Audience applauding after a talk at a chapter meeting

Past Events

2026 Scion Exchange

On the very last day of January, CRFG North San Diego Chapter held our annual scion exchange at the Norway Hall in Vista, where dozens of members and guests came to share their cuttings and went home with new cuttings.

What to do with what you got: if you took self-rooting items such as pomegranate, fig, grape, or mulberry, go ahead and put them into your planting medium with optional rooting compound and water them in. For items that need to be grafted, wrap a damp paper towel around them and keep them in the fridge in your plastic bags until you’re ready to graft. Learn more about how to graft at the February chapter meeting and at the March grafting workshop.

People browsing tables of bagged plant cuttings

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January Chapter Meeting - Ken Tseng, Fortule Farms

Ken went from being a backyard grower (of all sorts of things) to a commercial grower (of dragon fruit and experimenting with all sorts of things) in just a few years, with great enthusiasm but no experience as a commercial farmer.

He spoke vividly and humorously about his adventures with well drilling, ordering more young trees than most of us see in a lifetime, and how growing lemons at scale can actually cost you money.

He also showed us several trellis designs that he’d tried with large-scale dragon fruit production, and mentioned he still pollinates every flower by hand.