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Have one more shipment available!
Also FYI this species can take months before they germinate

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fresh seeds harvested and cleaned today: 10 seeds for $32 shipped anywhere in US
Shipping included, cleaned and packed in vermiculte/perlite.

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So the post is aluminum? And the top piece comes welded?
What are you thinking it would retail for given your costs?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: January 17, 2024, 06:34:50 PM »
Lemon Zest taking off again after a recovery year last year. Starting to see some action on Coconut Cream and Edward too. Let's go! Great chill hours down here this year in Zone 10b. Looks promising. Need the rain/humidity to let up a bit though.



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Mine are healthy, but they're the non-wavy-leaf ones. It's a bit suspicious tbh, they look like a different species. They look like E. myrcianthes, with more elongated leaves, and more silvery new growth. They had some dieback when young until I put them all in full sun, no issues since. I think they want full sun basically from the time they sprout.

Interesting. I never put it in south Florida full summer sun - most young plants can't take it, so I avoided it. Maybe this has been my issue all along?

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Wondering if anyone has had success with E. Beaurepairana. I have an almost 3 year old seedling. It grows, but always looks like hell - yellowing leaves, some die back, some brown spots. I have tried heavy water, no water, part sun, filtered sun, shade, fert and no fert over the past couple years (maybe that's why it's so ugly?? LOL  :-\. Just can't get it to look like a responsible juvenile. Not a lot of info on it, so I have no idea about its preferences. Pictures below:





What kind of water do you give it, rainwater, well or tap? Also what is in the potting mix?

rain and ocassionally well water.

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I was having some of the same issues with my E. Beaurepairana
I ended up moving it off the lanai that was getting 4 hours of filtered morning sun to
my porch which only gets indirect light. I also gave it chelated iron a couple times
and it looks better. I am going to up pot it to a 7 gallon and start giving it some
sunlight soon

Gave mine a chelated drench this summer but saw no real improvement. Maybe I need to do it again.









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I have a few beaurepaireana seedlings that are a year old.  One has always been weak and shows nutrient deficiency, the other is better but still not perfect.  I wonder if these are just a bit more finicky than other types.  The Eugenias have always been pretty unpredictable for me and random decline isn't uncommon.

The weak one is just starting to put out new growth.  I had fertilized it a few months ago when I noticed the leaf deficiency, I guess I will find out soon enough if the new leaves are normal or show same issue.



Those plants look really healthy in comparison.

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Wondering if anyone has had success with E. Beaurepairana. I have an almost 3 year old seedling. It grows, but always looks like hell - yellowing leaves, some die back, some brown spots. I have tried heavy water, no water, part sun, filtered sun, shade, fert and no fert over the past couple years (maybe that's why it's so ugly?? LOL  :-\. Just can't get it to look like a responsible juvenile. Not a lot of info on it, so I have no idea about its preferences. Pictures below:





On another note, I have a couple small Solanum Sibundoyense seedlings. As a solanum species I was tempted to replant the seedling deeper in the soil (like you do with tomato plants to develop stronger roots). but it appears the plant may have a relatively "true" trunk as it matures. Thoughts? Anyone growing these successfully with some advice? Thanks in advance!





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Plants for Local Pickup in Broward
« on: October 07, 2023, 10:48:48 AM »
Quantities updates and bumped for the weekend crowd

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Plants for Local Pickup in Broward
« on: October 04, 2023, 06:19:05 PM »
Didn't see any from you in my box. Sent you a PM. Hope you get it. Let me know!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Plants for Local Pickup in Broward
« on: October 03, 2023, 08:17:14 PM »
Address? Save me the abiu! I’ll also pick up a blackberry jam fruit most likely. How do they grow in native Florida soil?

Just replied to your PM. Will hold the last one. Not sure about Blackberry Jam in soil - they are all in pots ad doing well there.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Plants for Local Pickup in Broward
« on: October 01, 2023, 06:35:55 PM »
3 Gallon Rollinia (Rollinia Delsciosa) 2-3ft $20 each.   x3 two left


3 gallon Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia Formosa) 3ft $15 each x3 two left


3 gallon Pitangatuba (eugenia neotinida) 2-3ft $20 each x3 SOLD OUT


3 gallon Yellow Jaboticaba  / Cabeluda (myrciaria Glazioviana) x1 $25


1 gallon mislabeled Garcinias (most likely G. Acuminata) 1 ft $10 each x3 (take all three for $20)


1 gallon Abiu seedlings 6-8" x3 $5 each x3 SOLD OUT


7 gallon Psidium Longepetiolatum $40 x2 one left


Psidium Robustum seeds (not shipping these yet) 10 for $5


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I might be in the market for the M. Vexator. How is the flavor on it? I’m not gonna be back in FL for 5 days

Not my favorite (a little too "musty" flavor for me) but a beautiful tree. Loaded with blooms now and even has a few fruit from last bloom cycle if you want to taste it first. Might still be a few that are ripe when you are back in town.

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Keith has some great plants! Killer prices too. Check him out!

Thanks for the kind words, Ryan!

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This Blue Grape, Myrciaria vexator is now 12 years old, fruiting for the last 3 years. Got it as a small plant from Adam S. of Flying Fox Fruits back when he was still in growing everything in pots back in Winter Park!

It is fruiting and flowering now in a 15 gallon pot. It is about 4.5 ft tall. This is for local pickup only in Southwest Ranches: $350









Also have a couple M. Glazioviana (yellow jaboticaba) in 5 gallon pots. These are about 3 years old and not flowering/fruiting. $40 each








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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone post plants on instagram?
« on: June 30, 2023, 03:48:34 PM »
followed!

@jadevinetropicals

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Anyone here growing psidium robustum?

I have one 5 year old tree grown from seed, flowered for the first time about a month ago here in zone 10b. Looks like a couple fruit are developing.

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Psidium Salutare about 4 years old holding fruit for the first time and blooming again! Will be first time tasting fruits if I can figure out when to pick them.



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Just wanted to thank CeeJay and johnb51 for fighting the good fight here, but it's unlikely to change any minds. For political reasons, many people have decided "academia is bad" and "big business is good" and until the leaders of their wing of politics finally accept what every good-faith scientist in the world has long since accepted, they will continue to spout the same denialist conspiracy theories their leaders are spouting.

Agreed. Thank you CeeJay for compiling a series of level-headed, empirical retorts to the oft heard claims from the "do your own research" and "deny the life-long academics" crowd who generally have strong opinions that, unironically, tend to coincide with conspiratorial thinking. It's exhausting.

Climate change IS happening: come see Haulover marina next King Tide. You should have see what Alton Road looked like a few years back before they got the pumps put it. See Brickell after a medium sized downpour? This didn't happen 30 years ago. I've been in South Florida for over 50 years, and what we are seeing in low lying costal areas is evidence enough - they experience such phenomena regularly.

The problem worth discussing is what we DO about it. That's the political sphere. And the politics should be debated. The science shouldn't. Except for those qualified to do so. We live in a world where someone reading WebMD for 20 minutes feels their opinion is equivalent to 10 years of medical schooling based off of decades of medical research by some of the brightest minds on the planet. It's the very definition of hubris (or maybe Dunning-Kruger).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2023 Mango Season
« on: May 19, 2023, 11:50:43 AM »
Glenns are just starting to ripen, and then here comes all the rain.

Same. Should get my first fruits this weekend. Hoping the rain didn't wash out the flavor. Then again, I mostly love Glenns just for the smell.
On another note, finally got a good crop on my Coconut Cream. Such a shy bearer for me.

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What is a TOPAZ pitangatuba?

Yeah, never heard about this one. I have always been excited that we might get someone to do some selective growing of this plant as there has been so much variability from shape and size to really good or awful. But never heard of a named variety until today.

This a gimmick or legit? Who has tasted it?

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Updated plants...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Watering for flowering Pitaya
« on: May 07, 2023, 12:13:15 PM »
Just anecdotal, but I find that mature pitaya, overall, can take as much water as you can give them - particularly from below provided they are not mostly shaded. Shallow roots systems can dry out up top, but mine are always wet 2 inches down and do fine. YMMV

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