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Post away. I for one would love to see some new ideas for the passionfruit I end up drowning in.

Any tips on maximizing harvest? Been waiting to drown in them for years, im feeding them organic but not enough im guessing. I think I need to finally put one in the ground and see how it does in some clay

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cut back papaya questions
« on: February 09, 2025, 11:22:49 PM »
Dont let water get in there

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Curious to see others opinion on the taste, looks very intriguing

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FYI, concerning grafting guavas. As Brad mentioned in the earlier post he is correct. All the grafted small guava plants I have been purchasing (Ruby Seedless, DA#3, etc) are not grafted, instead it is approach grafted. The guy who seems to know a lot of this said to me it takes 3 months for the approach graft to work, then he cuts off the good scion branch from the mother tree and you get a nice little approach grafted plant in a 1 gallon pot for $200 each.

He gave me a discount, only $150, so I had to buy two. I noticed the same method is used on all the rare longan plants I have purchased (Red longan), graft is approach graft method.

If it didn't look so ugly on the tree, I would do many approach grafts on that Sylvia tree. I will need to ask the owner if I can try a few way up high on the tree so they don't see it much.

Appreciate this info

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Black Sapote Seeds For Sale
« on: February 03, 2025, 01:54:38 PM »
The seeds are from a local seedling tree in my neighborhood. The fruit from this tree is among the best Black Sapote I've tasted, with thick texture, good sweetness and strong hints of chocolate.

I planted about 20 of the seeds myself to graft budwood from the tree.

I just planted a couple myself a few days ago, wonder if they can germinate in this cooler weather

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: A Few Select Plants For Sale…
« on: February 03, 2025, 12:37:30 PM »
Nice looking plants, what do you feed em with to get to this point…?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Black Sapote Seeds For Sale
« on: February 03, 2025, 12:33:47 PM »
One batch of 20 Black Sapote seeds. $30 + $11 shipping cost by USPS priority mail. Payment by Zelle.

No idea the variety? I just ordered 2-3lbs of fruit for $45 shipped on Etsy, supposedly comes with several cultivars

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My Psidium Nutan and Hybrid araza been taking several nights in the low 30s with little microclimate, outside. Pretty awesome, and my first lychee seedling on the far right. Hope these grow fast, they seem unique and not much info online or here.

Hope they can handle valley heat


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Haha. Exactly, Xesoteryc. I think it's his cruel joke to advertise all the best stuff, then not to sell to us! The plan now is to collect, propagate, then sell something tempting enough that he'll buy. That would open the door, but it's a paradox, because he's already got the best stuff!

(I'm just playing, obviously. There's a lot of flakes and even more jerks in the world. I get it.)

There's other people who have it, I'll reach out eventually. Thank God for the search engine   8)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Black Sapote ID
« on: January 23, 2025, 01:15:08 PM »
Hey can someone help me ID this variety by chance? I just have this picture to go off of, I got lucky and sent some seeds and the person doesnt know which variety because the tree was there prior to her moving in


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#4

Damn! Next time maybe

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango tree makes the news
« on: January 22, 2025, 02:19:55 PM »

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: SCIONS!!
« on: January 21, 2025, 02:54:34 PM »
I am offering scions, cut to order of all sorts of great, hard to find varieties. They are all limited quantities, some extremely limited. First come first serve.

Please message me with your requested order and I will respond with confirmation on what I can fill and the cost. Once you pay with either PayPal or Venmo, friends and family option, I will cut and package and ship your order with usps flat rate.

Minimum order of $25
Shipping costs $12 for small flat, $16 for medium flat

WHITE SAPOTE - $12 each unless otherwise noted
Lemon gold
Cuccio
Nies
Walton
Leroy
Super sweet
Selk
Younghans Gold
Vernon
Redlands
Suebelle
Rainbow
Santa Cruz
Malibu 3
Malibu 1
Delta Gold
North park
Michele
Roberts Rainbow
Mary Lane
Rolando
Golden Globe
Treemont
Sunset

LOQUAT - $10 each unless noted otherwise
Alberti $25
Wedgwood Ronnie $25
National
Massida
Tori
Vista white
Novak
Argelino
Jazzy
Avri
Pupello
Orange Dream
Sherry
Yehuda
Peluche $18
Advance
Sugar cane
Melissa
Xmas
Big Jim White
KT2 OCBC Gail $25
KT3 Sheri Lynn $25
KT4 Teardrop $25
KT6 Karen Kino $25
KT9 Lindsey $25
KT16 Michael $25
KT23 Lenox $25
KT 26 Lisa $25

MULBERRY $10 each unless otherwise noted
Thai dwarf
Tice
Black Prince
Buluklu
Kaester
Tabriz
Galicia
Shelly
Isfahan
Aussie green
Gerardi
skinner $15
Valdosta
Persian
Paki
Shangri La
Aussie AusTurkey
Lavender
Siam jumbo
Dmor 9
Weeping
Dwarf everbearing
Sangue E Latte $30
Maui
Contorted
World’s Best

FIGS $10 each unless otherwise noted
Verdino del nord VR $20
Blava Flor
Black Manzanita
Rigato del salento
Nerucciolo d’Elba $20
St martin
A Sangue
Malta black
Cherry pie
Livolsi
Colonal Littmans Black Cross
Peters Honey
Figo Preto
CDD Noir
Nuestra Señora del Carmen $20
Cavalier
Bourjasotte Grise
Canadria
Bourjasotte Negra Rimada
Cipolla
Black Madeira KK
White Marsailies
Chicago hardy
Violette du bourdeaux
Locke HB YLN
Martinenca Rimada
Burgan Unk
Zaffiro
Eaubonne
Nerino $20
Vdn Tuscan
Calderona
Ponte Tresa Black
Joualle Noire
CDD Mutante
Sucrette
Exquisito
Marylane
TC12 $18
Yellow Long Neck
Lampeira FdM
Crozes
Barran
Mare de deu
Swiss black candy
Tiger
Italian red
Chicago
Amens citron
CDD Rimada
Jolly Roger
Hative de argenteuil

ANNONA $11 each
BehL CH
Big Sister CH
Concha Lisa CH
Orton CH
Helmut CH
Ong Special AT
Bumpo Dream CH/AT
Rollinia x atemoya
Compas CH
Lucida CH
Satsuma CH
Santa Rosa CH
Kimbers Yellow CA
Temoylata AT/CA
LH Special AT
Tippy Saramuyo CAxSA
Jumbo African Pride AT
Campa CH
LH Late AT
Pierce CH
Sabor CH
Ong Bumpy AT
Nata CH
Piazco CH
Ott CH
Kampong Mauve SA
Fortuna CH
Leo 3 AT
Ong gold AT
Lindstrom (Mr Minh) AT
Geffner AT
Selma CH
Lisa Pride AT
Birula (aka Super Lisa) AT
La habra sun AT
La Habra Pink AT
Cherilata CH/CA
El bumpo CH
Calostro AT
Page AT
Dream AT
Lisa AT
PPC AT
Vietnamese CH
Fernandez CA
Giant Mexican SA

FEIJOA $11 each
Coolidge $5
Natzmetz $5
Goose
Cosmos
Marjane
Marion
Albert’s Supreme
Lickver’s Pride
Apollo front corner
Chesterwoody 
Den’s Choice
Oktoberfest
Candy
Abbadabba
Waingaro
8 ball
Choiceana
Alberts Pride

JUJUBE $10 each unless otherwise noted
Thai jumbo $15
GA866
Elk Grove
Xu zhou
TY yazoo li
Autumn beauty
Shangxi li
Ant admire
Texas tart
Coco
Norris #1
Sugarcane
Sherwood
Redlands #4
La Fleur
Tsao
Honey Jar
Sugarcane


Whats your favorite fig in your collection?

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Guineense is pumping them out HARD right now. I did see my hand pollinated guineense x guajava fruit fell, it was tiny so maybe seedless but hoping for a new cultivar it is seeded.

No thinning needed? I see you have it in a pot, what is your feeding schedule? Looking too good

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Has anyone seen this kind of issue? This is longipetiolatum and it's been in the ground here for a few years with only a hint of this in previous winters. The spots appeared over the last few weeks after a few mild freezes, but looks more fungal than freeze damage to me (maybe a fungus that invaded after mild freeze damage?). The shade of the leaves also has been getting pale since late summer even after some fish emulsion a few times, so I was suspecting soil pH issues.



I just noticed these on my Lemon Guava seedlings as well

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Free I258 fig cuttings
« on: December 30, 2024, 12:28:08 AM »
I'd be interested in both varieties as well and have some Nancy Garrison passion fruit cuttings I have to trade. Just throwing it out there

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black Sapote Flavor Test (Lara Farms)
« on: December 12, 2024, 04:54:13 PM »
Sweet, interested to hear how they are

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Carmine Type Guava - Red Blush on Fruit
« on: December 06, 2024, 03:24:36 PM »
my tree from China fruited 3. 2 was eaten by critters. I was able to eat 1 & still fruiting small ones.

The outer part was slightly red hue & internal is same as greg_D. Its creamy for me & sweet. Better than Ruby supreme, mexican cream in my opinion.

Too bad, wasnt able to take a photo. :)

Yeah the one I had was like a bigger, prettier Mexican cream. By the way, I've noticed people tend to dislike seeds in guava. Is that just for crunchy guavas? I don't mind seeds in soft guavas at all


The seeds are packed with nutrition and usually surrounded by the sweetest of the flesh. I love em.


I have tried a crunchy one with BB sized seeds though that I would never get again. My La Verne tropical pink has soft seeds luckily

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: November 14, 2024, 05:49:49 PM »







My new location will be in Hollister Ranch, on a 100 acre lot, with 20gpm well, in SOLID 10a zone, with a 17,000lb producing avocado orchard on property. The barn is rough, but has a living unit built into it. The owner of the property found me by way of my newspaper article and wants me there badly. He has also been collecting "rare" fruit trees for 40 years or so, and was excited by my collection. I'll be doing 10 hours of work a week for him to offset the rent a bit, and expanding his orchard, with a focus on rare stuff.

It's exciting for me, despite the drawbacks of the ranch - it's a 40-50 min drive to Santa Barbara where I work. The gates are airtight and I am uncertain if I'll be able to have guests. Have to sell my motorcycles, etc...

A new stage in my life, for sure.

Excited for you!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Air layering Guava
« on: October 28, 2024, 01:35:08 PM »
Failed mine as well, used a rooting hormone and peat/vermiculite. I also started an airlayer on my fig with the same technique / time and its already got chowmein sized roots

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Smart, almost happened to me several times as well.. My S/O got a nearly 2k emergency bill for slicing open her finger after opening a coconut, they glued it.. Can only imagine an eye injury

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cultivars/varieties of Tamarind?
« on: October 09, 2024, 12:46:03 PM »
I’m learning to grow Tamarind right now myself, seeds came from some great fruit with the perfect balance of sweet and sour. I plan to eventually graft some of them if I can find scion wood here down the road

One of the few trees you see growing like a beast in third world countries, where water is scarce + blazing temperatures.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Want Amazon Tree grape seeds
« on: October 09, 2024, 12:29:08 PM »
Do any members have amazon tree grape seeds please

https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=55895.msg536479#msg536479

The cheapest you’ll find, pretty sure he ships everywhere too.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Deformed looking Passiflora
« on: October 08, 2024, 05:44:48 PM »
whoa, thats a crazy lookin' flower

The anther and stigma are bonded to the ovary

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Deformed looking Passiflora
« on: October 08, 2024, 04:50:57 PM »
Had to do a double-take, wonder if this thing will set fruit? Trippy



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