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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: growers from west Africa !
« on: May 10, 2025, 12:32:31 PM »
I am not in West Africa but I feel that region or maybe Africa in general is underrepresented in the exotic fruits/plants world. There's a handful of people gathering rare seeds from rainforests and other exotic locales in South America and Southeast Asia but not really Africa.

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Nice, which crosses? I know madison citrus sell sugarbelle

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: The Official "Blueberry Tree" thread.
« on: April 28, 2025, 05:51:59 PM »
Just purchase a Rabbit Eye blueberry cultivar. They are much harder and longer lived than the Highbush varieties that are typically sold. I don't think his cultivar was that different from the typical Rabbit Eye blueberries available.

Fair 🤣

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: The Official "Blueberry Tree" thread.
« on: April 28, 2025, 12:08:39 AM »
Does anyone have still have this variety? I remember reading about it years ago and it seems worth conserving.


I clicked the OP's storefront and sadly he has an injunction barring him/them from selling or even having a business or website. Apparently some drama happened.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: MIC Information
« on: April 24, 2025, 10:36:12 PM »
Hi Tom,

Is MIC true to seed?
it sounds like it tastes wonderful.

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I suspect its AI written and probably a cheap or old AI too, it's def not vetted and its not very trust worthy.

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Like lula, delrio/fantastic, mexicola, and so on. This question just popped in my head after watching some Sleepy Lizard Farm videos. I briefly browsed their site and I think they mostly or only sell west-indies types.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Butia x Jubaea Seeds for Sale
« on: April 14, 2025, 09:11:21 PM »
sent a message for 5 seeds

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Piggybacking on this thread to say I'm interested in find a source for parajubaea sunkha. It feels like the parajubaea genus has gotten harder to find in the US compared to a few years ago.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Edible Conifers and other Gymnosperms
« on: November 04, 2024, 09:16:12 AM »
Sugar pines (pinus lambertiana) have edible nuts and, true to name, are a source of sweet sap.

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Is it one or multiple seeds to a pack? Idk much about this genus .

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To give a slightly different take, I have been zone pushing all sorts of things for ~6 years now,  and I have no regrets for any of it. I will say that I've avoided buying expensive stuff, I've mostly collected (free!) seeds, sometimes bought seeds, or sometimes very small seedlings. I viewed my efforts more as an experiment than an effort to actually get fruit.

I've started about 500 avocados in that time, here in a location laughably far from anywhere anyone has successfully grown an avocado tree, and most of those trees are now dead. But I'm excited about the ones that aren't dead, and excited about the prospect of killing hundreds (thousands?) more trees before I'm done trying avocados.

It's about expectations and goals, for sure, but there's joy to be had from the experience, even if some species will be definite failures. Sometimes you might have a microclimate where you succeed with something totally unexpected! But probably mostly failure when you're really pushing.

I love it and that's a great mentality to have. Reminds me of those Ukrainian efforts to find cold tolerant olives and citrus. Try enough times and you're bound to find something special. I wish we had more enterprising souls who got in on these sorts of botanic selection processes, how much would the gardening world be :D

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Just chipping into say I think experimental zone pushing is super cool and its something I aim to achieve with my garden. As K-rimes said though this would be expensive with high failure rates without preparation. My idea has always been look for usually hardy varieties/populations of these crops (or hardy relatives to hybridize with) to grow and pamper and then slowly test the offspring, ofc problems are posed here for slow maturing or massive plants.

Another idea i've gotten into:

rare fruit / food is not limited to unusual amazonian berries unheard of outside brazil, many amazing crops have been forgotten in their own lands and never advanced globally (kind of like what happened to pawpaws in the USA). Perhaps you could also look into growing, selecting and improving fruit plants native to your area. I think native plant growing is going to trend up explosively in the next few years as more reports of ecological decline come in.

And as others have said there are hardy and sub-tropical plants that are wonderful options.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / .
« on: October 18, 2024, 02:19:19 PM »
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: A non bitter larger Poncirus?
« on: October 17, 2024, 08:10:27 AM »
I wonder if the term sweet is sometimes used as a synonym for ‘not bad’. There is another better Poncirus selection called #7 that the owner claimed was supposed to be sweet. But it wasn't. It was good, but not sweet. The same goes for Kinga.

This is an astute observation, it absolutely is.

For fruits or foods that have poisonous or bitter versions 'sweet' is often used without referring to the sugar content.
IE sweet cassava, sweet almonds, sweet lupin etc.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: A non bitter larger Poncirus?
« on: October 16, 2024, 08:21:47 AM »
I guess the quality is connected with the hot mediterranean summer we had this year. If I had a Kinga1, it would surely be sweet now.

Kinga is a sweet poncirus but not available stateside, Is anyone propagating it or growing its seedlings in Europe to your knowledge?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Grasshoppers
« on: September 20, 2024, 07:21:19 AM »
Ugh! They eat everything!
You are at least lucky you only get grasshoppers.
We get Mormon crickets, too.
When they are done eating every plant in sight, then they turn cannibal and eat each other.
In a really bad year, the roads get so slick with their squashed bodies that there have been motorcycle accidents when riders hit a patch. They can't fly, thank God!!! You can't "shoo" them, though. They chase you and bite you! Bleh.




Wow that is NOT the type of grass hopper i was expecting.
I recently saw a camel cricket for the first time and was squeaked in shock at how big it was, if I saw that fly at me my soul might this mortal coil XD

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Haha I was googling around for named capulin varieties and found this thread! I'm east coast but I'd still love some scions or seeds. Also interested in native select or improve p serotina.

I found some info from old threads on garden web https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/1448977/4-n-1-capulin-cherry
and a bit more info here http://edible.wikidot.com/edible-plant:122

Apparently CFRG had other selections by various members that arent listed on the site:
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"Emerich #1" produces the largest cherry, a nicely flavored fruit, but with fairly strong "wild" black cherry flavor notes.

"La Roca Grande" is a selection by Ben Poirier. The fruits have a slightly milder taste than "Emerich #1". They are a little smaller than "E. #1" fruits, and ripen to a dull reddish color. ("E. #1" fruits ripen to a deep, blackish-purple color.)

"Late Lomeli" is a seedling from the capulin grove in Conejo Park (established by the local CRFG chapter). This one comes into prime ripeness about a week or two after the other cultivars. It tastes the closest to a European P. avium sweet cherry. The main drawback to this selection is that the cherries are small, nanking cherry-sized.


Does anyone know where to get any of these plants now?

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The californai citrus repository has tengu mikan but its not available as budwood i think

https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/tengu.html

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Going away to college sale!
« on: September 11, 2024, 03:00:53 PM »
Congrats and wow that collection is crazy impressive!
What dragon fruit do you have?

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: red or pink finger like or desert lime
« on: September 11, 2024, 11:15:48 AM »
Madison citrus has the largest selection of whats availlablle (multiple finger limes and other australian citrus sp.)

red lime tasted awful to me, like pinesol similar to sweet lime.

As of now Australia's vibrant beautiful cultivars just aren't available stateside. Down under has vibrant crimson red, bright green and even yellow finger limes for sale - It's odd no big citrus repository has taken interest in as I don't think they're patented. Perhaps some industrious person could breed some or someone with the permits and certificates could laboriously import seeds but until then US stock of australian citrus is pretty undiverse.

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Has anyone had the fruit of the Queen of the Night/Night-blooming Cereus before?(not sure what the scientific name is, apperently every cactus in he world is called Night-blooming cereus) I see it ornamental alot (and ours was considered an ornamental) but it has like tennis ball sized fruits this year for the first time. Red with tons of spines.

I have, if you're wondering if you can eat it there's a higher* chance of not being CHOICE eating but so far as I know all cacti are edible.

It could be a epiphyllum or selenicereus but harrisia and peniocereus also have 'queen of the night'. The royal family is huge lmao  https://spicyexotics.com/product-category/selenicereus/

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I grow in a mix of:
~turface (well another brand like it because turface became hard to find in my area)
~coco-coir
~and sometimes whatever soil or soilish substance I have standing by lol

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Vanilla pompona from seed?
« on: September 02, 2024, 06:04:13 PM »
Better look into flasking orchids /  'flasking orchids at home', while I don't know about raising vanilla many orchids seeds are tiny and need some TLC to take off.

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