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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sugar apple in stasis
« on: July 11, 2025, 12:52:54 PM »
I wonder if there is something going on with the roots

My sugar apple grafted to cherimoya:


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: My first citrus grafts
« on: June 15, 2025, 10:56:29 PM »
Congrats on the grafts. If you can get a Prague Chimera that would be great- satsuma fruit on a very hardy tree.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Kadsura coccinea
« on: June 09, 2025, 10:25:35 PM »
My outdoor vine died back but sent a shoot out. Polar vortex killed all of the growth at 2f. A different vine in mostly shade didn't die back at all.

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A single Prague fruit has set. I pollinated it with Meyer pollen because it was the only pollen I had. The other flowers fell off after heavy rain knocked them off but a new flush of flowers are well on their way to blooming. Hope these ripen by mid November








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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Opuntia humifusa
« on: June 06, 2025, 01:17:35 PM »
Sorry for not getting back I was too overwhelmed with trades and grafting new things I think I'm all set for this season on any more plants.

Some good news the grafted cacanapa is budding out so flowers soon. My humifusa is also going to flower so I'll definitely pollinate the cacanapa with it.









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I did see that, on a page I was reading it just looked like someone copy and pasted a ChatGPT session but definitely will investigate

Similarly I've purchased frozen Yangmei from 99Ranch and the bag had a warning about cancer so who knows

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Figured I'd start a thread. First off is this cross possible?

The northern and southern myrica do hybridize.
The pensylvanica (northern) is hardier for zones 3-7 but the berries are basically inedible

I am currently looking for a female pensylvanica to try this cross. Will need to source yangmei pollen or keep the pensylvanica containerized and graft a male yangmei branch to it.


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I'm thinking of getting a female myrica pensylvanica maybe in the future attempt to pollinate with myrica rubra? Does the pollen store well?
There was someone on this forum trying this cross. I'm looking for a female now, emailed a couple of nurseries to see if their plants are holding fruit.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa scion died to graft point
« on: May 14, 2025, 01:03:05 PM »
which grafting techniques are you trying? the meiwa i grafted to citrumelo died to the graft point after 2 or 3 years, cant remember now. i have some of its seedlings growing directly in the ground now inside my GH. no more potted kumquats for me lol. my potted hindsii also died this spring.
I can’t get Meiwa grafts to take Nagami. Fukushu seems to take no problem but after trying twice with several scions each time they just die.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Opuntia humifusa
« on: May 13, 2025, 02:01:52 PM »
The cacanapa has a blue/green look to it and don't shrivel in the winter. I wonder if instead of hybridizing we can induce a graft chimera using some BAP on the union. Perhaps mixing your large fruited humifusa with the ficus indica. Graft chimeras of dragon fruit and some other genus like gymnocalycium have happened so it's possible, (plant looks bizzare lol)... but if the chimera aquires the hardiness of the humifusa is to be seen.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Opuntia humifusa
« on: May 13, 2025, 11:54:50 AM »
Oops I somehow missed this post. I remember reading about this species! I'll look around for a pad as I am terrible with seeds.


Also this is a desire of mine: large, sweet and glochidless opuntia

maybe this one is interesting for breeding

'Willoughby Spit' Prickly Pear
https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/willoughby-spit-prickly-pear?_pos=2&_sid=3ddb8c474&_ss=r

on EFN there was an O.stricta type with similar traites (now it has disappeared)

https://www.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/project/16

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Opuntia humifusa
« on: May 13, 2025, 11:52:58 AM »
Wow the fruit is significantlly larger than the wild pads I have in my pots, and those don't have any pulp other than a clear gel inside which reminds me of aloe "slime". Perhaps the increased size is due to the increase in seeds so it's not a negative. I have have a potted nopal which is probably ficus indica hope to use that as well in a future cross.  I can spare a pad of the cacanapa if you'd like to trade for one, send me a DM whenever. Really cool find!

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Opuntia humifusa
« on: May 11, 2025, 09:14:08 PM »
nice! do you have pictures of the fruit and the thornless one? how is the larger fruit, is there any tasty pulp?

I have a large opuntia humifusa with fig sized fruit and a patch of heritage thornless opuntia humifusa in need of love. I hope to breed both with opuntia ficus indica eventually. Unfortunately, I only have a single rooted pad of that one, so unless I find a large potted example, I think I'm a long ways off from that goal. Wishing the other folks on that path the best!

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What I've tried ranked
1) Cherimoya- grocery store
2) Sugar Apple- in Vietnam
3) Soursop- grocery store
4) Pawpaw- never tried a named cultivar yet at the bottom of the list because I haven't tried anything else

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Thuja occidentalis (eastern white cedar) is all over here as privacy hedges so we get rust. The property here also has it on the perimeter so its unavoidable. My seeds never sprouted so we'll see what comes up. I'll keep any seedlings that look more resistant like I did with my quince seedlings

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Will check that one out. I'm experimenting with soft seeded cold hardy ones already- Sirenevyi and a seedling of "Sweetheart" both survived 2f winter as tiny sticks!

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Pomegranate- the "Russian" varieties. I'm growing a few. So far the Afganski fruited and it's great. Won't be buying any underripe Wonderfuls from the grocery store ever again.
Persimmons- any really. Pest free.
Stone fruit- cherry, peach, plum, etc I like stone fruit but the pests make it a pain to grow, I don't wan't to spray pesticide so I bag the fruit. Kaolin clay has mixed results due to all the rain in the spring washing it off and giving the insects time to attack before the next spray.
The bush cherry varieties don't get bothered as much, fruit is sour but can be processed.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How do I avoid "mango mouth?"
« on: May 07, 2025, 02:54:37 PM »
Yes you're right, epinephrine is what they administered

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How do I avoid "mango mouth?"
« on: May 07, 2025, 12:31:00 PM »
My sister would get itchy mouth/burning lips from mango. One day she had "anaphylaxis" and her throat swelled shut after eating a mango. Could be the early warning signs for a severe reaction. Keep some Benadryl an epi-pen nearby just in case 😜

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: yellow ball from jeju, korea
« on: May 05, 2025, 10:31:46 PM »
No I haven't been, my school in Daegu gifted us a box of hallabong as you already know Korean people do love gifting fruit. My coworkers told me the island's volcanic soil makes the fruit tastier.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: yellow ball from jeju, korea
« on: May 05, 2025, 10:11:39 PM »
I missed trying this one. I did try hallabong grown in Jeju Island! It's supposed to be the same as Dekopon but the fruit is more tasty due to growing conditions.

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Welcome to the forum. Zone 6 can get chilly! I lived in Daegu for a year, which is a Zone 8a, winter was cold but tolerable and barely some flurries ❄️ a few times. Miss the toasty ondol in my apartment and sleeping on the floor.

I remember seeing huge yuja/yuzu sold by grannies on sidewalk produce stands. Do you know what variety of yuja those could have been?

Followed you on Instagram!

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Looks good. Here's an update on my Hachiya on Jiro Fuyu cleft, bark, and bud grafts. All seem to be growing! 100% success. The next battle is making sure the wind doesn't tear the bark grafts off lol











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I'm starting to see some green on the buds of the scions hopefully it means the grafts are taking it has been 2 weeks now! Ill post pics when I get home

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