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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Garcinia dulcis
« on: January 27, 2020, 09:45:13 AM »
Interested, I am out now. Please keep 10 seeds aside for me.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Iguana removal opportunity with the cold
« on: January 23, 2020, 02:32:02 PM »
Oh god, I thought they would eat just insects.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Round Achachairu seeds
« on: January 23, 2020, 01:40:43 AM »
Sent PM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Iguana removal opportunity with the cold
« on: January 22, 2020, 08:53:54 AM »
What damage do they do?
Genuine question.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clover cover crop?
« on: January 08, 2020, 01:19:54 AM »
I have the opposite experience with my clover.It grows on concrete and over compacted gravel that has a little clay soil in it .
I never water it and its verry green and luxuriant in the middle of the summer when the geass dies because of the lack of water.So i think its drought resistant.
Last summer we had 4 months without rain and it did great,i had to mow it.

Mine I also drought resistant now, not sure it can stay 4 months without rain however.
When I said it needs water I was talking about planting it from seeds, until it is established with strong roots it is not drought tolerant.
I am also in zone 9, which has probably much higher temperature even in summer.
Trifolium subterranean is planted in winter so no problem, but I was told to plant Trifolium repens in spring and without rain it can be an issue.
It must be said I also have a clay soil and my tractor doesn't do a fine grain job, so the seed wasn't well planted.

As for regular peanuts, I have already many mouse digging everywhere.
Doesn't it attract even more?

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Honza, for now, officials will admonish, not punish, but situations probably will change. Maybe it won't be that bad. I think it might be another dead recipe in some sense. It is hard to imagine that they will open any private packages with plants and check documents :D However, with larger and regular sales, it is worth considering to comply with regulations.

I am mostly worried about e-shop stopping sales, since I bought 90% of my plants online both in Italy and EU.
I think seeds were prohibited even before here, but nobody gave a damn because I doubt anybody even knew.
Different thing is if sellers within EU refuse to sell because they KNOW about new rules.

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They even pick out locations and have a name sheet. (for example, who visited Mexico).
Woa, that's a new level of stalking.
Sometime I am glad I live in Italy where essentially everybody is an outlaw :D .

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So we are not able to send plants in our country anymore (officially). We have to have a permission or the plant can be confiscated and there is also a chance to pay penalty 2000 CZK (80€ +-). And It's same for international shipping. What about Slovakia? Are there simmilar rules Polux? It's new and It's a huge complication for growers, small e-shops....
Do you mean even within your country it is forbidden?
What the heck are we becoming?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clover cover crop?
« on: January 07, 2020, 12:09:22 PM »
I have a mix of many varieties from subterranean, to the various repens.
Subterranean dies in the summer and comes back in winter, so you get the nitrogen there.
Either way, the nitrogen is probably minimum.
As weed control it works wonder, it's keeping my wild brambles in check as they get entangled and can't come up.
Two main problem:
1-The normal version is expensive, the inoculated version is even more expensive.
Inoculated with nitrogen fixing bacteria, since it may not be present in your soil.
2-Without a sprinkler you have to hope it rain. It's not easy to establish if you don't have a sprinkler system that can cover it whole or it rain frequently until it's established.
Many of them did die to me because it didn't rain for a month when they sprouted....

You may also look at arachis pintoi. It's a lot prettier, because it's practically always in flower. and expand even quicker.
It is much less cold tolerant however. It dies as soon as it start freezing.
It should come back  however, mine is still young and it's the first year so I am not sure if it will.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: GDSeeds
« on: January 06, 2020, 10:10:58 AM »
Unfortunately it's not possible to send abroad. I had to suspend activity again.
Again?!
What does the government gain from blocking outward shipments?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rollinia bark disease
« on: December 27, 2019, 12:52:45 PM »
Rollinias are the most sensitive plant I’ve grown to soil PH.  They like very acidic conditions.  They dislike the calcium carbonate infused water that you find in a typical Florida water and will start to develop black spots on the bark, drop leafs and wither away.  I lost 90 trees because of my Florida water.  I dump a thick layer of raw donkey/mule manure about 10” deep.  This creates acidic conditions and the trees  will recover but i don’t water them again.  Just keep them deeply mulched.
Ooooh, that explain why I never managed to keep one alive....

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I would request skhan as OP to remove Artocarpus hypargyraeus from topic title, since that is incorrect. Artocarpus is about to undergo a major shakeup thanks to phylogenomic work recently done. A paper dealing with proposed new binomials will be published in January or February. At any rate, both by current systematics and the provisional new one A. hypargyraeus is incorrect, since that has long peduncles and is not in cultivation.

What is in cultivation is indeed the real kwai muk (better pinyin would be 'gwaimuk'), but the associated binomial has almost always been mistaken. Its current ID is A. nitidus subsp. lingnanensis, but will probably become A. parvus.

I think that's a bad idea. It would mean it will be hard to search for info on kwai muk since most are used to the old name.
The best way to go imho if you want to use the new name is something like A.nitidus subsp. lingnanensis (ex hypargyraeus ).
It's long but at least you can find the thread with the old name.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Juicy pearls in season again
« on: December 22, 2019, 10:33:08 AM »
Is this more cold tolerant than regular star apple?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Olosapo ( Coupeia Polyandra)
« on: December 22, 2019, 06:45:24 AM »
Not exactly sure how I let these seeds slip by my radar.  Anyone growing this in Florida? I was able to source two seedlings.  Any growing tips, cold tolerance?  Sounds delicious.

I've had one in ground since early 2016. It was a bit over two feet tall when I got it, and after an impressive initial growth spurt it's grown less than six inches in the nearly four years since then. So at around 3 feet tall, I expect my grandchildren (as yet unborn) may get to see fruit from it.

As far as growing tips go... so far it has never gotten cold enough here in Broward to assess its tolerance for cold, and it has minimal needs for water. I fertilize twice yearly and I have enviably decent sandy / loamy soil for south Florida so I can't comment on how well it does in sand or shell rocky type soils.

I've read they fruit fast... 6 years? I wish. If it were true, mine had better get going as it's likely well over 6 years old already :-)
Same here. I thought it wasn't growing because they were stressed out by cold but seem not much different in a hotter climate.
I think mine did make 1 cm the whole summer(which is probably the only season it will grow)....
They only grow fast when sprouting from seed.
I think there must be some trick to make them grow faster, maybe they need some different soil?
6 year is probably true in their native environment where I doubt they are still small after 6 years. Will probably take 20 years at our pace if they don't die before(in my case).

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Seeds added : Caryocar glabrum and Curatella americana

Can't find much info on Caryocar Glabrum.
Do you know if it is self pollinating? Years to start to fruit?
Any chance it can take light frosts?

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What strain is the left smooth one? Where to get it?
Is it tasty?

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As I thought seeds arrived rotten.
I had warned Roy that they would not arrive safely with EMS but he insisted and asked me to buy more than I asked.
Between this and the Hodgsonia I ordered more than 100 euro seeds from him this year and got nothing out of them.
I told him they rotted and asked him to resend and I'll pay for the shipping cost, he said I shouldn't open a Paypal claim and that he will resend some seeds.
I never heard from him anymore, more than 2 months has passed and he visited the site in the meantime without replying me.

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Strange your african type has not produced.
All mine did make some bulbils already after 3-4 months.
It seem also much more vigorous than the asian one you sent me.

My Alata instead has grown a lot in ground this year, 3-4 meters tall.
It did make some bulbils but they stopped growing at 1-2mm, why is that?
This plant has been in pot and the aerial part was dying for quite a long time but would not resprout. I removed everything and it did finally decide to sprout again vigorously.
It's hard to see in the picture, but it goes all the way to the top climbing a guava and an elm.


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Hi,

I have some tissue cultured available.
What varieties and price?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: planting subtropical garden
« on: August 26, 2019, 04:38:11 PM »
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)
I'm in a similar climate so, you can add:
Avocado (any)
Jaboticaba


Passed one winter and then died the next, you may be luckier:
Jackfruit black gold
Pitangatuba

Passiflora edulis x colvilli, should be doable with little protection.

Litchi Mauritius planted this spring but we had winter temps and it survived.
Some friend had Black sapote passing the winter with no problem , then suddenly dying of no reason in spring, probably root issue.
If you have soil issue, I would recommend making a big hole and amend it, it's going to be expensive but will be worth it.
My first avocados where planted this way and are growing super fast, the other were planted in clay with no amendment and it did 2 leaves the whole summer...



Thats really good to hear that avocados can grow in similar climate. Do you know the varieties of your avocado trees? Do i have to find mexican ones or can even commercial have success?

The big one are Bacon and Hass.
I also have one big seedling almost 2 year old, which did fine outside since 6 months old.
They don't even lose the leaves.
I think any variety except the tropical one would be fine.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: planting subtropical garden
« on: August 26, 2019, 12:13:10 PM »
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)
I'm in a similar climate so, you can add:
Avocado (any)
Jaboticaba


Passed one winter and then died the next, you may be luckier:
Jackfruit black gold
Pitangatuba

Passiflora edulis x colvilli, should be doable with little protection.

Litchi Mauritius planted this spring but we had winter temps and it survived.
Some friend had Black sapote passing the winter with no problem , then suddenly dying of no reason in spring, probably root issue.
If you have soil issue, I would recommend making a big hole and amend it, it's going to be expensive but will be worth it.
My first avocados where planted this way and are growing super fast, the other were planted in clay with no amendment and it did 2 leaves the whole summer...


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Yellow and red Muntingia calabura. Seeds from achetadomestica. Fruits were packed in wet vermiculite. At arrival on my place, the pulp, seeds and vermiculite were a somehow slimy mass. This mass was spread evenly on top of seeding trays, filled with peat. The seeding trays were well watered, bagged and put on a warm place with indirect sunlight. After a week, the trays were taken out of the bag and put in full sun, for 4 days. The peat was kept wet and watered twice a day. Thereafter, the trays were taken out of the sun and bagged again. Seeds germinated a few days later.

After taken this picture, I have potted 50 seedlings. For me, that’s more than enough. However, with colder temperatures in autumn and winter, a high mortality may be expected.

Mike, thank you for the seeds. I appreciate very much, your help and your advice.



How long to reach that stage?
Mine from last year never passed 1mm, some are still alive but same height.
The batch from this year slightly better, around 2mm(only a few) in 2 months ....
In case I can't get even this batch to grow, would you sell me a yellow muntingia seedling next year?
I would consider cutting a 2 liter bottle's bottom out and cover a seedling and create a humidity dome.
Keep the soil moist and the 2 liter bottle should have water dripping inside.  I know some people in CA
that have the same difficulty with Muntingia. I think it is a humidity issue?

Definitively an humidity issue.
I went on vacation and since I have many seedling in the greenshouse using drip irrigation would have been too difficult so I bought some nebulizers and a programmer.
When I came back they were double the size, and the greenhouse was a sauna :D
Many seeds that hadn't germinated yet( the other germinated 2 months ago) did germinate.
I also noticed previously that they like to stay waterlogged, I put the pots in some plastic container always filled and they were already much better.
This also explain why my previous tree last year did grow much better, I was watering thoroughly with a hose every day while this year the programmer is more conservative because I spent a fortune in water.

By the way, is the red stem a feature of the yellow variant or it's just because it's young?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: greenhouse minimum temperature
« on: August 15, 2019, 12:49:45 PM »
At 55f you can keep most tropical, maybe even some ultra tropical.
If your goal instead is to have growth all year round, then you'll have to keept at least 75f.
At 55F most plants will do fine but won't grow.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: fruit in August
« on: August 14, 2019, 07:12:35 AM »
My big lakoocha arrived in perfect health and almost all already germinated.
Purchase with confidence!

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Hi,
Can I know where you bought Gevuina Avellana seeds?
I got these from a friend after spending a year searching them.Before that ive ordered a few packs of seeds from USA ( from ebay) and none of those germinated ,so beware if your gonna spend a lot of monney on them.Make sure they are fresh.
I had found somebody willing to ship some seeds but didn't hear from him since a long time.
How big is the nut? Have you tasted any?
They are one third in volume of the macadamia nuts and taste is a lot better than the taste of macadamia .They are sweeter and have a coconut like flavour similar to apricot seeds but a lot sweeter.The downsides of these nuts is that the shell its too soft to be cracked and also if you roast them ,then the sugars turn the nuts brown while the macadamias stay white.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion. I saw some picture that seemed really small, but couldn't find any real data.
So if the shell is soft can they be opened by hand or teeth? Otherwise seem a lot of effort for such a small nut.

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