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yes! and It's very tasty if you harvest it at complete ripeness when fruit becomes fully red with soft creamy flesh

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Satha, the fruit is tasty and extremely healthy.
Don't get fooled by the fact that it's a humble tree.
This fruit is grossly undervalued and has a big potential in terms of health benefits.

The phytochemical analysis of bunchosia fruit extract showed the presence of several bio-active compounds with antimicrobial, antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidant, anticancer, anti-inflammation activities.

Read this:
http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201600114452

Can you imagine a content of 16mg of lycopene /100g of fruit?  :P






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I've also fresh seeds of  bunchosia glandulifera.
They germinate easily and fruit in about 1 year

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How far apart should papaya be planted?
« on: October 09, 2017, 04:28:28 AM »
For my experience 2x2 meters is good enough. If you wanna give them more "comfort 2.5x2.5 meters

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OK good to know i'll do the same with Raul's seeds

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help mature lemon tree has never fruit
« on: October 05, 2017, 11:55:57 PM »
It's amazing, maybe the stress will induce it to flower and reproduce

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Thanks for the advice Josh!
Your seedlings were healthy and not etiolated?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado thread
« on: October 04, 2017, 09:14:12 PM »
Rooting avocado cutting is difficult for my experience

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help mature lemon tree has never fruit
« on: October 04, 2017, 09:07:50 PM »
That tree is in the soil and it's a big one!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help mature lemon tree has never fruit
« on: October 04, 2017, 06:48:29 AM »
It will fruit Mike.
All lemons fruit soon or later (given that the growing conditions are right).
The problem is that overcoming its juvenile period can take many years.
And until that so long awaited moment has come you don't know what kind of fruit to expect  ;D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: outstanding eugenia uniflora flowering
« on: October 03, 2017, 05:30:48 AM »
Thanks  ;)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: outstanding eugenia uniflora flowering
« on: October 03, 2017, 12:29:45 AM »
Indeed. I have been collecting as many different types as I can find.
But where I live we have cold winters... so all my plants are in containers.

So far the Uniflora species is my favorite.
Here's a shot of my 2017 Black Stars:



Hey... I think that's me reflected in the left fruit.
No fruit flies here... just birds and cockroaches.

Kevin

Kevin they look so yummy what can you tell me about size and taste?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: outstanding eugenia uniflora flowering
« on: October 02, 2017, 09:54:33 PM »
which is the variety you prefer? I mean the best tasting one according  to your experience

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jackfruit marcotting air layering
« on: October 02, 2017, 09:45:37 PM »
I went for approach grafting in 2 steps:
First I experimented with the many available seedlings and I created a triple rootstock little tree

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=24861.msg291945#msg291945

Now that my seedling is very health i will try to top work it grafting with the addult jackfruit of the desired variety.
In the same time i've the same experiemt ongoing with chempedak but loooking much more difficult...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado thread
« on: October 02, 2017, 09:27:00 PM »
unfortunately i've no pine needles available here but i collect and treasure every single avocado leaf and i spread them gently around every tree covering them with some stone to prevent wind to wipe them away.
I've the same situation as yours, a thick net of creamy-colored feeding roots just under the leaves :-)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help mature lemon tree has never fruit
« on: October 02, 2017, 09:23:28 AM »
Your leaves look a little pale and may be lacking in some of the micro and trace elements. Applying an ultrabloom type fertilizer in early Spring may get your tree to start fruiting.

Simon

Simon, ultrabloom as in high P, typical of that marketing scheme.  Don't care of the food has micros, if it is a high P food like a 10-55-10, it will induce micro deficiencies.  P is one the most over rated and abused macros thanks to the marketing efforts of vendors who hawk P just because it's needed for good blooming.  Hell, they all are.  :D


Thank for the hint Mark, i feel ashamed that being a chemist i've never thought before about this P issue before!  :-[

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No Raul don't do it with your seedlings!
Your trees will be longer but "etiolated"
Same efects like a tree growing in a dark place with not enough light.
That's exactly what i'm afraid of!

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Citrus General Discussion / Pomelo - citrus maxima grafting
« on: October 01, 2017, 10:41:37 PM »
I've some scions of a good pumelo but no available rootstock at time.
Is it possible to grafto onto a ponderosa lemon?
The lemon is in full growing stage, is cleft graft a good choice?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help mature lemon tree has never fruit
« on: October 01, 2017, 10:39:21 PM »
Lemon seedlings can take VERY LONG to fruit especially in warm tropical climate as yours.

I had a seedling who did the same before: 5 years old full of thorns and with an upright canopy




It's even worse if your lemon has some water/nutritional deficiencies, it will take centuries to fruit.
I advice you to remove the big thorny suckers that grow upright at the base of branches

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado thread
« on: October 01, 2017, 09:45:49 PM »
YES! those tiny feeder roots are the source of your avocado health

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I mean soaking the seeds will not have any adverse effects on the future seedlings right?
I know that gibberellins can have an "elongating"  "gianting" effect on plants.

Lok these 2 cabbage plants treated with gibberellic acid compared to the dwarf control on the left




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I knew the question about germination would come up sooner or later , so, just for fun , I soaked some of my own ( white pulp ) in about 300 pm Ga3 for 24 hours . Planted them on 9/17/17 germinated yesterday 9/29/17 ......That's 12 days guys ....no BS....

Luc, the Gibberellic acid doesn't damage the newborn seedlings?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Surinam Cherry
« on: October 01, 2017, 09:54:27 AM »
Goodluck i hope they will be delicious :-)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Surinam Cherry
« on: September 29, 2017, 10:20:17 PM »
If your Surinam-Cherries are seedlings, they are NOT named varieties, until they have fruited, been considered special in some nice way, and then provided with a fresh new name. 

Any seed produced by plant-sex (pollination) is a new variety, and will not be reproducible by seed.

Named varieties must be reproduced vegetatively:  by grafting, by air-layering, etc.

The 'Zill Dark' was selected by Dorothy Zill (wife of the founder of Zill Nursery), and it was named by me, when I saved it by moving it from the original nursery when the place was sold.  Yes, it should be sold as grafted plants.

It is O.K. to sell seedlings, and it is O.K. to identify which tree the seed came from, just so it is worded to make clear that these are not that named variety.

Absolutely correct and valid in general not just for eugenia uniflora!

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This was really a very very  good one with big and pulpy arlils and  super creamy texture.
 Also the taste was  a bit different, Super sweet with a light vanilla flavour and a very subtle sour hint , one of my favourite ever








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