The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thinking of top working my potted feijoa. I thought it was self fertile but since I got rid of the other potted one I haven't had fruit from the last flowering despite hand pollinating!
Looking to trade for a couple cuttings. DM me if interested


I have the following:

Hardy Citrus: (can’t mail citrus to restricted states)
Bishop Citrandarin
Ichang Papeda (prob dead from this winter)
Fast Flowering Tri
Prague Chimera
Thomasville Citrangequat
Morton Citrange
Poncirus+
Taitri (not mature yet)
Swingle Citrumelo (not mature yet)

Poms:
Afganski
Sirenevyi (limited)

Persimmon:
Jiro Fuyu
Hachiya (limited)

Pear:
Honeysweet
Korean giant pear

Plum:
Seed grown, probably a black beauty/ asian plum

Cherry:
Rainer, Royal Anne, Carmine Jewel (bush cherry)

Pawpaw: (these are new grafts so will check what can be cut)
Tropical Treat
Al Horn (limited)
Lehman’s Chiffon
IXL

Kiwi:
Issai
Hardy fuzzy kiwi

Blueberry:
Reka

Peach:
Hale Haven

Passiflora:
Dark purple fruited edulis from seed (tart fruit, dark purple flowers)

Sorry for your loss. Millet will be missed!

Marcin this how the bark cracks look healed from last winter after wrapping with the film. All of the limbs survived. The dark color is from leaving the parafilm on too long, I never removed it but the tree expanded it on its own and snapped it eventually.

Surprised to see bark cracks on those

A problem I've noticed here after a heavy snow storm this past weekend with several days and nights in a row below freezing the weight has has sheered off one of my Miho x Poncirus grafts on poncirus which was a new graft done last season. The same happened to my Poncirus+ the first winter we had heavy snow when it was a new plant. (But I am pretty sure this time someone shoveled snow and tossed it on the tree which snapped it) Have you had an issue with grafts being torn off by the weight of the snow?

Thankfully I have a backup grafted on another tree so we'll see how that does at -16.7c this coming weekend.

My Morton inside the greenhouse cracked all over last winter, I wrapped all stems with parafilm which then calloused. Might help your kinga

Snow here will hopefully insulate the trees

I saw that you did that! I've done an outdoor one already on my original Prague Chimera which was grafted to flying dragon and barely grows, so did the approach using standard poncirus this past summer and it took. It technically has 2 rootstocks at the moment which I will need to cut the FD in the coming season.

Here are those hybrids the Edulis that I named purple boots was the father, incarnata was the mother. I have 6 in total with 4 more unique plants that havent flowered yet






A 3rd plant is showing some buds so hopefully we'll see that soon.

Neither of the 2 that flowered held a fruit which could indicate sterility with its own pollen or female sterility

I wonder apprach grafting could work to induce a graft chimera from the callus tissue

Did anyone ever tried to approach graft cherimoya and paw paw ? I am interested in this as i have some seedlings of both i would likw to wxperiment with ??

Will be testing Iva grafts this winter here in NJ and update. 3 large grafts on a swingle that is against a retaining wall, and 1 graft on poncirus that is out in the open but also close to the roof of our garage (house is on a hill with garage at street level). I have seedlings from the Iva seeds themulberries sent me as well as dingle (somewhere lol) the Iva are in pots but I can't remember where I put the Dingle lol. I also have some troyer citrange x pomelo that are too small to plant so I'll test those next season. Those probably won't be hardy in z7a at all.

The same happened to me when I bought veinte cohol, they sent me dwarf cavendish. Where did you purchase it?
My orinoco didn't have the brown marking at any stage.

Sold as veinte cohol, def not lol

Saved some seeds from my Afganksi pom harvest this month Nov 2025, air dried they will last for about a year. I tested some seeds from last Nov 2024 back in September and some germinated at around 2 weeks with ziplock bag + paper towel method on top of fridge I didn't continue the test. These will be fresh from the 2025 batch.

The tree is hardy, has not died back at even 1f during a polar vortex. Fruit ripens in late October here in zone 7a.

Flavor is sweet + tart, arils become darker the longer the fruit hangs. Seeds don't come true but fruit should be similar ~3-5 years to see flowers.


I can fill some baggies around 20+ seeds
$5.00 plus $5.00 for ground shipping with tracking in bubble envelope
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Not my heaviest (that one was 1.5lb)

Cool, would love to see the results on those seeds when you notice anything.
If you haven't seen this blog already https://gardenscientist.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/polyploid-update-fall-2014/
could be useful

This winter, while outdoor gardening stops, I’m brainstorming a series of indoor experiments using oryzalin as a safer alternative to colchicine for inducing polyploidy. I’m especially interested in seeing how different species respond, both in growth and eventual fruit quality.

Some ideas working with seeds that I have or need to source:
Hindsii kumquat (my tree died from root rot this spring)
Fast flowering trifoliate,
Afganski pomegranate,
A large-fruit pawpaw (not really precocious but I don't see polyploid pawpaw varieties in the trade)
As well as doing targeted bud treatments on my Passiflora incarnata × edulis hybrid cuttings.

My goals are to explore whether polyploid lines can give improvements like thicker foliage, increased vigor, larger fruit, or in the Passiflora hybrid potential restoration of fertility where sterility is an issue. I think these trials could lead to some unusual phenotypes, maybe even new breeding material and a good way to kill time when it's freezing out.