Here I come with a strange (to me) case. Few months ago when I planted this Nam Doc Mai in soil, I discovered that ants and scale insects were coming into the very recent graft (a cleft graft). So I decided to cover the whole graft with this "healing paste" (I'm not sure how you calling it in English). Problem with insects ended there obviously, but this week I found that section swollen, so I took off the paste. This is what I found:







Any idea why this happened? Should I worry?

Thanks,

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Luc, son ninfas de chinche. Por la pinta que tienen parecen fitófagas, pero hay especies que se alimentan de pulgones y orugas. Tendrías que observar si clavan la trompa en la planta o en los bichos que se alimentan de ella para saber si son perjudiciales o beneficiosas.

Thank you Josh, I'll have to do my best to make a cleft graft with that thin material. Let's see how it works! 

Quote from: fyliu on October 25, 2017, 01:58:13 PM

Quote from: JF on October 25, 2017, 01:52:16 PM

Cherimoya killer

That's just the cherimoya genetics showing through, haha.

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A cross between atemoya and sugar apple/atemoya? It has a name?   

It is worth watching that tree in successive years, IMO. You could have found a late variety. 

Great seller, great prices and great seeds, fresh and healthy. If you are looking for any of these varieties I recommend you to buy them to Mike, mine are already growing roots here in Spain. 

Quote from: Jose Spain on September 12, 2017, 05:53:12 AM

Hi guys,
Hi have a couple of doubts about DF varieties I hope you can help me out with:
Anybody has tasted or grown Pepino Dulce? There is little info in internet. Being white, is as good as the top tier purple flesh ones?
I have preselected 4 purple flesh varieties to plant: Condor, Cosmic charlie, Halley's Comet and S8 Sugar Dragon.
Would you replace some of the list for other variety/s? I rate first taste, then autofertile/autopollination and then to extend the harvest AMAP (I already have yellow megalanthus).
Thanks,

Taste is subjective. I doubt that many (anybody) would rate Pepino Dulce's taste as good as top tier purple flesh varieties.

I would substitute Physical Graffiti for one of your preselected varieties. Physical Graffiti is in the same taste range and is a high yield flower/fruit producer.

I do not consider S-8 (Sugar Dragon) a purple-flesh variety. It is more of a red-flesh variety.

Thank you both for the help.

Hi guys,

Hi have a couple of doubts about DF varieties I hope you can help me out with:

Anybody has tasted or grown Pepino Dulce? There is little info in internet. Being white, is as good as the top tier purple flesh ones?

I have preselected 4 purple flesh varieties to plant: Condor, Cosmic charlie, Halley's Comet and S8 Sugar Dragon. Would you replace some of the list for other variety/s? I rate first taste, then autofertile/autopollination and then to extend the harvest AMAP (I already have yellow megalanthus).

Thanks,

I'm following all the evolution of the hurricane since I have family in Fl and sincere appreciation for the members of this forum. The predictions don't look pretty. I hope it will finally turn back to the ocean, but if not, everybody stay safe, best wishes for all of you from this side of the ocean.

Thanks! 

Quote from: fruitlovers on September 02, 2017, 05:05:08 AM

Quote from: Jose Spain on September 02, 2017, 03:52:25 AM

Quote from: fruitlovers on September 01, 2017, 07:12:05 PM

Quote from: Mike T on September 01, 2017, 06:38:40 PM

http://rfcarchives.org.au/Next/CaringForTrees/MinTemps3-88.htm
The Australian experience with minimum tolerable temperatures is listed in the link. Obviously species like breadfruit can survive lower temps briefly.

That's a handy reference chart. Ofcourse a species being able to survive a certain temperature does not necessarily mean it will fruit if consistently exposed to such temperatures.

Wait a minute, mangosteen +3?? I thought the plant can't handle less than 10ºC.

Can handle +3C for very short period of time. Can't handle 10C for any extended period of time.

Funny, that's my entire point. I'll repeat the same thing again. It absolutely doesn't matter what what type of microclimate Jose is in. He still has to go through very long and very cool Mediterranean winters.  People focusing only at kill temperatures and winter minimum at location. According this website almost all winter night time temps hovering in 40s and daytime often struggles to reach 60. https://en.aurigacrown.com/blog/marbella-climate/.  Even SoCal is much more tropical in winter. Rambutan not ok to try in SoCal, but ok in Spain? Where is the logic? Jose maybe technically zone 11 and temps never drop below 40, but his location will never rival possibilities for tropicals offered in zone 10 of S.FL.   Until people start to understand detrimental effects of prolonged and persistent cool temps on many sensitive tropicals species we can't have rational conversation here.

Questioning the ability for understanding and for having a rational conversation of other members is not the best way to show that your opinion is more rational than the rest, even when you may be right.

Marbella has a 17 miles (27Km) coastline and your link probably shows the data from a particular place. I've being recording temperatures and rain here in my garden for 8 years already and I've never seen ice on my grass and I doubt that with global warming I'll ever see it (out of these extreme weather episodes we all are going to face as a result of it). As I said, you're probably right about rambutan. And yet many tropical plants do great here. I post a picture of a typical garden in Marbella, I don't know how much different it looks from those in Florida, but I doubt you can grow something like this in the rest of Europe without winter protection. Conditions of Costa del Sol are subtropical, of course, and maybe worse that in Socal, I have not idea bout it. But nobody knows how we'll have to call those climatic conditions in 20 years...
 

Quote from: Jose Spain on September 02, 2017, 03:52:25 AM

Quote from: fruitlovers on September 01, 2017, 07:12:05 PM

Quote from: Mike T on September 01, 2017, 06:38:40 PM

http://rfcarchives.org.au/Next/CaringForTrees/MinTemps3-88.htm
The Australian experience with minimum tolerable temperatures is listed in the link. Obviously species like breadfruit can survive lower temps briefly.

That's a handy reference chart. Ofcourse a species being able to survive a certain temperature does not necessarily mean it will fruit if consistently exposed to such temperatures.

Wait a minute, mangosteen +3?? I thought the plant can't handle less than 10ºC.

Can handle +3C for very short period of time. Can't handle 10C for any extended period of time.

Please, forgive me for the offtopic but I have to ask. With my climatic conditions could I grow mangosteen outside providing some winter protection (not heated greenhouse)?