The Tropical Fruit Forum

Reading this got me thinking - why are folks like you and I here? I mean, don't you have a mature fruiting lychee tree growing? And you still need to plead for the fruit? This tells me that all of the effort I'm putting into grow these potted trees in my backyard might not produce the amount of fruits I want, if any at all.😢

The first problem is assuming you could ever have enough Lychee

Jealous looking at those Cherimoya dude- you got a real winning spot there and even more so when the figs start coming in

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If I understand correctly, slowly prune down the split part of the tree until it is flush with the main trunk? any recs for how much to reduce over how long?

I would remove the thing down to where the crack starts to seal up, cutting at a harsh angle so it sheds water. Ideally you would have done this pruning when dormant a few weeks / months ago. This is one of the very few times where I would be considering a sealant. Current arboriculture suggests against sealants these days, but this is a unique situation where it has a massive open wound that is letting water in. I would seal it up at the driest time of the year, if you're going to go with that.

That type of wound can kill the whole tree. There is no way around it, that is a really grave injury.

cut it back with sealant it very well would come back but not fruit for at least two years

Don't sugar coat it- I'd rather be reasonable about managing it- I can have someone go to prune it or maybe head up there myself soon

It also is so old it has started to spread via suckers- we will not lose the genetics of the tree but this giant guy is good for loads of fruit every year

go to SDBG

Probably Lucuma and Green Sapote to eat rn

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I think I have Pm'd everyone back-

So far Paid we have-

Jabo45
BloomandSprout
Nofspeppers
Me

Still waiting on-

JabbatheHutt
shot
Rain
TFL777
purebluejapan
Crush53

I will send (at least partial) payment to Colombo by EOD

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Quote from: SplorKeLZ on May 08, 2025, 05:16:47 PM

here we have arbutus unedo growing everywhere as hedging, some of the fruits taste delicious! Like fizzy peach mango! and others taste like sawdust....

Need to find the best-tasting one and clone it.  As far as I know cultivars for A. unedo are few and far between or hard to get, mostly Compacta seems the easiest to get, and some say it's the same variety as Elfin King.  So they're grown as hedging, mostly ornamentally, and some happen to be great fruits (according to posts like yours across the internet, mine hasn't fruited yet) and most stink, and yet still nobody really isolates the great-tasting ones and sells them.  Why?  What am I missing?  Even OneGreenWorld only sells Compacta.

they turn to mush in 24h so shipping will never happen- commercial cultivars are usually exactly that (commercial)

money make-a da world go round

some good trees in the bay area as well

Everyone should have received a PM from me today- if you're comfortable with the situation please send payment for your seeds ASAP

Once the shipping is figured out we will split it evenly 10 ways (my count of the people on the order)

Okay all-

Richard has collected and confirmed the availability of the seeds for this order, I will send PM's to request payment for your portion of the seeds and shipping/packing

So far it is

nofspeppers - 6 platonia
TFL777 - 10 platonia
JabbatheHut - 2 platonia, 1 pacouria
shot - 10 platonia
Jabo45 - 10 platonia
Rain - 5 platonia
purebluejapan - 10 platonia, 5 pacouria

Crush53 I will ask about adding 10 more Pacouria and PM you

From my taiwanese friend

玉荷包 Lychee

Wow!

Nice LangsatFL- did you plant the trees 30 years ago or inherit them?

FWIW Flies can pollinate many things, although I am unsure of Langsat specifically

Please do a review of the fruits when/if you get to taste them

two things with Inga-

the name ice cream bean does it a disservice, they are good but everyone expects it to taste like a bowl of bryers which it doesnt.

They are good when you find the right variety, they also get huge and are good chop and drop nitrogen fixers, they are mostly a novelty though and can be a bit fibrous as well