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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Who is growing Maluma Avocado in Fresno county or in California ?
« on: November 17, 2025, 01:22:49 AM »
Internet will say it's more cold hardy than Hass,  but don't believe it , going into winter number 2 ,trees are more busy now with better leaves so prob take cold well enough but I will report soon how well they do, Fresno can have it's first freeze toward end of nov

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Giant Avocado fruits
« on: September 25, 2025, 12:35:58 PM »
Kaz are you able to text my cell message system is not working right I can read your messages but unable to send message back it says respond with quate , never seen that before when I try to send you a message the site gives me a error message.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / SC Gold Avocado Tree , the good,bad and ugly
« on: September 21, 2025, 11:36:04 PM »
I recently grafted some SC Gold Avocado, I have no large tree yet , I see positive things on internet about it and wanted to try it, for thoses that have been growing it for a few years now what do you like or dislike about SC Gold both the tree or the fruit ? Size of tree ?? Growth habit ? Alternate bearing ? Fruit shelf life? Fast grower?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 11:23:36 PM »
Not sure how great the Luna is , they make you jump through hoops to get a tree for the small timer like me, there is a short video on YouTube on Luna , I still have not figured out how it differs much from Gem , at least Gem is easy to buy these days.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 04:24:51 PM »
I have some Maluma fruit on a very young tree , holding well even in a bad wind last week the fruit hidden deep inside tree like a Gem fruit bumpy dark green guessing ready to pick in spring sometime ,they say the seed smaller than Hass, so I will see for myself.  Turns black like a Hass.For sure Maluma not as fast a grower as a Hass but also on diff clonal rootstock so I'm not comparing apples to apples.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 04:06:04 PM »
Brad if I understand correctly the Maluma was discovered  growing in a Hass Grove in south Africa , appears the farmer thought it had good potential that's how the ball got rolling, still very slow to get popular in Cali, other countries it's more popular in., But back to your ? Unlikely from a Gwen so if found in a Hass orchard my thought would be a chance seedling closely related to a Hass mother tree.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 03:45:33 PM »
One of my Maluma trees is on Dusa rootstock so far it wants to grow out wide kinda like a flat wide bush , I'm hoping it pushes new growth upward soon , the Maluma on Toro Canyon has some braches shooting straight up, both have been in ground only a little over a year I hope at year 2 they grow more upright. Maluma kinda slow growing perhaps about like the speed of a Gem.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 03:32:17 PM »
I'm doing another Brokaw order  around oct 1st ,2025 if anyone wants to piggyback on my order , trees will be 65ea. paid for in advance and must be picked up east of Fresno, CA by Nov 1 2025 , pm me if anyone interested ,this time of year selection is low ,mostly gem and zutano but the value of the tree is it's rootstock and you can graft anything on top to make it a 2 way tree.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 03:23:24 PM »
If someone wants Maluma trees made up by Brokaw on Leola rootstock they will make up a special order contract, but the minuim amount is 100 trees for the custom order ,I'm not sure if you need to pay 100 percent to start contract  or 25 percent down , likey take 2 to 3 years to complete the order.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Seedless Avocado scions
« on: August 27, 2025, 02:00:32 PM »
Super keep me posted in Sept I want to buy some if you have my phone send me a text , how many fruit does the tree produce ? Does it alternate bear very bad ?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Seedless Avocado scions
« on: August 27, 2025, 01:49:25 PM »
Very interesting fruit, do you know of anyone producing Marcus Pumpkin fruit and if tree produces well , I still want to purchase Marcus pumpkin scions if you know anyone selling them.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: August 25, 2025, 08:23:08 PM »
Fastest rootstock growth is still Leola followed by Zerala , Hass loves Leola, steddom and Duke 7 are still dudes for me  hopefully that changes in year 2

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Giant Avocado fruits
« on: August 25, 2025, 08:19:13 PM »
I grafted some cannonball close to same time you did mine are slow only 10 inches yours are growing way faster 2-3 times as fast that's great.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: August 25, 2025, 08:01:59 PM »
Not sure when trademark expires off of Maluma  if anyone knows let us know,still watching tree growing habit early impression is tree want to grow more floppy than I prefer

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Who is growing Maluma Avocado in Fresno county or in California ?
« on: August 11, 2025, 09:23:05 PM »
And when internet says Maluma takes cold decent I have yet to see it but it's nice in the fact it sets fruit inside the canopy for protection

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Who is growing Maluma Avocado in Fresno county or in California ?
« on: August 11, 2025, 09:14:12 PM »
My biggest concern over cold on Maluma is it might be more of a side floppy grower than I prefer, taste is little diff than Hass and seed ratio is better than Hass having a smaller seed growing in Fresno county tends to make smaller fruit size so more flesh I can get the better.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Who is growing Maluma Avocado in Fresno county or in California ?
« on: August 11, 2025, 09:08:44 PM »
My first winter in ground with young Maluma and Hass they took cold close to the same I think I had a mild winter don't recall it getting below 30 for short window of cold both had very slight burn most on newest leaves.pic is Maluma on Dusa


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: August 11, 2025, 08:59:43 PM »
Since I have no big Maluma  I don't know growth pattern of big  trees ,my biggest concern is it ends up being a floppy side grower I'm not set up to do trelius growing,

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: August 11, 2025, 08:55:01 PM »
Brokaw out of Maluma last time I checked likly a few years out unless some buyer happens to cancel an order and some one ready to buy canceled order.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: August 11, 2025, 08:50:41 PM »
Here's pic of Maluma new growth taken about Aug 11, 2025 been in ground just under 1 year I have 1 on Toro Canyon and 2 on dusa , the dusa are slightly faster growers




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Giant Avocado fruits
« on: August 11, 2025, 08:15:08 PM »
I hear good things about Bird Ave , Greg does a taste test on you tube not hughe but taste is high quality

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is anyone growing Maluma avocado (not Malama)?
« on: July 22, 2025, 12:47:25 AM »
 I have Maluma they have been in ground for 11 months, growing fairly well, 1 set 5 fruit on first spring after planting it in fall,the tree that set fruit is on Toro Canyon,so far seems to take cold similar to a Hass , slower growing than Hass on Leola clonal, fruit shape is longer than Hass, Maluma has longer neck, prob a winner for cali, web decribes taste as smoother more tangy and nuttier taste than Hass described like Almonds, hopefully Brokaw makes them faster to fill the demand, I think it could be better than a Hass or Gem but time will tell , has smaller seed than Hass.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: July 19, 2025, 11:37:00 PM »
Young Maluma fruit on Toro Canyon


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: July 19, 2025, 11:32:05 PM »
Here's a picture of one of my fastest growers , it's Hass on Leola clonal rootstock, seems to be doing well and July  cooler than average temps seems to be helping


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: July 19, 2025, 03:49:30 PM »
My Brokaw Maluma tree on Toro Canyon been in ground 10 months is trying to set the most fruit, but it's not the fastest grower, though I I don't know if fastest ends up being the best for fruit production or best overall health of tree, the leaves that are largest and deepest healthy green color so far are Hass trees on Leola rootstock that combo it seems to be a perfect fit at least  for the import soil I had trucked in.Uzi and Zentmyer were really slow at first then about June when soil temp was plenty warm both thoses took off

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