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I went to a CRFG member's house to pick up my Marcus Pumpkin cuttings and he has 3 large lucuma trees. At least one had fruits, the trees are tall (over 20 ft) so its hard to see what the fruits look like. Maybe when I go back there I will get up on the 10ft ladder and try to get a photo of the fruit to show.
Anyone know how easy it is to graft the tree to a seedling?
I might go over to Alex's place and get a scion wood from him if he has the moist variety that you guys like. If you know which variety is the best tasting let me know and I might check with Alex. I'm not really into lucuma, just checking for Aastair really.
The person who lives here in Fullerton said I can take a few cuttings since we are trading right now.
When I looked up and saw his fruit on this large tree, it seemed to be the pointy tip fruit. Like the first one in the photo above, not the SD fruit.
K-Rimes,
Looking good so far. Hopefully this one makes it. Did you leave any supporting leaves to keep the branches alive?
Simon
I left a good amount of branches on a few parts of the tree. They are certainly growing way stronger than the grafts are, but I am willing to leave them be for awhile while the grafts get some weight to them. On the last californica that died on me, I removed all the lower growth once I had some weight on the crystal graft, but I suppose maybe not enough?
I'll leave some nurse branches on there for much longer this time.
I do think that this californica, being in part shade, will live a happier life than the last one.
Hi, I’m interested in scions. I sent a PM earlier. Thanks
How long does it take to grow cherimoya from seed to fruit? Did anyone try it and how's its fruit quality?
Any suggestions for good variety to grow from seeds?
Just dug up some seedlings to transplant them to a wider spacing. I had about 10 seedlings i planted at 6' apart, lost 3 but the 7 have been growing incredibly fast. After seeing people talk about them being huge i wanted to make my spacing more in line with the rest of my yangmei block, about 10' spacing. Not very many roots in the top 6-8" of soil and lots of large roots with fibrous roots coming straight down off the bottom of the plant. We'll see how they recover. Plants are about 2.5-3' tall. Was fun to do in terms of learning what their roots are like. Very little gopher activity around these lower roots.
You didn't get the Himalayan Taiwanese Long cuttings yet? Go to Marta's website she still has that one for sale now. I'm grafting it now, I have all the long red Himilayans on my tree. When my FSP grafts grows more next year, I can sell you a few cuttings.
https://reallygoodplants.com/
I was unsuccessful sending a PM but I am interested in 1G plant and scion for Green gold. I am also located in Santa Cruz, and I can pick up. Please PM me with info. Thank you!
That's a nice looking frut. So the brown spot/marks on the outside of the fruit means it is very sweet, didn't know that.
None of my fruits had any marks on the skin like yours. Can you take a brix reading, I'm just curious how much sweeter it will be when the fruit looks like that. If you don't have a Refractometer, I have an analog one I use so send me half a fruit and I can do the brix reading for you.
How did the Walton taste?
What happened to the outside skin with the markings?
Reeed, so how was the taste of your cocktail this year? I just picked the last fruits from the tree before the gardner got them.
I thought cocktail grapefruif/pomelo tasted better than the Valentine, but others that I gave both fruits like the Valentine more. I like the sweet with a little tart, the Valentine has no tartness.
Thats the impression im getting too, with the boosting in cold weather and being stressed in the hottest times of the year. I sold some to a guy who lives in the redwoods, an old clear cut that is second growth forest, and he has very rich soil. The plants are doing pretty amazing for him and he has multiple seedlings flowering. I think he'll probably be one of the first to fruit it in California. Seems like they enjoy the low intensity light up at his spot. Wish I had more of that around my area.
Reedo, nice looking Walton. How was the taste of your fruits? I haven't tasted the Walton yet.
Soooo… tell me about why this giant tree in my yard has you all excited