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Tropical Fruit Discussion / First Fruiting Fern Leaf Guava
« on: November 20, 2024, 01:44:02 PM »








Flavor was unremarkable, like a standard pink guava, maybe a tad more robust flavor and fragrance. Not much of a seed pouch.

Sure is a pretty tree though!

Is anyone else on the forum fruiting this?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Selected Pitanga Scion and Seed sale
« on: October 27, 2024, 09:45:02 PM »
I received way too many scion requests off Mason31’s post so I guess I should offer these. I have a vast collection of pitanga (eugenia uniflora) because I adore the fruit and have ended up with some winners.

Seeds: $3 min 5 - Vermillion or Black Star, don't have others right now
Scion: $5 each, see below for size, I may be able to spare larger diameter but unlikely

Regina (seedling) really large red fruit, they go darker than most reds but I'm going to call it a red.


"Dark Purple" this was from another collector and said to be ultra sweet, he was not kidding, it is cloyingly sweet.


Black Star Pitanga (this is a seedling, but fruit goes dead black and is the best flavor. It is also has large fruit)


Black Star, super productive, sets super well


Vermillion (grafted) fruit has a great flavor, and pumps out fruit, it is basically flowering and fruiting non-stop I see why this was selected


Misiones "giant" Pitanga from Marcos in Argentina, the fruit was very small and totally smooth so I guess a black dasyblasta. It was a first fruiting though, so it will probably get bigger. Flavor was VERY sweet. I did get one large fruit off it recently, randomly. Unknown. It is definitely more cold hardy than the others I have.


Shalom's Giant Red (seedling) supposedly giant fruit, got the plant mature from another collector, it has not fruited for me but he is a legit source and I trust him it was giant


This is the size of scion I have, mostly


A nice handful of fruit from the Vermillion (red), and some Black Star at the bottom






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Santa Barbara Rare Fruit Article
« on: September 12, 2024, 01:46:47 PM »
I asked the local free newspaper, the Santa Barbara Independent if they wanted to do an article on rare fruit and it turned out the head editor was quite interested, and had done many articles on rare fruit on the area in the past. He was kind enough to interview me and send up a photographer.

https://www.independent.com/2024/09/11/kevin-reimer-is-santa-barbaras-rare-fruit-man/

Pretty pleased with how it turned out. Could've shown more of the yard, but I am happy to see some of these oddball plants getting some air time!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Papaya Peduncle
« on: August 22, 2024, 11:47:50 AM »





Anyone seen a papaya with peduncles this long? Super weird plant. I dig the red color of the plant.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / “Goleta” Eugenia Calycina Scions
« on: August 22, 2024, 10:57:45 AM »




This is a good quality calycina with larger than average fruit, and high production. Fruit goes fully black, not red. Brix is on the higher end of the CORGs or Calycina I’ve measured, have seen as high as 15 off this plant.

It is self fertile, fruits heavy with no other plants around so some good genetics there.

It is a 3rd generation Nelita from Miguel.

$5 / scion minimum 4
$10 ship

Have some thick wood too if you want that.

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Have to thin down the herd here. These were all recently up potted, and are good for at least the next year in these 1g pots.

I would prefer to have people pick up, not trying to ship at this time. I sometimes go down to LA area, but pretty rarely.

Ilama seeds were from El Salvador, mix of red and white, don't know what's what but they don't come true to seed anyhow I hear.  Only kept seeds of the verified good ones.

The eugenia and plinia seeds are from Helton Sr. in Brazil


Ilama seedlings, $25 each


Eugenia Tenuipedunculata, $30 each


Eugenia Moraviana, $30 each


Eugenia Zuccarini, $30 each


Eugenia Repanda, black fruit, community pot $40, don't know how many in here, but a lot


Olho de Boi community pot $40


Eugenia SP, $30 each


Campomanesia SSP Nova $50 each


Eugenia Augustana $60 each


Eugenia Florida $30 each

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Is this Mexican Cream?
« on: June 26, 2024, 06:02:00 PM »





This guava had practically zero grainy texture, and seeds were imperceptible. Is this the real deal? This was from a local collector in SB. Flavor was great, super sweet. He said seeds were from many decades ago, from a traveler who went to a world fruit convention in SE Asia

He had this other totally unique guava shape, which makes a crunchy guava, and is super flat, and round, not ovular






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Wanted to make these available to collectors.



Been grafting these oddballs to guajava with good success, have a now second year graft of the araza banana that is growing super fast on my guajava. Did long leaf a few weeks ago and it’s pushing out well, I strongly believe they’re compatible.

$5 for small wood
$10 for larger

Example of larger size, this is guineense, I’ll have some of that available next year.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Loquat and Guabiju after 10f
« on: May 31, 2024, 08:19:10 PM »





I gifted these plants to my parents who planted them on the Sunshine Coast of BC, in Canada. Didn’t have much hope for them when I saw they went down to 10f. I asked my dad to pile up leaves on top of the plants and they survived! Hopefully they’ll get a few mild years for them to build up a bit.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Nematodes for Black Fig Fly trial
« on: May 30, 2024, 04:02:53 PM »



I was given some Nemaforce SF to trial for BFF here in Santa Barbara by Rincon Vitova the local insectary. Hopefully it works. I’ve been hit bad by BFF for the last few years in my fig forest project and would be overjoyed if this whacks the larvae and eggs.




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Free Thai White Guava Cuttings
« on: May 22, 2024, 10:09:47 PM »



Shipping $12

Probably have two shipments worth, various diameter just going to bag and ship

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / K-Rimes Yard Tour
« on: May 16, 2024, 05:45:41 PM »
https://youtu.be/jicT4CprmnM?si=kL03seU5Ezj9xI88

Just a portion. Probably have another video to put up of the same length to show the more randomly placed stuff, and greenhouse area

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Flowering Yellow Jabo Scion
« on: March 26, 2024, 11:41:06 PM »
 I have a big flowering yellow jabo and another member was kind enough to trade scions with me for cross pollination.  As such, I had to prune my tree.

I have some nice diameter branches if you want them.

$5 each min 2
$12 ship




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cheap Guajava Seedlings / Sleeves
« on: March 22, 2024, 12:54:40 PM »
Anyone have a source for guajava rootstocks? I can find airlayered plants here in nurseries for $40-$60 for 3g's but that's kinda steep. I want to propagate some of my rare psidium, which I've found graft onto guajava just fine.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Variegated Feijoa Scions
« on: March 17, 2024, 04:15:28 PM »



Was incredibly lucky to do some grafts of this, and access scions. It’s  the only variegated feijoa I know of personally, but seen a few online. Supposedly it is fruitless, but it wasn’t planted close to other trees. It does flower though, and it’s a great pattern.

I have various sizes of wood from 3/8” to toothpick. Lots of pencil size and a bit under.

$20 each pencil size scion - minimum 2
$30 for bigger wood
$12 ship flat rate USPS

PayPal via friends / family only


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Did some CORG pruning and have some scions available.

Lots of Orange CORG, good caliper pieces, bit smaller than a chopstick
$10 each

Ben’s Beaut
$10 each

El Dorado
$10 each (one big one available, about chopstick diameter)

“San Marcos”  this is my seedling and it’s the best CORG I’ve tried so far
$20 each

Minimum 4 scions can mix and match

Shipping via small flat rate $12

Payment via PayPal Friends / Family




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB Dr White cherimoya scions
« on: March 03, 2024, 01:45:06 PM »
Looking for Dr White scions and any other of the top tier cherimoya scions. Would like two of a few cultivars, have a few seedling trees to work here but don't need many, about 8 scions total.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Himalayan Mulberry scions
« on: February 17, 2024, 06:14:03 PM »
$5 each, min 4




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Persian Mulberry scions
« on: February 16, 2024, 03:39:41 PM »



My tree needed a severe pruning. Scions of many sizes available.

$5 each, minimum 4

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / GA3 Soak Recipe for Annona
« on: December 29, 2023, 05:38:10 PM »
Trying out soaking some ilama and spinescens seeds in a 800ppm solution of RO water and GA3

1 liter of RO Water
.8g of GA3

Let's see how it works!




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Some Brazil Trip Photos 2023
« on: December 19, 2023, 09:05:05 PM »
I went on a short trip to Brazil (not fruit specific) over the last 10 days that was mostly to do some skateboarding stuff, and to visit old friends. The first few days were in Maresias, then down to Florianopolis, and then back in São Paulo for the day. Though I'd been to Brazil many times before (this was my 9th trip) this was the first one where I was looking intently for fruit stuff, and it did not disappoint. The photos are a bit out of order, but still thought I'd share.

This is a 60 year old + Paulista that was planted by my friend's parents. He had fond memories of climbing it to gather fruit. I have never seen a bigger jabo, it was probably around 3 storeys tall, and the scaffold branches up top were insanely thick.


The trunk of said jabo


Old avocado of some type at church where we hit the farmer's market, unfortunately no fruit of mention available :(


Red jabo in someone's yard on the way to the beach in Florianopolis


Large mango in São Paulo at my friend's dad's place, it was loaded with fruit but they say major worm problems and don't get any edible fruit


Some type of native guava planted by the bus station, lots of these around in Florianopolis


Photos of the leaves and flowers of said guava


Jatai stingless bee entrance to hive, I was able to acquire some honey from jatai, really strange taste almost medicinal


Along this walk over the dunes to the beach, there were wild guava "araça" species everywhere


Acerola was in season, and the size of their fruit makes ours look pitiful


The new airport at Florianopolis was probably the nicest airport I've ever been to, and they had massive sabara's planted throughout the courtyard, installed as mature specimens


Wild guava growing out of a sewer grate on the local hills


Some kind of campomanesia by the looks of it


Not sure on the cultivar of this jabo, but good size!


Red jabo with a nice size trunk, about $30 USD


Wild guavas all over, this was on the island of Campeche which had been logged and burnt, so it was second generation forest


Jabo caipirinha made with sabara, seeds, skin and all - heavy on the tannins


Good size yellow jabo with some passionfruit on it


A grove of massive sabaras in São Paulo


An unknown "araça" which they couldn't remember if was red or yellow, my guess was strawberry guava of some kind


40 year old sabara in my friend's yard in SP


Some type of inga in the woods


Large coffee trees outside "Cafe Cultura" which is a coffee chain down there


That large guava by the bus station was flowering


Checking for some jabos


Another very nice size yellow jabo, which all Brazilians adore and think is one of the best tasting fruits


Red jabo outside the laundry joint on the street!


Stingless bee apiary


Some kind of jabo outside a clothing store, fruit was not great


Tamarillo


20' tall pitanga


40-50' pitanga


Absolute honker of a yellow jabo


Frozen sabara pre-caipirinha


Nice rack of coffee fruit coming in


Grafted red jabo at my friend's pool


A whole street row of red jabo


Jabos are used all over in architectural settings


Pitanga and jaboticaba caipirinhas on Costa da Lagoa in Floripa


Wild guava growing out of a sewer


One of the wild beach guavas growing in the dunes


Massive acerola trees out there all over


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I will be presenting at the SB Horticultural Society about rare fruits on Nov 1st at 7pm next week. It's free. Most members of TFF will recognize everything I'm talking about and be bored, but figured I'd mention it anyhow if someone were in the area and wanted to check it out.

Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumbre Rd, Santa Barbara at the Fellowship Hall



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / High Stake Grafts
« on: September 14, 2023, 02:26:08 PM »





Grafting campomanesia hirsuta from another plant (thank you Wildlands Nursery / Nate!) to try to get some genetic diversity. My hirsuta flowers endlessly and makes no fruit so I think it needs a mate.

Anyone else done some high stakes grafting this year?

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I am thinking of another get-together here in Santa Barbara and trying to figure out the best time for everyone. Should line up with dragonfruit,  guava, longan, and a bunch of other stuff.

Wanting to move the date into November, so let's figure one out!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB Sabara Rootstocks
« on: August 22, 2023, 02:49:20 PM »
Anyone have some flats they could spare?

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