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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Id please
« on: February 19, 2024, 08:36:40 AM »
looks like in the sapodilla family.

take a leaf off does it have milk?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black sapote?!
« on: February 12, 2024, 08:45:01 AM »
it's a bit of both like the texture and color but it's more of a name and it doesn't really taste like chocolate but it's an ok/good fruit. it produces a lot and the fruit and tree do look beautiful.  you can also mix it with chocolate to have "more".

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ISO: Illama scions (& Duguetia)
« on: January 23, 2024, 06:39:39 PM »
well not duguetia but rare seeds in the annona family are hard to germinate. some of them are ez(soursop,sweetsop,custard apple,cherimoya) you know the popular ones. i think that because there are annona species from dry climate that store for a longer time and need a dry season such as ilama then if we sow these they rot but others from more humid climate you need to sow them fast so that is why it's so difficult. shops will store them probably for too long and because they're expensive like most of them are 5-10 per seed you only get 1 or 2 seeds per species and boom. you spend hundreds of bucks like me and only get a few ones. for other stuff you spend 2-3 bucks and probably germinate something.

duguetia i have d.lanceolata, d.stenantha and d.moricandiana

ilama i have a guillermo seedling and a genova red seedling(dying)..but i got a bunch of seeds that i got from raul, anderson tropicals and ebay. will see what germinates.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pitomba (Talisia esculenta)
« on: January 23, 2024, 01:33:53 PM »
had them before and the taste is really good, 2nd to only litchi in this family :)

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ISO: Illama scions (& Duguetia)
« on: January 23, 2024, 01:13:09 PM »
i am also interested in quality "classic" varieties such as(the ones i could find names)

guillermo
genova red
genova white
pajapita
Fairchild
Rosendo Pérez
Gramajo

for duguetias i have like 3 seedlings but it was very hard to find duguetia/annona seeds from the internet that actually germinate. i would say 10% of the seeds i bought online did germinate. maybe a scion exchange in the future?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Yellow rambutan
« on: December 05, 2023, 07:46:16 PM »
palologrower just had some.

abimael had some a couple of years ago.

these would be very hard to grow over there not gonna lie. i have killed a few even here in the tropics @ dry season when there's a lot of sun.

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i thought it was cedar bay cherry as well

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First time trying to graft an eugenia, happy with these results :)

After one week(not sure when to remove the bags or if the bags are too small 9 x 3 in)

frankenstein 6 branches- 3 crimson tide, 3 lolita dark. 6 out of 6 taking






3 zillion and 3  black star @ ikea container


extra cuttings rooting, ty for the extras btw


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Yes the taste was really good...

After speaking with a mango grower and i told him the story but he told me hey they are probably overgrown kent or keitts because the tree is so old that it only had a few fruits so all the energy went to those. next batch after a few months(not sure if it was same tree) but the fruits my brother brought home were just average/large. the seed never made it either so that was an uninspiring end to the story.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Byrsonima germination and others
« on: November 28, 2023, 08:51:32 PM »
what happens is they can germinate in a few months or take more than a year.

had nance germinate after more than a year and byrsonima spicata after like 7 months.

also had byrsonima bucidaefolia that germinated very fast but i did neglect and it died and forgot about but what do you know a year after and another seed germinates from the same pot.

just don't throw them away.

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thanks kevin, they are still green inside.

now i need to try to graft or root these.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is Pungara dioecious?
« on: November 16, 2023, 08:57:22 AM »
https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Garcinia+macrophylla

A dioecious species, both male and female forms usually need to be grown if fruit and seed are required[336
]. At least some dioecious Garcinia species, however, are able to produce fertile seed even in the absence of fertilization (asexual reproduction). Such seeds would be expected to be genetically identical to the parent[1798
]

Inaccurate information. Have a lone fruiting tree here and have harvested and sprouted seed from another lone tree that used to be at Naples Botanical Garden (sourced from Jim West) before hurricane Irma killed it.
i guess that site has wrong info :P another site has it with unisexual flowers
https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/4/6/4638

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is Pungara dioecious?
« on: November 14, 2023, 08:49:47 PM »
https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Garcinia+macrophylla

A dioecious species, both male and female forms usually need to be grown if fruit and seed are required[336
]. At least some dioecious Garcinia species, however, are able to produce fertile seed even in the absence of fertilization (asexual reproduction). Such seeds would be expected to be genetically identical to the parent[1798
]

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is Pungara dioecious?
« on: November 14, 2023, 08:45:45 PM »
most garcinias are polygamodioecious= there are male and female trees however males will also have a few female flowers thus produce a few fruits on their own. females could have a few male flowers too...but either way it's best to have both male-female tree if you want a lot of fruit.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / wanted: dacryodes edulis var parvicarpa
« on: November 06, 2023, 09:16:34 AM »



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got 2 seeds from hapajoe some time ago, they germinated. they are polygamodioecious though, that is they are dioecious but even the males may produce a few female flowers, not sure if that could result in them producing all "males" or also female plants.

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sacha inchi is very easy to germinate and fast to fruit.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: most cold hardy avocado
« on: September 24, 2023, 09:15:26 PM »
here's an idea i can give you guys.

there's a genus in the avocado family: Beilschmiedia. there's like 200+ species and some are edible.

some of them are temperate to subtropical (they get really big though)


https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Beilschmiedia+anay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilschmiedia_berteroana

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mammey seeds germination?
« on: August 21, 2023, 03:31:58 PM »
mamey sapote(pouteria)=fresh seeds germinate with no problems in anything, no problem.
if the seeds are shipped then you can crack the harder shell open without destroying the seeds. if doesn't smell good
try with some fungicide.

mamey americana L=just put in larger pots with garden soil and forget.

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not sure if you can buy from this site but https://www.tradewindsfruit.com/tropical-fruit-f-o/?page=2 they have garcinias cheap price and those species have a high germination rate if you wait a few months.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Does anyone have Herrania plants
« on: August 14, 2023, 06:26:23 AM »
got a seed from shilotech back in may. Herrania umbratica

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Unknown sprout ID
« on: August 11, 2023, 07:06:28 AM »
reminds me of an akee seedling.

but what do you grow?

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Yes!  I want one too... along with a Malpighia yucatanaea.

We can group order a tree from Mexico and someone plants it in USA and later sends seeds/cuttings to the rest of the buyers. That person gets to keep the plant.

As for M.Yucatanea i have a seedling from tradewinds.

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Hi thanks elouicious, well they have them there https://goo.gl/maps/Y6me9TcSHgZquaW57 a bit close from Raul right :) ?

Amatlán de Cañas, Nayarit, Mexico  the place from the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMf0XPzW34

There's also this nursery (Yautepec)  Mexico that sells the plant  https://viveroyautepec.com.mx/producto/guachocote/

We could try to get this to USA with a permit?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Wanted: Guachocote-Malpighia Mexicana
« on: August 08, 2023, 08:30:11 PM »

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