The Tropical Fruit Forum

Cattleyanum can get nice and big.

I had a MONSTER strawb guava this morning. I topped my tree and the fruit is obscenely big this year compared to last.

You headed down past Santa Barbara Elouicious? Drop on by if so.

If it is a male very unlikely to ever make a fruit. Sometimes rarely they can make a fruit so this is an ornamental and wouldnt be carrying fruit.

You do need a male for pollination of true females though, right?

Valencia pride at home



Orange essence at home



Orange essence at work



Valencia pride at work

The woodchips at work tend to float inward to the trunk when I water so I just scoot them back each time. The orange essence at work and VP at home were planted on the same week, interesting to see the differences between the one at home which suffers much more inland heat sometimes near 110f vs at work where they never see much more than 80f (by the sea). The soil is drastically different from my house to work, I'm basically just on ancient seabed sand (very little organic matter) whereas at work it's a heavy clay.

I've got a decent cambuca plant I could sell you up here in Santa Barbara.

I got a particularly bad one with my compound bow this year. Instant kill, silent, neighbors didn't even know. Just have to worry about what's behind the shot for safety. I'll use it again if there's another one that's causing issues.

Luckily we have so many oaks that they don't bother my crops too much. I struggle way more with birds.

I do a lot of training, pulling branches down flat if too vertical or running into another one. Widens the canopy nicely. Some people don't like the look on certain species but I don't care, I just want better sun exposure for more fruit!

Asifh, I see you're new here.

While there are many very generous people on this forum, this type of post is not in good taste. You're asking for donations of not just the seed, but also the postage fees and someone's time.

Many people here have really good stuff. Things you can't get anywhere else, along with tons of helpful knowledge. Respect that and just simply go to the Buy Sell Trade area of the forum and purchase some seeds there for the price + shipping people are asking.

Mimosa certainly just does re-sell plants, as do most smaller nurseries. You can walk through and see 20 different tags divided between big lots of plants. This said, Mimosa always has good stuff and is in general well kept. I've visited all their LA locations.

My jabos periodically get bothered like that sometimes. They tend to spring back, sometimes it takes forrreeverrrr though. In my case, I think it's due to extremely hard water and lockout. I add a bit of fertilizer and that seems to help them out. Liquid fertilizer seems to really be the ticket for situations like these.

Quote from: K-Rimes on August 23, 2022, 01:36:31 PM

Just going to chime in that you DO NOT want to use fabric pots. They end up making the soil hydrophobic over the course of about a year. Growing tomatoes or something for the summer in them is great, but they are NOT good for long term use. Been there done that.

Can you elaborate on how that happened?

I have used these with a great deal of different soil mixes and the end result is always the same - the outer layer dries out rapidly due to evaporation to the point it can become hydrophobic especially in the case of peat mixes, but aged forest product soils, sand, coco coir etc all eventually meet the same end in my opinion and experience. "Just soak the pot" only works so well after awhile. The water never reaches the outside of the pot. At least with a plastic pot the path of least resistance is often around the outside. It'll just pour out the side of a fabric pot if you experience the same condition I did.

In Florida you may have different experiences due to substantially higher humidity than inland CA temps and % but anyways, just relaying my experience.

The other issue is that the fabric deteriorates in the sun and you can say goodbye to those handles in about 1 year's time.

I simply cannot fathom why you want to use these for long term growing. They're not made of long-term materials.

Interesting project! How close are grape seedlings to their parent usually?

Hi Soren,

I sent you some seeds and met you in Kampala maybe 15 years ago.

I have a negative view of X-77. It is relatively disease resistant in Hawaii and productive but not especially tasty. I think the flavor you object to is much less prevalent in the “red-fleshed” varieties. We grow “Eksotika”. It’s a cross between “Subang 6”, a large Malaysian papaya and the Hawaiian “Sunrise”solo. It is intermediate in size, cylindrical, has quite firm flesh, and very good eating quality. It’s disease resistant under our wet conditions. I think the Malaysian Department of Agriculture bred an “Eksotika II” but I haven’t tried that.

Perhaps you’ll want to trial these varieties, and Sunrise, Holland, Red Lady, etc, to see how they perform under your conditions and which might be favored in the marketplace.

If you’d like to try it, I can send you “Eksotika” seed when we return home next week.

Aloha,

Steph

Appreciate an in depth review on the 77 and the others. I have had issues with mine dying from diseases in the cold here so this is promising for me, even if flavor is lacking a bit.

I'll check in for those other varieties when it's time to get more.

Getting those cheap, big plants out of Florida is expensive though.
That’s why the west coast big boys triple the prices when they get here and the tag still says pine island.
Is there nursery’s in CA selling fruiting Jaboticaba for less than 1k anywhere?

OP is in FL, so that's why I recommend him to buy larger plants if available.

Obviously in CA economics of growing out a 1-3g plant are more effective.