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Tropical Fruit Discussion / A picture for Fruitguy
« on: February 04, 2012, 04:47:46 PM »


Posted on Fabebook by the owner of this account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26283648@N06/

BTW, check out his other durian pics!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruits of Africa
« on: February 04, 2012, 08:54:03 AM »
I'm in touch with Anestor, I will tell him. Today I told Chiranjit Parmar. Would be great and a honour if those guys would join us :-)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Taste: Green Sapote vs Mamey Sapote
« on: February 04, 2012, 08:46:50 AM »
Sergio, I don't have much information right now, but I'll keep you updated ;)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: White sapote: how long to get fruit from seed?
« on: February 04, 2012, 08:45:27 AM »
Sergio, WS can be airlayered??

As far as I know, in the spanish mainland you can find Vernon, Dade, Mc Dill and Wooly (C. tetrameria). I not sure if those cultivars are the best taste wise.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Mamey Varieties are you growing in Florida?
« on: February 04, 2012, 05:12:07 AM »
John, please ask him! I'm also very curious about this cultivar...

As I said, I will be able to acquire a Magana and Viejo in a few month. Specially the last one sounds and looks very appealing to me. Also the dwarf growing habit could be positve in my case, because of less wind exposure  8)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: White sapote: how long to get fruit from seed?
« on: February 04, 2012, 05:03:40 AM »
JF, I would think it could be a nutrient issue, but as far as I know WS does not need/like too much water...

BTW, what is the difference between organic and non-organic granules? Marketing?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fertilizer for Cherimoya Tree
« on: February 04, 2012, 04:59:32 AM »
I also fertilize with something like 10-10-10 with micro-nutrients, mainly during spring-summer. Nitrogen apparently does not inhibit fruit production, but makes the tree grow a lot. Maybe that could be a problem for container growing and small yards, but thats not may case..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Taste: Green Sapote vs Mamey Sapote
« on: February 04, 2012, 04:49:49 AM »
Quote from: HMHausman on February 03, 2012, 06:45:37 PM
After I allowed Murahilin to take some budwood for mailing to the Canary Islands, looks like the tree is going to push new growth all up and down the tree.  Would be nice tro see a wayward bloom pop up.
Harry


Harry, I didn't know some GS budwood came from your collection. Thanks a lot for allowing Mura! Muchas gracias  :)

I only know, most mango and some manilkara grafts did take, no information about GS. Here is a two week old picture of the GS-babys:





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruits of Africa
« on: February 04, 2012, 04:32:49 AM »
I want these two:    8)







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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: White sapote: how long to get fruit from seed?
« on: February 03, 2012, 02:20:55 PM »
Quote from: ASaffron on February 02, 2012, 03:29:13 PM
about 3-6yrs depending...not quite certain though...just based on observations here in Central FL for last 6yrs.


A seedling fruiting after 3-6 years? Is think this is very very optimistic, or am I wrong? But I know grafted trees produce very early. I have seen trees flowering and fruiting a few month after grafted.

Ethan, which cultivars do you have? So far, which one tastes the best?

I have some very old trees, which I do not know if were grafted. The I have one which I think is Pike and a Mc Dill. This is the fist one last November:








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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Know Your Poisons- Information On Commonly Used Pest and Herbicides
« on: February 03, 2012, 10:45:56 AM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on February 02, 2012, 04:30:43 PM
In the end remember you will end up eating what you produce. Also often in the application you can get a drop or two of the stuff on your hands, or breathe some of it.  And some of these negative reactions don't show up for years later.
Oscar

I absolutelly agree! Remeber that the industry wants us to buy all the expensive products, so they are not interested in us being aware of the risks and danger of using those chemicals...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Mamey Varieties are you growing in Florida?
« on: February 02, 2012, 03:07:35 PM »
Do you guys know which cultivar is the most productive?

Noel, the TREC in homestead has the greatest collection of cultivars? Do you know how many they have? I thought the greatest collection was in the USDA station in PR...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Mamey Varieties are you growing in Florida?
« on: February 02, 2012, 03:03:48 PM »
Quote from: adiel on February 01, 2012, 10:57:27 PM
No, No, No my friend.  :)  By no means.  Just wanted to see if something else can be grown where I live.
What mameys are you growing Felipe?


Of course I was kidding!  ;)

Currently I'm only growing Pantin and a mexican seedling (the fruit was excellent!). I'm probably will add in 6-12 month Magana and Viejo to my collection...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone tasted or growing this one?? Giant Mexican Sugar Apple?
« on: February 01, 2012, 04:57:06 PM »
Quote from: FloridaGreenMan on January 31, 2012, 10:04:56 PM
Anon is a term used in in Latin America for many types of annonaceous fruits including rollinias.   

In Latin America 50% of all fruits are either called 'zapote' or 'anona'...  :-\

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Mamey Varieties are you growing in Florida?
« on: February 01, 2012, 04:40:48 PM »
This thread is discriminating  ;D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafting Jaboticaba
« on: January 31, 2012, 04:40:30 PM »
Adam, this inga is not identified.  Seeds came from the Domincan Republic...









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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 30, 2012, 04:59:39 PM »
Quote from: Jackfruitwhisperer69 on January 30, 2012, 03:53:31 PM

In South Africa, Marula is king and the rest follow's :), They are absolutely Fantastic!!! Has anyone tried Marula?

So, how did you consume the marula, in natura? I though this fruit was only consumed after procesing...
do you have any pictures of marula fruit/plants?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tropical/subtropical fruit you are not growing
« on: January 30, 2012, 04:53:15 PM »
I think one nice fruit that I'm not growing but could perform in my place is santol.
Then there are some brazilian fruit, which are reported to be great, but I'm not growing. Jaboticaba is my only Myrciaria and so far no fruits (so far it does not grow too much. I thinks it needs more water and humididy).

Rambutan, pulasan, durian, mangosteen are mission imposible aver here..

BTW, I think maprang is overrated in this forum; it's like a mago-flavoured plum, inferior to a decent mango.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Excalibur and Lorito Mamey Sapote Cultivars.
« on: January 30, 2012, 03:46:25 PM »
Here you can see some Pantin mamey in the Island of Tenerife. I think they are 7 years old..










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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New Profile Field! List Your Fruit Trees!
« on: January 30, 2012, 02:05:05 PM »
...Take a look at my list. And I even added all the cultivars and varieties  :-\

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seedling, Caribou Abiu, Pouteria caimito, flowering only 4 ft tall!
« on: January 30, 2012, 11:40:51 AM »
Amigo, I want those scions!  8)

I'll check if my friend in Tenerife have some rootstocks avaible...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New Profile Field! List Your Fruit Trees!
« on: January 30, 2012, 11:38:20 AM »
Mura, great feature, BUT: the window to introduce the fuit trees should be much bigger, or else it is a pain if you have a bigger list of ssp and cultivars.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: can someone please id these 2 mystery seedlings
« on: January 29, 2012, 04:30:01 PM »
passionfruit

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seedling, Caribou Abiu, Pouteria caimito, flowering only 4 ft tall!
« on: January 29, 2012, 04:27:53 PM »
Oscar, do you have experience grating caimito? Easy to graft?

I'm very interested in budwood from that tree...  8)

BTW, do you have somewhere uploaded your great fruit pictures?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Green Sapote: What is the secret to speed up its growth and production?
« on: January 29, 2012, 04:10:36 PM »
So far, my 3 GS seedlings in ground grow at a similar rate as all my other sapotaceas (mamey, caimito, canistel, abiu). Production? We will see...

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