oh hell ya, u got the old school shirt...that thing is worth $100 now bro...vintage...

the aframomum seeds i got from Soren are flowering now, after about 6-7yrs...hoping they set fruits!

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to drop in and say I love you.

And I wish I had the energy to respond to every email inquiry, but I don't.

I choose to run a small operation by myself with no employees for now, and want to produce as many trees as I can.   I have been doing this full time for a while now, 110% dedicated to Plinias and rare fruit trees...and I have no intentions of slowing down.

For now, I will be selling on ebay, mostly through the auction process (I will post a link to my ebay store below).

Soon i hope to get my website revamped, and also maybe hire a friend to field my email inquiries, and help ship.

In the meantime, there seems to be some amazing new sources for grafted Plinias popping up to help satisfy demand.  Most of them are in FL, TX, and CA, and are people I've known for years, or personally have met, and i think highly of them all...be sure to check out some other nurseries.  (if you are grafting Plinias -or rare fruit-, and have supported my nursery in the past, go ahead a post a shout out to me here, so people can find you, and your products.  I will allow you to post once to get your name out to my customers).

Once again, i just wanted to drop in, and express my love for everyone who has been so excited and supportive over the years....i can't think of any other hobby/profession/past time, that has the capability of bringing so many people together, from so far around the world, and of so many languages/cultures, and age groups.  I'm so thankful to know you all, and to have the opportunity to share ideas, and food with you. 

I don't think of rare fruit growing as a hobby, or even a profession, it's more a way of living, and i think more people every day are seeing the value in growing their own food, and keeping fruit trees, which are in a sense, appreciating assets.

I'm really excited to share some more ideas, and rare plants with you soon.  I have many new varieties I've selected that are being evaluated, and slated for release!! 

Yours truly,


Prince of Plinia

https://www.ebay.com/usr/flyingfoxfruits

first grafted Plinia sp. "Anomaly" to be offered for auction:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/192914628039

just got a refractometer, and started testing some fruits for brix %.

was pleasantly surprised to see Anomaly topping the charts, and beating any brix % i can find reference to on the internet in abstracts or web sites that have data on Plinia brix %.

the highest I've seen is about 16.5-17.5%  cited by other sources.

i tested some red jabos, some picked slightly early, some picked when ripe, but I have not tested them when super ripe.  The highest readings for red jabo i got so far were about 15-16%...

the anomaly came in at about 20%, maybe just a hair higher, but they were absolutely dead ripe, perfect stage.

to give a you an idea of some other brix % i got for the day, Pitangatuba 7-8%, Sapodilla "makok" 25%, pitanga black seedling 15%, pitanga zill dark grafted 19%, pitanga dasyblasta 22%, everglades tomato 7%, eugenia calycina 20%, thai dwarf mulberry 10%.

anomaly fruits are the two on the left, they have green splotches, even when totally ripe.  The red jabos are the two on the left, they were picked just a bit early, but were still very sweet.  I'm sure i would be able to get a slightly higher brix% if they were super ripe.

brix% for red jabo slightly early stage, approx 16%

perfectly ripe Anomaly fruit impressive 20% brix

yea looking back at when i started this thread, i've changed quite a bit, i like surinam cherries now for sure, i used to hate them....and still don't enjoy the resin flavor, but some just taste better than others (have less offensive resin)....they are so easy to grow, i have them grafted, and planted all over my farm

My wife's friend was visiting and wanted to try a Surinam cherry. We have a ton of them and they are the awful kind that make you kind of angry when you bite into one. Before I could warn her and tell her to take only a little nibble, she popped the entire thing in her mouth and went to chewing. I waited for her disgust, but it never came. She actually liked it, and wanted more. I was speechless. Thought she was messing with me at first.

She's getting noni next time! That's the nastiest fruit I've almost tried, as cannot get past the smell to actually taste test it.

it's probably calycina...smell the flowers, they are my favorite

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09_Rpoq9lb6oSu9KzoDgkpez_W6X10I_

i have fruited Tucum, and i believe there is no way possible the fat content is in the pulp.

it must be in the seed embryo, the proper way to enjoy them is to let them get full sized and green, then you can split them open and eat the inside of the seed, which is similar in texture/taste to coconut.

I guess there's some shit you just can't find in a book...it's up to some asshole like me to figure it out, and then post it here.

i just realized we are getting close to the 7r mark since grafting, so some should definitely start to put out blooms.

I'm still waiting on mine though.

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on February 08, 2019, 02:16:29 AM

(but i did see my friend's tree that I grafted about 6y ago, start to finally flower...a small, but nice trunciflora about 4ft tall with 3inch caliper, about to bust out with flowers all over...not something u see every day)

Adam, here is a picture mine from probably from the same batch. Your nice graft can still clearly be seen. It's the same height but with only a 1.5 " caliper. I'm encouraged that I might get flowers years sooner than I thought.


Great work Josh! Let us know how they taste.

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one of the trees fruited quite well last year, despite flooding, and the fruit was interesting, very astringent, but i kind of like the, you probably use them for a wine, or cooking..but very easy to grow, and i used it as a rootstock successfully for latifolia

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on January 13, 2019, 04:53:22 PM

Grimal Jaboticaba Seedlings for sale now!

one of the best PLINIAS ever!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Plinia-sp-Grimal-Jaboticaba-Seedling-makes-LARGE-Delicious-FRUITS/192789947990?hash=item2ce32d2656:g:7K0AAOSwHOZcO64x:rk:1:pf:0

Hi Adam, you have a very good price $ 10.98 (+ shipping $ 6.98) as per US terms.

Regards

yes thank you, i have a surplus of this wonderful rare fruit tree now, i have lots of seeds and good germination.

I will be sold out soon, and the price will go up!