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Here's an update on the different varieties I have grafted, so far of the 32 only have 3 varieties that are unknown but has very good tasting fruits.
I tried Norm's and Brian's fruits so far.
Fishie, you can tell from the leaves. The yellow sapote leaves have the fuzzy/wooly bottom side so it's pretty easy to tell. But no, you can't look at the seed and differentiate between the white and yellow seeds.
In Central FL I went from 9b to 10a. Guess I will toss all my heat lamps and tree blankets since I dont need to protect my mangos anymore and will start collecting ultra-tropicals to put in the ground. Woo-hoo! Will Durian grow in 10a?Maybe my Royal Poinciana wont freeze back to the roots every year now.
Lychee is a million times more cold hardy than cacao. Fairchild near Miami has a mature cacao in zone 11a and even it gets cold damage once or twice a decade when the low is near 40F. The handful of nights below 55F are enough to cause flower drop and fruit abortion in the "winter".
Zone 10 in Florida is also a million (x1000) times more tropical than Bay Area zone 10, it's not "just drier"...the difference is night and day in temperature and overall weather pattern. Equating Florida zones with California zones is 100% wrong and will just cause you heartbreak. Bay Area obviously has nothing to do with warm beaches lined with coconuts. No parallel whatsoever!
You must have some acreage if you're looking for multiple WS trees.
I know I never want to top a Garcinia.
Both of mine that I just got were topped in transit... Ugh. I hope they will be ok long term.
I think SeaWalnut may have been the only one ever actually chased away?There was this lady in London, I believe. She was a nutcase and was banned after a while. And there was also bsbullie, who liked to insult and/or demean people but had much useful mango information, being a friend of the Zills. He stopped participating on his own.
I left the forum for awhile some time ago being disgusted with Mark from Texas making very critical remarks on an organic growing thread. Just butting in with his hostile views. I started to miss the forum and I complained to the admin about what happened and he was pretty receptive. In tropical agroforestry I’m pretty well known and my farm is a commercial success so I’m very convinced you can farm naturally. I don’t get the hostility.
Peter
It might be fine, but just be aware that 10a in California gets a lot more "chill" than even some 9a areas in Florida. I don't know what type of chill (what temperature range and for how long) pawpaws actually require, though.
