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I am a big Abiu fan, and I was wondering if they had some similar relatives.
I have heard about Pouteria Torta, I would love to find out some other species.
Cheers!
How many varieties of Abiu do you have ? In my garden I have the round one and the other variety more spindle shaped. Do you have Caimito ? The green skin and the pinkisk skin variety ?
Got seeds from Marcos a few years back and this is the second year of fruiting, figured I’d give it a second chance...But nope this thing is as SOUR AS A LEMON and the flavor isn’t good. Fruit is also small with not much flesh. Stop calling this fruit sweet people!!! Waste of time and space on this one. If anyone wants a fruiting “sweet” (HAHA!) Uvaia let me know and you can come dig it out. Maybe it could be used to flavor drinks but I’m not really into that.Have more than 06 Uvaia bushes more than 6 meters tall. I pick up my uvaias at a stage when if the branch is shacked the ripe fruit fall to ground. Use my ripe uvaias as fresh juice to drink , no sugar added to drink. OR make jam in this case I add sugar. You might be picking the Uvaias at a semi ripe stage, or the variety you have is not so sweet.
The ones I've had all have a slight astringent taste?The adstringent taste is because cashew fruit has tanin. Try picking the ripe fruit before/or late after the sun hits the fruit. Also try to sprinkle a little of salt when you cut it open. I have cashew trees in my garden in Recife. Northeast Brazil.
I think it is nice though and helps keep the fruit balanced.
I recently tried a wild type cashew in Costa Rica, and I can say it is by far the best anacardium fruit one can try.
It tastes like a really intense honeydew with no astringency or odd taste. The fruit itself is very narrow and long.
(not an apple, more like a screw).
Will be in a future video.
I can try to dig for a picture too.
I think the species is anacardium excelsum
(green variety).
Noticed significant damage to several papaya plants; something is munching hard. Wondering what might be doing this, any ideas?
I have a similar case as yours. In my case the agent is Cutter Ants. At night they leave their holes sometimes 100-200 meters away and in an army, climb the papaya tree and cut the leaves which fall down and make a green carpet. When daylight dawns they return to their hole. The following night they cut the leaves in small pieces and carry it to the holes. The cut leaves serves as a substrate for culture of a fungus on which the ants feed.
...I'm thinking iguana, but have never seen them eating papaya leafs, and the leaf stems don't seem damaged from the likes of a heavy lizard. They are notorious devourers of passion flowers, and are unwelcome in these parts for that alone. Time for a recon mission with the drones, see what's lurking up there.
We have two products that work against cutter ants. The most common is myrex. When the ants are working you apply the granules next to their trail near the hole where they carry the leaf pieces in. They will drop the leaves and carry the Myrex in. It’s important to be sure that you apply at every trail, not only the ones that are coming to your trees in order to kill the entire nest. You can’t apply in the rain. The other product, Omnitox, works the same and is organic.Senor Pedro, Gracias pela resposta.
Peter
Tanglefoot applied to the trunk is effective at stopping ants, if you are careful not to allow any alternate paths onto the tree.------------------------------------------------------
Leafcutter ants are really interesting, the wikipedia article claims they will avoid plants that harm the fungus they farm, so applying a fungicide might help... but it also says they can defoliate a whole tree in a day so they probably won't learn fast enough to save the plant.
Aloha, as the title is hinting, im looking for tropical fruits with edible nut(raw) and tropical nut trees. Im familiar with macadamia nuts, malabar chestnuts, cashew, pulasan and caimito. What else is out there? Ive heard of java almond, is it tasty? Im relatively low elevation and cant grow tropic adapted temperate trees like apricot. Mahalo
This is what I see on my Lucs Garcinia and quite frequently I might add. A profusion of male flowers and the afternoon aroma is intoxicating.But a closer examination reveals more.
The occasional female flower and they are quite distinctive. This applies to many garcinias and this is what male and female flowers look like and many species including a number of Asian species like dulcis. It is easy to jump to conclusions that trees are male or female but it may take a while for the tree to show its true colours. Mine trees were always mono but just pretended to be males when they opened their accounts.
Lets look closer at male and female flowers of the Luc's Garcinia. The picture tells the story and shows what to look for in all Garcinias.
Mark: Thus this criteria use for "Luc´s" apply to Garcinia Indica or Kokum
