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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Yangmei on Sale ---> WEEE
« on: June 28, 2025, 06:09:21 AM »
Tropical Sunshine, I saw the same thing with seedlings. I bought those $40 each seedlings and they all died in 4 months. Then I bought 4 smaller new seedlings (2" tall) and they died in 1 month. I hope when I grow out the seeds myself they will be ok. I plan to use citrus mix for the pot and give it lots of room so it won't stay wet.

This link may be helpful to some folks: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZHy3_7PPE

I’m neither for or against his approach to dealing with the issue of root rot. I’ll let the viewers make their own educated assessments. But it’s one Youtube video worth watching for anyone who is interested in figuring out why their tropical trees are not thriving as well as they would have liked.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Yangmei on Sale ---> WEEE
« on: June 28, 2025, 05:53:34 AM »
FWIW, Yangmei trees appear to be very prone to root rot. I have yet to own a grafted tree, but from what I can observe with yangmei seedlings it is quite intriguing to watch them respond to the moisture condition in the soil. Even in a large plant pot, I had seen a group of yangmei survive and thrive in one part of the pot while another group succumbed eventually to root rot at another site of the same plant pot. It was later realized that some areas of the plant pot tend to stay wetter for longer than other areas…
Funny thing is seedlings are actually ok with it
I had mine growing in a garden bed thats plastic…but I never opened the drainage hole for a month…
We got over 12 inches of rain in May the soil was consistently sopping wet

I don’t know, maybe the water evaporated from the many TN Appalacchian springs, being so naturally clean, is super saturated with oxygen, therefore when it pours rain and flood the bed there are so many oxygen molecules in the water that the yangmei seedlings are doing great because they are taking in oxygen rich water (pardon the scientific hypothesis pun 😁).  But on a rather serious note, this has happened to several yangmei batches so it’s not an isolated incident. The symptoms of root rot on yangmei are similar to that of babaco, another plant that loathes wet feet. It’s like how it is with peat moss. I know many gardeners swear that peat moss helps their potted plants thrive. But that’s not necessarily the case from my experience…I tried to avoid using peat moss in my planting mix and now my plants are doing better and can grow and flourish from season to season with a lot less apprehension from them getting root rot…

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Yangmei on Sale ---> WEEE
« on: June 27, 2025, 10:50:51 PM »
FWIW, Yangmei trees appear to be very prone to root rot. I have yet to own a grafted tree, but from what I can observe with yangmei seedlings it is quite intriguing to watch them respond to the moisture condition in the soil. Even in a large plant pot, I had seen a group of yangmei survive and thrive in one part of the pot while another group succumbed eventually to root rot at another site of the same plant pot. It was later realized that some areas of the plant pot tend to stay wetter for longer than other areas…

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Too bad I don’t live close by…Good luck to anyone who can get access to those pineapples!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Yangmei seeds
« on: June 24, 2025, 10:53:57 AM »
You know the fruits are delicious when the seller ate all the fruits and you were left with only the seeds. You grow the seeds and wait a couple more years and you can only hope that those fruits of your seedlings are close in the taste sensation category to the fruits that the seller had eaten. And that’s how you know the fruits are delicious and in demand…😉😁

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Seeds
« on: June 16, 2025, 08:18:44 AM »
I don't know about lychee or longan, I have never been able root those. But you can also root loquat cuttings as well. I prefer to graft most of these but it is nice to do when you have a large tree and want to give someone a plant that they don't have.

I’ve not been able to root all those fruit trees you mentioned: Mango, avocado, lychee, and longan. Only stuff I’m good at rootings are goji, pomegranate, and hybrid willow…😁 I’m still a novice at grafting most trees, so if I have a choice between grafting and rooting, I would likely take the latter…

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Seeds
« on: June 15, 2025, 12:43:31 PM »
I was also able to root some nice size avocado cuttings (1/2") and new leaves are growing so far, don't want to touch it until I see new branches.

If that set up works with a lot of harder to root cuttings and the local plant nurseries are getting in on the setup, don’t be too surprised if we start to see more for sale mango trees, avocado trees, and even lychee trees grown from cuttings instead of air layers or grafts…

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Seeds
« on: June 13, 2025, 07:19:32 PM »
I used the clear/opaque plastic storage box from Home Depot and my mango cutting seemed to have rooted. I will see when it has more leaves growing.

That’s great news! Mango cuttings are among the harder to root cuttings. Funny how some of those folks in Youtube videos have made it seem so easy. I tried rooting mango cuttings many times before with no luck yet. That sounds like a promising set up. I may try to root my lychee branches since my lychee tree is flushing out new growth in this warm weather…

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Seeds
« on: June 13, 2025, 07:09:17 PM »
I agree... With no special effort they do seem to sprout easily.
Here's my Sylvia tray on my sunporch last March:





And now this week in my backyard:





Kevin

Wow, nice looking plants there Kevin. 👍 Guess I got me some friendly competition here heheh…😉 My Sylvia seedlings are getting bigger, just no where as robust and healthy as yours…Time to start a bucket of compost tea or comfrey tea and give them more attention lol.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Seeds
« on: June 12, 2025, 08:58:25 PM »
Check out this link: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=42402.0

I think it’s an ingenous idea; No need to cover pots with cumbersome, awkward bags and keep them up with small stakes. Large clear boxes are readily available in some supermarkets. Just make sure to poke a few holes on the side and top of containers with a decent drill bit to allow fresh air to circulate in the box but still keep in a decent amount of humidity.

The topic was about germinating soncoya (a very difficult to germinate species in my current experience). I may go this route when I decide to germinate the difficult to germinate tropicals. Also using 40% GA3 at 300 ppm may help (Experimentation is needed, don’t go too high in the concentration, since more is not necessarily better).

Oh yeah, in case anyone is wondering, my Sylvia seeds just germinated with no special treatment. Once the temperature and humidity go up in South Texas, the guava seeds started to perk up from the soil. And I figure the fresh seeds didn’t hurt either in the germination process!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Seeds
« on: June 11, 2025, 12:24:40 PM »
Thanks! They germinate pretty easily once there is an increase in temperature and humidity…
Most guava trees are renowned for being precocious (I’ve heard of guava trees fruiting in as little as one and a half year from seeds). I hope the Sylvia guava seedlings don’t keep us waiting for too long to get the fruits!


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Seeds
« on: June 10, 2025, 07:13:24 PM »
The Sylvia/Carmine guava seeds had germinated…And are doing great so far!

Not sure if any of the seedlings will be up to par with the original Sylvia guava but I’m just glad that I got the chance to grow the seedlings of what I would considered to be one of the top 5 guava varieties out there!




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That Luc garcinia variety ‘Morir Sonando’ sounds amazingly divine—Like mother nature’s decadent ice cream placed on a tree, waiting to quench the thirst and revive the taste buds of weary travelers!!

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I got a dream recently from Vincent. Package came a little roughed up from handling but inside my baby was protected well! Graft is very strong and thick. Buy with confidence !




Yeah that graft looks well maintained. Vincent is a good seller!

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Just wow, those persimmon trees of your neighbor appear to be doing very well in SoCal…

I’m guessing 3208 this time around.

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Got a question…

I’ve heard that a good time to graft persimmon is in the late Winter, when the buds are about to open.

Has anyone tried and successfully grafted persimmon scionwood after the leaves have already appeared?


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Is there a place in this world that can grow and fruit both Samoan dwarf coconut and seaberry?!? If there is, count me in, I may decide to buy a small homestead there!😉☺️

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Just think, years from now those special canistel, loquat, mulberry, guava, and white sapote will be flourishing in the yards of fruit growers all over the country, thanks to a TFF forum member from SoCal. 🙂 Keep up the good work my friend…

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Have you thought about growing cold weather fruit trees or bushes such as seaberry, aronia, serviceberry, winterberry, or haskap?

I love to try out some of those exotic cold weather plants but I think you may have a better chance at succeeding at growing and fruiting them up in TN as opposed to where I am in Texas where relentless heat and humidity are pretty much the norm throughout the Summer month…

Even in zone 10a, I am quite interested in growing temperate fruit. High volume of fruit for very little investment of effort, time, or $. You spend more time reducing the fruit  load (thinning) than you do increasing it!

If I were in an inclement weather zone, yes, I would have my eugenia and jabo, but I'd be spending less than 10% of my effort on them.

Now, if I had the $ and owned a nice plot of land where I could erect a massive, glass, double wall, heated greenhouse... Perhaps my effort % would change. Half assing zone pushing is where I'm out. Been there done that, killed a lot of plants and didn't get any fruit off em.

The cool weather deciduous fruit trees would likely do better in coastal California than in hot and humid Texas. I know SoCal does get its own heat wave, but in general night time lows in the 60s and 50s (F) can make life more bearable for those Northern fruit trees. Our lows can hover around the 80s (F) for weeks throughout the warmer months so not the kind of weather they prefer or are used to. If I have a plot if land in SoCal, I would definitely be more confident in giving the cool weather fruit trees a try…😎🙂

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Disclaimer: DO NOT eat/ingest winterberry!

Please ignore the previous comment on winterberry.

I meant to include the wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, in the previous comment.

Again, winterberry is poisonous, DO NOT eat/ingest it!

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Have you thought about growing cold weather fruit trees or bushes such as seaberry, aronia, serviceberry, winterberry, or haskap?

I love to try out some of those exotic cold weather plants but I think you may have a better chance at succeeding at growing and fruiting them up in TN as opposed to where I am in Texas where relentless heat and humidity are pretty much the norm throughout the Summer month…

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I think those sellers in PR have similar looking ads and websites. Perhaps they are related or maybe they are close friends?

I have had mixed experiences buying from the sellers in PR. Some sellers pack plants very well and ship them fast. Those are the sellers whom I would get healthy, robust plants from. Other sellers would take like 2 weeks or so to get the plants here and they were usually poorly packed. Your mileage may vary depending on which PR sellers you buy from!

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That’s true as well…I think there should be a happy medium where ingenuity combined with simplicity may allow the average backyard growers a chance to harvest a particular fruit in what would otherwise be an inhospitable environment for that species…

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Never say never…I am in awe at how meticulous the Japanese take care of the Miyazaki mango trees in controlled environments. Science combined with farmers’ dedication, respect to the Japanese farming culture!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ1C4OFI-o8

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