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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Anyone ever grown/tried Tzimbalo ?( Solanum Caripense)
« on: June 10, 2015, 03:33:06 AM »
Anyone have experience with this?
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don't worry Starling, we won't hold it against you, it's a common mistake made by newbies who are getting into tropical fruits!
Dagonfruit, unlike some cacti, are not desert-dwellers--they are from the jungle. I don't really think too much water will be an issue, provided that the veggies are happy, and not waterlogged also.
that's funny you say this...celeste has been one of the best performers for me in central FL...although it is not a premier variety, it's a solid selection, commonly found at nurseries...and I enjoy them thoroughly.
it's performance here in central FL is similar to brown turkey which is the most commonly planted type it seems...
when we get heavy rains they will split, and will become more susceptible to rotting...but I haven't seen a fig being sold in FL that doesn't do this when exposed to such conditions.
improved celeste is just like celeste but larger.
(lsu gold gets some of the poorest reviews I've heard from fig growers in my area, in terms of flavor....LSU purple is strongly favored here)Luc I have a few you might like...
Sbayi, Zumwalt, (like drier weather)
LSU improved celeste, and Orourke (can handle more humidity)
might be able to find a few other varieties...
some are cuttings only, some are rooted plants only.
Adam , due to the long transit time ( unless we use EMS - still 3 weeks ) I think cuttings would be best . Since I am a total novice I trust your judgment .
Make me an offer .
Thanks for answering so fast , I can show this to my wife and lower the pressure ....
Celeste will not do will for you if you live in a humid climate. It is also only an ok variety.
The best fig for you will be LSU gold. Very good quality yellow fig that handles humidity well and is very resistant to fungal attack/pests.
I have a dragon fruit in 5 gallon pot and am thinking about transplanting it to ground. The only space available is right by a south facing brick wall. Would having a dragon fruit planted close to the wall cause damage to it in the long run? How aggressive is dragon fruit root system and how close is too close? Thank you very very much!
Luc I have a few you might like...
Sbayi, Zumwalt, (like drier weather)
LSU improved celeste, and Orourke (can handle more humidity)
might be able to find a few other varieties...
some are cuttings only, some are rooted plants only.
Adam , due to the long transit time ( unless we use EMS - still 3 weeks ) I think cuttings would be best . Since I am a total novice I trust your judgment .
Make me an offer .
Thanks for answering so fast , I can show this to my wife and lower the pressure ....
I see that you've gotten lots of views, are working hard to answer private messages, and would like to express my interest.The postage price is just decided by size and weight Ansarac, I'll let you know when I've weighed them.
What is fair postage for a 'minimum order' of seeds, sent to the US?
In no particular order :
Avocado (hass.... That nutty flavor)
Persimmons (I could eat them until I drop dead)
Prickly pear (My mother used to tell me I'd make me constipated to stop me from stuffing myself)
Mangoes (I'm sad to admit that the best I've had so far are VP I don't get too many varieties here and Coconut Cream, Pickering, NDM and more and only exotic names to me)
And last but not least.... Cherimoya!!!!
Well, it's about 3 years that I'm toying with the idea of replacing the potting mix of my mango with some kind of gritty mix.
Partly, I'm not totally convinced that it may end well; I'm scared by the changing of my watering habits, and also i fear that the organic matter may lead to root rot during my long damp winter.
But even this way, i'm tempted, even more now that i have some plant that will never go in ground and since i have some spare rootstock that i can sacrifice to an experiment, I'm about to attempt.
Thing is, once I started to search for the materials, i realized that everything is even harder than it looks.
Firstly, the only material i have easily available is pine bark. I have looked for turface in Italy, and not only isn't available here, but also the word is meaningless in my language so i can even ask for a local substitute. Some people affirm that it can be substitute with akadama; now i don't know the price of turface in the US, but if i'm going to use akadama to fill the place that turface has in the gritty mix, i should probably sell a kidney to get enough cash to pay the material.
A this point i wonder if i can find a substitute for the substitute. And if someone knows if there's something that can take the place of akadama.
Also, granite isn't easy to find. But this seems easier to substitute, because pumice is easily available here.
Does anyone have recipes/idea about materials to produce some kind of potting soil for a long term growing of mangoes in pot?
Why not just use pearlite/vermiculite? It's better than anything else anyway and makes a perfect base for gritty mix.
Starling,
What's your recipe for the gritty mix?
Perlite + Pine bark + and ?
I had horrible results with turface + pine bark + granite, killed a few trees. At this time I'm very apprehensive about the gritty mix. In theory, the gritty mix allows you to water as much as you want, since it drains extremely well. My trees died despite thorough soaking every other day, when I removed them, I found the root balls to be rather dry.
Thanks,
Quandong/Quandong is also a name for numerous Australian Elaeocarpus.These are rainforest trees usually often with bright blue edible fruit.
have you been getting anymore fruit off your red jabo??1) Longkong duku langsat
2) Mangosteen
3) Cherimoya
4) Jaboticaba
5) Mango
Second poster with jaboticaba in top 5? Send this to Starling. He'll probably say you conspired to change their opinions. HAHA
Really it would be the 4th if u include me.
But seriously not even the 15yr olds on the forum are silly enough to dedicate a personal quote to bashing one of the best rare fruits...and one of the most active members on the forum!
I have heard about perlite and/or vermiculite. But I'm unsure if i should use them to replace granite or turface. Also, i have minor concern because i have heard that they may represent a minor health hazard (i think their dust may give problems, but I’m unsure where or when i did read that fact). Well, suggestion noted! Let's see what the other members say.
Well, it's about 3 years that I'm toying with the idea of replacing the potting mix of my mango with some kind of gritty mix.
Partly, I'm not totally convinced that it may end well; I'm scared by the changing of my watering habits, and also i fear that the organic matter may lead to root rot during my long damp winter.
But even this way, i'm tempted, even more now that i have some plant that will never go in ground and since i have some spare rootstock that i can sacrifice to an experiment, I'm about to attempt.
Thing is, once I started to search for the materials, i realized that everything is even harder than it looks.
Firstly, the only material i have easily available is pine bark. I have looked for turface in Italy, and not only isn't available here, but also the word is meaningless in my language so i can even ask for a local substitute. Some people affirm that it can be substitute with akadama; now i don't know the price of turface in the US, but if i'm going to use akadama to fill the place that turface has in the gritty mix, i should probably sell a kidney to get enough cash to pay the material.
A this point i wonder if i can find a substitute for the substitute. And if someone knows if there's something that can take the place of akadama.
Also, granite isn't easy to find. But this seems easier to substitute, because pumice is easily available here.
Does anyone have recipes/idea about materials to produce some kind of potting soil for a long term growing of mangoes in pot?
The best I've eaten this year came from a cutting that was apparently Thomson S-8. It was a bonus in a package I received but I'm pretty sure it's not an S-8. Super tasty, great colour.
It looks a bit like the highly valued skybury red which often has a neck and thicker flesh but not always.QuoteNot sure of the exact variety. Picked it up at the local nursery labeled as a Bisexual Red. Great flavour and never a lot of seeds. Makes a great Green Papaya Salad too. As for the Purple Haze, it's probably twice the size of any of the others from the same plant but it was the last for the seasons, so it had the plant to itself.
Definitely not the common red bisex, shape is wrong. Looks like a good one whatever it is.
It looks like a beauty.My last dragonfruit of the season is in the fridge and it is the reliable colombian red.The best I ate this season was condor, although a few others came close and bigger yellows were at least as good as condor for flavor alone.Hang on I forgot about the H.ocamponis which really good also.
I have made so many mistakes it is hard to remember them all.Not clipping the ducks wings so they can fly into the vegie patch and party all day was a costly error. They also made it into the forbidden zone where my good seedlings are.Those that didn't get eaten had their identity tags pulled out and some pots were up ended.A 25lb goanna looking for duck eggs ran through the pot plants when I was chasing it with pots flying everywhere.My stupid geese go into a honkathon when a palm leaf falls.Late night honking that I didn't investigate meant a 17ft amethyst python ate a goose and a duck when I spotted it in the morning.My rambutans were not quite changing color so I left the net off.A flock of 20 rainbow Lorikeets greeted me when I came home with gleeful screeching as they ate the last rambutans.I didn't chop the top off my fruiting monthong because the coming cyclone would be 50 miles away.It snapped off at the base.
I could go on with fertilizer incidents,taxonomic blunders,wildlife issues and other bundles.