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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

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Hi folks!

Here it's Autumn now so that means Psidium spp. fruiting season... here are the list of seeds available from my personal collection:

Psidium longipetiolatum
Psidium australe
Psidium striatulum
Psidium firmum
Psidium guineense (Yellow interior and Orange interior)
Psidium cattleianum (personal selection with big red fruit)
Psidium cattleianum ( Pear shaped fruits)
Psidium sp, (Mexican cream guava)


Price is the same for all species:
25 €uros for a package with minimum 12 seeds or 2,5 €uros per seed if you want less then a dozen.

You can see photos of all the species on my FB page... thanks

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

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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



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Jaboticaba "Sabará-de-Cabinho"
« on: May 25, 2017, 10:11:02 AM »
Hello Folks

I have one jaboticaba on my colection thant I've always called "Sabará" based only on the aspect of the leaves that I found to be similar to other Sabarás I know from friends.
But since my tree started fruiting it revealed that the fruits on my tree all have one long stalk attached to the fruits (stalk translates to "cabinho" in Portuguese).
Recently some Brasilian experts that saw photos of my fruits said that there is indeed one special variety of Jaboticaba that naturally occurs in regions where growing areas of Jaboticaba Sabará (Plinia jaboticaba) and Jaboticaba-de-Cabinho (Plinia truncifolia) overlap, and that this special variety received the name "Sabará-de-Cabinho"... and somehow I ended up having one on my colection that is fruiting now... see the photos please.


















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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

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Eugenia calycina 'Nelita'
« on: May 18, 2017, 05:16:55 PM »
Dear friends
Yesterday, 17th of May, was my wife’s birthday, and I gave her one very special "Fruity" gift…
I’ve decided to identify my world-famous cultivar of Eugenia calycina with big and tasty fruits after her name.
As discoverer and worldwide introducer of this great cultivar to the "fruit fanatics" world I believe I'm entitled to do so.
My wife’s name is Manuela but amongts friends and family we often use the nickname “Nelita” … and that’s the fancy name I’ve chosen for this cultivar.
So, my dear friends, from now on, please refer to this variety as Eugenia calycina 'Nelita'

Happy birthday "Nelita"

I feel that even the plant agrees with this name because it ripened the first fruit of the season right on time for Nelita's birthday... and I also think this was the biggest fruit I've ever had on this tree... here it is on Nelita's hand.



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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

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Rare Psidium sp. seeds available
« on: December 28, 2016, 03:55:53 PM »
Hi folks

Happy holidays season and Happy New Year!

Finnaly managed to take some days off work to collect some rare seeds from my Psidium colection.
I have now very fresh seeds of several Psidum species that may be of interest for some of you. All seeds from 2016 fruits.
Some seeds more available than others so please hurry if you're interested in some.

This is what I have available now:

Psidium longipetiolatum
Psidium australe
Psidium striatulum
Psidium firmum
Psidium myrtoides (tasty variety)
Psidium guineense
Psidium catleyanum (rare variety with huge yellow pear shapped fruits)... see the photo
         

Some extra info on each species on the following links:

Psidium longipetiolatum: http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=5571.msg75251#msg75251

Psidium australe : http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=18484.msg230765#msg230765

Psidium striatulum : http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=21523.msg262547#msg262547

Psidium firmum : http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=20534.msg253097#msg253097

Psidium myrtoides (tasty variety): http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=21541.msg262641#msg262641

Please PM or Email if interested.
Always open for trades in case you have something of interest for me;... mostly I'm interested in rare Myrtaceas to add to my collection.
Thanks in advance to all and enjoy 2017


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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:







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Hi folks
 
Here is another rare Psidium sp. that I never saw discussed on TFF before.
Scientific name is Psidium striatulum an is known in Brazil as “Goiaba de folha estreita do Cerrado” that translates to “Narrow leaf Guava from Cerrado”.
 
Back in 2014 I received one small seedling from a rare fruit collector friend and it first fruited for me last year.
This Psidium sp. seems to be very precocious in fruiting… I believe it fruited for me with less than 3 years of age even if it was a litle negleted.
From those few fruits of 2015 I’ve posted some seeds worldwide and I have already one friend reporting first flowers on a less than one year old plant.
 
This year my plant is loaded with fruits… indeed it seems to have more fruits than leaves and the fruits are very good and tasty… just like small “bite-size” guavas, with a much similar taste and smell, and with small seeds that makes this fruit easier to eat when compared to regular guavas IMHO.
 
Here’s some pics to document what I’m saying:

Photo of the distinctive narrow leaves:



Here the leaves side by side with regular guava leaves:



And finally the tree and fruits:







These fruits are red inside:



Fruits are in season now so I will offer these seeds on the trade section of TFF

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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.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Psidium firmum... anyone growing it?
« on: June 29, 2016, 03:24:55 PM »
Hi folks
 
Thanks to the new book “Frutas no Brasil” from H. Lorenzi I think I finally identified one Psidium sp. that I’ve been growing mislabeled for years.
 
Now I think this is one is indeed the Psidium firmum… from Brazilian Cerrado region… Thank you Mr. Lorenzi for filling another line on my Psidium collection list!
 
Fruits much similar in size, aspect and taste to those of P. guineense… in fact I’ve been thinking this one was just a variety of P. guineense, until now.
 
Curious feature is that sometimes these fruits grow in bunches, like grapes… the biggest bunch I had so far had 7 fruits… see the pics please.
 
This plant is completely bushy, having several branches coming from soil level, that tend to bend by the weight of the fruits… after 7 years my biggest branch is less than 1,5 meters (5 ft) high.
Moreover, this plant is precocious (mine flowered and fruited at 3 years of age) and incredibly reliable in fruiting when compared to P. guineense… almost all flowers on this species turn into fruits, and I have had several plants of P. guineense that flower profusely and set absolutely no fruits.
 
Also happy to confirm that I have one plant in the open and can confirm it is 9a climate hardy… it is a winter deciduous plant… what else can we ask for?
 
Definitely this in another Psidium species recommended to grow in pots, and another one for those zone pushers, like me!
 
Anyone else growing this one?





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Uvaia bonsai style... fruiting
« on: June 25, 2016, 01:33:27 PM »
Hi again folks

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




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Please help ID this myrtacea
« on: June 25, 2016, 01:21:21 PM »
Found this novelty today in my GH... first time fruiting and not sure what it is...
Maybe just another different Uvaia?... or something else instead?

Please check the pics and tell me what you think... thanks in advance!










I harvested the yellow fruit but it was still hard and unripe... even so it tasted good... It was that yellow fruit that caught my attention because until then I haven't realized it was fruiting.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / My best Pitanga ( Eugenia uniflora)
« on: June 14, 2016, 06:54:33 PM »
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!

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Hi folks

just found this and it might be of interest for some of you :







This plant set some fruits last year but they fell down before maturity... never knew if they fell on their own or if the damn birds had something to do with it... so this year I don't want to take any chances and decided to take precautions... now these beauties are like birds in a cage!





As you can see all branches are very thin... I had to make some supports because the branches were already bending with the weight of those small fruits... no idea if they will hold the weight of a mature fruit... this plant is in a 20 liter pot and the biggest branch should have only some 70 cm height.

Keep connected as I intend to report evolution here...

Am I the first European to fruit E. klotzschiana or what???

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Last weekend harvest on my Myrtaceas
« on: May 30, 2016, 01:05:22 PM »


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"

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Eugenia blastantha...here it is!
« on: May 30, 2016, 12:52:54 PM »
Hi gang
Finnaly had time to post some photos of my first fruits on this rare Eugenia species...here they are:







Glad to report a fantastic/excellent flavor on these litle beauties... unfortunatly most of the fruits were seedless or had just a tiny litle seed that I believe is not a viable one.



I really wish I had a lot of seeds to spread this beauty arround the world, but I don't... fingers crossed for next year!...

P.S.: I'm actually posting this while I'm in Miami

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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!!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Eugenia arenosa
« on: April 18, 2016, 05:21:18 PM »
Have some flowers on this Eugenia species.
Anyone else here growing this one?




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Eugenia calycina keeps surprising me!
« on: December 28, 2015, 05:33:15 PM »
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!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Psidium australe
« on: December 03, 2015, 12:55:01 AM »
Here are some pics of my Psidium australe plants and fruits.

Plant is a very low bush, and fruits are like small guavas.... green for now, not really sure the final colour they will get when properly ripe.

I can confirm this species is very cold hardy (to 9a climate at least) as I left some plants outside last winters and they were all fine.... it's origins being South Brazil this was sort of expected and not really a big surprise.

Only problem I can report now is that these fruits seem to take forever to ripen, so to those friends I promised seeds earlier in the year I just ask to please be a little more patient... I'm not sure if these fruits will continue to ripen now that we are going towards winter here, or if they will only ripen by next spring... I will try to report my conclusions latter.

In reality my plants have already fruited on previous years but frankly I did not gave it any attention and the fruits eventually disappeared, probably taken by wildlife... this is the first year I am trying to monitor these fruits... Let's wait and see what happens

Here are the photos:









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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

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Hello friends and forum members

My problem is that my GH gets so hot on the upper par near the roof that all trees that grow more than 3 meters high are naturally pruned... see the photo.




I have more than 1,5 meters high up to the roof that are not used for it accumulates so much heat... so I need to install some kind of roof windows or roof vents on the top of my GH ASAP.

I saw on internet there are some automatic roof vents that should work only by heat...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Automatic-Greenhouse-Window-Vent-Opener-Auto-Solar-Heat-Temperature-Vent-Roof-UK-/351479029146

Anyone here has experience with this kind of devices?... do they really work?... are they durable?

Any other suggestion might be of help

thank you all in advance
Miguel.pt

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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?






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