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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Fruit party?
« on: June 22, 2022, 10:53:44 AM »
Anyone in san diego area want to do one of these again?  Ive been extremely busy with house projects and homeschooled 1 kid through 1st grade this year.  Things are finally almost settling down and I have time to relax a bit if you guys want to have a get together we can make that happen.  Maybe early August?  Let me know if these enough interest.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Plum cherry cross (pluerry)
« on: June 19, 2022, 09:35:38 PM »
Just got my first crop of "sweet treat" pluerry.  I think its from zaigers.  Trees was from dave wilson.  The fruits are really nice.  Worth a shot growing.  It fruited well here even with less than the stated 450hrs of required chill.  Seems like a winner.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado trees video
« on: June 05, 2022, 05:44:38 PM »
My wife filmed and son edited this for me.  Sorry its in portrait mode, next time ill make sure to do landscape.  If people like these, I can do another one with different trees, this was just a few types.

https://youtu.be/TdjGGMnahSk






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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Aztec Gem dragonfruit
« on: June 03, 2022, 12:14:34 AM »
Big cutting (2ft) 15$ plus postage.  I have a plant that tipped over and snapped off a big branch.  Havent tried the fruit yet, just got the plant last year and was going to plant it in the ground and broke it in half...

Its a purple variety from australia.  Smaller fruit like S8 and self pollinating.

I have some desert king pieces and a few others as well if interested send a pm.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Overhyped avocados
« on: May 26, 2022, 12:04:57 PM »
Just had to rant about this...  Sorry in advance  :D  I noticed theres so many overhyped avocado types.  I tried growing as many as possible and found most to be uninspiring.  Either the flavor is not there, or the tree has bad growth habits, or some other problem.  Many of these are hyped up by the UC breeding program or by the grounds keepers at the UC Irvine grove.  And some have just been around forever and for some reason people keep propogating them even though theres much better options  ???

My chainsaw has been getting a real workout lately.  Heres a short list of ones that have had a date with the chipper.


Ardith
Mexicola
Mexicola Grande
Stewart
Holiday
Daily11
Jim Bacon
Sir Prize
Jan Boyce
Fuerte
Bacon
Zutano
GEM
Party time
Coleen Davis


And theres more that will likely be chopped down and turned into saw dust after I waste a few more seasons on them as well !  ;D  :P


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Citrus General Discussion / Juice concentrate?
« on: May 05, 2022, 12:26:22 AM »
Anyone make concentrate citrus juice to freeze?  Ive got way too many mandarins and want to juice and save it.  Not sure the best way to remove the water from it?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Wanted E4 mango scions
« on: April 30, 2022, 11:38:40 PM »
please let me know if anyone has a few of these to sell or trade.  thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Irrigation pump question
« on: April 30, 2022, 12:49:49 PM »
Is anyone using a seperate irrigation pump to pull from a tank or from a pond?  Not directly from a well? 

Im thinking of adding a dedicated irrigation pump to draw off a water tank and push water to sprinkler lines.  What I dont know is if I can do it without sprinkler valves?  Ideally the pump would get kicked on and it would just push straight to the nozzles and there wouldnt need to be a valve at all.  I just dont know if water will always want to run through the pump when not in use.  Because the water tank is at the highest spot on the property and all trees are downhill from there.  The pump wont need to do any lifting to prime itself.  I dont want a sprinkler valve in the equation if possible.  Ideas?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Hass avocados
« on: April 08, 2022, 06:50:32 PM »
CA grown in my yard.  These are not picked early, and will not go bad like store fruit. Never refrigerated or abused.

1$ each, minimum 10 pieces.

I will harvest for several days and ship ones that will not all ripen at once.

Postage depends on where they are going.  Its around 10-11$ in CA. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Fujikawa avocado
« on: March 25, 2022, 10:57:00 AM »
This tree grows great in CA and fruits nicely.  Its also pretty tasty.  The whole family approved of this one.  This one is the standout of the hawaii avocados Im growing.  The tree performs awesome. 



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cherimoya scions
« on: March 07, 2022, 11:00:47 AM »
10$ postage, small flat rate box

5$ per scion, no minimum

Knight, honeyhart, white, fino de jete, pierce, LM#3 hybrid, rudy#20 (limited), dream(limited).

Shipping Monday March 28th.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mexican avocado imports blocked?
« on: February 16, 2022, 05:22:39 PM »
How long will that last?  Seems good for others growers who arent run by the cartels.  Im hoping to see record avocado prices soon!  :D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Inca red cherimoya
« on: February 12, 2022, 01:09:57 PM »
Kind of looks like atemoya.  Leaves are a tad skinny too.  This was highly rated at our fruit tasting a year or 2 ago.  Havent cut this fruit up yet.  Will try it tomorrow.  Just wanted to post pics of the fruit and encourage others to grow this one.  It might even fruit in florida.  Does not have any rubbery taste or texture like atemoya but it sort of looks like it has some atemoya genetics.




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Dragonfruit plants
« on: February 12, 2022, 12:55:08 PM »
Local pickup.

Im selling these because I already have many copies planted out and these are extras taking up space in my GH.

Giant peruvian megalanthus.  Similar to palora.  Fruit are 500grams.  Grafted onto sugar dragon root system, 7ft tall, ready to go on the trellis.  50$

Big Desert king in 5gal pot, 5ft tall ready to plant.  Imported from Israel, not a seedling.  65$

Golden yellow, yellow undants variety, has lemony flavor white flesh.  15gallon 45$

Small desert king plants rooted 40$ 2ft tall in 1gal pots


Peru graft


Peru plant


Desert king



Golden yellow 15gal


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Pineapple red spanish slips
« on: February 10, 2022, 01:45:23 PM »
25$ for 6 slips plus postage. 



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lolo avocado Puerto Rico wow!
« on: February 05, 2022, 09:09:44 PM »
It tastes amazing.  Thank you for sending fruit to try twice now.  This time was very dense and oily. Very good avocado 8)  Its as good as late summer reeds from CA.  6 months earlier.  Very nice fruit wow, the whole family loved it.  We had lemongrass chicken and vegetables and threw the lolo on there too. 









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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado graft pics
« on: January 19, 2022, 08:47:44 PM »
Hope this one works because I did about 100 of them like it.  Ive done them in the past but not enough to know if its highly successful.  Was the best I could come up with for the size of the rootstocks. 

Obviously the graft is not yet wrapped in the photo.  Just showing the cuts made. 

if you live somewhere cold you may need to wait longer to try this one.  The bark was slipping on most of my rootstocks but a few were not yet. 





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Nursery pots for sale
« on: January 05, 2022, 11:41:11 PM »
1.7 and 2.2 gallon

3 for 1$ and 2 for 1$

have stacks, will dondeals if you buy them all.

pick up in poway CA




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Temperate Fruit Buy, Sell, & Trade / Low chill stone fruit scions
« on: December 27, 2021, 08:03:55 PM »
2 for 5$ plus postage

May pride peach
Mid pride peach
August pride peach
Tropic snow white peach

Snow queen nectarine
Arctic star nectarine

Minnie royal cherry
Royal Lee cherry
Royal crimson cherry

Gold kist apricot
Tropic gold apricot
Cotton candy aprium
Flavor delight aprium

SpicyZ nectaplum

Snow queen fruitset


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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Pears in southern CA
« on: December 27, 2021, 07:02:58 PM »
Anyone growing good pears in southern CA? 

I grew several types and they produced well but the flavor is no good.  Im looking to top work with some of the better types like

D'anju
Comice
Bartlett

These have pretty high chill ratings.  Does anyone have any of these fruiting or any other good tasting pears?

Thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Cherimoya tree spacing?
« on: December 23, 2021, 06:01:30 PM »
Thoughts for grove spacing?  15x15ft ok?  20x20 better?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Avocado scions
« on: December 18, 2021, 08:44:35 PM »
5$ plus postage. 

Nabal
Ardith - sold out
Hass
Reed - sold out
Sir Prize - sold out
Mexicola Grande - plenty left but is starting to flower, now is good time to cut
Bacon
Mexicola
Fujikawa - sold out
Holiday
Lamb
Daily 11 - sold out
Fuerte
Stewart - sold out


Will take orders now and start shipping after the new year.  If you want to have it shipped later in the year I can set a reminder in my phone and ship in February also.  Will not be shipping after February.  January and February seem to be the best time to take scions here. 

Please send a PM with your list and include your email address so I can send you an invoice also please.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cherimoya Fruit
« on: November 29, 2021, 12:47:33 PM »
45$ total shipped per medium flat rate box 4-5lbs of fruit.

14.50$ of that is the postage.

Please put a note in this thread if you would like a box.  Please dont send me messages, I will get back to everyone in order that they post here.  If you dont hear back from me I ran out.  Ill send 3 or 4 boxes per week until Im out. 

I just picked these now and am going to get 4 or 5 boxes off today. 




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado poll
« on: November 20, 2021, 08:33:28 PM »
 :D

Which avocados are most appealing to you?  Ive put the types I personally like and can also grow in this location.  I have to make a decision which types to grow for sale.  Which is a difficult choice to make.  The ones that taste the best dont necessarily fruit well or grow well and end up costing more to grow.

Reed, sharwil, nabal are superior fruits IMO but these are not as easy to grow here as the hass family. Hass is an awesome fruit and they grow and produce well here but its difficult to sell unless selling wholesale.  Tough to compete with mexican avocado production even if the fruit here are higher quality. 

Lamb and Gem are highly productive, but they are B grade fruits.  All of these have some tradeoff. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cherimoya seed packs
« on: November 19, 2021, 11:13:11 PM »
50 seeds,  total 10$ shipped to your mailbox.

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