The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thanks Ryan!

One nice Glycomis pentaphylla seedling available at $15. Also a nice cedar bay cherry seedling at $15. Will go $25 on both seedlings as a package deal. A few Glycomis pentaphylla seeds available. $1 per seed plus applicable shipping for seeds or seedlings. Many star fruit seeds available at 5 for $1. Minimum order for seeds at $5. Hit me up!

Thanks! DG

Thanks D-Grower.     I will take you up on that offer!   Starting off with some meiwa seeds would be great.   My Nagami seedlings are still mostly doing well.    I had a little set back because I wasn't fertilizing them and most of their leaves were turning yellow, but I have that sorted out now.  I lost a couple of the seedlings, and most of the rest lost a few leaves but the remaining leaves greened back up and new leaves are in good shape and color.

      How old is your plant?  is this the first year of it fruiting?  I would be happy to cover postage.  Please keep me posted, and thanks!

Lazarus

 

I do have a few ripe fruits now. Its pretty cold at the moment. Seeds would likely freeze in transit this time of year.

Don't have that variety myself. I do have a grafted nagami and meiwa tree. Fruit on them now. Could probably send you seeds if you like soon. I've noticed meiwa seeds don't like to sprout well but occasionally one will pop up. Not sure why they are like that for me anyway.

It seems I'm outside your project zone by a huge distance but I'd be interested in helping develop more cold hardy variety. Not as much as in propagation of existing cultivars but in the breeding of new varieties. My current goal is to amass as many cold tolerate types as possible and cross pollinate them and grow out the seeds and test for cold hardiness and fruit quality. It's a long term endeavor no doubts. I intend to breed more southern apple varieties too.

As far as zone maps go I'm considered 9A but in the last 6 years I've had winter lows as far down as 15F. That's a solid 8B on some of our winter seasons. Cold wise I think I should qualify for your project. Obviously I wouldn't be able to come get trees but we could share seeds and scions. I don't see fantastic in your list but it may also be under one of the other names. If you need scions for that variety I can send some whenever but figure early spring is best. I can also get brogdon scions too. Also have a Stewart seedling growing I could send scions from though it hasn't fruited yet. Only 3 or so years old. Have a few Wilma seedlings as well but are too young to cut from yet. If I'm not mistaken Wilma is Brazos Belle under another name. Could be wrong however these are seedlings anyways and not clones. There's a member here that once sent me cold hardy scions but cannot remember whom for sure but pretty sure their member name is Taylor something. From Arizona that I know for sure. I did get some successful grafts but unfortunately I moved the trees from up under the edge of my porch into full sun and burnt the leaves badly and then they couldn't recover. So success at first but then a complete fail from my bad. Stuff happens I guess.

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As far as I know there was no such tree named Texas persimmon. There are currently more than 2000 different types of persimmon trees. Most of edible Persimmon type came from Asia (China, Japan). Persimmon trees we usually purchased in the US are grafted on Native Persimmon (Virginiana persimmon). There are some hybrid types between American and Asian persimmon which offer good taste, but the native persimmon was absolutely horrible and its fruits were used to cattles like horse, cow...

American persimmon fruits are really good you just need to know when they are ready to eat. When they fall freely from the tree and are squishy to the point you'd think they are too far gone is when they are actually ready to eat. They will loose all astringency and be really sweet and good. I'm sure some trees produce fruit lessly good than others but in my experience most are pretty good when fully ripe.

No problem thank you!

I'm off to the western side of Apalachicola more near the Chipola River basin. I do have two triloba trees in my yard in part shade that seem to be doing well. They did flower the past two seasons but didn't set fruit. They kinda flower offset from each other might be why they didn't make fruit. They were from Just Fruits and Exotics which were called select pawpaw seedlings. Think they were grown from seed from trees near their area but could be wrong. I have otherwise found wild pawpaw stands near the river here that appear to possibly be triloba but some people in pawpaw groups on Facebook seem to think it's a naturally occurring hybrid pawpaw. Fruit is decent sized but not as big as up north. Haven't been able to try them so far. Tried to get them before animals did this year but animals are on them as soon as they ripen. There's also bunches of angustifolia up here which I have tried. Fruit smells good but flavor isn't the greatest or very sweet. Either way would be great to grow for deer and such as well as butterflies.

I'm still potentially interested. Business has been pretty good these last few weeks. I've been so busy selling at festivals and as a guest at other nurseries and such. I really need to get propagating again before I sell low on everything. Hopefully get some stuff produced in mass soon.

Sending you a PM.  Looking to get 5.

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I'll take one if you have one left. Hit me up if so.