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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafting Ice Cream Bean
« on: February 05, 2019, 02:16:00 PM »
Inga can be hacked back down almost to the ground every year and grow back fine.
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I have a large female Garcinia benthamii which is also 5+ meters tall that will occasionally set the odd miniature seedless fruit that ripens to a light orange colour. The tiny amount of flesh in these fruit has a very pleasant taste, so it would be nice to get some full sized fruit. I too find it hard to cut out such a lovely big tree, next season I will try to use pollen from my G.xanthochymus in an attempt to get fruit set.
Where’s g livingstoneii from? I didn’t think it is from the America’s.
I hope that’s so. I was wondering about that and thinking that maybe they haven’t really proved that with a tree that is isolated for sure. I have two that are planted far from each other, one has flowered lightly twice and the flowers simply fell off. It could also be that certain trees need cross pollination and others no. I have two other South American garcinias that are self sterile or practically so. It’s interesting!
Peter
Any idea on its cold hardiness? Assuming it’s not great if anything like Florida Hass.
These are the first Luc Garcinia fruits out of Mexico.
This year I am picking a bumper crop of Pitangatuba fruits.
But what to do with them?
They are not delicious eaten out of hand.
They smell wonderful.... But they are so sour!!!!!
Since I usually have lemon in my tea I thought I would switch to Pitangatuba instead.
Makes a good substitute.
How are you using Pitangatubas?
Kevin Jones
Thanks Brandon. The fruit was good, but yeah, a little bland. Definitely worth eating. It was a bit snotty in places, so my daughter and I ate a bit and froze the rest for smoothies.
Have another nearly ripe fruit on the tree, still a few flowers, and several small fruits that recently set. Seems to be pollinating better now. I did not do any hand pollination on the recent fruits/flowers.
Water isn't entirely at fault, it's the temperature fluctuation in addition to our dry conditions.
Have you noticed lately it's been in the low 40's in the evening and high 80's in the day?
Yea, that will cause some good cracking to just about any fruit.
Happened to my longans, mangoes, cherimoyas, atemoyas, jujube + many others last year.
The mangoes to go about the size of a child's fist and starts cracking down the center.
Maha, Sia Tong, Okrung, Keo Savoy mangoes.
I'm not sure if you measure your parameters inside your greenhouse, but I try to keep my humidity, temp and CO2/O2 levels at safe levels.
So far it's helping this year, because it is a challenge to grow anything tropical/sub-tropical here in the Bay Area.
Where?
well, i was planning on putting up my property for $10Million because of all the tropical fruit trees i have in the backyard. How often can you find a property that has lychee, longan, banana. cherimoya , mango,etc.. in in your backyard in Northern CA?
40-14 is piña colada .Thanks. That solves that mystery. Planted that PC 5-6 years back.
Hows the fruit? I ordered pina colada from FL a while back and they sent coconut cream. Not sure if it was a mistake or cocnut creme is the improved version? Sorry to derail the seacrest thread although it aounds like that name question is answered.
Holy cow, that's fast. You must be feeding it well.Either that or there is a mistake in his records? My guess it that there is a mistake.I had thought it was older, but Seadation and I tentatively dated it back to 5 years old from seed.
I did some research through old photo's and text. Confirmed my tree is in fact a 2013 seedling. Seadation gave me the small seedling August 3 2013. I planted it right away in ground. It is in an area of my yard that has better soil than the rest of my yard. In an area where the previous homeowner kept pigs and chickens, topsoil is black, and gets irrigation. It is planted between 3 mango trees and a Mulberry, getting 70-80% filtered sunlight, 20-30% direct sunlight for most of its life. I give it some slow release fertilizer, and occasional foliar sprays of the "Patrick mix" ( chelated Iron, Southern Ag citrus spray, occasionally mixed with foliage pro).
Obviously it is happy where it is planted. Seems like a synergistic effect of proper sunlight, water, food, and genetics.