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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Decaisnea fargesii in zone 9b?
« on: March 30, 2020, 06:15:59 AM »
Does anyone know if it can successfully grow Decaisnea fargesii (dead mans fingers) in zone 9b (soil pH 7-7.5)
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Amelanchier (serviceberry)
« on: March 29, 2020, 01:10:31 PM »
I would like to ask if anyone knows if its possible to grow and fruit amelanchier (serviceberry) in zone 9b or is it impossible due to the small amound of chill hours?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Wanted type A cold hardy Avocadoes (EU)
« on: March 21, 2020, 02:45:15 AM »
Hello, i want 2 type A avocadoes that have similar cold tolerance, or more than Bacon Avocado for cross pollination
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / pruning apricot tree
« on: March 10, 2020, 01:01:32 PM »
By mistake 7 years ago i planted my only two apricot trees in the most exposed area of my farm. I constandly have stong northen winds and the apricot being the first to bloom losses maybe 80% of its flowers and no bees visit it because of the strong winds. The tree is quite big as i will post tommorow and i get each year maybe 20-30 fruits. This year i tried a different pruning aproach living more central branches in case it helps to protect the flowers. Does anyone had a similar problem? and any suggestions on how to prune it next year?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / New plant ideas
« on: March 09, 2020, 12:15:44 PM »
I have a small seaside house at zone 10a. Its 20 m ( 60ft) from sea level and about 100 m ( 330 ft) from the sea. The ground is mostly rocky with some ft of soil. The problem is strong winds with seasalt. I am looking to replace a loquat tree with something else interesting that will cope with the conditions. The loquat tree did fine but the fruit usually gets burned by the salt only a few survive and its just not worth it. I also have had luck with avocado that despite some leaf burn due to salt is doing great. So i am looking for something that has resistance to drought, salt, high winds and is hardy to zone 10a.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Musa Dhusre banana
« on: March 09, 2020, 10:30:59 AM »
Does anyone have any info on the musa "Dhusre" banana? Appart from here i have not found any info about this variety
http://frosthartepalmen.de/index.php/online-store/view/productdetails/virtuemart_product_id/122/virtuemart_category_id/32
http://frosthartepalmen.de/index.php/online-store/view/productdetails/virtuemart_product_id/122/virtuemart_category_id/32
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / planting new plants
« on: March 07, 2020, 02:21:03 AM »
I am about to plant some new plants i bought last fall and i am not familiar with any of those so i dont know if i am making a mistake with the location i have selected for them. The plants i have are 2 lucuma, 2 white sapotes, 2 asimina triloba, 1 yuzu, and some strawberry and lemon guavas. The two locations i am thinking of are
Both are fully protected from wind and the four holes have southern exposure while the other 3 northen and both receive full sunlight with the southern exposure location receiving way more sunlight. Temps in the summer are around 35°C (95°F) with maximum recorded temp the last 5 years 40°C (105°F)
The other option is to find spots in the tree canopy i have
Both are fully protected from wind and the four holes have southern exposure while the other 3 northen and both receive full sunlight with the southern exposure location receiving way more sunlight. Temps in the summer are around 35°C (95°F) with maximum recorded temp the last 5 years 40°C (105°F)
The other option is to find spots in the tree canopy i have
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Huk Kam 흑 감 (blue persimmon)
« on: November 28, 2019, 02:49:58 PM »
Is anyone familiar with this persimmon? i have seen it for sale in one nursery and i am really interested in buying it. I cant find a lot of info on this variety, only that its astrigent, from Korea and it has blue (black) skin. Does anyone know if it is indeed blue skinned and how does the color change with temps? (for example apples are less red in hotter climates).
Here the image the nursery has
Here the image the nursery has
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Citrus General Discussion / How to get rid of this?
« on: November 26, 2019, 08:56:33 AM »
Two of my citrus trees have this in their inner branches and i cant get rid of it. Its probably something common, but does anyone know what is it and how to get rid of it?
Thanks
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Vivai Torre (plant nursery)
« on: November 14, 2019, 02:26:26 PM »
Hello, has anyone had any experience with this plant nursery in Italy? And has anyone outside Italy ever purchased from them? Here is the link of the nursery http://www.torrevivai.com/
Thanks
Thanks
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / black sapote question
« on: October 10, 2019, 07:08:22 AM »
I really want to grow and have black sapote fruits but my climate is a little too cold for it. I was wandering if its able to fruit indoors near a large window in a 220lt barrel. Does it need cross pollination? or insect pollination? I am planing to keep it indoors all year
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / wanted white sapote "suebelle" plant EU only
« on: October 04, 2019, 05:28:52 PM »
I am looking for white sapote (casimiroa edulis) variety Suebelle only.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / banana id?
« on: October 03, 2019, 01:30:23 AM »
It was sold to me as musa veluntina but from all the photos i have seen musa veluntina does not appear to have any red stripes on the leafes. Also my plant doesnt seem to grow taller even though it produces many leafes maybe one every 6 days
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / problem with new bananas...
« on: October 02, 2019, 09:16:57 AM »
The the above pics are from two plants i have for about 2 months. This are the second leafes that are appearing. For some reason they seem to tear appart and mix with the next upcoming leafes.... Has anyone had this problem? what can i do to fix them?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / how cold hardy are these guavas?
« on: October 01, 2019, 03:29:11 AM »
Does anyone know the cold hardiness of the following compared to the strawberry guavas and the common guavas?
Psidium Friedrichsthalium
Psidium Guineense
Psidium rufum
Psidium Friedrichsthalium
Psidium Guineense
Psidium rufum
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / red love apples
« on: September 12, 2019, 06:20:10 AM »
Hello, is anyone growing red love apples in low chill climate? if yes what is your experience on flowering and fruiting in areas where other apple varieties do not grow so well
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / ID ?
« on: August 29, 2019, 01:07:35 AM »
Hello, one friend gifted me this plant last year! the label writes asimina triloba sunflower (with a picture of a papaya). I dont know much of asimina trilobas (pawpaw) but i have two other plants that i have and they look very different from that. This one has smaller leafes that are velvety like in texture. If anyone knows what this is i would be gratefull
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / planting subtropical garden
« on: August 26, 2019, 10:38:11 AM »
Hello, this and the following year i will plant a small part of my garden (south facing and wind protected slope) with subtropical trees with no protection in the winter (only the first year) the minimum temp last winter which was a cold one was for 2 days night temp of 26°F and daytime 34°F all the other usual winter days temps stay above 45°F.
So far my list considers of
Pummelo (already planted 3 different unknown varieties)
Strawberry guava (already planted)
Various bananas
guabiju
lemon guava
puteria lucuma la molina
white sapote (Mcdill)
white sapote (Dade)
wooly leafed sapote ( Casimiroa Tetrameria)
If anyone here thinks of anything else that can survive or thinks that anything of this list isnt able to survive please sent.
PS my soil is kind of Alkaline with pH 7-7.5 and not so rich in nutrients (for the bananas i have found a special ideal place)
So far my list considers of
Pummelo (already planted 3 different unknown varieties)
Strawberry guava (already planted)
Various bananas
guabiju
lemon guava
puteria lucuma la molina
white sapote (Mcdill)
white sapote (Dade)
wooly leafed sapote ( Casimiroa Tetrameria)
If anyone here thinks of anything else that can survive or thinks that anything of this list isnt able to survive please sent.
PS my soil is kind of Alkaline with pH 7-7.5 and not so rich in nutrients (for the bananas i have found a special ideal place)
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / pepino not flowering or fruiting
« on: August 23, 2019, 03:16:32 AM »
my pepino as you can see above was bought at January and has since grown a lot but so far doesnt seem to produce any flowers or fruits. So far some days ago i saw the first cluster of a few flowers forming as you can see. But the plant doesnt seem to want to produce more. The temps are always in the range or 22°C - 37°C (71 - 99 °F) and plant seems happy. There is a strong possibility i am doing something terribly wrong as i have no idea how to grow this plant
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / wanted banana pups Namwah, Rajahpuri, Blue java (ice cream) (Europe)
« on: August 22, 2019, 04:44:13 AM »
Hello i am looking for cold hardy banana pups for zone 9b in Greece 
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