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Thinking of top working my potted feijoa. I thought it was self fertile but since I got rid of the other potted one I haven't had fruit from the last flowering despite hand pollinating!
Looking to trade for a couple cuttings. DM me if interested


I have the following:

Hardy Citrus: (can’t mail citrus to restricted states)
Bishop Citrandarin
Ichang Papeda (prob dead from this winter)
Fast Flowering Tri
Prague Chimera
Thomasville Citrangequat
Morton Citrange
Poncirus+
Taitri (not mature yet)
Swingle Citrumelo (not mature yet)

Poms:
Afganski
Sirenevyi (limited)

Persimmon:
Jiro Fuyu
Hachiya (limited)

Pear:
Honeysweet
Korean giant pear

Plum:
Seed grown, probably a black beauty/ asian plum

Cherry:
Rainer, Royal Anne, Carmine Jewel (bush cherry)

Pawpaw: (these are new grafts so will check what can be cut)
Tropical Treat
Al Horn (limited)
Lehman’s Chiffon
IXL

Kiwi:
Issai
Hardy fuzzy kiwi

Blueberry:
Reka

Peach:
Hale Haven

Passiflora:
Dark purple fruited edulis from seed (tart fruit, dark purple flowers)

Here are those hybrids the Edulis that I named purple boots was the father, incarnata was the mother. I have 6 in total with 4 more unique plants that havent flowered yet






A 3rd plant is showing some buds so hopefully we'll see that soon.

Neither of the 2 that flowered held a fruit which could indicate sterility with its own pollen or female sterility

This winter, while outdoor gardening stops, I’m brainstorming a series of indoor experiments using oryzalin as a safer alternative to colchicine for inducing polyploidy. I’m especially interested in seeing how different species respond, both in growth and eventual fruit quality.

Some ideas working with seeds that I have or need to source:
Hindsii kumquat (my tree died from root rot this spring)
Fast flowering trifoliate,
Afganski pomegranate,
A large-fruit pawpaw (not really precocious but I don't see polyploid pawpaw varieties in the trade)
As well as doing targeted bud treatments on my Passiflora incarnata × edulis hybrid cuttings.

My goals are to explore whether polyploid lines can give improvements like thicker foliage, increased vigor, larger fruit, or in the Passiflora hybrid potential restoration of fertility where sterility is an issue. I think these trials could lead to some unusual phenotypes, maybe even new breeding material and a good way to kill time when it's freezing out.

I lost the tags for my multi-grafted tree, had pics of the old tags but didn't get one for whatever this is. It has "double" flowers:


compared to the other varieties:


In this basket from last year: Stella, Rainer, Royal Ann, and the unkown (not in that order)

Looking to trade for a hachiya cutting or two.

I have jiro fuyu, cold hardy & hybrid citrus, (no trading citrus to restricted states sorry!) Afganski pom, anything in my bio that you're interested in
PM me!

Which hybrids are deciduous aside from taitri?
 
My taitri has already dropped leaves but the multiple evergreen hybrid grafts on it haven't. Curiously rooted cuttings in ground of the same taitri are still green and holding leaves.

I have way too many cherimoya plants so figure I would try to graft a seedling sugar apple onto one of the cherimoya.
I attempted to graft atemoya over the summer but I believe the scions were stored too long, there were brown spots in the cambium. I cut to what looked like the greenest tissue but still failed.

Has anyone attempted an approach graft? I'm in New Jersey so have warm weather for another ~50 days give or take and then I'll move the plants indoors under grow lights where they continue to grow. (The idea being that the sugar apple will stay in the container for insurance purposes since it's tiny and I only have 1)

This was sold as such, do the leaves match?

I have 2 left, but am currently propagating more. Self fertile. Discovered it from planting seeds.







I am calling it "Purple Boots"
The leaves have red veins and the flowers are pigmented as well as the stigmas which look like a pair of small purple boots.


$15 for the well rooted cutting + $12 priority mail shipping (I will check your zipcode to confirm).
Active members with some post history only pls

Paypal or Zelle

Bark grafts, cleft grafts, chip budding. I did these in mid April (NJ zone 7a) as soon as I received the package due to the post office delaying the delivery for several days.

Thanks to forum member broncn for the excellent scions Al Horns, Tropical Treat, IXL, and Lehman's Chiffon.

The scions were sealed with parafilm and secured with rubber bands and black electrical tape for added pressure. Wood glue on the exposed wood where I topped the trees.

Hello all. Thinking about grafting at least one if not both of my pawpaw trees.

I'm in zone 7a north NJ. Some research mentioned doing it in May. Does this sound correct?

My two seed trees make small fruit, I don't mind the small fruit flavor wise but I'd rather have larger fruit, it's too hard to process such small fruit.

Varieties I'm interested in are Susquehanna or Overleese (spelling)?
Those are said to be sweet and the other mild (forget which is which).

I also like tropical flavors, more mango or pineapple than banana. Are there any varieties like this? Cherimoya flavors? What is "tropical delight" like?

If anyone has anything to offer let me know. I can trade as well, check my profile to see if there is anything interesting you'd like to trade for.

Thanks

My meiwa is dying back with brown branches.
First it drops the leaves then the branches turn brown and die back. I checked the roots and there is no sign of rot. The leaves fall while completely green. I simply touch one and it drops.

I repotted the whole plant into fresh 5-1-1 from the old potting mix it was in to see if it would help. It's been a few days and still dropping leaves and branches are dying back.

The rootstock is citrumelo with poncirus as an interstock. Absolutely 0 rotten roots. The root system is the healthiest of all of my potted citrus that I've seen so far.

Any ideas?

Nothing has changed, I always water with diluted water soluable fertilizer. The new mix shouldn't have any buildup either. 

Found this at Walmart. $1.98 each
Any info on it? Hardiness? Only found that it's an early variety & "low acidity"