The Tropical Fruit Forum

If anyone is interested.  Here is a tour of Bellamy Trees Nursery.
https://youtu.be/6yraGBFh8Cs

You don’t happen to be Virginia Fruit Grower on Youtube, are you?
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I also think Virginia Fruit Grower have some interesting videos...And I just learned about another Youtube channel by the name of FancyPlants. I highly recommend some of the videos which are quite informative.

Hmmm that’s interesting to note...I’ve heard it a little differently for folks who live in a less than ideal climate for seaberry, especially in areas that can receive high temperature with high humidity. I’m growing mine in the Deep South. Perhaps they seem to fare better in the high heat but low humidity environment of Vegas, so can handle more sunlight? It’s suggested that they be given indirect sunlight in hot regions, and by following that mantra my seaberry seedlings seem to be faring quite well.They’re getting some new leaf growths so that’s a good sign to note, but I also feel like you really need to baby them along way, especially in the heat of the summer. By the way, it’s a similar strategy with lettuce. In the North like Maine you can grow lettuce in full sun in May, June, and July. The temperature is mild so lettuce do not seem to mind being in full sun. Summer in Maine is almost equivalent to late Winter to mid Spring down here...In our summer, we need to give lettuce some shade and protection from the intense heat in order to give them a chance to give us a small but decent harvest, lol.😉

Congrats on getting the maqui plant to fruit in the desert!!

Like many have said, I can’t seem to get maqui seeds to germinate either...

Thanks for wanting to offer the cuttings since we know your plant is a hermaphrodite...But you are also welcome to sell us the seeds if you don’t mind! 😉😌

Seeds arrived fresh and some red hybrid jabo seeds were already showing signs of root development!
Great seller!

Quote from: Tropical Sunshine on May 16, 2023, 08:31:03 AM

Campomanesia lineatifolia, is it self pollinating?

Several sources state that it is a guava relative and most guava trees tend to self pollinate...

Don’t want to have to buy 10+ plants if 1 will suffice to produce fruits!🤣

My campo guazumifolia is self fruitful, my campo hirsuta seems not to be. I'd get two to be safe.

Thanks for the suggestion...Yeah it’s still a newly discovered species by non natives and seems no one is entirely sure on its reproductive method, so I think I’ll go with 3 or more plants once I decide to jump into the Campomanesia band wagon...😉🙂

Campomanesia lineatifolia, is it self pollinating?

Several sources state that it is a guava relative and most guava trees tend to self pollinate...

Don’t want to have to buy 10+ plants if 1 will suffice to produce fruits!🤣

The mangosteen and chupa chupa arrived in pristine condition--Not one leaf had wilted!!
Abimael exceeds my expectation as a seller and so far I have nothing but high praise from his reliability and work ethic.

Quote from: Tropical Sunshine on April 26, 2023, 11:04:54 AM

I tend to think of the Shatoot as the yellowish white, super sweet version of the Pakistani mulberry (as opposed to the purple Pakistani which has a more sour flavor). Is the white Pakistani considered to be another version of the Shatoot?

There is so much confusion in the world of mulberries. Shahtoot is the Hindi word for mulberry.

Yeah, it seems when folks refer to Shatoot to mean the white version of the Pakistani mulberry and the purple variety to just mean the purple Pakistani. Perhaps the word Shatoot sounds exotic and makes the white Pakistani a special mulberry, which it is because it is one of the sweetest out there and is a big factor why people want to graft them onto their mulberry trees...

Mr. Shilohtech is back!!
Doggonit, it’s time to start saving up some extra money. Those fresh seeds are too good to ignore. You folks from Hawaii are allowing me to turn my yard into a “food forest” that much sooner! Keep up the good work!👍😁

Salmon berry, sea berry, oca, ulluco, mashua, yacon, Rabina mountain ash, Chilean guava...

Those are some of the plants I yearn to grow in the hot, humid South.
Besides the yacon, the rest mentioned are utterly tricky to grow and thrive in the South challenging summer climate...

In general, it’s a good practice to not leave the embryo of a tropical seed laying buried in the soil for too long. The goal is to get the seed as reasonably fresh as possible and to get it germinated as soon as possible. Lurking in seed growing mix are a plethora of good but also pretty bad bacteria, virus, and fungi. Even the so called “sterile potting medium” is not totally immune to housing those bad microbes. I also tend to think that each embryo has a period of what I like to call the will to survive (aka germinate). After that time is up, the embryo just tends to give up at germinating and so the longer the seed stays in the ground, the harder is for the embryo to have the strength and determination to break free from the  seed shell and become a viable plant. I’m just telling like it is because I learn it the hard way. Hope that helps!😀