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We are selling all of our seed stock. I have been part of this group and the yahoo one prior for years and plan to continue participating, however we will no longer be making a business out of seeds. Please see our auction with 1kg of GA3 and the rest of our seed stock.

Thanks again for so many of you who have been loyal customers over the years.

-C

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261631601057

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Anybody knows if they are recalcitrant and take forever to germinate without GA3 treatment ?

I have read numerous studies that show most Annona seeds show their highest % of germination after 9-12mo of storage.  The A. spragui I started have yet to sprout.

Regards,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Annona blooming in 5 months?
« on: October 02, 2013, 08:55:08 AM »
So many of you know we have a seed business and regularly germinate the seeds to check viability.

I was going through my plants to update my free plants listing and knocked something off one of the Pond Apples (Annona glabra).  Sure enough, it was a bloom!  This plant was planted 5/11, which makes it less than 5 months old!  It isn't even 1ft tall.

A. glabra is usually used for rootstock, but what do you all think?  Is this unusual?  I'll post a pic later.

Regards,
Carraig

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Thanks gents!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: FREE Plants (just pay shipping)
« on: September 23, 2013, 02:48:57 PM »
PMs replied to.  The passionfruit is gone, still have some A. glabra and P. cattleianum (lemon and strawberry both) available.

Thanks,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Trade: Aframomum sp. - large fruits
« on: September 21, 2013, 08:46:21 AM »
Interesting, I wonder what the huge variation is in germination times. 

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Updated list, it's late in the year and I need to move plants.  Prices reduced on most.

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I am getting too many seedlings and it's getting too close to fall.  These are available to registered forumites for free.  Just pay shipping.

Strawberry and Lemon Guava (Psidium cattleianum)
Yellow Passionfruit (Passifloria edulis var flavicarpa)
Pond Apples (Annona glabra) - 2 avail
Orange-fleshed Jackfruit from Paul Recher's travels in Malaysia (2 avail)
'Pixwell' Gooseberry rooted (in-pot) cuttings (3 avail)
Soursop (Annona muricata)

Thanks,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Trade: Aframomum sp. - large fruits
« on: September 20, 2013, 05:49:48 PM »
Soren!

I planted the seeds you sent 134 days ago, and they are JUST now pushing roots.  The first two showed roots today.  Now I wonder how long until they push growth above the soil line.

Thanks again,
Carraig

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Seeds arrived today, thanks!

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Knowing what it costs to import Moringa seeds, I cannot see how some of the websites can justify charging 50 cents per seed for PKM-1.  PKM 1 is the primary cultivar grown commercially in India and doesn't cost significantly more than wild-type Moringa.

We are eBay's largest seller of Moringa seeds (regular and PKM-1) with nearly 1000 feedback that is 100% positive.  I have dealt with many of you here on the forums in trades of seeds and plants from our germination trials.

100 PKM seeds for $12 (including shipping in padded envelope) to anybody on the forum.  Just send an email to ambersedibles@gmail.com with your name, address, and forum username.

Thanks,
Carraig

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Gone!  That was fast!

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I have two Hiccup Nut trees, Combretum brachyeosum, that I would like to offer here free.  Just pay shipping.  They are growing fast, already 18in or so, and look great.  If there are multiple takers, we'll limit it to 1 ea.  Shipping to continental US is $6-7ish, and to HI and PR is $8-9ish.  If only one taker, both can be shipped for about $8.

Will post pics when I get home.

Regards,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Zizyphus rugosa seeds
« on: September 01, 2013, 02:12:50 AM »
Roy,

Thanks for the link so the pic.  All the ones I've grown (Z. jujuba, Z. mucronata, Z. spina-crista, Z. joazeiro, Z. mauritania) have had a very distinct leaf vein pattern that this one doesn't share.

-C

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Tropical Fruit Online Library / Re: Monkey Orange book
« on: August 28, 2013, 07:26:46 AM »
We aren't warm enough to grow this to maturity, but we usually have seeds and seedlings available of various Monkey Orange species.

Depending on the season we have:
Strychnos spinosa
Strychnos cucculoides
Strychnos madagascariensis
Strychnos pungens

Let me know if I can help.

Regards,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Australian Finger Lime Culture
« on: August 19, 2013, 02:41:46 AM »
It may vary by climate, but when we lived in Texas we had about 15 fingerlimes fruiting in 10g pots.  They were all the green variety, all on trifoliate rootstock, and they ONLY fruited in the shade.  We could not get them to bloom in full sun, however they did well in the shade of the oak trees.  They also only fruited when well watered, though they tolerated drought well if fruit isn't a concern.

Regards,
Carraig

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Great price!

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Yes, I have added them to the list.  They are small but growing fast and will quickly be too big for the little pots I start everything in.  They seem like very hardy growers.

Regards,
Carraig

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Were Recher's jackfruit particularly good?

He noted that the orange fleshed variety isn't common in the markets there and gave me the impression it is a 'premium' type of Jackfruit.  Paul isn't the type to collect substandard fruit.

Regards,
Carraig

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Those are coming up now and could probably be shipped, but unfortunately we cannot ship internationally.  It is extremely expensive!

I might be willing to try, but I'd have to charge you actual shipping costs and cannot be held liable if your customs department confiscates the seedlings.  Email me your address and I'll email you a quote.

Regards,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Salacca wallichiana - Birth Of a Child!
« on: August 06, 2013, 12:00:35 AM »
As part of our business of selling seeds, we conduct countless germination tests.  No seed germinates like Salacca sp so I thought I'd capture it on a film strip to show off.

1 - Perfectly circular 'cap' opens on the end of the seed.

2 - Thick appendage emerges approx 1/2cm-1cm from seed that remains perfectly blunt on the end.

3 - Tap root emerges from exact middle of blunt end but only grows approx 1/2cm before temporarily stopping.

4 - Side roots (stability roots?) form from the side of the appendage (missed focus, sorry).

5 - Once side roots get to be about 1/2cm, the tap root takes off very quickly.  In this pic, the side root can be seen going straight down from the appendage.  It's a little hard to see.



Enjoy,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Exciting Germinations and a New Trick!
« on: July 24, 2013, 10:39:03 PM »
So a couple things... 

I took Paul up on his offer to send seeds during his travels in Malaysia.  Even though they were packed very well and a lot of care was obviously put into shipping them, the extended travels through the mail system didn't seem to treat them very well.  Regardless, I cleaned them up, soaked them, and planted them using the paper towel method.  With the exception of the Dwarf Longons, these were all new varieties to me.

The BIG NEWS to me was there is something that smells worse than durian.  I cannot handle the smell of durian!  But should you ever wish to torture your worst enemy, send them some rotten Jengkol (Archidendron pauciflorum) seeds.  Most of those arrived rotten and I about passed out cleaning them out looking for good ones.  Fortunately they weren't all rotten and I was able to successfully germinate my first ever Jengkol.

Mangifera pentandra - successful!
Salacca wallichiana - successful! (And I had enough seeds to conduct side by side germination test.  A 24hr soak in 50% water, 50% HP solution will increase speed of germination, though reliably germinated without treatment)
Euphoria longana - Dwarf sub sp - successful! (super excited about these for application in container culture)


New Topic...Cuttings...

For the first time I decided to stick a Moringa cutting in water to see if it'd root (these are small cuttings off of my seedlings).  I stuck it in a glass where I was trying to root Gooseberries and Crossberries (Grewia occidentalis).  The cuttings in the water with the Moringa sprouted roots over a week faster than the glass that didn't have the Moringa in the water.  None of the cuttings were treated with root stimulant and all were originally started on the same day.

Anybody experience anything like this?

Sorry for the book  :P

-C

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Thanks Stephen and Dave, I appreciate the positive feedback.

Regards,
Carraig

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ceropegia meyeri bloomed!
« on: July 01, 2013, 10:26:03 AM »
Awesome Carraig, that is pretty incredible to flower so soon!  Please take a pic of the bloom when it opens.

Ethan.  That is the open flower.  If you google "Ceropegia meyeri flower" on images.google.com you'll see that this is the mature flower.  I have two mature flowers, but the entire vine (what there is of the little thing right now) is covered in small blooms that haven't matured yet.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Ceropegia meyeri bloomed!
« on: June 30, 2013, 11:17:43 PM »
So this year I was able to get my hands on a small lot of fresh Ceropegia meyeri seeds.  These are also known as Bushman's Pipe or Vining Moringa, and the leaves are eaten like spinach by the indigenous population.  I conducted a germination test like usual, and had 100% germination rate which is very unusual for the African seeds as they tend to be a bit picky with their germination triggers.

Anyway, the seeds sold so fast and I have no idea if they'll be available again so I kept 4 of the seedlings for myself.  I haven't been very proactive about getting them transplanted and moved to a better location.  They are still growing like crazy, still green and stress free, and still in their original 2" pots so I wasn't in a rush.

Today I was moving the trays around and look what I found!  These were planted 3/22/13 and are in their original 2" pot.  Another variety, Ceropegia stapeliformis, is merely an inch tall after the same time period.  Not sure what I'm doing, but I like the results!

And for those who are curious, these leaves taste WAY better than fresh Moringa to me.  I like Moringa, but it has a stronger taste and doesn't mix as well with other salad greens.  Vining Moringa tastes like mild baby spinach...almost exactly.  If fed to a stranger, they would believe it to be normal salad makings because it doesn't have the bite that moringa does.



Woohoo!   ;D

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