The Tropical Fruit Forum

Apparently australian native bees can fit into and pollinate annona flowers. Not sure if they are in the usa though.

goldenmountain, after reading your post I would love to tell you that trees really want to live and thrive. Don't worry, mangoes are pretty hardy trees. My area gets frosts down to 30F and for the past few days (not this morning though) I have woken up to a light frost on the grass and even on the south side of the roof. And 100 metres away from my house there is a ~15 year old kensington pride mango tree that is in an exposed frost that thrives. And there are loads of mango trees thriving in my city despite cool temps and frosts.

My point is don't worry, mangoes are hardy tres and goldenmountain you can easily fruit a mango outdoors in California.
Glenn and Keitt are some cold hardy varieties but you are in zone 10a so you don't really have to worry about cold damage to mangoes. I'm not expert but I have not yet heard of a mango tree (aside from baby seedlings) dying at from a 10a frost down to 30f. In fact, even my baby seedlings show basically no stress on cold nights.

I'm really fed up with this ai scam sh-t.

This is the bloody third one of it's kind. We have:
Organic India Seeds
Seed Fella
and now Dharaseeds

Bastards. I reckon they're all owned by the same person. I know that all 3 stock lucumas.

Just a harsh summer prune. Will lower the tree's vigour a bit and help keep the tree small yet productive but those stonefruits are hardy. The amount of abuse I have put mine through and they thrive haha

Great article on summer pruning that is worth reading: http://www.rarefruitaustralia.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Grapevine-2013-Apr-LO-RES.pdf

Here are some photos of my Pouterias.

Immature leaves on one of my Cinnamon Apples (Pouteria Glomerata)


Baby inferior canistels for rootstock. Look for the immature leaves:


Immature leaves on an older grafted Aurea canistel:


Growth flush on young superior canistel seedling:

I was going to say lilly pilly (australian native syzygium and acmena sp.) but then I read the other posts. Rob I think you're on the money with Eugenia Reinwardtiana. Definately looks like an Aus native myrtaceae.

Hate to change the topic, but does anybody know about the cold tolerance of Maprang?
Some websites say it is ultra-tropical, others that it can take a little frost. Very confusing. I would love to know the truth.
Thanks

Rain gave me a bunch of help germinating my reticulata.
where she helped me: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=57304.0
Her guide on germinating reticulatas: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=57734.msg545942#msg545942

My "Giant Mulchi" has been in the ground a few winters and grows slow, but has never been damaged by San Diego winters where we get down to 38 degrees.

That gives me hope! Only 8ºF more to push lol 

Question:
"How do they taste? They look delicious."

Answer:
I found it on the ground that same afternoon and ate it. It was nice.
Most of the flavor was Pitomba... with enough Pitangatuba to give it a flavor boost.
I guess I'll keep this one!

Kevin

Sounds to me like 25% pitomba, 25% pitangatuba, and 50% excellent luck!
Great job Kevin, looks and sounds absolutely delicious! 

Edit: Fruit looks like a whopper, is it bigger than both it's parents?

Not sure about sugar water, but this is what the wikipedia page on Ficus Pumila has to say about eating the fruit:

The fruit of Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang is used in cuisine. In Taiwan, its fruit is turned inside out and dried. The seeds are scraped off and a gel is extracted from their surface with water and allowed to set and form a jelly known in Taiwan as aiyu jelly (or aiyuzi 愛玉子) and in Singapore as ice jelly (文頭雪).

I'm no expert on black sapotes and I'm planting a seedling in spring (and buying grafted ones down the track), but here is a good video on when they are ripe from Tropical Fruit World who I bought my seedling from and I believe produce a commercial crop. I hope it helps:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/np8BuhK7bGQ