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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: AKME Gardens 2021 - Loquat Listings (Scions, Custom Grafting Services and more)
« on: September 23, 2023, 12:11:08 AM »
I also filed a report with the Alabama AG and had a similar experience, they emailed me today as well. They are requesting individuals that had similar issues with non-refund/non-delivery of order contact them. This is their contact below. They request contact by email or phone.

Crystal J. Vaughn
Public Protection Specialist
Crystal.Vaughn@alabamaag.gov
Office of the Attorney General
State of Alabama
501 Washington Avenue
Post Office Box 300152
Montgomery, AL 36130
334-353-8923 Office
334-353-8400 Fax

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: AKME Gardens 2021 - Loquat Listings (Scions, Custom Grafting Services and more)
« on: September 22, 2023, 07:20:40 AM »
Same. Very unexpected.
I still think the whole thing was/is extremely fishy, but at this point, whatever.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: AKME Gardens 2021 - Loquat Listings (Scions, Custom Grafting Services and more)
« on: April 05, 2023, 08:25:22 PM »
Quote from: johnb51 on April 05, 2023, 09:56:37 AM
I think he was well-intentioned but got in over his head.  And when the bills and the debt build up, you got no money to pay back anyone unfortunately.  I've seen someone close to me go into bankruptcy with a small business.  He owed/owes me many tens of thousands of dollars (and I'm not a rich man).

Maybe, but IMO you cross the line when you continue to attempt to sell your goods/services when you haven't delivered in the past. That's when it crosses into scam territory that I don't think there's any excuse for.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: AKME Gardens 2021 - Loquat Listings (Scions, Custom Grafting Services and more)
« on: April 04, 2023, 05:27:49 PM »
Apologies for bumping this very old post, but I want to re-warn again against this nursery. They are a scam business and you will not get your order or money back.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Thoughts on 9waters?
« on: January 11, 2023, 12:36:35 AM »
Their plants are always perfect. Agree they are a little expensive.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: AKME Gardens 2021 - Loquat Listings (Scions, Custom Grafting Services and more)
« on: June 07, 2022, 06:01:13 PM »
Same, ordered January 2021. Calling, emailing, terrible communication. Going to have to initiate a credit card dispute.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Odds & Sods - Plants For Sale
« on: May 06, 2022, 09:35:51 PM »
Received a ridiculously healthy Cherry of the Rio Grande in literally a day. Will probably buy again in the future, soon!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Unhardening off
« on: January 04, 2022, 10:32:17 PM »
I had to move my tropicals into the garage because of the cold front this week. How long does it take before plants typically lose their sunlight resistance and need to be hardened off before going back outside?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Bali salak seedlings
« on: December 12, 2021, 09:52:03 PM »
Do you know what cultivar it is?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selling Seeds: Sabara, PB fruit, Inga, Ruby & Egypt Guava, White longan, Biriba
« on: December 03, 2021, 12:51:28 PM »
I got 100% germination rate on my abiu seeds, fingers crossed that I can keep the seedlings alive.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Lara Farms opened a webpage
« on: October 22, 2021, 05:43:13 PM »
Are you planning on selling grafted mamey sapote and/or green sapote anytime soon?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Germinating ilama seeds
« on: September 15, 2021, 03:55:09 PM »
Does have some useful information, thank you. I'm also looking for advice on ideal potting soil mixes.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Germinating ilama seeds
« on: September 15, 2021, 02:34:47 PM »
Got some ilama seeds. Was wondering about recommendations on how to germinate them, since I seem to have been unsuccessful germinating sugar apple seeds in the past. Usually favor coir-based mix, I've been using "Koko Bop" from Fox Farms with generally pretty good results for most of my tropicals/subtropicals, but it didn't seem to work in this case.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Coatepec Red and Pink ilamas seeds available
« on: August 10, 2021, 06:20:12 PM »
PM sent.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wildlands Farm and Nursery Stock Updates: Pouterias, Psidiums and more!
« on: July 28, 2021, 10:43:09 PM »
Quote from: SilverSapote on July 28, 2021, 10:27:19 PM
My green sapote arrived today without a scratch. Like RGVgardener, I've been waiting two years to acquire a seedling. Thank you.



Ditto. Mine looked perfect today also.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wildlands Farm and Nursery Stock Updates: Pouterias, Psidiums and more!
« on: July 27, 2021, 01:47:08 PM »
I bought a green sapote from you after looking for one for 2 years, hope that it arrives safe and sound.

Any chance you are going to start selling seeds as well?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sourcing Luc's Garcinia
« on: July 11, 2021, 02:52:53 PM »
Unfortunately Raul doesn't have any seeds this year either. Anyone else?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sourcing Luc's Garcinia
« on: July 11, 2021, 01:47:58 AM »
Unfortunately it looks like he hasn't been on this forum for a while.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Sourcing Luc's Garcinia
« on: July 11, 2021, 01:04:41 AM »
I had a seedling Luc's Garcinia which unfortunately got waterlogged by my wife and succumbed to root rot, would like to replace it. I would love the opportunity to try to grow from seed if possible. Does anyone know anyone reputable that has seeds or fruit for sale?

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Olive tree cultivar selection
« on: October 06, 2020, 04:44:44 AM »
Hello all,
I live in the Rio Grande Valley, zone 9b in south Texas. Temperatures are usually high from April to September, usually in the 90s. Low chill hours and very rare freezes. Pretty dry overall. I'm thinking of trying to grow olives. I've read some conflicting stuff about chill hours in olives. Has anyone gotten fruit from olive trees in this type of climate, and if so, what cultivars would be recommended?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Yellow spots on mango leaves
« on: December 01, 2018, 06:39:13 PM »
Hi all,
Just received a plant from Top Tropicals, the plant looks very nice and hearty but I noticed a few spots on the leaves today. Something to be concerned about? Anything to do about it?




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Carrie mango tree help! SOS
« on: November 11, 2018, 11:55:32 AM »
It had plenty of water. If anything it might have gotten a little too much as it rained a few times.
The only thing is it's the only one with the issue currently.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Carrie mango tree help! SOS
« on: November 10, 2018, 06:41:00 PM »






Hi all,
I recently purchased a number of mangoes from Top Tropicals, they did a very nice job of packing them and they all looked very good on arrival, pretty much are all looking good at this point as well, except for one - the Carrie! The leaves are all turning crinkly and dead feeling, and the stem also seems to be getting wrinkled. It was treated the same as the others and so I'm not sure why this one is looking so bad. Any suggestions? I am in zone 9b in South Texas, we are getting a bit of a cold snap currently, but this started happening before it even got cold, and it has not yet gone below 50 degrees F. All of the mangoes I have except 2 that are in the ground are currently huddling up in the garage with a space heater.

Thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Another mango in container question(s)
« on: October 27, 2018, 02:09:04 AM »
Hi all,
I am just getting started with mangoes. I live in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, zone 9b, previously planted a NDM and a Coconut Cream in the ground and just got a whole bunch of new varieties- Peach Cobbler, Sweet Tart, Pineapple Pleasure, Pina Colada, Carrie, Cac, Fruit Punch based off recommendations on this site. The issue is my house doesn’t have a lot of property and also the soil is pretty bad, very heavy clay, apparently some years ago before the 1980s) may have been a landfill as well. The coconut cream seems to be growing pretty well but the NDM hasn’t put out a ton of growth. So I was considering growing the new ones that I got in containers instead. Does that sound like a reasonable plan? I was thinking of going from 3g to 7g and 7g to 25g.

Last bonus question in case anyone has an opinion: was thinking of getting one more Zill variety, which would you recommend amongst them (Dot, Spirit of 76, Gary, Zill, etc)?

Thanks very much!

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