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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for warm weather raspberries.
« on: April 03, 2024, 09:59:39 PM »
How are things growing? Anyone find the Indian rasberry?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Would like to trade plants, scions, seeds etc by the Deltona FL area
« on: April 03, 2024, 02:03:00 AM »Will find out in a few daysI'll be waiting with lots of anticipation
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Would like to trade plants, scions, seeds etc by the Deltona FL area
« on: April 02, 2024, 06:56:03 PM »
Not in the area, but how long have you been growing the raspberry? I'm always looking for ones that do well in the heat
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB TROPICAL/FLORIDA PERSIMMON TREE
« on: April 02, 2024, 01:57:46 PM »
This rest stop has a wonderful old persimmon tree. You can collect fruit from the ground in August. I'm growing up seeds and want to try selecting the biggest fruits and growing their seeds to try to make a bigger fruit. The taste is really wonderful and imo superior to Asian ones. There's also a Mexican black persimmon that is great, but also small
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Loquat Fruits Taste and Impressions 2024 season
« on: April 01, 2024, 10:28:08 PM »Ok, if we wanted to have an extended loquat season, which varieties could be put together to stretch it out?This is the reason why I would do multiple varieties
Early?
Middle?
Late?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Loquat Fruits with Red Blush
« on: April 01, 2024, 10:24:50 PM »
I swear I saw something like that once upon a time on a random probably no name tree in Houston
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ross Sapote seeds Germination and Other questios
« on: April 01, 2024, 12:40:04 PM »I don't think you actually need to remove the shell, the idea is to crack it enough to let water in more easily.
I'm not damaging it at the shell removal stage, it's at the cracking stage. Is there a particular spot to put pressure for cracking it safely?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Planting mangoes deep
« on: April 01, 2024, 04:03:02 AM »
When I plant my citrus I plant it deep. It produces roots from the trunk and if I'm running behind covering there's less chance of them dieing to the graft. Can I do the same for mangoes? I have heard that they are hard to root, but since it can be done can they do well planted deep?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ross Sapote seeds Germination and Other questios
« on: April 01, 2024, 02:56:44 AM »
Do you need to let the seeds sit for a few days or anything? I tried cracking 3. First with pliers and the seed cracked a little with the shell and when I picked the shell off part of the shell was adhered. The second was with a hammer until it just cracked and I got it off clean. The third just now was with a hammer and the shell seems really adhered and it cracked inside. I'm still planting them in case I get lucky. I have one more fruit I was given and they are really wonderful, so I want to grow from these seeds.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cocktail Grapefruit
« on: March 31, 2024, 08:42:03 PM »
I'm jelly. Probably no chance of getting scions all the way over here.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Where to go in the Tampa area
« on: March 31, 2024, 12:47:55 PM »I saw so many mangoes flowering this trip. Will definitely need to plan a trip for when they are actually fruiting.Just got back from a trip there and went to several places and packed the car pretty hard for the trip back. Looks like I missed some of your recommendations, so I'll have places to go when I visit again.
Cody Cove Nursery
Living roots eco design
Fruit Tropics Nursery
Citrus park nursery
Tropical Asian Nursery
On your next trip, I also like Amel's post suggestion of Food Forest Tampa. Michael Gonzalez there is a wealth of knowledge, always has a great selection of tropicals. And, during mango seasons has many great varieties of mangoes that are from his and other Florida Mango Growers. Incredible opportunity to be able to buy and try many varieties and speak with an extremely knowledgeable person at the same time.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for frsh bilimbi fruit
« on: March 31, 2024, 12:46:22 PM »Still looking. Anyone please?Reach out to Camplus on ebay. They sell it and are legit. They might have some they can sell.??
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dream greenhouse build help
« on: March 31, 2024, 04:55:22 AM »
How's the build going?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Where to go in the Tampa area
« on: March 31, 2024, 04:51:20 AM »
Just got back from a trip there and went to several places and packed the car pretty hard for the trip back. Looks like I missed some of your recommendations, so I'll have places to go when I visit again.
Cody Cove Nursery
Living roots eco design
Fruit Tropics Nursery
Citrus park nursery
Tropical Asian Nursery
Cody Cove Nursery
Living roots eco design
Fruit Tropics Nursery
Citrus park nursery
Tropical Asian Nursery
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selected Cherry of the Rio Grande Scions
« on: March 31, 2024, 04:42:13 AM »
Will do.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cocktail Grapefruit
« on: March 31, 2024, 12:37:47 AM »
Have you noticed a difference in fruit with any of your other citrus depending on graft?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for high quality producing canistel/eggfruit tree south fl
« on: March 31, 2024, 12:32:38 AM »
I have never had canistel before, but tried a fantastic one from a member of the local rare fruit chapter in Tampa. I suggest you reach out to them and see if they can get you in touch with a member who will share/sell scions and fruit to taste test.
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Tropical Fruit Online Library / Re: Do you know any fruits that are native to Hawaii?
« on: March 29, 2024, 12:10:14 PM »
How does Hawaiian raspberry taste? I bet it's heat tolerant
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for skinner mulberry
« on: March 28, 2024, 11:11:17 AM »Could it not be rooted instead of grafted? Is there a specific time of year for rooting cuttings too?I was talking to the peeps at Cody's Cove about that while taste testing their mulberry and they said it doesn't root well, so you'll have a much higher chance of success grafting
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Online nursery warning: Wellspring Gardens
« on: March 27, 2024, 10:14:15 PM »Before I discovered this forum, I ordered a “Blue Java” banana from Wellspring. It turned out to be some small fruited banana like a manzano. Never again will I order from a nursery that can’t get their naners straight. Fool me once…Tell me more about this guava that tastes like bubblegum
I got my real blue Java from Brad. It fruited as advertised. Despite his expressed dislike for the variety, I consider it a solid banana with nice texture and excellent sweetness. I suspect Brad does not want to get inundated with ‘the real blue Java’ requests like the guava that tastes like bubblegum
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for skinner mulberry
« on: March 27, 2024, 10:09:21 PM »I had luck grafting during the fall 2 years ago. Unfortunately with the new growth it was killed spring winter, but had success. Maybe it depends on the plant. I also wonder if you can trick it like mango (saw this in a video and want to try it) and trim off the leaves from the intended scion, then wait for the leftover stems to fall off and new buds to start forming to show nutrients and hormones are in that scion, then cut it off.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.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passion Flower "Red Rover"
« on: March 27, 2024, 10:05:56 PM »Sounds like another agristarts mass produced fake like the blue java bananas. The round red rovers are the clone that every nursery is selling from tissue cultures from agristarts. Even CRFG has description wrong lol.What's the story behind blue Java bananas?
Good news this fruit is an improvement over fredrick at least. At least for growing inland they dont get sun burns as easily.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Banana variety tastes
« on: March 27, 2024, 10:02:48 PM »
Nam Wah are fantastic. I got to try them off a tree on my trip to Florida and was blown away. Way better than store bought and worth growing
Blue javas are also great. I think I tried Hua Kia years ago and really liked them too the point where I've been trying to find that banana for a decade. Hopefully by next year I'll try one to confirm. I also want to taste the Kakopo.
Blue javas are also great. I think I tried Hua Kia years ago and really liked them too the point where I've been trying to find that banana for a decade. Hopefully by next year I'll try one to confirm. I also want to taste the Kakopo.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Seedlings from Variegated Citrus Fruits
« on: March 26, 2024, 12:56:02 PM »
That's pretty cool. I wonder how hard it would be to identify the fungus that's causing it in your yard. So many different plants showing it I'm suspicious of a fungus not genetic. Maybe before you sell the next set of seeds you can try cooking the soil in the oven to kill everything
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