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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grumichamas blooming now –or not?
« on: March 27, 2024, 03:23:13 AM »
Zone 9 here (Gainesville FL) and mine has been flowering for a week or so. It still has a way to go.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Must-have eugenias (based on flavor)
« on: March 26, 2024, 04:00:31 PM »My Eugenia neosilvestris from Marcos fruited and gotta say it is in an excellent fruit. Great flavor with a brix of 26! I gave several of these away but not sure how they are doing. I stuck six in the ground and am now glad I did. Definitely one to have. Slow growers and can do very well in pots. I cant find my notes but I think I got them in 2018 or 2019? Only one has flowered and fruited so far. The birds have stolen more fruit than Ive got.
That's a really pretty cross-section photo. How big are your fruit? The other images I've seen of neosilvestris showed really tiny fruits.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ISO Dwarf Carambola (Hart, Maher, Hawaiian)
« on: March 20, 2024, 03:37:29 PM »I can get you some Maher. what do you have?
Thanks, PM'd
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ISO Dwarf Carambola (Hart, Maher, Hawaiian)
« on: March 19, 2024, 03:24:57 PM »
Bump, still searching.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / ISO Dwarf Carambola (Hart, Maher, Hawaiian)
« on: March 13, 2024, 10:34:18 PM »
I have seedling starfruit that I'm looking to graft over with dwarf varieties. I'm especially interested in Dwarf Hawaiian, but would be happy with Hart or Dwarf Maher. Open to suggestions. It's difficult to protect our Kari in the winter, it wants to be large.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / When to prune mulberry?
« on: February 02, 2024, 12:44:05 PM »
What's the best practice for pruning mulberries while maintaining fruit production? I'd have a few young trees I'd like to prune while they are dormant, but I hate the idea of sacrificing the fruit they would have made when their buds break.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Tropical" fruit that will grow in Zone 8a?
« on: January 30, 2024, 10:15:28 PM »
I'm in Florida and my dad in Georgia and we have given up on pomegranate due to fungal issues. It requires several anti-fungal sprays during the spring/summer in order to produce non-rotten fruit. I'm cautiously optimistic about Chinese jujubes, the good varieties are really good. I'm also cautiously optimistic about fejioa, but the seedlings I planted produced terrible fruit. I'm starting over with named varieties (grafted). Changshou kumquat is my favorite kumquat.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Thai giant jujube
« on: November 21, 2023, 09:07:05 PM »
I bought a small air layer last winter and now it's 6' tall. II wish temperate jujubes grew even half this fast. The flowers have a lot more odor than temperate jujubes. t has a few small fruit hanging on it after flowering profusely. The flowers have an odd smell (not bad, just odd).
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Pruning Surinam Cherry
« on: November 02, 2023, 03:41:22 PM »
What's the best time of year to prune Surinam Cherry? I'm in Florida with several large potted trees that need to be pruned back for size reasons. I'd like to prune them now, but I don't want to hurt their spring fruit production.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Valdosta Mulberry cuttings & Australian Green
« on: September 26, 2023, 01:28:06 PM »
Kaz, how do you rate Valdosta versus your other mulberries?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Surinam Cherry Virus?
« on: September 04, 2023, 08:44:44 AM »
This happens to mine too, both seedlings and adults, but doesn't seem to cause much harm.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: bought some Spanish Lime fruit (genip, mamoncillo, Melicoccus bijugatus)
« on: August 18, 2023, 09:47:28 PM »there are supposed to be hermaphrodite clones with much better seed to flesh ratio but the name escapes me.. San something from PR IIRC
Sasa
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB 'Dwarf Hawaiian' starfruit scions
« on: August 14, 2023, 04:21:56 AM »
Does anyone have the 'Dwarf Hawaiian' starfruit variety that they'd be willing to part with some scions? I have a Kari, but I need to keep it a lot smaller than it wants to be.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Wildlands' Eugenia spp. 'Orange' fruited
« on: August 11, 2023, 01:00:16 AM »
Wow, that's gorgeous. Is this the same as the Orange CORG that Marcos is selling?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Large deep pots for growing garcinis
« on: June 29, 2023, 09:49:06 PM »tthe rootmaker roll is economical and the chinese imitation is very inexpensive and looks nearly as good.
Do you have a source you'd recommend?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: FL fruit fly struggles
« on: June 06, 2023, 09:19:47 PM »
I agree it's likely caribbean fruit fly:
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/fruit/tropical/caribbean_fruit_fly.htm
I'm in Gainesville and I believe that's what gets our surinam cherries. I put out some traps baited with torula yeast, and they are catching a lot of what looks like caribfly. I don't know if catching them is actually doing any good though, since a single fly can lay 200 eggs individually. I don't even have that many fruits. It really sucks.
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/fruit/tropical/caribbean_fruit_fly.htm
I'm in Gainesville and I believe that's what gets our surinam cherries. I put out some traps baited with torula yeast, and they are catching a lot of what looks like caribfly. I don't know if catching them is actually doing any good though, since a single fly can lay 200 eggs individually. I don't even have that many fruits. It really sucks.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulberry Fruit Comparison
« on: June 01, 2023, 02:50:22 PM »World's Best /Thai Dwarf mulberry trees grow very easy from cuttings. They do make good rootstock as well, I have many varieties grafted on Thai Dwarf branches. It doesn't make the grafted scionwood variety grow any slower.
This is has been my experience as well. It's impressive how the rootstock will rise to the challenge of vigorous scions.
Kaz, you sent me some pencil-thick Himalayan Red scions a year ago and this is what one of those graft unions looks like today on World's Best.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: acerola/Barbados cherry not fruiting.
« on: May 08, 2023, 01:46:09 PM »
Before you chop them maybe try spraying it with blossom set hormone. I did that based on seeing a couple of personal testimonials here on TFF (https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=28994.0). Mine sets plenty of fruit now, but it's impossible to say if I would have gotten the exact same results had I only waited. After my first year of flowers with no fruit, I got impatient and sprayed. Also single bush with no cross-pollinator.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Eugenia uniflora 'Regina' and 'Zill Dark' Surinam Cherry seeds
« on: May 06, 2023, 09:58:48 PM »
What's your review of Regina versus Zill Dark?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Can Garcinia Brasiliensis be grafted onto G. Intermedia?
« on: April 03, 2023, 03:01:20 PM »
Has anyone successfully grafted Garcinia Brasiliensis onto Intermedia?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: El Dorado CORG scions (fat)
« on: April 03, 2023, 08:49:01 AM »
How'd you rank it against other CORG's?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Himalayan mulberry scions
« on: March 27, 2023, 10:42:23 PM »Wow Kaz your tree looks great, congrats. Hopefully Brad responds and I can get a few cuttings. I would love to add this variety to, we have a drawf everbearing tree we were just about to dig up. Hopefully we can convert it into something great.
Grafting it seems like a great idea. I plan on making a cocktail Mulberry tree with my dwarf everbearing. I do like showing people how to grow plants from cuttings using it since it roots so easily.
Mulberries have such vastly different growth rates and dormancy timings that I'd be hesitant to make a cocktail tree. I grafted some of Kaz's Himalayan Red mulberry scions onto a thai dwarf mulberry last year and they've grown so long and large that I'm worried about the otherwise solid graft union breaking.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking to buy a named cultivar of barbados cherry tree
« on: March 25, 2023, 11:14:45 PM »
FYI, I have a tissue cultured acerola tree from Agristarts and another that I grew from a 'Florida Sweet' cutting from a reputable seller. I cannot tell a difference. I've seen speculation on this forum before that there may be no difference. Adam made some comment in the past that his Echo Sweet's "flavor is almost identical to the other types we can find commonly in FL". You might not be missing anything at all by getting a cheap tissue culture Acerola. I say this as someone who would be very interested in finding an improved cultivar, as I really like the fruit.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: GARNETS CORGs are budding-up - Soon there will be blooms!
« on: March 10, 2023, 09:44:20 PM »
Gorgeous, I'm loving the red tips. I grafted Garnet scions onto a regular Cherry of the Rio last year and the color difference right now in the emerging foliage is striking.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: ODDS & SODS - Plants For Sale!
« on: February 02, 2023, 09:05:13 PM »You might need to do a DNA test to know for sure.
They are definitely Eugenias... but the exact species is sort of a grey area for me.
I've been using the umbrella term Cherry of the Rio Grande.
Hopefully someone else can weigh-in with a more accurate explanation.
Kevin
Do you think maybe E. Calycina??
A 2015 study found that E. calycina and E. involucrata were part of the same highly variable species, with E. involucrata being the older and preferred naming. See this post for synopsis and link to study: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=21094.0
I previously purchased Garnet scions from Kevin and they grafted beautifully onto a standard Cherry of the Rio, extremely high % take.
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