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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: April 2024 seeds - Takini, Fusea longifolia, Parinari, Talisia, etc...
« on: April 15, 2024, 09:23:43 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: April 12, 2024, 12:38:56 AM »Let's go!!!Good to hear guineese is good.
I think I have like 3 varieties of this I got from David!
Still small seedlings though
I got those same 3 hahaha
Race you to fruit?
You're on XD I got a few in ground a few in pots
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: April 11, 2024, 11:00:42 PM »Good to hear guineese is good.
I think I have like 3 varieties of this I got from David!
Still small seedlings though
I got those same 3 hahaha
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: April 11, 2024, 08:06:06 PM »
Do you know which guineense you have K-rimes?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: April 08, 2024, 04:22:20 PM »
bummer to hear about the greenhouse re-work necessity,
Really good looking soil improvements though, trees and mushrooms are all looking great
Really good looking soil improvements though, trees and mushrooms are all looking great
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: More Parafilm Q's
« on: April 05, 2024, 01:16:03 AM »
airtight container is fine to keep it good for a few years
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ISO purple forest guava / araça uno
« on: April 03, 2024, 08:03:35 PM »I am fruiting this for the first time now. You sure you want it? Pretty astringent. I can get you seeds out of my next fruit. It is definitively worse than strawberry guava.
not glad to hear this K-Rimes, got a few seedlings that might be headed for compost if true, maybe they improve with age?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is there any way to get Erdon Lee lychee tree/seed in the US?
« on: April 01, 2024, 08:15:23 PM »
I know of at least one person who flowered Erdon Lee in the continental US this year
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Some intersting fruits from Viet Nam
« on: April 01, 2024, 06:15:43 PM »
#1 looks like Mammea americana
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Happy Easter
« on: March 31, 2024, 10:18:14 PM »
Happy Easter All!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Need some help in growing jaboticaba from seed.
« on: March 27, 2024, 07:37:22 PM »
Its a fungus or bacteria probably- reduce watering
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Boto (Detarium microcarpum)
« on: March 27, 2024, 01:50:14 PM »
They made it through 24F and were killed at 18F IIRC
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Boto (Detarium microcarpum)
« on: March 26, 2024, 01:41:06 PM »
Grown a few trees in Texas-
Cold killed them all, agree it is tasty though
Cold killed them all, agree it is tasty though
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jua-Acu (Solanum oocarpum) is a Subtropical Species
« on: March 22, 2024, 08:23:38 PM »
Great info Ryan!
Lots of flowers here but no fruit yet- I will throw some fertilizer around the base of mine to see if I can get fruit this year
The apparently annual texas storms knocked mine back to the ground again this winter but they are already coming back
Lots of flowers here but no fruit yet- I will throw some fertilizer around the base of mine to see if I can get fruit this year
The apparently annual texas storms knocked mine back to the ground again this winter but they are already coming back
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: tropical.theferns.info revamped -- Realtime Filtering, Location Map, Compare Sp.
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:05:00 AM »
This is such a great resource tru-
just found the Fuchsia species with the best edibility rating easily
just found the Fuchsia species with the best edibility rating easily
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Do you leave leaves under trees?
« on: March 18, 2024, 11:27:41 PM »We keep our lychee leaves. They make a good mulch and put nutrients back into the soil. The only readon you would remove leaves is if they are harboring a pathogen of some kind.
+1 they are a custom made mulch
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: H. Coubaril seeds for sale/trade one of the richest vegetable food known !
« on: March 18, 2024, 07:14:25 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: March 2024 seeds - Inga laurina, Cupuassu, Talisia, Bagassa, etc...
« on: March 12, 2024, 04:59:49 PM »
Great seller,
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Order with confidence
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit trees for 25 gal pots long term
« on: March 11, 2024, 11:32:29 PM »BabacoIs babaco really worth growing over other things in a limited space?
For me, no, but papayas in general have those fluffy white roots that don't seem all that bothered about space.
I will respectfully disagree that a 25 gallon pot isn't big enough for all but "true" trees with hard wood trunks, and even then, a 15g is probably adequate with enough root pruning. Eugenias and jabos do just fine long term in pots, even with minimal root pruning. You're going to need to root prune periodically and honestly, even a 25g pot can become unwieldy. Not sure how to handle those big wood boxes unless you're peeling off a side of it to prune, then putting it back on?
Here is a photo from a grower named Theme Linh, who is somewhat famous on the FB message boards for growing insanely big plants in comically small pots. She has to put all her stuff in greenhouses as she's in Texas.
Some people think it has a "pukey" taste but the one I got from Bush2Beach was delicious and fit the description of Champagne fruit, nicely effervescent
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: another precocious Eugenia - sp. "Pitangão Amarelo da Unicamp"
« on: March 10, 2024, 01:16:40 PM »
Nice Brian! some of these will make for great interplantings or groundcovers in a food forest
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit trees for 25 gal pots long term
« on: March 09, 2024, 12:34:06 AM »
Babaco
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: A grab bag of fruit pics from Peru and Ecuador and one unsolved mystery - 2013
« on: February 28, 2024, 01:31:42 PM »
maybe the photo is just tinted? also the lucuma I have had I don't remember having the distinct point like that
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: A grab bag of fruit pics from Peru and Ecuador and one unsolved mystery - 2013
« on: February 28, 2024, 12:44:07 AM »
Great pics-
whats the Pouteria? doesnt look like lucuma to me...
whats the Pouteria? doesnt look like lucuma to me...