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Water it thoroughly, remove any fallen or dying leaves and keep it in a shady area while it rehydrates and recovers from its traumatic travels in a pitch black box.

Also as you mentioned there seem to be spidermites, be sure to hose the leaves off gently, hitting both upper and lower faces.  Doing so will help discourage the spidermites.

When you notice new leaves emerging you can gradually start to lightly water your tree.  Just don't keep it real wet.  You can increase watering once it has made new leaves.  Once it seems to have recovered you can gradually move it into brighter light and eventually into more sun.  Just don't do that too quickly so as to give the tree time to acclimate to the extra light.

Just as a matter of curiosity which red cultivar did you buy?

Cheers!

Paul M.
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Hi Vincent,

PM sent.

Paul M. -  in Tampa
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So then, Rob, where do green sapotes best thrive?  Is 9b not one of those places?

Are there any selected varieties of P. viridis that do thrive in 9b?

Enquiring minds and all that rot . . . .

Saludos . . . !

Paul M.
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which is better?

I must admit to that same question:  Which is better?  (And why?)

Paul M.
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Plant some Nepeta cataria nearby.

That ought to do the trick!

Just sayin'

Paul M.
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Order arrived today, very prompt! 

Seedlings were in tiptop condition, thanx!

PM
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A sabará was received in late summer of 2020 in a three gallon pot and was about two feet tall and a foot and a half in diameter.  Seemed perfectly healthy and grew new leaves so no concerns with it.

Suddenly early in March all its leaves dried up and turned a light brown but did not fall from the plant which always seems a bad sign.  Only a few very tiny green leaves remained at the tips of some of the branches.

Then I began to water it more and in about two weeks all the dead leaves began to drop and new leaves started to grow.  Now the sabará is all lush and green again.

So..... 

Is this typical of sabará during winter time?

Should it by now –closing on a year after its receipt– be moved up into a five gallon pot?

I want to put it into the ground but don't know how large these get in zone 9b in Florida, especially in my sandy soil.

Suggestions, please & advice . . . .

Paul M.
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If its Oxalis, watch out for the exploding seed pods, they are like frag grenades, you will find them growing 20' from the original plant everywhere

True, if it's Oxalis then it's time to wage war on it!

You can pull the leaves out but there will usually be a little bulb left in the ground which will just regrow more leaves. 

To get the bulbs, too, I try to loosen the soil a little around where an Oxalis plant is growing and then gently pull on the leaves.  Often the bulb will then come out attaached to the base of the leaves.

If you can get the bulb out then be very careful because the bulb can shatter into tiny bulbils each of which will grow back into another Oxalis plant.  To be sure the bulb is destroyed, I throw the bulbs on the sidewalk and grind them into mush under my shoe.

Oxalis however is susceptible to RoundUp if you are comfortable with using that in your yard. You may need repeated applications to finally completely kill them off.  But if you don't they'll just keep coming back.

Fingers X-ed!

Paul M.
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Thanks Peter.

Hopefully one of our TFF members who lives in or is familiar with the area(s) where
G. hombroniana is native to will chime in with something to resolve my question.

Fingers X-ed!

Paul M.
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Just ordered several seedling of this species.  So, were four seedlings enough? 

I recently read that this species is dioecious but am now wondering whether the species is strictly so, or whether some individuals produce perfect fowers –or maybe in some casses produce flowers of each sex together on one individual?

Enquiring minds and all that rot.

TIA

Paul M.
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Got this thing from TT in Nov.'20.  It was in a 1 gal. pot.  In early March it got moved up into a 3 gal. pot and was shortly put out into more sunlight.

Now after about six weeks in the larger pot I discovered that it has set half a dozen fruits which are already the size of a marble.  The 'tree' is closing on three feet tall.  Had no idea that these could be so precocious.

Hopefully it will hold some of the fruit and I'll get to try them.  Of course they may be unsatisfactory as others on here have warned that this may just be a yellow-fleshed A. glabra and not especially tasty, but we shall see.

I also have an A. montana which is still in a one gal. pot, also from TT.  Guess it may also benefit from being moved up into a three gal., but will it fruit?  If a move into a larger pot encourages it to do so will let you know.

Cheers!

Paul M.
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I'm sure that what you are intending will work to plant the passion vine.

But how will you be able to water and fertilize it satisfactorily since the roots will want to spread out under the asphalt quite a distance beyond the diameter of the hole you wlll be making for the vine?

Just wondering . . .

Paul M.
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