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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Muntingia calabura
« on: August 01, 2012, 04:48:11 PM »
Every day I walk past 5 of these when walking the dogs and always marvel at the amount of fruit ( almost year round ) They are probably the most productive fruit trees I know and really nice to nibble on ...
After trying , just for fun , numerous times and unsuccessful to reproduce them from seeds and also finding almost no volunteer seedlings , I am starting to believe these seeds have to pas the digestive system of a bird or so to be able to germinate......????
The fruits here are very sweet and one centimeter diameter , if they could be improved to double that size everybody should grow one...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« on: July 31, 2012, 03:34:00 PM »
To Floridagreenman :  Also in this group, are those Mangos grown in places like Peru and Mexico that are picked a month before they
are mature, then refrigerated, hot dipped according to USDA requirements and sold here in Florida and elsewhere
in the US for 50cts to $1. The vast majority of these are HORRIBLE 

You should try the same fruits ripened on the trees here !!!!

My list :

Temperate fruits:

The good old fashion white peaches my grandma used to grow back home in Belgium
Pears idem as above
Plum ' Reine Claude '
Cherries
The strawberries I used to grow back home

Tropical fruit :

Durion and Chempedak
Marang and Mangosteen
Litchee
Mango
Several Eugenias , Myrciarias and Plinia edulis

Since there is still a lot of fruits that I have not tasted yet , this list may change over the years.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Macomba and Mangosteen
« on: July 30, 2012, 11:19:21 AM »
Oscar , are you letting your pataxte growing or do you top them ?

Great looking plants Tropicdude , 2 dollars for a mangosteen , what a deal !!!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Quiz: Can you guess my name 2?
« on: July 30, 2012, 10:44:46 AM »
Quote from: jez251 on July 30, 2012, 09:28:33 AM
Easy...

Chlorophora tinctoria !

Jaime

If that's what it is Jaime , I have never noticed this tree around here . ( Puerto Vallarta area , Mexico )
I was joking about the cuttings Sergio !

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Quiz: Can you guess my name 2?
« on: July 29, 2012, 08:31:07 PM »
OK Sergio , give us a break , doesn't look like Soren's and would be way too fast....it is a mulberry type ...right ....anyway , you can send me cuttings the end of August when I am in Belgium ..LOL

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can you ID this ? A Baobab maybe ?
« on: July 28, 2012, 08:22:38 PM »



Sorry here's the pic.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Can you ID this ? A Baobab maybe ?
« on: July 28, 2012, 08:21:14 PM »
I have the bad habit of planting every seed that comes in my path and not always marking the pot or nursery bag , most of the time I remember....but this one no idea...

The reason I mentioned a Baobab is that it came up in a planter where I planted baobab seeds a long time ago.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Quiz: Can you guess my name 2?
« on: July 28, 2012, 07:59:34 PM »
Some type of mulberry maybe ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Scent of Mammea Americana is simply divine...
« on: July 28, 2012, 07:56:02 PM »
This reminds me to check the local trees ..
And to Har : something similar happened at the orchard with and excellent fast bearing avocado hybrid , not even mentioning other grafted seedlings that were mowed down with the grass cutter...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulching Fruit Trees
« on: July 28, 2012, 07:38:05 PM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on July 28, 2012, 04:50:03 PM
Btw, we buy agave syrup here as a sweetener. It is very good tasting. Is that made from same agave as is used for making tequila? Is the agave syrup a by product of the manufacturing of tequila?

Not sure Oscar , but I don't think it is from the same plant ( the blue agave ) Lots of different agave growing here...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone growing Eugenia reinwardtiana??
« on: July 28, 2012, 03:44:28 PM »
My biggest plant ( seeds from Australia ) is 1,5 meter tall and wide , produces in abundance over several months , fruits are not bad at all when they fall by them self , not before .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Getting Jackfruit latex off of things
« on: July 28, 2012, 02:59:12 PM »
Almost no latex left when the fruit is very ripe .
I know it is not the best/healthiest thing to use but thinner works perfectly , I wash my hands and knife a few times when I am done...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulching Fruit Trees
« on: July 28, 2012, 02:51:42 PM »
The only mulch that is available and free here is the left overs from processing the agave plant to make Tequila , my idea is to cover the whole orchard with it to keep humidity in the ground and maybe keep the weeds a little under control . This mulch has a sweet sugary smell ( maybe it is sweet but I am not gonna taste it ) . If there are sugars in it , how would this affect the soil and plants ????? I did a small part as a test , so far nothing negative happened besides some white fungus growing here and there , will take a pic and post later....

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Moringa oleifera - tips?
« on: July 28, 2012, 02:25:30 PM »
I have one in the ground for a few years now , not doing well due to too much shade , would transplanting kill the tree ?
Was never successful with cuttings and seeds , probably too much water...I'll never learn....

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: hand me down Garcinia hombroniana
« on: July 26, 2012, 09:18:46 PM »



Another G. hombroniana collected in Lancetilla , Honduras.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My trip to Belize
« on: July 26, 2012, 08:53:11 PM »
Not sure if anybody id'd the last pic , I did not go trough all the replies , to me this looks like a Tabernaemontana , psychoactive additive to Ayahuasca . Also used in combination with Virola .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grumichama
« on: July 26, 2012, 08:00:27 PM »
You must be doing something right Mike !!!!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Another El Dorado in the shape of a Pouteria
« on: July 26, 2012, 07:46:16 PM »







These are wild Canistels ( leaves removed for the pics ) growing right next to my house . Iguanas love them and do a good job cleaning the seeds , ready for me to plant ...pics taken today 26/7/12

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lemon / Yellow strawberry guava
« on: July 26, 2012, 06:58:49 PM »
OK , got it , now I'll have to find the tree to check the leaves . A local old timer brought the fruit for me to propagate it . Thanks for the info guys.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lemon / Yellow strawberry guava
« on: July 26, 2012, 05:33:49 PM »
The seeds are really very tiny , neglect-able when eating the fruit , one of the best guavas I had so far.
I have them on my list as Psidium littorale ????

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lemon / Yellow strawberry guava
« on: July 26, 2012, 03:26:12 PM »
Can anybody give me the correct scientific name of this one , pulp is yellow .
There is a round 1 " and a pear shaped one , are they the same .....

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mexican Rheedia/Garcinia?
« on: July 26, 2012, 03:08:26 PM »
Quote from: Tomas on July 25, 2012, 10:44:08 PM
Hi Richard,

Glad to hear that Mexican Garcinia has reached your corner of the world too. If that plant could speak it would say "Veni, vidi, vici".

Tomas

Too bad I didn't keep track of all the seeds I mailed out over the years , but they are growing in all continents except Antarctica

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grumichama
« on: July 24, 2012, 08:32:51 PM »
The E. itaguahensis also fruits a lot faster and a lot smaller , started to fruit this year at 50 cm tall , just a few fruits though and the birds got them....so I cannot comment about the taste.
Now waiting for the copacabana , not holding my breath according to Harri and Marco's comments , but then again , Marco told me the neonitida was his favorite Eugenia and for me it is way down the list.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mexican Rheedia/Garcinia?
« on: July 24, 2012, 08:19:26 PM »
It would be great to be there in Santa Cruz when they have the fruit festival , their president is kicking Coca Cola out of the country which is a good example for the rest of the world , but....unless he is gonna make his own using the original ingredients....I really don't trust his " good " intentions , and how am I gonna make a Cuba Libre when I am there....

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seedling, Caribou Abiu, Pouteria caimito, flowering only 4 ft tall!
« on: July 24, 2012, 08:04:26 PM »
Mike T ,
 
They love being pruned .  Can you tell me more about this pruning ?

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