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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What’s a fruit tree that you would -NOT- recommend growing?
« on: April 24, 2023, 07:10:18 PM »
Quote from: brian on April 23, 2023, 01:14:38 AM
I am underwhelmed by jaboticabas, too.  The flesh is good but the clingy seed and thick skin makes it hard to eat them.  They are so nice looking I will definitely keep one, but I see no reason to collect more.

I tried jaboticaba twice and both time I'm disappointed. It's one of the most expensive tree to buy. A fruit tree can cost $1000 or more in SoCal. It's nice have it as a collection but I don't know if I want to spend that kind of cash on something I'm indifferent about. I prefer cherimoya/atemoya over jaboticaba any day.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Trees
« on: April 04, 2023, 12:20:59 PM »
With CA real estate premium and limited space, most of my trees are cocktail





I have 8 in 1 atemoya, 5 in one mango, 4 in 1 mango, alot of 2/3 in one guava, alot of 2/3 in one atemoyas, 6 in one citrus (pomelo, seedless tangerine), 4 in 1 wax jambu, 3 in 1 mulberry




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB pearl guava
« on: March 31, 2023, 10:14:41 AM »
Quote from: pinkturtle on March 31, 2023, 12:18:13 AM
Hi greenerpasteur,

Put me in the list for one of the Thai ruby seedless guava.

Thanks,
Al

It's for Pearl Guava. I don't have a big enough Thai ruby seedless guava to airlayer thus I'm grafting more

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB pearl guava
« on: March 30, 2023, 09:47:16 PM »
Quote from: sc4001992 on March 30, 2023, 06:16:56 PM
greenerpasteur, thank you for the scionwood.

You are welcome. I'm top working my pearl guava and graft this variety - Thai ruby seedless guava. I'll be making 3 airlayer if anyone want it. Should be available in 4-6 months for $40-60 in 7g to 10/15g.




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB pearl guava
« on: March 28, 2023, 04:26:25 PM »
I'm no longer accepting anymore scions request.

I'll cut tomorrow morning with +1 scion, wrap the end, damp paper towel in a zip lock bag and ship it via USPS flat rate envelope with tracking info tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone who are interested in the scions.
 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB pearl guava
« on: March 28, 2023, 09:53:40 AM »
Quote from: pinkturtle on March 27, 2023, 11:08:40 PM
Hi greenerpasteur,

The picture is crystal seedless guava for me not Pearl guava.  Pearl guava have seeds.

Thanks,
Al

These normally have seeds. It get hybridized by seedless guava I have growing. My seedless collection easily outnumbered 5:1.
I've also tried crystal guava before and it's not completely seedless. It still has a few seeds and crisper, denser but not as flavorful.

The Taiwanese man that collect over 15 guavas variety is where I bought it from. He also has crystal guavas. I'm pretty confident that I have pearl guava

I'm actually grafting Crystal guava from a friend since I don't have one





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB pearl guava
« on: March 27, 2023, 09:00:36 PM »
Here is a picture of my Pearl guava.

Some of the fruits are seedless probably due to seedless variety I have pollinating it.

It's crunchy, and full of flavor - sweet (6-7/10) and tart. My friend who tried it think it's better than Thai guava which I thought it's really good already. It's better than Vietnamese variety Xa Li. Compared to Taiwanese seedless guava, it's not as crunchy or dense, but it's more productive, easier to set fruit and pretty flavorful.

I got some late season guava and it still taste pretty good even with all the rain we been having.

PM me. $4/scion & 5 min.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / What Mango Rootstock Is This?
« on: March 11, 2023, 02:35:08 PM »
This isn't tupertine right?





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Temperate Fruit Buy, Sell, & Trade / WTB Sandia, Chico, Hulu Jujube Scions
« on: March 11, 2023, 09:47:14 AM »
I'm looking for 2-3 of each variety. Located in SoCal.
Nevermind. I found everything

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB: Sandia Jujube
« on: March 05, 2023, 01:33:23 PM »
I'm looking for a couple Sandia jujube scions. I'm in Southern California. Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Mango trees in Southern California
« on: December 14, 2022, 09:57:42 PM »


I have 3 medium to large size mango. This one is in a greenhouse that's recently multi-grafted: Maha Channok, Brahm Kai Meu, Lemon Zest, Pim Saen Mun.

It's doing really well in a greenhouse. Flushing again.

This one is in 45 gallon I rescued it recently. It will be a Pickering.






Last one is Maha Channok, Keo Savoy, Cat Hoa Loc, Pickering, Sweet Tart.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: When to graft annona?
« on: November 21, 2022, 12:30:28 PM »
I grafted a couple variety on 3 cherimoya a 2-4 weeks ago and it's taking. I just graft them when I have scions.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's your favorite gardening tip?
« on: November 20, 2022, 12:16:09 PM »
Quote from: tru on November 20, 2022, 11:30:39 AM
great tips! sorry if this is common knowledge, but the 1-2 inch measurement is circumference right? or width? if only I could stumble upon a wax jambu in north texas :P im jealous you got to save that many free fruit trees!

1.5 - 2 inch width. There are so many people converting their house into ADU, moved, etc so they sell it for cheap or free. Wax jambu isn't as common as other such as longan, guava, cherimoya etc.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's your favorite gardening tip?
« on: November 20, 2022, 11:19:05 AM »
My favorite gardening tip is learn to graft. It will unlock so many possibilities.

Tropical fruit trees can be very expensive especially rare variety. Once you learn to graft, you can use existing big rootstock and even rescued huge tree to graft it to. It will grow faster with vigorous rootstock and fruit faster.

I've seen Thai ruby seedless guava selling for $2000+. If you know how to graft, you can graft, you can save significantly


My other tip is learn how to rescue tropical fruit trees. Establish tree take a long time to get to that size especially in subtropical regions and very expensive to buy. If you know how to transplant tropical fruit trees, you will save alot of time and money. You can rescue any trees and use it as rootstock to graft better variety to it. I've rescued cherimoyas, atemoya, wax jambu, mangos, guava, citrus, etc and they survived.

My third tips is to learn how to airlayer and try to airlayer big branches if you can. I always try to aim for 1.5-2 inch branches. It takes longer to get adequate roots, but it will give you more of a stronger tree and fruit faster.


Fourth tip is to network with other gardeners in your area. You can trade scions and fruits that you may not have or tasted. It's always nice to talk to people about your hobby and do garden tour.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherimoyas and gophers
« on: November 01, 2022, 02:20:05 PM »
My friend has a cherimoya in a gopher infested yard. It even bite the trunk. The tree doesn't look so healthy either. The leaves are smaller and it doesn't seems to be thriving. Cherimoya grow like weed here in SoCal with some care too.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is there hope to save my mango tree?
« on: October 13, 2022, 04:03:00 PM »
Quote from: JakeFruit on October 13, 2022, 03:41:35 PM
Quote from: greenerpasteur on October 13, 2022, 03:15:16 PM
I rescued 2 mango and 2 survived. With mango, you need to prune back, remove all the leaves and fruits. Cover with shade cloth until it bounce back. Water regularly. Good luck!

This is a more well done transplanting, but similar to what was done with the avocado I mentioned below. It's obviously drastic to remove all branches, but (if you lost most/all of your roots) it's your best shot.

If he dug up and replanted higher in addition to Hurricane Ian damages, it likely severed all the primary roots. It's pretty much like transplanting even if it's the same hole.

Even with that well of transplant, I still have alot of die back.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is there hope to save my mango tree?
« on: October 13, 2022, 03:15:16 PM »
I rescued 2 mango and 2 survived. With mango, you need to prune back, remove all the leaves and fruits. Cover with shade cloth until it bounce back. Water regularly. Good luck!


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Planting Fruit Trees Near Queen Palm Tree
« on: September 28, 2022, 03:26:53 PM »
Quote from: 1rainman on September 27, 2022, 07:14:21 PM
They are not heavy feeders. Really the citrus roots are probably more agressive than queen palm but they grow fine together. Here in Florida the dirt is usually sand which doesn't hold water or nutrients anyway

You are right. Florida has alot of palm trees and I've seen the fruit trees grow so well.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Planting Fruit Trees Near Queen Palm Tree
« on: September 26, 2022, 07:47:52 PM »
Quote from: 1rainman on September 26, 2022, 07:44:40 PM
Never had a problem with queen palms next to citrus. Live oak is the main problem I saw. They suck up nutrients from other plants for quite some distance.

I've seen alot of my neighbors have palm tree with fruit trees growing next to it and my sapodilla fruit fine next to it. I was just probably over paranoid. Thanks for confirming it for me.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Planting Fruit Trees Near Queen Palm Tree
« on: September 26, 2022, 07:19:57 PM »
Quote from: johnb51 on September 26, 2022, 06:33:52 PM
I would have removed as much of the palm roots as possible up to the wall before I planted my fruit trees, but you have to realize that the roots of your trees will never go under and beyond the wall so they will be restricted in that direction.

I did dig it 3-3.5 ft deep and 3 feet wide. I removed all the palm roots. I even put a double layer plastic bag 4 ft deep to control some of the roots from coming though.

Yes I understand that. It's still better than growing in pot.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Planting Fruit Trees Near Queen Palm Tree
« on: September 26, 2022, 05:09:20 PM »
Quote from: CeeJey on September 19, 2022, 01:10:27 PM
I've got a couple of pineapple guava relatively close to a queen palm plus some shrubs and no problems yet for either the fruit trees or the palm. Queen palm roots are noninvasive, they just go wide to anchor the tree.

My concern would be for the queen palm, depending on what you're growing. Those palms with non-invasive roots (not just queens but Washingtonia species as well, like the Mexican fan palms) can get throttled by some other invasive roots; the previous owner of my property accidentally killed two established adult palms by planting a willow acacia nearby that proceeded to throttle them, but those have REALLY invasive roots. Probably not gonna happen with most fruit trees.

The palm trees are my neighbor. They seem to be growing roots all over my fruit trees. I'm more concern about my fruit trees. I'm concern it may cause my tropical fruit trees to die.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Planting Fruit Trees Near Queen Palm Tree
« on: September 26, 2022, 05:07:41 PM »
Quote from: Galatians522 on September 17, 2022, 10:22:20 PM
It does not seem to have hurt the other queen palms. What are you planning to put there? Anything with a strong root system would likely be bad for the wall.


Grow under. I grow every thing near it - guava, lychee, sapodilla, cherimoya/atemoya, mango.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Planting Fruit Trees Near Queen Palm Tree
« on: September 16, 2022, 09:33:24 PM »
My neighbor has row of queen palm trees that's separate by cement wall. It still manage to climb across. Anyone has experience growing fruit trees near queen palm?Is it a concern?





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB pearl guava
« on: July 31, 2022, 01:17:53 PM »
It only have 2 fruits last year. It's sweet and a little crunchy.

I probably don't have any conclusion to the taste until I tried more this year especially with proper fertilizing. The guy who I bought grow over 20+ guava variety, and he recommend this to me for its productivity and taste.

I have a Taiwanese seedless and it's the least productive guava I've had. Not even one fruit for a 15 gallon tree.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB pearl guava
« on: July 30, 2022, 07:30:25 PM »
I have one currently fruiting. It's pretty productive compared to all my seedless guava. I think I have over 3-4 dozen fruits. I might be able to airlayer next year if you are still looking.

If you are local in SGV, I can give you scions for free.

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