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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Season 2025
« on: May 28, 2025, 07:46:37 PM »
I got another couple months to go before i can taste some fresh lychees. Looks like Sweetheart will be first this year. It's about thumb size now. Fruitsets is very good so far. Maintaining the fruits is the hard part.

 


Sweethearts


Late Seedless


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Airlayered Taiwanese Crystal Guava
« on: May 03, 2025, 10:52:08 AM »
Selling for $120. Pickup only in San Gabriel


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Frankenstein Root Grafting Experiment
« on: May 02, 2025, 01:24:00 AM »
Hi Rain,


Here's the instructional youtube video I learned from. Credit goes out to him. Only difference, I didn't use coconut coir. I only had sphagnum moss available at the time.


https://youtu.be/0Ovnngpo9zk?si=XQtXPDjqIe_RJVXo

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Season 2025
« on: May 02, 2025, 01:14:48 AM »
Hi K-Rimes

Your seedlings fruitset looks pretty good.  How long did it take for your seedlings  to start blooming? Do you remember what variety the seed came from. Always interesting to see new seedlings fruit. I tried grafting some seedlings to a mature tree to speed up blooming with no luck. Did it with lychee and Longans. Didn't work for me.

This year Sweetheart seems to be in the lead for me. It's looking to be a good year for lychees. 




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Frankenstein Root Grafting Experiment
« on: May 02, 2025, 12:57:44 AM »
Hi Rain
I did a smilar root grafting on my sweet tart mango in March.  But, I think it failed. Still don't see any roots.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Thread
« on: March 15, 2025, 10:08:12 PM »
Lychee flowers are starting to open here in Socal! All of the varieties i have on my multi grafted tree is blooming nicely. The only cultivar having issues with blooming is Kaimana. It's been 2 years in a row with no blooms.  The branch gets plenty of sunlight and is large enough to make a good size airlayer. But, still no flowers. Anyone else in Socal growing  Kaimana having blooming issues? How are your Kaimana trees doing? Usually all my grafts push out flowers within 2nd or 3rd year.


Sweetheart blooms opening


Lower section blooms


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: SoCal mangoes
« on: March 14, 2025, 01:52:33 PM »
The only problem with some trees this year is too many male flowers. Most likely it will re-bloom again.  So far all the flowers look healthy.  I did spray with sulfur before the rain.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: February 20, 2025, 04:32:48 PM »
Update on yangmei trees
Grafted on Californica rootstocks. Down to 2 trees left. Lost 2 trees to sudden death.  Not sure why.




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Pineapple plants for sale
« on: January 22, 2025, 07:35:53 PM »
No name thornless white pineapple plants for sale. Pickup only in city of San Gabriel. $20 each.








Razor thorns white pineapple plants are $10 each




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Citrus on Wampee
« on: August 31, 2024, 11:10:56 AM »
It's definitely possible.  But only for short term. After 4 to 5 years, the graft will start to decline. Here's a couple of grafts I did on gold nugget 2 years ago. I didn't have any rootstocks at the time, so just for temporary to keep scions going. Best to graft wampee onto wampee




Oops,  I guess  i read the post wrong too

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« on: July 18, 2024, 08:31:34 AM »
Lychees are grafted onto Kohala longan rootstock.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« on: July 17, 2024, 03:36:47 PM »
Update on my original No Mai Tsz graft from late September 2018.
No Mai Tze  7/17/24


Here's a graft of an unknown variety grafted in Spring 2023
7/17/24 unknown lychee


Newly grafted Late Seedless from TopTrop done about 2 weeks ago


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Sweet Cliff & No Mai Tsze Lychee; Ping Pong & Red Ruby Longan Cuttings
« on: May 26, 2024, 02:31:38 PM »
Quote from: palologrower on May 22, 2024, 05:39:10 PM
i might have a ping pong or a white tropical longan.
Hi
Any pictures of the fruits for these two longan varieties? Is the Ping Pong really the size of a ping pong ball?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Longan x Lychee Hybrid
« on: May 25, 2024, 01:50:29 AM »
More info on the Cuimi hybrid.  Can translate to English.
 
https://www.sinolychee.com/news/67.html

Here's the picture of the Cuimi I downloaded from the website.  The fruits on the left is the hybrid Cuimi and the fruits on the right are Sakips


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Thread
« on: May 23, 2024, 02:35:35 PM »
Anyone else notice their lychee blooms have reddish color? I have an unlabeled lychee graft showing red ovaries. Never noticed this in lychees before. Maybe might turn out something special.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Longan x Lychee Hybrid
« on: May 23, 2024, 02:40:36 AM »
Very interested in the real Crispy Honey lychee X longan hybrid.

For those of you that grow the SweetCliff, can you ID which ones are SweetCliff from the picture below? Does these look like lychee/longan hybrid fruits?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Thread
« on: April 25, 2024, 01:01:30 PM »
Hello lychee growers,

I would like to share the progress of an Emperor lychee airlayer. I started the airlayer on 5/3/23 and planted in ground on September 20, 2023. Tree is almost 1 year old today 4/25/24. It's already starting to produce. Will post updates as fruits develops.

Emperor lychee 5g size rootball

Planted September 20, 2023

Planted September 20, 2023



April 25, 2024

Lots of babies


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Ruby red longan scions (from fruiting tree) for sale
« on: March 11, 2024, 02:25:41 PM »
No hand pollination. Fruit sets on its own.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Ruby red longan scions (from fruiting tree) for sale
« on: March 11, 2024, 01:26:45 PM »
Quote from: Kankan on March 10, 2024, 01:34:21 PM
Seems like these are flowering in the middle of winter for me in San Diego area, fruit isn't setting. Has anyone fruited these in S. CA.?
I have some fruits on my graft at the moment.




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Grafted lychee for sale
« on: February 29, 2024, 11:56:37 AM »
Small grafted Seedless A4 lychee tree for sale. No longer need this tree. Selling for $160 Pickup only in San Gabriel


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: February 22, 2024, 02:12:52 PM »
Seng, your probably right about roots not getting enough air. The soil is very mucky. I should clear the mulch out to let it dry out more.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: February 22, 2024, 02:22:08 AM »
Quote from: simon_grow on February 21, 2024, 10:42:09 PM
Quote from: fruit4me on February 21, 2024, 04:38:29 PM
Mines look terrible.  Not sure if it's the cold, Californica rootstock, or too much water.


Hey Max, is your tree in the ground or in a pot? Besides the yellowing, I also see some burnt leaf tips towards the back of your picture. Did your trees have any close contact with the trees imported from China? I’ve noticed that the trees that were imported from China and had root knot nematodes tended to have yellow leaves like yours. I wonder if any cross contamination may have occurred with RKN infested trees?

Simon
Hi Simon, the trees are planted in the ground. It’s all grafted on Californica rootstock. The Scions are from China trees.  I’m positively  sure there’s no cross contamination with the RKN infested trees. Hopefully the trees will be better when Spring comes around. As for the burnt leaf tips, I think I threw down too much fertilizer pellets.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: February 21, 2024, 04:38:29 PM »
Mines look terrible.  Not sure if it's the cold, Californica rootstock, or too much water.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selling Fig Cuttings. Final complete updated list.
« on: February 03, 2024, 12:34:35 AM »
Package received. Thank you soooo much!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone Have Ripe Avocados in December?
« on: December 28, 2023, 04:06:50 PM »
Quote from: spaugh on December 28, 2023, 01:21:55 AM
A lot of the fruit have that flat lopsided spot on bottom as well.  And the thin skin, light flesh with the few fiber spots on the top.  And the little funny thing that sticks out of the bottom of the seed.  And the distinct seed shape.

If i had one to taste I could easily tell for sure.  They have an off aftertaste that only bacon has. 

Kaz, for sure leave fruit on all those trees until april or May or whenever and then check if the bottoms are cracking.  I think the derek, nancy and hamanda are all bacons.

The last fruit I ate had quite a few fiber spot. Not very pleasant.



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