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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Newly planted carambolas look highly stressed
« on: November 12, 2025, 01:38:03 PM »
They get hammered in the cold here. So dont do much just wait until summer and thry will come back.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit Tree Horror Story
« on: November 07, 2025, 02:31:00 PM »
What were they trying to do with the mango branch?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Root prune pomegranate before planting?
« on: November 06, 2025, 11:18:22 PM »
Chop it and plant it. Its fine. Those plants are bullet proof.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Sugar Dragon" vs "Palora/Yellow Dragon Fruit" Laxative Effect
« on: October 28, 2025, 10:58:55 PM »
I have some sugar dragons you can have if you want to come pickup in poway
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Wurtz Avocado With Long Main Trunk Before Significant Branches - Top It?
« on: October 23, 2025, 05:39:53 PM »
Its a beautiful looking tree. I would let it grow the way it is but if you want to chop it way back it will not hurt the tree. Avocado trees come right back when you stump them.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My First Silas Wood
« on: October 13, 2025, 09:57:32 PM »Congrats! Dehydrated or even better freeze dried, can eat a dozen dried.
Dont get the dibetes bro. These things are like pure sugar.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Season 2025
« on: October 09, 2025, 03:03:03 PM »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
Its hot inland here and they do fine. The trick is to use 30% shade until the plant is at least 3x3ft tall and wide.
And if you are able to put the shade over it during heat waves even better but they seem to take the heat ok once they are large. And they like plenty of mulch and water.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to tell if a graft has taken?
« on: September 30, 2025, 12:04:01 PM »
Wait a few weeks?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ataulfo In Florida
« on: September 24, 2025, 07:48:17 PM »
Ive had a bunch of excellent zills mangos. But I still do like a good champaign mango from the store. Sometimes thry are not ripe enough but sometimes you get a crate that is full of big and dark orange fruit that taste great.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 05:24:17 PM »Brad if I understand correctly the Maluma was discovered growing in a Hass Grove in south Africa , appears the farmer thought it had good potential that's how the ball got rolling, still very slow to get popular in Cali, other countries it's more popular in., But back to your ? Unlikely from a Gwen so if found in a Hass orchard my thought would be a chance seedling closely related to a Hass mother tree.
Got it I forgot this was a south africa one. I was thinking it was the UC Luna one.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Strawberry Guava Not Setting Fruit?
« on: September 21, 2025, 03:55:46 PM »
Not sure, sometimes mine sets a million fruit and other years zero fruitset. The fruit are ok, hard seeds. Notanything special so if it wont put out, not a big loss..
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Clonal Rootstock Performance
« on: September 21, 2025, 03:50:15 PM »
Is Maluma another Gwen seedling?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this avocado usable rootstock?
« on: September 19, 2025, 09:34:00 PM »
Yes, chop it down to one foot tall now and paint it white. Then graft on the new shoots in February or right after your last frost.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tasting and most reliable Mangos for Southern California
« on: September 16, 2025, 11:04:08 PM »Finally a really sweet one!
Cecilove, 27.7
Tree ripened and dropped.
How is it compared to sweet tart?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: best time to graft mangoes
« on: September 15, 2025, 01:33:34 PM »
Best time where I live is beginning of summer. You can use a leaf to block the sun. Take some plastic tape and tie the leaf around the scion.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How does ilama REALLY taste, and what would you rate it ?/10
« on: September 13, 2025, 08:16:27 PM »I'd say it is only suited for the more advanced growers.
Hold my beer…
I haven’t heard of any success in growing this fruit in SoCA with a few possible exceptions. Would still love to taste it based on K-Rimes experience in El Salvador
I have a tree and it gets hammered during winter. But not dead.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Season 2025
« on: September 13, 2025, 07:58:03 PM »My supposed Kaimana lychee kept one singular lychee. Picked this up from California Tropical Fruit Tree in vista. Once it’s ripe I’ll see if it’s a true Kaimana or not. Anybody else have opinions?
Tree just may need to get larger before fruiting. Thats how my lychee trees are. Needed to get pretty big to make many fruit.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Season 2025
« on: September 13, 2025, 07:56:03 PM »
I got a lot of sweethearts this year on one of my trees and they were really nice fruit. Big and juicy and sweet
Not as productive as brewster but better quality.
Not as productive as brewster but better quality.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this tree a longan or lychee?
« on: September 12, 2025, 09:00:21 PM »
Looks like longan but hard to tell for sure from the pics.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tasting and most reliable Mangos for Southern California
« on: September 11, 2025, 02:50:24 AM »
Been using Langbenite on my dragon fruits with great success. My manila mangos split like crazy to the point of never eating a fruit. How much water is needed for a trunk diameter of 9" or so? I have four 2gal/hour drippers spread around the tree along with a sprayer for the lemongrass next to the tree. Drip system runs twice a week at 30 minutes each and once at 20 minutes. so effectively 10ish gallons per week?
Should I scratch a handful of Langbenite into the soil at each dripper and let it go a few time a year?
10gal a week seems like not much. Best way to tell is take a shovel and dig down a foot or so and see how wet it is after a few days after watering.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: AJs video of my yard
« on: September 01, 2025, 08:08:57 PM »
I tried some canistels and it is just not my thing. I might try making milkshakes or something out of it. Frank had that at a party one time and it was good.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fuyu persimmons are they close to being ready to be picked?
« on: September 01, 2025, 04:07:59 PM »
Thry turn bright orange when ripe
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: AJs video of my yard
« on: August 31, 2025, 08:48:56 PM »Always enjoy seeings Brads property. Get me excited about what I can expect in several more years.
Im in the stage of top working all the trees with the top selections now. 10 years of trials and errors and now its time to spend the next 5 years top working most of the trees.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dwarf Avocados – Myth or Maybe?
« on: August 31, 2025, 08:47:25 PM »
The Wurtz trees they sell here at home depot are definitely dwarfs.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: AJs video of my yard
« on: August 31, 2025, 12:16:43 AM »Wait.....
First of all congrats but AJ moved to Denmark? Why? That's the worst place to grow an Avocado.
His fiance is from Denmark.