The Tropical Fruit Forum

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that won’t happen. Way too cold for your lychee
No matter -15 Fahrenheit or Celsius. You will need a greenhouse.i grow several types of lychee and the lowest they will take is high 20sfor a really
Short time.

How long have you been growing the angustisima?  I have a couple almost a year young.

Several years. I think in total mine is 4+ years old.
Got it way before the Eugenia/jabos craze

Was that a eugenia angustisima? Looks great! Hope you got that heater functioning properly again. Thanks for the cool video!

I think it is sprengelii in that video although I do have both.
Have an angustissima which is super close to fruit and flower...Seen several ones that size flower and fruit.
Heater was a simple fix by just plugging it in again.
Luckily most things are good. Just a few mango got tops burnt off.
Won't make that mistake again

Yes the taste was really good...

After speaking with a mango grower and i told him the story but he told me hey they are probably overgrown kent or keitts because the tree is so old that it only had a few fruits so all the energy went to those. next batch after a few months(not sure if it was same tree) but the fruits my brother brought home were just average/large. the seed never made it either so that was an uninspiring end to the story.

It could be,
I'd need to ask the collector, but my best guess is maybe an improved selection of kent as his tree made large fruits.
Or could also just be less fruits on a regular kent. Either way those mangos were gigantic.

I just move the propagated stuff into the house.
May want to look into a grow tent.
I think then it's 24/7/365 propagation.
I bought one, but my parents wouldn't let me use it when they realized how big it was

Just put in my order...Super excited!
Amazing video too G.
Kameron, thanks for having me over! It was an amazing experience.

Lychee is super solid…my favorite. Just unfortunately it’s hard to grow them in FL due to the mite.
There’s also the Spanish limes, mamoncillo, but not that good as in not enough flesh and it sticks to the seed.

Getting orders out this Monday!
thanks for the support! most of the seeds are germinating and as always I crack several open to make sure they are nice and purple on the inside

Sold out of t-15.
And only have 5 t-8 left.
Thanks for the support and have a happy thanksgiving!

These first two pictures are of the white sapucaia. With all phitrantha types, they are generally unstable from seed resulting in variants like these with different color fruits instead of the normal red/purple color.
This one is white scarlet. A variation of scarlet that produces white fruits. The same growth habit as regular scarlet, so very precocious, just now it has white fruits instead.

T-8 also known as Tutti Fruity. This one has a lot of promise as many of the seeds are undeveloped/aborted, leading to better flesh to seed ratio.

T-13 also known as brilliant star. This is a variant of the phitrantha cv. pink rosa. The fruit have pronounced ridges hence the name star...They are also very precocious fruiting around the same time as a scarlet would. This has phitrantha parentage, hence the quick fruiting time.

Phitrantha Rosa. Nice phitrantha with a nice red skin. Has a nice sweet taste and will bear fruit in clusters.

T-15. This one is relatively new and also is a phitrantha type. This one shows off gigantic leaves and will fruit relatively quick also. This one was released in the US rather recently and is still extremely rare.

Quote from: Jaboticaba45 on November 20, 2023, 01:25:40 PM

There's a native wild one that grows all the way up here.
It's good tasting just like any other passionfruit.
Super cool to see them up north like that

Send some cuttings! =)

I'll keep you in mind

My favorite so far has been the hybrid - chempejack...
Cempedak was a bit too strong for me.
Jacks all vary in taste, but a solid one that is crunchy and has low latex is always good.