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Pm sent Raul.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Apical dominance in soursop?
« on: March 04, 2018, 01:20:14 AM »
I have six trees and this is typical of them all, second year in the ground, interplanted with many other things. I topped and began pruning last year, and this year have added weights from logs and tied them down with string.
Typical unpruned form of soursop:

My raised bed of six trees:

Pruned and tied down to shape:


Have you always kept them outside? I have only 1, about 4ft tall. It was growing inside of my greenhouse, decided to put outside last week and it lost all leaves in a matter of 2 days. The temperature during the night is raising now, next week will be around 45 and I will put it back outside. I won't try to save next year, if don't make it, it wasn't supposed to be here (10A)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Apical dominance in soursop?
« on: March 03, 2018, 08:38:58 PM »
Here’s another short video of how to prune your Soursop. The intention is to keep your plant short with side branches to facilitate the hand pollination.
https://youtu.be/k5E5AxDg3Ac
Hey thanks for this. I was waiting for him to show the next larger size and the next video shows a producing tree.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxQq1FSZ-kQ

He may have mentioned it, but in the Colombian video they mention you need to remove little branchlets which will form along the limbs and start growing. Those are sites which will eventually have flowers. You can see him doing that at 19:00 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6k2ONKDsbw&t=1s

One last difference I see between the Brazilian and Colombian videos is that the ultimate form of the tree in Colombia is low and spreading, not so compact. Compact tipped trees work well for trees which bear on young tips like mango, but Soursop has a different form of branching.  The advantage of long low spreading branches over compact is that the fruit forms on the longer branches and long spreading branches give more fruiting wood along those branches. If branch length is kept short on a compact tree there is less chance for wood that can have those flowers. If they fruit well, tree spacing can be tighter in the tight/compact Brazilian method.



Yes he talks about removing the branchlets because they block sun light and it could bring diseases to the tree (Unaspis citri). He is constantly trimming the end of the branches so they can became hard wood and be able to hold the fruits. Eventually, those trees will have wide and long branches too, just like in the Colombian farm, that's just the beginning of the process and it will take time to achieve that. He talks about in the beginning how you have to shape the plant while they're young, so you can have access to the flowers to hand pollinate.
In the second video you watched, that plant for example is only 2 years old and has already produced fruits. He explains that he is doing that now so they can harvest up to 400lb per plant when the tree is 7,8,9, or 10 years old.

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I just got a package from Brazil and it was extremely fast! I used the EMS MERCADORIA 8-12 days and the package weight was 2840 grams, 6.261Lb for R$227 Reais, about $75. It was posted Feb 19, on Feb 22 was out of customs in Miami, on 24 I received it San Diego. I am very happy with their service using EMS Mercadoria.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Apical dominance in soursop?
« on: March 02, 2018, 10:43:21 PM »
Here’s another short video of how to prune your Soursop. The intention is to keep your plant short with side branches to facilitate the hand pollination.
https://youtu.be/k5E5AxDg3Ac

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You got me excited to place an order, but it looks like they're sold out  :(

I gave up on buying Cherimoyas in local grocery stores as they are fairly expensive ($10/lb) and not that great.

They're selling for almost $10 a lb too.

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I am in the same boat. I grafted my cherimoya with so many different scions past week and I want more! So far I have:
Anona Rosada
Genova Red
Cumbe
Pierce
El Bumpo
La Habra Gold
Randhir
Jumbo AP
Giant Atis
Arka Sahan


Wow thats a lot of grafting.  Please keep an update of how it goes.

Yeah I agree, but I couldn't control myself  :-[
My goal is to have them growing on that tree and later on take some scions to graft on the seedlings I have growing in the greenhouse. I just emailed Adam wondering if I could add 4 more of his Annonas varieties lol.
This video inspired me to do that. Have you watched it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDDN0JodL8U&t=28s

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I am in the same boat. I grafted my cherimoya with so many different scions past week and I want more! So far I have:
Anona Rosada
Genova Red
Cumbe
Pierce
El Bumpo
La Habra Gold
Randhir
Jumbo AP
Giant Atis
Arka Sahan

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticaba Freeze Damage, will it survive?
« on: February 28, 2018, 09:28:29 PM »
Yes it will survive!
Mine started few weeks ago and now is flowering. I am in Oceanside.
"The bark tends to peel off in curls as the trunk and branches expand".



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Well, I posted here before about the Cherimoya that I tried to air layer in December and yesterday I decided to open it, and for my surprise it seems like it could root in few more months.
There's a callous being formed and roots could emerge any time soon.
I don’t think it is “foolproof” as mentioned, I haven’t seen any videos or pics of any successful cherimoya being rooted by air layering, neither cloning.




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Thank you so much!

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Hi Solko.
Thanks for replying.
The fruit is very similar to the pitanga do cerrado but like you said, leaves are different. I sent an email to a Brazilian botanist and I’m waiting for a reply.
Thank you.

I think the Pitanga do cerrado is a different botanical species with a dwarf habit and often a slightly different type of leaves. The one you have looks like Eugenia Uniflora to me, but I am not a botanist.
When you offer seeds for sale it is often helpful to say upfront how sure you are of the identification or wether you are just guessing. There are a lot of varieties of Eugenia Uniflora out there and they can be very different looking from one another. Some of them are reportedly very good!

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Fruit is slightly bigger than a quarter and usually have 2-3 seeds, small fruits have only 1 big one.










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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticaba help
« on: February 25, 2018, 07:21:21 PM »
Roots Organics. I use their entire line and the “Uprising Foundation” would definitely help you.
San Diego Hydroponics carry them, b only $11.

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Hi guys!
I have been harvesting a lot of Pitanga fruits this week and I would like to sell some of the seeds for those interested in something different.
I acquired the seeds in 2011 from a Brazilian friend who lives South of Brazil, in Santa Catarina. The tree produces big fruits, sometimes small too depending of the season. Fruits are very juice and sweet if picked ripe, otherwise the fruit will be a little tart.
 
Price is $9.99 for 15 seeds including shipping to US ONLY! Sorry but I will not be sending it overseas.
Here are some pictures and I'll upload some videos later.
Thank you.












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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Dream Annona Scions SOLD OUT
« on: February 23, 2018, 03:48:58 PM »
I just received them exactly how I was expecting!
Thank you so much.
Luiz


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Exactly! I tried to clone it few months ago, waited for a month and nothing. I also have a cherimoya that I am trying to air layer since beginning of December and no signs. I did use both, Clonex solution and rooting hormone.
 
Books say you have a 5% success rate with air layering. Good luck rooting.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Don't throw away those passionfruit leaves!
« on: February 19, 2018, 10:11:55 PM »


Passion fruit tea is very common in Brazil and also recommended to people who suffers of insomnia.
Great post!

So, I'm trying this for the first time tonight. Observational notes:

1) Raw leaf: too strong for me to eat in a salad or whatnot.  Maybe cooked in some dishes with other strong flavours.

2) Tea taste (I used 5 large P. edulis leaves in an oversized coffee mug of near-boiling water): the first taste I got was just "leaf".  Nothing else.  Kind of unappealing, but not distasteful... just uninteresting.  However,  the more I've been drinking it the more I've been picking up this subtle mint flavour that wasn't there in the beginning.

3) Either this was some crazy timing, or maybe I'm having a very strong psychosomatic effect..... OR, this stuff does exactly what it says on the tin.   I was only a quarter of the way into the mug when I noticed that I felt sleepy.  And not "normal sleepy"; but like something was actively dragging my awakeness level down.  Yet not of the type of effect to cause an imminent "fall asleep at my computer" effect.  I'll just put it this way, I don't think I'll have any trouble falling asleep tonight.  ;)  I also have this sort of heavy and/or tingly effect around my head.... maybe a very tiny bit of that feeling you get when you've had skin numbed for a medical procedure.  But again, not a strong feeling like that.

I definitely have to try this again to see if it's a coincidence or if this is a consistently reproduceble effect.  But so far, I have to say that I'm believing these reports.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First jaboticaba flower buds??????
« on: February 17, 2018, 03:34:06 PM »
Any updates?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can we use egg shells for our fruit trees?
« on: February 16, 2018, 01:37:37 PM »
I grind them using a coffee grinder and sprinkle it over my soil and in my worm🐛 bin. Just don’t rinse the eggshells, keep the protein on it.

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PM sent JF!
Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Big anona Proud producer
« on: February 15, 2018, 12:09:46 PM »
Looks beautiful and I would love to be harvesting some now  ;D
Enjoy it!

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Did you build the Vortex brewing system from scratch or you bought a kit?

If you built it from scratch can you send or post a parts list?

Thank You!

Hello there!
Yes I built it from scratch. Some of the parts I bought online, some at local home depot. I will post or send to you some of the part links if they're still available.
Thanks

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I noticed today my sabara has a few flowers on it. Last year it produced 6 fruit for the first time
in the spring and it is probably around 8-9 years old. I kept expecting it to flower again
but not a year later?

I was reading that on your thread, but you also mentioned that what you believed to be a flower stopped growing, did you get fruits developed?

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