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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WANTED: Ilama trees and 'Painter' cherilata
« Last post by TheLittleWoods on Today at 12:56:28 PM »Oh gotcha, thank you for the reply! And saving me from wasting money.
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They have but figured I could prep them.
How would you prep them? I don’t think grafting mulberry is done after they push, you want to graft them while dormant/ swelling buds.
For anyone interested, I have a couple grafted trees available. PM me if interested.
I just recently found someone selling Ilama seeds and was thinking about purchasing them but had never heard of them before. Do they not grow true to seed and that's why grafted ones are preferred? Or is it to speed up the time to fruit? Do they grow well in Central/South Florida?
from bellamy trees i purchased my very first jaboticaba seeds, which i sowed on 21 february. here's a recent pic...
look how big they are! just kidding, the big seedlings are the nitrogen fixers, in this case albizia julibrissin. the jabo seedlings are much smaller. the jabo seed in the pot without nitrogen fixers hasn't germinated yet. correlation doesn't mean causation.
i'm curious why you guys don't include nitrogen fixers with your jabo seeds. this is how they grow in nature. actually i don't know if this is true or not.
my pots have drainage holes cut around an inch from the bottom. this creates a resevoir of water which i think helps in my relatively dry conditions. at the bottom of the pot are rocks from my overgrown front yard for inoculation of hopefully beneficial microbes.
the medium i use is a very well-drained mix of seedling bark, peat, perlite, pumice and sand from a local stream bed, again for inoculation. on top of the seeds i place a 1/4" layer of very lightly damp sphagnum moss. basically i take a small handful of wet sphagnum moss, spread it flat and round in the palm of my hand, squeeze out as much water as i can, and then gently press it down on top of the seeds.
here's more pics and context.
I’m curious why you guys use a medium of peat and perlite. What are the roots supposed to feed off of? We use our potting medium that has clay, sand, manure and coir. No issues and the roots develop in a medium more similar to where the trees will be eventually planted.
Peter