New plants for South America

[TerraFrutisEcuador]

Check out these new plants we got!

https://youtu.be/WqWlLd7_5Zc

[cmichael258]

Congratulations. Hope they all grow and produce/

[TerraFrutisEcuador]

Congratulations. Hope they all grow and produce/

[Finca La Isla]

Where did you get that material?

[TerraFrutisEcuador]

Where did you get that material?

Hey Peter,

This all came from Excalibur Nursery in Florida

We also got some from you! I won’t be back to the nursery till July but here are some photos of when yours arrived with Tom.

[Finca La Isla]

Great, I hope you get a good result with that.  Young, grafted durians can be a challenge to bare-root and travel but I think that the way Tom did it by carrying the stuff instead of sending or mailing was the way to go.
Suerte!

[Felipe]

I wish you good luck!

For future introduction i recommend you rather importing seeds, at least some species, because seeds is less work, much cheaper and you will have higher success. Some plants you can keep as seedlings, because they won't take too many years to fruit and the fruit quality will be ok (ross zapote, caimito, jaboticaba, etc). But you could later also import budwood and use your seedlings as rootstock.

Other plants which are difficult to graft, or the scions are very perishable, i would also suggest to import the whole grafted plant (mamey, sapodilla, etc.). From my experience, I think regarding mamey and sapodilla maybe 1 of 12 scions imported from US did make it. If i had the chance i would have rather imported the plants.

[TerraFrutisEcuador]

I wish you good luck!

For future introduction i recommend you rather importing seeds, at least some species, because seeds is less work, much cheaper and you will have higher success. Some plants you can keep as seedlings, because they won't take too many years to fruit and the fruit quality will be ok (ross zapote, caimito, jaboticaba, etc). But you could later also import budwood and use your seedlings as rootstock.

Other plants which are difficult to graft, or the scions are very perishable, i would also suggest to import the whole grafted plant (mamey, sapodilla, etc.). From my experience, I think regarding mamey and sapodilla maybe 1 of 12 scions imported from US did make it. If i had the chance i would have rather imported the plants.

Yes, I agree although finding reliable sources of seed can be difficult at times and coordinating transportation. In Ecuador mail take 1-3 months to arrive thanks to customs.  We have already done a few trips with Marang, durian, Jaboticaba, Jackfruit, ross sapote, annonas, sapodilla, Black sapote, white sapote, and a few others. I’ll upload a foto of part of the farms layout for Marang and pedalai area.. I think I have it here..






And to see a recent batch of about 40 Jaboticaba see like 1:15 into this video https://youtu.be/dvX3MaRATDY

[lebmung]

Is that Toronche or chamburo?

Congratulations. Hope they all grow and produce/