The Tropical Fruit Forum

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Good day,

I would love to buy 20 psidium striatulum seeds from you.  Please let me know where to send payment.

Thanks,
Matt

@guayacanfarm

We feature a lot of natives from the St. Croix, US Virgin Islands like Lignum Vitae, local Eugenias, and Ironwoods (Krugiodendron ferruem)

Can anyone help ID this one please?  Thank you!

I'd say skip the Foxfarm and do a granular application of oganic Espoma Holly Tone.  Foxfarms is bit hot and can burn plants.  If you decide to stick with fertigation method, you will want to check the TDS after mixing in Foxfarms. 

Hey Digigarden!

I loved all those Eugenia pics you were posting.  Very cool to know they are being utilized in DR for landscaping, I love them all and we have several of the same type here on St. Croix.  I do specialty landscaping and I am trying to get my customers to recognize the value in these species. 

As to your question, there is a Eugenia that grows here which looks almost identical to Floribunda, I believe that is what you have in your picture.  I think the variety is Eugenia procera.   

I will have more Floribunda seeds later in the year, around October/November. 

Take care everyone and thanks for your interest. 

Awesome trees you have for sale!

Could you share what type of pots those are and where you purchased them from?

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I ordered some plants from Satya and I have to say, I was so incredibly pleased with the entire exchange.  I highly recommend buying plants from this good, kind human!

My plants came well packaged, healthy, and my boxes were packed full of different species.  All are now very happy in their new home.

Thank you Satya!!!

How would these do in the tropics?

My wife discovered that blending lemongrass with starfruit makes an excellent drink!  Strain, chill and enjoy anytime of the day. 

Try it out, I can assure you will not be disappointed.

I see Frog Valley is posting some interesting information although there seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding his posts.

Everyone is entitled to their own life experience and the folks here on this forum obviously have a passion for growing tropical fruit.  The locales vary so methods that may work in one region may need to be tweaked, modified or altered to work in others.

Regardless of where you live and what you choose to grow, it can be done in such a way that is beneficial to your local environment, soil,  water table, surrounding water bodies, and other living organisms in the area. 

Growing fruits in a destructive manner using synthetically derived chemical fertilizers and pesticides is similar to our modern plight of man where we use our left brain of rationality and extreme focus to accomplish a goal.

Being a land steward and using natural farming and regenerative methods is more right brained and looks at the system as a whole.  This is the direction our society needs to head in if we are to survive, and it can all start with how we grow plants and farm.

Soil and microbes are the foundation.  Keep the microbes working hard, give them a nice home, and keep them well fed and they will in turn provide the nutrients the plants are looking for. 

There are many ways to boost microbial activity in soil.  The easiest is to make a Jadam Microbial Solution (JMS).  Essentially you use a starch such as potatoes.  Cook them and then mash them in a paint strainer.  Hang the paint strainer so its suspended in a 5 gallon the bucket of water.  Next collect healthy leaf mold from an undisturbed area and add this to a separate paint strainer also suspended in the bucket (add rocks to each strainer to submerge).  Next add 1 liter of seawater.  Allow this to sit for 24-48 hours depending on temperature.  Outside in the sun is ok. 

You will see a foam form on the surface and once the foam forms a ring, the solution is ready.  The 5 gallons can be diluted 30 times over so you can mix this into 150 gallons of water.  Now you can apply this solution anywhere you want to increase microbial activity.

This is the quick and dirty way to do it.  Its indiscriminate and is like a rock and roll approach.  A more refined way of spreading microbial life akin to classical music sypmhonies is through the Korean Natural Farming method of collecting IMO's and going through the four stages.  I will discuss this at a later date when I have some more time.

Happy Thanksgiving to all and Long Live the Natural Farmer!