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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First Fruiting Campomanesia Hirsuta
« on: May 04, 2025, 01:13:45 PM »
Campomanesias have been some of the most vigorous and cold hardy subtropicals that I've got at my farm.  This year all of my mature plants are flowering 3/7 for their first time. Pretty excited, got a couple xanthocarpas that are going for it this year, roughly 6-8 feet tall and explosive with growth.

Super stoked

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wildlands Farm & Nursery Availability: Yangmei, P. adenopoda, Sweet Uvaia
« on: May 04, 2025, 11:22:29 AM »
Quote from: dolomis on May 04, 2025, 12:05:19 AM
They really don’t take long to sell out do they

Will have some more Yangmei available in a month and it looks like I'll have some grafted Yangmei available in a month or so.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wildlands Farm & Nursery Availability: Yangmei, P. adenopoda, Sweet Uvaia
« on: May 04, 2025, 11:22:01 AM »
Stoked ya got the plants Rob!

Lance, they are pretty sweet. I've got one seedling that has substantially sweeter fruits with very little acidity at full ripeness (waterballoon explosion stage).  But still a good eat before they reach that point. 

Nate, so far I've only fruited what I believe are seedlings from Marcos.  I've got about 10 right now that are fruiting and just grafted 8 of them over to my one "Santa Cruz Sweet" Sundrop that is substantially fantastic.  I've got some other phenotypes that are beginning to flower this year so maybe I'll get a glimpse at the others this year, although I'm not particularly counting on it. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Babaco Papaya Cuttings
« on: April 28, 2025, 12:36:49 PM »
I've got Babaco planted in town where I live on what must have been a wetland with the water table about 3 feet below with flowing water.  My babacos have done exceptionally well here and I've also been surprised to see them do well at my farm where its at least 10-15* hotter and much drier with a much lower water table.  These trees have done great in full sun and seem to do quite well in our climate, although I could imagine it might struggle in a more tropical humid climate

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pouteria lucuma
« on: April 12, 2025, 12:00:17 PM »
Thanks Kaz! I've got pecan pie, something from Bonita Creek and some cool new scions coming in that should be an exceptional variety.  I'm mainly interested in the smoother eaten out of hand varieties rather than the drier ones currently. 
Where did those fruits come that you got?
I've got a couple of 1g lucumas that have been in there too long, could send one your way if you would like!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How much do you pay per month for water for your backyard orchard?
« on: April 10, 2025, 10:50:44 AM »
~60$  using ~42,000 gallons/month on about 2 acres of irrigated orchard/crop land

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wildlands Farm & Nursery Availability: Yangmei, P. adenopoda, Sweet Uvaia
« on: April 08, 2025, 11:42:50 PM »
Quote from: brian on April 08, 2025, 12:32:13 PM
Can you elaborate a bit on how the 'Sun Drop' pyriformis differs from generic "e. pyriformis?
I'm growing out a lot of phenotypes and have 2 out of 10 so far that have fruited and some are very distinctly better.  These are seedlings from my two trees that produce sweet fruit when ripe and is slightly acidic otherwise. These ripen in September whereas I have others that ripen in November/December that are too acidic to be enjoyed IMO.  Of the two trees I have one of them really has pretty low acidity and is very productive.

Quote from: brian on April 08, 2025, 12:41:13 PM
I am happy to see your site properly handles sales tax for me :)   

There is no sales tax on food trees/seeds in Pennsylvania and it drives me crazy that Etsy & Ebay charges it anyway.  There is no way for residents to reclaim it government once collected.

Haha yeah, In California there's no sales tax for edible food items so that's always been my standard.  Maybe it should be change from state to state? I dunno, nobodys yelled at me yet haha.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Wildlands Farm & Nursery Availability: Yangmei, P. adenopoda, Sweet Uvaia
« on: April 08, 2025, 11:19:28 AM »
Howdy all,

Back with some new stuff to slide your way.

Yangmei in 1 Gallon available now.
https://www.wildlandsplants.com/shop/p/myrica-rubra-yangmei

Passiflora adenopoda
https://www.wildlandsplants.com/shop/p/passiflora-adenopoda

Santa Cruz Sweet 'Sun Drop' seedlings, Eugenia pyriformis (Yes I'm stealing the common name from that other Eugenia)
https://www.wildlandsplants.com/shop/p/eugenia-pyriformis-sun-drop

Steven Murray's Sweet Cassava
https://www.wildlandsplants.com/shop/p/eugenia-villanovae-3btzc

Thanks everyone! Your support will go a long way in helping me reach my farm goals this year. Hoping to put in a shade structure and another (larger) hoop house for nursery production this year.  Can't wait to post some pics and update everyone once I get things mowed a bit. This is the year for the orchard, I can feel it!

Thanks again everyone

Nate
 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pouteria lucuma
« on: April 06, 2025, 08:02:03 PM »
Quote from: sc4001992 on April 06, 2025, 03:33:07 PM
I just heard from a person who has a large fruiting tree. Also grafts them to seedling trees.

She said they take a long time over 5-7yrs to fruit from a grafted tree. So seedling may take even longer. I know a few other people with seedling trees that are over 5yrs old, not flowers or fruits.

Best thing for you to do is graft a scion from a fruiting lucuma tree. It will still take another few years after the graft heals to start fruiting again.

My plan now is to only graft fruiting varieties to my canistel, sapote, and maybe a lucuma tree if I can find one large enough for rootstock.

Awesome, that sounds interesting. Is she a part of the CRFG? Is it possible I may be able to source scion through you? I'm very curious to evaluate all the moist type selections that I can find!

Thanks for posting Kaz

Nate

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Flying Fox Fruits and the Naming of Rare Fruits
« on: April 03, 2025, 09:34:56 PM »
I think it's important to tell the story of these fruits. I have certain cultivars of Feijoa that don't have a story that is easy to find online.  I met someone a while ago who I found out named one of the most interesting sounding cultivars in my collection.  I very much appreciated it and am happy to be able to tell his story. I appreciate Adam putting it out there plainly because there is a lot of ambiguity in the details of our community.

I, as a grower of subtropical fruit with the intention of selling it, am guilty of trying to create names that are easier for the american mind to wrap it's head around.  I think that there are some easy names to grasp but having something more relatable is ultimately what get's some people more interested in a fruit. I understand the debate around it and do see that it is important to provide the native name in some context. Common names are IMO the bane of the plant world as they are often so typical and unexplanatory. I love taxonomy and I love learning the indigenous names of plants and and the stories of plants created in the modern era. 

We are all contributing to this plant community in whatever way it may be and I think we should be able to embrace the importance of all of the work we are all doing. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: April 02, 2025, 12:11:55 AM »
My Brazilian Orange has about 80% of fruits showing this damage inside the fruit. Thought it might be bug galleries but haven't really noticed any poop or larvae. Any thoughts? Maybe not ripening well due to the wet and moderate temps we've been getting during ripening period?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: March 31, 2025, 06:03:26 PM »
I think they were grafting the in ground plants. There are some wrapped scions in the picture and the previous story had mentioned grafting. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Campomanesia guazimolfolia
« on: March 28, 2025, 09:21:43 PM »
Yeah i think that's guazumifolia

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: March 16, 2025, 05:23:58 PM »
Awesome to see you've got a Laranja, I was curious to see how that fruit was! Stoked to hear your report when you make it happen!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Flowering Male Yangmei Scion
« on: February 26, 2025, 06:56:18 PM »
I would imagine it's quite likely compatible with most Myrica species.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Flowering Male Yangmei Scion
« on: February 26, 2025, 10:43:44 AM »
Hey everyone!

Hope everyone else is getting the spring bug like us over here in Santa Cruz. Been some incredible weather and feels like it has finally arrived. I've got a bunch of Male Yangmei scion from a seedling that has flowered for it's first time. 

Scion is $10 each with a minimum order of 2 scions and an additional $10 for shipping.

Thanks all and have a great day.

Nate



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Concrete + jackfruit?
« on: February 08, 2025, 05:51:44 PM »
I had someone rinse off concrete was hall over a Campomanesia xanthocarpa and it was fine. No noticable issues for the tree. Soil is a pretty good buffer, but definitely a good soak if that doesn't pose any winter risks for your tree.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: January 29, 2025, 11:05:32 AM »
Ohhh I'd be interested in one two if its available!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Venmo, zelle Paypal?
« on: January 27, 2025, 11:14:36 PM »
Venmo is really super easy and it also feels secure and easy to find people and make sure you are paying the right person. I freak out sending people things on Zelle, feels hard to trust a first time transfer to someone. Paypal is good but yeah, they take a cut. If i'm selling plants at events or in person I take cash, venmo or card. Definitely prefer venmo but I get alot of pizza payments on those days, they charge businesses but not individuals.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: 2025 Spring Yangmei (Myrica rubra) Group Buy
« on: January 25, 2025, 09:54:12 PM »
Will these be inspected by the USDA or are they coming in illegally? I think we should understand the "inherent risk" associated.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: 2025 Spring Yangmei (Myrica rubra) Group Buy
« on: January 21, 2025, 08:17:24 PM »
Are these plants going through the USDA and just package in a way for easier inspection?

That yellow variety sure looks good.



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Double Grafted Surinam Cherry - 'Eugenia Smithii' + 'Black Star'
« on: November 23, 2024, 12:04:00 PM »
Eugenia smithii? As in Syzygium smithii? I didn't realize those two genera were graft compatible.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: November 05, 2024, 10:00:36 AM »
This is the second crop of P. guineense x and they are certainly super delicious.  The robustum are probably one of my favorites too, they really lack any of the tannic kick from P. cattleianum which I am really into.  Although, I think that it ultimately makes them very sweet and a little less complex because of that.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PGA (Psidium Growers Association) - thread all about psidiums!
« on: November 04, 2024, 10:42:12 AM »



Just got back from being in South Africa for a couple weeks. Got a boat load of P. guinense x that came in! So stoked! First big crop of these and they are a very defined and delicious Guava flavor. Truly a pleasure to eat. Also got lots of P. robustum (yellow) that are coming in. Not pictured are P. longipetiolatum & P. striatulum. I've got some P. acutangulum & P. guajava 'Orange' that should hopefully come in later this year.

Guava season is exciting.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Should be called SOUR UVAIA (eugenia pyriformis) instead of Sweet Uvaia!!!
« on: October 20, 2024, 01:34:35 PM »
That's picked a little under ripe. When they are glowing orange and like water balloons they can be very sweet and non-acidic.  I have a bunch of seedlings and one in particular is actually very sweet with good flavor.

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