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Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« on: June 24, 2022, 03:46:11 PM »
I got seeds for garcinia intermedia a while back and it's definitely not intermedia. Thanks fellas.


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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2022, 05:51:58 PM »
Garcinias can be difficult. G. intermedia?
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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2022, 06:00:11 PM »
Thinking the same.

What makes you think its not g.intermedia?

g. intermedia or g. brasiliensis?




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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2022, 06:56:23 PM »
I have a bunch of different garcinia seedlings and they pretty much look the same, I don't think it will be easy to tell from foliage.

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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2022, 07:32:18 AM »
The reason I think it's not intermedia is, I got seeds of that from some fruit and those are much smaller to emerge. The leaves are more spear shaped at the tip on this one than the more rounded and much much small plant emergence size of the intermedia. It kind of looks like brasiliensis. I don't mind having some mystery plants to surprise me in years to come though lol. Thanks for the help fellas!

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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2022, 11:25:27 AM »
The thing is with the small garcinia seedlings is that they can be very similar and, at the same time, be highly effected by conditions. Perhaps for you a process of elimination.
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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2022, 01:11:12 PM »
Maybe if I dug up a little soil until I get to the seed it would help I'd what size fruit it came from to eliminate some off the list.

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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2022, 08:47:52 AM »
Here is the size of the seed. Much bigger than intermedia seed. I've only tried the intermedia fruits so I don't really know what this could be. It's not achacha, I have a bunch of those growing too. Thanks for the help!


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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2022, 08:51:57 AM »
The garcinias I have with seeds that look something like that don’t have foliage that matches at all. That’s a good step though.
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Re: Help I.D. garcinia seedling
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2022, 09:15:00 AM »
The garcinias I have with seeds that look something like that don’t have foliage that matches at all. That’s a good step though.
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Which garcinias do you have Peter? Thanks for sharing.