The Tropical Fruit Forum

A video with the differences I see now:

https://youtu.be/zhZOU9A4eSQ

About harvesting most of them!

https://youtu.be/xToUcmtoedE

I should do some juice or icecream to taste

That fruit from jan 10 fell of the tree being green (then it ripened outside the tree but had very little flesh), but now it has many more and one of them is turning orange. They seem to be really different to my other uvaias: Have a rough skin.

I am happy to tell you that many seeds from Misiones are sprouting by now:

black cerella (eugenia involucrata)
red cerella (eugenia involucrata)
big red super sweet pitanga (eugenia uniflora)
guaporetí (plinia rivularis)
longan

Some of this species were sold by me at this forum the last month, so I hope the people that received them are growing them right now. I use only rain water and a regular poting mix. They took about 1 to 2 months to sprout.


red cerella



longan:



black cerella:



red cerella:



red pitanga: note the big leaves



guaporetí:








imagenes gratis

Hi,

As soon as I get more seeds/species I will post in the forum, but this will be most likely by next spring, we are on autumn now; I am still eating some myrcia selloi, eugenia repanda, there is 1 psidium australe in the bush and sete capotes is still flowering and bearing just a few.

Originally, I had:
guaviyú (24º Brix), arazá-una (16º Brix), natal plum (19º Brix), myrcia selloi (19º Brix or more), strawberry guava (20º Brix), lemon guava (18º Brix, NEW), rollinia emarginata, sete capotes (19.5º Brix), anacahuita (19º Brix, NEW), psidium australe (19º Brix, NEW), psidium guyanense _not guineense_ (12º Brix, NEW), angola guava (13º Brix NEW)  and eugenia repanda (12º Brix) too.


Angola guava (psidium guajava) (New, march 2017)
20 seeds (USD 8  )
40 seeds (USD 15)
80 seeds (USD 28)




Psidium guyanense (or psidium spp.) (NEW 24 march 2017) NOT guineense!
5 seeds, 15 USD (stock, 25 seeds)




Lemon guava (psidium cattleianum var lucidum) (New, march 2017)
20 seeds (USD 4)
40 seeds (USD 7)
80 seeds (USD 12)
160 seeds (USD 22)



black Eugenia Repanda (harvesting now, late feb, then later on march and april):
5 seeds (USD 14), 10 seeds (USD 26), 20 seeds (USD 48)

This small and hardy bush likes shade and bears small cherry like (acid and sweet) fruits, it could be in full sun, semi shaded spot or full shade: it will fruit anywhere. Frost resistance: -6ºC

I have a very rare variety: ripe fruits are almost black! Normally, eugenia repanda use to be red.







Anacahuita (blepharocalyx salicifolius)

NEW, march 2017, the taste remind me of bitter oranges, but it is sweet, 19º Brix, small fruit (0.7mm)


5 seeds (USD 10), 10 seeds (USD 18), 20 seeds (USD 34)


aguaymanto (physalis peruviana)

20 seeds (USD 5)
40 seeds (USD 8 )
60 seeds (USD 11)




Jiló (solanum gilo)
20 seeds (USD 5)
40 seeds (USD 8 )
60 seeds (USD 11)




Myrcia selloi:



5 seeds (USD 10), 10 seeds (USD 18), 20 seeds (USD 34)

      
UVAIA (out of stock):          

(***) uvaia rugosa, red new leaves, e. lutescens or hybrid. USD 16 (5 seeds), USD 28 (10 seeds)
(*) sold out: uvaia pear shaped, eugenia lutescens  or hybrid    USD 12 (5 seeds), USD 22 (10 seeds), USD 42 (20 seeds)
 (**)  sold out: uvaia flattened shaped, eugenia pyriformis  or hybrid USD 12 (5 seeds), USD 22 (10 seeds)

The sweetness of all of them is 12 º Brix or so, well balanced acidity/sweetness

(*** rough skined fruits, less pulp and less juicy than the other uvaias but it seems to be inmune to fruit fly!, strong acid favour, very rare variety, new and old red leaves. Fruits and seeds from 2 poted trees, 4 years old. Only 10 left!



(* e. lutescens or an hybrid, fruit is sweet and acid (more pear shaped than the other), from one planted tree at my backyard, growing habit: bush, 9 years old, 3m tall), max order 20 seeds.






(** maybe e. lutescens x pyriformis or just e. pyriformis, fruit is acid and sweet (more flattened and darker orange), from 3 poted trees, growing habit: tree), max order 20 seeds





Frost resistance of uvaias: -6º C when adult, not damaged at all by our freezes (9b zone, Argentina)






GUABIJU / GUAVIYU:

myrcianthes pungens USD 10 (5 seeds), USD 18 (10 seeds), USD 34 (20 seeds), USD 66 (40 seeds), USD 120 (80 seeds)

Fruit is sweet and not acid, very nice. 24º Brix!

Frost resistance of guaviyú: -9 or -10º C (similar to feijoa -acca sellowiana-). We have 2 planted trees, 10 years old, 3 to 4 m tall.


   
Arazá-una (black strawberry guava)

Please see this post:

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=22588.msg272373#msg272373

14 to 16º Brix fruit, very remarkable!



Arazá-rojo (red strawberry guava), psidium cattleianum

20 seeds per pack. Related to the tropical guava, produces small dark red skinned fruits to 1.5". Flesh is translucent, juicy, and not mealy like the tropical guava, with a tasty acidic-strawberry flavor. Very easy to grow. Frost resistance: -6ºC. Our variety bears sweet fruits on summer, 14º Brix, sometimes it produces some more during the winter.



20 seeds (USD 4), 40 seeds (USD 7), 80 seeds (USD 12), 160 seeds (USD 22), 320 seeds (USD 40)


Natal Plum:

10 seeds USD 5,
20 seeds USD 9

Small shrub or bush, south african origin. Produces medium sized, fleshy red fruits that can be eaten fresh or used in preserves. Beautiful white fragrant flowers are showy and ornamental. Commonly used as a hedge plant. Tolerant to salt, frost resistance -5ºC or -6ºC.



More info: http://www.huertasurbanas.com/tag/natal-plum/


Sete capotes (campomanesia guazumifolia), frost resistance -6º C or so.

5 seeds (USD 10), 10 seeds (USD 18), 20 seeds (USD 34), 40 seeds (USD 60)


Araticú or "arachichu" (Rollinia emarginata or sylvatica, dont know):
10 seeds (USD 20),   25 seeds (USD 40),   50 seeds (USD 70)







Photos from the net:









Shipping cost

New shipping costs (15 feb / 8 march) are:

Under 150 gr weight:

16 USD 30 days
20 USD 15 days
43 USD (EMS) a few days, USA
52 USD (EMS) a few days, Europe
62 USD (EMS) a few days, Asia, Oceania

Under 20 gr weight

10 USD if the mail weights less than 20gr and you have to wait 30 days. Dry seeds: sete capotes, araticú, strawberry guava, arazá una

The 30 days service is ok, seeds will not rotten nor die in 30 days. If an order has just 5 to 10 seeds and the mail weights 20 gr or less, we can send it by the 15 days service at a low cost of 16 USD, but we can know that when I go to the post office.




I accept bitcoins (15% discount), Western Union or paypal, thanks.

See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuoGWj7R6z4&feature=youtu.be


I picked up the first of them, from a poted tree that seems to be eugenia pyriformis and not lutescens: the flavour was acid and not sweet (different to my supposed planted lutescens), it had 2 small seeds. The tree has another bigger fruit almost ripe and there are coming a few more in 1 month or so, I will see if the next ones from this same tree could be sweeter. The flavour is good, just like the sweet one but not sweet, that's why brasilians love it for making juices.

And now I can understand why they added it to a beer: it tastes a bit like beer! To me, it's like a tangerine+beer flavour. Maybe it also can be used just like lemons (but it was not so acid as a lemon).

Yesterday I saw fruit flies at my pear tree, but no uvaia seems to be attacked... in the past years, none of them was ruined by the fruit fly, I dont know why, because guavas and strawberry guavas were allways killed by the fruit fly, but my uvaias seem to be untouchable.

The one that was from a small bush, fell off and still green, so I should wait for another to ripe... but the ones from the poted taller trees are almost ripe now and produce this very good smell

jaboticabas look good

dont you protect your plants at all?

Fruits are ripening very fast, this should be eugenia lutescens:



and maybe this should be eugenia pyriformis:



or maybe they are all eugenia lutescens or hybrids... fruit taste will be the key to know it

Are there peach cultivars that would do well in San Diego?

A tree-ripened peach can be SO much better than a store-bought one.

I agree, I have some white ones that are incredibly good

20 p rivularis seeds arrived to germany, all sprouted.

Ok, if this is fantasy, i will grow just:

* chamba (campomanesia lineatifolia), because I read a lot and it seems to be wonderful (I have 3 trees, 3 or 4 years old, not fruiting yet)
* jaboticabas (I love their taste)
* biribá (it seems to be very tasty)
* macadamia (Love its taste)
* uvaia (good taste)