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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sabra Jaboticaba Not growing well.
« on: February 29, 2024, 05:16:34 PM »
I tried to find in members list your location in Pakistan to compare to climate of São Paulo,Minas Gerais the home of Jaboticabas. Jaboticabas fare well in cool climate where there is no freeze. They also need to be watered well.  I have Jaboticabas in Recife, northeast Brazil with climate similar to Bombay and  Poona India

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Please help me to ID
« on: February 11, 2024, 08:27:22 PM »
Thank you for your valuable help.  My mouth is pink eating Grumichama.  Guess it is more common in South of Brazil.  Here we have Eugenia cumini  which is starting to flower.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Please help me to ID
« on: February 11, 2024, 05:52:29 PM »
   A friend of mine some 5 years back send me a selection of fruit seeds. They got mixed up but none te less I put them to germinate. Some seeds germinated.  The seedling grew up  and it fruited. Attached is a plant with fruits in it.  Can any member help me to identify
the botanical name ?  I tasted the fruits and they are extremely sweet


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Eats Papaya Leafs?
« on: December 02, 2023, 03:46:52 PM »
Noticed significant damage to several papaya plants; something is munching hard. Wondering what might be doing this, any ideas?





I have a similar case as yours. In my case the agent is Cutter Ants.  At night they leave their holes sometimes 100-200 meters away and in an army, climb the papaya tree and cut the leaves which fall down and make a green carpet. When daylight dawns they return to their hole. The following night they cut the leaves in small pieces and carry it to the holes. The cut leaves serves as a substrate for culture of a fungus on which the ants feed.

...I'm thinking iguana, but have never seen them eating papaya leafs, and the leaf stems don't seem damaged from the likes of a heavy lizard. They are notorious devourers of passion flowers, and are unwelcome in these parts for that alone. Time for a recon mission with the drones, see what's lurking up there.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to get rid of cutter ants
« on: July 07, 2023, 04:42:58 PM »
We have two products that work against cutter ants. The most common is myrex. When the ants are working you apply the granules next to their trail near the hole where they carry the leaf pieces in. They will drop the leaves and carry the Myrex in. It’s important to be sure that you apply at every trail, not only the ones that are coming to your trees in order to kill the entire nest. You can’t apply in the rain. The other product, Omnitox, works the same and is organic.
Peter
  Senor Pedro, Gracias pela resposta.
    We do get  MIREX-S  in 500gr sachet. Composition is Sulfluramide N-ethylperfluoro-octane-1-sulfonamide: 2g/Kg (0.2%).
    I have used this product on the trails of ants but it is not much effective. Maybe the cutter ants of my region do not like the vehicle/dilute used.  It costs around USD 3$00 a lb.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to get rid of cutter ants
« on: July 07, 2023, 04:08:39 PM »
Tanglefoot applied to the trunk is effective at stopping ants, if you are careful not to allow any alternate paths onto the tree.

Leafcutter ants are really interesting, the wikipedia article claims they will avoid plants that harm the fungus they farm, so applying a fungicide might help... but it also says they can defoliate a whole tree in a day so they probably won't learn fast enough to save the plant.
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    Unfortunately Tanglefoot is not available in Brazil. But I have tried two alternatives using this Principle of isolating the access.
        a)  I  use broad  adhesive tape   about 4" broad and circle the trunk.  Then I apply roller bearing grease in the middle of the tape keeping  half inch from  each side  of the breath of the tape.  This works to a certain extent for small trees and deters ants from climbing and cutting.
        b)   I  collect  discarded  car tyres  which do not have steel belts.  Using  a circular saw I cut  the tyre in the middle.  Each half I put around the tree bark  burying a part of the tyre.  Then fill the crevice with water.  This also deters access of ants to the tree leaves.
 
       What I was looking for was for more effective insecticides in powder form to pump inside the holes  and kill  and DESTROY the cutter ant colonies.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to get rid of cutter ants
« on: July 06, 2023, 10:19:17 PM »
My garden is infested with cutter ants.  Cutter ants  at night,  leave from their holes in ground  sometimes several yards away, as an army leaving a trail. They attack a tree by cutting the stalk of leaves. Leaves fall on ground forming a green carpet. Before dawn these ants return back to their holes.  The next day they return to the same site and cut the fallen leaves into small size pieces  and the army carries these cut leaves to the holes.  Has any member had similar problems ? Have tried  pumping  deltametrin powder in these holes  but this  procedure seams not to exterminate the ants.  Would like to if members of this  FORUM  have had similar problems and if there are more effective procedures and insecticides which can be used to exterminate cutter ants.

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To me it is a Garcinia brasiliense commonly known as bacupari.  A photo of the leaves would confirm.

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If you are looking a substitute for Bilimbi   for sourness I prefer green sliced mango or Tamarind.  I have all three of these in my garden.
Sometimes use Bilimbi sliced when cooking fish.
Green mango can be consumed grated in salads or pickled or made into sweet and sour Chutney
Tamarind can be used to make coriander chutney or in curries

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Brazilian mango ID
« on: July 18, 2021, 06:07:36 PM »
I live 20 miles from Itamaraca Island from which a variety of mango got its name. I have tasted Itamaraca mangos. If it is Itamaraca it stays green when ripe like the Espada variety. Espada mango has more fibre than Itamaraca and form is different.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Bananas
« on: July 03, 2021, 08:21:49 PM »



Could any of the members of this forum help me to identify the disease on this bunch of bananas ? Is it a fungus ? antracnosis ?

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Aloha, as the title is hinting, im looking for tropical fruits with edible nut(raw) and tropical nut trees. Im familiar with macadamia nuts, malabar chestnuts, cashew, pulasan and caimito. What else is out there? Ive heard of java almond, is it tasty? Im relatively low elevation and cant grow tropic adapted temperate trees like apricot. Mahalo

If I might suggest you could divide your quest in Palms and other fruit trees having edidle nuts. Here in Brazil we have different types of palms  with the nut edible: Babassu,coconut etc   And then we have fruit trees like Cashew Apple, Brazil nuts etc. I have never come across a table with Toxicity of Seeds. But I know that Anona seeds are toxic/poisenous. Do you eat or extract oil of Caimito seeds, a sapotacea ??

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This is what I see on my Lucs Garcinia and quite frequently I might add. A profusion of male flowers and the afternoon aroma is intoxicating.But a closer examination reveals more.


The occasional female flower and they are quite distinctive. This applies to many garcinias and this is what male and female flowers look like and many species including a number of Asian species like dulcis. It is easy to jump to conclusions that trees are male or female but it may take a while for the tree to show its true colours. Mine trees were always mono but just pretended to be males when they opened their accounts.



Lets look closer at male and female flowers of the Luc's Garcinia. The picture tells the story and shows what to look for in all Garcinias.

Mark:  Thus this criteria use for "Luc´s" apply to Garcinia Indica or Kokum ???

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruits you can eat unripe
« on: June 19, 2021, 04:57:16 PM »
When you eat unripe fruits  most of them have higher content of VitaminC than the ripe ones.  Also in cooking an unripe fruit you are denaturing many of the elements and changing the taste and many times the texture of the fruit

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I have three Jujube plants ( var  mauritania). They were from seed and today are  4 meters tall. All three flower but only one bore a few fruits last year. Do you think your technique would help fruiting ? How does it work ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help in ID this fruit
« on: February 21, 2021, 03:59:48 PM »
To TFF members who replied to my posting, many thanks for ID and info

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Syzygium aromaticum
« on: February 20, 2021, 05:16:53 PM »
Thank you Chandramohan !

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Help in ID this fruit
« on: February 20, 2021, 05:15:10 PM »
Could any member of this forum help me to Id this fruit ? Thank you in antecipation


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Syzygium aromaticum
« on: February 19, 2021, 04:41:01 PM »
Could some member help we to identify if the flower buds in the attached photos are of Syzygium aromaticum ?. Some time back  I was sold a seedling of Cloves. The plant grew up and flowered. If they are clove buds, at what stage should I pick and dry them up to use them as condiment ?




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Help in ID this fruit
« on: January 04, 2021, 07:35:50 PM »
Could any member of this Forum help me to ID this fruit ?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Interesting Article on Jakfruit
« on: September 22, 2020, 09:23:12 PM »
 Jackfruit is an excellent fruit whether you consume it when raw (before being ripe) after boiling or when ripe. The biggest handicap is its sap
  which makes the knife blades used to open the fruit, sticky. To lessen this problem some people smear the knife with cooking oil others clean the blades with a solution of citric acid. Any other alternatives to lessen the mess ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to store seeds
« on: September 12, 2020, 04:04:32 PM »
 Frequently I have seeds of tropical fruits which I need to store for a year or so. Living in a tropical area with a lot of humidity,  mold is a problem.   What  easily available agents could be added to the dried seeds without compromising the germinative power of the seeds to avoid this problem?.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Soursop varieties?
« on: September 12, 2020, 03:56:38 PM »
 I have these  type Soursop each weighing around Six (6) Kg. They are quite sweet and do not have much fibre. Great as juice, for making a mousse or an Ice Cream. Any  help on classifying criteria of this variety ?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Soursop varieties?
« on: September 12, 2020, 03:53:51 PM »
 I have these  type Soursop each weighing around Six (6) Kg. They are quite sweet and do not have much fibre. Great as juice, for making a mousse or an Ice Cream. Any  help on classifying criteria of this variety ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Araza jam recipe
« on: July 24, 2020, 08:51:29 PM »
Araza like guava fruit has a lot of pectin. I make araza jam by  :  1  Wash fruit  well   2. Cut in half    3 Cook with some water in pressure cooker to make them soft 4. After cooling , mash the fruit and pass through a sieve to remove the seeds.  Discard the seeds.  5. Measure volume of filtered material and add equal volume of sugar.  6. Cook under fire untill the mixture thickens with the jam consistency.  7. Fill in glass jars.
When cool store in refrigerator.  Thicker the jam, it lasts longer

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