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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - Last Call
« on: April 11, 2021, 03:24:19 PM »
Is there a list of the people who volunteered to pickup the orders for each area?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - Last Call
« on: April 08, 2021, 02:51:33 AM »
If it’s not too late, I’d order
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Favorite citrus poll?
« on: March 31, 2021, 11:21:29 PM »FYI you can use google or duckduckgo to search this forum, it is better than the built in feature
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=favorite%20citrus%20poll%20site%3Atropicalfruitforum.com
I found it: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=40363.25;viewresults
Wow yep that’s it. Thank you! I actually tried using google before but I think the indexing was messed up?
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Citrus General Discussion / Favorite citrus poll?
« on: March 31, 2021, 04:28:06 AM »
There was once a “Favorite Citrus” poll but now I can’t find it. Can someone link it if they saved it? Can it be a pinned post?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Who is growing No Mai Tsze lychee?
« on: March 31, 2021, 04:24:31 AM »
I just planted a “15 gallon” No Mai Tzse from Exotica
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best White Sapote Variety? (California)
« on: February 27, 2021, 11:19:36 PM »Guys, if you had to pick 5 of these 8 varieties, which ones would you choose? I'm primarily looking for flavor and the lack of bitterness. Sweetness and fruit size aren't important.
1. Suebelle
2. Vernon
3. Walton
4. Lemon Gold
5. Santa Cruz
6. Leroy
7. Younghans Gold
8. Nies
Sc400 once told me
here's what seems to come up a lot (as the best varieties):
- Rainbow
- Malibu
- Sunset
- Fairhaven
- Leroy
- Lemon Gold
- Cuccio
- Santa Cruz
- Redlands
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Acidic white sapote scions
« on: February 25, 2021, 08:15:30 PM »
Can you make an air layer?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Large Grafted Sweetheart Lychee Tree
« on: February 18, 2021, 01:12:32 AM »
Just go to champa Nursury. It’s not grafted it’s air layered
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB Ripe Ice Cream Beans
« on: February 14, 2021, 01:17:45 PM »
Imagine taking a cotton ball, wetting it in mild sugar water, and putting an edamame bean in the center. That’s what it tastes, and feels like. The seed usually already starts germinating in the fruit and tastes like edamame. The flesh clings to the seed which is why you get an earthy edamame taste when you eat it.
IMO (at least for the one I tried, I think inga Edulis?) the fruit is good but the flesh ratio was too low, too clingstone, and I dont like the earthy edamame flavor that comes from the large seed. The seed easily breaks apart when you eat it. Overall I rate it 6/10, if I saw it in the store I wouldn’t buy it unless it was a new variety I haven’t tried. Also the tree is supposed to be gigantic, I wouldn’t waste space on it in the ground, although it is a nitrogen fixing tree.
There are other varieties too that are supposed to have a better flesh ratio and maybe more freestone. I planted one of the seeds in a pot and I’m growing inga laurina in a pot which is supposedly a better variety.
IMO (at least for the one I tried, I think inga Edulis?) the fruit is good but the flesh ratio was too low, too clingstone, and I dont like the earthy edamame flavor that comes from the large seed. The seed easily breaks apart when you eat it. Overall I rate it 6/10, if I saw it in the store I wouldn’t buy it unless it was a new variety I haven’t tried. Also the tree is supposed to be gigantic, I wouldn’t waste space on it in the ground, although it is a nitrogen fixing tree.
There are other varieties too that are supposed to have a better flesh ratio and maybe more freestone. I planted one of the seeds in a pot and I’m growing inga laurina in a pot which is supposedly a better variety.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help with Red-Hybrid Jaboticaba Seedling
« on: February 10, 2021, 04:26:34 AM »
I just started growing mine inside and it’s doing great by a sunny window
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: E4 Abiu the best for taste
« on: February 03, 2021, 11:20:44 PM »If you have any E4 seeds to sell, hit me up! Been looking for a good abiu to put in the ground here. 😁
A seedling would be a new variety though
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: E4 Abiu the best for taste
« on: February 03, 2021, 10:37:31 PM »
Man is there any “best” variety that is available in the US😫
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: TFF page not found in the web?
« on: January 28, 2021, 04:32:03 AM »
An easy fix that works for me is clicking the url and visiting it again. Refreshing doesn’t work for some reason when coming from google, but visiting the same exact link works.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picked up another sweetheart lychee
« on: January 27, 2021, 01:36:57 AM »Hi
My favorite litchi is khom. I have 15 varieties. About 10
never bloom. Isabela, P.R. is too tropical. Every year my amboina bears fruit sweet and sour. Sweet heart is another great litchi.Mauritius too sweet for my taste
Where did you get your khom? I found this pic online
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picked up another sweetheart lychee
« on: January 26, 2021, 08:09:30 PM »Congratulation to another acquisition!
It seems difficult to get a seedless tree.
I've given up.
Any one selling seedless scions in Spring?
My flowering Emperor is asking for a buddy so I might end up with another Emperor.
Any of your lychee flowering?
Check out Ong Nursery in San Diego, they sell a seedless variety. The one I bought from them is forming flower buds. I'm not holding out hope for fruit though.
Do you know if their seedless is San Sue Lin? The large, totally seedless variety?
When I spoke to Quang, he didn't indicate what the source was. He just mentioned that he has 3 seedless trees growing on his farm in Fallbrook.
Dyk how much that seedless costs?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picked up another sweetheart lychee
« on: January 26, 2021, 08:08:29 PM »
This is my seedless .Brought from top tropicals. Bears fruits every 4 to 5 year. Not a great deal!
I think that’s called “late seedless” or something. Not the same as San sue lin. Pretty sure mike will see this soon and reveal more lychee information lol
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picked up another sweetheart lychee
« on: January 26, 2021, 06:35:51 PM »Congratulation to another acquisition!
It seems difficult to get a seedless tree.
I've given up.
Any one selling seedless scions in Spring?
My flowering Emperor is asking for a buddy so I might end up with another Emperor.
Any of your lychee flowering?
Check out Ong Nursery in San Diego, they sell a seedless variety. The one I bought from them is forming flower buds. I'm not holding out hope for fruit though.
Do you know if their seedless is San Sue Lin? The large, totally seedless variety?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sansapote, orange G. forbesii and Oncoba
« on: January 24, 2021, 12:48:15 AM »
So you basically live in fruit Disneyland lol
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Only Achacha farm in the USA video tour
« on: January 23, 2021, 02:30:14 PM »Don't get me wrong I applaud the pioneering spirit in tropical fruit growing and don't want to be the 'sand in anyone's Vaseline' but I am not so sure achacha can be a star. Success in bring a new fruit to the public isn't easy. BTW mangosteens routinely handle morning minimums to 3c or 4c so long as it warms during the day and mins are persistently at this level. I checked the lowest winter temps of orchards growing mangosteens in my area last winter in the Tully/Innisfail stretch and a few spots dipped below 5c. My place had 7c and durians as well as mangosteens of course show no ill effects at 7c.
I’m trying to plant mangosteen and pulasan cause one spot at my place never goes below 40F or 4C and it only goes that low for less than 2 hours
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Australian lychee fruit in California markets
« on: January 22, 2021, 04:32:11 PM »Yes it looks like a box of Bos 3s which is the same as kwai mai pink. The positives of growing this variety are that they have low chill requirements for fruiting and fruit reliably and heavily. The fruit themselves however are not deep red, are quite small and the taste is mild with little of the richer lychee elements like rosewater flavour.
Yeah the taste description matches. Still waiting for the day I can buy/grow San sue Lin, Erdon Lee, and maybe fzs (unless it’s just the same as my sweetheart)
One day I saw FZS fruit available on my Asian delivery app and even though my order went through they still ran out of stock by the time they tried to deliver it..
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Passiflora Laurifolia Please
« on: January 22, 2021, 03:41:48 PM »I just ordered 3 things from them yesterday. I’ll let you know how it arrivesI found this
https://alohatropicals.com/product/passiflora-laurifolia-yellow-water-lemon/
Won't be buying from Aloha. Quick perusing of Yelp reviews convinced me otherwise.
Still looking!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mango technique 🥭
« on: January 22, 2021, 06:20:39 AM »
Has anyone tried this lol
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJwwhbVP/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJwwhbVP/
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Only Achacha farm in the USA video tour
« on: January 22, 2021, 05:33:09 AM »I would hate to hog the limelight and it would be great to hear an achacha lover defend them.First it’s giant seedless lychee, now it’s giant seedless mangosteen? How am I supposed to get all this in Cali lol
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Only Achacha farm in the USA video tour
« on: January 22, 2021, 12:47:35 AM »How could I forget acuminate. I am referring to selections of these species of course.
So if you could only plant 1 garcinia in the ground would it be the Ecuadorian macrophylla? I heard purple mangosteen was still better than lucs and achacha. Has anyone grafted purple to lucs to see if it helped with hardiness?
Or should I just plant another lychee?...
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Australian lychee fruit in California markets
« on: January 21, 2021, 02:08:26 AM »Did you know Mauritius is just a selection of tai so with slightly redder skin? The Indian varieties are just not on par with the Chines ones btw.
how do you know everything about lychees? lol you should write a book and introduce erdon lee and seedless to California
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