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No need to pay me for shipping - postage on an envelope isn't much.    I will try to pack it in a ziplock bag with some moisture etc. 

JackfruitChan2, that's great to know; I'll probably just label #1 as "Either cherimoya or rollinia," and I guess that won't really change who is interested in the plants anyway. 

Artocarpus, I hadn't heard that.  Once the plants have a few more leaves, that gives me something to try.

I recently tried a few annonas (cherimoya, soursop, rollinia) and planted their seeds in pots with moist soil and no other help (no heat mats, room humidity <=40%).  I was not counting on anything germinating (oops!), so I didn't label them.  To my surprise, seeds from two of the fruits have sprouted!  Enough came up that I would like to give some away at an upcoming Christmas party, but neither I nor Google Lens has yet been able to identify which is which.  Any help would be appreciated.

Species #1:






Species #2:

My Nelita CORG that I got from Kevin Jones a couple of months ago recently started flushing growth, but I noticed these brown leaves just now.  Any ideas why?  I have been giving it tap water - could that be the issue?

Thanks for the input!  I would like to grow probably one annona (or maybe two).  I have limited room indoors to grow trees, so I can't grow too many.  I figure I'll try as many as I can to try to figure out what I might want to grow (also, I would be happy to take a well-timed vacation to somewhere where they are somewhat readily available).   

Glad to hear that sugar apple might actually work okay in a container.  I have planted most of the seeds from fruits that I've tried, so maybe some of the sugar apple seeds will sprout.  If too many do, I'll probably give away the extras.  On a related note, does custard apple grow well in pots? 

I haven't used these pots before - I got them for these trees.    I saw FlyingFoxFruits mention "air pruning pots," and these came up when I searched for that term.  They're supposed to work like fabric pots in that they keep the roots developing into a dense root ball instead of circling the perimeter of the pot.  The advantage (I think) of these over fabric is that they have less surface area that's open to air, so the soil doesn't completely dry out as easily.  Colorado air is not humid at all, so fabric pots can dry out the soil maybe too much.  Hopefully they are happy for long enough to fruit!  I guess it'll probably take a couple of years for most of those to fruit?

I ordered three plants (Garnet, Topaz, Uvaia) and Kevin shipped me two extra (Red Jaboticaba and Nelita).  They all arrived well-packaged and healthy-looking.  Kevin was extremely responsive in all communications.  Thanks, Kevin!
 


PS: I realize that I am in Colorado, notably not the likeliest successful growing environment.  I will possibly make a post documenting my experiment (growing these and a few others indoors). 

I have had a wick-watering pot lying around for a while, so 4-5 months ago I planted some ginger and turmeric that I got from the grocery store.  They are sitting in an east-facing window.  They have been low maintenance (water the pot every couple of weeks) and are pretty happy.  In the same pot, I also planted some basil that's a bit scrawny, but also pretty heavily picked.



Since the rhizomes seem to be doing pretty well, I decided to repeat the endeavor with similar plants.  I recently saw aframomum angustifolium on FlyingFoxFruits' website.  It seems really cool: One plant that grows ~ginger, ~passionfruit, AND ~cardamom and maybe also is easy to grow?!  After ordering the 4 remaining pieces (and giving a couple away to friends), I just today planted them in the same type of containers.  I used Happy Frog potting soil with a little bit of azomite.  That was probably a little overkill, but that's okay as long as the plants are happy. 





I found this thread that discusses grains of paradise, but some people seemed to have difficulty getting it to fruit: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=25799.0#:~:text=In%20researching%20the%20edible%20species%20of%20the%20greater Imagining myself in 6-12 months, I wonder whether there is anything that I can do now to improve the chances of getting fruit.  Does anyone have recommendations for getting this plant to produce fruit more reliably, e.g., using different potting soil, fertilize in a particular way, etc.?

Thanks!