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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Searching for your favorite passion fruit - cuttings or plant
« on: June 25, 2025, 02:40:33 AM »
Revivalroots, the purplish color on the outer part of your passion flower petals makes me think it's a hybrid; and probably self sterile. Pure edulis is white on the outer part.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Anomaly Jaboticaba seeds+ Others
« on: May 10, 2025, 03:11:48 AM »
Your orange skin lemon drop mangosteen, do you know which species it is?  I've heard of at least 4 Garcinia species referred to with the common name of lemondrop mangosteen.  (Madruno, intermedia, brasiliensis, gardneriana)

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB: Cas guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
« on: April 20, 2025, 01:15:01 AM »
Those

Quote from: Pnwguy90 on April 15, 2025, 06:39:10 PM
Quote from: BenjaminJohnson on April 15, 2025, 10:22:56 AM
I've been growing a Cas guava in the Seattle area for 6 years or so.  Plant is about 5 feet tall, has been flowering for a couple of years, but doesn't set any fruit.  Guessing it might need a pollination partner for that.  I was informed it was cold hardy to below freezing, but I'm starting to doubt that claim because it started to decline and dieback when temperatures stay below 50F.  If you're interested to see what it looks like, I did make a short video:  https://youtube.com/shorts/mgDmPvc3y1g?si=q7qXIkl2gXlZ2-mp

Thanks for the video! Is that a budding fruit towards the end of the video, above the branch you were holding?


Those buds in the video were actually just flower buds coming out.  The tree didn't set any fruit at all.  Probably will need a companion for it to get fruit set. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - CA fresh loquat fruit shipped to WA
« on: April 15, 2025, 10:40:41 AM »
Thanks so much for letting me know.  I did just hear a rumor that a new Asian supermarket in my town might be selling fresh loquat fruit soon, so I'll explore that option first.  Thanks again!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB: Cas guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
« on: April 15, 2025, 10:22:56 AM »
I've been growing a Cas guava in the Seattle area for 6 years or so.  Plant is about 5 feet tall, has been flowering for a couple of years, but doesn't set any fruit.  Guessing it might need a pollination partner for that.  I was informed it was cold hardy to below freezing, but I'm starting to doubt that claim because it started to decline and dieback when temperatures stay below 50F.  If you're interested to see what it looks like, I did make a short video:  https://youtube.com/shorts/mgDmPvc3y1g?si=q7qXIkl2gXlZ2-mp


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB - CA fresh loquat fruit shipped to WA
« on: April 13, 2025, 02:06:44 AM »
Anyone selling fresh loquat fruit in CA?  I'm in WA and interested to buy a box shipped to me. Thank you!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: would anyone be interested in trading tropical fruit for yummy northern berries?
« on: March 20, 2025, 04:48:53 PM »
There's a guy with a booth at the local farmer's market near University of Washington (Seattle) that forages and sells wild mushrooms, seaweed, and various wild berries. Not cheap for sure, but he has lots of really rare and cool fresh products from the local forests. I think he might even ship.  I found his website:  http://www.foragedandfoundedibles.com

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Cuttings Eugenia,Cherimoya,Feijoa,Figs,Jaboticaba,White Sapote,Cherimoya seeds.
« on: March 04, 2025, 11:26:08 PM »
Very impressive Annona collection!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Cherimoya Scion Sale $4: Dream, Selma, Chaffey, Inca Red , Dr. White , El Bumpo
« on: March 02, 2025, 10:36:15 PM »
Inca Red, is it a hybrid?  Thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Vasconcellea Goudotiana seeds
« on: February 23, 2025, 02:11:21 AM »
I'd be interested.  Thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Seedless "Krueger" Finger Avocado fruits & Scions
« on: February 11, 2025, 12:04:55 AM »
Here's a video of the finger avocado. https://youtu.be/iyJ1q-PAuW8?si=FACvTim5yUBOuJUu

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Guabiju Seed & Scion Sale
« on: January 25, 2025, 07:06:53 PM »
My guaybiju is 7 years old, 6 feet tall, and has flowered for two years in a row, but hasn't set a fruit. Does in need a pollination partner or grafting a branch onto it?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pouteria Arguacoensium & Pouteria Salicifolia
« on: January 14, 2025, 12:34:10 AM »
I've been growing Pouteria salicifolia for about a year, mostly outdoors.  Seems to tolerate being out in some occasionally frosty weather and a couple of months of temperatures mostly in the 30-50 F range.  I made a short video, in case anyone is interested.  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Ay3uIN9ifs


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wanderlust nursery
« on: October 16, 2024, 09:22:55 PM »
I've been a long time friend of Matt, actually from before he officially started his nursery.  We're both in the Seattle area.  He has many very interesting plants and some of my largest and nicest plants in my collection originally came from him as small seedlings from years ago.  A very knowledgeable plant scholar that I've learned a lot from. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for lucuma scions
« on: August 31, 2024, 02:14:53 AM »
Has anyone grafted lucuma on canistel rootstock successfully?  (Does it work?)

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB - Fruited Wood Cuttings of Olosapo, Silber KeiApple, Male Yangmei, WaxJambu
« on: August 16, 2024, 02:39:31 AM »
I could use a mature olosapo cutting to graft onto my seedlings as well. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Cheena and Escalarte seeds
« on: August 13, 2024, 01:58:28 AM »
Looks amazing!  Would be cool to see the Escalarte fruits if you happen to have a picture, too.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: mammy plants with phytosanitory certificate
« on: August 08, 2024, 02:05:27 AM »
American or African Mammea?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB jamun scions
« on: May 13, 2024, 03:03:22 AM »
At fruit and spice park in Homestead, FL, there are some massive jamun trees draping over the parking lot and dropping of thousands of berries. I recall the flavor was pretty good, sweet and tart, similar to an almost ripe blackberry.  I'm growing a few seedlings from that 2021 trip and they're very fast growers.   


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WANTED Miracle Berry tree adapted to CA.
« on: May 13, 2024, 02:29:41 AM »
I'll chime in again.  Just a couple of things I do, I try to repot almost all my plants about once a year.  Basically pull them out of the pot, and if the roots aren't completely filled in yet, I tap the root ball and remove some excess mix, typically about a third to half, mostly on the bottom where it's more sludgy and mucky.   I then will repot the plant with fresh peat and a generous amount of perlite (10-20%) and holly tone fertilizer for good drainage and soil acidity, which seems to keep them healthier.  I use excess soil removed from repotted plants for garden raised bed filler or mulching plants outside. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WANTED Miracle Berry tree adapted to CA.
« on: May 11, 2024, 12:25:11 AM »
They're easy to grow from seed.  I got about 50% germination.  I have a couple trees (not for sale) that made fruit after about 2 years grown from seed.  They're about 3 years old now and have lots of flowers.  I'm in WA and they've adapted well to my greenhouse and summer climate.  If you're interested to see mine, I made a short video last month.  https://youtu.be/ZhjVWqq0J8I?si=twCo85HG4XBDPZhB

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Sylvia Guava Cuttings #3
« on: March 14, 2024, 02:33:26 AM »
Really nice coloring.  Is it pink flesh on the inside?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: SOLD Cinnamon seeds "Pouteria Hypoglauca" 6 fresh seeds for $35 shipped Sold
« on: March 11, 2024, 01:44:45 AM »
I tasted some freshly picked cinnamon apple in the Fruit and Spice park, Miami area a couple years ago.  Delicious fruit, to me it had a sweet bread taste, almost like eating a plain donut. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Ruby red longan scions (from fruiting tree) for sale
« on: March 10, 2024, 09:44:19 PM »
I'm late to this party, but would be interested in a Ruby red Longan scion if another becomes available. Thanks! Benjamin Johnson

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Fresh Garcinia Humilis seeds (Achacha,Achachairu,Bolivian Mangosteen)
« on: March 06, 2024, 05:01:52 AM »
No, I don't have more seeds. That was almost 3 years ago.

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