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The property is about 120 miles away and my connections are tenuous.Garcinia dulcis rootstock would be hard to get as they are not very popular.I will try to get there and take snaps and it would be good to have some dulcis of suitable size to graft both male and female sections on.Getting seeds which presumably have a 50:50 sex ratio would be a good first step.
Mike, did you ask about the possibility of grafting onto faster growing garcinia. G. dulcis is so slow that I wouldnt expect it to make a great rootstock and seed grown would overtake the grafted plants in minutes. How about something like yellow mangosteen or G. warrenii - it seems to be fast growing and bulletproof.Another collector here has a grafted one, but its a few years off fruiting yet. From talking to him about his plant, the grafted ones can take quite a while (up to 2 years) to really do anything much.
Oscar,Bmc I have tried wild warrenii a number of times and it peaks at somewhere less than ordinary.I would need a more fertile imagination and go on a limb to detect mangosteen.They actually get to be a fairly big tree.