The Tropical Fruit Forum

This is for those of you who have purchased the Nancy avocado scionwood cuttings from me. I just cut 1/3 of the large Nancy tree to trim it back to 14 ft tall.

So, I have picked off all the green fruits, they start to ripen on the tree from November to January here. I sorted the small ones and brushed ones out, so the ones I will send/sell to you are decent size fruit (still green), should ripen on the counter in 5-10 days.

There were about 700 fruits, 200 were either too small (not ready) or bruised so I will keep those to grow out the seeds, the 500 were good size, I got about 100 fruits, gave the rest to the tree owner.

For Sale:
1. Nancy avocado fruits, one box (medium flat rate) of 7-10 fruits per box.
2. Cost to Ship is $18
3. Total Cost is $35
4. Sale is for those states that allow shipment of fruits.
5. You must be a forum member and have purchased or traded with me for the Nancy avocado variety.
6. Will be shipping out on Monday, only 10 boxes.
7. Lower 48 states, put in your order before Monday for shipment out on Monday.
8. Payment with Paypal (Friends & Family) only.
9. No pickup, just shipping out boxes.

I'll post some photos of the tree and fruits later tonight.

Please send me a message if you are interested in buying and meet requirements above.

Thanks

Marta is having a limited sale of her Aravaipa avocados now. Only 4 boxes available on her website.

I just bought one box, so only 3 left.

Is anyone growing the Nine Pound Lemon variety?

I have my tree for over 5 years now, and it still does not get very large fruits. The largest fruit on it so far was only 2-3 lbs each.

If you have a fruit that is over 5 lbs on this variety, please post a photo, I would like to see that it will get that large.

I grafted a larger seedling mulberry tree I have been waiting to put my Sangue e Latte to keep for myself but changed my mind. I will now sell this grafted tree later this year.

I may also add my Contorted mulberry scion wood on this tree, and maybe the Australian Green mulberry.

So, if anyone who has purchased from me before wants to buy it later this year, let me know.

For Sale:
1. Grafted Sangue e Latte tree, has 2 grafts done this year
2. Additional graft of Contorted mulberry - To be added this week.
3. Additional graft of Australian mulberry - To be added this week.
4. May give you one more, the Skinner scion grafted if there is a good branch to use.
5. You must have purchased from me before, be a forum member for minimum of 1 year.
6. CA only, too large to ship it.
7. You can schedule a local pickup nearby.
8. Cost is $200 with at least the 3 grafts (items 1, 2, 3).

You will need to make the commitment to buy now, and I will remove this post.

If you are interested, then send me a message. This will not be sold (shipped) until the new grafts have healed so probably by Nov-Dec it can be picked up. You can pay me when it is ready for pickup.

I did another multi-grafted tree for someone else on our forum with 5-6 varieties and it grew well. That tree was much older (6-7 ft tall, 3" trunk diameter).

I'll post a few photos of the tree later showing the 2 Sangue e Latte grafted branches. It should grow fast in the next few months so may be a few feet long.

Is there any interest in buying some in-ground GEM avocado trees?

You would need to come dig it up, or I might be able to help dig some trees if I have time. These trees look to be 4yrs old, trunk may be around 3/4"-1" diameter. Height about 4ft tall.

The guy has them in an avocado field now, wants to remove all the trees so will not sell just 1 or 2 trees. He has hundreds for sale.

Depending on the total number of people that would buy it, minimum 200 trees, cost will range from $20-$50 each.
-> If I can get 200 total orders of these GEM trees, then the price may go down as low as $10 each (you dig up) but that is not firm, so I said expect $20 each. I will not mark up any cost, but if I need to help you dig then it will cost you more.
-> It would be good if anyone wanting to buy it orders a minimum qty=2 tree each or more, so we can reach this goal of 200.

I was hoping if we can get 100 GEM tree orders, then I might be able to work something out to have two groups of 100 orders for similar cost for each tree.

Here's the requirements if you are interested in buying a few:

1) If you are in forum member for 6 months and are interested in the trees, let me know here. Trees are in Temecula area. I estimate it would take you 30-45 minutes to dig one tree up.
2) You must have purchased, sold, or traded fruit tree cuttings with me before.
3) You will need to order minimum of 2 trees.
4) I have the right to refuse to sell it to anyone.
5) CA residence only, not going to be shipping these out after digging them.
6) If there is enough interest for 100+ trees then I will talk to the guy again.

===============Equipment to Bring to Dig==============
Basic tools:
1. Digging Fork (may not be useful if ground is hard)-optional
2. Pulasky Axe (may not be needed)-optional
3. Shovel, long narrow tip (Drain Spade Shovel), could be easier to use than normal spade shovel.
4. Loopers or hand pruner
5. Black plastic trash bag (large size)-for wraping roots when done for transport.

** If you have never dug up a fruit tree, I will instruct you on the tools & method.
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He only wants to deal with one person for the lot sales, so I can coordinate the purchase and supervise the digs.
Will probably pick a date later this year when the temperature comes down.

I'm thinking late October (temp about 80F), on a weekend, Saturday and Sunday. Time between 7am-10am.
If this goes, I can go there, red flag the trees that look good so he knows which ones we will be digging up, and I can take some photos of the trees we will dig up.

I went over to dig some other plants and also cut some fresh Wedgwood loquat cuttings. So if you have not added this variety, here's your chance now.

Here's the cost for this cutting:
1. Wedgwood loquat, $10 each, 1 per order.
2. Must be a forum member for 6 months to purchase.
3. Sales to lower 48 states.
4. Shipping Cost, $11, USPS priority mail, small box.
5. Total Cost =$21
6. I take PayPal only, Friends & Family.
7. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone. If I don't reply to your message, that means I will not sell it to you.

CLOSED

I need to trim back some branches on my tree. I will take orders until Sunday, then ship out on Monday.

The two varieties that have been fruiting this year and now I can trim back are the Younghan's Gold and Cuccio.

Here's the cost for this cutting:
1. Younghan's Gold, $5 each.
2. Cuccio, $5 each.
3. Suebelle, $5 each.
4. Must be a forum member for 6 months and have either traded with me or sold/purchased from me.
5. Sales to lower 48 states.
6. Shipping Cost, $11, USPS priority mail, small box.
7. I take PayPal only, Friends & Family.
8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone. If I don't reply to your message, that means I will not sell it to you.

Please send me your message and make payment by no later than Sunday.

This Offer is Over. CLOSED

Ok, this is for those of you that I said I would reserve these loquat cuttings for you to purchase once I got it.
Just got these two varieties this week, very limited on the Estee, plenty of the Wedgwood loquat.

Here's the cost for this cutting:
1. Estee loquat, $25 each, only 1 order per forum member who reserved it.
2. Wedgwood loquat, $10 each, 3 maximum quantity per order.
3. Must be a forum member for 6 months to purchase.
4. You must be on the advance order list and I have you on my list
5. Sales to lower 48 states.
6. Shipping Cost, $11, USPS priority mail, small box.
7. I take PayPal only, Friends & Family.
8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone. If I don't reply to your message, that means I will not sell it to you.

Please send me your message to purchase by end of day Sunday.

There will be no more offer for the Estee after this, maybe next summer if the tree grows more branches that can be taken when the fruits are done.


THIS OFFER IS OVER

I got a small seedling from Happa Joe that was labeled "cherimoya lima". Does anyone have one growing?

He was selling some small seedling plants when he came to our CRFG mtg and had a presentation/talk. He said to me the fruit is supposed to large.

If anyone else is growing it, please let me know or if you have a photo of the fruit then post it here. I did try to get more info from Joe but he is busy and couldn't reply yet.

Seedling is growing fast, it was maybe 12" tall when I got it, now it is over 2 ft tall in 2-3 months.

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For anyone who has purchased from me before, I will have 10-15 branches that needs to be cut off my large tree so you can have the scion wood cuttings for FREE, just pay for shipping.

I decided to take out some of my large in-ground mulberry trees (20ft tall, 8-10" diameter trunk) and switch over to some large guava trees and lare mango trees I found recently.

1. Red Himalayan mulberry cutting (Exotica nursery source).
2. Shangri La cuttings.
3. Black Pakistan cuttings.
4. Shipping cost for CA residence will be $15.
5. Shipping cost for non-CA residence will be medium flat rate box ($18)
6. Total cost is the cost to ship to mentioned above.
5. You must have purchased from me before; no others need to send request to buy it.
7. Payment with PayPal (Friends & Family only).
8. I have the right to refuse to sell/give away to anyone, if I don't reply to your message then you will not be getting any.

=> You will get a mix of cuttings of the above, abouot 10 long cuttings that will be 8-12" long in a flat rate box. The box I will use will be about 15" long.

Once I run out of branches to cut, this sale is over.

Send me a message, please don't make your order request in this post.

Thanks for your previous support on my sales.

I bought many Pace mamey fruits this year from Lara Farms.

Decided to grow out the seeds, they sure do grow fast. Has anyone else tried to grow these seeds?

Here's one seed I planted on 6/30/24. It grew rather quickly and now is about 11" tall.
I also bought the Magana and Florida Key variety so I will grow those seeds as well. The largest fruits were the Magana, smallest fruits were Florida, but I liked the taste of Pace best.

Ok, today is your lucky day. I just cut many of my branches from the large Brewster lychee tree and will be giving it away for the cost to ship.

This is for the following :

For Sale:
1. Brewster lychee, 2 cuttings, Free, plus cost to ship of $11 for small flat rate box.
2. Brewster lychee, 2 cuttings, Free, plus cost to ship medium flat rate box, $18. You will get larger branches.
3. Payment with PayPal, Friends & Family
4. You must have purchased/sold/traded with me in the past.
5. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone. If I don't reply to your message, then I will not be selling it to you.
6. You will need to make the payment by Sunday, don't ask me on Monday when I will be shipping out the cuttings.
7. For CA (California) residents only.

I just took cuttings today to trim back my tree.

I will be only shipping it out one-time next Monday.

Send me a message if you meet the requirements above and want to purchase a cutting or two.