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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ISO Pouteria hypoglauca (Cinnamon Apple) tree or seeds.
« on: July 04, 2025, 07:12:36 AM »
Here's a seedling for $26:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4307750991/cinnamon-apple-seedling?ref=share_v4_lx

Graft on some mature woods for another $30:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/116089827094?itmmeta=01JZAJ4VQBQS55KBRFZW1QN39Q&hash=item1b077e2f16:g:RIAAAOSw3bFl5Lk6

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB - Pawpaw Cuttings
« on: July 03, 2025, 08:11:01 PM »
Hi, please let me know if you have cuttings of the following pawpaw cultivars for sale:
• Regulus
• Shensus
• Summer Delight
• Nyomi's Delicious
• Jerry's Big Girl
• Benny's Favorite

Thank you!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Bulgarian Damask rose 'Kazanlik' or 'Trigintipetala'
« on: June 27, 2025, 04:23:36 AM »
I thought Ispahan was supposed to have a wider flowering window. If this one does not have the production level worthy of growing, then Kazanlik might be even worse. Do you suppose an Autumn Damask variety is better in this regard?

Quote from: nullzero on June 26, 2025, 05:58:28 PM
Quote from: Sir Graftalot on June 24, 2025, 10:52:06 PM
Oh man! How fragrant were the flowers? Do you have the Ispahan Damask rose?

Quote from: nullzero on June 24, 2025, 08:42:29 PM
I had it, ended up tearing it out. Low production of flowers only in spring, excessive thorns, super vigorous. I have to double check the variety.

Was ispahan variety just checked my emails. The rose had a nice fragrance but with the limited production and thorns I found it not worth the space for me.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cold adapted strains of fruits?
« on: June 26, 2025, 09:44:06 AM »
I have come to the realization that a lot of the fruits grown in China can do very well here with very little effort. In my high 30F - low 40F greenhouse, all China-native plants (or those naturalized there) performed exceptionally well - loquat, yangmei, longan, wampee, che, jujube, persimmon, rose apple, guava...

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Bulgarian Damask rose 'Kazanlik' or 'Trigintipetala'
« on: June 26, 2025, 04:42:46 AM »
That sounds great. Thank you so much!

Quote from: AndrewAZ on June 26, 2025, 12:55:19 AM
Sure, it grows insanely fast, so I can send you tons of cutting.  I cannot root roses to save my life, so that I do not know.
Let's ship in the fall when temps are under the 100's out here.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Bulgarian Damask rose 'Kazanlik' or 'Trigintipetala'
« on: June 25, 2025, 12:27:04 AM »
Wow, thank you so much for the offer, but it's a bit of a travel for me since I'm all the way in New York. Would you be willing to sell me a few cuttings? Do you happen to know if they are difficult to root, btw? And thanks for the source on the Isphahan.

Quote from: AndrewAZ on June 25, 2025, 12:17:42 AM
I have something similar, autumn damask.  If you lived near me you could have it since out here it never blooms and gets huge.
I think antique rose emporium sells isphahan.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Bulgarian Damask rose 'Kazanlik' or 'Trigintipetala'
« on: June 24, 2025, 10:52:06 PM »
Oh man! How fragrant were the flowers? Do you have the Ispahan Damask rose?

Quote from: nullzero on June 24, 2025, 08:42:29 PM
I had it, ended up tearing it out. Low production of flowers only in spring, excessive thorns, super vigorous. I have to double check the variety.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB - Bulgarian Damask rose 'Kazanlik' or 'Trigintipetala'
« on: June 24, 2025, 08:04:29 PM »
Hi, anyone has a plant or rooted cuttings of the rose Damask 'Kazanlik' or 'Trigintipetala' available for sale? Thanks.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Flowering Jabo - Shout Out to Jaboticaba45
« on: June 20, 2025, 04:39:04 PM »
Nice! Good to hear. Was yours from Ryan as well?

Quote from: brian on June 20, 2025, 01:34:56 PM
I think you have a good chance at fruit, mine set fruit in first flowering

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Flowering Jabo - Shout Out to Jaboticaba45
« on: June 20, 2025, 12:59:33 PM »
Thanks again, Ryan. Fingers crossed on it actually setting fruit.

Quote from: Jaboticaba45 on June 20, 2025, 11:38:50 AM
Good to see!
Glad it is doing well for you, and I hope it sets fruit!
The scarlets tend to bloom very quickly. I even had a 1 ft tree make some buds lol.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Taking Advance Order for Seedless Krueger Finger/Cocktail Avocado
« on: June 20, 2025, 11:32:40 AM »
I guess it's not all that easy, even for Florida growers.

Quote from: Rain on June 20, 2025, 11:18:57 AM
Quote from: Sir Graftalot on June 20, 2025, 09:50:22 AM
That's the difference between growing in Florida vs. New York...super jealous.
I wraped it up with incandescent Christmas lights and cover it with towel to keep it warm since my rootstock is outside.  The temperature dropped below freezing many times in February and March. I know it's no where near as cold as New York tho. But the little heat from the lights really help in my case.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Flowering Jabo - Shout Out to Jaboticaba45
« on: June 20, 2025, 10:34:10 AM »
Two years ago, I hopped on the jabo craze and knocked on all doors asking for a mature/flowering plant (didn't have the patience for seeds/seedlings). My budget was slim because it was mostly an experiment, I didn't think I was able to grow it to fruition in my climate. However, Ryan sold me a reasonably-priced, decent-sized Escarlate and told me it could start to fruit at anytime. Now, 2 years later, I think this thing is starting to have some flower buds...so excited! A big THANK YOU to Ryan (Jaboticaba45)!!!





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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Taking Advance Order for Seedless Krueger Finger/Cocktail Avocado
« on: June 20, 2025, 09:50:22 AM »
That's the difference between growing in Florida vs. New York...super jealous.

Quote from: Rain on June 19, 2025, 10:09:16 PM
Here's mine grafted in February. It is doing well



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Taking Advance Order for Seedless Krueger Finger/Cocktail Avocado
« on: June 20, 2025, 09:46:47 AM »
My rootstock tree is by no means large. I think 1/3 of an inch sized diameter will do. Thanks again for sharing this find with the community, Kaz.

Quote from: sc4001992 on June 19, 2025, 05:29:59 PM
ok, you are on the list.

As I said, if you have a larger avocado tree, best to graft it on that one. Just tell me when you buy scions, what diameter you need to match the rootstock branch.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Taking Advance Order for Seedless Krueger Finger/Cocktail Avocado
« on: June 19, 2025, 04:11:33 PM »
Thanks for the tip Kaz. Please put me down for a cutting.

Quote from: sc4001992 on June 19, 2025, 02:49:21 PM
Sir Graftalot, maybe now is a good time for you to try again. Just make sure when you graft, use a brown paper bag for UV protection now that it is hot. The graft will grow fast if it takes. I have done many grafts last month and this month. All the grafts are growing really fast.

I even have that expensive Cannon Ball avocado scion grafted and it is now about 2 ft tall. Kinda a risk to pay so much for it, but now that it took I'm happy with my grafted Cannon Ball. Hope it fruits next year so I can compare the fruit with my Marcus Pumpkin grafted branches on the same tree.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Taking Advance Order for Seedless Krueger Finger/Cocktail Avocado
« on: June 19, 2025, 01:20:10 PM »
The Krueger cuttings didn't work out for me unfortunately. It's been months, still no sign of life; the rootstock branch has dried out. The cuttings I received were super fresh and healthy, I think it was bad timing when I did the grafts. Temps were in the 20sF outside and I had to lug my plant in. However, I would love to have another go at it though.





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: i have an addiction to online ordering of tropical fruit trees
« on: June 19, 2025, 09:23:46 AM »
I said I was going to stop a year and a thousand $ or so richer ago. At least it's a fruitful addition. Could have been something worse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Garcinia sp - Luc's seeds available - no more fruit
« on: June 09, 2025, 08:34:50 PM »
Thanks again for the opportunity to sample this fruit, Brandon. Some were super sweet while others were sour as lemon - all really tasty. Reminded me of loquats.






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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Garcinia sp - Luc's fruit $40 shipped in Small USPS priority box and seeds
« on: June 03, 2025, 11:15:50 AM »
PM sent

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tropical Fruits in NYC
« on: May 27, 2025, 07:45:23 PM »
I agree. Queen is where they be these days. Brooklyn probably has the least in terms of selection.

Quote from: nofspeppers on May 27, 2025, 02:48:42 PM
Nice that loquats are starting to come in here again! I have a lot of good spots in flushing (queens) that have significantly more variety than manhattan chinatown. You can still buy whole durians both in flushing and bk chinatown. They're not my thing so I can't tell you how good they are. I'll have to take a look this week and see what's there.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tropical Fruits in NYC
« on: May 25, 2025, 02:19:38 PM »
$25 sounds about right for a whole frozen durian - haven't met one I didn't like as of yet. Saw some wampee for sale too ($14/lb)...not worth it, IMO.

Quote from: ben mango on May 25, 2025, 02:20:14 AM
It’s too bad the one guy who was importing whole durians from Malaysia and Thailand isn’t in business anymore. He was off canal street. Last time i was there I found someone who had fresh Thai d but the taste was bad. Frozen Malaysian is the way if you’re ok with spending 25-40

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tropical Fruits in NYC
« on: May 24, 2025, 10:26:58 PM »
Gotten my stuff in Brooklyn. Will make an attempt to Chinatown over the weekend to see what's out there.

Quote from: Jaboticaba45 on May 24, 2025, 08:42:09 PM
I was just in NYC
Visited canal street
Seller there had sweethearts for $30 a lb
Got some Mauritius lychee
Orange jackfruit
Wax jambu
Moi has a lot of good stuff
Canal and mulberry street intersection (my connection says she’s the best seller there)😀


I’ll be posting a YT short soon!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Tropical Fruits in NYC
« on: May 24, 2025, 05:36:31 PM »
Loquat $6.99/lb (looks to be Big Jim type); jackfruit $1.99/lb; atemoya $14/lb - fruits I can now X out of my garden and save room for other stuff. For some reason, lychee is $23/lb, I used to get them here for $2/lb. Must be some special variety...too rich for my blood.









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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Szygium luehmannii or Syzgium australe cuttings
« on: May 19, 2025, 04:47:47 PM »
Great! Thank you. Can you describe the fruit a little, a picture or two would be great, if you have them.


Quote from: elouicious on May 19, 2025, 01:57:47 PM
I can get australe cuttings

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB - Szygium luehmannii or Syzgium australe cuttings
« on: May 19, 2025, 01:47:47 PM »
Hi everyone, please let me know if you have fruited-wood cuttings of tasty cultivars of Riberry/Small Leafed Lilly Pilly (Szygium luehmannii) or Creek Lilly Pilly (Syzgium australe) - preferably the former. Thanks.

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