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Just now i found out that i won. The last three days i have been without a laptop due to the adapter malfunctioning.

Kudos to Jabo45 and HapaJoe for making this forum more fun with competitions like these.

I have run comps myself on another forum and hope to do the same here maybe next year. I aint goin back to school tho. Unless it's the school of hard knocks.

This will put a spring in my step for the last month of winter for sure.  ::)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pace vs Excalibur Mamey
« on: February 10, 2023, 01:35:04 PM »
I had a bunch of these last year from them.

The red is so bright.

No other mamey Ive had comes close to that red.

Just for clarification, are you talking about Excalibur or Vidal?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Propagating banana from an unripe fruit
« on: February 09, 2023, 01:04:12 PM »
I almost thought this was for sure fake. But it seems genuine. Who knows what else could be propagated this way... possibly an unripe fig too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcLmE9wBfE

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pace vs Excalibur Mamey
« on: February 09, 2023, 11:36:31 AM »
Thanks Squam

I was expecting it to be darker than that. From memory people describe it as deep red or blood red.

Interestingly there was a person on the Houz forum named Lisa (GCmastiffs) who uploaded a photo of mamey sapote that had extremely red pulp. She purchased it from Excalibur, lost the tag, and was then told that she had Pantin. But Pantin does not have red pulp. So I thought she had Excalibur, but the fruit shape doesn't seem narrow enough for that cultivar.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pace vs Excalibur Mamey
« on: February 08, 2023, 12:10:24 PM »
Would someone with Excalibur mamey sapote be so kind as to upload a photo of a cross-sectioned fruit? Doesn't seem to be a single photo viewable anywhere.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "pumpkin pie" dwarf mamey
« on: February 06, 2023, 07:02:54 PM »
The cultivar Pumpkin Pie does not exist... it is (Dwarf) Parrita. Hopefully people will stop adding to this confusion and causing people duplicates. It's another dumb marketing gimmick that who knows who came up with... maybe even Zill Plantas but if it was them they have now removed it from their website. Every Pouteria sapota I have ever tasted resembles pumpkin pie...

Not going to happen at this point.

Challenge accepted

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "pumpkin pie" dwarf mamey
« on: February 06, 2023, 10:46:16 AM »
The cultivar Pumpkin Pie does not exist... it is (Dwarf) Parrita. Hopefully people will stop adding to this confusion and causing people duplicates. It's another dumb marketing gimmick that who knows who came up with... maybe even Zill Plantas but if it was them they have now removed it from their website. Every Pouteria sapota I have ever tasted resembles pumpkin pie...

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: 1000th Post Giveaway!
« on: February 05, 2023, 11:57:34 PM »
February 10, 4:15 pm

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: 1000th Post Giveaway!
« on: February 01, 2023, 09:14:08 AM »
You haven't indicated at what point you will stop accepting entries.

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You list Myrciaria aff. tenella seeds in both a black and orange form. Isn't that cambui (Myrciaria cuspidata)?

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Temperate Fruit Buy, Sell, & Trade / Delete
« on: January 16, 2023, 10:56:14 AM »
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I really enjoy this resource.

http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000278917#bibliography

https://www.nybg.org/science-project/world-flora-online/

It says that it is a Plinia.

Stirring the pot. :)

What are you stirring? You are just regurgitating the same mistake using the same outdated source but on a different database. The Bibliography you linked to even says Stadnik, A., Flora Do Brasil, which I already pointed out is outdated. Half the time FdB doesn't even work. Sorry but Brazil is almost a third world country.

I have been communicating with Aline Stadnik over the last few years and she confirmed to me in private communication just yesterday that it is a Eugenia. She is the leading scientist on Brazilian Plinias and Eugenias, not to mention the very paper used in the bibliography for P. martinellii. You don't have to believe me but time will tell.

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Do you mean Eugenia martinellii? https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Plinia%20martinellii

Frutas no Brazil refers to it as Plinia.

Aline Stadnik confirmed to me that both Frutas no Brasil and Flora do Brasil are incorrect. It's a Eugenia.

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Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia = Red Bopple Nut
Davidsonia johnsonii = Smooth Davidson Plum

Two species originally from Australia, possibly still confined to the continent.

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The tree was undercover and heated probably with a heating cable that means it had a microclimate, then it should survive. To be truly cold hardy should be expose directly to that temperature.

Spent 45 minutes on the phone with the vendor that has been working with this 40 year old tree in S. Austin.  It took days of below 12F temps (11C) and below.  There was some die back.    Really an incredible story including his technique of getting 50% rooting takes  of cuttings.  Parent tree is 35' tall with a 4' girth trunk.  Says the fruit is very rich.   

Just for the record, 12 Fahrenheit is actually -11 Celsius

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You do know it's winter in Sydney right now, don't you?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help ID Passion Fruit with red flesh
« on: July 05, 2022, 11:11:52 AM »
It is P. caerulea. Got it's name because flower has blue ring. Very common in Southern Europe. One of the most cold hardy Passifloras. Often used as a rootstock for P. edulis. Some don't taste that bad, having a bit of sweetness. Can easily be opened with fingers.

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I would certainly imagine so. They are closely related within the subgenus Pseudojaca

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: seedless fukushu kumquat crop!
« on: May 20, 2022, 08:46:50 AM »
I don't think it's overly pedantic to just point out that Fukushu (Changshou) is actually a mandarinequat... https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/hortj/85/2/85_MI-078/_article

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help on Plinia I.D ?
« on: May 05, 2022, 04:20:10 PM »
Could be Myrciaria glomerata... common name Red Cabeludinha

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Our new youtube channel : FRUIT ADDICT
« on: April 04, 2022, 07:06:12 AM »
Ughhh. Response in all bold? Your post is such high priority is it? I thought the all caps was bad in the thread title... Your behavior is rather clownish.

As for you never hearing from me, has it occurred to you that there are other forms of communication besides this forum? Like, for instance Facebook, where you have an account "Sca Lejardinauxmillefruits." If you respond to a post on Facebook and then proceed to ignore private messages, be prepared to be called out for incompetence or bad etiquette.

Just go back to promoting your boring videos that 95%+people on this English-language forum cannot understand.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Our new youtube channel : FRUIT ADDICT
« on: April 03, 2022, 07:49:41 AM »
Just to prevent people potentially wasting their time: I would have thought it relevant to point out that all of the videos are in the French language, with no English subtitles, so if you don't understand French you will be basically just watching people eat fruit. The only English content is that they craftily named their YouTube channel "Fruit Addict."

Another small anecdote: I was strenuously searching for a reliable source of Inga vulpina seeds for seven years. This clown responded that he had it, but not to share in any way or sell seeds. Just to gloat I guess.  ???

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