The Tropical Fruit Forum

Or just go wild and do what I’m going to do… build the greenhouse over a hot tub!

My hot tub is well insulated but still some heat loss which =heat gain for greenhouse!  Plus added bonus of seeing the plants while you soak!

Win-win…

Visited a Large Brewster tree with super tiny seeds today.

Just following up on the thread here. Went to a friends house with a large backyard full of fruit trees today and stopped by his Brewster. It’s around 12 feet tall now and loads up with fruit each year.

 I know Simon has been to his place with me in the past, but it’s a regular fruit forest.

An interesting thing happened today, that seems to align with some of the other comments here. He said almost all of the fruit this year had really tiny seeds. We picked probably two dozen fruit from the tree as we stood there talking and only three had large seeds.

Furthermore, in the category of small seeds, there were very small seeds and remarkably small seeds. The very small seeds were what I would consider “chicken tongue” seeds, but the smallest of seeds were may be the size of a pencil eraser?

The property is in University City, San Diego and I’m wondering if some thing about our Weather this year is linked to so many people reporting a higher percentage of small seeds?  we’ve had a very unusual weather year and near the coast, it’s almost like summer never hit. This tree has been around for a while, and they have been enjoying fruit on it for many years but this year, the seeds were distinctly different.

Just an interesting observation, and I thought I would toss it in here with the rest of the comments. It will be interesting to see if it reverts back to large seeds next year. In prior years, I remember being surprised if I found a small seed.

I would probably swing any of these.  Good time of year to stop and surf rincón asking the way!

Looking either for fruit or seeds. Located in San Diego and willing to pay for shipping please let me know if you might be able to help

Want to skip a winter and pick up a seedling?  I purchased some Sweet Tart seeds last year and planted.  Have two small seedlings and only need one.  Planted late in the summer so grew to approx 18"??  Not sure as I have not measured but after a long and cold season, they are just waking up again. 

I am right down by Sea World, so close by.  If you don't find seed or fruit, maybe this would work for you. 

Out of town until Wed, but feel free to PM if you are interested. 

Best of luck.

I just wandered around tasting a bunch of trees in fruit today in Vista, CA.  We all agreed that on this day, the Oscar mulberry was by far the best.  Not as large as the Pakistan (which I still think is the best size/shape) but the flavor was fantastic.  We bought two of them.

In coastalSD and my sweetheart lychee looks just like that right now.  Just the timing after a cold winter this year. Looking good!

Flavor isnt as good as regular cherimoya IMO.  I put the tree in the chipper.

That’sa bummer!  I grafted three scions into my cherimoya last summer and they’ve all taken and starting to flower now. I’ll give them a chance for a couple years but that’s not a promising report.

At least I still have cherimoya!

Hello fellow gardeners.  I  see some old threads on growing jackfruit in SoCal and it does look like there are some success stories. 

Not a lot of new information on the forum here.  Any updated successes?  Is one variety having better success than others?  I know there were many members talking about this 5-10 years ago so there ought to Bree some good recommendations by now.

Many thanks!

Mine looks exactly like this right now.  I have a multi-grafted tree with Cheremoya, and only the grafted branches have this, but they look identical to yours.

I agree with the earlier comments that this is perfectly normal, and these leaves will drop soon as part of the natural, annual cycle. If you look close, you will probably see spots where new growth is already beginning. I can see little spots of growth already, but our climates may be slightly different than one another .

I had the same thought John B.  I’m in Bay Park and I’m worried about that afternoon, west facing sun exposure.  We’ll see!

Anyone want to post some photos of your trees? Would be great to see some planted trees…shape, size,etc.
sounds like they grow slowly for us here in SoCal

Nice.  That sounds great.  Thanks again for the great plant and quick delivery.