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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: December 05, 2023, 01:22:22 AM »
That optunia was here when I moved in, it has never flowered, it was discarded by the landlord decades ago and took root. I do have some Bush2Beach's selected varieties I am growing on a shallow soil shelf, great sun year round, but I don't water there so it grow slowly. I need to gather a bunch more paddles of good fruit and go to town up there.

The opuntia in Franchesci (growing on the slope below the kei apples / parking lot west of the house) taste pretty good and always have a lot of dropped pads

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I'm moving somewhere cold soon. I am looking for suggestions of things that are easy to take care of in pots and fruit quickly (so no jaboticaba, even though they do well in pots). I've heard sugar apple is good, any other suggestions?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Francisco fruit recommendations
« on: September 17, 2023, 05:31:08 PM »
There are lots of luma planted in GGP. I haven't seen any ugni outside of Strybing.

UC Berkeley Botanical Garden is worth checking out if you have time to go across the bay.

For buying fruit, Asian and Latin markets to find more exotic stuff.

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Thought this video was interesting. Has anyone tried the fruit? Wondering if it is that much better than other cactus fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1s1RhnrIfM

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Searching for all Eriobotrya species
« on: February 02, 2023, 12:21:21 PM »
Slawek was nice to my wife and I when we visited the whiskey Hill farms jungle, gave us a big tour and let us have some solanum cuttings. Lots of passionate people volunteering there not sure what your experience with them was. Don't care if people are crackpot on unrelated things.

Bronze loquat (or the coppertone hybrid) is a very common street tree here and tastes sweet, no acid with very little flesh. Not worth growing for food but a nice ornamental.

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How high are the energy costs to heat these? Might end up in Minnesota at some point and would want to do this.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Syzygium phillyreifolium
« on: January 22, 2023, 10:45:17 PM »
Is it Cherry of the Rio Grande?
Usually referred to as Eugenia aggregata?
If so, it's like an intense cherry.

Some stuff I saw online said it was a synonym but other said it was from Madagascar. Not sure which to trust

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Syzygium phillyreifolium
« on: January 22, 2023, 08:40:12 PM »
Anyone know how the fruit is on this? Saw one growing at UC Santa Cruz arboretum rare fruit collection.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: December 23, 2022, 03:40:48 PM »
What sort of soil do you have, and what amendments have you done? I'm suffering with awful clay soil that things grow slowly in, seems common to SB. Wondering what the correct treatment is.

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I'm trying to find new plant related things to do in SB and the surrounding areas (main focus is tropical fruit but also like general plant stuff).
Have already done:
Lotusland
SB Botanical Garden
SB Orchid Estate
Mission Rose Garden
Franchesci Park
Orpet Park
Alice Keck
Courthouse / Sunken Gardens
Taft Gardens
Lake Carneros


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Blueberries in warmer climates
« on: August 30, 2022, 01:16:00 PM »
You could try a Neotropical blueberry ala something in Cavendishia genus

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is wrong with this grimal?
« on: August 26, 2022, 08:09:37 PM »
My jabos periodically get bothered like that sometimes. They tend to spring back, sometimes it takes forrreeverrrr though. In my case, I think it's due to extremely hard water and lockout. I add a bit of fertilizer and that seems to help them out. Liquid fertilizer seems to really be the ticket for situations like these.

Which liquid fertilizer do you recommend? What chemical ratios for nitrogen, potassium, etc

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is wrong with this grimal?
« on: August 26, 2022, 03:04:06 PM »
Should I up pot it yet?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / What is wrong with this grimal?
« on: August 26, 2022, 12:45:50 PM »
Leaves seem pretty thin.

Also, would azalea mix be a good potting soil for jabos? For the acidity






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: June 11, 2022, 09:45:45 PM »
Which garcinias did you try besides imbe?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: June 11, 2022, 08:54:12 PM »
Have you attempted any garcinias? Didn't see any on list, curious if you tried them and they died.

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Join SF Bay Area Tropical Fruit Growers Facebook group for more recommendations. You'd probably have the most luck at the Vietnamese markets in San Jose.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: June 04, 2022, 06:01:30 PM »
Have you attempted lychee here?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: May 26, 2022, 12:46:10 PM »
What are the temp highs and lows there? How bad is wind? Cool collection

We get over 100f very regularly during summer. The highest I've seen was 117f and a huge number of plants were damaged, even really hardy stuff like pineapple guava burnt up. The winter is cold so I am zone pushing a lot with some of this stuff. I just accept some frost bite and call it day, we get down to 25f sometimes, but generally briefly. It does tend to sit at 32-34f for hours at a time, sometimes almost the whole night. The greenhouse is very important for my potted plant collection.

It is extremely well protected from wind and we rarely see more than 30mph.

Do you protect anything in the winter (frost cloth, Christmas lights, etc)? That's nice about the wind it's a challenge in SB

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: May 26, 2022, 12:09:49 PM »
What are the temp highs and lows there? How bad is wind? Cool collection

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Oops I guessed one that was already guessed. 22?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Big Jim Loquat Scions
« on: April 06, 2022, 03:56:28 PM »
Is anyone selling grafted plants of this?

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Minnesota Rare Fruit Growers
« on: April 03, 2022, 06:32:41 PM »
Does anyone know if there is anything like CRFG in Minnesota or know of any good gardening / farming groups? I might end up having to move there in the next few years and would like to continue my hobby. This would be for growing outside, not space station / heated greenhouse tropicals.

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