The Tropical Fruit Forum

Good price. Wish I was there to pick it up. Nice looking tree !

Thank you.

1. Super African Pride Atemoya $Sold

Thanks

Looking to get a couple guava mango scions if anyone is trimming their tree. Will pay or trade.I only need two.

Quote from: John B on March 04, 2024, 11:30:00 PM

I've removed Dr. White and others at this point since they couldn't tolerate my microclimate (heat) as well as the others listed.

Interesting to hear your experience. UCR found Dr White the most heat tolerant in their trials https://slosson.ucdavis.edu/newsletters/Ellstrand_198629140.pdf

Could be sun exposure as well. I'm up on a nice sunny hill. My microclimate gets intense heat and UV.

Kevin,

This year, I can take extra's of:
Knight, Pierce, Selma, Behl, and my own variety "Del Cerro". I've removed Dr. White and others at this point since they couldn't tolerate my microclimate (heat) as well as the others listed.

I owe you from the Jabo scion you provided that are going bonkers in under a year. Just pay shipping if you're interested.

we had couple nights in high 40°F.   blue pot is 1 gallon and yellow is 2 gallon pot..  are they still too big for them? 

I my opinion, for the smaller ones, 100% too big of a pot for SoCal. For the larger one, you may have been ok if it was during the summer and the plant was actively growing. That looks like  it should be in a one gallon container. I've killed lots of those seedlings when I treated them like other plants.

Based on the description, I think Eggo is correct. I have a Booth and it fits all the same description except fruit. BUT, when I bought the tree at Clausen nursery 5-6 years ago, they showed my one of their large in ground trees that had huge fruit like your pictures. That's why I bought it!

Where did you see that news? That's a bummer, like you they were one of the first tropical nurseries I had visited.  If it's the end, I may have to take one last visit.

Yeah me too. It was posted on CRFG, San Diego Chapter FB group.

Because of the recent rain and wind down here, I've been dealing with splitting and dropping of early citrus fruit. This was my first year allowing the Tarocco grafts to hold a few fruit. There were not a lot of fruit on those grafts, so I picked most of the Tarocco's so the rest of them wouldn't fall or split.

This tree has four varieties, with three having pink/red pigment. The main variety is Cara Cara on C-35 rootstock. Unfortunately, my other blood orange grafts, sanguinello, did not hold fruit to maturity this year, do we couldn't taste it side by side.

I am bummed that there was only a tiny bit of pink/red pigmentation in the  Tarocco flesh(although Kaz @sc4001992 said this would be the case in another thread). No cocktail garnish for me!

For now, I still like Cara Cara the best. Tarocco #7 was ok, just nothing to brag about. We'll see if Tarocco gets sweeter next year or maybe a couple will hold on longer in this year.

Tarocco #7 on left, Cara Cara on right:

Yes, I agree with what Kevin said above. Sun is very important for poms. Chill factor is equally important. I don't know much about your location and zone, but it could be too warm as well. Flowers grow on second year growth.

Heavily compost and mulch that tree and see what happens.

The good thing about megalanthus, at least here, is that it's ready in spring when the rest of them are still in vegetative mode. Flavor-wise, as with everything else, it depends on personal preference. megalanthus is my wife's favorite, it tastes like a big white grape. For me, a good CC or PG is hard to beat. S8 is very good too but this year some of them had like a dish soap aftertaste (also present and more marked in Pink Panther) which was kind of weird, don't know if it had to be with the fertilizing regime or what happened, previous years S8 was the best for most of us.

Over the years, some of our S8 have developed what you call "dish soap aftertaste". I consider it a very floral taste. Maybe in the last 5 years I started taking mental notes on it. I have a perceived correlation to the flowers that were pollinated more. It was more pronounced in the ones when I used to pollinate by hand. But since I no longer do that, that taste has become more subtle. I actually really enjoy that flavor profile because it is unique. But on nice warm sunny days when there are tons of bees in the flowers, I think excess pollen really fertilizes the fruit and makes the flavor more pronounced. The fruit are typically larger as well.

That is just a hypothesis. Maybe this spring I'll try to label some and take pictures to see if there's a lot more seeds in the ones that have that flavor. I ruled out the length of time the fruit was on the vine but we'll see.

Funny thing is somehow I stumbled across his videos a couple years ago and I've watched so many even though we can't dry farm here. I find it funny how he calls out his neighbors for spraying glyphosate near his property. Seems he still checks the website

Feasting on red hybrid today

Really like the structure on this tree. How large is it? Do you have a pic of the full tree?