The Tropical Fruit Forum

I can do you one better. My Inga spectalabis from Oscar fruit lovers is fruiting now. Another month and I can send a fruit.
Joe

Me too! I had to source those but couldn't pass them up. I am fully addicted to growing all the Duguetia. The more I research the more i am drawn into the rabbit hole. If you don't know Duguetia, TAKE THE RED PILL and save your pocketbook some heartache. 
As a reminder on pricing, I have already inspected, cleaned, and soaked all the seeds. I reject more seeds for public sales then you would think.
I also send seeds with sphagnum peat moss and not in huge bags of vermiculite that can hide poor seed quality. For those that have purchased from me before, you understand that quality is very important to me and giving you the best possible chance to germinate these seeds is what I pride on building my business on.  Thanks for all the support!

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Some!

We ate quite a few Eugenia caipora. Underripe had a slight bitterness around the skin and firm tart flesh. As they ripen it got juicier and the tartness became Mild with a black pepper type spice to it.  Not quite black pepper but a “spice” I can’t quite put my finger on. 

Thank you, I appreciate the trust. Things are starting to sell out and people starting to get growing bug again not that the weather is warming. Lot's of seeds and seedlings available soon.

Added Annona Sylvatica
Added Eugenia ternatifolia: H. Josue orchard
Added Psidium stiatulum: H. Josue orchard
Added Pouteria macrophylla "Lucuma"
Added Eugenia sellowiana Top tasting Eugenia

Thank you thank you. Truly humbled by all the support given.  Many of the seeds are sold out… looks like I’ll need to make a Tikuna Colombia trip soon! Thank you all for given me a reason to go back.  Lots of fun things in the works and goodies to come.

Seed drop # 2 and Seedlings
https://hapajoesnursery.com/products/duguetia-spixiana-tortuga-caspi-seedling

New seeds and seedlings available:
Brosimim lactescens
Plinia inflata "Tikuna San Matin"
Pouteria sp Pitomba de Leite
Annona fosteri
Annona sp Amazonas Pera
Annona cuspidata

Seedlings ready for planting!
Duguetia spixiana "Tortuga Caspi"
Duguetia lanceolata "Pindaiba"
Annona spinescens "Araticum de Espinho

Thanks.  I value the discussion on pricing and can understand hesitation in purchasing.
Tim,  I think I understand your complaint…. I did raise the price on pouteria “tuturuba” here is why. That tree is in maranhao, Brazil. I sold out quickly of that seed and found a way to get the same exact tree seed, however I was in Colombia…. I figured out a way and got 30 more ..
Form that exact tree that I have personally tasted.  I figured 5 more dollars a per seed was worth it for those that really want it now.  If you would have emailed me instead of posting on my sales then I would have told you that and probably sell it to you at a discount.  I will able to get more seeds in the future and the price will go down.
For the rest who shared words of encouragement… I appreciate you all. if you know me personally then you know that it really didn’t bother me and just gave me another opportunity to share why I do things. 
The Tikuna are growing some pretty cool things now thanks to forum members.  palologrower hooked up some cool seeds that I got to share with them. Let’s all be friends again. But let’s shut down this thread.  Water under the bridge.

Bush and Tru. So true my friends. Doesn’t really bother me. I just continue to share my message. Thanks for the kind words and support. Working with some local explorers and have some really amazing stuff coming this year is going to go off for us fruit nerds.

Ok all prices raised 1 cent.    Please do! I love when people think it’s an easy way to make money. It would make for a cool vacation if you like hiking 90 degrees and 100 percent humidity in the Amazon covered in deet wearing long sleeve shirts and pants 7 to 8 hours a day searching for fruit. Not to mention a foreign country where we need to hire a translator to talk to locals. I don’t speak Tikuna…. Do you? The places we camped had no running water or electricity. Still sound like fun? After a long days hike then come home and clean seeds for 2 hours in the dark! Fun vacation stuff! If this sounds like a vacation then we need more people like you and and I’ll even invite you on my next expedition! Oh and you need your yellow vaccine to travel where I go. It’s mandatory and make sure you have a malaria precaution plan.

Thank you for allowing to me to explain My pricing and why the price will only RISE with further seeds drops as the quality of my offerings gets better and better. I learn and change my seed storage procedure every new drop. Always trying to improve and the last couple seed drop have very high germination rates.

I hire local guides to take me into the jungle. Most of these fruit are not found at the market. If I found them at the market then they are priced accordingly.  I took two fruit experts last trip and they didn’t spot  anything. I’ll even happily give you all the gps locations I marked. You can go go back and get all the same fruits and seeds except you need to go at the same time next year as  Amazon fruits only stay in season for Around 3 weeks then it’s a new fruit crop. . So all the fruit we found are probably no longer available. I went last year in May and got completely different fruit.  And all my Tikuna indigenous guides (make sure you tip them as much as I did because they are amazing people and deserve it). I don’t try and get the cheapest possible seeds. I am trying to build a community of explorers to build value to the community. Maybe if we show locals that there is value in these trees as opposed to trying to get the seeds at the cheapest possible price and “take” from the locals, then we can actually have something sustainable. if we want them to preserve nature then the people with money need to fund it instead of whining about 1 dollar more for a seed.

Also my seeds are 100 percent true because I collected, cleaned, inspected, and never left my sight. Not sure if any other seed provider in the USA can say that. Maybe you Shiloh and palologrower haha.  But if none of that is important to you then please buy seeds from someone else.  I am almost sold out of many species and almost all my customers are repeat customers

Seeds have arrived, cleaned and processed. Duguetia stenantha is STILL my favorite fruit! It also was the clear winner for all four of us on our last expedition. We also found out that the Huitito indigenous community is establishing a farm to cultivate this species. The Huitito told us they fruit between 5 to 7 years! The goal of most of my expeditions is to find Duguetia and this is the best tasting of them so far. The carpals without seeds are dense candy corn consistency with Melon, brown sugar and praline undertones. I could eat these all day.
I was able to source many and offering at a crazy good price $6 and looking for a farm to cultivate these.... any takers?

Www.Hapajoesnursery.com

"PahWay" orange fruit... still don't have an ID.


Pourouma cecropiifolia Amazon grape, Amazon tree-grape

Pouteria sp Amazonas Lucuma
Pouteria sp Abiu Carambola



Pouteria sp Abiu Pera




Campomanesia lineatfolia "Pallilo"

Plinia clausa "Anihuayo"

Annona edulis

Annona mucosa "Biriba" Amazonas Giants

Onychopetalum periquino "Envira Caju" Preta
Onychopetalum periquino "Envira Caju" Vermelha

Theobroma subincannum "Cupui"
Theobroma obovatum This one is Wow!