26
Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Rare Amazonian fruits
« on: April 17, 2017, 01:53:55 PM »
Dada: can you give more information about the fruits? Taste, size, amount of pulp, etc. THanks. F.
The Internet's Finest Tropical Fruit Discussion Forum!
"All discussion content within the forum reflects the views of individual participants only and do not necessarily represent the views held by the Tropical Fruit Forum as an organization."
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
They're slow till they get 5-6 feet tall, but then really take off. You can prune them same way as mango once they take off.
Cut nut (Barringtonia edulis)
Anyone growing it ? Does it have any cold tolerance ?
Anybody has Annona purpurea/ Sancoya seeds for sale?
Not the season now , contact me in October for fresh seeds .
How long will it take for seeds to sprout? I planted them a couple weeks ago but nothing yet.
haha yah, as an experiment, I laid down sulfur pellets at the rate of about 4 tons per acre and ended up with soil that registered between 2 and 3 on the pH meter. The pH is now in the 4's due to irrigation with canal water. Surprisingly, the only trees that died were about 1/2 of the annona species I had planted out.Jeff: Where did you buy the Sulphur? Is there a source for truckloads of Sulphur in SFla? Thanks. FedericoWhat's wrong with sulfur?
Nothing if you monitor the soil's pH with a good pH meter AND more importantly know how to test your soil the right way, which few do - using deionized water as a carrier in the jar. Witnessed a friend's yard burn up when he got heavy handed on the sulfur. Pastules are an easy way to distribute but they are stubborn when it comes to breaking down. I've found that it takes a couple of years but at least it won't burn things up in most cases.
Luc and Alexandre Neles: Thanks for ruining my daySeriously, thanks for the info on PInsignis...I have two 3-year old PInsignis at about 3 ft height and I was so excited they were doing well outdoors in Miami, only to learn that they need crosspollination and take over 9 years to fruit...
ANeles: I've heard they are usually grafted in BR; is this correct/easy? Maybe this is an option for me if I can get some scions. How tall are your 9-year old trees? I saw a video a while back and I think they had some 9ft tall trees fruiting, but I don't know their age.
Luc: I imagine the more trees you have the better for cross-pollination, but do you think a couple of trees may suffice, I don't know how crosspollination/flowering works in this species. Also, maybe grafting scions of different trees on one seedling could work like crosspollination (?)..
Congratulation.
I know it has been three years since you started growing platonia insignis but , do you remember how long they took to emerge from the soil ?.
Seriously, thanks for the info on PInsignis...I have two 3-year old PInsignis at about 3 ft height and I was so excited they were doing well outdoors in Miami, only to learn that they need crosspollination and take over 9 years to fruit... Ricardos seeds are fine.This is a difficult species.I received platonias from 5 sources in the last year and only had one germinate.
Dear Mike , for your information , P. insignis needs cross pollination in order to fruit .....so 1 tree won't do .
Seriously, thanks for the info on PInsignis...I have two 3-year old PInsignis at about 3 ft height and I was so excited they were doing well outdoors in Miami, only to learn that they need crosspollination and take over 9 years to fruit... Hello Federico,
Be careful with this W.Acida, I brought about 40 fruits from Manaus, and germinated 120 seeds, germinate very easily, but with the cold winter, most died, I think they do not like cold wind.
It is a fruit with a very strange taste, something like a melon.I couldn't get any of my W. elmerii to sprout last year. Really had same problem with all willoughbeias. Was anybody succesful?I have only successfully germinated Willughbeia acida from SAmerica (sprouted in bag with humid peat moss and fungicide). WAcida is doing fine as a small plant. I have not been successful with any Borneo willughbeias (and I have tried several times, different species); the seeds get black/rotted. I think it's hard to get the ideal temperature/humidity range. .
I couldn't get any of my W. elmerii to sprout last year. Really had same problem with all willoughbeias. Was anybody succesful?I have only successfully germinated Willughbeia acida from SAmerica (sprouted in bag with humid peat moss and fungicide). WAcida is doing fine as a small plant. I have not been successful with any Borneo willughbeias (and I have tried several times, different species); the seeds get black/rotted. I think it's hard to get the ideal temperature/humidity range. .
It may be a hybrid but my experience here is its less hardy than my lucuma moist and dry races, campechina, eerwah, australis , viridis, macrophylla, macrocarpa, slightly less hardy than multiflora but more hardy than my caimito, guinanensis and maybe on par with torta sp glabra.Druss: That's good information.