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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Jabo Seeds Grimal and Caipirinha
« Last post by roblack on Today at 03:11:12 PM »
I am hesitant to give JT more positive feedback, as don't want him to get inundated with requests to the point he can no longer help me =)

Having said that, top notch collector and person to work with! So happy with my trees, they are good sized and handling the bright April sun light champs. You rock JT!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« Last post by simon_grow on Today at 03:08:03 PM »
And here’s what the inside looks like when you crack one in half



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« Last post by simon_grow on Today at 03:03:05 PM »
The thinning has begun



My plan on thinning is to remove fruit that are forming on large clusters on the same branch since these will likely bump into each other. I’m going to leave some branches with large clusters and thin some branches heavily to see what the difference is.

Simon
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Jabo Seeds Grimal and Caipirinha
« Last post by palologrower on Today at 03:00:38 PM »
JT is a top class seed/plant seller.  If you want to buy trees, seems like he's been putting out some nice good sized ones lately!
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Do you have a picture of a large prague citsuma plant?
« Last post by drymifolia on Today at 02:50:52 PM »
Has anyone tried rooting cuttings or marcotting? Wonder how vigorous it would be on its own roots.

I grafted four scions of Prague on different rootstocks in my greenhouse in Feb 2023 and all four failed to bud out all year despite staying green. I cut one off thinking it had failed, but the other three are still just sitting there now, green but refusing to bud out. I've never seen anything like it, but I assume it's related to the lack of vigor, or incompatibility with rootstocks (3 were different kinds of mandarins, one was a lemon seedling).

I noticed today that one of the three is showing very slight bud development, so I'm holding out hope. That's the one that's grafted to the central leader of a grafted Pixie mandarin (in the ground in my greenhouse).
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Seeds for sale
« Last post by palologrower on Today at 02:47:48 PM »
Quote from: TropicalPioneers on April 18, 2024, 06:16:04 PM
How good is the Atherton Oak from your experience in terms of growing it

i don't have experience from it. my friend grew it.  he said it took 10 years?  something like that.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: April 2024 seeds - Takini, Fusea longifolia, Parinari, Talisia, etc...
« Last post by Colombo973 on Today at 02:22:26 PM »
Thank you for this interesting information. I would be delighted to have the full article, if you can send it to me by email (colombo403@yahoo.fr).
I had quite a bit of difficulty identifying this species which was declared to me as Takini by certain people of Palikur origin. As I had certain doubts, it was ultimately the Cayenne herbarium which confirmed Helicostylis pedunculata for me by examining my samples. On the other hand, they did not know the vernacular name. There are 6 indigenous nations here, and 6 different languages, which makes things complicated.
I therefore think that the probability is high that the botanical identification is correct but indeed, given this article, the Takini appellation needs to be verified more thoroughly.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Questions about Lilly pilly (syzygium oleosum)
« Last post by elouicious on Today at 02:21:26 PM »
Quote from: Mike T on Today at 06:57:07 AM
The lilly pillies mentioned are the common small cooler climate species but there are dozens of species which are more exciting than that lot. There are 20 or 30 species in my district. Some of the 50m rainforest giants are majestic. S. fibrosum has small but quite nice apple tasting fruits, S.papyraceum has bright coloured fruit, S.wilsoni is very small with lovely pink flowers and I could go on and on. Maybe the more glamorous ones like cormiflorum and suborbiculare would have been better abroad.

Please tell us more!

I love syzygium fruits but am precluded from growing the more tropical ones, would love to get some seeds
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Searching for seeds of Fernandes custard apple
« Last post by zwanif on Today at 02:17:07 PM »
Searching for seeds of Fernandes custard apple
If possible with global shipping
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Citrus General Discussion / I will share my experience about growing annona seeds
« Last post by zwanif on Today at 02:15:14 PM »
First of all annonas maybe one of the most difficult fruits to grow from seed
Why?!
It take time a lot of time
I want to share my small and humble experience with them

First stay patient annonas take a lot of time to germinate
Some will germinate faster in my case the atemoya seeds were fast the cherimoya ones were the easiest
The illama were the most difficult
It doesn't mean that annona seeds will germinate within a month sometimes it takes a lot of time
One month to several months annona seeds are hard shell


Second soak your seeds before planting till they sink
Plant the one who did give them 24 to 72 h

Third depending on your weather covering the seeds with transparency plastic is helpful if you own a mini or big greenhouse well you are good

Fourth use fragile broken soil in my experience heavy soil is so bad for annonas for my case and it depend on your nation and prices I use coco coir alone  or mixed with old broken manure
What you wanna use as soil depends on you it just need to be fragile

Again be patient annonas take time to germinate

Quick tip you can take out some seeds from. Time to time to check if the seeds start to ballon out like getting bigger it means they will soon germinate

Any more advices please help us
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