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Frank got you! (FLnative)

I'll take the dragonfruit cuttings, but let me see if we are going that way this week so you don't have to ship.  I'll let you know in the next couple of days.  I wish I would have gotten some of those mango trees earlier.

Just received the dragon fruit cutting, fantastic job packing and shipping quickly. Can't thank you enough for helping spread more varieties of dragon fruit to us.

I will be sure to post some cuttings on here once they get established.

I had several dozen seedling red and scarlet jaboticaba make it through the winter with almost no protection. I kept the best ones inside but the rest were stored in my uninsulated garage during freezing events. The coldest we got was 16f for 2 days in a row during the nights. The year old seedlings all defoliated but all of them have started to bud out and regrow. I kinda wanted to stress test them to see how hardy they are since I had so many as backup. Im glad I know that such small plants will make it through our harder winters.

Surprising my white sapotes also made it through with most of their leaves and are pushing a second flush of new grown already this year.

Quote from: brian on June 23, 2023, 03:32:55 PM

I am not sure how well eugenias tolerate dry indoor air, but for sure they can be fruited in containers.  All my eugenias are in containers and are outside april through september and go in the greenhouse in winter

Notes from the 3% humidity mines: Most of the common varieties seem not to mind dry air indoors or out, although stipitata can get a little touchy. Pitomba and pitangatuba don't care. Most jaboticaba don't seem to care as long as the soil stays moist. I can't imagine any of them mind humid conditions either.

EDIT: I've actually had all of these growing inside just fine during winter when they were small, and some of them have moved back outside for the summer, so I know it's possible. Some of them prefer a lot of light though, and do better in the sun than grow lights ime. But they'll need light over winter.