lmao...maybe that explains the pricing :)

Could you please email me their address? I'd love to stop by, haven't been up there in months, it's overdue!!! tia

Tim

i don't know the exact address, just know it's on the corner of newhope and mcfadden in santa ana, between euclid and harbor. the parking was lousy, because for some reason they left half of the lot empty with only 1 entrance (on the right of newhope) if you approach from edinger to mcfadden.

my jackfruit seedlings look dead right now, but hers (probably grafted) are really healthy.
i think the same owner as the person from the temple. as i asked to take pictures and she said no, because she already got people from the press taking pictures before.

http://www.voanews.com/vietnamese/news/vietnam/Lai-Thieu-nursery-03-08-10-86864117.html

I've visited the place before earlier in the year. The temple/buildings are on the right and the nursery is in the back. They didn't have named varieties, so I wasn't too interested. The prices were pretty steep. I remember being offered a sapodilla tree in a 30+ gal. container for $1000. Four zeros.

i only saw sapodilla for 95 dollars maybe 3 or 5 gallons, and a star apple also.

wax chambu that she said was similar to the tree we had back home but she was probably just saying that for 28 bucks at about a foot tall.

i didn't check the price on every tree, but the highest i saw was 250 for a big cherimoya type that was smaller than the one at my aunt's house now. one thing for sure was mango trees in pot won't have big fruits. there was one xoai tuong which is supposed to be huge was just like a regular mango.

Here's a link of the nursery. A tour around the nursery with the owner. Phone # at the end of the clip.
BEWARE: .......VERY EXPENSIVE......... No name variety and bad service.
There so call "Xoai Tuong" mango is in the clip...I'm sure most of you recognize the variety. Xoai Tuong = Huge Mango mainly for the vietnamese customers.
cheers
DT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFk6AiGgkA

yea, it's the video i posted a while ago.

the price is comparable to scala and both are less expensive than mimosa anaheim.

From what I've seen, eaten, and limited knowledge of, Xoài Tðợng is actually a humongous seedling strain of Nam Doc Mai. This has always been the case in Vietnam and that's why it's so wildly popular for green eating. I don't know why these nurseries, including Mimosa according to a member on here, are dubbing Lancetilla as Xoài Tðợng here in the States.

Tim

Hi Tim
You are right...Base on my understanding, Xoai Tuong is just a general name for any big green mango. Nursery labeled their mango as Xoai Tuong, elephant mango=lancetilla to attract vietnamese customers. Like guava for instance.......any big green crunchy guava is called Oi Xa Li.

PhucVu....
Don't even get me started with mimosa anaheim lol.
For the record...I will never buy anything from them EVER. Extremely rude...prepare to look rich/empty your wallet if you want their service.

phucvu

what ice are you talking about??? I get up every morning and drive down to Santa Ana and I have not seen any frost this year! IMO, Santa Ana is the best area to grow tropicals in Socal.

JF

the ice on my windshield even at 8 o'clock.

sorry about the ice in your windshield NO ice at 92705

JF

nothing to be sorry about, it's just that her plants were green even with all the cold nights we got, while some of my seedlings were burned by the cold--turned completely black then blown away by santa ana wind.

Here phucvu

I'm going to show you why Santa Ana is recognize as one of the best - if not the best, location to grow tropicals in Southern California. It's practically frost free, once every 15 years, and I have never seen it freeze in 30 years I worked there. 8-12 miles from the coast but almost as warm as let's say La Habra or El Monte which are 20 miles plus inland.

JF

Trees from my friend Minh:
Alano's 5-6 years old

He has 5-6 different chico varieties, lychhes , wax apple, mango sugar apple etc. in his back yard. I didn't have time to take more picture I just drop by after work.

JF

i was told that garden grove is the best by the owner of scala and she's located in santa ana.

i already killed 3 of my sapodilla seedlings with only 2 left so hopefully they will stay alive through this winter.

Nice pictures JF! Santa Ana is very nice climate wise. Irvine, Fullerton, and Aliso Viejo are also amazing climates for subtropical fruits.

phucvu

Garden Grove is next to Santa Ana so there is very little differences. How did you kill your seedlings? I have one that's a year and a half old and it's growing super slow. I don't know who Scala is but nursery people exaggerate just to sell you their product.

Null

you can add El Monte, Montebello etc and the rest of the East LA area south of the 60 that has a nice mild climate but it's very hot in the summer.

JF

put them in the ground then the cold came and killed them.

Please don’t go there!!! She’s not cheap and very deceiving as well . I went there and bought 2k+ Worth of fruit trees from her last yr. One of them was suppose to be a Geffner atemoya (and her tag said so too). But I found out a yr later , that it’s an African Pride instead of the Geffner like it said on the tag . There’s no way I can dig up the big tree out of the ground to prove to her that . So I’m just warning you , this business is not to be trusted !