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Second the spider mites on the jackfruit

In my experience growing starfruit in containers it absolutely hated too much water

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Great to have younger members on the forum.
$10 wouldn't cover the shipping cost of the fruit.
Support the fruit sellers when you can and grow the seeds out to try and recoup money if it's tight.
sharing extra is where it's at , but that's mother theresa level to package it up and take it to usps and pay to share it with you.

I’ll never forget the dude from last year who wanted plants shipped who was willing to spend $1 total haha

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help me...
« on: March 13, 2024, 08:33:18 AM »
Dude you gota chill out with spamming the forum with these Help Me posts. You literally made a post about this exact issue a few days ago. People provided you their assurance that these kind of wait times are perfectly normal. If you don’t want to take their word the least you can do is just follow up on the thread you previously started

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Please help, multiple plant emergencys
« on: March 12, 2024, 08:04:18 PM »
Honestly looks like it may from an over doing of something. Either water or fertilizer

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lecythis Pisonis Monkey Pot Tree
« on: March 12, 2024, 06:28:55 PM »
Not in Florida but I have a small seedling going




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: rat chewed jackfruit bark - goner?
« on: March 11, 2024, 04:40:48 PM »
I’m also not seeing anything irregular either. Looks like normal bark cracking

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: SunDragon
« on: March 10, 2024, 10:31:02 PM »
Sun dragon is loaded with flowers right now




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Help. Me
« on: March 10, 2024, 07:53:23 PM »




This is useful




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafting Tape
« on: March 08, 2024, 11:34:38 PM »
So I regrafted everything with different tape. Bagged them, and put the potts in the sun 🌞 to wake these mfers up. Will keep you updated.



Tape, bag, and full sun might be a recipe for disaster. I’d  move to partial sun  and probably ditch the bag

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafting Tape
« on: March 08, 2024, 02:32:31 PM »
I haven't done much grafting. It is interesting that no one here is recommending rubber strips for tightening the union. Does this not have merit?

Rubber bands have been my go to

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cecropia Peltata Growth Rate
« on: March 07, 2024, 07:02:06 PM »
It very well could...I have seen trees smaller than that fruit, but they were rooted cuttings.
As for taste, it is a mid fruit, but looks very interesting.
Sweet but weird texture as it's very slimy.
I put a few in a bag and a few hours later they basically turned to water.

It’d be cool to even just see it flower. When I dug it up last year I chopped it in half so I’m thinking this thing will easily hit the over 10’ mark this season




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cecropia Peltata Growth Rate
« on: March 07, 2024, 11:09:45 AM »
I grew this tree from seed probably around February of last year and dug it up at the end of the season to overwinter. Tree was likely around 6 ft mark. Anybody with experience growing cecropia know if this thing will likely flower this season ?






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Pm sent

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / ISO Bursera graveolens
« on: February 15, 2024, 11:27:08 PM »
This has proven impossible to find. Anybody selling or know anywhere that is selling bursera graveolens/palo Santo seeds or cuttings?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Ficus Dammaropsis seeds?
« on: February 14, 2024, 09:21:57 PM »
Bumping this thread 2 years to the date. Still on the search for ficus dammaropsis. Anybody have any seeds, cuttings, or leads to a source??

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Ok, that's my "learned something new" for today!

Carolyn

yup same here lol

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Had some recent germination on cauliflora and sp porco espinho






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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for Sichuan Pepper Plants
« on: February 12, 2024, 09:38:47 AM »
One green world has piperitum and simulans for sale

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seed grown cherimoya from Rincon Tropics
« on: February 08, 2024, 11:51:29 PM »
Thanks Nick. Yeah I'll do that then.

My theoretical fruit will probably finish inside my grow tent under LEDs, provided I don't get pests or mold issues on it due to the high humidity of the tent. But that is to be seen. I don't recall which forum member did this but he put his potted annona by a window indoors and it seemd to ripen the fruit so that is also an option

I've gotten cherimoya to ripen in the past, mid November, when it was in the greenhouse




This year I got this MASSIVE fruit to somehow ripen indoors under crowded grow lights haha I pollinated an el bumpo flower with pollen from another annona  that I don't remember exactly which one but was either temoylata or African pride atemoya. Ended up producing two viable seeds that I planted out





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seed grown cherimoya from Rincon Tropics
« on: February 08, 2024, 10:35:31 PM »
I've experimented with putting annonas out in early spring to encourage leaf drop but doesn't really work. I'd just strip the leaves, just did that with my atemoya last week. I'm trying to find the best time of the year to do this since our growing season is more limited

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Need Help to ID This Atemoya
« on: February 05, 2024, 12:05:50 AM »
possibly African pride

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Tropical" fruit that will grow in Zone 8a?
« on: February 01, 2024, 03:23:27 PM »
Sweet! Those look amazing too. Thanks so much for sharing.

How long did they take to fruit for you from seed?

Started flowering a few months from seed and put it in ground at the end of year 1. Fruit on the second year

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Tropical" fruit that will grow in Zone 8a?
« on: February 01, 2024, 01:33:38 PM »
Some pics of the fruit






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Tropical" fruit that will grow in Zone 8a?
« on: February 01, 2024, 01:28:03 PM »
Hardy tamarillo as well

Any specific cultivars? Have you grown it personally or know how well it handles the cold? Some stuff I’ve read says only hardy to 20-22 degrees, others says 15 degrees F.

No specific cultivars that I’m aware of but yes I’m currently growing one in ground. It’s gets some protection as I cover in a hoophouse in the winter and wrap in frost cloth next to a black garbage can filled with water. All that being said it’s sailed thru low teens and probably single digits on many occasions. Information on the internet says you need two for cross pollination but I got plenty of fruit off a solo plant

Super impressive! How's the flavor in general and compared to the regular Tamarillo?

I found these seeds online. Look similar to the ones you grow?

https://www.raindanceseeds.com/plantsandseeds/hardy-tamarillo-cyphomandra-corymbiflora
https://www.raindanceseeds.com/plantsandseeds/solanum-diploconos-guava-tamarillo
https://www.raindanceseeds.com/plantsandseeds/z010hjca1njvftrwtqa55ek6uiocmm

I’ve never tried regular tamarillo before so I can’t speak on the comparison but I’d say the hardy ones have this peach pineapple acid flavor goin on

Yup that’s where I got my seeds from. Just got some guava tamarillo germinating in the past week so I’ll see how those do this summer

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Tropical" fruit that will grow in Zone 8a?
« on: February 01, 2024, 10:06:38 AM »
Hardy tamarillo as well

Any specific cultivars? Have you grown it personally or know how well it handles the cold? Some stuff I’ve read says only hardy to 20-22 degrees, others says 15 degrees F.

No specific cultivars that I’m aware of but yes I’m currently growing one in ground. It’s gets some protection as I cover in a hoophouse in the winter and wrap in frost cloth next to a black garbage can filled with water. All that being said it’s sailed thru low teens and probably single digits on many occasions. Information on the internet says you need two for cross pollination but I got plenty of fruit off a solo plant

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