I decided to go ahead and harvest the fruit for the Plinia sp. "Anomaly" lottery, about a week early, so I can ship for Xmas! Also, because I would be so angry if they got eaten by a rat (or even my dog...who I think ate some off this rare tree before!) Check out the strange shape of the fruits. I took a pic of the 5 fruits I harvested today, and then another with a comparison of Plinia cauliflora hybrid (Precoce).

One thing I notice about this variety already (when compared to precoce) is that it seems to have a smoother pulp, with less fiber (when eaten early at least).  When you harvest the Precoce (red jabo) fruits early, the texture is a bit more fibrous.  I still have yet to taste a perfectly ripened Anomaly fruit...i keep picking them early, in fear of losing the seeds.

another extreme bloom a few days ago...



pics from today, the fruit was just ripe enough to impatiently pick early...lol...better early than never.



here are the 5 fruits I pulled from the tree today, they got that funny Q*bert shape, with the nub at the base.





these seeds have a bit of anxiety I'm sure!  they gotta be thinking...please don't send me to some cold dungeon half way across the globe!  They want a one way ticket to Hawaii...but it's not that simple...


comparison of Anomaly and Precoce (red jabo)

that's the name Ben's Plants in Ca is using.

not sure of the actual species...but I'm guessing Plinia cauliflora.

the trees can easily be grafted on to sabara, have about 4 of them I bought years ago from Ben...they seem to be unique in my collection, so I'm glad I got them....He spoke highly of the fruit.

Annona salzmannii is pretty much holy grail...

probably possible to plant too deep, but i think it depend on species, and how deep u plant.

i saw a guy who had a big sabara in ground, and he kept putting more mulch around the base, covering the root crown, almost with 10 inches of mulch...i tried to removed the mulch by scraping it away with my hands, only to find, it had be overrun with feeder roots!

don't worry about old leaves looking bad...keep an eye on new growth, and also the bark...if the bark has lots of lichens, or moss ( or airplants, like tillandsia sp.) you know the tree is not growing properly, because these organisms shouldn't even have time to get established, and secure their footing on the caulis.  They should have been exfoliated off (or at least show signs of this).

as for the last seedling that may be a cross...i can't say what it is!  look kind of weird!

Adam
is it possible to plant them too deep ?
Just curious since its a rainforest tree,
and i am guessing getting a lot of mulch /trees falling on it, and also water flooding it.

i had to re-plant the red you had sold me
i put it in ground several months ago,
and had built up a mound of compost , coffee grounds and mulch around it.
so much so, it buried the trunk an inch deep.
(with this blazing heat we get, in full sun, i was watering almost daily to prevent burned leaves)

Anyway, i pulled it up, and re-planted.
now, since the ground was soft and wet,
and my dog who leans on shrubs/trees etc... looking for lizards
had uprooted the thing again... just a bit on one side...
i was able to add some soil under it, but now the plant is looking shoddy.
i am hoping its strong enough to handle the winter.






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this is the larger one i got from PIN 2 yrs ago.




this is the smaller one i got from you Adam.
i dont remember what kind ?
I think you said it looked like a cross ?


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lol, true does look like a balloon....

but I was thinking Q*bert

Looks like a balloon :-)

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on December 07, 2016, 01:41:17 PM

thanks everyone for requesting seed, and for commenting...

check out this last pair of photos...

I noticed something interesting about the fruits that I hadn't seen before...

they have a strange shape at the bottom of the fruit where it attaches to the tree...it's like an extended stem, with a bulbous shape...I never noticed this before with the Red jaboticaba (precoce).

it's hard to tell, because the fruits are so tightly packed, which hides the strange shaped stems...

see what I mean?

if you want to be entered into the lottery for a chance to buy seeds from the tree, please post a quick message on this thread, I will announce when I'm finished taking names, and when seeds are ready to ship, and when the name drawing will be.  I'm going to write down names on paper and draw names from a cup.

I will also post another thread on facebook for people to post requests to enter the lottery.

I hope to have about 10-18 seeds to sell...remember they are $5 ea, and max purchase is 2 seeds...orders for one seed are ok...and each seed purchased is matched with a free red jabo seed to compare with the "Anomaly" seed.

thanks Robert, I hope to have some seeds to sell soon...i might have to do some sort of lottery...or restrict buyers to 2 seeds maximum....I haven't figured it out yet...but i definitely won't allow one person to buy all the seeds.  As for scions or grafted plants, that is still years away it seems.

Solko, i think i really started to plant Plinia seeds about 10yr ago, and then started collecting them from every source I could (over 20 separate sources, foreign and domestic) ...I probably planted about 3 thousand seeds (maybe more?) by the time I stumbled upon this special seedling...I think there was lots of luck involved, because there were 3 seedlings from the same batch, and only one of them has started to flower!  The other two haven't done anything yet, and are still less than 4ft tall, and are about 4yr old.

here are some more pics to give you an idea of the size:

some updated pictures from today, looks like a mega-bloom is on the way! 
Now that I think of it, the Plinias seem to get excited during the holidays!







and some inspirational music to go along with the photos! 

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got my first fruit! it much like fwang tung, but without the ruffles on the ridges, and i think it was a bit sweeter!

Quote from: sildanani on November 17, 2016, 11:26:52 PM

Check it out.

I can't believe the 1 Flying Fox has broken his vows to never have a bookface account !
Busy and up to his ears in requests I definetely believe!
Good help is hard to find. Keep it up Adam!

I forgot my vow to never join FB!! thanks for the reminder Jonah! 

here is why i finally broke down and joined...

I figured there is a whole crowd of users on FB, who don't engage in the TFF, so I'm infiltrating the enemy platform, to push my tropical fruit agenda on the world, via any means necessary  .  I have been steadily trying to spread the word about TFF....which is so much better in many regards when compared to FB (which is like walmart...where u can't talk to the owners, and they consolidate all the ma and pa businesses into one big box store)...TFF is like a ma and pa store to me...the admins/mods are real people, not a faceless corp.

The only thing I like about FB, is I can post all sorts of off topic stuff that isn't allowed here....but the fact that off topic stuff isn't allowed here, is why I love the tropical fruit forum.


Zuckerberg can suck my fingersop! 

Happy thanksgiving to all! 

Quote from: stuartdaly88 on November 22, 2016, 08:31:53 AM

The rate of growth and size for my one year old seedling I cant even imagine it being the size of Oscars one in 20 years 

They start to grow a lot faster once they are a couple of feet tall and in the ground.

unless u live in central FL like me...where we get no rain, and too much heat for spring/summer, and then too cold for winter!  It really stunts the tree....leaves always slightly burnt over here...but the tree is strong.

check out the updated pic...

here is one from last year, around October 2015



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