The Tropical Fruit Forum

Well that sucks...Thanks guys, was thinking it’s too small to be flowering already, must of been in a glass half full kinda mood that day

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Hey John, they’re just really really sweet and without the acidity you get with supermarket (cavendish) bananas, if you like some acidity these prob aren’t for you. We grow gold finger too and that’s a great naner, also not much acidity, but the apple banana is just all sweet. Also growing the cavendish for that sweet/acid balance between the different variety’s. 

1 Large Dwarf Apple Banana tree for sale- Just dug up today (Sunday 4/10 @ 4:30pm). I only have one left. Size is approx 10-11ft. It has nice roots and will most likely fruit this summer. The fruit is very sweet and delicious! Local pick up only, it’s heavy.

Eugenia Florida Seedlings $15 plus shipping

Sweet fruit and your kid can make a toy out of the seed as a bonus    $45

Maybe Parkeriana too and some other ones

Plinia Rivularis Seedlings for sale. $15 plus shipping. Sorry, no international shipping, US only. Seedlings will have at least two sets of leaves. Please send pm if you’d like to purchase.



Thanks,
Nate

My Sweetheart is starting to flower, this will be the first year I let it hold fruit. I hope they are as good as your Brewsters Kaz!

Curious how everyone’s trees are doing from this order? I had one Biqi survive that’s in the ground doing well, there’s also a sucker coming from the rootstock I’m hoping is male. Thanks again Ken! You pretty much got the Yangmei hype and excitement going again.

Hi I’m looking for a few or more people who are ready to have their trees sexed. I have a sucker growing from one of my trees and I’d really like to know if it’s a male or female. For the sexing, she needs 10 samples to run the assay, it is $200 for 10 samples, or one run. She can run one sample for $200. It is about the reagents and supplies' costs, that’s why I’d like to find a few more people who want to check their plants too and split the run cost. I’m ready to do it ASAP. Thanks

This is my Biqi from Kens group buy last year, I planted it in the ground a couple months ago mid January, they really start to take off once they’re in the ground and it’s started to flush nicely in the last couple weeks.

Quote from: FV Fruit Freak on March 10, 2022, 11:14:15 PM

If RKN can be properly treated with pesticides and beneficial nematodes, why the need to graft onto a different rootstock? The trees from the order last year planted in the ground seem to be doing pretty good on their native rootstock. If we can hit the RKN’s before planting the trees, what’s the need to graft onto a different rootstock, unless obviously the growth flush and overall health of the tree will be improved.

Yes, if you treat your trees, you should be relatively safe but there are growers out there that may have a lot of money invested in their orchards and even the slightest possibility of bringing in harmful Nematodes can potentially cross contaminate all their other crops causing a huge loss of crops/money invested.

For the dooryard grower, not too big of an issue but for larger orchards, it’s best to play it safe. An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.

Treating the trees with the two products I posted was relatively easy and gave me peace of mind.

Grafting onto other rootstocks may, or may not, give you better growth, disease resistance or better adaptability to drier/wetter soils. There is not a lot of data so far as this is such a new fruit crop.

Simon


Simon

Thank you Sir! Guess only time will tell on the rootstock...but Shane’s seedling tree in San Diego on native Rubra is a monster.