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Are there any restrictions on mailing seeds to your island? I know it's part of the US, but even some US states have restrictions on receiving certain plant material.

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Kevin, seedlings need to be clearly identified as such since they not Barbie Pink plants but are Barbie Pink seedlings.

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I bought many seeds from Maryoto last year, came from DHL through Miami Usda and almost all the seeds came in very good condition. I had over 90% germination rates, they include durians, various artocarpus, baccaureas, even willughbeia sp. I had tried other sellers and got into 2 problems, first, their package(usually EMS post) comes through LA usda and that delays things for 2-3 weeks and by that time seeds either rot or dry out. Miami Usda calls me in 1-2 days of receiving the seeds. The second problem was use of too moist medium(vermiculite) so seeds rotted. I highly appreciate Maryoto’s technique of packing the seeds. Thank you.

Maryoto is definitely one of the best international seed sellers I've purchase from. I first bought seeds from him back around 2014 or so. I haven't bought any recently so I'm glad to hear his seeds are still arriving in excellent condition.

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If anyone would like to join in on this import - Let me know. we currently have 4 people looking to import. I would like to bring in 1 or 2 more people at the most.

Do you have the small lot of seed permit?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherimoya season on Pine Island!
« on: May 03, 2025, 03:36:35 PM »
That’s pretty cool. Did the tree produce a lot of fruit?

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Where is the tree located?

It's not in a very good location at all.  It's against a wall in the southwest corner but it's surrounded by trees which shade at least 50% of it.  It competes with a loquat right next to it.  The soils never been amended.  My parents I'm sure just dug a hole into the clay and up it came.  I didn't know anything about growing anything 40 years ago.  I grafted this tree in my greenhouse is Oklahoma but I'm probably going to cut it down because its almost taking over the greenhouse.  I thought I could get fruit before this one would but I lost.

That's pretty interesting that it took so long to fruit. What state and zone are your parents?

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Anyone from the forum attending the meeting today?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Topping mango?
« on: May 01, 2025, 09:06:43 AM »
See the following post about pugging your mango tree: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=193.0

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: In search of Ortanique
« on: April 29, 2025, 07:17:48 AM »
I bet you can find it in Florida. Ask every nursery that sells citrus trees. I got mine from Sam's a year ago.

Sam’s club?! Do you have pictures of your crop by chance?
This was pretty much my last resort.

@ Murahili I’m not getting my hopes up yet it seems the nurseries might all be cultivating tangor as you mentioned earlier it would be illegal in most cases to import it. But definitely worth a shot I didn’t even think of taking that route.thanks much guys

dolomis,

The Ortanique is a type of tangor. Tangor is just the name for tangerine/mandarin x orange hybrids. There are a lot of different citrus that fall under the tangor category.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: In search of Ortanique
« on: April 29, 2025, 07:15:38 AM »
Yep, Sam's club had a bunch of citrus trees for sale in spring one year. Also, I recall seeing one at Lowe's ones.
I don't have a picture, sorry. The tree is still
 young,  it had 2 fruits for the first time last
 year.
You can also call Excalibur nursery. I've heard they had them also.

Excalibur may have it. When I was working there around 2008 I remember finding a bunch of Ortaniques there that were neglected so I moved them up to the front and they all sold pretty quickly.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Flowers on my Langsat in Florida.
« on: April 28, 2025, 10:42:43 PM »
Hello, here is a photo of my Langsat that is currently flowering here in South East Florida.  Anyways, my questions to any of you that Langsats are the following:

Do Langsats produce fruits as single trees?  This is the only flowering Langsat I have at the moment and I doubt anyone else has any near me.

Do these flowers look like Langsat, Duku, Long Kong, Kokosan, etc?  I don’t exactly remember what type this tree is. 

This is a seedling tree if that helps.  Thank you!




That's awesome. How old is your tree?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: All those new Madison Citrus varieties
« on: April 28, 2025, 10:40:47 PM »
Thanks for the info. I wonder if anyone has it in Florida for sale.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: In search of Ortanique
« on: April 28, 2025, 07:15:40 PM »
https://recordbuckfarms.com/citrus-trees/

Record Buck propagates it. Click the link above and go to the “oranges” section.

That likely explains how Galka found one at Sam’s.

Since Record Buck is wholesale you wouldn’t be able to order from them directly, but you could probably contact a local nursery and see if they can order one for you from Record Buck.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: 40 yo pomelo finally bloomed this year
« on: April 28, 2025, 03:27:59 PM »
Where is the tree located?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tropical Fruit Forum mobile app
« on: April 28, 2025, 03:14:35 PM »

Can we at least get a simple mobile friendly theme/view? That should not be difficult to accomplish would be my guess.. Thank you

It's not that easy. At this point, if we try to update anything there is the risk of something breaking. We don't want that to happen so that is one of the reasons why we avoid making any changes.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tropical Fruit Forum mobile app
« on: April 28, 2025, 12:57:10 PM »
Good afternoon Lajos93,

Thank you for your interest, but at this time, we are not interested in having a mobile app.

We do not authorize anyone to make a mobile app for the forum.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mangosteen Pics from Fairchild
« on: April 27, 2025, 06:54:20 PM »
Are any of the mangosteen, durian, willughbea, langsat trees still there?

Can you check for us?

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Citrus General Discussion / Wikipedia post on Key Lime
« on: April 26, 2025, 12:56:56 PM »
The wikipedia post for Key Lime sayd "The key lime is not to be confused with West Indian lime, bartender's lime, Omani lime, or Mexican lime which are slightly different."

Is that correct?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_lime

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: All those new Madison Citrus varieties
« on: April 25, 2025, 10:17:35 PM »
Can you tell us more about the Cameron lemon?

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Cool! Har is always a great speaker. If any forum members live in the area you should definitely come out to the meeting.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: In search of Ortanique
« on: April 24, 2025, 02:54:57 PM »
Thanks Im in the works to source it from Jamaica.keep me in mind if your ever see them back in stock  ;D

It's actually illegal to import citrus into Florida. I may be wrong, but I don't think it can even be done with permits.

Florida has strict regulations in regards to citrus.

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I've seen it at Walter Anderson's in Poway.  TBH, it's easy enough to make yourself.  That's what I do.

I think it's something like:
~32.5% Peat Moss
~32.5% Sand
~5% charcoal
~15% pumice
~15% perlite

Just eye ball it.  Then mix in Osmocote fertilizer.

I’ve been making it myself as well. Instead of the sand, I use decomposed granite, and instead of perlite I just use more pumice.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Importing Mangifera species legality
« on: April 22, 2025, 05:36:29 PM »
Good luck, there are several Indian cultivars I'd love to bring in, but between getting the real mccoy from India and USDA's byzantine operation, chances are slim to none, to get much else over here.

Have you checked with Tropical Acres Farm to see if they have the varieties you are looking for?

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