The Tropical Fruit Forum

Simon, I'm good.  Thanks.

Nice.

I have brewster, mauritius, and hak ip.  I did not water enough, and the flowers drops almost all.  Will do better next year.

I plan to plant more of them.

If it is sour and the tree is full of long thorns, then it is kei apple.

Thanks.


Where do you obtain the rootstock?  I'm in san diego.

Good job.  I think I have the same small round fruits variety as you.  I hand pollinate it as well.  So far, less fruits than you.  On hot sunny day, the pollen is ready around 3pm.  At 8 pm, it the pollen is less potent, from my observation.

I also has another bigger, and longer fruits variety.  The flowers have about 4 times more.  The pollen is ready around 1pm.  I use these flowers to pollenate the round fruit variety.

The flowers that drops,imo, has to do with how potent the pollen is; that is, how fresh the pollens are.  So when to pollenate is cruicial.

If your tree is over produced, the flowers will not drop.  Usually, the fruits will be smaller or drop later on.

sounds interesting, how long does it take for the calus to form enough to try the graft?

It might work but the graft union will probably come out fat and ugly. I hope it would heal like a normal graft.

I would be interested in hearing and seeing photos of your results.

I will try this approach this year.  Will update the result afterward.

Some plants are tough to graft. Guava is one of them. Currently, approached grafting seems to be the most successful; however, it is tough and time comsuming to setup.

So I'm thinking what if we graft by calus instead of cambium? Note that I have not tried them out yet.  Let me know what you think.  Here are the steps.

1-cause wound on both scion and rootstock by peeling off a strip of bark. Note: do not cut off scion or top work the rootstock.

2-Let the scion and rootstock try to heal the wound by forming calus at the edge of the wound.

3-Once there is enough calus formed on the scion and rootstock, do these:
a- remove the scion by cutting off below the wound. Wrap it with parafilm.
b- top work the rootstock by cutting off above the wound.
c- gently scrap (not remove) the calus on both the scion and rootstock.
d- attach the scion and rootstock, making sure their calus are contacting.
e- wrap the joint.
f- Shade the scion with a piece of leave, paper, or aluminum foil.

I got caught once by the agency.  Being very cautious now.  Thanks.

What rootstock is it on?  Does the item include phyto cert. to ship to Cali?
thanks.

Fruitwood Nursery is sold out of almost all their rootstock except for cherry rootstock. They’ve got tons of it!
https://fruitwoodnursery.com/rootstocks/prunus-avium-34-mazzard-34-cherry-rootstock-detail

This place is cheaper and accepting Paypal.  Unfortunately, I placed my order at burn ridge before reading this most.

Aaronn, thanks. 

I want to plant low chill cherries, but have difficult time finding nurseries in Ca.  Do you know any?
Thanks.

Right now, there are three known rootstocks being used.  Use the one in your region is preferable.

1-M. Californica also known as pacific wax myrtle.
2-m. cerifera also known as southern  wax myrtle.
3-m. pensilvanica also known as northern  wax myrtle.

I want to start getting into yangmei as well.