The Tropical Fruit Forum

His done well expanding the awareness of rare fruit!

I don’t agree with some of his fruit ratings and descriptions but hey that’s pretty much life!! Haha
For some fruit he’s been the only one with a taste description.

All the fruit on youtube, is a bit more accurate with description IMOE and does show trees and growing conditions on another level.


Peace!
All the fruit is good because he focuses just on the fruit. No shots of him for the most part. Also he does a lot more foraging I think.

Congrats to the Winners:

Ok, the following people who won the Peluche cutting will need to pay for the shipping cost ($10.20) by Friday. Send me a message and I will let you know how to pay for the cost.

1. Newbie2figs
2. Fygee
3. John B
4. Carolinazone - see you won.
5. Lonehawkstation

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When you make the payment for the shipping cost, please provide your mailing info so I can cut/ship anytime after I receive your payment.

Thanks. I couldn't have done it without you pushing me!

A few months to a year ago someone posted some YouTube links and they showed mango grafting in South East Asia. Basically they were using unripe bananas as a grafting adjutant. I watched some where they would just smear the cut ends of the graft union andnI saw some where they used banana past to cover the union. After this the union was wrapped in some sort of grafting film. This took me down the rabbit hole until I found some research about auxins and cytokinins. If I am correct these are used in rooting hormone powders. Has anyone here tried using  these for grafting?

I'm not too good to say it. Use a systematic on it.

Yep. Did some digging. I found this place called greendego.jp. Guess what they also sell..... yamamomo otherwise known as yang mei!!!! There was a guy on here a few months back claiming he could export from Japan. When I asked for a picture of his product he sent me a pic. I googled  the pic and found it was snatched from greendego.jp. Anyway. Yep. The stuff is here in stock and in supply. I wish i knew how to export this stuff because I would do it myself while I'm here.

No, it is for who ends up being the NBA champs so more games to go.

Hahaha! I know nothing about basketball . I hope I find some loquats in Japan. It's supposed to be yangmei season too.
BTW THANKS for having the contests/raffles for plants. I support the concept of spreading good cultivars.

Avoid doing business with AKME. I sent a payment to Ms. Diaz months ago and they've not sent any updates or replied to my inquiries. I had to initiate a dispute with my bank to get my money back. Absolutely the worst online business I've dealt with. Garden Crochet is a better option for loquat scions.

Who is this garden crochet you speak of? I would like to see what cultivars you have.

Hit them with neem and chrysanthemum. Then put some Tero antbaits ( the liquid) packs at the base. Wait about a week then hit them again and lay down some diatomaceous earth. The antbaits should kill the ants. The diatomaceous earth in round two should prevent them from farming if any stragglers are left and the queen isn't dead after round one.

Look I agree a federal charge on the guy sounds harsh but this dude is lying about everything there is to lie about. If he doesn’t wanna go to jail, he should probably think about refunding all these people. By definition, fraud is using deception (lying) to take peoples money. If he can’t prove he was in the hospital, etc, etc, etc, and all these other excuses, it’s really an open and shut case. And if he was really in the hospital for that long, I wish him best of health but he still stole all y’all’s money and disappeared.

Hell, if he’s in the hospital, why TF is his website even still up? As a business wouldn’t you want to inform your customer instead of hiding, then come back strong with a reopening? Every move he makes just reeks.

And it’s not small claims, he used the internet to steal across state lines so he opened himself up to wire fraud for every person he defrauded that doesn’t live in Alabama. If it was all in person it would be small claims (I’m not a lawyer at all but that’s the way I understood it at least)

I mean, his facebook page uses his middle name as his last name and has the wrong age. Every day that goes by of him not replying just makes him look more guilty.

They tried all those previous links to state departments in the first page of comments, I can’t really think of anything or anyone else to try; I’m just hoping it works out for y’all. All y’all, even him. Preferably not with him in a jail cell, but at some point this dude made his own bed.

Or maybe I’m being harsh; which honestly is totally fair, but I hate reading ALLLLL these people all getting burned by him. At some point, a federal case for wire fraud is gonna be the only option : (

Wire fraud? Maybe. Getting a court to give a s*** with the amounts of money involved, is doubtful. The case also hinges on intent. I don't think the case would stick. I don't think enough people have been harmed to make it worth a beaurocrat's time to bring it. The only way to resolve it is if he wants to. The only way to get your pound of flesh is to hit his pockets. How much is that gonna cost? We gotta take the hit and move on.

Mine is in a container. There is another sapodilla in a container in my yard. They both have had little furits but none have matured.

At this point I’d skip all the pleasantries and just go straight to the FBI. As a collective, I know we can get this done.

https://complaint.ic3.gov/

Above is the official FBI reporting service for cyber crimes.

FBI?? Okay. I get the anger but calling the feds? It's small claims jurisdiction.

Does anybody here remember that guy on the west coast who had several websites scamming on fruit trees? This is like the early 2000 teens. He had BBB complaints and got sued. He was scamming on avocados. He got me and I think I posted in athread about it. Darn I wish I could remember the business.

The point is if it's a con shop, unless the amounts are pretty high the FEDs will do nothing. The FTC might do something but like I said it's the amount. Ask anybody who has ever bought a snake oil health supplement. Even if he stuck someone for $1000 that is not the same as sticking 1000's of people of people for $10. The FEDs don't care. If you want results you have to call state authorities. Call the ag department, tax department, or call his local news station. That said it is better to leave the man alone. Tell everybody on every website you use about his bad business practices. I personally don't know the man and I have written about my experience with him. Should he make amends for his bad business practices with his customers? YES. Give out refunds, extras, and apologies. YES! Fed charges? No. I don't know if the man is sick or not. Anybody that truly does let us know. Old man opinion finished.

You should always dip the cut scionnin water before grafting.  Even sticking in your mouth andnusing spit works fine.
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I have never heard of that and haven't seen that in any grafting video. Tell me more abut this and how it works. I had some expensive scions fail on me so I am curious. Thanks

@Epiphyte

I thnk the issue is not the cold, as in the tree's ability to survive but to get it to fruit well.
So not sure if thats achievable with grafting

Not even sure there are varieties that bloom in spring, allegedly there are but it smells fishy if I really look into it, almost as if it was anecdotal lol

See reference above to "Piera". I don't know that it is availabe in the nursery trade. My inquiries have met with confusion. If it tastes good it could be a game changer for those of us in colder climates.