The Tropical Fruit Forum

Quote from: futquinemhl on April 27, 2020, 05:00:31 AM

You still have everything available?

The white jaboticaba are almost ripe.
Everything else is on the list but some seeds are dwindling in numbers.

Well, 3 of the 4 cuttings sent to me by achetadomestica struck, and all 5 seeds sprouted as well, growing nice and strong.

The cuttings:




The seedlings:




As for the seedlings, I’m at a bit of a loss as to how to manage them (crop-wise). I know they come from a line of seed-grown Jatropha that have all turned out edible, but I’m still a little wary of eating their nuts when they start bearing. Logic tells me to just taste ‘em and stop eating if I get gastric trouble, but that only accounts for the phorbol esters. Curcin is the more dangerous toxin by far, but I couldn’t find much information on it out there. What are the symptoms of curcin poisoning? And what is the treatment? Can I just do the whole “eat 1 the first day, 2 the second, etc.” that I would usually do, or is that still capable of poisoning me if the nuts have curcin? Should I just trust that the seedling nuts will be okay and go hogwild eating them?

The edible ones should be edible in their raw state (and I think the parent tree is such), but some toxic types can be eaten roasted... does that take care of the curcin or just the phorbol esters?

I already have the cuttings of the confirmed-edible parent, and I can easily get more cuttings once those trees mature (so... perhaps I don’t need the seedlings?), but I kinda still wanna take care of the seedlings and use them as crops.

Anyone here got any advice?

I've also got 2 keitt trees were just about all the fruitis split looks like MBBS
Very sad,. If I do a severe prunning could that help the chances of getting rid of this diease ?
What about top working the tree, will MBBS infect the new grafts??