The Tropical Fruit Forum

Every year my Rollinia has produced just a few more fruits and this year is shaping up really nicely.

Is anyone's Rollinia looking good>

Doomed to Costco mangos... I like that!

Property owners do not always have the right to have fences in their front yard, and if they do often times they are required to have a setback from the street either by city ordinances or association rules.

It doesn't change the FACT that what THEY planted was on THEIR property for THEIR use AND consumption is NOT for trespassers to steal. Morons who traipse around ASSuming they have some divine given right to TAKE fruit are wrong.

Before I got my Fairchild #2 I had only tried one other supposedly a Bruce. The #2 was the first tree I saw in person and bought it on the spot.

As far as it being a compact grower goes, yes and no. The trunk stays rather small but its upward growth habit is very tall.

Mine is in ground 15+ years and I topped it once and needs it again... sooner than later.

It produces a lot of fruit, so much I have to give a LOT away!

I often crack one open and sit in my yard spooning the moist flesh into my mouth. I love this tree.

My first canistel tasting was a Bruce, I liked it fine but heard enough about the Fairchild #2 and bought one, and I am not sorry.

The only "problem" with it is if fruit drops into my ground cover I get many volunteers to pull out.

PS. I recently threw out three gallons of ash if u want any I will save it for you, I have about 2 gallons now.

PM me If you or anyone else wants it.

The site for some reason is still very S-L-O-W. On a lark I loaded it then went to lunch checking it the page load progress, after 10 minutes I ate and when I came back it was up. I did not have the patience to try to go further.

I found Rollinia easy to germinate. I toss them uncleaned into a pot 1/2 " under the soil, keep moist and they sprout like a Chia pet

I have had three, one inexplicably died though be all outward appearances it was healthy the other two have never fruited. I'm about to kill them off, the largest was bought in a 5 gallon and put in ground in 2015 it budded once 7 or 8 years ago and it never budded again. I'm told you have to have more than a few to get them to pollinate.

IMO, the bottom line is there are better fruits available to spend time and resources on.
 

Quote from: gnappi on November 13, 2024, 01:42:28 PM

Are the trees between others getting a lot of sun or filtered light?

Lots of sun because everything is still young. My strategy was to overplant and let the trees compete.>>SNIP<<

Good plan... I over planted also but in my case I was not sure what I'd like after they gave up fruit and overplanting left me the option to try more fruits and pull what did not make the grade.

This?

"Who would have predicted you could toss a gopher in for a day and see a residual effect 40 years later"

What did they do? Go back 24 hours later and trap them all?

Yesterday I was in Lowes and they had an unusually nicely shaped guava (upward growth habit like a tree and not a bush) in a 5 gallon container at ~5' tall that had experienced and had fully recovered from a water deficiency but it had no cultivar or price stickers attached  to it.

Most of the other samples in stock were marked with price but not cultivar but were small in 1 gallon containers and $29. Since this one was the only fairly large one a manager priced it at $11 so I took it home. Sure it could be a dud like some of those I bought there marked "Mexican Cream" which were hard and bland but I figured I'd take a chance.

The question is, would any of you take a chance and buy a good sized and healthy fruit tree that is priced reasonably and not marked with the cultivar?