The Tropical Fruit Forum

I have not figured this out yet, but there could be a way to have an area away from the trees were you water an area with plants in it that they like to lure them away from the trees. Then there could be a way to either trap them in that spot or set up some way corral them under ground. Just a thought.

Great thinking!  Seems like a variation on the "trap crop" concept.

I'm never eating a Tommy Atkins again.  You might as well buy a chunk of pine resin.  I found one Keitt at the grocery store recently.  It had pretty good color and ripened up ok , but they had probably just been put on the shelf.  Most were green as could be.

Quote from: Bush2Beach on November 25, 2020, 12:07:27 PM

I’ve been distributing “Inca Red” scion since 2015 at least so other tff members may have fruited it.
I scoured my records and Unfortunately could not find out who I got this from originally.
I haven’t fruited it myself so time will tell how good a fruit it really is by hearing tasting accounts from a few different tree’s.

Inca Red originally came from Axel of Cloudforest Cafe forum, who is an occasional member here, and had previously posted many times about it.  I have one for many years now.  It hasn't grown very much, but it's mainly because it's been stunted in a pot.  It hasn't been productive nor much red in color, but it is very tasty.

I just checked.  You can still find some of cloudforestcafe.com's web pages by searching for the site on https://archive.org/web/

Below is Rudy with the original El Bumpo mother tree to his left.

kh0110 Thank you for posting that picture!  When was it taken?  And I see the large dead part of stump there, which makes me wonder: do you know when he planted it?

You're welcome. Without my inspiration, Patrick would not have fixed it.

So now you wear 2 hats, Moderator and "Muse"? 

Thank you for sharing the news, Simon.  I'm sorry to hear it.  Whenever I get an El Bumpo cherimoya to produce fruit, I will remember him for sharing it with us all.

I will have have seeds soon.

So Brian, how'd it go with your seeds?  More details, please.  Are they from one of the Ecuadorean varieties?

I have a friend who has hundreds of tropical fruit plants growing in her orchard (including 5 or 6 different cherimoya trees).  She said Pierce is less productive than some of the others.  At cherimoya tastings, I thought Pierce and Orton were the best, but as you said, taste is subjective.

Thanks for your input, everyone!  I don't have a place in the ground for this plant.  I was using it to graft onto.  The idea was that for every graft on my main tree, I'd do one of the same on this little potted tree.  That way, if a graft on my main tree didn't work, I could take a graft from this little tree and try it again.  It'd keep me from having to get scions through the mail again.  That plan didn't really work out.  Too often I'd do a bad job on *both* trees!   

I didn't have mulch up close to the bark, so crown rot doesn't seem right.  And the disease was spreading in patches that were totally separate from one another -- trunk and branches.  So I ended up tossing the plant.  No big loss; I'll start another seedling before long, and my in-ground tree isn't showing any signs of this disease. 

I think the group consensus is right: some kind of fungal attack that decimates the bark right down to the core.  If it happens again, I'll be forewarned and I'll treat for fungus right away.

At first a hole developed in the fully lignified bark just above the soil line and I didn't think anything of it.  Maybe I had damaged it somehow?  Then I thought it might be a rodent, so I put some hardware cloth around it to protect it.  But the hole didn't have any gnaw marks on its edges.

Then yesterday I noticed areas of young, unlignified bark that look like they're being skeletonized by some creeping pathogen.


Anyone seen this before?  The leaves look healthy, and there are no oozing cankers.  I'm getting rid of the tree (easy, since it's in a pot), but I need to know about this in case it starts up on another tree.

Help! 

I used to have a Filipino neighbor who grew sweet potato to eat the leaves, but I think he had a particular variety he had selected for the purpose.  The vine and leaves were dark purple.  He mentioned once that just sticking a sweet potato from the store into the ground wasn't a good idea because of soil pathogens they might carry (he didn't tell me the specifics, and I wasn't interested enough at the time to ask for more information).  But it makes me wonder now if I could find what he grew at a Filipino grocery.

Your yard visitors sound friendlier than mine still. This guy threatened me today, Cockatoos also stripped citrus today and flying foxes were everywhere last night. I also have a problem with big pythons eating ducks and geese. Squirrels actually look cute.

Thanks for the reminder.  Not exactly what the Aussie tourism board would like to hear, but I'd rather have my little plot of earth here and deal with squirrels, possums, skunks and raccoons!

@dwfl, I wonder if you taxidermy 100 or so squirrels and place them on top of your perimeter fence whether it'd confuse the hell out of them, terrify them, or just plain make too many obstacles for them to get past!