Tired of no fruiting Marula Trees because you only have male or female trees?
After a research I found finally the solution in an south african paper:
Seeds with 1 or 3 "eyes" as male. Seeds with 2 eyes are female!! Now we can choose the sex of ours trees, and even plant more females than males!!
FEMALE SEEDS
MALE SEEDS
I got this week 100 seeds of Marula, and was expecting a similar quantity of male and female seeds just by chance.
I noticed that I have not a single one with 1 "eye", no more than 20 female seeds...and about 50 male seeds...
Wait 20 + 50 is 70 not 100... Yes I got also:
FEMALE SEEDS?
The 4 eyes seeds is not mentioned anywhere I read, should I consider these as female seeds just because this way the total will be near even between males and females? Anyone knows?
Also I noticed that 1 and 3 eyes (odd numbers) are male seeds, so 2 and 4 are female??
Anyone knows if the number of eyes is related to the number os seedling emerging from a single seed?
Cheers
Carlos