The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hey my fruit growing friends,

I have 50 plus Psidium australe var australe seeds that were cleaned the best I could,then dried for a day and placed in the fridge. These seeds came from fruit off my plant produced 2 months ago so very fresh.The fruit’s pulp taste really good to me, I’d say like a key lime pie filling mixed with pear and texture of pear. Psidium seeds can be stored for well over a year with very little drop of germination rate. The seeds I germinated from the previous year’s harvest of my plant had a very high germination rate of over 75%. I recommend soaking the seeds in water 24 to 36hrs and sow very shallow in a community pot with a clear bag on top or in humidity dome to keep from drying out. Spray when soil mix starts looking dry. They can be plucked right out after sprouting and planted individually if you want. Or separated later after all germinate. I’ve also germinated small batches of seeds up to 20 kept on lightly damp paper towel in ziplock bags. Ideal temperature to germinate is around 77F constant with some light during day or around 68f at night to 86f days if no light. I will send in a regular mail envelope inside a card. These are small hard seeds. Send payment after delivery to make sure it arrives as it should. Any ? please ask and have a great day.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186947429112

I have several auctions ending Sunday night 2-16. Many of these are very rare and the last ones I have available. They will be growing very well and looking great soon with the warm weather coming in Spring. I have to keep downsizing due to an ongoing health issue.

Also I sill have the Brysonima and Psidium Guajava var Plupla Verde available. I can ship them separately or with any auctions won.

Thanks and have a great day,

David aka Giant Gecko

Psidium guajava var Pulpa Verde $15 each 2 are available, buy both for $25, seed was obtained from Helton in Brazil. From what I can translate he says he obtained the seed to his mother plant from the USA but I personally haven’t seen pictures of a green skin and pulp Guava like this here. He said it has semi dwarf growth structure and has sweet fruits.















Butia paraguayensis "Dwarf Yatay Palm" in a 3x9 in deep tree pot, the polyembryonic with 2 plants in it is $29 [sold] and the other taller single seedling is $20. I can ship them in a medium flat rate Priority box for $16 to West Coast. USPS Ground is also an option to anywhere above freezing.

Myrcia sp Lençóis

Hi!

I am in SWFL and am looking for some less common Eugenia species, such as Savannah Cherry, Rainforest Plum, and Patrisii (or any other interesting ones). I already have grumichamas and black Surinam cherries, but can’t find any others locally at nurseries. If anyone has any, I’d be interested. More interested in buying from someone local in person than having them shipped, as I would love to connect with other local Eugenia enthusiasts

I recommend checking out Anderson Tropicals https://andersontropicals.com/collections/all-seeds?page=2

Steve Anderson also sells plants through eBay and pretty sure he lives close to you.

Sold! Thanks TFF

Those myrcia looks very pretty.
I always misread myrcia and myrciaria lol

Yeah it’s easy to get the 2 genera confused. Myrcia is one of my favorite genera to grow but with the limited space here I need to focus on the dwarf types. The leaves of these M. strigipes will get huge and very ornamental.

I found out by putting in different measurements that I can save the buyer around $15 by reducing the box height only 3” to make it 45”.
The first 2 pics are to CA showing the difference and the last 2 is to around Tampa FL. To see the exact shipping charge to you go check the rate at pirateship.com from zip code 27295 15x15x45 at 50lbs. If the buyer wants the plant sent semi bareroot I might be about to reduce the shipping cost some more to where it’s around 20lbs and a wood cage wouldn’t be necessary. Might be able to reduce the height too with bareroot. I will need to ship it exactly 3 weeks from now due to medical treatments so the weather should be cooler across the country, perfect for shipping UPS Ground. I also won’t charge the $15 handling if shipped bareroot as I would keep the grow bag and won’t need to buy and build a wood cage.

I wish I had an extra plant for you of this Psidium salutare var mucronatum. It’s a low creeper type of Guava native to the grasslands and even up to around 1,000M altitude mountains in southern Brazil and into Argentina. I would recommend messaging Kameron Bellamy of Bellamy Tree’s, decent chance he might have one available. Also recently he has brought in several creeping Guava species  from the Cerrado region of Brazil that stays very short.

Those are beauties, eh!

How similar is that to c. sessilis?

Sending well wishes your way Giant Gecko!!!

Thank you very much. Some will call it a dwarf C. sessilis and is very similar. It’s much smaller in height with smaller fruit that are brown. I’m assuming they were fully ripe though when brown in the pictures. To me it looks very similar to C. humilis. https://www.colecionandofrutas.com.br/cordieriahumilis.htm

Sorry please delete post, I meant to place it in the Tropical fruit sale section.

Hey TFF,  I have available this Eugenia uniflora var Dwarf Orange in a 10g Root Trapper fabric grow bag for $140.It’s Sellami ‘s favorite Pitanga, he says it has citrus flavors with no astringency or bad aftertaste.  It’s ready to go into a bigger pot or in the ground. It had 4 flowers this year but no fruit set so probably next year. Seed was obtained from Sellami and the other growers that bought seeds  from him the fruit are true to seed having bright orange fruits. The is also a small branch of Marta’s Guaruja Red Pitanga that I grafted on in the Spring.I much prefer pick up because of its size to build a reinforcement to protect it and shipping cost. If someone must have it shipped it’s not going to be cheap. The biggest box I have available in the picture is 15x15x48. Shipping for this box size rate from Pirateship UPS Ground 50lbs from NC to FL is around $55 and NC to CA is $95. Plus additional $15 handling to cover box and 1x2 wood that is needed. Any ? please ask and have a great day.