Tropical Fruit Forum - International Tropical Fruit Growers

I will take an order of Jalisco and Dolores. Do you have a recommended way to root the cuttings?

If any one has some two spare scions that they could spare I would really appreciate it. I have a friend coming to my house on the 28th to help with some grafting and I really want the scions by then.

If you have a grafted Sweet Tart on good Cali root stock please let me know.
Thanks for you time.

Atkins nursery is a good one to walk around

What grows and fruits well in Hawaiian climate won't necessarily do so in California, and vice versa. For example, Hass does terribly here. Yes avocado grows wild in many of the wetter parts of Hawaii. Survived my first years here just foraging for avocados, papayas, breadfruit, passionfruits, guavas, all growing wild....till i could get my own trees growing.
BTW, Sharwil is not a Hawaiian avocado. It's actually from Australia. But has become most commonly sold avocado here.
I sell scions of many of the Hawaiian avocados if you want to try grafting them there. Take a look at http://fruitlovers.com/Scions.html

Hey Oscar what are your thoughts about finding Avocado seedlings that are growing and fruiting in elevation or in dryer climates. Do you think that these factors will help these Island avocados transfer to a good mainland avocados "southern California" in this case.

Hey Erik, I think the Fullerton tree is G. Xanthochymus (at least it looks like it to me). If it is that species, then it would be an "Old world" Garcinia from Asia and not a "New world" Garcinia from our side of the world. Mark in Chula Vista has a large Imbe (G. Livingstonei) with a very nice graft of Luc's grafted onto it....Achacha could work in the same manner I suppose. Good luck!

Thanks for the reply Chris, your seedlings are doing very well and have pushed new growth sense I bought them from you. Let me know when you have time to start planting your stuff in ground and me and the family will come over to help.

Hey JF I would love to buy a couple Dolores and Jalisco when they are ready. I am a huge Guava lover and would love a real top tier guava in the yard.

So I have felt very inspired by reading recent posts about the "Rain Forest Plum" Euginenia Candolleana and Achacha, Garcinia Humilis. I am looking for any of the other Socal guys to speak up and give any use full info they have gathered from growing and fruiting these trees? Microclimate, fertilization, soil type, sun, how long it took to fruit? I was thinking of starting these from seed and keeping them in pots for maybe two years before planting them in a protected spot in the yard with the best humidity. Do you guys think that seeds that are from plants grown in California would have a better chance than seeds ordered from Hawaii?
If anyone has any other recommendations on the other different rare Eugenia's that I should be trying please let me know.
If anyone has plants or seeds for sale that is local I would really appreciate a private message, thanks.

please let me know if you have any scions left, thanks.

Brath we bought maybe 15 reed avacados 15 large white Sapote and maybe 25 passion fruit for 40 bucks

So I have been on a mission to find some different types of passion fruit that can be grown in Southern California. It seems to me that everyone has the Fredricks variety and I would love to establish a vine that has some different acid to sugar balance.
I stopped by Exotica in Vista this last Monday to buy a Grumichama and several different mango seedlings for rootstock. While we were down in the area, me and the family went to another favorite nursery, Atkins Nursery. We bought several boxes of white sapote, reed avacodos and passion fruit.
While I was picking out the bigger Fredricks passion fruit from the box, I noticed another box of passion fruit sitting next to it. The thing that caught my eye was all the different colors and sizes. I asked the young guy that was working there and he told me that a local man grows a lot of different types and gives them to him to sell at the farmers market.
If anyone has any idea what types these are or if they might be in contact with the person in Fallbrook that is growing these, I would be interested in hearing more.
There look to be three different cultivars from my observations: two yellow types (one of short, fat & circular, the other is long & oval) and a very light red colored one. This one has five distinct ridges that don't show up very well on the photos.
I will post a taste update in a few days when I have the time.

So I stopped by California Tropical Fruit Tree Nursery this last Saturday (which is the only day of the week they are open to the public without an appointment). I had high hopes of buying some of the black surinam cherry cultivars I have been looking for like, Lolita and Champa. They had 15 gallon size for sale for 185 dollars  . Is this really the price that these plants are being sold for? Anyways I passed on purchasing one in hopes I can find a better deal some where else.

For those of you that have grown black surinam from seed do you find a big or noticeable difference with the taste from the named parents? Any help is appreciated, thanks.

papaya tree nursery has lolita and grafted cherry of rio grande but there expensive




got comfrey online as root cuttings

for nitrogen fixing im using named varites of goumi ,autoum olive got online (one green world,rolling rivers nursery) also some acacias from evergreen nursery

Why are these berry bushes more expensive them some of the new Zill mangos I really don't get it? Thanks for the source with Papaya tree Nursery I have been there in the past and liked what I saw but I do remember the prices where steep.

honey locust and native alder also work great