Canarian Orchad Tour, April 2011
Hi friends,
I was back home a few weeks ago, sending my vacations working on my parents orchad (used to be a commercial citrus plantation, now I am slowly reconverting it to a little botanical garden... at least I try!). I know you all like pictures, so I'm sharing some impressions with you:
This is a mango variety from the canaria islands called Gomera. There are a few different Gomera types. The fruit is rather small, high sugar, strong aroma (not too complex) and lots of fibre! It's used manly as a rootstock:
Another Gomera mango:
This is my Nam Dok Mai airlayer from Thailand after one year in ground:
I had to cut all the flower panicles, except of one with two tiny fruit:
This is Osteen, which produces very good over here and tastes pretty good, but not in the top tier:
Cashew seedling starting vegetative growth:
Rincón avocado and a little dog looking for lizzards:
A picture before removing :-(
A grafted lucuma (i don't know the cultivar):
..with a lot of flowers:
Bruce canistel:
Sweet tamarind seedling:
Green zapote seedling (1 year in pot + 1 year in ground). Seeds from fruitlovers.com:
...which I tip-pruned to induce branching (picture was made one week after pruning):
Sapodilla airlayer again from Thailand (I don't know the cultivar) after 3 month in ground:
I told my dad to please remove any fruit:
Jambul seedling:
Rose apple:
Manzano banana:
Ice Cream banana:
My three Fino de Jete chirimoyas coming out of dormancy:
My newly planted bael:
My jaboticaba is not looking that good after one year in ground. Maybe it is waiting the hotter climate to sproud..:
An exotic from Africa, a Manilkara discolor seedling a.k.a. 'forest milkberry'. I would love to try the fruit, but I think I will have to be patient:
One of the pacay seedlings:
A litchi airlayer (don't ask me about the variety). 1,5 years in ground, but no fruit so far. I hope one day it gets half as big as one of those litchis in Harry's yard!
As usual, plants are not labeled when you buy then localy in nurseries over here. This cultivar has one of the best guavas i have ever tasted. I think it could be Red Malaysian:
Kei apple:
Geffner atemoya still dormant:
Spondias pinnata; some sources says it's ultra tart even fully ripe, others say not. I hope the second thing:
My grafted and ultra productive black zapote:
Green zapote seedling No2:
Sri Kenbangan carambola dropping leaves and spouting:
And the last one is a newly planted wax jambu airlayer from Thailand:
Tanks,
Felipe
tropicaliste
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