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Just the fact that I recommended Cerifera as a rootstock, after killing hundreds of trees grafted onto Californica and Rubra, should help hundreds of members successfully grow and fruit Yangmei.
The plant produces a thickened, perennial tap-root with a light orange-colored epidermis, and reaches to a depth of 1 m or more (Fig. 5). The root has buds surrounding the subterranean collar that give rise to the aerial herbaceous stems. These stems, in turn, develop thickened portions where they originate from the root, points from which they are easily detached. Once detached, these thickened stems become vegetative propagules. It is suggested that this characteristic is an adaptation to the agrohabitat to facilitate the plant's dispersion and propagation by means of the mechanical action of the plow. Seeds planted outdoors in pots at Chapingo, Mexico (altitude 2242 m) did not flower during the first growing season (summer 1984) although there was considerable thickening of the taproot. It may be inferred that flowering is postponed until the second growth year.
Little is known of the pollination biology of L. moziniana and the other species of the genus Lycianthes (Nee 1986). Although pollinators were not observed, there is a high rate of fruit set. Of the five stamens, four dehisce before the fifth, the filament of which elongates so that the apical pores of the dehiscing anthers are near the receptive surface of the stigma (Fig. 4). This may be a selfing mechanism, which suggests that these plants may be facultatively autogamous.
Pitangatuba has wonderful undertones of apricot and mango.Good to know -- looks like I will be passing on this particular Campomanesia unless someone else has something good to say, but I already have multiple pitangatuba seedlings going and don't need an inferior ultra-sour.
This hirsuta was just straight nasty sour with nothing of note to make it worth eating. I would choose to replace lime in a daquiri with pitangatuba again, I did that last year with an excellent result other than the latex. Flavor was amazing. Lime and lemon have a very nice flavor underneath their sour. I just don't see it with this. It was kind of sour AND rank.
Look, I'm going to try it again, but I can say with somewhat certainty, this fruit has very limited usefulness.
Found the fruit in the pot today, pretty windy day so it probably dropped premature. It was soft-ish in hand.How seedy was it, and were the seeds hard? If not pollinated, maybe it's sweeter when pollinated.
Crazy sour. Not really a great note there, in comparison to pitangatuba. I can't recommend growing this species. I don't really see much point.
Had a few scant seeds, soft pulp. I know not to judge first fruiting, but I am not kidding even if this fruit were 10x sweeter it would still be practically inedible. It was like electric shock status sour, edging on salty.
10 x 0 sugar is still 0 sugar.
I am going to keep the tree of course and keep taking care of it, but certainly lost its allure for me.
Reading this got me thinking - why are folks like you and I here? I mean, don't you have a mature fruiting lychee tree growing? And you still need to plead for the fruit? This tells me that all of the effort I'm putting into grow these potted trees in my backyard might not produce the amount of fruits I want, if any at all
Does your p. edulis grow back from the roots?P. caerulea will keep roots alive to low temps and has some effect on grafted part but not as much as rootstock. The lowest my p. cearulea has ever experienced was 16F with no problem but lower?? You must remember that in ground plants have advantage with mass soil temp. in pots not so much unless covered in saw dust or some kind of mulch.
My P. caerulea survived last year ~11F. When I checked it very early spring there were leaves that had to have remained from last year, despite the fact that it must have been sitting in snow as we had an unusual week of snow cover. My in-ground never-flourishing P. edulis will die back to the ground as is its nature.
I've got a lot of love for these South American plants that grow in the cooler highlands.
So far, it looks like most of my caerulea are alive after spending the winter in the garage, where it got down to about 25F for 2-3 weeks straight during the depths of winter (very little temperature variation in the garage from night to day, or one day to the next). Still a bit unclear how much of the shoots survived, one any given plant, some of the thin ones died, others are already showing new growth, others you can't tell yet.
I had one edulis var edulis I kept in the cellar, where it was dark and 40-45F for several months, and most of the leaves and some thinner vine tips died, but the plant survived and is now seeing a lot of new growth.
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