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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: ID this Avacado - Pictures Attached
« on: August 23, 2018, 12:36:03 PM »
I dont think you can ID it without fruit.  Could be anything.  It kind of has the reed and fuerte taco leaf but I wouldnt put any money on what type it is without seeing fruit.

Fuerte has the spotted wood too, not sure about reed, would have to look at it. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's going on with my avocado?
« on: August 23, 2018, 12:34:27 PM »
It looks thirsty when the roots get rotten and cant supply the tree w water. 

Pull the mulch back and look at the roots.  They should be white.  If they are brown they are rotting.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's going on with my avocado?
« on: August 23, 2018, 10:28:41 AM »
Roots need to dry out, its drowning.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Passionfruit
« on: August 23, 2018, 12:25:02 AM »
You are welcome.  The bees take care of pollinization. 

This particular vine is super prolific.  Its one year old and we will get around 400+ fruit this year. 

If you want a clone, I can make some. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Avocado scions
« on: August 22, 2018, 11:58:44 AM »
Ok, I have a few rootstocks large enough to put a scion on.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Avocado scions
« on: August 21, 2018, 07:07:20 PM »
5$ a stick wrapped in parafilm.

Ardith,
Sharwil,
Holiday,
Reed,
Hass,
Fuerte,
Lamb,
Sir prize,
Bacon,
Mexicola


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Passionfruit
« on: August 21, 2018, 06:44:28 PM »
Ok, I have a long list of people that want these.  I am raising the price slightly due to high demand and limited supply. 

Its 25$ for a medium flat rate box filled with 20+ fruits.

13$ goes to shipping and I pay paypal on top of that.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado thread
« on: August 21, 2018, 03:22:42 PM »
Was out working in the garden yesterday and picked a few fruit.  Was really surprised that both mexicola and steuart are ripening already.  Havent tried one yet but here they are.  A whole year earlier than the larger cados.

Mexicola, stewart, lamb, reed. 


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So its ok to drown or shoot them?  Just dont torch them?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Passionfruit
« on: August 21, 2018, 01:07:08 AM »
Ok, looks like theres way more demand than my supply at the moment.  I didnt expect so many people to want these. 

Will take the orders in order.  I have to wait for fruits to change color and fall off.  Once I have enough to ship to you I will.contact for payment and check you still want them.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Dragonfruit Cuttings
« on: August 21, 2018, 12:22:31 AM »
spaugh, will u ship to India...? :-\

Yes but it costs a fortune and I cant make any guarantees it will make it.

Its 50$ postage to send international and 100$ minimum order for international orders.  I have to drive to post office and stand in line and fill out customs papers to do it.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Dragonfruit Cuttings
« on: August 20, 2018, 07:17:43 PM »
I also have some mature fruiting size plants in 15gal containers for 55$ if anyone wants any.  I have duplicate plants and need to consolidate a few of them.  Local pickup on the potted plants.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Dragonfruit Cuttings
« on: August 20, 2018, 04:55:25 PM »
Hey there.  Very interested in purchasing some cuttings for Red Dragon Fruit (meat) and also dragon fruit that blooms in any color other than white?  Do you have any available?
Thank you!

Yes I do have several red and purple types and the Bruni makes bright purple blooms. 

Send me a PM and I can send some cuttings.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Passionfruit
« on: August 20, 2018, 11:40:37 AM »
5$ for a passionfruit is insanity.

If you want your PF vine to make fruit, feed it some flower/bloom type fertilizer now and you will get some blooms. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Passionfruit
« on: August 20, 2018, 02:06:32 AM »
Sorry Patrick I rarely make it out of Poway.  Otherwise I would just give you some.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Passionfruit
« on: August 20, 2018, 12:29:15 AM »
Fredricks, but I have red rover also that will be ripening soon.  The Fredrick vine is absolutely loaded. 

Several people have bought some or asked to buy some.  I will process the requests in order they come in and when I have enough to ship 25 to 30 at a time I will take the order and ship. 

Its going to be later in the week before I have more and then another week or so for the next round.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Leaf Curl Mania
« on: August 19, 2018, 06:26:50 PM »
Is it city water?  Maybe too much chlorine or other salts in the agua?

I water the plants using ground water from my well. I don’t treat the water with anything since it’s only used for watering the crops.

Production doesn’t seem to be affected that much since the plants tend to produce a good crop. The main ones affected soursops and canistels which at times produce undersized leaves that look the bulb on a pitcher plant  than anything else and whose production is affected. I only harvested two soursops from the tree this year since it’s infection. Fruit was standard size(5lbs and uniform in shape) so it doesn’t seem to affect the fruit quality.

I’m considering cutting down all the infected trees and burning them. Then I can simply replace them. Most of the infected trees are a few years old but I have grafted backups in the nursery.

That seems like a bad thing to do if you are not sure there is actually a disease present and what it is. 

Do you have a TDS meter to measure the solid content in the water and an EC meter to get an idea how much salts are present?

They have those tools very cheap around 12$ on Amazon or ebay if you are the los angeles you could get some and take them back to the farm in Mex.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Leaf Curl Mania
« on: August 19, 2018, 01:55:33 PM »
Is it city water?  Maybe too much chlorine or other salts in the agua?

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Luc, you should post a photo of the tree and the fence.

And why not just spray the leaves with glyphosate when no one is looking if you really want to kill it? 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Passionfruit
« on: August 18, 2018, 11:36:30 PM »
Not sure if theres interest but I have tons of purple passionfruit P. Edulis if anyone wants to buy some.  25$ for a medium flat rate rate box of fruits.  Its 20+ fruits in the box and I am paying 13$ to ship plus a paypal fee.

Saw them at the farmers market for 2$ each today!  Not sure why they are so expensive at the market?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 18, 2018, 09:44:40 PM »
Heres an american beauty with peruvian yellow DF "grafted" onto it.  Simon was nice enough to share some of the peruvian yellow DF with me and I am going to see if the growth rate is improved at all with a different rootstock.  They are quite slow growers even in a greenhouse so we wjll see if it helps at all.




Is this the "tap and plug" method mentioned in the post following yours?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljf6wyUmJ9k


Has anyone tried this onto a descending branch? I'm interested in grafting something onto those giant vines posted just above this, so that there's something to cross with those 4 plants. I've never seen fruit on them, despite several _hundred_ meters of vine that produce hundreds of flowers every season.

The grafting works ok but the graft is a weak point and breaks off easily.  I accidentally broke both of the grafts off just moving the plant around.  The center core stem heals well but the fins didnt bind well for mine and they created a weak spot.  What you would need to do is put a crutch of bamboo on the joint and use some tree tape or caution tape to tie the crutch to stiffen up the graft joint. 

I maydo some more of those and try to get them tied up to a post right away so they dont break.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 17, 2018, 07:58:04 PM »
Nice Mark.  Thanks for the galvanized post idea, theres some of those laying around here in my recycled materials junk pile. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 17, 2018, 06:44:52 PM »
Those are mine. They have been flowering but all turned yellow and dropped. I'm hoping they are too young but next week will try doing some hand pollination. The mother plant of this same variety set fruit up a tree when it flowered in July.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bAZqhqw2U

Details of the project:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=228.msg295012;topicseen#msg295012

Thanks, looks super legit.  Im going to do something similar.  Do you have details already of the post build?  8ft?  Rebars?  Thickness of posts?  What type of bolt or whatever did you use out of the top?

EDIT: I see your project link now and will study it.  Thank you!

PS, yes cross pollinate them they will set fruit and stick.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 17, 2018, 06:34:37 PM »
Someone in FL had some concrete DF posts and photos of rows of crops with pineapples and DF.  Does anyone know whao that was?  Im looking for the concrete post photos for ideas.  Im looking to make 20 or 30 concrete posts. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado grafting
« on: August 17, 2018, 11:41:44 AM »
VAM contains stuff that doesn't dissolve like humic acids.  I'll post Carlos' photo of what he uses.  Great info with contacts too.



https://www.amazon.com/BioAg-grams-Endomycorrhizal-Plant-Inoculant/dp/B00J2FHVDI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1534520081&sr=8-3&keywords=vam

Done, got the kilo size bag.

Got a few tons of pine mulch that is going out then this is getting put on it and watered in and then EM1 injection. 

Then Im going on vacation.

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