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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherry substitutes
« on: June 25, 2017, 03:52:47 AM »
Have you tried Nanking cherry/ Prunus tomentosa?
It's not sweet like a real cherry, but it's quite tasty and not too sour, my 6 year nephew like it a lot.
Probably sour like a strawberry. The fruit are kinda small however.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wanted: Mexican avocado varieties (Mexicola)
« on: June 24, 2017, 03:35:16 PM »
In Italy you can buy avocado grafted on Walter Hole, which is a mexican variety which should be quite hardy, not as much as mexicola but probably near.
I asked the nursery to send some plants with shoots of the rootstock so I can keep the mexican variety too and in case the graft die, I still have a plant.
This is the nursery, I think they ship abroad:
http://www.torrevivai.com/

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail guava tree???
« on: June 23, 2017, 03:41:45 AM »
Can regular guava be grafted on strawberry guava? I would like to try grafting it onto the yellow one, psidium littorale.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Elite types Mex. Garcinia scions sale
« on: June 04, 2017, 10:24:18 AM »
Just curious since I don't have anything to graft to, just planted the seeds few days ago.
How long does it take to fruit if you graft it?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fertilizer's that sweeten fruit
« on: June 04, 2017, 10:07:09 AM »
I couldn't believe there was a major difference in fruit quality depending on the soil, but the same strawberry grown on a container with fresh bought rich fertilized soil and one with my regular old in ground soil, the difference was like night and day.
The one in the fresh soil was very flavor rich and sweet, the one in ground It is very tart and I have to wait for the fruit to get almost too ripen to get it decent.
You could try digging the ground around the rootball and fill it with rich manure fertilizer, that should improve the fruit quality.
I read that also molasses improve sweetness a lot, but it's quite expensive here.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa Kumquat fruit have no joice
« on: June 02, 2017, 03:02:13 PM »
I think bsbullie may be on the right track as the tree had very green and shiny leaves that looked almost fake.
I will give it some years to settle, but since I am not sure it will improve I took the chance to approach graft some small plants I bought from the same seller, keeping some branches of Meiwa.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa Kumquat fruit have no joice
« on: June 01, 2017, 01:30:36 AM »
Quote from: Citradia on May 31, 2017, 07:35:06 PM
My Meiwa are not really juicy either. The "Hardy Citrus for the Southeast " book by Tom McClendon says about Meiwa, "with a tender peel and very little juice." We eat Meiwa for the sweetness of the peel. I think of them as citrus gum balls. The only weird thing I find about eating the kumquat is chewing up the seeds, otherwise I find the Meiwa quite enjoyable. Maybe your fruit got some frost damage that caused the pulp inside to shrivel. I noticed one of my grapefruit had dry shriveled pulp that was dry after freeze damage.
Well I could tolerate little juice, but no juice at all and dry pulp make it an unpleasant experience very dry in the mouth.
Even an apple it's not a fruit that you would think of juice when eating it, but if it was completely dry it would ruin the flavor.
Had the same idea about frost, but seemed strange since it was from a nursery specialized in citrus.
Maybe since it is hardy it was kept outdoor to save space for other plants, who knows.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa Kumquat fruit have no joice
« on: May 31, 2017, 05:44:46 PM »
This is the inside of my fruit. I can't even see the flesh.
Was it overripe or underripe? Problem with the fertilization?
This was orange with some slightly green tint, but tasted at all different ripeness and were all the same. The only one that seemed to have a couple of drops of juice was an almost totally green one half the size of the others.


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Citrus General Discussion / Meiwa Kumquat fruit have no joice
« on: May 31, 2017, 10:54:15 AM »
Hello,
Today I just bought a Meiwa tree and to my surprise the fruit was 4-5cm and completely juiceless.
Literally squishing the fruit all I could get is half a drop of juice. Is this normal?
Yes the fruit was sweeter than normal kumquat but mostly because it had almost no pulp inside, it looked like I was eating only the peel.
Not a pleasant experience at all.
Is this normal? Is it because it didn't ripen fully ? The fruit was already orange like a regular kumquat, maybe little lighter.
Is there any way to distinguish it from Fortunella Japonica?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Think Ive been had.
« on: May 31, 2017, 03:28:10 AM »
Like this?

This is mammea, but leaves looks different.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Think Ive been had.
« on: May 31, 2017, 03:06:43 AM »
Actually it does resemble a lot a Canistel.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Chucte (Persea schiedeana) Relative of Avocado
« on: May 29, 2017, 06:18:56 PM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on May 29, 2017, 04:38:52 PM
Quote from: 00christian00 on May 29, 2017, 11:51:04 AM
Quote from: fruitlovers on May 29, 2017, 05:52:35 AM

This tree has gotten massive and produced well in 5 years time. But have yet to taste the fruits. Waiting for them to perfectly ripen.

Can you ship scions of this abroad?
Yes can send you scions. PM me for more info.
Just planted two avocado trees, I'll let them establish then I'll contact you, thanks!
By the way, the link in the first post doesn't work.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Chucte (Persea schiedeana) Relative of Avocado
« on: May 29, 2017, 11:51:04 AM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on May 29, 2017, 05:52:35 AM

This tree has gotten massive and produced well in 5 years time. But have yet to taste the fruits. Waiting for them to perfectly ripen.

Can you ship scions of this abroad?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Should I dig Up my Pickering Mango?
« on: May 28, 2017, 11:47:19 AM »
Quote from: AnnonaMangoLord45 on May 28, 2017, 10:25:46 AM
Hello, my Pickering mango is on a Turpentine Rootstock, and It seems to be suffering from some minor dieback, but is inching back some new growth. Should I replace it with a Seedling Polyembryonic Mango or a Maha Chanok on a Atualfo Rootstock?

Thanks, Matt

Before trashing it, why don't you try sowing a seed below it and try inarching it to create a multirootstock tree?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Extinct Species of Date Palm grown from 2000 Year old Seed
« on: May 27, 2017, 12:40:25 AM »
And here I am, failing to germinate few days old seeds. LOL

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Recalcitrant seeds stored in water
« on: May 25, 2017, 06:54:16 PM »
Quote from: Grapebush on May 25, 2017, 05:13:59 PM
For a few times I left seeds in water for a quite long period, and usually they germinate well. I' done this with a few types of Eugenias, Anonas, Lucuma, Garcinia xantochymus, and maybe others, and it always went ok.
That's reassuring to hear. I am mostly interested in saving bacupari(garcinia brasilensis) ,Eugenia dysenterica and Mouriri Pusa, the others were mostly filler orders and Achacha place is being filled by Luc's Garcinia seeds that just arrived...

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: very sweet colorful tasty small mango seeds for sale or trade
« on: May 24, 2017, 02:15:13 AM »
Can you post pictures of the inside and of the seed?

Price?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: very sweet colorful tasty small mango seeds for sale or trade
« on: May 23, 2017, 04:20:29 PM »
Hi Hari, is it still mangifera indica or another species?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Artocarpus Hirsutus
« on: May 22, 2017, 03:25:44 AM »
Quote from: aroideana on May 21, 2017, 07:55:09 PM
I bought a small tree from Kerrie Mac' It was blown over in Cyclone Yasi , and took a very long time to regrow .
Recently topped mulched and fed . Have had no fruit from it yet .

above pic is juv. foliage before cyclone [ 2010 ]

few years ago ..

Will take some fresh pictures soon
Does it change shape with age? The young foliage looks nicer with the 3 pointed shape.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Artocarpus Hirsutus
« on: May 21, 2017, 02:59:51 PM »
Quote from: vipinrl on May 21, 2017, 03:09:24 AM
Germinated seeds will soon come out of soil surface.

Wild jacks are definitely hardier than Jacks and are very fast growing.
Thanks for the precious info!

Quote from: msk0072 on May 21, 2017, 12:34:34 PM
I had many seedlings Last winter died the last one. Temperature minimum last winter 5 degree celsius I think you need to grow in a contsainer first and protect them during first winters.
How old and tall they were when the cold arrived? But damn 5 degrees, here we get much lower :(
Well I have many germinated seeds, no harm in trying.
Will keep 5-10 in container to try again next year.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Artocarpus Hirsutus
« on: May 21, 2017, 02:53:51 AM »
Quote from: vipinrl on May 20, 2017, 08:44:24 PM

The seedlings are quiet drought tolerant.  No need to water.

Thanks! How long from germination to sprout?
Do you know if it is more cold hardy than jackfruit?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Artocarpus Hirsutus
« on: May 20, 2017, 08:22:18 PM »
Quote from: luc on May 20, 2017, 06:41:17 PM
I am growing mine in Full Mexican Sun , but water every 2 days . Doing fine .

Thanks Luc. So it's an heavy drinker.
Does it grow fast the first year?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Artocarpus Hirsutus
« on: May 20, 2017, 11:30:42 AM »
I'll start with my experience.
Just got the seeds from harimnair2001( awesome guy super friendly) and many arrived already germinated.
I decided to try sowing some directly in ground, since I don't know the real cold hardiness of these I put them in the most sheltered locations I had.
For one I did create a wooden cage to protect from:
-my ferocious chihuahua
-wind
-cold
-strong sun.
It is surrounded by two walls delimiting the garden, that should further raise temps. The whole setup should make it easy to protect in the winter while still young.
The soil below have been replaced with some kind of gritty mix with 50% pine bark, 20% perlite, 10% pomice and vulcan rocks and the rest is regular soil. After around 50-60 cm there is the regular soil.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Growing Artocarpus Hirsutus
« on: May 19, 2017, 09:42:44 AM »
I noticed there is very few info on this plant not just on this forum but everywhere.
Who is growing it? Is it more cold hardy than jackfruit?
What about resistance to pathogens?

I live in Italy in a 9b zone, but I think our winter is longer than USA, so probably like 9a even if temps are 9b.
I just got some seeds from India and I am planning to put some in the ground. Any success stories in similar locations?
 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Recalcitrant seeds stored in water
« on: May 17, 2017, 02:30:43 PM »
Thanks! Just needed a general idea.

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