The Tropical Fruit Forum

I can give Honeyhart, El Bumpo and Selma.  My Pierce is too small

Hi Rodney,

Didn't know you had Selma. Has it already leafed out this spring? If you're able to find graftable dormant wood, I'd love to get a stick or two, myself. If not, maybe next year? I could offer you $ or an exchange of some sort. Thanks, Rodney.

James

I got E. pyriformis seeds from Helton that are coming up in my greenhouse.  Is there any way, apart from waiting for fruit, to know whether he sent me a sweet variety?

Thanks Coconut. Where are you located?

Great topic and helpful answers. Thanks!

Oscar sells C. phaea seeds in season.  That's where I bought them.

Such beautiful flesh! Makes me wonder how long I'll have to wait. My largest tree is about 3' tall and staying to branch.

Nice Adam. My Lolita is flowing profusely for the first time as well. I find its fruit quite nice, as long as they're dead ripe.

For what it's worth, I bought a bag of Sabor cherimoyas at the tasting based on past years' experience and they were FANTASTIC!

Germination times depend on temperature and other conditions given, but usually starts in 2-4 weeks.

Thanks Oscar!

Huntington Library's greenhouse has one that's 6' tall and makes small pods. There's a jackfruit there as well, that also makes immature fruits.

Ants only appear when they have a food source, such as aphids. Get rid of the food source and you get rid of the ants. Yes safer's soap will kill the aphids. Most soaps also kill most ants right on contact.
I suggest adding a strong smelling essential oil to the soap spray. Ants navigate by putting down chemical trails that they follow. Throw off their scent trails and they are totally lost and disoriented.
You can also use ant bait traps to get the ones in the perimeters. Find out first what kind of ants you have. Roughly 2 types of traps, one for ants that go after sugars, and one for ants that go after oils.
Hope this helps.

Oscar, I have an organic clove and peppermint oil based insecticide that I like, but I'm afraid of burning tender seedlings. Any idea how much I could safely add to my safer soap spray?

Thanks for the link, Ethan. I agree with your Borg comparison. They are relentless, but I refuse to accept that resistance is futile!

Calling all greenhouse growers: what does one do when ants are colonizing all of one's potted plants, farming sucking insects on one's seedlings, and making a general nuisance of themselves?

I've tried borax-based bait traps.  I've tried Raid Avermectin-based traps.  I've tried releasing ladybugs to deal with the symptoms.  All seem to have been to no avail.  I'm thinking about using a Safer soap spray to clean up the symptoms (sucking insects and visible ants), but I suspect it will quickly return if I can't deal with the colonies themselves.  I've seen recommendations that plants be repotted to eliminate colonies, but I have too many small plants to make that feasible, and I suspect they'd reinvade in no time.

Any suggestions?

Quote from: emegar on February 02, 2014, 10:36:29 PM

I'm afraid I don't have any info, but I bought seeds from him just based on his photo. I have a couple of seedlings in my greenhouse and I'd love to learn more as well.

Do you have a picture of the seedling G. madruno del monte?

These are my seedlings grown from Jim West's "Garcinia sp."