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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
« on: November 28, 2024, 02:19:00 PM »
happy thanksgiving everyone! i sure am thankful for this amazing forum!

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Wow! this is so cool!!! i cant wait to see how everything turns out!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu Relatives
« on: November 15, 2024, 05:23:14 PM »
yeah, my stuff is entirely too close. dont use me as an example. I have collecting issues ;D.
my motto is "worry about it later"  :D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu Relatives
« on: November 15, 2024, 04:09:26 PM »
Wow! some of those are pretty big! any fruit yet?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Saving Our Eugenia
« on: November 14, 2024, 07:54:23 PM »
So the leaves to get significantly bigger huh? Those leaves look more like E. involucrata. My tree has tiny little leaves, but I guess that reflects its age.

thats the "minute" in minutefolia, they are known for having leaves that look exactly like Involucrata but smaller

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu Relatives
« on: November 14, 2024, 11:51:33 AM »
Wow, bullata looks pretty cool! after doing a little research, I found a few other abiu like fruits: pouteria durlandii, bellamy trees has a larger selection available now, pouteria reticulata, P. Procera  P. microstrigosa- has little flesh, P. sp "hairy"(this one looks a bit like P. torta subsp. gallfructa), P. coelomactica seems pretty gelatinous but has little flesh, P elegans manilkara seems To have a a few more jelly like fruits too, including M. Surinamensis and M. Decrescens. chrysophyllum also has a lot of jelly like fruits but they seem to be more gelatinous and less structured compared to abiu. micropholis looks pretty promising too especially M. venulosa. most of these are on belllamy trees Right now

Hope this helps!! :D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu Relatives
« on: November 13, 2024, 06:02:54 PM »
Pouteria Venosa looks pretty jelly-like too. I just got a few seeds from Bellamy and will report on how they grow!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Saving Our Eugenia
« on: November 13, 2024, 12:11:10 PM »
Wow! congrats! a similar thing happened with my jabo but thankfully it is pushing a few leaf buds

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu Relatives
« on: November 12, 2024, 11:45:50 AM »
You may want to look into the genus Chrysophyllum, im pretty it has a lot of Abiu like fruits

right now bellamytrees has something interesting that looks similar to abiu https://www.bellamytrees.com/seeds/p/micropholis-venulosa-2-seed-pack

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sabara and Red Hybrid First Blooms Forming
« on: November 07, 2024, 04:26:58 PM »
wow!! hope they hold! :D

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the post is over a year old and Tropical fruit Bonsai has not posted in a very long time, I don't think that theses are still available

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wow! might have to move to cali for these deals!!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black necrosis on potted annonas leaves
« on: November 05, 2024, 03:29:49 PM »
It's honestly low humidity that's causing it.
Should be ok. Plants may look bad, but when you can bring them out come spring it'll be fine.
Your mix seems well draining so no root rot
and they won't get sunburnt inside.
ah, that explains some things... :P

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black necrosis on potted annonas leaves
« on: November 05, 2024, 02:39:55 PM »
What are those white specks in the third picture? It could just be my pest trauma speaking, but that looks a lot like some kind of thrips :P
oh yikes, +1, definitely a bug of some sort

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I consistently just use red solo cups with a hole in them because they are cheap and have worked pretty good so far  :P

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black necrosis on potted annonas leaves
« on: November 05, 2024, 01:54:35 PM »
I have never seen this on any of my annonas.  Mine get full direct sun when outdoors
do you use artificial light? mine are under almost 90% artificial light so maybe that could have been it? i notice the problem stopped once I lowered the light intensity.

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July is a tad early for some of the best fruit but it depends as the seasons on some fruits can be early or late easily. We won’t know until about May how the season is shaping up. We always have chupa chupa in August and September. There could be lots of garcinias, including mangosteen as well as durian and many others.
Costa Rica has lots of good farmers markets, fruit stands by the road, and areas concentrated in fruit orchards. There’s lots of fruit for sale around Orotina on the central pacific coast, then the Thursday farmers market in San Isidro, Perez Zeledon. The area of Puerto Viejo on the southern Caribbean coast is where we are and it’s a hub for fruit.
Peter
currently in my early state of planning, I do want to go to Puerto Viejo, I am also looking into the oso peninsula and the children's eternal rainforest areas. what are some of the garcinias that may be available? I'm interested in G. magnifolia if it is in season. also do you know if I will be able to find plinia sp especially p. salticola. I am also wondering about any rarer annona/duguetia, the only duguetia I know of native to CR is D. Confusa , do you maybe know of any others if they would be in season?

thank you!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black necrosis on potted annonas leaves
« on: November 05, 2024, 12:16:21 PM »
my cherimoyas used to get the same thing when I had them under a really strong light. i think it might be sunburn. i have only had one Annona die of rootrot and that was because I forgot to drill a hole in the pot lol. are you using natural sunlight or a grow light?

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If you're looking looking to go foraging/fruit hunting, Inaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/) might help. They have information on trees, as well as the locations of where trees have been found. You might be familiar with it.
I have looked through I naturalist before but I didn't find it helpful because  it required me to know the specific species where I wanted to find species that I don't know of yet but it turns out you can search by genus! thanks a ton!

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i hope to go to costa rica next summer and want to know what to look for, google was no help at all here so I came to everyone here ;D. i really like foraging so I want to to a little bit of exploration through the jungle as well as looking through markets visiting farms etc. what should I look for? i want to find various Annona, Garcinia, myrtcacea, sapotacea, theobroma and I want to try chupa chupa too if I can. what is in season? and others also if anyone knows any local guides or has any general advice that would be appreciated. also, are there any poisonous species in the mentioned genera or any others to avoid?

thanks!!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia Stipitata VS Eugenia Victoriana
« on: October 30, 2024, 05:58:26 PM »
i am also interested, i think that victoriana has a better flavor but is more sour

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango ID Help
« on: October 30, 2024, 02:40:58 PM »
I'm not sure, im not a mango expert, but do you know if the seed is polyembryonic? that might help with ID

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best pot Lychee?
« on: October 29, 2024, 02:26:39 PM »
They all want to grow out!
Eventually, you run out of space.
Additionally, for some reason, growing them in pots is more challenging than growing in ground...
Many zone pushers have had that phenomenon for some reason.
Honestly, if you are in a pot, you can't expect much fruit at all.
All of mine are in ground.
  :-\ guess I better get a greenhouse to put one in ground soon...

are there any good pot growers that check the same box?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Best pot Lychee?
« on: October 29, 2024, 12:15:57 PM »
I love lychees and want to get a tree. Which variety would work the best in a container? i am looking for ones that would fruit prolifically and produce while small. thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hardtofindtrees.com - Legit or Not???
« on: October 28, 2024, 07:17:46 PM »
funnily enough i think that this website has come up before, i cant remember the verdict but it looks a little iffy.

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