The Tropical Fruit Forum

I did review the info on Carlos's website. His fruit is shiny, skinny like a wilson long neck (popinoe). The Russell fruits I showed above is fatter, skin doesn't shine, and is creamy and very good tasting is what I hear. The tree is growing at the person's parents' house, and he has been eating the fruits for a long time and says it is a very good tasting avocado.

Carlos needs to fiind another source, his doesn't look like it to me. But, it could be that this Russell growing in Hawaii  (purchased at nursery) may be a seedling tree so that may be the reason these fruits look so much larger/fatter, and does not have that shinny green skin.

Notice that Carlos's avocado fruit is shinny green with no dots, the photos of the fruits above have small dots on the outside of the skin.

I saw the fruit I posted of the Marcus Pumpkin, it had no fibers. The person who grows this tree said it is creamy, sweet, and tastes good. You must have had a bad one. The inside of the large fruit is yellow, like a Hass, but much more flesh to eat.

Lujan might be my hardiest jabo. I have a couple 4yrs in 3 gallons that actually thrive outside during the
winter. Along with my Oberas, they are the earliest to put on new growth in mid to late winter, followed
by Sabara in late winter. Grimals, reds and phitranthas struggle through the cold and are just now budding.
I should note my winter lows are mostly in the low 40's with a couple upper 30 nights, so no freeze but still
promising results in the cold

Today I got my first grafted Annona plant in the form of an African Pride Atemoya (Annona × atemoya). I discovered after I brought it home, there was a hole in the bark below the graft. Is this cause for concern? Will the tree outgrow it?

I went to a CRFG member's house to pick up my Marcus Pumpkin cuttings and he has 3 large lucuma trees. At least one had fruits, the trees are tall (over 20 ft) so its hard to see what the fruits look like. Maybe when I go back there I will get up on the 10ft ladder and try to get a photo of the fruit to show.

Anyone know how easy it is to graft the tree to a seedling?

I might go over to Alex's place and get a scion wood from him if he has the moist variety that you guys like. If you know which variety is the best tasting let me know and I might check with Alex. I'm not really into lucuma, just checking for Aastair really.

The person who lives here in Fullerton said I can take a few cuttings since we are trading right now.

When I looked up and saw his fruit on this large tree, it seemed to be the pointy tip fruit. Like the first one in the photo above, not the SD fruit.

They seem pretty easy to graft. Maybe similar to citrus or avocado. I had 3/3 succeed a couple years ago in my passive greenhouse. I haven't grafted any in ground yet. Nate at Wildlands did a bunch last year, so he might have better info.