Same. Def one of the best-tasting fruits I’ve ever tried. Ofc, it’s tropical so can only survive in some very hot, Southern fragments of the US, I think?
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More or less. Pouterias are relatively cold hardy compared to other tropicals, but that still just means they can only had a little frost at best.
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I got this adorable little tree, but I noticed it has its roots all in the tape. Any advice on how to untangle the roots from the tape without ruining this little Canistel tree?
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Pretty sure I’ve ordered from that same seller, was it Etsy?
No trick to it that I know of, other than soak it down as you gently to to separate the tape.
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I got a big plant from JRN in Houston and plan to put it in ground. Was given some fruit on a Florida trip a year ago and grew the seeds. They seem to have a high germination rate and be hardy to heat, drought, and wet. I brought them in the garage for the freeze. Since I successfully kept mango and starfruit alive in ground I think this will survive too.
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It was Amazon, but I’m not sure if I’ll keep buying plants from amazon due to the issues I keep having
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Yeah I would really discourage buying things from Amazon, maybe strawberry crowns and asparagus crowns. But that’s about it
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Does anyone know why the leaves on my little canistel tree look like this, they are also falling off.
FYI, if you already have a canistel tree, I’m selling a rare variety from a fruit collector here is SoCal, his name is Roger Meyer, he passed away but a person I know has a large tree that he purchased from Roger when he went to Puerto Rico searching for canistel fruits. He brought back scions and made a few grafted trees he sold.
If anyone want to buy a cutting of this “Roger’s PR” canistel then go to the TFF
For Sale section and search canistel. I’m getting fresh cuttings this Saturday and shipping orders on Monday. The money from the sales will go to the guy with the large tree. It has been fruiting for many years, it has fruits now but still not ripe.
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Aaron, if you need another seed to grow out, send me a message. Kaz
I ate a few ripe lucuma fruits recently and they are very good. I think this variety is the moist type. I plant to grow out the seeds, and get a tree so I can graft some different varieties of canistel.
Anyone know which varieties taste the best?
I already have access to the Roger’s PR canistel, and the tree I tasted the ripe fruit, both are supposed to be one of the good varieties. I’ll post some photos of the lucuma fruit I tasted later this weekend.
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A bit off topic but I’ve had 2 separate visitors to my pawpaw orchard who, upon tasting one for the first time, said they reminded them of lucuma.
My canistel seedling has dark red leaves, which I think look cool. Its pontentially very sad since I can see its root coming out of the bottom of the pot already (not even a month old yet), but they grew dark and never turned green. I tried to look up other seedlings, and none of them look like this this.
Is this normal? A mutation prehaps? I think I am going to uppot it today and see if the leaves stay dark. That would be awesome.
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That’s a mango seedling, not a canistel.
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Well theres my answer. I didn’t think I planted the mango seeds, but I must have.
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While I agree the red leaves look cool, and it does look like a mango seedling but it might not be. If you google the description it says that some varieties may have red leaves at early development. That being said it could still be a mango seedling but even so the leaves should turn green, if they stay red and droopy it means they lack the ability to make chlorophyll which is essential for a plants ability to photosynthesize. Now there are many many plants that have cool colored leaves and even purple tones to them and they survive great but unless its a super plant with cool genetic mutations I would be a bit worried if it stays red. It being only a month old its probably just a young tree with new growth and that’s ok. Definitely keep an eye on it. Does it get full sun?
No, its a mango, its also turned dark green now and isn’t weepy. I did have a canistel seed germinate since then though. It needs to be uppoted, I can take pictures when I do that.
That’d be neat! I have a mango tree that’s two years old and is now 5ft tall so they can grow fast!! I bought a canistel but it is still small it lost all its leaves at the beginning of summer and just started growing them back
This is my mango tree
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Canistel on the left, Mamey Sapote on the right, and one of those two in the middle. The middle one is in the same pot as the Mamey, but looks alot more like the Canistel. I would never put two Mamey seeds in the same pot, but I would put the not as regularly germinating Canistel in the same pot as literally anything. So I either put a Canistel in with the Mamey Sapote, or the Mamey is polyembryonic. Both are pretty believable imo.
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