The Tropical Fruit Forum

There are lots of luma planted in GGP. I haven't seen any ugni outside of Strybing.

UC Berkeley Botanical Garden is worth checking out if you have time to go across the bay.

For buying fruit, Asian and Latin markets to find more exotic stuff.

Slawek was nice to my wife and I when we visited the whiskey Hill farms jungle, gave us a big tour and let us have some solanum cuttings. Lots of passionate people volunteering there not sure what your experience with them was. Don't care if people are crackpot on unrelated things.

Bronze loquat (or the coppertone hybrid) is a very common street tree here and tastes sweet, no acid with very little flesh. Not worth growing for food but a nice ornamental.

Is it Cherry of the Rio Grande?
Usually referred to as Eugenia aggregata?
If so, it's like an intense cherry.

Some stuff I saw online said it was a synonym but other said it was from Madagascar. Not sure which to trust

What sort of soil do you have, and what amendments have you done? I'm suffering with awful clay soil that things grow slowly in, seems common to SB. Wondering what the correct treatment is.

You could try a Neotropical blueberry ala something in Cavendishia genus

Should I up pot it yet?

Which garcinias did you try besides imbe?

Join SF Bay Area Tropical Fruit Growers Facebook group for more recommendations. You'd probably have the most luck at the Vietnamese markets in San Jose.

Quote from: CherimoyaDude on May 26, 2022, 12:09:49 PM

What are the temp highs and lows there? How bad is wind? Cool collection

We get over 100f very regularly during summer. The highest I've seen was 117f and a huge number of plants were damaged, even really hardy stuff like pineapple guava burnt up. The winter is cold so I am zone pushing a lot with some of this stuff. I just accept some frost bite and call it day, we get down to 25f sometimes, but generally briefly. It does tend to sit at 32-34f for hours at a time, sometimes almost the whole night. The greenhouse is very important for my potted plant collection.

It is extremely well protected from wind and we rarely see more than 30mph.

Do you protect anything in the winter (frost cloth, Christmas lights, etc)? That's nice about the wind it's a challenge in SB

Oops I guessed one that was already guessed. 22?

Is anyone selling grafted plants of this?

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