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Got my seeds they looked great and got here pretty fast! Thank you again so much

Thank you very much!
Nice to know you're happy with your seeds!

Regards,
Nélio.

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I already answered! Thank you very much.

A few years ago my family used to have pigs, and we gave them almost any fruit and they will eat it all. The most commons were avocados, cherimoyas, oranges and a few types of guavas; but also from time to time mangoes, grapes, persimons, peaches and plums.
Another thing that isn't a tree, but that we used to fed our pigs with was Sechium edule fruits; each year I used to collect maybe a few tons of it, just to give it to pigs. It's very productive, fast growing, almost careless, it controls weeds, and pigs love the fruits. Also if you cultivate it in a shallow soil (no deeper than 1,5m) you can also harvest the tubers that are also edible, and very good in taste; around here people prefer it to the fruit. The tubers are harvested when the vines die, and before it starts growing again!

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I don't use any of these! Here I usualy aply only sulfur powder, and it works nicely...

For me it Works as well; and it shows in first in results list.
Maybe it's just inside USA that this is happening.

Nice diversity! They look very tasty.
I have a Luma apiculata plant, and after your taste description, i'm crossing finger that mine would be palatable...

My cousin is growing this crasy banana, that has set a triple bunch.
The mother plant, last year has divided in 2 and each one produced one bunch, but this one exceded the mother...



Ps. The photo was sent to me by my cousin, one of the owners of the plant.

A little update on my Myrtaceae planted by cuttings.
The Pitangatuba and Jabuticaba, are still growing at an interesting rate. The Cherry of Rio Grande and Black Pitanga, haven't had any progress, and had even lost some leaves, however, they're still alive...

The Pitangatuba


The Jabuticaba

Looooking goood

Thank you!

Your mangoes look big and healthy. Great stuff! Thanks for the nice pictures

Thank you!
They're particularly nice this year, after an atypical winter, early this year... Aparently the stress they were exposed was good for them at some point.

WOW! I'm really impressed! Congratulations my friend! What impressed me most is your mango trees, they are great! I'm failed to have a black sapote untill now... Papayas are great too! 

Thanks Luís. I'm not sure if I will have any fruit in the Black Sapote, as it is quite small yet, and is in a really small pot for it's size. Don't you have a plant, or didn't you had fruits yet?
About the papayas, this one is the best one of them, and eventhough it's barely surviving... It is the same as in the 4th image of the first post; as you can see it is much more ugly than it was in winter. This terrain was touched by a fire a some of the plants there suffered a lot, specially the papayas, but also 2 Passiflora ligularis that didn't recovered, and a few others with a little less injuries suffered.
Any of the papayas I sent to you survived?

Here's a little update, on some of my plants, that are now fruiting or flowering, or just developing nicely.

Some of my pineapples. The third one is a sucker with only about 6", and is already sending new suckers.






My black sapote, is flowering for the first time, and maybe against all odds, because it is in a 5 Litre pot, and it is less than 1m high, however it has about 10 flowers...






My Cherimoya, flowering for the new season.


Passiflora ligularis, in it's second crop this year.


Now the mangoes! The first 2 images are from a seedling I grafted 2 years ago, and is developing some huge leaves! It has flowered 2 months ago, but set no fruit, maybe because of the extreme heat we had in the last months. This variety, produces fruits up to 4kg.




This one is my older mango tree, and this year, in it's last bloom set some fruits (much more than the last 10 years), let's see if it will hold them till the end.


My second older mango tree, and for the moment, my best producer! It is a cocktail tree, with 3 varieties, and this year is holding quite a lot of fruit, and still flowering...


Two types of sugar cane, growing nicely.


My best Eugenia Uniflora, flowering again (the first 2 blooms of the year, set no fruit, because of extremely strong wind, and some hail that damaged the flowers, and small fruits).


Another mango tree. This one always flowers like crazy, but sets very poorly, and most fruits come with some kind of deformation, and end up aborting before ripening... (this year is the last chance for it to deliver me some good fruit, or next year, will be topworked, or replaced by something else...).




My Hass avocado, doing his job, nicely as usual.


My peanut plants flowering.






My Solanum robustum, growing nicely.


One of my papayas that survived a fire early this year.


And one of my Dwarf Brasilian, with a small bunch to be harvested in next winter...

Hi Ondrej! Plants were received already! Everithing was in good condition, and super well packed!
Thank you very much!

I found this one today, and I'm not sure of it's identification!
Can any of the experts help, with it?





















Thanks.