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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Campbell White Sapote HELP?
« on: March 25, 2024, 05:21:28 PM »
I bought a 1 gallon from lara farms in like november I believe. It has now started to push out its first leaves since arrival. Im growing mine in a container made up of sand, pumice and a little bit of biochar, top dressed with compost and holly tone.

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Hello thanks for reaching out to the community. No real frustration on my end at least. I’ll reach out this winter to see what you have available. Best of luck with the biz

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I sent a message over to Lynn Nursery in cali last Friday. Ill see if they reach back out to me. I asked them about buying a small lot of C-22s from them. We can share

@hammer524 did you hear back from Lyn's?

Nope!

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dang, you go to dairy queen and watch a movie then you go to check the sales page and BAM, they are gone. life is so cruel  :D :D :D

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Totally agree. It was my second time buying from her last November. Bought some Guaruja Red pitanga, Female #4 Kei apple and feijoia scions.


The only thing that piqued my interest is the "Roger Meyer" rose apple as I only have the air layered one Lara Farms sells. Does anyone have any more info of the Roger Meyer variety?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: In search of….
« on: January 18, 2024, 03:19:49 PM »
Does anyone have any variety where the flower pedals stand out in taste? From the few varieties I have, i tend to get impatient and eat the flower pedalssometimes.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: 2024% off SALE + New Seed Drop!
« on: January 14, 2024, 08:28:53 PM »
JFC

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selling some stock b4 school
« on: January 12, 2024, 04:01:14 PM »
Is the scarlet from a rooted cutting?

Id be interested in purchasing the scarlet + 2 Shine cuttings

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: red or pink finger like or desert lime
« on: January 04, 2024, 09:24:47 PM »
https://www.logees.com/red-finger-lime-tree-red-champagne.html


Appears so. I really want to buy one but ag laws :(. If anyone is reading this post 2 or 3 years from now, let me buy some cuttings from you please.

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: red or pink finger like or desert lime
« on: December 30, 2023, 01:09:55 PM »
I would trust Logees if I were to buy one. Few years back I bought and killed a rooted Aussie Blood Lime cutting from a TFF member (I would have to go back and look). So a few people have a few of those floating around.

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: red or pink finger like or desert lime
« on: December 29, 2023, 12:44:24 PM »
I saw that logees sells red champagne finger limes but unfortunately we live in the states they don’t ship to

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Campomanesia macrobactelata plants
« on: December 18, 2023, 01:17:18 PM »
Out of curiosity how do you water all those trees Nissan?

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Hey Hammer, I got my C-22's as seedlings from Reid at RSI a few years ago. 
He's had a bad year with the heat and is out of citrus currently. 
I want to get more myself, but can't find a source. 
I wish I have an un-grafted C-22, then I can try to root some cuttings or do airlayers. 
Fortunately one of my C-22 rootstocks has a small sucker below the graft union so I'll let it grow out.

I sent a message over to Lynn Nursery in cali last Friday. Ill see if they reach back out to me. I asked them about buying a small lot of C-22s from them. We can share

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I’d be interested maybe in a week or two.  Could I ask for the source of the tree?

Go bills btw

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My experience has been that you just need to keep things underpotted most of the time. Once a pot is mostly full of roots the plant drinks all the water and it's much harder for it to anaerobic. I used to be up potting things like a banshee, getting them into 20g when they really should have been kept in a 5g.

Also lately I am into pulling stuff out and root pruning, and putting into the same pot, or after the plant kind of settles in and eats up soil to turn into tree, I will just pull the plant out, put a bit more soil in, and put it back in same container.

The main thing to avoid is any wood mulch / wood chip type soils, which Kellogg and the like are famous for. Peat moss with lots of perlite seems to be totally fine if you keep the plant in the appropriate sized container. I have had some luck with sand, pumice, and compost type mixes as well, but I stick to peat moss with tons of perlite now and have very good success.

I'm finding myself going in the same direction more and more, with greater success. For me, smaller pots are better because I water a lot, and sometimes it rains a lot. Peat, perlite, and sand are working well. I'm no expert, I like plants and fruit, and turtles.


I like turtles too.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will these jaboticaba seeds survive?
« on: December 07, 2023, 12:33:58 PM »
they will be fine, very resilient

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I have most of my citrus on C-22 Bitters instead of Seville Sour Orange now.  My trees on C-22 grow better than SSO, especially in the part of my yard with more calcareous soil(shittier soil).  Other advantages I see are:
-Stronger heat / sun resistance
-smaller tree, but still good vigor
-less fruit granulation(maybe due to lower growth vigor or better root efficiency or both)
-better flavor in some varieties(maybe due to healthier tree)

Seville Sour is still pretty good for Arizona soil, but C-22 is better.  Also some nurseries say their citrus are on sour orange rootstock, but neglect to tell you it's not Seville Sour.  They use some other sour orange such as Brazilian Sour or something that grows faster than Seville to increase profits.  Then customers(me) wonder why their citrus still taste like trash after 5 freaking years.

I drove all the way to RSI growers few months back and explained to them im in the market for rootstocks. They suggested C-22 as well. Out of curiosity did you get the seeds locally? I was interested in buying some seeds from Lynn Nursery in Cali but I dont need to grow a thousand trees.

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Is this not happening? Anderson Tropicals is having a Black Friday sales too.

Chill. He said next weekend.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tropical Fruit in video games
« on: November 20, 2023, 08:22:28 PM »
Joel and Ellie are eating cempedak and Abiu in Last of Us


Might be misremembering….

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia Pisiformis
« on: November 18, 2023, 07:36:56 PM »
Don’t want to come across as rude but I generally don’t expect much species/ varietal information on new eugenias. Kinda have to take the collectors word for it

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Air-Pots for sale (can ship)
« on: November 17, 2023, 08:41:00 PM »
Marking down to $375 shipped, lowest I'll go.

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Price error on Ross Sapote? Wishing clarification before I message you.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Update?
« on: November 16, 2023, 03:36:01 PM »
Mine says I'm 10b / 10a now, but I know it's not really true due to being at 2200'. I had the coldest year by far last year, with two snow visits of 4".

Just cause it says mango zone doesn't mean it will be reliably...


Lies! From here on out I shall call the Grand Canyon state Mango-Zona!!!!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Gomera 3 Mango bud wood or seeds
« on: November 15, 2023, 11:02:49 PM »
Speak for yourself snowjunky.  :P





I also have had terrible luck here. No more planting in ground

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