This is a great recipe, especially for me ( mostly vegetarian). Thanks for posting!

Hard to get and I only have  six seeds to trade.

Will trade for good Longan Varieties, or a Golden Queen Mango seed.

thanks
s

Mike are you sure this isn't the QLD raspberry--Rubus Moluccanus?

It certainly fits the description and the pictures seem spot on. Very hard to tell from sight with Rubus though.

s

Yes, but it's the less common case.

I had a H. Polyrhizus that put out some flower buds at 1.5ft as a cutting. Unfortunately most of them eventually aborted and the large one got eaten by rabbits or squirrels. I actually got multiple flushes that year. You should keep it well-fed and maybe it'll develop fully.

Last year I rooted a long cutting of Arizona Purple (4ft) in a #1 pot and it flowered and fruited so I gave it away to a friend. That one seems to be self fruiting since It grows in a corner that I don't want to put the effort to get to for hand pollination, yet the fruit set rate is better than anything else I have.

Ok, thanks. I'll give it some cow manure and see what happens. This is a purple variety, too.

Has anybody experienced this before? The cutting is less than a foot long and has two flower buds. Has sent out a decent amount of roots, and appears to be in good health.

s

Seems a shame, all those seeds just going to waste...

How true to type is carambola from seed, anyway? I have a Kary seedling which is doing well, too young to fruit though.

Hope you ended up with some rain today.

s

The other one to look out for is the Russell's Sweet that Mike has posted about. There is a grafted young tree on the south side of town I know of, but its a loner and possibly wont fruit without a pollinator, unless one of the the other 10 or so Garcinia spp in the same garden will pollinate it. The bumpy madruno is supposed to be among the best, and the smallish brasiliensis is well worth growing in a part shade spot as it fruits early and lots to make up for the small size of fruit. I have a large one in a pot which is root bound, but still produces quite well through the warmer months, but the sun knocks back fruit production during really hot patches (like now). Most of the ex-Rheedias are pretty tough if given a bit of shade. The SE Asian Garcinias are generally a lot more fussy and need the right water and humidity year round and truly hate the intensity of the sun here when 0 cloud cover can kill a 6ft parvifolia or mangostana in half a day.

Good sized madruno  came up on ebay a few months ago (a pair actually) and I'm kicking myself now that I didn't buy both, I doubt I'll get the chance again. Madruno is the Garcinia I have commonly seen referred to as 'lemon drop mangosteen'. I might try for some seed.

I've decided I'm going to grow all mine under the shade of the verandah for a very long time, it is simply too hot out here to do anything else. The Achacha was struggling, even with irrigation and a good amount of shade over the course of the light cycle. Luc's garcinia seem to respond very well to greenhouse conditions, both of mine have the beginnings of new foliage after having been relocated. I should really buy a decent sized walk-in, but my gardening budget seems to get chewed up pretty quickly on  procuring plants themselves....

I have bought hundreds of things from alibaba and aliexpress, and in the end, it is a crapshoot. I have never purchased fruit though, I have purchased seeds which turned out to be a scam.

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Quote from: simon_grow on January 02, 2014, 01:13:04 PM

I haven't tasted any of these but like others have mentioned, Lucs Garcinia and Achachairu are compared to purple mangosteen very often, I believe Luc may have said he prefers it over the purple mangosteen.
Simon

No Simon , I never said that , the purple mangosteen is and stays the queen of fruits , or the King of the Garcinias . I have 4 mangosteen in the ground and I must say they are very easy plants , never a problem , they handle my low winter-temperatures very well .

I'm yet to encounter anything as good as purple mangosteen. It's a perfect 10 fruit, for me. Luckily they pop up occasionally in local fruit markets, but they don't come cheap.

I'm going to try growing one again here in the subtropics, I managed to get a seedling going but it died.

Looking to buy cotton candy grape seeds, or will trade for Australian species depending on availability of requested species.

Ok, so I'm a Garcinia guy. Yet to meet one I don't like.

What's the closest thing I can grow in the subtropics to purple mangosteen, taste-wise?

Quote from: starling on December 24, 2013, 01:14:42 AM

I have been given access to a gargantuan apple cactus (cereus peruvianus ) as well as other fruiting cacti I am unable to identify, though one must be a monstrosa I believe. What is the best way to take cuttings? I am only familiar with Hylocereus and opuntia.

thanks
s

A clean cut near a segment joint, when its not raining on a warm day.

ok thanks will do. Do they have a hard internal skeleton-like thing? I'm wondering what sort of tool I should use, just standard hedging shears?