Wow its fitting that you share a name that fruit looks amazing!!!
You inspire me that even a hobby fruit grower can with enough time and hard work achieve amazing things:)
Seems you may become abit of a fruit celebrity
Hopefully I can emulate you and one day start on the road to a better monkey orange.
The seeds you sent me are already popping out roots! very excited for your Boca Chewy:D
Those S.pungens have they arrived at you yet?
Seems slow even for S.A post so I hope I packed it right! Iv got more if need to resend.
The A.Senegalensis and S.spinosa is sent so should reach you soon.
How did you learn this art of breeding a better fruit tree. I would love to learn how beyond the bare basics. Is it even possible for someone with no botanical degree just enthusiasm, time and space:)
i have received your package today, soaking the seed now. How is the Big Eyes annona doing, did it rooted in transit? pm your address again so I can send you the cold strain Boca orange snob no latex jackfruit, you & Marcell in Pretoria can develops your own S. african variety of jAckfruit.
My degrees are in Economic/Accounting& Botany. My Botany degree was corn & soybean craps that useless for me except I can speak pig Latin in Minnesota. They did not give me any advantage in combat, the fact knowing to much book smart did not give this old fart a lot of gas to past on. Ignorance is bliss. Its my Martial art & Military background that gave me the edge. Kill everything that is not useful, do not fall in love with each creation. Dont listen to other, trust yourself, believe in yourself. When you fail, give up run & retreat, regroup start over. Snip every knowledge you can get but do not let your enemies know your strenght; show them your weakness. When I breed I hunt down unknown entity rather than known entity that everyone already have. Observe how each tree face adverse by dunking the plant in water for a week & watch how many died, survivor put them in a drought phase and see how many died, survivor put them in a walking freezer at your gas station or a friend who own a grocery & see how many died in 15 minutes, from that you now have seedlings to plant out for field trial. Breeding is like equity trading, a random walk with certain parameters you escort it toward a common objective, you dont always get it perfect but what is the end result is better than before; this than become the foundation of your breeding discipline.
Since breeding is a stochastic walk, you dont need to come up with complex flo chart to cross a with b and c with d. I just select whatever meet my ying yang philosophy; KISS keep it simple stupid is the golden law I follow through war & peace. There are no correct path to achieving one objective, but the fluid motion of doing something rather than nothing will lead you down the wrong path.
Ok I am not going to pretend to spin yarn of wisdom to fog your mind, just Do not trust any expert blindly including this old farts, always have the curiosity to ask a stupid & open to learn new thing, mistake made, accept it & move on. I have 99% failure & only 1% success, to achieve more than the average you just need to trial more than the average every time and at all time to hit the lottery! If you can pollinate
you are already a breeder. Hey its Viagra night, wife is calling of the wild, I can not ignore the breeding siren!