The Tropical Fruit Forum

Way cool Brain, amazing collection and another great video eyeckr

Hi All, just wondering if 'Atherton Oaks' are graft compatible with Macadamia since in same family?

fliptop, what did you do to get your vanilla plant to flower??

Thanks Reedo, that's when I did my graft's too was in March I've found that graft's can set quite awhile with just maybe a flower pushing before leaf growth comes out. Last year I did 10-grafts on various trees of 'Pecan Pie)( 4-trees out of total 6 tree in ground) but only one took originally looked like 3-took but in end only one. I'm impressed with your percentage success are your trees in ground or pot's?

Nice job Brian, now to keep it alive in transition from layer to potted plant best o f luck

Yeah!! Thanks

Graft looks good just make sure you just wrap scion with one layer of buddy tape or parafilm so buds can grow through.

My Guabiju sets fruit all my itself but oldest tree now in more shade set's little fruit where as my other younger trees in full sun set every year.

Nice work indeed will be interesting what comes into being after all your hard work!

Here are some pic's of graft's I did this week thanks to a member sending me some scion wood of 4-different types of COTRG. all on eugenia uniflora.

Just a update for folks all this in pot's I did last year ended up failing, but do have different named COTRG outside in ground older seedling that have multi-grafted varieties grafted to them and that has worked .

Welcome to the form Charlie, I'm a friend of Jacks and CRFG member and live on Arroyo Grande Mesa I'm growing many avocado varieties, white sapote varieties -50,guava,paw paw,mulberries-8+, plum, pluots, apple-over 100 varieties, citrus-half dozen var.,medlar-3var., walnut,almond,cherimoya-20+ var. Macadamias, had mangoes at one time in Green house but all died from root rot. Have older plum and pluots espaliered for over twenty years. Also have few varieties of eugenia-Cherry of Rio Grande, Surinam Cherry, Nelita, Orange fruited eugenia, many Plinia= Jaboticaba -5 var. not fruited yet but multi-grafted paulista hoping for fruits!
If you have a warm sunny spot maybe Southern exposure next to wall could surely try a mango maybe espaliered on wall or fence worth a try. Used to be folks in local CRFG chapter that lived on slope of foothills to east of SLO that grew mangoes that were seedlings from Costco and fruited for them for many years. Jack, has been pushing the Zone in Nipomo for may, many years and is one of two who founded CRFG Central Coast Chapter he is a mentor and very knowledgeable at growing many tropical and sub-tropical fruiting trees.
Sounds like you have been busy growing many fruiting plants yourself you should check out CRFG.org -Central Coast Chapter we have monthly meetings with a Orchard at Cal Poly with hands on experience.
Also, get to know folks on Tropical Fruit Form because it's a great source for scions and cuttings of hard to find varieties

Quince, Carob finger like pods?

Is anyone into making cocktail trees? I’m always short on space and always needing cross pollination for better fruit set so over the last few years I’ve gone kind of Dr Frankenstein. Here are a few:


Santa Barbara peach with: Flavor King pluot, Sweet Treat Pluerry, Flavor Grenade pluot, Santa Rosa plum, Arctic Star Nectarine, Royal Lee, Minnie Royal, Royal Crimson, Spicy Z, Snow Queen Nectarine, Tropic Snow Peach, and Cotton Candy Aprium.


Feijoa with Coolidge, Improved Coolidge, Mammoth, Nazemetz, Nikita and 5 or so NZ varieties



Sabara jaboticaba with: white, red, otto anderson phitantra, escarlate, navel, paulista, ESALQ, fruiting sabara from my older tree, grimal, Coronata 1, 2, 3, and a few others I forget now


Pitangatuba with FFF selected "Lemonhead" and "Gigante" adding on more from another collector this Saturday



Apple tree with: Bill's Red Flesh, Goodland, Orange Pippin, Akero, Irish Peach, White Winter pearmain, Pink Pearl, Winter Banana, Dorsett, Anna


Another look at the cocktail, it's just unhappy right now due to winter but it is about to explode on every single branch


Unknown plum with all the same stuff that's on the SB peach

Kevin, I don't think that the cherries you put one prunus rootstock will work without 'Adara' inter stem long term for sure that's what folks are using to graft cherries onto prunus rootstock. But cool multi tree for sure.