The Tropical Fruit Forum

Was yours grafted? My grafted ones try to fruit in 1 gallon pots, not even two feet tall.

Anyone growing these palms on the mainland?  Interested in attempting Bactris ferruginea but have no idea if they would withstand our winters.  Not a whole lot of info out there on their ability to take cold, I did find some page saying that will not take even 32F.

I looked into that one a bit too. You probably found the same Palmtalk threads I did. With how passionate palm people are, I think the fact that nobody even in Florida seems to be growing it means it's probably not possible. Plus it's really spiny, and like 40 ft tall. IIRC FFF is growing Bactris setosa though, so that at last must have some cold tolerance.

Some nice pictures: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/48939-bactris-ferruginea/

Why is water such an issue down there? I looked up the city rates, and it's about the same pricing as in the Bay Area.

Please post your results Jeramyl.

It'd be cool to see a greenhouse built around a boulder. Or over a concrete cistern.

Kevin, I don't know how much insulation would do, since the subsurface ground is probably around 65. Especially as you get away from the edges into the center of the greenhouse. If anything, it might hurt once the greenhouse dips below 65. It'd be neat to have metal heat exchanging fins down into the ground below the slab. Maybe geotubes are just better? Or metal geotubes.

It was either 76 or 80. Also he posted in a pervipus discussion a couple weeks ago that he had 75+ varieties. Then during the giveaway he said someone was 1 number away from being correct after i had posted 75 and 81. So close but not close enought

"Some of you were" not "one of you was," so there had to be a guess on either side. That left: 6, 13, 16, 68, and 80.

It sounds like you already have an awesome helper, but your system might be more complicated than it needs to be. Why can't you put the drip on a timer, with the water turned on by solenoid valve? And maybe you could add some sprayers on a valve to overhead water the potted plants, that you'd only turn on when you're going to be away. Not as good as hand watering, but I bet you could make it work. The heat, could you not put it on some sort of smart controller that you can monitor on your phone? Or a smart thermometer to alert you when there's an issue? Regarding your sister not recognizing if there's an issue, other than underwatering, what issue could she need to recognize if we're talking about a few weeks? As long as my plants are getting watered, there's not too much that could happen in a few weeks of me being gone. You could even put cameras in, so you could check remotely for issues.

The way you describe it, like a toddler, needing constant supervision, it sounds like you may be in an abusive relationship with your plants. Somewhat joking, but somewhat serious. And if you are injured and off your feet for weeks or months, how much time each day will it take your family to take care of things, and will you be jeopardizing your recovery trying to move around in there doing things yourself when you should be in bed? I'm sorry to get so serious, but I think anything you can do now to make it more on autopilot is worth doing.

Personally, I just don't leave for more than a few days in the summer, or a week in the winter. I know it's a labor of love for me, but I can't expect other people to care. Last couple trips I went on I came back to plants looking like they would've died if I'd been a few hours longer. But once I get a permanent place, I hope to get things automated like I preach.

$50 doesn't sound bad, for two 30 minute visits. If it takes 15 minutes to get there, that's two hours total. And that gas costs money, etc.

And Ryan, I love that your friend is named Oatmeal. It'd be awesome if he found a girl named Raisin.

Per packet maximum of 10 grams OR 50 seeds per packet (whichever is more). So for small seeds it can be well over 50 seeds. 50 packets per package.

Mine keeps putting out flowers like your number 1. I'm debating chopping it down. Are both those flowers on the same plant? It doesn't seem to me like the incomplete flowers are male, just missing the sexual parts. I read tomatoes can do that under the wrong conditions... idk. It might be a good rootstock for tomatoes.

Make sure they're hot and humid.

Well, I am really in the middle of Atlantic... in an island. More closer to Europe than US.

Can you (or anyone here) recomment a jaboticaba vendor operating in Europe ?

https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=48637.msg504728#msg504728

that was my 1st fresh pawpaw custardy texture reminded me of its related cherimoya but softer the fruit had this almost flan taste going on I really enjoyed would make great ice cream i bet.  I put all the seeds I got out of the fruits in the fridge ill plant them in a month or so.  Crazy to think that pawpaw are the biggest native fruit to north America and almost went extinct during world war 2.
In aaronn message he states that planting in the spring maybe be the best bet due to pawpaw roots may not grow much during winter dormancy.  I was reading the roots are sensitive.  I like that Deer dont like Pawpaw either and you can plant them close 5ft spacing to emulate how they grow in the wild.  Im thinlking about planting a row now and planting another row in spring to compare.

You could just plant the seeds now and let nature do the stratification. That's the point of it after all, to postpone germination until spring.

Best bet would be to search your email and list all the psidiums you've bought. #1 and 2 looks like a P. guavaja or close, #3 and 4 looks like catley, robusta, longipetiolata. Maybe P. myrtoides/eugeniaefolia? I remember he had some of those for cheap. They could be rare species too though no doubt. I don't see much info on Psidium spp Goiaba Da Amazônia, but I'd guess it's a P. guavaja, so could be #1 and 2.