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How exotic! Looking forward to trying something new, Millennium. Thanks for sharing.

Millennium, we have missed you!

I'm glad you posted this here, Millenium. My visits to your home and nursery have been wonderful and I appreciate your gift. I encourage others to support him in this project of sustainability.

Wow! Unfortunately I think most of my tropical favorites are Amazon-bound (as in tied, not destined.) But I hope these fruits you are nurturing will find their way to the Farmer's Market over time! Always fun to try new things!

I just reread the list and am particularly anxious for passionfruit and starfruit. Yum!

wow!

thank you everyone ... and Ray for becoming the first sponsor of the Family Tree Nursery Collective!

here is a great website for viewing potential tropical fruit varieties for your garden homesteads -- note the harm and kill temperature ranges:

http://www.fruitlovers.com/seedlistUSA.html

and this poster of tropical fruit varieties on the Big Island:

http://www.fruitlovers.com/poster.html

additional tropical fruit trees which I have on order include the:

Mamey Sapote (not the same as the Mamey Apple) ... also the Malay Apple, the Java Apple, the Jamaica Cherry, other Guavas (Psidium Guajava), the Sapodilla, the Canistel, the Abiu and the Star Apple ...

I really enjoy reading your posts. Kathlyn and I would love to visit your nursery sometime. She's a passionate gardener (and I'm a passionate eater of tropical fruit) so we'd like to find out more.

Thank you Millenium for sharing... Would you be open to having the Ojai Valley Horticultural Society visit your place on field trip? Also have been trying to find Goji Berry seeds (not exactly tropical!)...without any luck. Would you have any leads? According to rawfood.com Goji berries are "the most nutritionally-rich fruit on the planet".

kia ora Hildegard,

will have a look on the net -- re: Goji Berries -- and try and refresh my memory of them!

and the Horticultural Society would be an honour ... let's keep talking, and our telephone is 646-2274 (Millennium and Megumi).

we are on South La Luna Avenue, just around the corner from Oak Grove School.

oh yes, the Trendy Berries!

I did a google search on keywords: wolfberry seeds purchase. here are three of the results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg032152507473.html?47

"If you do a google search for live plants most of the links will directly or indirectly get you to timpanogos nursery. They have some information about growing goji. The impression that they give is that goji are very easy to grow.

"BTW, if you are interested in growing them from seed, I wouldn't waste your money on buying seed. Instead I would find some dried berries that you like the taste of and use the seeds from those.

"I've tried berries from 2 different sources and in both cases seeds from the dried berries germinated at a very high rate (greater than 70%), and I've never germinated anything before this winter. One set of berries seemed to be at least a year old, they were almost crispy.

"I have 5 or 6 relatively seedlings that I germinated just to see if they would. I think they took a week or 2."

http://www.made-in-china.com/trade-offers/offerviewvAxQplncRYDB/Sell-Goji-Seed.html

we have been slow orchestrating the garden -- a study in prayer on a sacred site -- an upraised stage at the center of her galactic pageant --

a fire and rock circle we were given to begin with -- and began adding concentric rings and wedges of oak log seats, fruit trees, veggie patches, shrines, and finally the greenhouse in process --

which is to say a very modest scale, yet with octave harmonics sounding
the whole of creation ...

Hi Millennium: the garden is going to be lush and wonderful!!!! My sister in Orange Vales knows of a pineapple guava tree that produces much fruit so it should be one you can grow there!!!

Hugs vona

Millennium,

Are you aware there is an exisiting So. Cal. Exotic Fruit Club?

There are a few members in the valley and many in S.B.

A number of years back I was able to pick up some Lychee and banana plants from one of the S.B. growers.

Love that you've gotten some great crops. They are tough to grow in this zone with our extreme of heat and moisture.

best of luck.
hjs

Gay,

Check out our Torii at the Ojai Garden Post... From what I've seen of yours in passing by, I think you'll appreciate it.

hjs

http://www.ojaigarden.com/2006/09/the_garden_of_quiet_beauty.shtml

yo Howard!

I think someone told me about the Exotic Fruit Club ... and I will follow it up.

if anyone wants tropical trees from Stephen Spalding at Exotica ... Raymond and I have an order in with him, and I expect him to come to Ojai in the next couple of weeks with the order.

his telephone (Vista CA) is 760-724-9093

or you can order his catalog.

and, oh yes, the Trendy Berries!

I did a google search on keywords: wolfberry seeds purchase. here are three of the results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg032152507473.html?47

"If you do a google search for live plants most of the links will directly or indirectly get you to timpanogos nursery. They have some information about growing goji. The impression that they give is that goji are very easy to grow.

"BTW, if you are interested in growing them from seed, I wouldn't waste your money on buying seed. Instead I would find some dried berries that you like the taste of and use the seeds from those.

"I've tried berries from 2 different sources and in both cases seeds from the dried berries germinated at a very high rate (greater than 70%), and I've never germinated anything before this winter. One set of berries seemed to be at least a year old, they were almost crispy.

"I have 5 or 6 relatively seedlings that I germinated just to see if they would. I think they took a week or 2."

http://www.made-in-china.com/trade-offers/offerviewvAxQplncRYDB/Sell-Goji-Seed.html

wish us luck!

planted a dozen 5-gallon tubs with Mulberry 'seeds' today, from mulch picked up under a Riviera Mulberry at Gordon's mulberry farm. if we are blessed, will have a hundred or so baby Mulberries come the spring to share with everyone!

Exotica is delivering to us today ... you have a few hours if you wish to order some guavas or feijoas or kiwis or sapotes or mulberries or starfruit or sapotes or macademias or persimmons ...

One gallons are $5 to $10 each, with no markup or delivery charge.

For us, for the family of the Valley of the Goddess Moon.

For all our relations ...

our telephone is 646-2274

Millennium:
Gina, Marissa and I enjoyed our dinner with you and Megumi.
We will do it again in the New Year. We are glad to be of help to your Nursery.
It sounds very much like you have found your "calling" But do not give up Physics. I feel that you have something to contribute.
In Trinidad, Sapodillas and white Guavas were my favorite fruit.
Our very best to your wonderful campanion, Megumi.
"Live long and prosper"
John

kia ora, everyone! Maori blessings, and thanks for the warmest encouraging words.

we had a modest 70 young trees delivered today from Exotica, to FamilyTree and three of our neighbors. a big step forward in tropical diversity for the Valley of the Goddess Moon!

add to the list, Surinam Cherry, Poha (Peruvian Cherry), Plantains and Bananas, Thai Pink Guavas, and Kei Apples!

http://www.organicfarm.net/f_k_content.htm

Gay, Kathlyn, would be wonderful of you to visit and further enliven us ...
it is through these bones, these stones, the trees which ARE Mother Earth that the electrodynamic current of spirit, of life, flows!

and WE complete that circuit ...

with all our relations,

Millennium

Thank you Millennium for receiving the trees I picked up yesterday. the Pink Solo Papaya and Jamaican Banana will winter indoors next to the hot spring for warmth and the rest, loquat, strawberry/ pineapple guava, asian pear, persimmon, tree tomatoe, surinam cherry, persian mulberry are huddled together aculturating in the fountain area.

May the fruits of your love and labor spread it's seeds throughout the valley.{-:

OK, Ray!

it occurred to me that the Tree Tomato would likely be happiest next to the outdoor hot spring ... being ten times more robust without the local chilly winter nights ...

and Hildegard, All,

anyone wanting me to start some Gojiberry or other fruit trees for them ... I am offering to do it out of pure ectasy and sharing ... just send me a package of your favorite Goji berries, or Kiwifruit, or any kinds of guavas, mulberries, figs or other exotics.

and I will plant them in the greenhouse, and split the babies with you that sprout come the spring.

in the song of life ...

Millennium

a a a nnn d, Ray!

that Starfruit was wonderful.

have to get a case of them in ChinaTown, for planting!