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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hand Pollination - passiflora decaisneana
« on: December 07, 2024, 09:29:10 AM »
Quote from: sc4001992 on December 07, 2024, 12:41:57 AM
Ok, I checked my photo dates. It shows the green fruits started to form about early August, then in November it was ripe (brown outside color).

Here's how Hoang sometimes eats the rind and flesh in a bowl.

Can't load pictures with Postimage now, give error message for unsafe website.
Thanks alot! So they take about as much time to ripen, as my purple edulis, around 3 months. The fruit seem to be almost at their full size atm, judging by the photos online, its been about a month since pollination.
I am also wondering if your plant seems to always be kinda chlorotic, like mine does, veins stay dark green but the other portions inbetween is quite paller. My newest leaves start looking good, the discoloration shows on mature leaves . Whats more interesting is that most of the onlin pictures of the species, are also showing such a discoloration, it should be a regularly appearing problem, so it seems....

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hand Pollination - passiflora decaisneana
« on: December 06, 2024, 03:15:46 PM »
Quote from: sc4001992 on December 05, 2024, 07:09:43 PM
Congrats on your fruits. Make sure to wait until you see some brown color on the outside of the fruits, then it should be ripe enough to eat. You can wait longer but I don't think it changes the sweetest that much. Once these start to wrinkle it is too late (over ripe).

Thanks for the tips! How much time do they take to ripen for yоu, also have you tried eating the rind?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hand Pollination - passiflora decaisneana
« on: December 05, 2024, 02:56:09 AM »
First ever decaisneana fruit sets for me. Hand pollinated with alata  pollen. I had around 10 flowers, that looked like they would have been sets, but the plant discarded them later, only 2 remained and are growing good atm.
















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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Zone Pushing - What to grow in unheated greenhouse in 8a
« on: October 16, 2024, 04:58:06 AM »
Quote from: All the fruit on June 27, 2024, 05:51:48 AM
Thank you all very much for the professional advice. Also Platinium, can i visit your collection when i go home some of those years?

Also i would be happy about more suggestions what they can plant there that does not grow outdoors in Germany
Yeah , sure, havent been active on the forum lately , thus the late response. Love your youtube channel and videos, especially the ones from tropical countries!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Forgotten Plants. Please Help Identify
« on: October 08, 2024, 11:52:54 PM »
4 and 5 look like my recently gotten peanut butter fruit. Mine has a bit of a hairy leaf also.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Monstera Deliciosa will be flowering soon
« on: July 08, 2024, 01:55:50 AM »
My plant is around 4 years old, i really hoped for it to do something this year, and it did not dissapoint. The blooms are very slow to come out, and the pictures arent quite clear at this point, but i am sure it will bloom. From the looks of it, there will be at least 2 blooms , and the plant will probably terminate its growth right there, as a growth bud is waking up, right below the future blooms. Hope it makes a cluster of blooms, as ive seen such pictures online. In one of the pics ive circuled the future flowers. 
 

















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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dolomite reviels
« on: June 20, 2024, 03:27:33 AM »
Quote from: SoCalGardenNut on June 19, 2024, 02:48:03 PM
I bought some DE but the rain kind of ruined it after I spreader them around my tree, now I just use chili powder, sure enough the ants moved away.
thanks for the tip, i will try this!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dolomite reviels
« on: June 19, 2024, 03:29:56 AM »
Quote from: SoCalGardenNut on June 16, 2024, 12:02:49 PM
I saw on some YouTube that Dolomite keeps ants away, is this true?
I have ant problems, i sorced one ant colony and will apply ant poison , i feel a deep rage, when i see them climbing up and down on the trunks of my trees.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Zone Pushing - What to grow in unheated greenhouse in 8a
« on: June 16, 2024, 11:46:55 AM »
Quote from: All the fruit on June 13, 2024, 12:39:05 PM
Pity. I thought a greenhouse of any kind would make much more difference. But i hope they can increase the effect by keeping the inside dryer in winter and do a lot of passive heat retention and insulation.

Where near Sofia do you live. During my childhood in Sofia such exotic plants would have been impossible to obtain.

about 30 km from sofia, in a mountainous area, 830 m above sea level. Well there are sellers in our country, who happen to cary exotic stuff in summer, also there are the some people, who grow such species and sell them, mostly seed germinated plants, once in a while i do happen to find a species i have been searching for a long time.
Yes those tipes of plants do not grow outside anywhere in BG , you have to go to the botanical gardens or people's personal collections, to see them.

Drymifolia, my gh base has insulation on the concreete , on both sides, that does help alot. It is also not atached to the house, but rather one meter from the wall. But yes , the place where it is located is somewhat wind protected, and is kinda a sheltered location overall.

I would not reccomed wood stoves for greenhouses, too much maintenance and also could be a fire hazard. I was  using one the first winter,  the chimney catched fire a few times, i had to monitor the fire closely each evening, resulting in me staying regularly up to 1- 2 am, in order to be sure the fire wont die off, a single mistace is all it takes for a collection to be lost. BUT i did have a very small gh and also plants closeby enough to be fried from the heat, i quess in a much bigger gh, the wood stove wouldn't be such a pain...


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dolomite reviels
« on: June 16, 2024, 11:22:10 AM »
Quote from: Mike T on June 15, 2024, 11:30:11 PM
K, Ca and Mg do not get along and in fact are antagonistic if one of these is over applied or excessive.
thanks, seems like i wont use it then, i wonder if itll be good for vegetables at least.?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Exaust or ventillation solar fan for a greenhouse
« on: June 10, 2024, 02:05:23 PM »
Thanks, i will do what you said, i hope they work good with the vents open, as i dont really want to close them, but will see.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Zone Pushing - What to grow in unheated greenhouse in 8a
« on: June 10, 2024, 03:31:31 AM »
Quote from: drymifolia on June 06, 2024, 05:19:41 PM
Quote from: All the fruit on June 06, 2024, 01:50:54 PM
How much does such a greenhouse help?Is it like 8b or even 9b?

Unfortunately, if you aren't heating it at all then it provides very little protection against overnight low temperatures, but the best way to know for sure is to install temperature sensors inside and outside, and compare them just before dawn.

You will likely find that by the end of the night, the greenhouse is (at best) one or two degrees warmer than the outside temperature.

During the day, it can be dozens of degrees warmer, but once the sun is gone, the extra trapped heat will generally all escape within a few hours.

As an example, here's the ∆°C chart (i.e., how much warmer it is compared to the outside) for my greenhouse today since midnight (currently just after 2pm in my time zone). Overnight it was about 2°C warmer, and has about 150 watts of seedling heating pads and about 100 watts of LED grow lights currently turned on. It would be about half that otherwise.



The 8am anomaly is due to the morning sun hitting the outdoor sensor on the outside north wall of the greenhouse and creating a false reading a few degrees warmer than the air temperature. The sudden drop before 11am was the exhaust fan turning on, and that's still running now. Without that, it would probably be 25+ degrees warmer inside (and my plants would be cooked).

Wright after i build mine, i monitored the temperature differences between inside and outside, trough the first winter, before i planted my tropicals. The result was that i had a stable 4 degree C positive difference on the inside. Sometimes it was les, sometimes it was more, but 90% of the time the difference was 4 degrees. Thats without heating, and now after it is heated, the gh equals to zone 10- 11, and i am in zone 7.
For a passive greenhouse, the place and how it is build is also important, mine had such a high temp difference, becouse it is on the south side of a building, also i have solid concreete surounding base.

Quote from: All the fruit on June 06, 2024, 01:50:54 PM
Hi everybody,

my friends have a huge greenhose (about 20 000 sq feet) every hobby gardeners dream. Single glass, on an open field near Heidelberg/Germany (teaditionally USDA zone 7b, now 8a. They like exotic fruits and with a little help from me they are starting a non herdy fruit collection. We already have Musa vasjoo, sikkimensis, Musella lasiocarpa, Ensete maurelii, Yuzu, Ichang Papeda, some surviving citrus rootstocks and seedlings, pomegrenades...Wondering if strawberry guava, mountain papaya or hardy tamarillo will grow there

My questions:1:  What else can we grow there? Im especially interested in the super rare and tasty fruits
2: How much does such a greenhouse help?Is it like 8b or even 9b?
3: Any specific care tips for those plants in such a place
i suggest you to monitor the environment for a winter, just to know what your lowest temperatures are, meanwhile you can plant the more hardy stuff. Mountain papaya is supposedly hardier than regular papaya, i have 3 that are doing wonderful and also setting fruit atm. But i also have 5 regular ones, both are grown in the same greenhouse, i cannot tell you how much hardier mauntain papaya are, as i keep the gh very warm trough winter as i have tender stuff, like the regular papaya.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Exaust or ventillation solar fan for a greenhouse
« on: June 10, 2024, 03:04:47 AM »
Quote from: fruitnut1944 on June 09, 2024, 04:44:15 PM
I said you don't want both an exhaust fan plus an inlet fan.

But it's hard to design a system when all the parameters aren't known. Open roof vents don't work well with an exhaust fan. Why, because the fan will suck air in thru the roof vent and out the exhaust fan. That defeats the purpose of the roof vent. You can't efficiently combine passive ventilation, roof vents, with active ventilation, an exhaust fan. Either go one or the other.

Pointing fans at your roof vents isn't a good setup. I can't see how that will help. The roof vent works because hot air rises and exits the roof vent assuming there is cool air intake down low. Pointing a fan at the vent mixes the air reducing the effectiveness of the vent.

Thank you! So i should get 2 exausts and mound them on the opposite sides of the gh, at their peak? Just looking for something to aid the vents' that i already have, even if it helps just a little, its still good.  Here are some shots i took of the setup. The oringe circles are where i intend to place the vents
The doors are removed, so there is plenty of fresh air going in.










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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Exaust or ventillation solar fan for a greenhouse
« on: June 09, 2024, 02:49:26 PM »
 Fruitnut, i had the idea of placing the fans with the air stream pointing towards the greenhouse roof vents, which are open at all times, this time of year. Wouldnt it be sufficient this way? So you say that i have to have one fan blowing air out, and one on the opposite side, to pump air in? Kind of like the fans in long tunnels, pointing in the same direction?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Exaust or ventillation solar fan for a greenhouse
« on: June 09, 2024, 10:45:49 AM »
I will get 2 different tipes, not from the highest class though, something in the middle price range. So i will also get exaust ones then, and mount them the way i need.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: It's so hot 🔥
« on: June 09, 2024, 09:22:55 AM »
We currently have 30C at shade, at sun it feels at least 35. It isnt even the start of the first heat wave, which is comming next week, expecting up to 43C at places in the country. No rain in about 2 weeks, soil in forests is perched, very dry. I water every day, whatever needs wattering. Greenhouse papayas are water hogs right now. Have alot of potted willows, you know what that means. 🥲🥲

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherimoya pollination
« on: June 09, 2024, 02:26:40 AM »
After the pollen is ready the flower sheds it very fast, in a few hours its gone. The anthers usually continue to stay up untill the wilt of the petals, then they fall off together. Thats my experience.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Exaust or ventillation solar fan for a greenhouse
« on: June 09, 2024, 02:14:25 AM »
I want to get 2 fans for the gh, aiming for a sollar powered solution, also for a fan that will move the air inside, than rather taking air out. As far as i understand, exaust fans take air out, and ventilation ones take air in, right? So as most of the products i find are labeled as exaust's, could i get one and turn it on its other side, so that it blows in, or should i rather  get a ventillation fan? I know sollars will be weaker , compared to electric devices, but i am willing to try them out' as i dont want to mess with cables and stuff. Also bein sollar, they will pretty much run only when needed.  Anyone can  reccomend a brand or a particular model, i am finding alot of exaust tipe ones, its hard to choose. Thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dolomite reviels
« on: June 09, 2024, 01:38:12 AM »
Thanks, i may have to hold back on use then. I do not know what my soil ph is tho.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Dolomite reviels
« on: June 06, 2024, 02:25:35 PM »
I got this, with the intention of using it on my tropicals, inground. Read it elevates the soil's ph, should i use just a little bit every now and then?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Cherimoya flower bud abortion
« on: June 04, 2024, 03:03:52 AM »
I have 2 cherimoya trees, greenhouse culture. For a start, this year both of them produced exceptionally low amout on flower buds, following the yearly prune and leaf strip at the end of april. Now, as the temperatures have gotten to their summer readings, the greenhouse scores around 30C, at near ground level, those are not everiday readings, but the highest ones. The upper temperature should be higher, probably maximum around 35 C. Ive read that high temperatures lead to pollen sterility, low pollen germonation, and fruit set. The few buds that the trees had, are starting to abort , and i believe it may be due to the high temperatures, as last year i had several fruit on one of the plants, around wallnut size, which few of 2 days after when the greenhouse got up to 40C, which was an major accident. 
The gh is vented all day long, cloused at night, will be removing the policarbonate from the doors today, as night temperatures have increased drastically.
On a side note, this is the second year , in which the trees produce very little flower buds, since ive installed the heating in the gh. I feew like its too warm for them at all times now, as i had a marvelous fruit crop the second summer after planting, the heating of the gh that first winter was much worse, and i think the cold back then triggered the strong bloom on both of them.
 


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Does this cactus look like a fruitbearing speacies?
« on: May 21, 2024, 02:31:40 PM »
Quote from: SDPirate on May 20, 2024, 06:11:58 PM
You should be okay then.  When the weather gets above 60f at night is when they grow the most.
Nice, a friend will send me 3 different cereus species, will trial those in there also.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Does this cactus look like a fruitbearing speacies?
« on: May 20, 2024, 03:27:26 PM »
Quote from: SDPirate on May 20, 2024, 02:34:14 PM
Quote from: Plantinyum on May 18, 2024, 04:41:33 PM
I also found and ordered this one, Stenocereus Pruinosus , this one is supposed to have a nice tasting fruit, anyone growing those?




Yes, I have a small Pruinosus about that size.  They grow away somewhat slowly, need direct sun as much as you can give.  Does not like cold wet weather, if you live in an area that gets below freezing you will need to overwinter it.

My plan is to plant it inground in my greenhouse, it is heated enough trough winter, that i am able to grow papaya in there, it should also do well. Only downside is, it wont be very bright or sunny, at least until the cacti reaches around 150 sm.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Does this cactus look like a fruitbearing speacies?
« on: May 20, 2024, 04:57:44 AM »
Could it be a etiolated version of the globous/sphere tipe cacti?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Does this cactus look like a fruitbearing speacies?
« on: May 20, 2024, 04:56:28 AM »
Here are 2 update pictures, of what the original plant from the post looks like right now. Can it be more easily identified now? Sure looks like something else with the new growth on top.




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