The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hey Brad, I could use quite a few more pots.  I will text you and buy at a price you feel is fair.

That’s nothing.  By the end of a full growing season, you won’t even notice it. I’ve done more damage to my trees with failed veneer grafts and they outgrow the injury with no problem.

Nice.  That Sabara is a beast.  Good thing it's in a tote cause you're gonna need a forklift to move that thing around.
My Campo Ramon is about a year behind yours but grows like a beast.  Hard to imagine the trunk fattening up that much in one more year.  And yes, the new foliage makes it a show stopper.  Did you plant it in a garbage can?

“Everything will be alright”. Oh, that’s good to hear.  I was getting worried that people and our surroundings were significantly impacted by more regular flood and drought.

Manila seedling mango trees from the big box stores make good enough rootstock, but my Manila tree and another family member’s tree makes stringy, uninspired fruit.  If your wife likes the mangos used at Thai restaurants for sticky rice, they are typically using the yellow Ataulfo aka Champagne mangos you can buy at the grocery store.  I would suggest growing several of those from seed in a pot for the first several years, protecting them, then planting in the ground when they are large enough to handle your winters.  I have grown a lot of these from seed and they are fairly vigorous and disease resistant once they get going. 

Just noticed that my Yangmei seedlings are popping their heads out of the dirt after a long winters nap. These were the seeds planted from the Weee! local order last July. I just buried them in a bunch of small pots, left them outside, and forgot about them. 

Do you have commercial nursery experience?

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Bold statement.  Here is another one.  All I use is parafilm and my cleft grafts turn out just fine in cherimoya, mango, white sapote, and many others.  I don’t think moisture retention is the problem.  I wrap my grafts at the contact point with parafilm, then wrap again tightly with flagging tape to improve cambium contact.  Voilà

Not a commercial grower. Just a hobbyist farmer and dab hand at grafting with parafilm.

My first crop of white sapote on Suebelle tree was terrible.  The bitter aftertaste overpowered the mild sweetness, so much so that I almost cut it down.  So glad I didn’t.  Every crop has gotten better than the last with virtually no bitterness that I can detect. I’ve been harvesting for the past couple weeks with small fruitlets forming on the next crop and new flowers blowing up everywhere.  It’s a fruit making machine!
Cherimoya is an incredible fruit with a very unique blend of flavors.  I always describe it as a blend of banana, pineapple, and pear with no grit.  My biggest issue with Cherimoya is its insane sweetness.   A peak cherimoya is probably the sweetest fruit I’ve ever tasted and I’ve eaten my fair share of peak CA mangos that are borderline syrup.  With cherimoya, it’s one and done.  The seediness of cherimoya is also mildly annoying.

So Orange CORG is not compatible with standard CORG??  Did not expect that.  Would love to hear from others that attempted this cocktail. I was planning to graft my Orange CORG to a mature CORG this spring as a backup and with hope that a diverse pollinator would improve fruit set.

Both are worth growing.   Black sapote for its aesthetics alone is worth a spot in the yard.  Year round bright green, glossy leaves and withstands mild frosts make it a winner for SoCA.  The fruit have a rich creaminess with a molasses flavor unique in the fruit world.  Not the sweetest fruit of course, but not every fruit needs to spike my blood sugar.
White sapote is a top tier fruit.  I've tasted flavors from different selections that vary from vanilla custard, to caramel, and even a creamy citrus flavor.  It won't win a head-to-head taste test with a good mango or durian, but still better than most of the other fruits regularly discussed on this forum.  And, it's easy as hell to grow and produces tons of fruit when mature.  The best white sapote easily goes head-to-head with the best cherimoya by my humble, subjective opinion.

I, too, got one from abimael777 last July.  It doesn’t look quite as nice as yours, but it survived a few nights in the mid 30s and a lot of nights in the low 40s unprotected. If they don’t make it through the winter here, it’s not worth my time.  This one looks like it’s going to make it and she’s pushing new growth, so maybe it will earn a coveted spot on the property this spring.
Anyone else from SoCA growing Olosapo?

Where did you find this mythical beast?