The Tropical Fruit Forum

I can HIGHLY recommend Stuart for a seed source!
He sent the seeds very promptly, and they are up and doing great! 
The first packet of seeds got lost (although I suspect US Customs was involved...) in the mail, so he sent a second batch.  Of course, just a few days after he sent the second packet, the FIRST one arrived after wandering through the postal system for over a month!  The second packet arrived in less than a week.  I paid for both packets, and figured I would plant a lot of them to account for my poor motor skills in being able to get the little caps off the nuts.  I have a DOZEN trees sprouting now!

Carolyn

Good idea! I have been afraid to fall asleep out there...

Ok, this isn't a fruit... but...
A bindweed suddenly appeared out of a light socket in our sunroom the other day! This is an INTERIOR wall, the socket is more than 8 feet from the edge of the house, and there is no crawlspace.  We took the socket apart, and it did not originate there.  We managed to pull about 3 feet of (pale and desperate-looking) stem out of the depths of the wall before it broke.
Creepy.  Literally!

Wow!  You guys got me all excited about the Small Lot of Seeds permit, so I set up an account and am applying for one.  I want to place an order with ForestHouse.  They have all the cools plants that I have been trying to find.
I opted for the level 2 authorization and am going to apply online.
Just have to run out to the local USDA office tomorrow with my photo i.d. to get them to finalize my account.
Oh! Maybe they are hiring!  I am getting tired of working at the DMV...

Carolyn

I agree.  It looks like a solanum, or something similar.  It looks a LOT like the solanum scabrum that I grow, but the berries we get are not in the little husks.  Maybe some sort of purple ground cherry?
Do you have a local authority you can take it to?

Just curious (as the "mom" of some fledgling jackfruit trees...), how old/big are your trees?

Maybe he's shy...

Hi,
I have some solanum scabrum seeds (a type of garden huckleberry).  The line is originally from Cameroon, but the plants these seeds are from were grown in Maryland...
I also have some Santa Claus melon seeds, some moringa seeds, and two varieties of dong qua winter melon (round and a really big long one).
I am looking for egusi seeds to plant.  All the ones that I can get here at the world market are already dried or roasted.

Thanks!
Carolyn

Vinegar will kill them. Pour it on  the areas you don't want them to grow.

But won't the vinegar kill my yams also?  And, do you know how long it stays in the soil/packed mulch?  My vines look so pretty all over the floor...

So, I seem to be growing, for the second year, a REALLY healthy, LARGE (like, pounds...) crop of non-poisonous but bad tasting mushrooms in my greenhouse.  The spores rode in last year on a load of bark.  Aargh!  I have the name of what they are written down somewhere, the local mushroom club came out last fall to ID them for me because I was worried about my birds.

I have tried Physan, which is the only thing labeled to kill mushrooms, and it hasn't made a dent.  I pick them daily and throw them away. 
I can't keep the floor dry because we flood irrigate, and it just comes in with no stopping.

I don't think I can physically dig up the floor without killing myself trying - it is about 6 inches deep with packed, composted bark, and some of the pots I would have to move are huge.  Then there is the expense of replacing the bark...

I am trying REALLY hard to not resorting to permanently sterilizing the floor with vinegar because I don't know if it will work on mushrooms, I have a fair number of feral yams and other vines that I don't want to kill, plus, I am thinking that if mushrooms like my greenhouse so much, I should try my hand at morels!

My latest technique is pouring boiling water on the areas where I know there are spores.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
Carolyn

I have grown them here in Idaho, but never from seed.  My birds LOVED the berries.  I thought they tasted way too tart, but they made great jam!  I bought young vines from One Green World in Oregon.  Maybe they would spare some fruits or seeds?

Thanks!