Looking for a Barbados Cherry tree to use as a hedge

[Willthomas76]

Anyone know where I can find a Barbados Cherry tree in San Diego County?  The bigger the better, as I am not patient enough to wait 5 years for fruit.  Exotica in Vista does not have them at the moment and the plants on eBay are rather small.

Thanks

[scottsurf]

i got 1 from city farmers nursery last year but that was the first time seeing it there. got 1 from ong nursery too they both are doing really well

[Willthomas76]

I tried City Farmers but they looked like they never heard of it.  I'll look into ONG.  Where is ONG located?

[scottsurf]

look up there website ongnursery.com there in linda vista .

[CA Hockey]

Check out Bonita creek nursery also.

As an aside, I totally understand the desire to have the tree be as big as possible, but I personally think the smaller trees have more growth potential as their root systems can grow and expand quickly before expending much energy in the tree. The resulting tree ends up growing faster and being healthier . My 2 cents

How are your avocado grafts? I grafted that weekend also and mine have pushed through the buds for about 3 weeks now.

K

[Willthomas76]

I was thinking 3 to 5 gallon.  Would you go smaller?

 About 50% of the grafts are pushing.  I learned a grafting hack about 2 weeks after that were far more successful for me.  Adding a wet paper towel inside the clear plastic bag that I cover the graft with.

[Coach62]

I got mine from one of the big box stores.  BTW, I love my BC tree (I don't keep it as a hedge).  Might call around and get lucky as I did.  I ate a handful today.

[Paquicuba]

BC don't take 5 years to start bearing fruits - at least not here in SoFL. I planted one that was 2 feet tall in the spring of 2015 and by October 2016 I was already picking my first fruits. Also, I may be wrong or I may not have seen enough BC trees, but I don't see a BC functioning properly as a hedge since no matter how much compact you keep them, they don't have a dense foliage to provide privacy.