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Crazy prices. $135 for a Cempedak, $150 for a marang. A pedalai is not worth $75. I ate these fruits for a dollar or less in Borneo and the Philippines.
I really like nice knives but most of my grafting is with soft, immature material. My choice then has been surgical scalpels. Not so sexy as the knives some are describing but pretty sharp.
Peter
There’s a lot of metals you can work with and there’s a pretty famous guy on the fig forum that makes the best custom grafting knives. I want to see if he can make me one with a Jaboticaba handle.
I got a belt sander for rough shaping my blades and then I use a 220/800/1000/6000 grit whet stone to finish shaping and sharpening. I’ll sometimes use a nagura stone and strop on leather with green compound. The knives get crazy sharp!
Simon
Interesting about feijoa--haven't tried one yet and now I have a sense of what I might encounter. Thanks, Adam8aTexas and K-Rimes!
roblack, I have noni plants growing in containers. I might brave trying the fruit if I ever get any. . . .
Fuyu persimmons are my favorite persimmons and if I could grow them here I would.
We still haven't tried Caimito--is there a downside to them??
In Mexico, people with limited resources have been known to fashion a grafting blade from an old hack saw. Pretty hard material.
Peter
That weird taste you get in feijoa that ruins the taste experience.
Thanks for the replies, i will buy one or two next week, hopefully they get softer and i am able to pick the ripest ones from the pach.
Last year i did not had any succes with the seeds, i even had one that had germinated and had roots, yet still it molded and rotted. I used peat moss and soil also, same story.....Mameys that are picked under ripe will soften up and can taste good, but they will never ever taste as good as one picked ripe from the tree. To tell if a mamey is ripe you can scratch it like you did. Problem with that is even the store bought mameys, when soft, tend to show an orange color even if they were scratched a week ago and showed a green color. it is not the same as fresh off the tree. Anyway, I have gotten high germination rates on ones from the store, wouldn't hurt to try.Jaboticaba45 did u plant them whole ,i mean with the shell, or u pry it open and planted only the embrio ?? Thanks!
That looks really nice.
Its giving me ideas now.
I'm curious what did you use to fill it up and how much did it cost?
A friend is hoarding these.
You can root prune without any lifting.
Hey, they actually look kinda nice once there's a tree inside. I like it
