The Tropical Fruit Forum

Kasturi and the seeds made it.  Thanks again!!

Probably a rodent of some sort.  Lay out some traps.  Pill bugs suck too, they took out some of my tiniest seedlings at one point.  Kill them or probably repot it, they can hide in the soil and aren't helping your cause.  Maybe some chickenwire or a physical barrier around the plant will help?

Whoa that tree looks great.  I would take you up on the offer as I have M. Halli but it is too small right now (wonder if anyone has tried a take on that?).

I have some Plinia sp "Ană de Diamantina" sprouts for sale.  Got these from Luiz and selling for same price he sold to me $5 at pop.

Also have 1 Canistel seed, germinated and just starting to sprout - $5

For free because I need room and don't have much space currently (and because I appreciate this community):

"Regina" surinam cherry - 2 available - few inches tall, 3 sets of leaves

"Camino Laguna" guava - 4 available - very small maybe 1 inch or so


Stenocereus Pruinosus "Gray ghost organ pipe" cactus - several, all with some spines but they are very small, approximately 4 months old.

Local pickup only, sorry personal life too busy to mess with shipping anything right now.

Everything I have is in pots for now but I also only started a year and a half ago.  I do plan on putting some of the bigger species in ground at a relative's property as it will be hard to keep them in pots indefinitely, mainly my Pouteria and Ingas.  Basically everything else I have is pretty manageable in a pot, dragonfruit and various cacti, myrtacea family e.g Psidiums, Plinias, Eugenias, Myrcianthes etc as they are all tending to be smaller trees.  My garcinias stay in pots for now too because they are really slow growing like a lot of Plinias.  The only thing annoying about this is playing musical chairs when I have to up the pot size but it also allows me to refresh the soil medium and give the plants a fresh start.

Here is pics from today:



The main vine near the soil has gotten pretty thick and woody:



Trust me I have no skill unless you count surfing this forum for a year and googling the species for 5 minutes.  I just make sure it is moist throughout summer, helps that I don't pick up the fallen leaves and just leave them on top of the soil to lock it in.  A good misting on the leaves on hot days to keep up humidity and a little hollytone once in a blue moon when I remember.  Stays in in full sun year round.  I don't really recommend this species here as it is somewhat slow and stumbles through winter.  That being said alive for now now and thriving to a certain degree.  Once I get it to a fruiting stage (if it isn't self sterile, seems like we don't know) or the point where I can let go of some cuttings I will come back here and let you all know.

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If you ever get to try cherapu, then you'll create an obsession to get those seeds.  those maybe 40% germination is good.

Wasn't suggesting they were Frankies just thought I would add my experience with them.  Would love to try some Cherapu or anything really, unfortunately in San Diego the only Garcinia I have ever seen is mangosteens from Mexico.  You guys are blessed with your options out there, I only got a small taste of what is available and I was hooked!

It is supposedly a top tier cactus fruit.  They don't have a long shelf life and are more delicate is probably why it is expensive.  Also unless the cacti is huge they don't seem to produce a whole lot in comparison to say dragonfruit, you need many to have a decent harvest.  The growth rate of them is quite a bit slower than other cacti as well. S. queretaroensis and S. Stellatus seem to the more popular ones of the genus for commercial growth (and probably taste wise). 

I think the heat mats work well with Psidiums and speeds up the process a bit.  I have been using mine for cacti also and it really speeds up things as well as they need consistent warm/hot temperature, highly recommend for cacti in general.  My results with Sapotacaea and Garcinia are mixed results so I think it just depends.  You can always play around with different methods if you have plenty of seeds e.g. heatmat, moist vermiculite in a bag, small container in greenhouse etc and see what works best.

A live plant would be pretty rare.  Bellamy had seeds maybe 6 months ago, I hear the germination rate is kind of low on this one.  Good luck with your search.

Exotica is nice but a bit chaotic and unorganized.  Atemoya Nursery in Vista is nearby, pretty good also and good prices although probably better to call them ahead.  Ong's is pretty good too and more central SD but pricey like someone mentioned and only open weekends.  At Ong's the plants I saw were more mature in general.

I'm up on the coast and not too worried for our area.  It's the valleys, inland/mountain areas and desert areas that are more a risk.  Wish you all the best and hey at least we don't have to water this weekend.