The Tropical Fruit Forum

When looking to pull the trigger on purchasing a new Eugenia/Myrciaria plant or seeds, what criteria are you setting? 
More popular fruit selections with a ton of reviews makes the buying decision easier. With literally 1000s of Eugenia and Myrciaria to collect, what qualifies as a must purchase?

I only buy off of what my friends and connections tell me is good.

I mean I do grow some that are ornamental with bad fruits like truncata (I think I'm the only one with that) and noumeensis (Maybe it's a good fruit?)

Quote from: Jaboticaba45 on June 21, 2025, 08:40:43 PM

My pinky guava from ONG set fruit,
Excited to report back on it in the future.
Long, pink, and seedless

Does it ripen soft or is it a mainly crunchy Guava?

Believe it ripens soft like regular pink ones.

I bought the whole Ong collection. Just 1g trees but they’ll be flying soon.

Nice,
I liked the Loan guava, named after his wife.
Also tried some other cool guavas there I believe his favorite is the square one, speaking of which I need to obtain. It is very aromatic with spice notes, I think it will be a fan of people who like spice mangos

Good to see!
Glad it is doing well for you, and I hope it sets fruit!
The scarlets tend to bloom very quickly. I even had a 1 ft tree make some buds lol.

Quote from: Jaboticaba45 on June 17, 2025, 11:13:11 PM

They have it,
but it's under patent and is only being sold in HI.
I'd estimate several more years until they start selling it to people from mainland.

I'll have to check with them again, because when I last contacted them, they only had the #78.  I'm not asking for them to ship to mainland.  I would buy it local when on trip.

You can’t buy it local unless you live there as it’s under patent.
They are only selling to residents.
Idk why they stopped selling fruit though, I didn’t get to taste it when I was there.

Hit me up?
I’ll be coming down first week of July can bring you a jabo.
Send me a pm, what varieties you looking for?

Wait, let me make sure I’ll be passing by your area!
Thanks!


Ok nvm,
I take the turnpike going down, won’t make it unfortunately
But yes g-1 is a really great mamey I hear, hope to taste it when I visit.

Last year when I visited Xain,
He picked me a mango, right off the tree and it spit sap all over my arm.
I thought I’d be fine, but I broke out. Next time I either wear long sleeves or wash my arm off asap.
What helped was washing it really well, using dish soap and cleaner with grit.


Hope you get better soon,
Sounds like yours is pretty bad.

Excellent reviews thanks. I’m wondering today I grabbed my first Mamey from a Mercado that has had several pretty amazing fruits from South America. This is the first time I saw them here so I grabbed one for $13. It’s pretty hard do I want it to soften up a little before trying to cut it open? Do they keep sweetening up?
Here’s the fruit sorry about the bad lighting.

They don’t keep sweetening up…if picked unripe, it won’t hit peak.
So when picking off the tree, you need to scratch the fruit to see orange underneath.It’ll still be hard, but at that time, you know it’s ready to go.
You need to wait until the fruit gets soft before eating it.

Mangosteen farms in Mexico would be more south towards the tropical rainy side, away from the California side I would assume. Needs temps that are warm and humid.

Also, I am not sure that the grafted mangosteen you are talking about is a true mangosteen, I assume it’s one of the relatives. SD gets too cold for them to grow there and would need supplemental heat
Do you have any pictures? Is it a pretty big tree?

Was just a Frankie’s a few days ago,
No they aren’t selling any fruits of it for now
And also, they don’t sell to mainlanders
Right now they only sell to residents

But don’t fret, I am sure they’ll open up sales to mainlanders in a few years

In Florida you can get those for about $450 if you know where to look. A solidly grown fully filled out 25 gallon plant
But I know SoCal is expensive


Wait that pot is not a true 25 gallon nursery pot
Ok yeah idk tough question
I wouldn’t pay over $400 for that even in SoCal…also I wouldn’t even buy it so yeah
And I’d go by caliper as an indicator of price more than size
That trunk is skinny

By dwarf mango, they just mean slower growing
I’ve seen big Pickering in FL like 25ft tall and 20 ft wide at least
I guess long run it’s more manageable and forgiving if you forget to prune

The red jabo you got looks like sabara
I’ve never seen people saying dwarf red hmmm….
Any soil that’s slightly acidic and well draining is good.