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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Premium type Mexican Garcinia Scions and seeds..
« on: March 13, 2018, 01:26:51 PM »
Pm sent Raul.
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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:
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.Hey thanks for this. I was waiting for him to show the next larger size and the next video shows a producing tree.
https://youtu.be/k5E5AxDg3Ac
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.
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.
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.

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!




Books say you have a 5% success rate with air layering. Good luck rooting.
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.

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!
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?