The Tropical Fruit Forum

I’m really excited that blooms are starting to form. We likely will not get fruit with night temps down to 40s but it’s a great sign for summer.

First one was a red hybrid I acquired from Kevin Jones about a 1.5 years ago. He mentioned it was about 2 years old. So, 3.5-4 years old. There are about 15 blooms.







Second one is my Sabara but it was only about a year old and small. K-Rimes had a generous offer for some free fruiting mature scions. I grafted it up in April 2023. Today, I noticed it was also flowering. About 10 blooms 1.5 years later! This plant is growing pretty darn fast and is easy to care for. You can see the cleft graft union below the flowers.



Here’s to hoping for fruit this summer!

Hi John!

Do you sell Atemoya Fruit too?

thanks
Joe

No, I have hungry kids😂.

Good price. Wish I was there to pick it up. Nice looking tree !

Thank you.

1. Super African Pride Atemoya $Sold

Thanks

Looking to get a couple guava mango scions if anyone is trimming their tree. Will pay or trade.I only need two.

Quote from: John B on March 04, 2024, 11:30:00 PM

I've removed Dr. White and others at this point since they couldn't tolerate my microclimate (heat) as well as the others listed.

Interesting to hear your experience. UCR found Dr White the most heat tolerant in their trials https://slosson.ucdavis.edu/newsletters/Ellstrand_198629140.pdf

Could be sun exposure as well. I'm up on a nice sunny hill. My microclimate gets intense heat and UV.

Kevin,

This year, I can take extra's of:
Knight, Pierce, Selma, Behl, and my own variety "Del Cerro". I've removed Dr. White and others at this point since they couldn't tolerate my microclimate (heat) as well as the others listed.

I owe you from the Jabo scion you provided that are going bonkers in under a year. Just pay shipping if you're interested.

we had couple nights in high 40°F.   blue pot is 1 gallon and yellow is 2 gallon pot..  are they still too big for them? 

I my opinion, for the smaller ones, 100% too big of a pot for SoCal. For the larger one, you may have been ok if it was during the summer and the plant was actively growing. That looks like  it should be in a one gallon container. I've killed lots of those seedlings when I treated them like other plants.

Based on the description, I think Eggo is correct. I have a Booth and it fits all the same description except fruit. BUT, when I bought the tree at Clausen nursery 5-6 years ago, they showed my one of their large in ground trees that had huge fruit like your pictures. That's why I bought it!

Where did you see that news? That's a bummer, like you they were one of the first tropical nurseries I had visited.  If it's the end, I may have to take one last visit.

Yeah me too. It was posted on CRFG, San Diego Chapter FB group.

Because of the recent rain and wind down here, I've been dealing with splitting and dropping of early citrus fruit. This was my first year allowing the Tarocco grafts to hold a few fruit. There were not a lot of fruit on those grafts, so I picked most of the Tarocco's so the rest of them wouldn't fall or split.

This tree has four varieties, with three having pink/red pigment. The main variety is Cara Cara on C-35 rootstock. Unfortunately, my other blood orange grafts, sanguinello, did not hold fruit to maturity this year, do we couldn't taste it side by side.

I am bummed that there was only a tiny bit of pink/red pigmentation in the  Tarocco flesh(although Kaz @sc4001992 said this would be the case in another thread). No cocktail garnish for me!

For now, I still like Cara Cara the best. Tarocco #7 was ok, just nothing to brag about. We'll see if Tarocco gets sweeter next year or maybe a couple will hold on longer in this year.

Tarocco #7 on left, Cara Cara on right:

Yes, I agree with what Kevin said above. Sun is very important for poms. Chill factor is equally important. I don't know much about your location and zone, but it could be too warm as well. Flowers grow on second year growth.

Heavily compost and mulch that tree and see what happens.