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I am offering a few plants of this very unique guava from Mexico. Plants will be shipped from Germany.

Cost for one plant 20 EUR.

Shipping costs: 8,89 EUR without tracking or 13,99 EUR with Tracking

Is anyone growing this sp. or has anyone tasted the fruit?

I found this information:



And also this pictures an information in Twitter (source: https://twitter.com/FrutasColombia/status/1243480933006794753)

Ucuquí, apaporis o yugo (Pouteria ucuqui) esta fruta pertenece a la familia de la sapotaceas y es nativa de Colombia, Venezuela y Brasil.
Crece en los departamentos de Vaupés, Amazonas y Guainía en altitudes entre los 100 a 250 msnm.
La principal parte comestible del fruto es el endocarpio blanco (parte que recubre la semilla), cuyo sabor es dulce y muy agradable. En algunas comunidades indígenas se cocina para obtener una colada.
La pulpa rojiza de la fruta no se acostumbra comer en los territorios en donde crece. No obstante, también tiene un sabor dulce que permite su aprovechamiento.

There is a great fig tree growing wild in the mountains of Gran Canaria at aprox. 1.200 mt over sea level. Unfortunatelly I have no information about production and fruit quality...

I wonder how old this fig could be...

I am selling 4 P. viridis seedlings for 22 EUR each (shippping not included):





The seedlings a aprox. 30 cm high. The mother tree produces delicious fruit, very sweet, tastes like mamey with a hint of caramel and almond. This is the mother tree (which I obtained from seeds bought in 2009 from fruitlovers):






The plants will be shipped from Germany...

I few month ago I did several grafts. On vigorous trees the success rate was about 80%, on a weak tree the success was 0%.
The new cultivars I have grafted are: Walton, Nies and C. tetrameria #6. Has anyone tasted those cultivars?

Anyone growing it? I have one plant in ground for a few years. It does not grow, but it does not die either. But that's maybe because of the place where I planted it, not because of the climate.

In my last journey I found a fruiting plant in a temple in Ayutthaya. I was very excited to see fruits for the  first time. Unfortunatelly it was a big dissapointment. The fruit had not sweetnes, no flavour, but a slightly bad aftertaste. So not worth growing for the fruit. But maybe there a good ones out there. Has anyone tasted the fruit of L. fruticosa or other L. species?

Here some pictures:

I sell 3 M. laurina and 1 M. odorata seeds for 12 EUR + shipping.

Here are some pictures of my recent visit to the Chatuchak Market in Bangkok. This market is really amazing, but not so great for buying fruit trees IMO: You can sure find some interesting stuff, but the variety is not so big and the accuracy about cultivars (if any) is not high. Ofter sellers do not have a clue what exactly they are selling.

Enjoy the pictures

Plumerias


Bananas


Grafted santol


Grafted santol


Mango trees


Grafted durian


Grafted durian




This fruit stands are in a market next to JJ, called 'Or Tor Kor'. It is a pretty nice place for fruit lovers, but be warned that it is the must expensive market I have seen in Thailand (confirmed by locals).

Dear friends,

find attached my haul from a fruit hunt in Germany

The fruit is imported from Thailand and the quality is very good. The litchis are huge, in fact I have never had such big litchis in my hands. I would rate the taste as very good, but not excellent.

Thanks a lot to Flying Fox Fruits Nursery for the shipment of great budwood!! Adao is the man... 

After two weeks in transit (mail), the grafts are doing great

Whitmann green zapote:







Sillas Wood sapodilla:

Dear friends,

finally I had some time to upload pictures of my last visit at the Canarian Research Station last November. You can find the pictures here:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100361925414382384869/albums/5963971268123980337

Dear friends,

here are some pictures I did a few days ago. I was really amazed about the size of the fruit! They are currently growing three cultivars: Fino de Jete, Madeira and Mateus. The first cultivar is excellent (taste, production, pollen, rootstock...), while the other two are nothing special. The work at the research station with chirimoyas has been low for many years. I'm trying to encourage the researchers to give chirimoya more interest.

This orchad was manually pollinated last spring for two days. As a result, the trees produced few fruit, but the shape was perfect and the size huge. I have never seen such big chirimoyas. I think the bigger FDJ was around 3 lbs..























Here some aditional information in spanish:

http://www.gobcan.es/agricultura/doc/otros/publicaciones/cuadernos/chiri.pdf

Thanks to this great platform I have had to opportunity to get great plant material. I will give my best to honour the donors by getting the plants one day to fruit

Thanks a lot to all the great people on this forum sharing knowledge, experiences and also spreading their seeds

Here are my newest babys from all over the world:


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