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A question about Psidium cauliflorum: can anyone describe the taste of its fruit? I found the botanical description, but nothing about its taste.
Not always true, but if the sellers don't mention the taste, it probably isn't any good.

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Received, thank you

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Wait until the roots will keep the soil together, push the sides in a bit, should slide out easily. If the root ball falls apart, it should have stayed in the pot longer. The hard part is finding pots to move up to. From 4x14 treepot I go to 5 gallon round pots.

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https://www.facebook.com/reel/321086883886266 This shows the color from different angles.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WANTED~ Jacaratia mexicana maroon
« on: January 11, 2024, 01:37:17 PM »
Seeds don't need a phytosanitary certificate, just a small lots permit.

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I tried some wild ones. Tasted awful, all skin and no flesh, very tannic. The main hybrid is "Roger's red". It's a riparian species.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: What variety of apple are these?
« on: January 09, 2024, 03:20:57 PM »
I googled it:

Rockit Apples are a mix between a Gala and Gala Splendor apple. They were created without the use of GMOs. They are bright yellow as the base color but then have dark and light red blush overtop. They also have a light tan and white lenticels covering the skin as well.

https://www.knowyourproduce.com/rockit-apples/

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Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles / Re: Plant ID
« on: January 09, 2024, 11:55:29 AM »
Russelia sarmentosa

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this lucuma, canistel, or … ?
« on: January 09, 2024, 11:32:29 AM »
Very little chance you'd find lucuma in a shop. Looks like canistel. I wouldn't graft lucuma onto canistel, since lucuma would be a good rootstock, just a bit hard to find.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Evaluation of Shipped Mango Tree
« on: January 04, 2024, 04:29:45 PM »
Looks like a failed graft. Does yours have a graft union?

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Probably the cold. I got a Pereskia grandiflora that's been losing all its leaves and looking terrible from the cold. And some seedlings of it that died back sooner. The leaves basically melted.

Did you try the leaves Ryan? I heard they were good on bleo. I tried the fruit of grandiflora. Bad. Slimy, not sweet, kinda salty iirc.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Plant ID
« on: December 24, 2023, 11:14:37 AM »
Maybe miracle fruit.

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Mine are healthy, but they're the non-wavy-leaf ones. It's a bit suspicious tbh, they look like a different species. They look like E. myrcianthes, with more elongated leaves, and more silvery new growth. They had some dieback when young until I put them all in full sun, no issues since. I think they want full sun basically from the time they sprout.

Hi Nate,

You aren’t the only one that said theirs did better under full sun. https://m.facebook.com/search_results/?q=Eugenia+beaurepairiana+Wavy Also in this discussion is the information that there are 2 vars of this species, one with a wavy leaf called rugosa and a regular leaf variety.
Yeah that was me lol. At first it was just a few of them, but the ones I tried to baby by putting in the shade did worse. They really wilt on hot summer days, but no damage.

Idk, I hope mine are the real deal, but they really don't look like the same species as what y'all have been posting. Sorry, not sure how to resize the image:


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Mine are healthy, but they're the non-wavy-leaf ones. It's a bit suspicious tbh, they look like a different species. They look like E. myrcianthes, with more elongated leaves, and more silvery new growth. They had some dieback when young until I put them all in full sun, no issues since. I think they want full sun basically from the time they sprout.

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This one? IIRC there's two named after Rio Parnaiba. I believe the other one has narrow leaves. https://www.bellamytrees.com/seeds/p/eugenia-sp-murta-rio-parnaiba-germinated

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Kwai Mai Pink Lychee in canada
« on: December 02, 2023, 12:25:19 AM »
i saw that it can handle -10 temps so i ordered the plant online for $130
Where did you find this information? 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Are there dwarf loquats
« on: November 22, 2023, 12:55:53 AM »
Was yours grafted? My grafted ones try to fruit in 1 gallon pots, not even two feet tall.

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Thank you Miguel, the seeds arrived safely, no issues with the USDA Small Lots Permit. Two and a half weeks door to door.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bactris genus cold tolerance
« on: November 21, 2023, 06:41:48 PM »
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/

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: JoeHewitt!! Show us your place!
« on: November 21, 2023, 06:30:22 PM »
Part 3 is out for all those jabo addicts !!
thanks for sharing these epic videos
what a special place congrats to Joe and his Team makings dreams happen

Link please?  I didn't see it in a search.
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToVJNbJDNS4

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Starting a farm in Southern California
« on: November 21, 2023, 06:28:35 PM »
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.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Update?
« on: November 15, 2023, 12:30:33 PM »
Houston moves to 9b despite two 8b storms
The new maps are average annual lows for 1991-2020. IIRC those storms were more recent.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: For the love of concrete!!
« on: November 09, 2023, 12:03:00 PM »
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.

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