The Tropical Fruit Forum

The scent of Bergamia is pretty distinct. If yours match that scent, it is going to be very similar. If the scent is only somewhat the same ( weaker ), that is another clue.
If your seedlings are either  identical, or quite different that will tell your more.
You could have variable seedlings from self pollination, or from crossing to another Citrus.
Since Bergamia are mainly grown as ornamentals or for perfumery, not edible fruit, you could get something interesting.

Syzygium glenum from the Daintree FNQ, not edible but very rare.....on 17 trees ever found in the wild.rare.....
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=639499711622660&set=a.619248743647757

There is a big leap from grabbing a few fruit to eat or grow seed, to ripping off trees full of fruit to sell.
Most often I will ask first, and rarely get knocked back. If a tree looks neglected or fruit falling unpicked, I may not ask first.
I must admit to collecting a fair few seed in this way, so find it hard to get too mad when people do the same to me.

“He" that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone fruit''

Sorry I missed that from your earlier post.
I enjoyed racemosa cluster fig, faint strawberry flavour, like a strawberry cookie. I thought NSW sandpaper figs are nice. If I remember, Deciduous Fig was ok, Moreton Bay was ok, but a few are enough. Not sure any come near Ficus carica in flavour.

"A large clean tree with fruit of fine delicate sweet flavor and size of a black Smyrna fig, only more rounded and dark crimson when ripe."

Interesting that this doesn't clearly ring bells.
Cluster Fig sounds pretty close by size and colour. Flavour is OK too.
Sandpaper Fig seem closer to domestic figs, but I have never seen red fruit, and they are smaller fruited than carica.
Going by the above description, you could eliminate a good 35 to 40 of the 45 Australian Ficus.
That leaves the most likely candidates for you to experiment with.

I believe it is used in the Phillipines as a rootstock, along with Calamandarin. Maybe try researching that. From what I recall, it was used as rootstock for Pummelo.
It should be OK for related things, like Fortunella and Mandarin, maybe Limes ?

Greensand is a rock dust source of Potassium, basically very fine granite dust. You can get it from the places that make cemetery headstones by cutting granite.
Potassium citrate is another source I have seen. Potassium is common in rock minerals, so there should be other sources.

Quote from: pagnr on August 10, 2023, 03:02:49 AM

Have you investigated "double glazing". Twin skin / twin wall coverings are used to create a further insulating air layer between the wall sheets. Thee are also IR infra red films that trap heat. Also another factor is how the cover disperses light, to create a better light scatter

havent heard of those, are they used with glass windows, like between the 2 layers of glass?
Do the infrared films stop any light spectrum? In any way they are ment for glass aplication

Not necessarily glass, can be two layers of plastic greenhouse film ( separated ). Some people put bubble wrap on the inside of house windows for privacy and insulation. Some people fix a clear plastic film inside their wooden window to create a still insulating layer over the window.
Woven clear plastic films are an alternative to polycarbonate. they have a good life span, can be used as walls on many structures, or roofs on dome or tunnel structures.
https://redpath.com.au/plastic-films-textiles/greenhouse-films/polyweave-reinforced-greenhouse-film/

Great article, pagnr! Have you visited the Botanical Ark?
No, but I did often visit " Next Door". on the same road, and did buy some fruit when Mrs Carle ran a fruit market stall at Pt Douglas.
The pic of the front gate of Carle's brought back memories. Shrouded in foggy rainy mystery.

Mine too, if we ever make it back to the area. Wish I had known about it when we were at Cape Trib 20-some years ago.

I was up there too around then, a few times 97 -- 99.
I was lucky that someone I knew was living up there, so was able to spend a bit of time.

Also remember they filmed Island of Dr Moreau, with Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando. Never saw those two but did see an Asian Forest cat, one of the animal cast.
Amazingly Marlon Brando wanted the script changed, so that Dr Moreau, who always wore wide brimmed hats and thick sunscreen,
wanted the final reveal to be that when he took his hat off, revealing a blowhole on the top of his head, and that he was in fact a Dolphin hybrid...Genius.

There is no reason why an Ai can't breed Paw Paws.
They can order supplies online, rent facilities, pay a technician to water or pot up plants,
fund a research project into unique pollinator insects, and acquire some of those insects, use algorithms to invest, and use those funds to purchase land.
They could hack into military satellites and zoom in and pinpoint individuals wild Paw Paw trees with modified facial recognition software.

It is when people in the future start picking and eating those Paw Paws, that the trouble is going to start.

You may or may not believe me, but I am from the future,
I came back to try and stop P Day.

I use Buddy Tape to seal the graft cuts and scion.
Then use regular budding tape over the top of only the graft cuts.
This enables the regular tape to be removed, leaving the Buddy Tape as a protective after the buds shoot.
I found that when grafting Persimmons, V graft, the Buddy Tape was not strong enough to hold the union, especially if bumped etc.
Regular budding tape comes in a few brands and also widths. Wider tape seems better for larger grafts or buds.
For Chip buds I do a similar thing, Buddy Tape over the Chip, then reg tape above and below the Bud Eye, leaving a gap for that to sprout.
Again regular tape can be removed early, leaving the buddy Tape. Also found that large woody Chip Buds could lift off the stock under Buddy Tape alone.
Have tried Laboratory Parafilm, thought Buddy Tape was much better. I believe there is also a  " grafting " Parafilm too in a smaller narrower roll.