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Those ( Condor?) dragonfruit look amazing.

I lost the tags on these 2 and can't remember what I have.

The leaves are white when they first develop (plant on right) and later when they turn green they have
a white, silk-like coating (plant on left).

Thanks!

Loquat.

Also hausman, your KP is not at optimal ripeness. Still too much green in it.

There are several types of KP really, the small one likes yours Haus and some bigger selections, I have found the bigger types to be more rich. Smaller ones tend to be more watery.

I have a dragon fruit in 5 gallon pot and am thinking about transplanting it to ground. The only space available is right by a south facing brick wall. Would having a dragon fruit planted close to the wall cause damage to it in the long run? How aggressive is dragon fruit root system and how close is too close? Thank you very very much!

well, the roots aren't what you have to worry about, it's the plant continually climbing on to your roof. I'd need to see the wall really.

I see that you've gotten lots of views, are working hard to answer private messages, and would like to express my interest.

What is fair postage for a 'minimum order' of seeds, sent to the US?

The postage price  is just decided  by size and weight Ansarac, I'll let you know when I've weighed them.

Quote from: starling1 on May 31, 2015, 08:24:54 PM

Quote from: Pancrazio on May 31, 2015, 08:10:10 PM

Well, it's about 3 years that I'm toying with the idea of replacing the potting mix of my mango with some kind of gritty mix.
Partly, I'm not totally convinced that it may end well; I'm scared by the changing of my watering habits, and also i fear that the organic matter may lead to root rot during my long damp winter.
But even this way, i'm tempted, even more now that i have some plant that will never go in ground and since i have some spare rootstock that i can sacrifice to an experiment, I'm about to attempt.
Thing is, once I started to search for the materials, i realized that everything is even harder than it looks.
Firstly, the only material i have easily available is pine bark. I have looked for turface in Italy, and not only isn't available here, but also the word is meaningless in my language so i can even ask for a local substitute. Some people affirm that it can be substitute with akadama; now i don't know the price of turface in the US, but if i'm going to use akadama to fill the place that turface has in the gritty mix, i should probably sell a kidney to get enough cash to pay the material.
A this point i wonder if i can find a substitute for the substitute. And if someone knows if there's something that can take the place of akadama.
Also, granite isn't easy to find. But this seems easier to substitute, because pumice is easily available here.
Does anyone have recipes/idea about materials to produce some kind of potting soil for a long term growing of mangoes in pot?

Why not just use pearlite/vermiculite? It's better than anything else anyway and makes  a perfect base for gritty mix.

Starling,
What's your recipe for the gritty mix?
Perlite + Pine bark + and ?

I had horrible results with turface + pine bark + granite, killed a few trees. At this time I'm very apprehensive about the gritty mix. In theory, the gritty mix allows you to water as much as you want, since it drains extremely well. My trees died despite thorough soaking every other day, when I removed them, I found the root balls to be rather dry.

Thanks,

My mix is just pearlite vermiculite, coir/peat moss and coarse sand. Nothing that will break down. It's pretty much the same mix I use for everything, except gritter (ratio of pearlite and vermiculite is higher. You can't use washed fine grade river sand though, doesn't work as it clogs the drainage holes.

If you're going to use a gritty mix, you either have to not mulch or mulch with stones. This is the only thing that will prevent water perching over time, and will not cloy the soil as it breaks down. It does what you want it to; stops the mix drying out. It locks in water moisture better than any other kind of mulch, and allows liquid feeds to pass through much more effectively. And it stops water damage occurring during hard hosing. You also never have to replace it. Really no downsides. I would mulch my trees in the ground with stones if I could afford it.l If you use bark or straw, the upper level of your mix will stay moist, but the middle and lower tiers will dry out.

Quote from: fruitlovers on June 01, 2015, 01:29:06 AM

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on June 01, 2015, 12:00:28 AM

have you been getting anymore fruit off your red jabo??

Quote from: marklee on May 31, 2015, 10:40:43 PM

1) Longkong duku langsat

2) Mangosteen

3) Cherimoya

4) Jaboticaba

5) Mango

Second poster with jaboticaba in top 5? Send this to Starling. He'll probably say you conspired to change their opinions. HAHA

Really it would be the 4th if u include me.

But seriously not even the 15yr olds on the forum are silly enough to dedicate a personal quote to bashing one of the best rare fruits...and one of the most active members on the forum!

My signature doesn't qualify as a bash. It's not slander if it's true, Adam,  and it does not constitute untruth any more than if I were to say that the color scheme on this site consists of green, white and black, because this is simply a fact. For example, it is true that Jaboticaba is not your favorite fruit, it is true that you produce them commercially, and it is also true that nobody in this thread named Jaboticaba as their favorite fruit.

Not one person.

Literally, not one person on a forum made up of rare fruit enthusiasts named jaboticaba as their favorite fruit. Imagine then, if you will, how little non-rare fruit enthusiasts will think of it.

You say that 4 people named it in their top 5? Well, kudos for picking those out from the other 13 pages of people who didn't. Although it is quite funny that you'd actually be driven to do that. My favorite part of this is that you actually included yourself in that tally. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh?Hahahaha!

I do take your meaning though, and yes--it is a fact I am probably enjoying a little too much. I'm not going to say I don't enjoy it.  I do; Immensely. Coercing you into your current humiliating and painstaking  state of  begging, pleading and thread-sifting in a desperate attempt to garner support for a product you sell, yet  clearly have no faith in inasmuch as it is only your third favorite fruit, is possibly my greatest achievement on this forum. What a judo flip. What can I say--I'm a talented guy. I actually don't think you like them very much at all, but no doubt enjoy how easy they are to propagate and how much fruit they produce, and how easily they will fruit.. Nice cash cow. Well, they would be if anyone wanted to eat them, but apparently very few people do. Don't take it up with me. Take it up with the respondents. All 96% of them.

Sorry saff. Pick a better horse next time!

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Sorry don, trying to reply yo everyone. Will have to pass on the opuntia as I already have cochenillifera but you're welcome to some Quandong seeds if you want them. You will probably be able to pick up an established plant somewhere around the traps though.

Well, it's about 3 years that I'm toying with the idea of replacing the potting mix of my mango with some kind of gritty mix.
Partly, I'm not totally convinced that it may end well; I'm scared by the changing of my watering habits, and also i fear that the organic matter may lead to root rot during my long damp winter.
But even this way, i'm tempted, even more now that i have some plant that will never go in ground and since i have some spare rootstock that i can sacrifice to an experiment, I'm about to attempt.
Thing is, once I started to search for the materials, i realized that everything is even harder than it looks.
Firstly, the only material i have easily available is pine bark. I have looked for turface in Italy, and not only isn't available here, but also the word is meaningless in my language so i can even ask for a local substitute. Some people affirm that it can be substitute with akadama; now i don't know the price of turface in the US, but if i'm going to use akadama to fill the place that turface has in the gritty mix, i should probably sell a kidney to get enough cash to pay the material.
A this point i wonder if i can find a substitute for the substitute. And if someone knows if there's something that can take the place of akadama.
Also, granite isn't easy to find. But this seems easier to substitute, because pumice is easily available here.
Does anyone have recipes/idea about materials to produce some kind of potting soil for a long term growing of mangoes in pot?

Why not just use pearlite/vermiculite? It's better than anything else anyway and makes  a perfect base for gritty mix.

The best I've eaten this year came from a cutting that was apparently Thomson S-8. It was a bonus in a package I received but I'm pretty sure it's not an S-8. Super tasty, great colour.

Yeah, that's not S-8--unless  yours is S-8 and mine is something else. Mine hasn't fruited bu the growth looks different to yours from what I can see in the picture. Mine has skinnier tendrils that do not have that kind of exaggerated serration, almost like natural mystic.

It looks like a beauty.My last dragonfruit of the season is in the fridge and it is the reliable colombian red.The best I ate this season was condor, although a few others came close and bigger yellows were at least as good as condor for flavor alone.Hang on I forgot about the H.ocamponis which really good also.

Recently scored a new variety (Edgar's baby) which has a Brix rating of 18. Supposed to be Mr Valdivia's greatest creation. Red type.

Colombian red is underrated. If they haven't seen too much rain while in the fruit development stage they can be incredible with a really pronounced rose flavor.