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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Fruits do you regret not planting?
« on: January 26, 2025, 04:01:16 PM »
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It is a mass thing, with these columnar cactus. I notice they like being about 4 inches in diameter and a few feet tall before I saw any flowering. Slower growing strains probably looking at a decade depending on optimal growing conditions. I believe 7 to 10 years is what to expect.

I got them at a decent size, maybe 2" diameter and 6" tall. They're already 4" diameter in 1 year and some cresting over 1' tall. The in ground ones are really slow, but the ones I put in cactus / potting soil are ripping it up. A few are putting out offshoots already.

Where I moved to now is definitely optimal cactus growing area.

I noticed the same thing, the plants grow faster in containers. I do a mix with decomposed granite, peatmoss, vermiculite, perlite, and clay pebbles. 1ft and 4" in 1 year from seed is super fast. I would expect that after 3 years in SoCal.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Fruits do you regret not planting?
« on: January 26, 2025, 01:08:40 AM »
It will be hard to keep the plants with you without a house or renting homes through your moving. If your going to college will be even harder to keep large plants.

I would focus on Jaboticaba,Yangmei, and Stenocereus queretaroensis if I could turn back 10 years. I have been actively growing since 2007 and have lost many plants over time during moves.

I would focus mostly on annuals until you get land, this way you can get harvests and enjoy the hobby. I would try to keep only a couple plants to maturity over time.

As for places the best in mainland US are South Florida or Southern California. Hawaii and Puerto Rico if you don't mind Islands. If it's out of country there are many options which would take time to decide.

I just started a ton of Stenocereus queretaroensis! I have like 150 seedlings that I grew from raindanceseeds. I got the 4 different varieties: red, white, purple, and orange. They are a great company and definitely sent way more than they listed (they said like 25 seeds for $10, in reality it was like 50-100 seeds). I am not sure what to do with all these cacti. I am thinking I will do some guerilla gardeing and plant them around my school I work at. I feel like a gardener/groundskeeper would less likely weedwack a cacti, as they stick out and seem intentional. I've thought about 3D printing out little plant signs with their scientific name to put at the base to make them seem more legit.

I have Stenocereus queretaroensis which I grew from seed of selected fruit I ate. I am on year 6, they are starting to bulk up The best fruit taste like raspberry jam with a dragon fruit syrupy texture.

Glad I got these going. I have a few in ground ones that I just transplanted to my new place, and some in pots that are all looking decent. In ground are looking rough but should come back. How long from seed to flower?

It is a mass thing, with these columnar cactus. I notice they like being about 4 inches in diameter and a few feet tall before I saw any flowering. Slower growing strains probably looking at a decade depending on optimal growing conditions. I believe 7 to 10 years is what to expect.

Optimal growing conditions something like humidity levels around 40% to 70%, full sun, day time temps in the low 90s and nights in the 70-85 range. Diluted bird or bat guano as fertilizer, use a gritty mix with granite and well draining.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Fruits do you regret not planting?
« on: January 25, 2025, 03:55:09 PM »
It will be hard to keep the plants with you without a house or renting homes through your moving. If your going to college will be even harder to keep large plants.

I would focus on Jaboticaba,Yangmei, and Stenocereus queretaroensis if I could turn back 10 years. I have been actively growing since 2007 and have lost many plants over time during moves.

I would focus mostly on annuals until you get land, this way you can get harvests and enjoy the hobby. I would try to keep only a couple plants to maturity over time.

As for places the best in mainland US are South Florida or Southern California. Hawaii and Puerto Rico if you don't mind Islands. If it's out of country there are many options which would take time to decide.

I just started a ton of Stenocereus queretaroensis! I have like 150 seedlings that I grew from raindanceseeds. I got the 4 different varieties: red, white, purple, and orange. They are a great company and definitely sent way more than they listed (they said like 25 seeds for $10, in reality it was like 50-100 seeds). I am not sure what to do with all these cacti. I am thinking I will do some guerilla gardeing and plant them around my school I work at. I feel like a gardener/groundskeeper would less likely weedwack a cacti, as they stick out and seem intentional. I've thought about 3D printing out little plant signs with their scientific name to put at the base to make them seem more legit.

I have Stenocereus queretaroensis which I grew from seed of selected fruit I ate. I am on year 6, they are starting to bulk up The best fruit taste like raspberry jam with a dragon fruit syrupy texture.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Fruits do you regret not planting?
« on: January 24, 2025, 12:25:01 PM »
It will be hard to keep the plants with you without a house or renting homes through your moving. If your going to college will be even harder to keep large plants.

I would focus on Jaboticaba,Yangmei, and Stenocereus queretaroensis if I could turn back 10 years. I have been actively growing since 2007 and have lost many plants over time during moves.

I would focus mostly on annuals until you get land, this way you can get harvests and enjoy the hobby. I would try to keep only a couple plants to maturity over time.

As for places the best in mainland US are South Florida or Southern California. Hawaii and Puerto Rico if you don't mind Islands. If it's out of country there are many options which would take time to decide.

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A try some trees again if the order is going through.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: SCIONS!!
« on: January 21, 2025, 03:27:09 PM »
I would be interested in some annona scions, but I am only grafting chill hours type fruits right now. If still available last week of February, I would be interested.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: H N Y!
« on: December 31, 2024, 02:11:56 AM »
Happy New Years and a vigorous and productive new year especially for plants.

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Turkmenistan selections should handle the cold a little better. I would try Parfianka and Desertnyi.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black Sapote Flavor Test (Lara Farms)
« on: December 13, 2024, 08:14:33 PM »
Anyone tastes Matt's Giant? I have 3 seedlings that are starting to size up, I am still probably about 4 years from fruit. But wanted to know if the fruit was excellent quality?

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Must be sweet then? Here is photo of smaller one with skin.


I have sweet it looks similar.

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It's not eversweet, eversweet is pinkish and has a lower acidic component.

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You have eversweet cuttings for trade? I have sweet pomegranate cuttings I can trade or fig cuttings various varieties.

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Duku seedling I have experienced at least a couple winters with night time temps into high 30s. No considerable dieback even with high 30s just some leaf drops during cold wind like you said.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hitting up Socal potentially
« on: December 11, 2024, 03:15:04 PM »
Ryan you still in town? Depending on my availability you can maybe stop by.
I'll be coming down on the 20th...
Luckily, one of my good friends offered to go tree hunting with me, so I have a ride to hit up SD so hopefully can visit Mark and some other nurseries.
Not entirely sure of the dates, but potentially the 24th. or 22nd?
Thanks for the offer!

I be available on 20th and 21st. Otherwise maybe next time.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hitting up Socal potentially
« on: December 11, 2024, 02:06:54 PM »
Ryan you still in town? Depending on my availability you can maybe stop by.

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Yeah looks like cold damage to me with root rot potentially.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hitting up Socal potentially
« on: December 05, 2024, 02:48:40 PM »
Exotica use to have a decent amount of rare stuff in the green houses but it got raided during covid crazy. Now has more of the common subtropical fruits and lots of mangos.

If your looking for some good genetics Ongs is good for the wax jambu, guava, lychee and longan. The prices are a little high but if your selective can get a few good trees.

Definitely stop at Mark's he is not far from Ongs. Your better off stopping at the private collectors and maybe they will want to trade or sell some plants.

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I unfortunately have not had chance to eat the Figs when ripe. The trees in FL are only visted a few times a year. It looks like a female Ficus opposita from pictures compared online. Maybe it's gynodioecy?

I do have Ficus carica that fruits and it's nearby in the ground. I verified the seedlings are a match for sand paper fig.

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Yes I have only one fruiting plant and a nearby Dark Portuguese fig that struggled along for 7 years now.

Now have multiple seedlings at the base of the tree now.


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Ficus opposita has been fruiting readily and doing well, its also self fertile, have little fig seedlings now.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Protecting my soursop
« on: November 29, 2024, 06:23:45 PM »
Must have bad genetics for cold tolerance. I have 3 soursops in PSL in ground for years and they all have their leaves still they breeze through highs 30s and will loose leaves mid to highs 30s though.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Home Depot peat moss clearance
« on: November 15, 2024, 07:43:45 PM »
I beat you to it, got 10 yesterday. I left about 4 left of promix.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tasting cattley guavas
« on: October 30, 2024, 02:10:45 PM »
I have some yellow cattely guava grown from seed. The seeds came from a superior selected larger one from Hawaii with a BRIX around 20. So far the first ripe one was snatched by wild life, another is ripening and fairly large at size of 1.5 inch.

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I want them all but not sure it’s a great time for grafting. Think you will offer these again in spring?

You can root cuttings, I would say its average difficulty to root I got close to a 30% chance.

30%!?! That’s not very good haha. I must say I haven’t done so well with rooting things, one because of neglect (just don’t have the time to baby) and two, don’t have much of a setup for rooting.

1 out of 3 is better 1 out of 10 or lower :), it can be improved I left them outdoors without bottom heat in shade. I am sure in a controlled environment with rooting hormones and a good medium its closer to +50%.

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