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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is your favourite tropical fruit?
« on: September 23, 2023, 12:32:02 PM »
Torn between mango or cherimoya if u threatened my life right now I still couldnt choose lol.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Just wanted to show my new setup
« on: September 14, 2023, 10:45:28 PM »You could try doing an application once a month or two. Once I water with it there gone but I don't live in an area where there's a lot of them. Seems like the months and months of below 32f has some plus sides hahaha. Benifitial nematodes are another option they work pretty well too.Make some "mosquito bits" tea and water with it, it'll get rid of your fungus gnat issue 100%! Your set up looks great! Itll be cool to see what happens with the grafted mangosteen indoors.
I tried mosquito bits and neem cake and spinosad and they always ended up coming back. Not sure if they came back in from outside since they are ubiquitous here. The only thing that really helped was getting rid of all my mother plants.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Just wanted to show my new setup
« on: September 14, 2023, 06:43:03 PM »
Make some "mosquito bits" tea and water with it, it'll get rid of your fungus gnat issue 100%! Your set up looks great! Itll be cool to see what happens with the grafted mangosteen indoors.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Has anybody used heat mats to increase seed germination? And if so, did it help?
« on: September 14, 2023, 08:08:32 AM »
Heat mats really helped me speed up the germination process and get a better % of successful seeds. I really think it's dependent on what your temps are where your germinating the seeds. I germinate in my basement where temps never hit higher than 70° , 85° is where I like the mats to be seems to be a good temp for me.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Need a Few Members for New Fig Trial --- CLOSED
« on: September 13, 2023, 08:11:23 PM »Here's the trial locations:Who lives in Niagara falls!!!!! We should be friends......I have candy and scions
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mealy Bugs and Fire Ants
« on: August 29, 2023, 09:59:02 PM »
Never seen it with mealy bugs but iv herd of it, iv seen them moving scale before. It really is crazy to think they just know what to do when they run across scale or mealy bugs.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cone-tainers question
« on: August 26, 2023, 01:00:24 PM »
Thanks for the input everyone. Iv decided not to get them i was a bit worried about how it was getting a plant out of them. I do remember reading about the pvc tubes ill have to grab some length next time im on a new build!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Acerola varieties
« on: August 25, 2023, 09:56:04 PM »
I second echo sweet! Never tried rooting them altho my tree is a rooted cutting so its possible. Got it from flyingfoxfruits.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Cone-tainers question
« on: August 25, 2023, 09:12:00 PM »
Does anyone have exp using cone-tainers? Seems like they could save me alot of space. Any pros or cons to these systems or advice on another brand would be great im on the fence right now. Looking at the 7" deep by 1.5" wide ones. Thanks in advance!
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Shiny Shiner Shine Shiniest Muscat Auction?! Not on Ebay?!. (On Forum)
« on: August 20, 2023, 12:49:35 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Just wanted to show my new setup
« on: August 12, 2023, 08:46:01 PM »
Looks great! I have a 5x10 tent now that i move most my plants into during winter works great! I could never get my plants to sync up watering indoors, an auto watering system always caused root issues just because they dont dry out like they do outdoors and different water needs. Your humidity is perfect 55% is just about as low as i like to go before i see new growth die back from fans drying them out. I started with a 2x4 then 5x5 now 5x10 and im looking for another haha ull love growing indoors esp when its snowing and you have tropical fruit! You need a jaboticaba in the mix though haha.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Big mulberry tree
« on: August 10, 2023, 05:16:43 PM »
SO! I finally made it back to the tree and found 1 fruit lol. My father inlaw said it didnt have a great crop this year for whatever reason, unlike other years when its loaded! Heres a picture of the fruit i managed to find it was really tasty very sweet no sour and honey dew melon taste the berry i found was also alittle bit smaller than normal. Wish i made it out sooner that one wasnt enough! Going to try to root some cuttings to see if its possible i might try grafting one if i can find that last rootstock i know is some where lol.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: ID odd fruit
« on: August 06, 2023, 11:33:46 PM »
Kinda looks like spanish lime there called "Mamoncillo"
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Surinam Cherry - Taste
« on: August 06, 2023, 05:54:37 PM »
Kevin can hook you up with bigger cuttings than i could i got my black star +crimson tide from him anyways. I got zill dark from achetadomestica. I think kevin has one called zillion if im rememebering right i belive thats a zill dark seedling?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Veggie Slicer As A Grafting Tool!
« on: August 06, 2023, 12:44:21 PM »
Love this idea! I feel like this would work great no matter what your grafting exp. Thanks for this tip now to go sneak into the kitchen! Lol
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Surinam Cherry - Taste
« on: August 06, 2023, 12:37:44 PM »
Ya they can get pretty bad tasting. The named ones taste better (less of the tannic taste) iv had a zill dark from fff that had almost zero of that and tasted like a cherry for the most part.. For sure graft over that sucker , i doubt it will get to much better over the years.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Question on Miracle Fruit Tree
« on: July 25, 2023, 05:48:43 PM »
Hey kaz ya iv never had luck with trying to root these cuttings same as carolyn i tried a bunch of different ways with no luck. I havent tried #16 hormex though so theres hope lol. ANY fruit will be amazing some of my fav's are grapefruit, orange, strawberry, watermelon, even pitangatubas taste better . My usual goto are strawberries. Hope you have fun with it!
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Future Sale- 2024: Questionnaire, mulberry varieties to graft
« on: July 17, 2023, 08:24:11 AM »
Im in for a DMOR9 for sure!
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Future Sale- 2024: Questionnaire, white sapote varieties to graft
« on: July 16, 2023, 08:05:07 PM »
You could count me in for a cuccio and maybe 1 more based on your new fruit tastings.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selling abiu fruit locally (coral springs)...for now
« on: June 30, 2023, 08:48:10 PM »
Someones gunna have a full inbox when they get back lol.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selling abiu fruit locally (coral springs)...for now
« on: June 30, 2023, 07:19:12 PM »
Deal!
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selling abiu fruit locally (coral springs)...for now
« on: June 30, 2023, 01:44:45 PM »
Ill be watching for that shipping to pop up lol. Gotta try these some day!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Pitangatuba?
« on: June 23, 2023, 10:20:59 PM »
Iv got 2 fruiting pitangatubas and not 100% sure what one is a normal pitangatuba. The fruit "stem" is way longer on one than the other, not sure if this is common or not or maybe ones a hybrid of something?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: New variety LUC'S GARCINIA "ORANGEY"
« on: June 17, 2023, 04:21:21 PM »
If you guys pay the shipping ill import them for you.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ISO: Jaboticaba fruit
« on: June 07, 2023, 05:13:28 PM »
O man fruithunter thats one hell of an offer right there from k-rimes!!!! Another option is adam from flying fox fruits he sells red jabos on his website i think there outta stock now but he re-ups once in a while. Iv gotten them before and they shipped good all the way up to ny.
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