The Tropical Fruit Forum

During 2nd year.

Red flowers year round here in SoCal.
Fruits die in winter.
Tree should have more flowers in spring.

I purchased it at the PBC Rare Fruit Council plant sale and I did not ask what the rootstock was. After a quick search, the leaves do look similar to soursop. If I leave it, will it hinder the growth of the atemoya portion? Is it a risk that it will takeover?

Risk of taking over depends on you.
Rotate the tree to have graft on the South.
Tip soursop to keep it lower.
Thin the soursop branches if they get much bigger than the graft.

Remove the soursop if you don’t want it.

Wax apple grafting is easy.
90% of my grafts are inlay bark graft.
Scions are thin and green.
Success rate should be above 80%.

In my yard April is a good time to start.
No grafting after Sept if scions have no leaves,

After Sept I graft with scion with leaves attached.





Late August side graft.
Scion tree was tiny and expensive so I only took the tip for scion.
Graft should push any day now.

Lychee leaves need only 1/2 of sun intensity during summer to grow well, so some shading should be good.
Lychee flowers don’t set fruits well under shade so low shading or no shading during flowering.
Lychee drop less fruits when shading 20 or 25 days after fruit set, can’t remember.

I’m only at planning stage of shading my lychee after fruit set, up to October.
I’m hoping you all in dry California try shading next season.

Here's a question for you all--
    It's rumored that Lychee doesn't do well in the hot dry summers inland, and that one should plant Longan instead.   

    What is the secret to Lychee growing for those in Inland SoCal with the multiple week 100 degree high's?  I like Lychee more than Longan so I'd like to try if it's not a tall order.

Tom

Leaves look dead to me.
If the roots are ok it would take a few weeks for new buds.

Epsom salt is a salt.
It makes it harder for the roots to absorb water.

Cut low in spring and try to graft off the new shoots.

A friend pointed me to Super Black in that video.
I read some where that another person mentioned Super Black Diamond.

There are so many imported varieties now from asian nurseries.
They are selling a lot of Indian varieties.

Last year my 2 Ecuador papaya seedlings had all male flowers.
I got rid of the big tree.
I cut off the top of the small one to keep as rootstock.

A month ago I started to feed the rootstock.
It has more shading now
Now flowers are hermaphrodites.

Temperature affects sex of papaya flowers.

Look like males

It’s best to cut and graft to a big rootstock.

Sometimes I put fruits in a box.
Add a glass of water.
Add 10W USB aquarium heater to the glass.
Set to 85F.
Close the box.

I don’t do many avocado grafting.
My tree only have 3 grafts.
I have 1 graft from 2/11 and 2 grafts from 12/30.