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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Trade matisia seed
« on: September 05, 2022, 05:31:25 PM »
My tree made its first fruit and got taste it today. The flavor was good like sweet pumpkin and the flesh is very juicy. There were 5 seeds but 4 of them were aborted, only one seed is plump. This is a selected variety from Frankie's nursery called "dulce". Open to trades, mostly looking for species of plinia, myrciaria, and garcinia. The tree has a few more fruits that will be ready soon so I may have more of these to trade.

Aloha Zack







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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Relocating achacha
« on: June 16, 2022, 04:02:11 AM »
Hi I have an achacha that I'd like to dig up and relocate to another place in my yard and would like to get any advice that will help the relocation be successful. The tree is about 7 years old, reason I'm moving it is because I stupidly planted it 8 feet away from a 40 foot royal palm. The royal palm drops huge fronds and seed pods that damage the achacha. It only had 4 leaves when I planted it in the ground and it's a miracle the achacha survived all these years under the palm. This last year my achacha took a few hard hits and some branches cracked at the main stem giving ants a place to enter the tree. I sprayed a sealer over the wounds which seems to have deterred the ants. Finally realized that the larger my achacha gets the more chance there is for it to get hit by the dropping palm fronds. Especially with the horizontal shape the tree is taking. At this point I'm convinced the best chance the tree has will be relocating it. My plan is to move the tree when there is wet weather expected sometime around October, in the beginning of our rainy season and the days are getting shorter. About 6 weeks before the removal I'll dig into the ground deep as I can with my mud gun in a circle around the tree about 2 feet from the trunk, and do it again at 3 weeks. That way the roots don't all have to be cut on the day of removal. Also was thinking I should prune the tree back about two thirds prior to moving it. I figure I'd need 3 friends to help pull the root ball up and help man handle it to the new hole. Then lots of water for the achacha while it gets used to its new home.  If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it. I'd be pretty bummed if I killed it durring the move but I think the tree is gonna take a direct hit one of these days and die anyway.

Aloha Zack


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