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Without regular pruning, a lot of tropical fruit trees will get too large. This can make harvesting the fruit very difficult, if not impossible. An exception would be fruits like durian that fall to the ground when ripe. Also, the canopies of fruit trees would merge which presumably would reduce yields.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Wanted: Avocado Budwood / Scion
« Last post by nilote on Today at 12:40:07 AM »
I am interested in Hass Avocado scion. If anyone has some, please contact me.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Chempedak disease - advice
« Last post by fruit nerd on Today at 12:39:12 AM »
Thanks for the advice Peter. I guess the good thing is the lower part of the tree looks quite healthy. The rain should hopefully start backing off soon so looking forward to getting stuck into some pruning/maintenance work.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Chempedak disease - advice
« Last post by Finca La Isla on Today at 12:22:04 AM »
It’s kind of hard to see from the photo for me but I think I would cut away the damaged part as well as you can. We usually apply EM style microorganisms to the affected area.
Peter
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Castanopsis Species
« Last post by nullzero on Today at 12:19:28 AM »
I have some Castanea pumila var. ashei trees I bought from nearly native 2 years ago. Still waiting for them to size up. Hoping it has decent blight resistance and good nut set on low chill hours.

https://www.nearlynativenursery.com/PlantsDetail.cfm?offset=201&ID=929

I have to look into castanopsis species. I was looking at crossing Castanea pumila x Castanea mollissima in the future. I am hoping I get enough chill hours to reliably get nut set in Socal or South FL.
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I’m not sure what you’re calling parasitic plants. Are you referring to epiphytes like bromeliads?  We don’t get a lot of epiphytes on inga here but certainly, inga shade is dense in any case. It’s part of the maintenance to deal with this shade and make sure that the primary plants/trees have the light they need while the inga shades out the peripheral area.
Peter
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I have a chocolate business so I grow cacao. But I also grow pataxte, cupuasu, and other theobromas and herranias. I like them all. But chocolate is a good business and I eat some chocolate as well. The rest of them are nice to have but it’s not a business. If you have plenty of money and don’t need to make a profit with your farm. …
Peter
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WANTED: Ilama trees and 'Painter' cherilata
« Last post by Orkine on March 28, 2024, 11:58:28 PM »
I just recently found someone selling Ilama seeds and was thinking about purchasing them but had never heard of them before. Do they not grow true to seed and that's why grafted ones are preferred? Or is it to speed up the time to fruit? Do they grow well in Central/South Florida?

From what I understand they are almost impossible to sprout from seed. That's why most people look for grafted seeds. They also aren't true to seed either  like most annona fruit.
Difficult but not impossible.
There are several posts on sprouting Ilama, some include pictures and reports of outcome using different methods.

If you search on Gibberelic Acid or GA3 and Ilama I am sure you will find several post.  Here are a few.
https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=29384.msg331931#msg331931
https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=28910.msg327223#msg327223
https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=44562.msg435408#msg435408

OP, if you have candidate rootstock, I can send you a few Cherilata scions.

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I was unsuccessful sending a PM but I am interested in 1G plant and scion for Green gold.  I am also located in Santa Cruz, and I can pick up.  Please PM me with info.  Thank you!

PM sent. Since you’re local, I sent you some of the varieties I have in 5g as well.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: interstock
« Last post by sc4001992 on March 28, 2024, 11:48:11 PM »
wow, that is a nice grafted branch. My macrophylla tree is huge so it wouldn't do that if you graft on my tree. I have a etron, 9lb lemon, meiwa, Yosemite Gold, Pink Lemonade, Yuzu, Clementine mandarin, Pink lemon (Italy), finger lime, hybrid finger lime, sumo all doing fine.
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