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I am going to open up a small amount of scion sales for this year. I am still only able to access my collection at the ranch it's at every few days, so it may take me a week or two to get your scions out, patience is appreciated. Scions will be shipped in a ziploc with moist paper towel.

I have sold off some of my collection, including my multi-graft CORG, so I do not have some of what I listed in the past for 2026.

$12 shipping for small Flat Rate

Wandao Yangmei $20 each
Smaller than pencil. I *could* take some larger branches, but not many, so those are limited. PM if you want something bigger.




Pitanga / Surinam Cherry $5 each, minimum 5 can mix and match

Black Star
Vermillion
Dark Purple
Office Red (this one is probably my new favorite, has a hint of coconut / tropical flavors, crazy productive, big fruit)
Regina (seedling of Miguel PT)

Office Red


Some Other Stuff
I know some collectors need odd ball stuff for cross pollination, or want some variety. $5 each

Black Repanda
Red Repanda
CORG (Genealogical, Hollister, Orange CORG)
Flowering yellow jabo





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Post Your 2026 Grafting
« on: January 25, 2026, 06:32:28 PM »











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It is painful to list this for sale, it’s the star of my collection, but it’s time. This will require a special buyer who can accommodate its size, and complexity of transport. It will need a 26' box truck to fit its height.

The rootstock is sabara and fruits heavily multiple times per year. There are several Paulista grafts, from fruiting trees, that have not yet produced, two different sources. There is also a producing Scarlet graft (mislabeled as red in photos), 3 producing Otto Anderson Phitantra (seedling) grafts that produce, and a Zona da Mata graft that has not yet produced.

I am taking offers for now. Comparable trees, never pruned, without grafts sell for close to $3-5k at the nurseries in LA. I am not expecting that much, but it’s one of the bigger trees you can find in CA that’s for sure.











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Tropical Fruit Discussion / First Oblongata Fruits
« on: November 21, 2025, 03:01:33 PM »


Bush2Beach gifted me this tree a few years ago. It has been a very quick grower, fully rooting out a 15g in a year or so. It kept blowing over so I up potted to 25g this year. It surprised me with first flowers a few weeks ago.

Huge fruit. Way bigger than anything else in my collection. It’s cold and rainy right now so I’m sure it would be better in the 80f and up range, but first fruit was definitively sour. Skin was thin and palatable, thinner than Sabara. Texture was more like Grimal. Seeds were smaller than Sabara. I have high hopes for future production. Tree held every single flower, so it’s going to be a great producer long term.

I’ll have some wood to sell in spring.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mature Sabara graft on Sabara seedling
« on: November 13, 2025, 01:01:24 PM »
1 year after grafting and already producing.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Sabara is hard to beat
« on: October 11, 2025, 09:08:48 AM »
As I picked my Sabara clean yesterday, filling up probably the 7th full freezer bag it set in that it really does deserve its position as most common jabuticaba. It has a great flavor, production is strong with a few big crops a year, and it’s very tolerant of a variety of conditions. It takes cold, heat, snow!, and irregular PH like a champ. I think every fruit collector should have one. This was an overwhelming crop this year that I really couldn’t keep up with.

I can’t recall exactly when I bought this tree from Luis. I guess around 2019 or something. It sure has grown this year. It towers over me and it is much wider than the tote. I recommend these for big planters, you can move it by forklift and they’re often dirt cheap. I paid $25 for my last one.













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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to save your back on big up pots
« on: July 07, 2025, 10:21:04 AM »







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Tropical Fruit Discussion / CORG / Calycina Brix
« on: July 07, 2025, 01:57:43 AM »
Curious to see some brix readings from other CORG / calycina growers. I will continue to add cultivars as they ripen, and will do an orange CORG soon too. While this is not definitive as to what tastes best, some have a really nice sour sweet balance, it is at least a data point to consider.

Nelita straight from Miguel. Could be sweeter in full sun. Absolute cannon of a fruit.






“Genealogical” cultivar




I note that calcyina have red flesh, Corg have orange.




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Wandao and Early Yangmei Scion
« on: June 20, 2025, 07:27:14 PM »
I was unable to use all the material Jeremy kindly sent me, so I’m selling them on to the next for cheap. In grafting these, I also have some Wandao scion, which have visible buds coming in.

I’d like to sell these all at once for $80 delivered, anywhere in the USA.






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / 10,000lb of Hass
« on: June 18, 2025, 04:15:38 PM »








A few more bins to go, but wow, what a cool thing to be a part of. I helped smooth out all the logistics for the pick since my landlord is in the hospital.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Big ol Hass
« on: June 14, 2025, 12:35:49 PM »






Blessed be the soil at the ranch I am living at, cause these are unreal. I bet there are some 1lb Hass out in the orchard if I look for long enough.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Whip and Tongue
« on: June 12, 2025, 12:39:08 PM »
I tried whip and tongue years ago and just could not really figure it out, but something clicked recently and I have been doing more of it. I really think it is superior to cleft, and I feel kinda dumb for doing hundreds of clefts (with great success albeit) and not working more on this technique. I know ScottR on here is a whip and tongue guy, and I admit that his dedication to it convinced me!

If anyone who has whip and tongue experience has any tips or tricks they've learned, post up!





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / First Fruiting Campomanesia Hirsuta
« on: May 01, 2025, 10:09:24 PM »
While I was working my bees I noticed something odd in my hirsuta. A damned fruit!!! I have been trying everything for this tree, hand pollinating, grafting, and resorted to getting other campomanesia thinking they may cross pollinate. I even got into bees basically for this one plant.

Guess it just needed to be ignored. Can’t wait to taste the most absurdly sour fruit ever! I plan to squish them into cocktails after eating out of hand.







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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Mixed Fruit Box for sale
« on: April 28, 2025, 04:21:07 PM »



Put this together for another member but they can’t receive it right now. Couple cherimoya, Hass Avo, and some citrus.

$50 shipped

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Unusual Psidium Scions for sale
« on: April 28, 2025, 02:09:55 PM »
I have a very limited number of scions from these psidium species. Probably only a couple each, and some will be small, but I know people really are interested in these. I grafted these to guajava with great success last year, probably 90% take on the grafts. These are primed for success, buds are formed and ready to go.

Minimum order 4pcs, can mix and match. I will confirm I have what you are looking for and cut, then ship. It will take some time to organize and ship each order, post office is far from my place.

Folhas Finas $10 a scion


Guineense $10 a scion


Big Yellow Guineense $10 a scion - this is my fave psidium in the collection


Fern Leaf $10 a scion (very limited)


Striatulum $10 a scion, got lots of this


"Skittles" $10 a scion (this is probably another guineense)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Grimal Shapes
« on: April 28, 2025, 10:36:14 AM »
Post your grimals! Here are my two, and a graft from 2021








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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Moro Blood Orange Boxes FOR SALE
« on: March 25, 2025, 06:55:25 PM »
There is so much Moro Blood Orange at the ranch, it's just going to waste falling off the trees. Organically grown.

I'd like to try selling and shipping some.

$75 for a large USPS box full, about 10lb, shipping included
$60 for a medium USPS box full, about 6-7lb, shipping included



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cherry of the Rio Grande Scion
« on: February 19, 2025, 06:24:26 PM »
I have some CORG scion I can sell this year, including a few new ones.

$5 per scion, minimum order of 5 (can mix types)

Orange CORG - haven't had success with grafting this to CORG, but must be possible, flavor is awesome, super sweet no funk
San Marcos - I top worked this tree not knowing how good it was, but it may just be the best type I have, papaya flavor comes through
Nelita - seedling from Miguel.pt seeds, but looks identical to his - limited
Genealogical - (I got this tree from San Marcos Growers, it produces a medium sized somewhat spicy fruit which is unique)
Garnet - from Kevin Jones, good fruit with that papaya flavor, just has a bit of a ham undertone sometimes, has red growth which is a recessive trait
ScottR - From ScottR on the forum, a really nicely balanced fruit that is sweet and a touch sour, a great example closer to standard cherry

I sold my El Dorado tree to another guy in town, so no scions off that one this year, did get a graft of it on my cocktail tree tho. 

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Had this a big Grimal branch break off when tree fell over in the wind, and cut a nice Sabara branch for another forum member. Messed up with meeting time with him and I guess he doesn’t want them anymore so they’re up for grabs. Still feel bad about that, but no sense wasting good Scion. 

$12 shipping and I’ll send both. There is a flower bud coming in on the Grimal wood, Sabara has been fruiting for years.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / First Fruiting Fern Leaf Guava
« on: November 20, 2024, 01:44:02 PM »








Flavor was unremarkable, like a standard pink guava, maybe a tad more robust flavor and fragrance. Not much of a seed pouch.

Sure is a pretty tree though!

Is anyone else on the forum fruiting this?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Selected Pitanga Scion and Seed sale
« on: October 27, 2024, 09:45:02 PM »
I received way too many scion requests off Mason31’s post so I guess I should offer these. I have a vast collection of pitanga (eugenia uniflora) because I adore the fruit and have ended up with some winners.

Seeds: $3 min 5 - Vermillion or Black Star, don't have others right now
Scion: $5 each, see below for size, I may be able to spare larger diameter but unlikely

Regina (seedling) really large red fruit, they go darker than most reds but I'm going to call it a red.


"Dark Purple" this was from another collector and said to be ultra sweet, he was not kidding, it is cloyingly sweet.


Black Star Pitanga (this is a seedling, but fruit goes dead black and is the best flavor. It is also has large fruit)


Black Star, super productive, sets super well


Vermillion (grafted) fruit has a great flavor, and pumps out fruit, it is basically flowering and fruiting non-stop I see why this was selected


Misiones "giant" Pitanga from Marcos in Argentina, the fruit was very small and totally smooth so I guess a black dasyblasta. It was a first fruiting though, so it will probably get bigger. Flavor was VERY sweet. I did get one large fruit off it recently, randomly. Unknown. It is definitely more cold hardy than the others I have.


Shalom's Giant Red (seedling) supposedly giant fruit, got the plant mature from another collector, it has not fruited for me but he is a legit source and I trust him it was giant


This is the size of scion I have, mostly


A nice handful of fruit from the Vermillion (red), and some Black Star at the bottom






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Santa Barbara Rare Fruit Article
« on: September 12, 2024, 01:46:47 PM »
I asked the local free newspaper, the Santa Barbara Independent if they wanted to do an article on rare fruit and it turned out the head editor was quite interested, and had done many articles on rare fruit on the area in the past. He was kind enough to interview me and send up a photographer.

https://www.independent.com/2024/09/11/kevin-reimer-is-santa-barbaras-rare-fruit-man/

Pretty pleased with how it turned out. Could've shown more of the yard, but I am happy to see some of these oddball plants getting some air time!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Papaya Peduncle
« on: August 22, 2024, 11:47:50 AM »





Anyone seen a papaya with peduncles this long? Super weird plant. I dig the red color of the plant.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / “Goleta” Eugenia Calycina Scions
« on: August 22, 2024, 10:57:45 AM »




This is a good quality calycina with larger than average fruit, and high production. Fruit goes fully black, not red. Brix is on the higher end of the CORGs or Calycina I’ve measured, have seen as high as 15 off this plant.

It is self fertile, fruits heavy with no other plants around so some good genetics there.

It is a 3rd generation Nelita from Miguel.

$5 / scion minimum 4
$10 ship

Have some thick wood too if you want that.

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Have to thin down the herd here. These were all recently up potted, and are good for at least the next year in these 1g pots.

I would prefer to have people pick up, not trying to ship at this time. I sometimes go down to LA area, but pretty rarely.

Ilama seeds were from El Salvador, mix of red and white, don't know what's what but they don't come true to seed anyhow I hear.  Only kept seeds of the verified good ones.

The eugenia and plinia seeds are from Helton Sr. in Brazil


Ilama seedlings, $25 each


Eugenia Tenuipedunculata, $30 each


Eugenia Moraviana, $30 each


Eugenia Zuccarini, $30 each


Eugenia Repanda, black fruit, community pot $40, don't know how many in here, but a lot


Olho de Boi community pot $40


Eugenia SP, $30 each


Campomanesia SSP Nova $50 each


Eugenia Augustana $60 each


Eugenia Florida $30 each

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