The Tropical Fruit Forum

I would tey growing some cherry trees.  They seem to grow well and are very hardy.  Should be an easy win. 

I am finding the earlier the better with grafting to top work.  I started doing grafts this week because of the weather.  But last year and again this year I will do most of the grafting in December.  I feel February is too late for my location.  Grafts are not always healed well enough before the heat may kick in.  It was not that hot this spring but some years it is.  I had almost perfect success on 50+ grafts last year in December. 

I think if you thin the fruit down and more energy goes into each fruit then they would have more seeds or larger seeds.  It seems to be fruit not fully developing, not enough energy to fully complete seed development before the fruit turn red.

I noticed my brewster had a lot of small fruit that ripened last and they had hardly any seeds but fruit were not big enough.

Im planning to start thinning the fruit on lychee trees that set to many going forward.  I dont really think the smaller seed gets you more flesh, its just a smaller seed in a smaller fruit.  I really dont mind a big brewster with big seed.  Gives you something to work on with your mouth each time you eat one. 

Its kind of like sunflower seeds with no shell or pistachios with no shell.  Personally I like having to remove the shells.  Its kind of boring without them.  I think the whole seedless lychee thing is overhyped.

Our poms are ripening now.  The blooms were pretty late this year but not that late.  I would leave them and just see what happens. 

Yeah they are good, kind of just taste like lychee.  I would say the brewsters are better.  But free lychees are pretty awesome no matter what type.  My whole family goes out and we stand around the trees and eat them until we are stuffed. 

Quote from: SHV on September 04, 2023, 12:15:21 AM

The last time I saw Brad’s trees, I was surprised at how well they were growing.  I can’t seem to get mine kick started and I live in a similar climate.  I have killed a ton of seedlings and had no luck with air layers.  I’m probably planting them when they’re too small even though I have them under shade cloth.  Or fertilizing them wrong.  Whatever, I’m going to keep trying because I want raw fingers from peeling so many Brewster lychees. 
Lychees have to be one of the most beautiful trees when full of ripe fruit. Nice haul Spaugh!

I think soil media plays a very big role for growing any kind of trees especially fruit trees.  Brad's land is probably has very fertile soil, consists mainly of granite rocks.  Those rocks have a lots of mineral especially Phosporous which promote root growth and fruit settings.

The guy SHV lives not far from here and has similar soil I believe.  Pretty much all the countryside hilly areas in san diego county are granite.  Its not especially fertile but it drains well and plants really like that.

Sharwil avocados are easily the best flavor IMO

Carmen also a great choice especially for the coast, it ahould be a hit. 

I was thinking the same thing.  So much work to keep it in check with all that rainfall.

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I dont know, ive chopped down a ton of avocado trees and they always take a couple months before theres water shoots.  Once they start then yeah they grow super fast its always just a delay before the stump starts sending out new suckers.

But yes grafting those is the way to go.  I like to chop it down in late summer and do the grafts in december.  Gives it plenty of time to gets lots of shoots to graft to.

If i try and graft in summer here they fail from the heat. 

I found the best time is to chop the tree down around July or August then graft the new shoots in December or January.  December seems to be best.