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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Update on Russells Sweet Garcinia
« on: March 18, 2015, 11:40:57 AM »
Quote from: Raulglezruiz on March 17, 2015, 11:14:22 PM
David; did you get the Lancetilla seedling from a seed of a fruit of that single tree in Lancetillas park? Luc and me  went through tons of fruits with no such Luck of finding even a single one!!.......

Raul I believe we are talking about the same tree, I remember the tree being solitary. And ya I got the seed out of the one fruit I ate. Maybe I got lucky and found the one fruit that had a seed? Idk what to tell you lol.

I only have one, unbranched seedling, I actually gotta see if I find it now. I didn't remember it being fantastic especially compared to the  fruit I ate at CATIE, so i sorta let it go by the wayside. But based on your report maybe ill put it in the ground.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Fruit Lover's Nursery Seed and Scions
« on: March 18, 2015, 10:54:22 AM »
How old is this seedling?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Porcelia macrocarpa (rare annona from brazil, scant flesh, nice taste)
« on: March 18, 2015, 08:34:00 AM »
Adam!!! Why do yours grow so well!!! The two you gave me have been miserable...also one of them just up and dropped all it's leaves like literally wilted for no reason and went bear. I'm hoping it'll re-leaf because it has happened before

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Any word on work done to create a Jakfruit x Breadfruit hybrid?
« on: March 18, 2015, 08:31:32 AM »
I heard there was even a red breadfruit, so I wouldn't doubt that they will eventually find a cold hardy one

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Chrysophyllum imperiale germination
« on: March 18, 2015, 08:29:16 AM »
Lol sorry oscar my phone autocorrected Morton to Horton I guess.

Idk bout imperiale seeds, but i know that star apples seeds that were dried for 2 months at least sprouted readily.

It's possible that this is not a characteristic shared across the genus.

Either, back to the original topic, plant them like anything else popper. If they don't sprout it's the cause the seeds weren't viable. Also be patient, seeds that have been even a little bit dries usualy take significantly longer to sprout

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Chocolate tree.
« on: March 17, 2015, 09:05:27 PM »
Ya serious a 1 gallon cacao should cost you 5-10 bucks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Update on Russells Sweet Garcinia
« on: March 17, 2015, 08:48:36 PM »
Quote from: Raulglezruiz on March 17, 2015, 02:45:13 PM
Wen in Lancetilla Luc and me, found in the Lancetilla Botanical Garden created by Dr Wilson Pope not  this tree in the middle of the garden,  I remember it was a Garcinia, that is all,  I can't recall if there was a sign on the tree or not, but always when I read the  reviews of the Russell's it reminds me this fruit,  orange color, about same size,  this Lancetilla Garcinia has a delicious sweet flavor with a tangy note at the end, the flavor reminds me a bit a sweet loquat, and little beat of apricot, juicy semifirm, we ate a ton of them as the tree was loaded, delicious, we pick them for the ground, the bad part is that they only had a few flat small aborted seeds, it was a single tree,  unfortunately at that time we were more rookies than now,  so we never had the idea of cutting scion for grafting!  Is a shame as of all the fruit we sample those days in the garden that was the one I like the best,  hopefully I'll comeback someday for this bad boy!  MIKE please look at the pics and tell us what you think, Popenoe brought most of the fruits from Asia that is why I think this Garcinia is from there and not from America,
 Lancetilla Garcinia




Russell's from Mike





I have a trees from a similar fruit. I got it at the CATIE garden in Costa Rica. I've eaten the one at lancetilla and have one slow growing seedling from that tree and the CATIE one is bigger and sweeter but still with a tang. But I believe that it's not the same as Russell.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Chrysophyllum imperiale germination
« on: March 17, 2015, 08:41:09 PM »
I got a bunch of star apple seeds and they came bone dry and all were floating when I soaked them. I planted them any way all of them sprouted.

Also I think Horton says seeds last 6 months

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Available seeds of rare species of the Amazon forest. **March 2015**
« on: March 17, 2015, 01:19:48 PM »
D. confinis you say?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Chrysophyllum imperiale germination
« on: March 17, 2015, 10:01:29 AM »
Oscar, Star apples seeds are semi orthodox, they can remain viable up to a year, even after drying. Isnt it safe to assume Imperiale would share this trait?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Chrysophyllum imperiale germination
« on: March 16, 2015, 11:24:15 PM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on March 16, 2015, 08:37:03 PM
Quote from: Popper121 on March 16, 2015, 07:21:19 PM
There a way to tell if they are good?

David

Soak in water, they should sink to bottom,not float.

I second that, but plant all of them anyway. Ive had caimito seeds float and then sprout anyway

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rollinia deliciosa picked today
« on: March 16, 2015, 03:57:21 PM »
Here is a question, do all Rollinias get the black marks on the outside when they are ripe? Is there a way to prevent that, I feel like that's another problem with commercializing this fruit

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Chrysophyllum imperiale germination
« on: March 16, 2015, 03:31:59 PM »
Put them in commercial potting soil, water them, wait.

I doubt anyone or very few people on the forum have any direct experience with Imperiale. But Chrysophyllum seeds are A) generally pretty tough and B) pretty easy to germinate. So don't worry to much, I doubt you need to do anything special if the seeds are good.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Palm Beach Rare Fruit Tree Fruit Sale March 28, 2015
« on: March 16, 2015, 07:45:21 AM »
Anyone from miami going? Want to carpool? Send me a message. I have a cargo van so I'll drive

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: New: fruit ginalon
« on: March 16, 2015, 07:36:30 AM »
tell us about the fruit

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« on: March 13, 2015, 11:00:10 PM »
Quote from: bangkok on March 13, 2015, 10:53:52 PM
Adam should have grown the durian in full soil, not in a pot. Soil temp stays a few degree's warmer under grond. At a depth of about 70-80 cm soil rarely freezes or it has to be in Siberia. In Holland the waterlines are dug 70 cm deep and never freeze.

So now it's Mike fault right?





I don't think he reads what we post

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Accidental Mango Hybridization (?)
« on: March 13, 2015, 04:48:38 PM »
I saw its likely you'll get some hybrids, but unless you have access to gene sequencer or you hand pollinate and cover the flowers you can be certain.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Diversity or Diversity
« on: March 13, 2015, 11:07:55 AM »
Quote from: JF on March 13, 2015, 10:58:40 AM
I love diversity but if I try the fruit and its so so I'm done with......actually I like to see fruits grow more than eating them

I love eating fruit but there is a please watching them grow. The first time my jak fruit tree fruit I would go every day to look at the fruit. Btw I love jaks but I dont know what you guys do with 20-30 jak fruit trees (there someone on the forum who name escapes me that I know has like 30 trees) my one fruiting jak tree gives me fruit for half the year and I can't come close to eating it all. Idk what I am gonna do what my other 6 trees start fruiting.

I have a wampee and white sapote fruiting for the first time this year, I check them all the time just to watch the fruit grow

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Richard Campbell Pruning and Fertilization Horticulture Class for Fairchild Volu
« on: March 13, 2015, 10:57:53 AM »
Ya in my experience, unless your pile of horse manure is then dump truck size range, it should burn out in 3-4 days, especially if your spread it


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« on: March 13, 2015, 09:03:34 AM »
I've seen website that have said it should be easy to grow durian in florida. And tons of other ridiculous things. Do what you want bangkok and if by some miracle you get a keledang or pedalai to fruit in 5 years or in a potwe will make you president of the forum and you will rule decree.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Diversity or Diversity
« on: March 12, 2015, 10:41:15 PM »
Ive only removed two healthy trees well planted trees. A june plum and a sterile white mulberry.

I love growing delicious things. For example, the first time I ate a raypoza mango I thought it was so delicious I went out of my way to get a tree right away.

But I think my favorite part of growing fruit trees is growing fruits that I would never otherwise get to try.

My first four plants were a seedling avocado, seedling longan, and two seedlings mamoncillos

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Diversity or Diversity
« on: March 12, 2015, 09:51:54 PM »
I've noticed that there are two types of collectors on this forum. Those of us who prefer species diversity, Im in this category, I am happy with a couple good cultivars of mango and avocado and jak and save alot of space for other species that don't have cultivars. Wild species that someone would probably never get to try unless you just happened to be in the jungle in which they grow at the right moment.

And then there are those who are really into one species or a couple species. Like Don who collects all the mangos he can find or Carlos and his avocados

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Surprises around campus today.
« on: March 12, 2015, 09:36:17 PM »
The leaves look like Jabo, but the trunk doesnt.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Richard Campbell Pruning and Fertilization Horticulture Class for Fairchild Volu
« on: March 12, 2015, 09:33:12 PM »
Im sorry can you expand upon what he said about horse manure? Cause I use it heavily and imho it only takes a week to be sufficiently composted to use

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« on: March 12, 2015, 09:22:12 PM »
In my experience with growing fruit trees I gotta side with Oscar. Ive grown quite a few seedlings of different species and grown them under great conditions.

Rarely does a seedling tree fruit quickly, even ones that are predicted to fruit in 5 years.

Bangkok you can be optimistic, but I think Oscar is right, if you really want to get it to fruit that quickly, graft the trees, it might even have a dwarfing affect.

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