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Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles / Re: Garlic
« on: September 24, 2023, 09:14:33 PM »
My only garlic plant flowered and turn to black seeds.  What you guys think of growing them from seeds?

Go for it. Garlic greens can be eaten lile chives, so you will get something to eat out of it for sure.

Thank you

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Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles / Re: Garlic
« on: September 21, 2023, 10:25:22 PM »
My only garlic plant flowered and turn to black seeds.  What you guys think of growing them from seeds?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mango fruit ID
« on: September 21, 2023, 03:02:23 AM »
Does anyone know what variety of this mango?  Every single mango on the tree has a little bump sticking out at the bottom




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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Asian Persimmon - this season crops
« on: September 06, 2023, 12:34:18 AM »
Thank you: Janet and Kaz   It is the  first year Saijo giving me fruits after grafted 2 years ago.  I will try to dry them whole "hoshikaki style"  and see how good they taste. 

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I'm surprised noone mentioned all the hot seedless guava variety on the market. I grow a few of them - Thai ruby seedless guava, Thai seedless, Taiwanese ruby seedless, Taiwanese seedless






Greenpasteur,  can you post a picture of the leaves of the rounded guava fruit in picture#2?  How big is the leaf?  Thanks

Here are two variety on one tree I grafted. The round Taiwanese ruby seedless guava leaves is on the right


It has a very big leaves. Bigger than Taiwanese white seedless

Thank you.  Mine is about a year old growing from seed.  The leaves are very big, wavy, and purplerish in color.  Very nice foliage.  The fruit I got the seeds from looks similar to yours but almost twice as big.  It contains 4-5 seeds

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Asian Persimmon - this season crops
« on: September 05, 2023, 04:43:30 PM »
I did get those saijo fruits shown in the photos from Janet who says it is the best. I tasted it when it softened and it was excellent. I usually never like to eat the Hachiya (eat very soft- astringent) but the Saijo was good and I could eat that one soft. I also dehydrated the Saijo and they tasted much sweeter than the Fuyu.

Did you dehydrated Saijo while it was ripen soft or at firm stage?  Thank you

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I'm surprised noone mentioned all the hot seedless guava variety on the market. I grow a few of them - Thai ruby seedless guava, Thai seedless, Taiwanese ruby seedless, Taiwanese seedless






Greenpasteur,  can you post a picture of the leaves of the rounded guava fruit in picture#2?  How big is the leaf?  Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: who's still eating mango every day?
« on: September 04, 2023, 11:52:03 PM »
We had so much mangoes this year , I was able to fill my freezer with mango pulp , should last me mist if the year Guava & Mango smoothies 👍🏼

I dehydrated 8 baggies full but my wife keeps eating it
My plan was to have some at Christmas but I am down to 1 1/2 bags now.

Thought you still have quite a few NDM hanging on the tree.  Are they all eaten up?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee harvest
« on: September 04, 2023, 11:48:04 PM »
The last time I saw Brad’s trees, I was surprised at how well they were growing.  I can’t seem to get mine kick started and I live in a similar climate.  I have killed a ton of seedlings and had no luck with air layers.  I’m probably planting them when they’re too small even though I have them under shade cloth.  Or fertilizing them wrong.  Whatever, I’m going to keep trying because I want raw fingers from peeling so many Brewster lychees. 
Lychees have to be one of the most beautiful trees when full of ripe fruit. Nice haul Spaugh!

I think soil media plays a very big role for growing any kind of trees especially fruit trees.  Brad's land is probably has very fertile soil, consists mainly of granite rocks.  Those rocks have a lots of mineral especially Phosporous which promote root growth and fruit settings.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Asian Persimmon - this season crops
« on: September 04, 2023, 09:52:49 PM »
kaz, what do you think of Saijo persimmon?   does it make great dried?

thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Happy donut day
« on: June 04, 2023, 09:20:56 PM »
Mango any day...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is my M4 a M4?
« on: June 04, 2023, 09:16:59 PM »
great way to mulch.  Is it some kind of rug?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help save my Pim Sen Mun
« on: May 31, 2023, 02:40:42 PM »
I am Thai and the Thais enjoy eating this variety green.  Best way to enjoy it is to peel off the skin, cut into wedged shape, and then dip each piece into salt+crush dried chili and little sugar each bite.
You can substitute dried chili with fresh chopped up Thai chili, which is better tasting

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yes, air layer works fine like other fruit trees.

Thanks Kaz

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Tagging onto this convo, I'm wondering if people have prunus mume scionwood. I'd love to add some varieties onto my kanko bai.

How big are the fruits of your kanko bai?  I am interested in grafting a prunus mume onto my peach tree perhaps to make some Japanese style preserved plum(umeboshi). Thanks

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Will air layering work on loquat?

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Nate, the shape matches some of the Vista White fruits I have seen from nursery and locally. But I'm not sure why some people who grow this variety say the fruit size is small to medium. My fruits are always on the large size. I'll post photo of the I took yesterday of this tree.



Wow the fruits are very big.  How many seeds inside this loquat variety.?  Does any of the loquat variety contain just a single seed?  Friend of mine told me his tree used to have fruits with only one seed from each fruits for years.  Now they have 2 to 3 seeds

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What pineapple guava should i grow?
« on: May 03, 2023, 01:17:30 PM »
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Can anyone confirm that pineapple guava can be grafted on regular guava and vise versa?

Doubt it would work. The wood is very different. I don't really see why you would try to graft feijoa to guajava when feijoa is so much more cold hardy, and stout growing. They are straight up bulletproof. My feijoa didn't even blink under snow and weeks of frosty nights, my guajava lost almost 2' of growth during that time.

Now, guajava on feijoa could be interesting, but again, pretty far off wood wise. Feijoa stays wooden whereas guava gets that kinda peeling bark.

I have a limited space.  Besides that I am not too fond with pineapple guava, only can eat a few of the fruits.  It is also not on my must to have lists.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What pineapple guava should i grow?
« on: May 03, 2023, 12:54:44 AM »
Can anyone confirm that pineapple guava can be grafted on regular guava and vise versa?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulberry Fruit Comparison
« on: May 03, 2023, 12:46:21 AM »
My Persian one just started to wake up a couple of days ago.  My Pakistanian woke up 3 weeks earlier.  They are both on the same tree with Pakistanian rootstock

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: how true-to-seed is true-to-seed?
« on: May 02, 2023, 06:41:15 PM »
I started Florida honey tangerine from seed.  It took 10 years to flower and fruit.   This is its 3rd year to fruit.  Fruits are only a third of its parent's size and have lots of seeds.  Flavor was good

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulberry Fruit Comparison
« on: May 02, 2023, 06:18:02 PM »
It may be two different sources. One is the correct one.

I grow the Persian mulberry, look at my list at the first post which I updated today. I just don't have any fruits yet, but the person who gave me the cuttings says its got the best flavor of all his mulberry. He lives in San Diego and get fruits on his tree, but mine does not have any flowers or fruits yet. Do you grow the Persian?

Yes, a Persian friend gave me a small plant propagated from her tree 2 years back.  It's growing very slow.   Last Fall I took a scion from it and grafted onto a branch of my Pakistan.  The graft is starting to leaf out now.  I heard Persian mulberry supposes to have the best, but create a mess when dropping on the ground since it is extremely juicy

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulberry Fruit Comparison
« on: May 02, 2023, 05:54:32 PM »
Ana's Siam jumbo fruits look totally different from Janet's.   Nobody grows Persian mulberry in his collections?  No one mentioned this variety

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulberry Fruit Comparison
« on: May 02, 2023, 01:37:37 PM »
Kaz, since you are growing the most varieties, which of them has the most aroma when eaten?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulberry Fruit Comparison
« on: April 30, 2023, 08:52:36 PM »
The thai dwarf is ripening here.  My chickens eat them all though which is fine.  I got the other red himalayan setting fruit this year so I can compare the 2 himalayans.  Should be pretty soon.

I bet the eggs your chickens produced are extremely delicious.  Are they free range?

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