The Tropical Fruit Forum

It’s good to do it yourself! Polycarbonate is nice, but at least doubles or triples the greenhouse cost all together. I was able to get large sq ft for good price by saying no to polycarbonate.
It took me and my dad like two months of on and off work to get the greenhouse up. It’s a major job!

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Well you got the Mendelian genetics with the peas of Gregor Mendel. Pretty cool concept.

Hi all, I've been trying to find a couple of these trees for two years. I can't believe I missed out on the group buy again.

Does anyone know where I can get a couple without waiting another year? I have been stratifying some seeds for a few months but forgot to add water. Ugh!

Myself and others are grafting trees. If you want one now, Revivalroots has some for sale.

After seeing the mold atemoya thread and having personal questions about the best way to send scions, this thread is going up. It’s been discussed before, but it’s nice to have all the info in one place.
Please chime in with what your take on sending scions is.
I’ll go first,
No wet paper towels. I’ve thrown out lots of stuff just cause they were moldy. Literally the scions were soaked and dripping water.
I’ve noticed best way to send is wrapped in parafilm or buddy tape. It’s also an act of courtesy so the receiver doesn’t have to do it. Wrapping them and putting in a plastic bag is enough. I’ve also received scions in a plastic bag with no wrap. This also seems to work. Jaboticaba and avocado were great looking after that treatment.
Scions with high sap content I’d recommend to keep a bit moist. I’ve had jackfruit and cempedak scions dry out super fast. To keep a bit moist, I’ll wrap them or just place them in a bag with a moist paper towel. I squeeze ALL the water out to make sure they don’t mold. This is on top of the scions being wrapped.

Preparing-
When preparing scions, choose branches that have not pushed new growth if possible. Buds that are larger are nice to choose. Just don’t choose too late or else it doesn’t work either. Choose branches with the most upright growth if possible. This really comes into play with garcinia. Other trees, it’s fine.

Storing -
I’ve found that the fridge can work well by storing scions. Just don’t let them freeze. Be smart. Also keep in mind certain types of scions last longer than others. Rule is if you can graft it sooner, it’s better when it comes to tropical fruits.


Please feel free to add on your advice and comments. Do you agree or disagree with what I’m saying? I’d love to hear.

Statistics is rad! Wish I paid more attention in high school but really loved taking a Bio statistics course and doing a thesis studying the evolutionary biology of serpentine endemic plants. Learned to really love statistics. You can really learn a lot.   Collect more variables and you could run a couple of different analysis to see if there were other factors that contributed to plant survival. Cool to see this, good work!

Bio statistics seems really cool! I'm going to look more into stats. I realized that statistics can be useful in everyday life more than I thought it would.
I'll try to see what info I can draw from the data.



Thank you to the 5 people who responded! As always, the larger the sample size, the more accurate the result. If you have a spare 3 minutes to fill it out, I encourage you to!

After tasting the most common ones, and a few rare ones that only a few have tasted, I can say one of the best ones are
sabara and grimal. Sabara just has that nice flavor you can't find anywhere else. Grimal is good and tastes just like a good muscadine. Not the puny ones in FL, but the ones up here. I know people do recommend coronata restinga, but I haven't gotten to try that one yet.

I know there are a lot of yellow plinias out there like rara, clausa, edulis, inflata etc. And I'm sure there are people who can chime in on those tastes. Except for edulis, the only way to try them is go to South America...I like the cambuca taste, but just nothing shocking about it.

If the tree is mature...you can also try girdling the trunk to stress it to flower...Be warned though you could damage or even kill the tree if not done properly.

Hey! I'm taking statistics class right now and it's always cool to see how data and stuff works.
I've made a short survey about your success rates on this yangmei order. This is to help benefit the community for future group buys - we will see what techniques led to the best turnout of success. Individual data will not be shared, sold, or distributed  . This means that we will not know that Jaboticaba45 got 5 and lost all 5... Only the data as a whole will be presented right back to the forum to further the yangmei quest. Based off the data, we may be able to draw conclusions on how to better revive bareroot yangmei.
Here's the link to the survey -
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxHkYHM6yxp33tqOrZmY_7tDbhNI3dbv1BHoT3kTPBRpoXqw/viewform?usp=sf_link
If you have any questions, please let me know!

Quote from: Tropical7B on March 20, 2023, 08:56:18 PM

I think I'm gonna call it done after a Russell or two for the Garcinias.

honestly you should be 3-4 russells at minimum since they're dioecious. Unless you can get someone to sell you make female scions.

Lance,
do you know of anyone with a fruiting tree in HI? Or confirmed male or female?

Palologrower had some seeds. He might have some for sale now? Probably all sold out.
I also had some seeds. But they are all gone.

3 packs left of giant red crystal.
We don't normally do this, but you can expect extra seeds if you order the giant red crystal. We never were going to sell it, but ended up and so the stock kinda was off. So, if you order, you can expect around 8+ seeds.

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