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Could I buy a 2 black pearls, tigrada, giant piray, and serrana de Obera?

Wow never seen this website. What a great resource. Thank you

Quote from: JorgeJF on October 09, 2023, 02:26:36 PM

Quote from: Galatians522 on October 09, 2023, 02:11:54 PM

As Brad mentioned, your chill period sounds a bit marginal. Low 40-45 F (4-8 C) is ideal. That being said, Lychee does vary in what temp induces bloom. There are some Thai varieties that would have a much better chance of blooming with the chill you mentioned Khom being the most well known. I don't think there is anything that will bloom if you don't have weather below 15C consistently.

I see your reasoning.
But then, how to understand that the best lichee growing areas also do not have consistent temperatures below 15C and nowhere near the 4-8C ?
Like Guangdong with coldest month with avg temp 16C (and oscillating between 14-18C), or Bihar with 15-17C ? Or even Taiwan with 15-20C ?

I think it is safe to say that lychee bloom is complicated. Since it only takes about 72 hours of cold weather to induce bloom, I don't think average temps are a good metric. I my opinion, lows need to be taken into account as well. Please read this article by Dr. Don Batten of Australia.

https://stfc.org.au/articles/mango-and-lychee-manipulating-the-flowering-by-don-batten/

Ummm. Could I buy them?

Luckily I have the Arizona Worm Farm near me. So I am using their Vermicompost, Worm Tea, and Black Fly Liquid Fertilizer

https://arizonawormfarm.com/

Looks like GreatLakesRareFruits is a Bellamy Trees customer. I'm seeing a lot of overlap between Kameron's recent auctions and this guy's selections, as far as species. Of course, they could just be sourcing their seeds from the same places. I don't want to criticize the guy too much or wish him ill, but those prices are far more than I believe those plants are worth, and I highly doubt I will ever purchase anything from his store. That being said, and has been argued about in various threads before on this forum, if someone wants to charge those types of prices, and someone else wants to pay those types of prices, they that is really up to them.

Fair point, it only takes 1 person to make you recoup all your seed orders

Sorry everyone. You caught me! I’m trying to flip $10 seeds into a cybertruck.

I bought three cherimoya trees online from Mimosa Nursery in LA, and one of them arrived with a concerning looking graft union. I don't have experience grafting myself, so I'm not sure if it's actually a problem, but I would hate for this tree to die down the road due to this. If it's a problem, is there anything I can do to improve the situation?



I thought it was weird that the the nursery left so much growth coming out of the rootstock as well :/

It looks funky but I think that is mainly due to the excess growth from the rootstock

Due to this thread I purchased this last month and it already seems vigorous like others have mentioned. Now my Thai is a little rusty but I've seen online that this variety is also referred to as "Red Whip" in english. Trying to make a label for it should I just leave the variety as "Thai Plum"?

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Woah. I received two emails from Akme. 1 was a refund notification. Check y’all’s inboxes

hammer524, can you tell us a bit about your situation?  You only have one tree?  Is it a seedling or clone?  If a clone, where'd you get it?


... and how big was it when it first flowered?

I planted this last weekend in ground, it was purchased from Greenlife nursery here. It lost a large branch in our monsoon last month. It was about this size. I've been leaning on its a rooted cutting. but Im not sure.

Okay I called Julian and he said he believes it is hermaphroditic because the scion came from a tree which has no others "in 45 miles" I think he said.  He said he is going to update the description to this effect.

This is good to hear because I had already bought one before I read that they are strongly dioecious.

Good looking out. I have a kei apple and it has fruited. Ill wait again to triple check if its self fertile

Quote from: hammer524 on September 13, 2023, 07:02:48 PM

What part of the valley are you in? Im a few miles south of the biltmore?

Over in east technically, right in the middle of that Tempe/Mesa/Chandler/Gilbert tangle. Not too far from the Golfland.

It's actually a few degrees hotter in our neighborhood thanks to all the bare concrete to the point that for the last few years at least we haven't dipped below 35 and stays hotter summer nights, and I've had to treat things differently then people I know out in South or North or QC.

I have been to Queen Creek Tropicals a few times but they get quite colder that us concrete folk. Are there others in QC growing Jabos?