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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lobate Lac Scale - identify this weird "jujubes candy" shaped scale insect/nest?
« on: November 14, 2025, 05:17:21 PM »
Yeah I just scraped all the scales off and applied some insecticide.  Will keep an eye one it...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / FOUND - help identify this weird "jujubes candy" shaped scale insect/nest?
« on: November 14, 2025, 01:35:25 PM »
Found it with an AI image search!    "Lobate lac scale"

https://www.insectimages.org/browse/image/5195013
https://www.ncipmc.org/communications/pest-alerts/lobate-lac-scale/

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: help identify this weird "jujubes candy" shaped scale insect/nest?
« on: November 14, 2025, 12:53:40 PM »
Here's a good view of an upturned one.  It does look like sap but...


That clear/white worm looking thing is ALIVE.


I see it crawling around on the butterfly blob


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: help identify this weird "jujubes candy" shaped scale insect/nest?
« on: November 14, 2025, 12:24:07 PM »
This is on a plinia inflata seedling. 

Most of the blobs look identical, I don't think it is possible this is a random sap-ooze pattern.  They all have the same butterfly shape with a ridge on the back and front "wings" larger than the rear

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lobate Lac Scale - identify this weird "jujubes candy" shaped scale insect/nest?
« on: November 14, 2025, 12:10:32 PM »
Today I noticed what looked at first like armored scale on one of my small trees.  However, instead of being round the "bugs" are shaped like butterflies or jujubes candy.
 I removed some and looked at it them with a macro lens then finally with a microscope.  The large black things look almost like nests rather than adult scale insects?  Or egg masses?  I flipped a few over and I don't see anything that looks like legs or a head underneath.

I also see some small teeny-tiny, light-colored, fast-moving insects running around the large black structures.  They were too fast to get a photo they just show up as yellow blobs on the microscope photo below.  I assume these are juveniles.

Never seen anything like this, any idea what it is?









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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Fukushu dropping all flowers
« on: November 12, 2025, 09:18:38 PM »
Fukushu will definitely set a lot of fruit without any pollination, in fact when unpollinated the fruit is seedless!  I have had huge crops of entirely seedless fruit. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrciaria Madness and Eugenia Mania
« on: November 12, 2025, 09:16:04 PM »
To post varied size images you can upload directly to postimg.cc and pick either the small thumbnail, or the "fit to screen" image that results when you click on the small thumbnail, or the maximum size image that results when you click on the "fit to screen" image.  Right click and "copy image location" and then paste it with [ img ]  <img url>  [ /img ]     tags (without the extra spaces).  You can click the "insert image button" on the post box in this forum to get the image tags .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First Ross Sapote
« on: November 10, 2025, 11:01:16 AM »
I had read for years that Ross sapote is better than all canistels but I'm not sure what the actual source of the claims is.  I am waiting to try the fruit from mine but I suspect I will end up keeping my established Bruce canistel instead.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rose Apple leaf discoloration Zone 6
« on: November 08, 2025, 11:02:14 PM »
Looks happy to me.  I personally wouldn't be too worried about it, especially with the healthy new growth.  I have one of these in a container and it has been growing really well this year.  I put it in the greenhouse when low temps hit 45F so I didn't really give it a chance to feel the cold.  Have you had it more than one year?  If so how does it do indoors over the winter?

I had another one of these a couple years ago that seemed really healthy and flowered for the first time last winter... then promptly died.  No idea why.  I got the current one to replace it.  Both airlayered 1gals.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hillary White Atemoya
« on: November 08, 2025, 10:50:47 PM »
My Geffner reliably sets fruit with no pollination for me, so I am hopeful that other atemoyas will do the same.  One day I'll have to try a new variety, I'll keep a lookout for this one.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New Grape- Autumn Crisp
« on: November 08, 2025, 10:49:24 PM »
I haven't seen them labelled as such, just "green grapes", but I think I have had these from costco and my local grocery store.  If they are the ones I think I have been eating they are amazing!  Sometimes they have a really tropical taste instead of just the usual grape taste, and really firm and sweet.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Free persimmon fruit alert
« on: November 08, 2025, 10:47:34 PM »
I got a fuyu type persimmon tree this year and planted it outdoors.  It is just barely cold hardy in my zone, not sure how it will do.  I let it hold a single fruit this first year and it was better than any store bought fuyu persimmons I've had, I'm really happy about it.  Hope it survives and thrives, but I've noticed the deer eating it.   

I don't like the astringent types... they are far too squishy when they become edible.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Fukushu dropping all flowers
« on: November 07, 2025, 09:29:49 AM »
The graft looks okay to me.  I'm not sure why all flowers would drop, something must be stressing it but I couldn't guess what without more info.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Ponderosa lemon question
« on: November 07, 2025, 09:28:34 AM »
These are the giant lemons, right?  I used to have one of these.  It has been a while but I recall that they reach normal lemon coloration when ripe and I thought they did have quite a bit of juice.

I'm not sure how HLB might affect the color, we don't have HLB where I am at

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Peanut Butter Fruit flowering but not fruiting
« on: November 06, 2025, 02:29:02 PM »
Nice to see a productive one of these, FMfruitforest!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Some cold hardiness observations
« on: October 31, 2025, 05:57:13 PM »
I have a few (mostly large) container trees that didn't make the cut and I couldn't make room for in my greenhouse this winter.  We have had multiple frosts, with one night below freezing for four hours, with a low of 30F/-1C.

- jamun/duhat/eugenia syzygium cumini.  8ft tall seeding  25gal container.  Zero damage, even with unhardened new growth.  It looks great still even with lows in the mid 30s almost every night
- black sapote.  6ft tall fruiting seedling, 25gal container.  Zero damage, looks great.
- guava.  5ft tall seedling, 20gal.  Looks fine.  Has a couple fruits that have grown larger in the past weeks
- kwai muk.  3gal seedling, was 4ft tall but I stumped it midsummer and it has 6in new growth.  Some hardened some small.  Damaged, all leaves look discolored

This might all be common knowledge, but I was expecting the jamin to croak first and the kwai muk to be the most resilient.  Guava and black sapote aren't really suprising to me.

Anyone else learning anything from abandoned plants?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: paw-paw planting (asimina triloba) outdoors in Pennsylvania
« on: October 26, 2025, 09:13:23 AM »
Can they fruit while pruned to a reasonable size? 

Ben, thanks for the information.  I am going to set my reminder to check out the Jenkins tree in early September next year, or if I'm feeling adventurous take a trip out to the York festival to get the sure thing

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: paw-paw planting (asimina triloba) outdoors in Pennsylvania
« on: October 25, 2025, 11:18:42 AM »
Today I visited the nearby Jenkins Arboretum, which I heard has a paw-paw tree, to see if it has any fruit.  Indeed there is a tree, and it is fairly large with the largest trunk about 6in diameter and many weedy watersprout trunks.  The leaves are already yellow, and I couldn't find any trace of fruit on the tree or anywhere on the ground near it.  Maybe I am too late in the season for it?  The photos on the arboretum website show fruit, I assume they are from this tree and not a stock photo.  I only saw this one one tree, though, maybe it isn't really fruiting and it needs a partner for pollination.  Also, I would say this tree is in at least half shade as the arboretum is basically a woods.

Meanwhile, all of the small pawpaw seedlings I purchased when I started this thread have died.  This spring I found a couple of larger pawpaw seedling at a nursery that already had 1/2in diameter trunks and planted them in nearly full sun in my yard.  One seemed to stuggle a bit, the other looks very healthy as the growing season ends.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Annona frustrations, looking for advice
« on: October 25, 2025, 09:37:26 AM »
Quote from: xesoteryc on October 24, 2025, 04:28:59 PM
Anyone know how receptive annonas are to hard pruning?...

I cut my 10ft cherimoya tree down to a 3ft stump and it grew back just fine. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Annona frustrations, looking for advice
« on: October 25, 2025, 09:36:24 AM »
I have Geffner Atemoya and I really like it, however the cherimoya fruits I got from a CA forum member are definitely superior. 

I absolutely love soursop, though my tree has only made one fruit and it didn't ripen well.  It is flowering now, but of course... the pollination issue.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Annona frustrations, looking for advice
« on: October 24, 2025, 02:21:48 PM »
I have similar issues in my greenhouse.  I can say that atemoya sets fruit easily without pollination, might be worth considering for you.  I am mostly moving away from annonas because the pollination is too demanding.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrciaria Madness and Eugenia Mania
« on: October 22, 2025, 08:15:35 PM »
My e. beaurepaireana is flowering for the first time now



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Citrus General Discussion / Re: 21st Southeastern Citrus Expo @ Madison Citrus Nursery - Nov 21-22
« on: October 21, 2025, 07:26:31 PM »
It seems increasingly unlikely that I will be able to make this  :(

It is a shame as I would love to see Hershell's operation

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Kwui Muk seeds or tree
« on: October 16, 2025, 10:17:42 PM »
I also got mine from 9waters and it is now 12ft tall and I have to prune it

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Inga Edulis
« on: October 16, 2025, 10:14:51 PM »
Mine fruited in around 3y I think, in a 25gal container.  They are really thirsty, I had water it every day.  They don't really need fertilizer I hear, because they are nitrogen fixing.  I think I gave mine a very small amount. Mine was always full sun, but sun here may not be as intense as yours.

And who knows if it is actually edulis, I hear they are notoriously mislabelled

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