The Tropical Fruit Forum

I've always wondered and wanted to try approach grafting jaboticaba onto my in-ground guava (my wife will probably kill me for messing with this guava tree).  If successful, wouldn't jaboticaba benefit from the guava's vigorous growth?  Has anyone ever tried something like this?  After all, they're in the same family. 

ALL the Mexican supermarkets in my area have Tortillera dept, I should go grocery shopping more often and hope they're really Cuban owned 

Way too difficult with just 5.  These are based on taste alone and not its versatility, in no particular order:

mangosteen
rambutan (maybe pulasan someday, when I'm lucky enough)
mango
cherimoya
sapodilla / fig (perfect tree ripened spread over a piece of toast )
Flavor Queen pluots ... wait, is that six or seven?   


Brown Turkey fig = Tommy Atkins mango

You sure know how to make a guy jealous, Noel 

oh man, that is effin terrible.  I hope these a-holes are caught and charged. 
Forget the pitbull idea, a very entertaining thought but that would just give them a better reason to sue every penny out of you.

holy cow!!! very disheartening ... glad you hung in there though, never lose the passion.

This may clutter things up a bit but another enhancement to add is TOP / BOTTOM of page buttons.  I browse with my phone all day, scrolling up & down the many posts in long threads ain't too much.

Aside from that, this forum is freakin' awesome!!!  Love the NEW post feature

Looks great Gwenn.  I wonder if you have "tree rats" and the likes in PR, I've seen a lot of home plantings done around fruit trees to deter squirrels.  Did you force bloom on them or they're all about the same in age and bloomed roughly the same time?

dang it   
one of the two branches on mine is trying to push something but too small to tell, with my luck it's probably just branching out 

Very nice looking fruit, Adam.  jealous actually ...
Did you grow your tree from seed or grafted?  I'm willing to give it another try, just have to baby it

wow....all those little annona seedlings, do you plan on keeping them all Ethan?
Definitely on your way to become the annona guy of the west

Tommy Atkins is an excellent mango, you just don't know it.  Most versatile IMO  eg:  instead of throwing a shoe or rock at someone and risk getting a beating, throw a Tommy Atkins.  They'd most likely thank you for the fruit and befriend you, now that's what you call killing two birds with one mango...figuratively

Another option which I think will be a huge hit is for us to host our version of La Tomatina, but with Tommy Atkins.  Just make sure they're on the overripe side

This is murahilin's favorite topic by the way