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Working good over here. Wax on Rose



4 grafts from March, 2 growing very well, a Kecil and Long Green. I added more from Mark recently, maybe a couple weeks ago, and popping buds already.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Giant Avocado fruits
« on: July 07, 2025, 02:53:11 PM »
Nothing ground breaking, but I felt like these Hass were really outstanding size wise.





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These are great quality. Skhan has it going on!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: CORG / Calycina Brix
« on: July 07, 2025, 01:38:23 PM »
I tasted a few CORG's from a friend's tree, it is a seedling tree that is over 5yrs old. The fruits were very sweet, and the seeds were very small, he called it Seedless Deborah. I took some photos and have it somewhere in my computer folders. Do you know how sweet they get, brix?

My other fruit friend Dan has a large tree and his CORG fruits were good, and I measured those brix = 11 to 12.

When we have had a major heat wave at just the right time, I got one reading up to nearly 16, but that was an anomaly. I have definitely had sweeter CORG than the 13.7 shown. I think ScottR's has been overall one of the best. Ben's Beaut is not that sweet. It's big, and balanced. That may be more desirable to someone looking for a standard cherry replacement in the  tropics.

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Good way to avoid a hernia too! Woohoo!!

This post was for you Rob! Now you can see what I mean by that engine lift. I tie the trunk up with a soft engine strap usually that does not have the metal hook, but farmers make do.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sharwil Avocado in South Florida
« on: July 07, 2025, 10:23:42 AM »
Trying my best to stake this thing up.





And this one is finally showing. The other take I had, the branch that was growing popped off in the wind.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to save your back on big up pots
« on: July 07, 2025, 10:21:04 AM »







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Tropical Fruit Discussion / CORG / Calycina Brix
« on: July 07, 2025, 01:57:43 AM »
Curious to see some brix readings from other CORG / calycina growers. I will continue to add cultivars as they ripen, and will do an orange CORG soon too. While this is not definitive as to what tastes best, some have a really nice sour sweet balance, it is at least a data point to consider.

Nelita straight from Miguel. Could be sweeter in full sun. Absolute cannon of a fruit.






“Genealogical” cultivar




I note that calcyina have red flesh, Corg have orange.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango Fest 2025!!!
« on: July 06, 2025, 04:08:26 PM »

Maybe the FMF organizers would like to know this so they can vet the vendors better.
Even if it was our fault for being so gullible, there is no place for a vendor like that at a Mango Festival.


I noticed this same booth too and was highly suspicious, along with the vendor booth for iirc mini-split ACs that was straight up shouting at me to come over, despite me shaking my head to them.

As an event organizer, I get it, money is money and that makes the world go round but... Yeah. Seems to me cutting back on the riff raff would've helped. There has to be more farms, nurseries, and so on that could have taken up a spot?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: July 05, 2025, 12:48:53 PM »
Looking good so far. For Yangmei, buds can push and then suddenly die back. I consider it a success when the first flush fully hardens.

For the Cerifera, it usually takes about 3-4 weeks for mine to root out in warm weather.

“Sudden die back on yangmei” is my middle name Simon.  :P

I will keep you all updated. The cerifera cuttings have a few buds showing, if you zoom in you can see them. I know it is common for cuttings to throw leaves or even whole branches without any roots at all just stored energy so I will be patient.

The Wandao tree really is budding up nicely. I want to say I nailed the timing, but let’s see.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: July 04, 2025, 05:46:48 PM »

Perhaps some action on my Wandao on cerifera graft? Wandao is pushing nicely right now vegetatively, so I hopefully hit the window nicely.


Cerifera rooting already after just a week???


Calmei seedling in ground looking GREAT


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to sprout Surinam cherry
« on: July 03, 2025, 04:13:11 PM »
Barbados straight up died for me at my old place every single time. I think it is far less cold hardy than is pitanga.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to sprout Surinam cherry
« on: July 03, 2025, 03:36:31 PM »
What K Rimes said is correct I believe. I always protect mine if we have severe cold coming. D

Fantastic. Do you have one in ground?

Yes, many. I have Shalom's Giant Red, Dark Purple, and a few unknown dark black fruit trees in the ground at the ranch I work at.

At my old place, which was much colder in 9b, only the Shalom's and Dark Purple were in ground. They did marginally better than the potted plants in the winter there. I have a photo somewhere of my collection under a pretty solid layer of snow. They are not a cold tolerant species and do not expect them to fare well below 32f.

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It looks like I possibly have some fruit holding. Hopefully they don’t drop.






Bill

Great job on that! This is a real accomplishment for SoCal!

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The people on this forum are so hard to please lol. I wish i could have gone but oh well maybe in the future

We have high expectations because we are experts in the field, so to speak. We want to have experiences above and beyond what we can achieve at home. This is really hard to do in an event setting and I really appreciate everyone trying. I’m not trying to be too harsh, just putting down my honest opinions.

For someone new to fruit collecting or fruit in general, I am sure the event was an absolute highlight of their year and they went home with sore cheeks from smiling!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to sprout Surinam cherry
« on: July 02, 2025, 11:37:59 PM »
I have not yet encountered a pitanga which can tolerate temps below freezing for long periods. They will take leaf damage in the mid 30s, defoliate at 32f, and get tip damage below 30f. Below 26f and you’re losing branches up to 1/4” thick (pencil size) if for more than a few hours. Been there done that. I have at least 20 examples of varying sources. Only the Argentinian variety, Missiones, displays a very slight edge.

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It was awesome coming back from FL and getting up to the ranch to check in on everything. The guavas are all really starting to take off with consistent warm temps.


SP


Pinkish


Flowering "Skittles" - looks SO much happier in 10a


Ruby Supreme flowering, this one is in a pot, I put another in ground


Australe setting fruit.


"Morango" guineense is really pretty. Lots of fruit sets.


Another new guineense flowering


The whole ONG Collection, pretty much. Allahabad, long pink, pear shape pink, coke can, etc. Need to get metal labels on before the sharpe wears off... They're kinda slow going so far, but I think transplant shock and also they were very freshly removed air layers.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2025 Mango season
« on: July 02, 2025, 06:25:22 PM »


My mango season is just getting started since I got back from FL. I did visit Fruit and Spice Park and was really pleased with how many trees had good quality fruit, so I got to sample lots of the old school oddballs. It was great.

I was well taken care of by Skhan, who is a top tier grower in my humble opinion, visited Rich Campbell, and also had a few seedling mangoes of good quality with JohnB51! A well rounded trip. It looked to me that it was a solid year for mangoes, and I was glad I made the trip. Maybe not a banner year, but a good one nonetheless.

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I lost both my Cribrata down to the roots, they are looking huge again.

What did them in to die back?  I feel like mine was doing mostly  good in winter and then it dropped leaves a few months back.

No idea. Maybe over watering? They were doing great, happy growth, then defoliated and died back to nothing. Was about to chuck them out but saw a green leaf node and let it go.

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I think the early entry was the real value, including the ability to load up on the top tier fruit which was totally absent when I got there just after 10am. It was an absolute zoo already, with line up wrapping around the building into the parking lot.

Being that fruit was being cut fresh, that's a step up from the Mount's Mango Fest, which was served cold, bagged, and soggy from the night before. It was not worth it last year at all.

Functionally I just think it's kind of impossible to do a mango tasting in full form for more than a handful of people, say 6, at a time. This, along with the variability of each individual fruit makes it really challenging to nail it.

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I lost both my Cribrata down to the roots, they are looking huge again.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to sprout Surinam cherry
« on: July 01, 2025, 11:15:15 PM »
One of the easier ones. In a pot pushed just below soil surface and covered in a well draining potting medium. Almost never fails. An easy sprouter. I do community pots often.

No significant losses from the community pot method?

As long as you get to them before they get too big they separate pretty easily. They tend to have a pretty easily separable tap root. Wouldn’t go crazy density, maybe 20 seeds per 1g max

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to sprout Surinam cherry
« on: July 01, 2025, 10:52:28 PM »
One of the easier ones. In a pot pushed just below soil surface and covered in a well draining potting medium. Almost never fails. An easy sprouter. I do community pots often.

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These oddball guavas are not like guajava. They generally have soft seeds that you barely notice. Their flavor is not "stinky" like guajava either, it's something quite different that I would suggest is more candy, sweet with a real bright undertone. I like guajava of course, all of them aside from the crunchy stuff, but I think these other species are worth a serious look at and definitely are top of mind for me to create a hybrid. The size of guajava + sweet sour of the "big yellow" would be top tier stuff.

A lot of them seem by their descriptions to be wonderful candidates for container culture and overwintering indoors. Seems I've been sleeping on this genus. How large in general do they need to be to fruit?


I get fruit off them about 3' tall, sometimes less, in containers. I usually get them to fruit once they're in a 15g. You can really abuse them with pruning too since they are tip bearing. I would highly recommend them, personally. I'll have fruit this year if you want seeds. It's just easier for me to send whole fruits even if they rot on the way and aren't edible.

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Isn't dasyblasta supposed to be quite cold tolerant by comparison with different flavor?

That would line up with my Missiones, which displays smooth fruit with no ribs, and certainly had a slight edge in cold tolerance - but it is not a different species. It's still eugenia uniflora and it still doesn't like to go below freezing.

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