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ONLY FOR RESIDENT: if somebody is interested, get in touch with me. I have contacts there who have this specie available and exact position of fruits of A.jamaicensis.

Thanks

Giampaolo

Hello I will be in Jamaica in about 2 to 3 months. Would you share the details with me and I could secure it for TFF members?

Best regards
Driftwood

How many are you looking for? I'm potting a bunch of sabara seedlings from last year, message me if you want to discuss.

Best regards

Hello
A piece of advice from a Costa Rican: if you visit us in April, don't forget to go to Orotina, to the "International Fruit Fair". This year it will be held from April 21 to May 2.
And once in Orotina, don't forget to visit Frutas Zill.

any more info on this? website?

3/2/2022: seeds are coming to the US 

Thanks guys. Looks like I’m gonna get a few hundred. Will keep you updated

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How reliable of a seller is this person?

If they're from Jim West in Ecuador as I suspect, he's very reliable. I've ordered giant mulchi in the past from him and they sprouted fine even with the long transit including usda inspection along the way.

Is it a known seller? Just want to have some confidence it’s the real deal.
Thanks
These are not from Jim, sorry

it's not an international seller, it is a farmer, friend of a friend who is from Ecuador



Not sure what you mean by the "real deal", but Mulchi is currently in season in Ecuador and they are harvesting buckets of Mulchi and processing seeds and storing with vermiculite

Hope this helps. I feel I must reiterate, I am not asking anyone to pre-order with me. I can already feel it get way too confusing and hectic. So the seeds will be on hand in the US by the time I ask for any money. I am a new seller and only have a few sales on the forum, but have done plenty of trades and spent lots with sellers here and on facebook. If you are interested to discuss further we can direct message

does 10/seed include shipping costs or would that be tacked on at the end?

10$/pc includes shipping in the US

Right now because of my small(ish) order and the price of shipping - my total cost per seed is around 12$. If I sized up my order I can get a 20% reduction roughly by getting more seeds in the box.

I am not trying to ask anyone to prepay. I am just trying to see if it would be worth it to get extras or just go ahead and get the quantity I desire

If we got several hundred seeds it could go further down but it doesn’t seem like there is enough interest to get several hundred seeds. So I am okay with just getting my small order

Hey Sellami,

Thanks for taking the time to research and study these species. Will you be releasing any data about seed storage conditions success/failures? I am curious if you also take accession data on the location of these species?  I think it would benefit all of us if the locations of species could be disclosed. GPS locations and accession information is an imperative part of conservation that is widely used in Botanical Gardens across the world.

Thanks again

Doubt it honestly. The Trichocereus community had a big issue in South America in recent history where people were geotagging plants in their habitat. Unfortunately this kind of thing attracts poachers big time. Some of the cacti got hacked to oblivion. I could see tagging the state or a major landmark or town nearby but I personally don’t think exact locations are a good idea to just put out there. Especially when they see the amounts these go for

There is a forum on tissue culture.  I used to be on it daily.  It is a mixture of professionals and amateurs, mostly amateurs.  It  included grade school students,  It isn't hard if you are willing to take care to sterilise the tissue, the medium, etc. There are shortcuts you can take and shortcuts that will make you fail.
Issues I remember being discussed include how to make substitutions for certain that are hard to get in third world countries, what cheaper chemicals can be substituted for expensive chemicals.  For example you can use sucrose (sugar) from the grocery store rather than guarantied pure sucrose from a chemical supply company  There were many such shortcuts that are fine.  Likewise using baby food jars rather than petri dishes is fine.
The tissue culture culture I did used pre-measured agar and pre-measured MS medium and un-pre-measured sugar. 
I don't remember the prices, but it seems agar, MS medium, and sugar costed about $10 for a liter of basic medium.  A liter of mediom goes a long way. Different species need different hormones to get growth started.  These can get expensive.  But raw coconut milk can substitute for the pure hormones in many species.  Opening a coconut and getting the milk out while keeping it completely sterile can be done.  The species I worked with didn't require more than agar and MS,
Woody species can be very hard to culture, requiring expensive hormones, but in tiny amounts.  I don't know what citrus need but google the question, It will be on line.
I think this is the forum I used to be on.  http://hometissueculturegroup.org › resources
 

appreciate that Walt! This looks like a good forum for me to be on. I get the rough idea of it all, and understand the needs for cleanliness. I used to study Mycology (the study of fungi) so a lot of the techniques overlap with the agar etc. Still learning about the plant hormones but this looks like a good place to learn more. Would like to get a small room of rare fruits going on some shelves, some back up and a way to multiply an expensive cutting or species.

Still a relatively good deal, these are hard to find in the US. When they are it was usually at least 12/15$ per seed. I just paid 80$ for a seedling recently

Hello TFF Members

I am considering importing Giant Mulchi (Shawi - Plinia Inflata) seeds from Ecuador. Is there any interest in these seeds? DHL shipping is expensive for a small box so I was considering adding more seeds to my order to alleviate costs.






Seeds would be around 10$/piece

Please reply directly on the post -- no need to message at this time

Best regards


3-9-2022 Update: Some seeds area available and ready to ship in the US. $10.00 each for TFF members

Fantastic looking annona. Great pics. You said dwarf. If I can make a suggestion, for context, if you can put a coin near the fruit when taking pic next time. What kind of flavor profile?

Ah yes, I can see it is lacking context without a backround or object.


Here is a still from a video of it pulling apart, as you can see fruits are very small. Maybe 1-200grams maximum