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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: marcotting vs rooting question
« on: February 21, 2024, 07:10:47 PM »
It's interesting for me too. It seems wood still is transporting the water.
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I'm happy to see this topic, as I recently ordered a box of Inga (presumably feuillei or a hybrid?) pods from this post, both because I wanted to try them for the first time and also to try starting the seeds for my greenhouse.
I'm mostly interested in learning about their tolerance for frequent cold (non-freezing) temperatures in winter, as my greenhouse is only heated to prevent freezing, and is usually in the 30s and low 40s for most of the winter. Some things like dragonfruit just cannot handle it, while avocados and some south american species like Physalis peruviana flourish and even keep growing vigorously all winter.
Also, whether anyone has tried using bonsai techniques (wide/shallow pot and root pruning) to reduce the vigor a bit. If I end up liking it enough to grow, that would be my long-term plan to help keep it under about 9 feet tall.
I would add Thomson's edible banana ( haven't tried yet, but supposedly hardy to 7b ), Chilean wine palm and hardy jelly palm to list
I grew some (alleged?) M. thomsonii seeds and they melted at the first hard frost, then never even re-grew from the corms. Helen's hybrid at least does that every year for me, but it will never produce fruit because the above-ground portion is killed by even a mild freeze, so you never make it to that second or maybe even third season for it to flower and ripen. I'm not convinced there's any edible banana (including seeded ones with edible flesh) that will take sub-20s without at least losing the current pseudostems and having to grow a new shoot from the corm in spring.
My Chilean wine palm was killed by 16°F, so I'm not sure it'll do well anywhere below 8b. But it was not very large, it's possible it would do better if it can get bigger first. Keep in mind that they typically don't start fruiting for many, many decades, though, so better to think of it as an ornamental palm even if you can keep it alive.