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Plenty of people don't even believe sweet ones exist. I've gotten one sweet one, and around five sour ones from seed, though one of those did recently start to improve. But the sweet one was planted in-ground, so maybe growing conditions are responsible.I guess what I am asking is what is the practical difference between the grafted and non-grafted plants you are selling?Most pitangatubas are sour. Kevin is selling a sweet selection.
Really? All the ones I have grown from seed are pretty sweet. I wonder if their flavor is dependent on climate.
I guess what I am asking is what is the practical difference between the grafted and non-grafted plants you are selling?Most pitangatubas are sour. Kevin is selling a sweet selection.
hmm i thought they were like Artocarpus size, maybe I should revisitThere's an Artocarpus-like genus with a similar name from Central America. Maybe you're thinking of that. Tradewinds sold it, had this neat looking brown lumpy annona-like fruit.
I think it was a combo of overwatering and planting the seedlings upside down (they were sprouted in the bag, hard to tell what was root and what was shoot)
I asked the APHIS guys at the Honolulu airport if I would've been allowed to bring fruit or seeds in carry-on if they inspected them. They gave me a weird answer about there's only two fruits you can take, pineapple and something else. But then I asked, so I can bring pineapples on the plane? And they said no. At least that's how I remember it. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I think there may be some special rule for pineapples.Not sure about soilless plants, but I was allowed to bring fruit & tops through the airport, with inspection, so I would expect it to be similar, or worst case cut off the roots. I brought home a carry-on full of the Kauai sugarloafs (fruits) a couple years ago, plus the tops I had twisted off the ones we'd eaten over there, and the airport Ag inspector totally understood why someone would do thatOnly took him a couple minutes to go over them.
Plus coconuts and durians are the only fruits I can think of you can take out of the state with inspection. Otherwise only plants and seeds with inspection. No fruits
IIRC rivularis is compatible with edulis, which is compatible with sabara. But rivularis was already considered part of some other genus, not Plinia, last I checked. Something starting with an N or M. Inflata is compatible with sabara too I believe Bellamy showed.Mike, did you hear the news about the plinia genus being broken up?
Plinia sp caipirinha was recently named Guapurium caipirinha
Also some species are moving to myrciariopsis.
Plinia will still exist, but many plants will move genus names.
I was wondering about this and how it would affect grafting plinias. I heard Plinia rivularis is staying in the
plinia genus. Does this mean it's impossible to graft rivularis to Sabara, or what I assume is going to be
Guapurium jaboticaba? Has anyone successfully done this? I can't imagine Plinia edulis is going to stay in
the same genus as Sabara, but there have been successful grafts of these two plants, although I hear they
can have issues surviving long term.
12Zodiac, yes those are flowers. Congrats!
We don't need all cattle or no cattle. Those are extremes.Does Antarctica need cattle? Does the Amazon? Do they need to cover every inch of this planet? Why is not wanting non-native herbivores an extreme position?
Humans and their livestock represent 96% of all mammals on earth in terms of biomass, whereas all wild mammals represent only 4% https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Distribution-of-earths-mammals.png
Nate, that is a pretty neat chart. Thank you for sharing! I also enjoyed the sample budget for a cow calf operation that Kevin shared. I do want to make sure that I am respectful of you and your position. So, thank you also for stating how you feel about my comments. I don't think Antartica needs any more cows at this time.
We don't need all cattle or no cattle. Those are extremes.Does Antarctica need cattle? Does the Amazon? Do they need to cover every inch of this planet? Why is not wanting non-native herbivores an extreme position?
We need more cattle not less. Government policies are moving to more crop growing and less cattle when it has been proven to lead to more water usage and desertification:QuoteLivestock are not part of the solution but vital to reversing desertification. Let me explain. Desertification is the end result of the available rainfall becoming increasingly less effective. It is occurring to varying degrees in vast regions of the world where atmospheric humidity is erratic due to rainfall that is seasonal in nature. Throughout history people have associated desertification with overgrazing by too many livestock. This deep belief has assumed scientific validity and I too fell into that trap and published papers that today are embarrassing to me.
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/reversing-desertification-with-livestock
Pretty interesting article from Allan Savory how not actively putting livestock on the land is causing more water to be used and desertificatoin:
https://blog.ted.com/fighting-the-growing-deserts-with-livestock-allan-savory-at-ted2013/
