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I must agree, he is an exceptional provider of seeds

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I have a bunch of seeds from a few plants that are E. pyriformis, E. lutecens or E. sp.  Not really sure what they are.  The seeds are from plants that I grew up from seeds I received from Marcos labeled as Eugenia pyriformis or lutecens.  had my post in the fruit discussion section of this site for more information.

Send me an address and I will send you some seeds, I will even pay the postage!

Cheers,
Richard

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Are you available for pickups on Saturdays?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / First taste, Eugenia pyriformis? lutecens? or ?
« on: September 16, 2022, 02:51:07 PM »
I deceived some seeds from Marcos a few years back that were labeled as E. pyriformis or lutecens. Well I had three plants fruit this year, so I figured that I would post a tasting note and discuss what these plants may be.


Fruit itself is quite variable in size, with one plant producing fruit that is two to three time the size of the other two plants.


Flavor wise, the fruits are soft, very succulent and acidic. They taste of apricot and suriname cherry, with a pleasant hint of resin.  If you like acidic fruits, you will probably like this one, and juiced with added sugar it was quite tasty.

It is a very attractive plant, fruits well in a pot, and produces an abundant crop.  Something that I find to be well worth growing.

As to what this plant is, I am also growing Eugenia pyriformis, from seeds I received from Vitor when he was active here and providing seeds. With the proviso that I cannot guarantee that Vitors seeds are truly pyriformis, I can say that the plant from Vitor's seeds are clearly different from the plants from Marcos' seeds.  The plants look similar in overall growth habit, although Vitor's leaves are a bit narrower (only slightly).  The big difference is in the flowering of the two.  For Vitor's seeds the plant produces solitary flowers, that bloom in April/May with the fruit ripening in June.  For the other plant, the plant produces three flowers in a stem, much like many guavas, and although the flower buds start to appear in April, they do not bloom until Late July, with the fruit ripening in August/September.

So, what is this plant?  Is it E. lutecens or E. pyriformis or something else?  I really don't know but I will keep researching it.

Anyway, if anyone wants seeds of this plant, let me know as I have a bunch.

Cheers,
Richard

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for Psidium Longipetiolatum
« on: September 09, 2022, 02:00:35 PM »
The fruit should be ripe on mine in about three weeks if you would like me to send you some fruit or seeds.

cheers,
Richard


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Kwai Muk in Southern CA.
« on: August 17, 2022, 11:01:02 PM »
I have one that has been in the ground for about 8 years.  It is about 6 ft tall and flowers every year but has not set a fruit.  It is in full sun, against a fence so it gets extra radiant heat.  It grows ok, but nothing spectacular with no special treatment, and a mix of clay and red sandstone soil.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: ga3 mixing.
« on: February 27, 2022, 07:47:13 PM »
GA3 is an organic acid, while your TDS meter is an electrical conductivity meter that measures the concentration of small ions (sodium, calcium, chloride and the like).  basically it is the wrong tool for the job of determining the amount of GA in solution.

thanks for the info, what is the tool for the job?
Unfortunately there is not one.  What you want to do is dissolve your GA3 in ethanol or a dilute base (baking soda will work) then in water. Set your concentration by weight (100 mg/liter of water for 100 ppm)


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tips for growing Abiu in CA
« on: February 27, 2022, 07:41:21 PM »
All I can say is I have killed a bunch over the years. They don’t seem to like our soil, our water or the cold winters.

Cheers,
Richard

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: ga3 mixing.
« on: February 23, 2022, 04:03:28 PM »
GA3 is an organic acid, while your TDS meter is an electrical conductivity meter that measures the concentration of small ions (sodium, calcium, chloride and the like).  basically it is the wrong tool for the job of determining the amount of GA in solution.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango second cuts not as promised
« on: November 28, 2021, 08:04:48 PM »
I think I see the issue here.

At every leaf node, there is tissue that can form a new branch.  If you look closely at a mango branch, there are regions of evenly spaced leaves and regions of tightly spaced leaves.  As new growth starts, the leaves are widely spaced, and as that growth spurt stops, the leaves become tightly packed.  look at the tip of a mango branch when it is dormant and you will see what I mean.  If you look down the branch, from the tip, you will see evenly spaced leaves for a while, then a cluster of leaves or just a swollen knob on the branch. on your photo, follow the stem down from your lowest shoot, past one leaf and you will see the area I am talking about, a tight whorl of leaves and some brown scarring.  Where you cut, the buds that were activated were from single leaf nodes, hence the stair step look of the new growths.  if you were to have cut right above that whorl that I pointed out, you would have multiple shoots coming from around the same area (I would not suggest going that now).  Let the current growth flush finish and harden off.  when the next flus comes out and hardens off, cut it off about 1 cm above  where this current flush ends and you will get the result you desire.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Id of 2 different Myrciaria
« on: November 19, 2021, 11:55:57 PM »
First two are definitely strigipes, they look just the new growth on mine, and they are not glazoviana or gaquiea.

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Interesting project, what kind of genome sesuencing are you planning on doing? Whole genome, transcriptome, AFLP?  I started a similar project a few years ago, but things at the lab got too busy and I had to put it on the back burner.  You have me thinking I should start it up again.  I do have DNA samples from about 20 plants that I could share if you do not need too much.

Cheers,
Richard

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Hi Richard!

Always the contrarian, I water all my jaboticabas with San Diego tap water and they are doing just great (I am eating crop #4 from my P. Pithrantha as I write this). I am finding that with a good soil they are pretty forgiving as far as water goes. I have planted most of mine in a ferringenious sandstone soil with a thick layer of mushroom compost and they do great. The few that I have in the more typical San Diego clay soil do fairly well but not quite as well as the others.

The “Paulista” plants I received from you years ago are doing well for me, but have not fruited yet.

Come by for a visit some time.

Cheers,
Richard

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia ID
« on: November 11, 2021, 10:35:59 PM »
I would agree with it being odserva. It looks like the one I had years ago. Unfortunately the fruit from my bush were not good so I got rid of the plant.

Cheers,
Richard

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherimoya tasting /get together
« on: October 11, 2021, 03:40:33 PM »
I would love to attend if there is still room.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First fruiting - Campomanesia guazumifolia
« on: September 15, 2021, 10:58:41 PM »
K,
Yes mine is pretty much ch in full sun.  Last year it was in a 5gal pot,crowded in with some bananas and Eugenias and other stuff.  It grew so much I put it into a 10 gallon and had to move it to the other side of my yard. Same amount of sun but a drier nanoclimate. That is when it started to look worse.  I am trying to figure out what to do to keep up the humidity around it.

Joe,
Right now I have two Campomansesia that are fruiting, the guazumifolia and an adamantium.  At one point in time I had 7 different species, but when I put them in the ground six of them died, with only the adamantium surviving.  Fortunately I had a backup of the guazumifolia in a pot.   I have since started over and have small plants of xanthocarpa, phaea, malifolia and guaviroba.  I think this is a cool genus and am always on the hunt for more.

Cheers,
Richard

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I have some seeds of;

Campomanesia guazumifolia
Plinia phitrantha
Plinia aureana
Eugenia selloi

PM me with your address and what seeds you are interested in and I can mail them out to you.

Cheers,
Richard

To everyone who contacted me,
I am overwhelmed with the response to this seed offer, and it will take me a few days to sort through everything.  I am hoping to be able to supply everyone with something, but those that asked for all four seeds for will probably not receive that.  There are very few of the selloi seeds ( I did not think people would want them so did not save many), I hope to have enough of the guazumifolia seeds as well as the phithratha and I have plenty of the aureana (no love for this plant?). As much of the fruit is still ripening on the tree, it may be a few weeks before I can get your seeds out, but I will start mailing some tomorrow.  I will contact everyone individually, but it might take a while, so be patient.  If you do not hear from me in a week, please contact me again.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / First fruiting - Campomanesia guazumifolia
« on: September 08, 2021, 01:47:57 PM »
Finally fruited my Campomanesia guazumifolia, from seeds I obtained from Vitor some years back. I have to say that this has not been the easiest plant for me to grow, as it seems to prefer more humidity than I can readily give it. It struggled for the first few years, until I placed it in the middle of a bunch of other potted plants, where because of the density it was a much more humid micro-climate.  Once there it took off, doubling in size the first year and nearly doubling again the second.  Unfortunately It outgrew its spot, and after moving it to a more open location it is back to struggling a bit.

Anyway, it flowered for the first time last year but did not set any fruit.  This year it set an abundance of fruit,  and I have been enjoying them for the past week or so.  The fruit is around 1 inch in diameter, flattened and yellow green to yellow in color. the skin has a fuzz, similar to a peach that does not wash off, and while it does not bother me, some people might find it a bit irritating.  the flavor is sweet to sub-acid, depending on the ripeness with flavors of apricot and guava.  Its relation to the Psidiums is evident in the texture, with a slight graininess near the skin and a more gelatinous pulp in the center. Overall a very enjoyable fruit, but not as good as my Campomanesia adamantium.






Cheers,
Richard

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of all the pictures I've seen so far, An Hai and Bi Qui have the most growth.  Anyone seen any growth on Dong Kui or Black Peak beside Simon?


I am also seeing growth on my An Hai and Bi Qui but there is no growth yet on my black peak although they are still alive.  The worst of the lot for me are the Dong Kui, where all but one are dead above the graft union.



Bi Qui



An Hai

Cheers,
Richard

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Picked up my trees last night. These are bunch better quality than the previous group buy that was done years back. I grabbed random plants from the barrels and when potting them up I noticed that half of them already had new roots starting to grow out!

Excellent work Ken, and thanks for everything you put into it

Cheers,
Richard

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Avocado fruit
« on: April 26, 2021, 02:28:36 PM »
I will take a box as well.

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seller is responsible for shipping to the USDA inspection station. I will pick up the trees after it clears the custom.
I don’t want to pile on here, but that did not answer the question. Unless seller has stated to you that the plants will be shipped air freight, we all threw away a lot of money.  With the shipping delays that are currently occurring at the CA ports it could possibly take months to receive this order.

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I'd be in for 6.  I am in San Diego.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado tasting
« on: March 22, 2021, 03:39:50 PM »
I'd love to attend if there is still room.  Unfortunately the only avocados i have are reed and they will not be ripe by then.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticaba id?
« on: March 20, 2021, 08:50:14 PM »
It’s really hard to tell from the photos, but from the shape of the leaf in photo #1 the plant looks more like a Suriname cherry than a jaboticaba.  None of the jabos in my yard have that little point on the tip of the leaf that the photo seeems to have.  On the other hand many Suriname cherries have that leaf shape.

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