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I usually start mine in a plastic zip lock bag with a paper towel then move into a peat, perlite, pine fine mix.
Do you move it after it is sprouted? or just after it shows roots?

Yup when I see it sprout I get it into a pot.

Ive had great success with this method.
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I usually start mine in a plastic zip lock bag with a paper towel then move into a peat, perlite, pine fine mix.
Do you move it after it is sprouted? or just after it shows roots?
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There are 2 genera of fruit flies with dozens of species with varying strategies, preferred fruits and levels of pestilence. Your mode of attack might need to be focussed. Attractant that gets only males might not help and they get fruit in mesh bags that touch the mesh. Guavas being a bag of live rice is not too appealing.
It takes effort but paper bags work. Big mesh bags that have plenty of fruit not touching the mesh can work also. If you are opting for chemical warfare a neonicotenoid can work like imidacloprid but there is a price to pay. Low vertebrate toxicity maybe but bees and any insects getting on flowers of even collateral trees can be killed.   
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Correction russell sweet is the with 'shouldered' foliage. Early in 2023 or maybe a little my brother received a few potted and neglected specimens between 4 and 6 ft high, around 7 years old but sickly. One he gave one to a friend and it bommed when planted and now has fruit on without a male. My stupid grafted dysphoric tree changed from female to male and I get no fruit now.
I always believe the ground is better but once around 12 inches high.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this passion fruit unique or common?
« Last post by Mike T on Today at 03:22:02 AM »
Its almost like we are in different passionfruit universes with the dozens of edulis and flavicarpa types here with different names, Convention wisdom in these parts says all flavicarpa are self fertile and no pure edulis is. The red and purple flavicarpas that fruit at different times of the year and multiple season types have some edulis in their lineage. This is even when they are as sweet and rich as the best yellow flavicarpas, have orange rather than yellow pulp and are big.Lilikoi are used here as rootstock as they are more resistant to the corky disease but when you accidently eat a rootstock fruit it is a confronting experience.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marang on Jackfruit
« Last post by TropicalFruitHunters on Today at 03:14:35 AM »
Hey Peter...here is an excellent video of the method that I used.  As you will see in the video, the bark is much thicker than the scion, so he needs to put something on top of the scion in order to be able to anchor it down.  I've seen others just scrap away the surrounding bark until it is lower than the scion allowing the cord to anchor the scion. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOVj_elNqA

Mike...yeah, there were a few articles covering jack on marang.  However, the successful takes were not that great.  I was hoping the jack would fruit on the other branches, but according to my mother-in-law, it rarely fruited and when it did, they didn't enjoy the fruit.  Was sold to her as Daeng Surya, but ended up being something else entirely.  This is why I was using this particular tree for my experiment.  Nothing to lose.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hunt for the best Surinam Cherry
« Last post by Mike T on Today at 03:13:18 AM »
The papaya funk is known as nasturtium and the cure is an axe. Some yellow lines especially when grown in cooler areas have this taint quite pronounced. Long reds and solo lines have little of the funk. If you grew up on these types it just seems normal and not so offensive and there a cultural dimension. A mango that I or a SE Asian might think has a hydrocarbon taint a Floridian may say has a pleasant complexity.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone Have Ripe Avocados in December?
« Last post by Mike T on Today at 03:05:47 AM »
We have lots in December here and in fact in every month
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marang on Jackfruit
« Last post by Mike T on Today at 03:04:25 AM »
Jackfruit onto marang successful? I would not have expected that. I have seen a paper where philipine 'guns' grafted jack on jack, chempa on jack and marang on jack and if I recall right success rates were roughly 50%, 40% and 0% in the medium term for survival. A.elastacus might be a better match. You never know, when exploring the outer boundaries of compatibility you might stumble across something. There are 2 species known as marang in borneo according to the genetic work and this aligns with the indigenous view where separate names are given to the 2 forms. The big variation in them is therefore more than just wild and domesticated or philipines and borneo types.
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We will restock on a lot of mangos soon! Sorry about that
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