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I am reposting this here because i think it might have gotten buried in an old thread:

"Are you sure this works?! (starting Ingas from cuttings). I've never tried it, but I would be very surprised if ingas could be propagated via cuttings."

Felipe, yes ingas, at least many species of them, can be started from cuttings. Just found this quote in the book The Genus Inga, Utilization by Pennington, p.162:

"Experimental work over the last few years has shown that Inga species can be easily propagated from semi-ripe branch cuttings. Among species which have been succesfully propagated by this method are I. calederonii, edulis, laurina, marginata, oerstediana, puntata, sapindoides, and subnuda. It seems that the only species that are difficult to propagate in this way are the ones with very slender branches such as I. heterophylla. The cuttings should be approximately 15 cm. long and up to 1 cm diameter with 2 leaves The lower leaf is removed cleanly and the stem cut cleanly about 1 cm below the insertion of the lower leaf node. The upper leaf should be cut back to 1 pair of leaflets to reduce water loss, or the leaf removed entirely. The base can be treated with hormone such as IBA though rooting can be achieved without this. It appears that fungicide is probably more important than hormone."
As a pleasant aside, for those of you who waded through all this, i read in same book that inga can also be dried and eaten like raisin, and is very nice that way.

Thinking of planting some beach cherries (Eugenia punicifolia) and was wondering if they are good to eat? I know they are small, but how is the taste? Thanks,

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Especies_de_Eugenia

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These 2 longan trees are fruiting heavily now, about 6 months earlier than normal. Here is a photo of Illiau longan:

Here is a comparison of fruit from Illiau longan on left and Bai Dum longan on right. The Bai Dum fruits were bigger on the average and sweeter tasting:

I have no idea why the trees are fruiting so much earlier this year. The other longan cultivars i have are not fruiting or flowering yet. I purchased the Illiau from PIN in Florida. I see they no longer carry it. The only info i could find on it was that several years ago Plant It Hawaii sold it. They also discontinued it. If anyone has any information on this cultivar please let me know. Thanks,

Been eating these Phillippine Pointed eggfruits (canistels). They are really great. No latex, very moist, and super large fruits, with small seed. Can eat a whole one no problem, and that's saying a lot because each one is close to one pound. Tree from seed produced about 25 large fruits after being in ground only 3 years.



Sorry if you see this post duplicated elsewhere. I had it wiped out twice due to the forum reset. Don't you love spammers? 

Interesting that in Asia many of the sour garcinias the most popular use is to eat their dried rind. It's not mentioned in this paper but garcinia rind is where high level of xanthones are located. Popular mangosteen drinks are also made from the rind of mangosteen and the medicinal properties are what is advertised, and why the product sells for such high prices. Probably other garcinia types have higher levels of xanthones than mangosteen.

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-472.html

This is in the current inflight magazine of Hawaiian Airlines. It is an article about Frank Sekiya's nursery, Plant it Hawaii, and Kauai Nursery:
http://www.hanahou.com/pages/magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=1136&MagazineID=71

It's well known that some vegetables and herbs help each other's growth. A few also deter each other's growth. But very little, or close to nothing is ever said about companion fruit trees, probably because vegetables and herbs have short cycles and it's much easier to observe effects on each other? But in mixed orchard plantings it sure would be nice to know which trees benefit each other and which deter each other's growth? Such studies would take a long time but would be very beneficial as i think monocropping is not a good idea and should be on it's way out.