Hi Folks

I'm happy to announce that I am now the prod owner of one rare Butia capitata var. pulposa.
This is a rare variety of Pindo Palm that produces extra-large size fruits.
I have fresh seeds available now ( 3 €uros each seed + 5 €uros por postage fees )

You can find more info about this palm here:
http://www.fruitiers-rares.info/articles33a38/article38-variabilite-fruit-Butia-capitata.html

and you can see photos of my fruits o my FB page... thanks in advance

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015157470236

Hi folks

I have some very fresh seeds of "Sweet Uvaia" available now... I also have a few one year old seedlings (born from last year seeds).
This is the very rare "Sweet Uvaia" that you can find described here (the right top corner photo):
http://www.colecionandofrutas.org/eugeniapyriformis.htm

Seeds are 10 €uros each and seedlings are 20 €uros/each, but I can only sell seedlings inside Europe
Postage fees are 5 €uros.

I have many photos of my fruits but for some reason I can't upload pictures on this Forum now... if someone wants photos please ask and I can send latter by email... thanks

Hello friends
Fresh seeds are available now for sale or trade.
Lesser fruits than previous years so limited supply of seeds, but on the other hand 2017 fruits are much bigger than usual.
see this please:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=23994.0

If you're interested please contact by PM
Thanks in advance
Miguel

Hello friends

I'm compiling my farm fruit adventures on one Facebook page.
Check this out please:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015157470236

Hope you all like it.
Cheers
Miguel

Hello again
 
Here are my litle contribution for the discussions about this Psidium species whose fruits are known in Brazil as “Araçá-Una”.
 
There are many places online where you can find this Araçá-Una going by the scientific name Psidium eugeniaefolia.
Me too when I first received these seeds from Helton they arrived to me labelled as Psidium eugeniaefolia, and back then, by 2007 I think, I received another species labelled as Psidium myrtoides that some years later gave me fruits that were different from the regular Araçá-Una….

As I said many times before I’ve grown and fruited both those species (both seeds from Helton) but eventually eliminated them from my collection because those fruits were terribly acid and astringent, and almost unedible...
But some time ago, one fruit collector friend, told me he was growing a tasty variety of this Araçá-Una… I had to visit my friend during the fruiting season of his tree so to try this fruit for myself as I was a little bit sceptic after my first experience with this one… but fortunately it was true and my friend gave me one small tree that I have growing here at my place and it is also fruiting now!... YEEESSSS!!!!!
 
This Araçá-Una variety fruits are still on the acid side, but very tasty and enjoyable right from the tree…. and definitely much better than the previous ones I had.
 
After digging a litle deeper on the proper scientific ID of this Araçá-Una I decided to follow Mr. Harri Lorenzi that calls this species Psidium myrtoides (Pag.nº482 on the new book Frutas no Brasil).... Mr. Lorenzi doesn't use the name P. eugeniaefolia, not even as a synonimy.
 
Here  some pics of my fruits:

Hello folks
 
A friend just pointed me to the existence of a recent scientific paper (published December 2015) describing one “Morphometric Analysis” study made in Brazil, in a plant group they called “Eugenia involucrata Group”, that included the Eugenia calycina among other species.
 
Here is the link to the scientific paper:
https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjYsdKd9dnOAhUFXRQKHedWB1wQFggeMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioone.org%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1600%2F036364415X690030&usg=AFQjCNH17vmO7znij3nTpU4Jjta0aEikdQ&sig2=cewJ8jPVDjsL_Z8itGwekA
 
The authors of this study state that the names E.involucrata and E.calycina are applied to specimens exhibiting the extremes of the morphological variations in this plant group, being that E. involucrata is often associated with the Atlantic Forest domain, while E. calycina is more frequently used for specimens collected in the Cerrado domain, but they end up concluding that they are indeed just variations within the same species, and in terms of Taxonomic treatment, they conclude saying that the oldest name has priority and that it should be E. involucrata.
 
I am very happy that someone finally shed some scientific light on this discussion we've been having here on this forum for long.
I went to search the first time I wrote down my suspicions about these being indeed the same species here on TFF and found out that it was back in July 2013. See this:

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=6258.msg82384#msg82384
 
Having said that, I will keep calling “Eugenia calycina” to the species I have growing here, because having also several other E.involucrata trees, from various unrelated origins, growing side by side with my calycina, there is no doubt that there are many differences, being that no other tree of all the E.involucratas I have can produce multiples times on the same year, and also none starts producing at 2 years from seed like my calycina did. This precocious fruiting characteristic was already confirmed by both Adam and Luc.

Hi again folks

Have you ever seen an Uvaia fruiting so small?...

Hi folks

Finnaly had the time to post something about this species
As Luc recently said, when we start colecting myrtaceas and chasing for the really rare stuff, sometimes we feel like a beginner if you speak about Pitangas... just because they are so commom and if you search online you will find many people complaining about them having a strange taste or aftertaste... diesel, terenbetine, etc... well, that is true sometimes... me too I have tasted some crap Pitangas... but it's also true that not all Pitangas are equal and some varieties are really fantastic and deserve to be praized!
 
So after 10 years growing several varieties of “Pitangas” I ended up selecting some trees that I consider are worth cultivating and propagating… Luc says he has been selecting Pitangas for 15 years now so I believe he too should have some gems in his hands...

Here are some photos of my favorite tree Pitanga- Eugenia uniflora ( not to be confused with the Dwarf Pitangas- Eugenia pitanga):







This tree is growing in a 30-liter pot and still it produces an abundance of fruits every year… very precocious, it started producing at 2 or 3 years of age and the curious feature is that it always produces seeded and unseeded fruits simultaneously…
When properly ripe these fruits get a “deep purple/almost black” color and the taste is fantastic… this is now one of the favorite fruits for my wife and she has always been a little finicky about my “rare fruits”.
 
The unseeded fruits are much smaller and apparently they ripen faster than the seeded fruits (see the pic of both fruits on my hand) and I’m finding that the birds here seem to prefer the unseeded “smaller” fruits leaving the bigger fruits for me.
 
Maybe the smaller fruits are just easier for birds to steal... or this is just because those smaller fruits ripen faster and are easier to harvest from the tree… but I do find that very convenient to say the least!

I'm not sure if this Pitanga belongs to the variety "dasyblasta" but I suspect so because the other confirmed "dasyblastas" I have all exibit the same behavior of having seeded and unseeded fruits in abundance, while other Pitangas have only seeded fruits.

If anyone is interested in seeds of this Pitanga I will be offering them for sale in the "Sell & Trade" section on the forum. Thanks!

At 12 o'clock my best tree pitanga species... wife's favorite fruit now!

At centre my first fruits of Jaboticaba Sabará

At 03 o'clock my Calycinas... or better said "the species formerly known as Calycina" as apparently no one is sure about correct ID... first fruits of the season... I'm expecting my biggest crop ever for 2016 on this species

At 06 o'clock the grumixamas... also expecting a big crop for this year

At 07 o'clock the Myrciaria cuspidata... very few fruits this year... my place had 2 floods this winter and apparently this species had flowers that stood underwater and wilted... but the flood seem to have benefited all other myrtaceas

At 09 0'clock the Eugenia blastantha... a rarer type of "grumixama-mirim"

Hello Miami friends

I've just arrived at Miami International airport but my flight was more than 3 hours late and I lost my conexion to Monterrey/México...

So now I only have flight tomorow at 18h00 and I have a free morning in Miami and I just don't know what to do ()

Any volunteer to show my the arounds?... or a friend with a garden nearby?...does the fruits & Spice park is far from Miami Int. Airport?

Any help will be most welcome!

Please help!!!

This species keeps surprising me year after year... here are the discoveries I made during 2015.

News flash!...Eugenia calycina can fruit three times on the same year!

It is the first time it does this for me and the third fruiting cycle of 2015 was only on one single branch, but it is official now... first fruiting cycle by June ; second fruiting cycle by September; and third by December... although the second and third fruiting cycles were light when compared to the June fruiting

Here are the pics I made from one fruit of this third fruiting cycle of 2015... already attached by the damn birds!!!...




The other thing that surprised me a lot was that this year by July I found abandoned inside a closet one plastic bag full of Calycina seeds of 2014 fruits that I had absolutely forgotten... these seeds had no medium and after more than one year old they seemed still viable to me which was strange and against all general rules for myrtaceae seeds... so I opened the plastic bag and threw some water drops inside the plastic bag just to wet those seeds (still with no medium)... after some days I realised that there was fresh roots forming inside the plastic bag... so I took those seeds out of the plastic, took a photo (just in case) and planted them in a pot inside my GH... I did not took any care of those until now that I could take some days off work and found that the pot was full of small Calycinas sprouting... here is the proof!






Let's wait and see how many more surprises this species will reserve for 2016.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR ALL!

Hello all

I've colected first ripe fruits on my Psidium longipetiolatum trees today... some more fruits will ripen during next days/weeks.
Very limited supply because my trees are still young but I'm offering the fresh seeds for sale or trade.

Here is a discussion on the Forum presenting this tree and fruit:

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=5571.msg96162#msg96162

If anyone is interested in getting seeds of this rare Psidium species please contact (PM or Email)... always open for trades in case you can have something of interest to me.

Thanks to all in advance
Miguel.pt

Regardless the poor quality photos I believe these are the first photos of Flying Saucer in Europe... maybe an invasion is on it's way!

Anyone else has seen Flying Saucers in Europe?