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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: May 02, 2022, 09:00:16 PM »





Think I’m good to go for grafting to Californica?

Knock off the green growths and buddy tape up or am I too late and need to wait for the green branches to get to grafting size?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: FREE: Fruiting Sabara scions
« on: April 30, 2022, 11:39:45 AM »
Quote from: BloomAndBurn on April 30, 2022, 12:06:09 AM
Are these still available? Would like to try my hand at grafting.

Thanks.

Just missed them, they were claimed by Orkine.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / FREE: Fruiting Sabara scions
« on: April 29, 2022, 07:28:58 PM »
Kaz inspired me with all his free cuttings and scions and I’m paying it forward with some Sabara scions from my flowering tree.

$10 for shipping and they’re yours.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Search for the Best Tasting Mulberry ???
« on: April 29, 2022, 04:56:51 PM »
Quote from: spaugh on April 29, 2022, 04:09:36 PM
Quote from: beicadad on April 29, 2022, 04:05:09 PM
Brad my RH is also very tasty. It’s supposed to be the same one that Martha has. Seems Fatter than Kaz’s RH

Yeah, its a different version you have.  I have that one growing also but the tree is still tiny. 

My chickens are eating a lot of mulberry, the coop was full of purple chicken turds.  The wild birds are pooping purple everywhere too.

Yeah the birds are hammering my mulberries right now. I basically get none now, just for the birds. Bummer. The hazards of living in the middle of a national forest I guess!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lemon Guava Crossed With Strawberry Guava?
« on: April 29, 2022, 04:55:51 PM »
I too have been pondering hybrid eugenia. You would think the Brazilians would have put solid efforts into this already. I did hear that Flying Fox attempted grafting pitangatuba onto pitanga and it always failed, so one would maybe think they're incompatible?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: April 29, 2022, 01:17:44 PM »
I kept humidity super high when they were not buddytaped. Nothing was happening much. When I taped them up with buddy, they all started sprouting buds nearly immediately. The two Biqi I have (much larger plants compared to BC) both leafed out nicely and it would appear both are now growing branches so I would say rooting is well on its way.

When I buddytaped, I stopped the supplemental humidifying altogether.

The first BC died before I could buddy it. The second BC died after sprouting small leaves about 1/4" long, all dried up over the course of 2 days.

There are no fungus gnats. I have them in an air filtered grow tent and learned my lesson to not over water from the last time. Soil was dang near dry the whole time or as close as I could get to "barely damp".

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: April 28, 2022, 07:59:40 PM »
Quote from: Jaboticaba45 on April 28, 2022, 07:40:10 PM
Ok so I just threw out the black crystal...I was expecting the roots to look bad, and they all did, but there was a few white roots. Maybe it was trying to grow back? Although I scraped a little higher and the cambium of the roots was old and not alive. Same for the bark scratch test. I assume the tree died from top to bottom, instead of bottom to top as I expected. I don't think overwatering was the victim this time.

Same as mine. Mine leafed out pretty nice, had some dry leaves up top... Then lower... Then a day later gone.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: April 28, 2022, 04:34:55 PM »
My BC finally leafed out a bit, looked promising, blap, dead. I don't hold out hope for it coming back. The Biqi Male and Female did ok and I found some 5g californica I'll scoop next week to graft on.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Longan tree issues
« on: April 25, 2022, 08:34:42 PM »
Usually the burnt tips like that are magnesium deficiency. Don't over water if it's potted, it won't help this condition! Give it a mild dose of fertilizer and water appropriately.

I don't see anything terrible here, so don't worry too much.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragonfruit advice
« on: April 25, 2022, 08:33:39 PM »
I'm not seeing anything terrible here? If there is rotten flesh, just use a clean knife and scrape it away from the central wooden spine. It will grow just fine above that. I have many like this, even in the middle of the main vine that has several hundred pounds of new arms on top of the trellis attached to it.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: 15 Gallon Cherry of the Rio Grande
« on: April 25, 2022, 06:21:27 PM »
Quote from: TSmith on April 25, 2022, 02:08:11 PM
No. Never sold the tree, held good fruit this year, but I could use more trees for cross pollination.


I grafted mine for that, works great, tons of fruit now. Easy to graft plants for sure

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Horticultural Molasses
« on: April 25, 2022, 06:20:35 PM »
I have used sweeteners for certain plants. It does what it says, makes things sweeter. I don't really think it's needed personally, just work on your soil quality and use a balanced fertilizer and the plant will do the conversion to sugars.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / June FL Trip
« on: April 22, 2022, 01:33:54 PM »
I am looking at flying out to Miami in June or July for mango season and to visit some farms or homes out that way. Are there any must hits? Anyone out there that may want to show me their collection? The fruit community has been amazing and hopefully there are some people around that have suggestions.

Of course, really want to check out Zill's and hopefully they will have mangoes for sale at that time but that's about the limit of my knowledge of that area.

Thanks for any suggestions in advance

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: April 19, 2022, 06:51:04 PM »
I think I will try to burn the rootstocks in a hot fire when I have harvested wood from them for grafting. Just waiting for Bush2Beach to get those little 1 gal myrica californica.

Is there a "best" rootstock from the myrica selection we have determined yet? Californica appears to be most used?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: April 19, 2022, 02:04:31 PM »








Buddy tape really works. They were parked but still alive for weeks. Wrapped them up and in just a few days they budded out.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Organic scale control
« on: April 19, 2022, 01:49:20 PM »
Tanglefoot has more or less solved my severe problems on my grumichamas - but I did chop off almost all the growth that was infested because they were hiding too well in the leaflets.

Imidacloprid did not seem to do a thing for them, they just kept on multiplying with the help of the ants.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2022 Second Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order(Tentative)
« on: April 13, 2022, 09:20:35 AM »







I’m 3 for 4. After I wrapped the other two in buddy tape they finally pushed. I’d say buddy tape is the best method vs humidifying the air. I must admit I feel pretty pleased to revive this time around.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Free- Peluche Loquat scion wood (Contest) # 5
« on: April 09, 2022, 04:11:58 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Filling the March/April fruit gap
« on: April 08, 2022, 04:32:44 PM »
Quote from: Galatians522 on April 07, 2022, 09:24:27 PM
Quote from: yoski on April 07, 2022, 10:09:02 AM
Thanks for all the recommendations. Blueberries are very difficult to grow (4.5 to 5.3 soil ph). I looked into it but decided that it is too much maintenance (pine fine) to mess with it. I have Surinam cherry that does fine and going to add Loquat and mulberry. Strawberries and tomatoes are easy to grow. I have 2 Jaboticabas, but they probably take a few more year before they produce anything

We grew blueberries commercially years ago. I don't think they are a good option for home owners.

Of all the plants I grow, blueberries are probably the hardest overall - and that says a lot considering how much zone pushing and weird plants I'm doing.

That said, they are one of the only plants producing for me right now. My eugenia calycina is full of fruit sets but probably won't be fully ripe till May. Golden berry kind of works, but I cut mine back to the ground so there isn't much going on at the moment. Jaboticaba is flowering now but no sets.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Buddy tape + Electrical tape for grafting... good idea?
« on: April 06, 2022, 02:58:18 PM »
I use green nursery tape, works just fine. Switching to flagging tape a la Spaugh's suggestion when I run out

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: April 05, 2022, 04:57:43 PM »





“Female” biqi is taking off, maybe will move it outdoors to greenhouse soon. The rest I am unsure of, green all the way to tip of branch but no buds or signs thereof. I wrapped them all in buddy tape to emulate my one success and in doing this will quit with running the humidifier

1/4 is better than 0/4 anyways

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pitangatuba hand-pollination
« on: April 04, 2022, 12:42:43 PM »
I got a fruit here and there with one plant, and a whole lot more with two. I hand pollinate simply by poking the flowers each day and then poking others. The first day it seems they don't shed pollen but 2nd day they are powdery with it. Tubas are kind of temperamental for setting, it seems. They want water, but not too much, they want warmth, but not overly hot.

I've had a good 20 flowers so far in 22 and zero sets, even with hand pollination and 2 plants.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Myrica Californica 1 Gallon for M. Rubra grafting
« on: April 01, 2022, 02:24:45 PM »
I would take a few. My local nursery is draggin their feet on getting smaller ones and I don't want a 15 g.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Big box store feijoas. Has anyone had them fruit before?
« on: April 01, 2022, 01:53:04 PM »
Quote from: Epicatt2 on April 01, 2022, 01:50:10 PM
I bought a couple feijoas from a north FLorida nursery (8b) but they never grew well in Tampa (9b) and never flowered.  They languished and eventually died two years later.

So I keep wondering whether feijoas -or maybe certain feijoa cultivars– might require more chilling hours, or perhaps colder hours, than we get in Tampa for them to be able to set flowers and fruit properly.

Are there any feijoa cultivars that are better suited for us in 9b than some other cultivars?

Cheers!

Paul M.
==

Feijoas here in solid 10a locations fruit better than mine in 9b. I don't think it's chill hour related.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Search for the Best Tasting Mulberry ???
« on: March 31, 2022, 08:05:00 PM »
Quote from: fliptop on March 31, 2022, 02:50:21 PM
Not sure what kind this one is, but it's been my favorite out of the ones I've tried (unknown ones, Dwarf Everbearing, Dwarf Thai). The tree was on the edge of a vacant lot in Spring Hill, FL, zone 9a. The fruit was sweet, juicy, and stained my hands.


Looks like dwarf or "world's best". I would say dwarf.

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