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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia uvahla ?
« on: August 05, 2012, 04:38:26 PM »



From top to bottom : Uvahla , victoriana , stipitata



Uvahla compared to other pyriformis I have growing :



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia uvahla ?
« on: August 04, 2012, 05:44:04 PM »
Only a blue little square with an interrogation mark Oscar !!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: For the grafting experts.
« on: August 04, 2012, 02:36:23 PM »
Thanks tropicdude , I 'll have to practice more , but the real question was :

I seem to remember reading somewhere that grafting a seedling on a mature tree may produce the same effect.

Like grafting seedlings on a female or male tree in the hope to get the opposite sex and/or making cocktail trees .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / For the grafting experts.
« on: August 04, 2012, 01:46:03 PM »
We all know that grafting ( from a producing tree on a seedling ) will speed up fruiting.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that grafting a seedling on a mature tree may produce the same effect ???

I am looking at this to make cocktail trees and save space.

Unfortunately I am a lauzy grafter...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia uvahla ?
« on: August 04, 2012, 11:38:45 AM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on August 03, 2012, 10:57:55 PM
If you look at tradewinds page also says Eugenia uvalha aka Eugenia pyriformis.

I agree about it being a pyriformis Oscar . I couldn't open your picture btw.

Soren , you will be surprised by the size of the fruit in a few years..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passionfruit showdown
« on: August 04, 2012, 11:25:30 AM »
What are you guys doing with the quadrangularis , so much waste once the pulp is out... One day I chopped one up , cooked and mixed with the juice of an acid passion fruit , was a nice marmalade ...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia uvahla ?
« on: August 03, 2012, 08:02:16 PM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on August 03, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
Quote from: luc on August 03, 2012, 06:49:35 PM
Today I picked the biggest fruits so far , 8 cm in diameter  , super acid with the nicest apricot smell and flavor , I was gonna post these but they were stolen while unloading the pick up .....

Still I am not 100% sure that this small bush was correctly ID'd , they look like an oversized E. stipitata , more fuzzy and orange , different in taste also . They are definitely not the E. victoriana , leaves are different....( victoriana keeps on flowering and no fruit ....)
Fruit is not round or pear shaped....and fruits several times a year.

Googling the uvahla says fruits are 1 to 2"...I give up and leave it to the experts ..you guys....


Yeah Luc, it sounds like stipitatata. But you can tell for sure from this photo. Leaves on left are victoriana and on right are stipitata. I think stipitata fruits are much bigger and more flattened in shape than uvalha.



Not a stipitata Oscar , leaves are totally different ( see tradewindsfruit picture of Uvahla ) and the fruit resembles but not the same , I have been comparing them for a few years now. The only other thing it has in common with stipitata is that the 6 to 8 seeds are spread all over the fruit like stipitata . Also it is a dwarf bush not really tree .
I really think it is some kind of piryformis

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Eugenia uvahla ?
« on: August 03, 2012, 06:49:35 PM »
Today I picked the biggest fruits so far , 8 cm in diameter  , super acid with the nicest apricot smell and flavor , I was gonna post these but they were stolen while unloading the pick up .....

Still I am not 100% sure that this small bush was correctly ID'd , they look like an oversized E. stipitata , more fuzzy and orange , different in taste also . They are definitely not the E. victoriana , leaves are different....( victoriana keeps on flowering and no fruit ....)
Fruit is not round or pear shaped....and fruits several times a year.

Googling the uvahla says fruits are 1 to 2"...I give up and leave it to the experts ..you guys....

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Garcinia gardneriana
« on: August 03, 2012, 06:06:30 PM »
Quote from: Berto on August 03, 2012, 02:05:05 PM
Luc,
I grow them I find them to be sloooow, specially the first few years!  One new leaf now and then!  I also grow bacupari miudo (garcinia brasiliensis) and this one is not in a hurry, at all!  Extra sloooooooooooooow in the juvenile stage!  However, when they become adult, it is everbearing.  My friend has a tree and every time I see it, it has flowers and ripe fruit hanging all year around, here in Fort Myers.

And some people are complaining about mangosteen !!!
Yes the G. brasiliensis is a wonderful small tree , I wait till the fruit turns orange to eat them , sweet lemony taste.
Today I wanted to take pictures of some other Garcinias to post to the forum ( cochichinensis etc... ) but it started to rain by the bucket..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Did somebody ever heard of maya mangoes?
« on: August 03, 2012, 05:56:45 PM »
Quote from: Berto on August 03, 2012, 01:49:20 PM
Dead serious!
I have one glenn that produces approx. 250 mangoes every year.  I keep it at 12 feet high and 15 feet spread.
I still have frozen mango pulp from last year!!!  I need help from Montreal! S'il vous plait!


I gotta start using a good toxic pesticide on my mangos , if I don't cut them green half of it has worms as soon as the rains start.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passionfruit showdown
« on: August 03, 2012, 05:45:18 PM »
Quote from: jez251 on August 03, 2012, 02:08:11 PM
Quote from: luc on August 03, 2012, 01:19:43 PM



The Passiflora in the pic is between 5 and 6" , also have a yellow one , both are from Brazil improved by Embrapa .


Luc,

How's the flavor of the red? let me know if you have some seeds to sell...

Jaime


Jaime contact me in private .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passionfruit showdown
« on: August 03, 2012, 05:41:03 PM »
Quote from: Mike T on August 03, 2012, 02:59:09 PM
luc what a beauty, the latest two I posted are about 485g but together.Is that one supersweet with musky overtones and deep orange pulp? There seems to have been lots of breeding and selecting going on in Australia but not so much for size.

No Mike they are all acid / sour , that's what the market wants ( restaurants , Ice cream and filling for pralines ) personally i love the sweeter ones ( P. maliformis produces almost year round )
Fredericks didn't do well for me , maybe too hot ???
Waiting now how the quadrangularis x alata cross will turn out , fruits are forming now.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passionfruit showdown
« on: August 03, 2012, 05:21:22 PM »
Quote from: Berto on August 03, 2012, 01:58:01 PM
Go Embrapa!  They know maracuja!
I think my yellow ones, this year,  will be close to 500 grams each!  Very close!
Luc, have you heard or "farinha de casca de maracuja" (passion fruit peel/skin  flour)?  Wow!  http://www.oca-brazil.com/Herbspassionfpeel.htm


Yes Berto my yellow ones are also a lot heavier than the red , I never weighted them ...
It looks like this year they pollinated my regular edulis and made them 2x the normal size . Great since everything I can produce is sold , so I kinda doubled the money ( still not enough to cover the cost of the nursery I am setting up , a 2 man thing , my son and I )

Interesting this flour .....I wonder how they make it ? And then there are also the leaves that I use sometimes as a tea ...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passionfruit showdown
« on: August 03, 2012, 01:19:43 PM »



The Passiflora in the pic is between 5 and 6" , also have a yellow one , both are from Brazil improved by Embrapa .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Garcinia gardneriana
« on: August 03, 2012, 11:51:20 AM »
6 years old ( seeds collected in Brazil in November 2006 ) between 50 and 60 cm tall now . The tree I got them from was only about 2 meters tall .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Garcinia gardneriana
« on: August 02, 2012, 07:58:25 PM »
Who else is growing this one ? Is one of my slowest growing Garcinias .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Germinating Marula Seeds (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: August 01, 2012, 08:42:37 PM »
Seems like Marula is not a rare fruit anymore ! Male and female needed , I planted 3 together in the same planting hole , only one grew to be 4 - 5 meters now , the other 2 stayed really small .
Any idea how many years from seed to fruit ?

Oscar how did they fake the animal video ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Muntingia calabura
« on: August 01, 2012, 08:15:23 PM »
I'll try that Oscar , just to prove I can do it .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Muntingia calabura
« on: August 01, 2012, 04:48:11 PM »
Every day I walk past 5 of these when walking the dogs and always marvel at the amount of fruit ( almost year round ) They are probably the most productive fruit trees I know and really nice to nibble on ...
After trying , just for fun , numerous times and unsuccessful to reproduce them from seeds and also finding almost no volunteer seedlings , I am starting to believe these seeds have to pas the digestive system of a bird or so to be able to germinate......????
The fruits here are very sweet and one centimeter diameter , if they could be improved to double that size everybody should grow one...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« on: July 31, 2012, 03:34:00 PM »
To Floridagreenman :  Also in this group, are those Mangos grown in places like Peru and Mexico that are picked a month before they
are mature, then refrigerated, hot dipped according to USDA requirements and sold here in Florida and elsewhere
in the US for 50cts to $1. The vast majority of these are HORRIBLE 

You should try the same fruits ripened on the trees here !!!!

My list :

Temperate fruits:

The good old fashion white peaches my grandma used to grow back home in Belgium
Pears idem as above
Plum ' Reine Claude '
Cherries
The strawberries I used to grow back home

Tropical fruit :

Durion and Chempedak
Marang and Mangosteen
Litchee
Mango
Several Eugenias , Myrciarias and Plinia edulis

Since there is still a lot of fruits that I have not tasted yet , this list may change over the years.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Macomba and Mangosteen
« on: July 30, 2012, 11:19:21 AM »
Oscar , are you letting your pataxte growing or do you top them ?

Great looking plants Tropicdude , 2 dollars for a mangosteen , what a deal !!!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Quiz: Can you guess my name 2?
« on: July 30, 2012, 10:44:46 AM »
Quote from: jez251 on July 30, 2012, 09:28:33 AM
Easy...

Chlorophora tinctoria !

Jaime

If that's what it is Jaime , I have never noticed this tree around here . ( Puerto Vallarta area , Mexico )
I was joking about the cuttings Sergio !

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Quiz: Can you guess my name 2?
« on: July 29, 2012, 08:31:07 PM »
OK Sergio , give us a break , doesn't look like Soren's and would be way too fast....it is a mulberry type ...right ....anyway , you can send me cuttings the end of August when I am in Belgium ..LOL

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can you ID this ? A Baobab maybe ?
« on: July 28, 2012, 08:22:38 PM »



Sorry here's the pic.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Can you ID this ? A Baobab maybe ?
« on: July 28, 2012, 08:21:14 PM »
I have the bad habit of planting every seed that comes in my path and not always marking the pot or nursery bag , most of the time I remember....but this one no idea...

The reason I mentioned a Baobab is that it came up in a planter where I planted baobab seeds a long time ago.

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