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Miraculin is all about the pH.  I thought the same thing when i tried some savory things and just tasted bland.  But to put it in perspective google says that coffee has a pH around 5-6.  Beer would be more acidic than that. Orange Juice is around 3, Lemon Juice can even be 2.  I thought coffee was way more acidic than that. Ive also been told it was, but i guess its not as acidic as i thought.

That might explain your results Carolyn.  I sure hope Noni works.  My little plant (whihc has doubled as my desk plant actually!) is only about a foot tall but its steady growing.  im hoping to get her a big pot and sun.. get me some fruit next autumn. 

Still cant find any Acerola though :(   or any quick fruiting acidic shrubs.


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Thats breaks my heart about both..  my track record is usually.. 5 dead trees, 1 really happy one.  maybe you can put out an add like dog owners do.  "fruit trees to pollinate, 10% stud fee"

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Asiminaholics Anonymous
« on: January 07, 2020, 02:21:41 PM »
So we are talking about.. Tissue Rejection.  20 years in the lifespan of hundreds is just a moment.  Some tree injuries take a decade to heal.

what methods do we use to encourage organ acceptance in biology?   does anyone know? if its a basic compound we might be looking at a way to lengthen to life of grafted trees.

how do individual branches go? Those multi citrus trees we see in the news. How do those fare?

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Bontanicus.. THAT.. is what im talking about. Quick fruiting, in 1 gallon pots, thats acidic (miracle berry).  Thats one i will be looking into. Hopefully it can handle some Texas cool.
thanks man, thats exciting.

Tsmith, that just makes me even more determined. For the acerola.  You know i heard Guava make really great bushes very trainable and sculptable. And will still fruit.

Lay some Goumi or Goji on them.. or Soh-shang. Supposedly you cant stop those monsters from growing.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Successfull zone pushing examples
« on: November 20, 2019, 07:44:55 AM »
It's hard to know what's going to happen with cold. We just dipped to 27 one night last week. My garden some plants were dead by morning, some still green. Right next to each other. (Lost my sword bean, peppers and giant klip dagga).

Iy threw a sheet over the papaya and naranjilla yearlings. Both did fine. Moringa. Even half of my alba moo. Flower survived.

I put the rest in the garage

In regard to miracle berry and cold, I'm growing a variety that came from north Georgia and it fruits for him when it got cold. A north Georgians idea of cold at that.  Not our idea of cold.

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That would be great. I'll make a note to take some pics. They are looking really ratty, I lost some interest In them after I got to know the community a little better.  With all the anecdotal and 2nd hand hype. The I've never gotten much from any flour though.

As for kava I should just avoid it. I left my entire list of plants out last night cause it was supposed to high 50s this morning the news says 49.
Peanut butter fruit sprouts.. BlackBerry jam sprouts.. lychee, mango, starfruit Jack fruit, miracle berry,etc etc. Anything as sensitive as cocoa or kava.. nope

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It's a fun project, but alot goes into it.
Fungi is weird..the more effort you put into it the more that can go wrong.. but the return is unlike any vegetable.

Perfectly balanced, some wood loving species can grow 20 percent of the substrate weight in fruit. I mean if you cN image 20 percent of an oak trees weight in mushrooms.. it's quite amazing.

But that requires, sterile procedures, perfect mixes, growing rooms, clean growing rooms.

We spend our lives trying inhibits molds from growing. So it takes a little getting used to.

There are Mid Range ways to grow fungi too. That aren't so lavor intensive or prone to failure. Strawbale growing looks really good. Strawbag is really messy, but a little more forgiving.

Personally, I found some baby chanterelles this year. If I find them again I'm going to make a slurry with the fruit. Chanterelles are mycorhizal meaning they need a living tree for symbiosis. slurries are 5 gallons buckets with a sweetener, toss in a few fresh mushrooms and you've made 5 gallons of inoculate. To splash around tree roots. Morels, are like this, so are the famous red cap hallucinogens.

But keep in mind some fungi are straight up parasitic. Chicken of the woods, honey.. they will kill trees. Something to keep in mind when you grow trees

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I found when i chew an entire berry the change is too sweet. When I gnaw that skin.
In fact the berries themself become sickenly sweet if I chew them too long.  My Bush makes larger berries than anywhere else I've gotten though, and they are coming right off the plant.  I recommend using half a berry and dispatching it quickly.

I love my oranges on them.  Im planting goji and noni directly due to my miracle berry for this reason. And looking for Soh Shang (goumi, silverberry)

Infact.. I'm looking for any sub acid, generally discarded undesired fruit. I figure miracle berry could make a fruit garden to die for

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Successfull zone pushing examples
« on: October 22, 2019, 03:55:33 PM »
you think it likes the cold? i keep bringing it in during the 50's nights trying to squeak one last crop out of them.


theres a good point to remember about tropics. they arent always hot, they are just the same temp all year.  as an example, i tried to grow Yoco once, and it was more cold delicate than theobroma.. but, it didnt like anything but 80's. Thats not hot at all to me.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Asiminaholics Anonymous
« on: October 22, 2019, 03:51:37 PM »

 id never considered that a graft could have a shorter life span. certainly as short as 15 years. But at the same time.. in random conditions 8 years to fruit, kinda makes it worthwhile.

my seedlings are like 5 inches tall at best.. and raised in spring :(  kinda stunted.

Have you ever gotten scion wood to root? (instead of grafting)

(i also have them confused with sugar apples.. they damn near look identical.  one has silvery underleaf. and one has a brown stem, the other green. i dont know which)

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 Theres a much better way. Firstly, new wood is still living, alot of mushroom growers plug them and the spawn are still alive in the dowels while the tree dies. Then its so dense it can take a year to colonize the log.
 
If you get wood already dead, it may already have several fungi and molds. Then you have island colonies and you wont get the return you want.

Go buy some wood stove pellets.. 40 pounds for dollars.  Mix water with it, break it down into mush.. put it in some ziplock bags. (with some airholes melted in, covered with paper medical tape)  then steam the bag for a couple hours.. then put your Turkey tail spawn in.  when the whole bag is colonized.. cut it open.

 


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Are those both Eugenias?  They do look great! Theres a eugenia called RioGrande.. thats basically where im from so. Thats a really good idea.

that Acerola looks amazing too.. great story behind it. yeah.. thats the one <3
how long does it take Barbados to fruit?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Successfull zone pushing examples
« on: October 22, 2019, 01:29:41 PM »
Im growing a Miracle Berry in Texas.. and it grows like crazy. 

im having problems with it..  but not from its desire to grow. we are having nights that are dipping into the 50's and its still making berry buds.
the leaves are too lime green though. and the baby fruits are dropping.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Loquat from seed
« on: October 22, 2019, 11:25:48 AM »
how well do loquat take graft?  i have a handle full of seedlings too.. would love to graft some scion

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Greenhouse heating invention
« on: October 22, 2019, 11:17:06 AM »
There are some really neat examples of sub surface heaters used to keep greenhouses warm.

Just a foot or two underground and the dirt is warm in the winter and its cool in the summer. People pipe a coolant though the line up to a standard car radiator with a fan attached.
Its circulates like any other heat exchanger (called venturi i think).  It makes an impact and its passive.

Heat is a little harder to accomplish just from its nature.  Theres a 1000 clever ways to cool things. But heat, you have to subject these atoms to direct contact.

Youre basically doing all you can, be recirculating. Beyond that, all you can do is add more exposure. subject more of the duct to heat,  reduce length NOT subjected to heat. Pipe your furnace exhaust back over the duct. Place the radiant assemblies in or on the house perimeter.


ps the lens you are talking about are called Fresnel lenses.  Which could make a neat passive system perhaps.  If you could mount a fresnel lens in a air tight frame that focused on the back of a heatsink. You could mount the heatsink inside the green house as an element. The truth of the matter is, that sunlight was going to hit the greenhouse anyway. the more apparatus you create the less efficient it becomes.

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  Hey Guys,

  Im in Texas, and ive been trying to focus on Heavy Fruiting, Sour Fruits, Quick Bearing (around 2 years), or Usually Ignored Fruits (or even flat out avoided)
  DO YOU KNOW ANY FRUITS THAT FIT THIS CRITERIA? OR ANY WEIRD PLANTS NOT AS POPULAR?

  As an example.. here is a list of similar ideas. 

im trying to grow Peanut Butter fruit,
Black berry jam fruits,
Noni,
Miracleberry,
Narajilla,
Tamarillo
 

Im looking for..
Tree Tomato, real Tamarillo,
other Solanums. 
GOUMI!
Soh Shang, or bastard oleaster called silver berry.. Elaeagnus.
Seaberry?
Pink Wampee

Thanks for your input

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Asiminaholics Anonymous
« on: October 22, 2019, 08:53:29 AM »
Do PawPaw graft well?  I started my KSU seeds this year.. i wouldnt call them vigorous. But, theres no place to get fruit around here. 9a Texas.

i know this goes against the Fruiting Tree prime directive.. but it breaks my heart having to wait a decade to eat my own fruits.



While on the subject.. i just wanted to say im a tropical and fruiting tree 13th stepper......... (<--- joke)

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Are Black Sapote not self fertile?

i always wanted to grow a Mamey or a Wild Cali Black here in SE Texas. How long to fruit bearing age?

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Is this actual clove?  common clove is an Ipomoea?

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Following.


Hey D, 60f would mean a good fifth of my year in Texas 9a (at least at night)  Does it winter over well? indoors?

I grow Valerian, Klip Dagga (working on my wild Dagga sprouts now), Mitragyna Speciosa (at least what ive been told is), Hibiscus, Cha-om, Miracleberry.. i love medicinals. Never came across anyone willing to sell any Kava cuttings.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mites? and MIracleberry
« on: October 07, 2019, 07:15:02 PM »
overnight water infusion?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mites? and MIracleberry
« on: October 07, 2019, 03:32:05 PM »
 ihave tiny white balls of webbing on the tips of my miracle berry leaves.

would i be able to wipe down the leaves with alcohol? or will alcohol kill miracle berry?

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How Big do the Mahogany Family get?


Hey man! I finally got those Parkia Speciosa.  At least they really look like it this time. Pretty damn stinky too.  Thats also a Noni sprout. From Spring.. totally forgot about it.. it just showed. Now to get it through winter. Did your noni ever drop their fruits?








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Thanks Guys.  Sounds like they have about the same references as most places. I will give them a shot and see what i can pick up.  MUCH APPRECIATED!

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Hey Guys,

I was perusing Rarepalmseeds.com and came across several postings there. And it seems a little too good to be true. They have some seeds, in bulk amounts, that are so rare the world cant even agree what Latin Name to use on them.  They have seeds that are available no where else.  And i was just wondering if anyone has done any business with them.

If so.. what did you order, and what was the quality?

In addition, if you have a good story about ordering seeds from another vendor.. please tell us about it below. Who, and what it was.. and what your successes were with it.

thanks guys,
bart

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