought there was any possibility that they were harming others by all the things they were trying to find a solution. Neither they nor their groves will be around much longer--what can I say. The Lord gives and takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
