The Tropical Fruit Forum

Extra fresh Annona montana originated in the Amazon area. Excellent rootstock for rare annonas including Annona salzmannii; Annona scleroderma; Annona muricata; Annona diversifolia….
Fruits are huge and the flesh tastes like soapy water. This Annona is for rootstock, specially for cold climate areas. I am not sure how cold it could stand. However, here in Fort Myers, it keeps growing all winter without any issues. I am in zone 10 b, I believe.
Seedlings will fruit in approximately 4 to 5 years from seed.
Seeds are $2 each, plus $ 10 for shipping and handling. Seeds will be  mailed from the main post office in Fort Myers. Minimum is 5 seeds. Private message if interested. Thanks.
Sorry, no international shipping at this time.

Looking to buy jua assu seeds.  Jua assu is a yellow fruit in the Solanácea family.
Please  send me a private message. Thanks.

SOLD OUT - No more seeds available- Sale 50% Off - Jabuticaba Peluda de Alagoas is also known as Fuzzy Jabuticaba or Grimal. I ate the fruit that formed the tree as Peluda de Alagoas. Tree grew in a large pot and fruited in 7 years  from seed. The fruits are big, meaty and sweet and the tree is very productive. This is a must have variety in my opinion.
Seeds are $ 1.50 each plus $ 5 shipping to the US only with a minimum of 6 seeds. Payment is PayPal.
Sorry, no international sales at this time. Large amount of seeds shipping is $10 in a flat rate USPS box.
Do not miss this opportunity! Fruits are delicious and this variety became my favorite jabuticaba.
Please send me a private message if interested. Thanks.

50 extra fresh seeds of Eugenia stipitata. Very large fruits. I was unable to post photos. However, photos are available upon request.
Price is $2.50 each plus $ 5 dollars or $ 10 dollars for shipping depending on the amount.
Minimum is 5 seeds per order.
Shipping to the USA only.
Please send me a message if interested.
Thank you.
Berto

Only 120 seeds left!
This variety's name is still debatable!
However, this is a very sweet big fruit size jabuticaba. My tree is approximately 10 to 12 years old, and it stands approximately  6 to 7 feet tall.
This variety can be cultivated in a container, easily.
Just send me an email, and you are going to have one of the best jabuticabas, in my opinion.

Hello folks,
I have some extra fresh seeds for sale

1) Pitangatubas (Eugenia neonitida) - Excellent for juices, ice creams, drinks, and liquor. One of the best ice creams! - Lots of seeds available

2) Sweet Granadilla (passiflora ligularis) -  Excellent to eat out of hand. It does much better at temperate climate in high elevation. Few dozen seeds available

3) Maracuja Doce (passiflora alata) - Superb to eat out of hand. It tastes like a sweet melon with extra honey. Yesterday, I picked over 60 fruits from my vines!      Lots of seeds available

4) Vavangue/Spanish Tamarind (vangueria madagascariensis) - Average  fruit to eat out of hand.  Poor flesh to seed ration. Easy to grow in a large pot.  My trees are in a 10 gallon pot and produced over 30 fruits this year. Couple  dozen seeds available

5) Bacupari Miudo (garcinia brasiliensis). Good fruit to eat out of hand. Flesh to seed ration a bit disappointing,  excellent flavor.  It may take up to four (4) in the juvenile stage. It grows extremely sloooooooow.  Very small tree easily kept in a large pot. It is pretty much ever bearing here in SW Florida.  Fruits all year along.  Few seeds  available at the moment!

Pitangatuba




Maracuja Doce (passiflora alata)



Vavangue/Spanish Tamarind (vangueria madagascariensis)




Seeds are sold in a first come, first serve basis.  Please send a private email to bertonsilva@hotmail.com

Thank you!

Emprapa (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria) keeps doing a great job!
A new passion fruit will available to the public!
Please use a translation tool to read the information!

http://www.cpac.embrapa.br/noticias/noticia_completa/467/

I have some extra fresh seeds of myrciaria spiritosantensis for sale.  The seeds come from a tree that is approximately six (6) feet tall.  The tree is loaded with fruits and it started fruiting when it was approximately four (4) feet tall.  This variety is ideal for container culture.  The fruit is very large, close to the size of a pig pong ball.
Send me a private email to bertonsilva@hotmail.com

Out of curiosity, today, I contacted Fruitscapes and The Treehouse Nursery and both of them have Nishikawa avocado trees for sale.  Both nurseries will deliver the trees, for a few, to the South/Southwest  Florida area. 
Fruitscapes -  Steve Cucura (239) 462-2341 http://www.floridafruitscapes.com/Home.aspx
The Treehouse Nursery - Lianne Murray or Allisyn Ramirez (239) 283-3688 

I have bought several different types of trees from both nurseries!

Anyone growing this fruit?

I have some nice fresh pitangatuba seeds for sale!  Eugenia Neonitida

My trees keep producing fruits since April of this year.  They are planted in five (5) gallon and ten (10) gallon pots. They love being in pots in full sun where they get water every day and organic fertilizer every couple weeks.  They are very easy to cultivate in pots, and the fruits make the best juice, ice cream, cocktail drinks, or dessert  (please refer to Adam's vanilla ice cream recipe).

I will ship them in moist paper towel in a  bubble wrap envelope.  Please send me a private email if interested.

The public is invited to attend this presentation!  Please come and enjoy the presentation of a well known fruit enthusiast!


The Bonita Springs Tropical Fruit Club will have Noris Ledesma as a speaker this upcoming Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

Subject - Growing Tropical Fruit in South Florida

Speaker: Noris Ledesma: Curator of Tropical Fruit -  Fairchild Tropical Botanic garden

Date - May 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM

Location - Methodist Church in Bonita Springs, Florida

27690 Shriver Avenue, Bonita Springs, Florida.

Directions -  I -75 Take Exit 116, Bonita Beach Road Exit, go (west)
                   Right on Old US 41 (north)
                   Right on Dean Street (east)
                   Left on Shriver Avenue (north)
   The church is located on the right hand side (east side).
                   
"South Florida horticulture continues to evolve. Changes are due to urbanization, governmental regulation, foreign competition and the needs of the growing community. Noris Ledesma, Curator of Tropical Fruit at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will present some alternatives for the urban forestry to provide the home owner with examples of tropical fruit in the urban landscape. Mango, Avocado, jackfruit, canistel, sapodilla, Carambola, guava have been a successful display element in back yards in South Florida for gardening. Learn principal tips to grow this species and make them part of your life."

See you there!
Thank you!
Berto Silva

 

Hello folks,
I am looking for atemoya or cherimoya seedlings to be used as rootstock.  I plan to graft a new cherimoya variety and I will need at least 6 (six) nice, ready to graft seedlings of cherimoya or atemoya
I can trade those seedlings for the following seedlings I have:
1) Cambuca - Plinia Edulis -  more or less 2 years old
2) Blue Grape/False Jaboticaba - Myrciaria Vexator - more or less 2 years old
3) Yellow Giant Brazilian Passion Fruit (2) -  You need two vines for proper pollination and the seedlins are in 3 gallons pots.
4) Fragrant Passion Fruit - Passiflora Alata (2) -  You also need 2 vines for pollination -  They are also in 3 gallon pots
5) Annato/Lipstick Tree - Bixa Orellana - 3 gallon pot
6) Grumixama/Grumichama - Eugenia Brasiliensis - more or less 2 years old
7) Rainforest Plum/Ameixa-da-Mata/ Cambui Roxo - Eugenia Candolleana - more or less 2 years old
  Pitangatuba - Eugenia Nitida/Neonitida - more or less 1 year old.
I also have several other rare seedlings that I may use as a trade currency.  I may also sell some of my rare seedling mentioned above.  I am located  in beautiful  Fort Myers, Florida.