The Tropical Fruit Forum

Lama aka Diospyros sandwicensis

small fruit and mostly seed but doesn't taste too bad when I had it.

Pretty tree

Please let me know when you get more seeds 

Where are you shipping from?

Sapote can refer to many individual fruits. Do you mean black sapote, diospyros nigra?

Are these seeds from Hilo DFAW Arboretum?

Never see the durian or the lecythis fruiting there...

Are you sure its Aeae? The leaves look much different compared to ours.

I was weeding around one of my Imbe trees that we planted about 6 months ago and I noticed some Imbe leaves on the ground. I thought I had broken off the end of a branch somehow but upon closer inspection I realized part of the long taproot that somehow got severed (I think we cut it because I left it in the pot too long) had sprouted a new plant.

I pulled up the remaining piece of the root and there was a good 2 feet of it. I cut it up into about 6 inch long sections and put the unsprouted pieces in a tray with some potting mix in the hopes they'll sprout as well. I was under the impression that Garcinia species have weaker root systems so I wasn't expecting to see this.

Picture of the root shoot below.

They basically grow as a weed on our property here on Hawaii. I couldn't give advice for mainland care though.

I thought it was regular ginger and I tasted one of the root.

Would not recommend. So soapy.

Edit: According to this you have to eat the root at the right time and place, ill have to give it another go
https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Zingiber+zerumbet

Man I was just telling the guy helping with our foundation how insanely jealous I am of Joe

I'm 5/5 GPF's Cuban No Grit sugar apple seeds. I just used a metal file (like $3 from the hardware store) to scrape the ends a bit, soaked them in water overnight and then stuck them in some soil and placed the pot on my screened porch. It's been about a month and all five seedlings are a few inches tall.

I usually just scrape them on some concrete. Seems less fiddly than a file or sandpaper.

I germinated black walnut easy just moist potting mix. Might be as easy but can't say, good luck! Oscar at fruitlovers might have some insight

Oscar said the shell on Juglans Neotropica is substantially harder than Juglans Nigra

Make some "mosquito bits" tea and water with it, it'll get rid of your fungus gnat issue 100%! Your set up looks great! Itll be cool to see what happens with the grafted mangosteen indoors.

I tried mosquito bits and neem cake and spinosad and they always ended up coming back. Not sure if they came back in from outside since they are ubiquitous here. The only thing that really helped was getting rid of all my mother plants.