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Aloha!

I managed to get three wi from one seed and they are about 4 feet high and I'm really interested in finding a Jocote cutting or seedling, but preferably a cutting. If anyone is on the big island and has Jocote please let me know, thanks! They have it on etsy but I'd rather find local.

Iv used mosquito bits in the past they work amazing. I usually make a tea with it then water I dont like seeing the nasty bits in my pots getting moldy, I doubt it's good mold lol.

Quote from: Vegan Potato Man on December 11, 2024, 06:25:03 PM

use microbelift bmc

Yes bti is safe, and yes fungus gnats are potentially harmful especially with a severe infestation

best to get rid of them

I thought microbelift was for applications where it will be submerged in water, this will work in potted plants too vpm?

Its advertised for use in ponds but I use it in pots with no issue. Its much more concentrated and convenient since its a liquid. I also hated watching the mosquito bits get moldy. Usually just use a tiny drop in a gallon of water as a soil drench.

i have Manoa Sweet and Florida sweet, aside from a very very slight difference in color i cant tell them apart, they look, grow and taste the same to me. been trying to source other cultivars (mainly just as another pollination partner) but was trying for the more acid variety like b17, but never was able to track anything other then Florida sweet down.

they are a really good plant, grow super fast and once up to size they make an insane amount of cherry's, the redder they get the sweeter they get the the lower the vitamin c gets, my grandma liked the red almost overripe ones but i like them just st there starting to turn red since i like them sour.

even fully ripe there not super sweet, and there better if eaten straight off the tree, if you store them in the fridge or freezer for any real length of time they get a weird rubbery texture and start to taste really weird. so ill eat them off the tree and freeze the rest, after i have a decent amount i juice them in a cheap whine press and freeze them in little ice cubes, so i can drop one or two into a drink or smoothy, great for adding a little extra vitamin c to things.


the yellow ones are from fruit i picked when the trees first started fruiting and the birds were attacking them, so i picked early, but again the the greener they are the more vitamin c so it was fine for making the vit c ice cubes, the red ones are from when the trees really started fruiting, they put out so much that i no longer had to worry about the birds, there were too many for them to eat.

there about 80 mg vitamin c per cherry vs a whole large lemon that has about 40 mg.

thieve been a bit finicky for me but they have rooted as cutting for me but at a fairly low success rate, they air layer well but can take 4+ months.

Do you know where I can find selected varieties on the big island?

Lama aka Diospyros sandwicensis

small fruit and mostly seed but doesn't taste too bad when I had it.

Pretty tree

Please let me know when you get more seeds 

Where are you shipping from?

Sapote can refer to many individual fruits. Do you mean black sapote, diospyros nigra?

Are these seeds from Hilo DFAW Arboretum?

Never see the durian or the lecythis fruiting there...

Are you sure its Aeae? The leaves look much different compared to ours.

I was weeding around one of my Imbe trees that we planted about 6 months ago and I noticed some Imbe leaves on the ground. I thought I had broken off the end of a branch somehow but upon closer inspection I realized part of the long taproot that somehow got severed (I think we cut it because I left it in the pot too long) had sprouted a new plant.

I pulled up the remaining piece of the root and there was a good 2 feet of it. I cut it up into about 6 inch long sections and put the unsprouted pieces in a tray with some potting mix in the hopes they'll sprout as well. I was under the impression that Garcinia species have weaker root systems so I wasn't expecting to see this.

Picture of the root shoot below.

They basically grow as a weed on our property here on Hawaii. I couldn't give advice for mainland care though.

I thought it was regular ginger and I tasted one of the root.

Would not recommend. So soapy.

Edit: According to this you have to eat the root at the right time and place, ill have to give it another go
https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Zingiber+zerumbet

Man I was just telling the guy helping with our foundation how insanely jealous I am of Joe

I'm 5/5 GPF's Cuban No Grit sugar apple seeds. I just used a metal file (like $3 from the hardware store) to scrape the ends a bit, soaked them in water overnight and then stuck them in some soil and placed the pot on my screened porch. It's been about a month and all five seedlings are a few inches tall.

I usually just scrape them on some concrete. Seems less fiddly than a file or sandpaper.