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Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« on: May 28, 2020, 09:43:16 AM »
It's been a long wait, but it's finally happening.  Spotted many more of these buds on several branches.  Pretty excited!







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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2020, 09:53:57 AM »
Nice!  From my experience, the flowers are not perfect. I have seen ants on my flowers but no fruit set. If you get males and females, hand pollinate.
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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2020, 09:58:01 AM »
How old is the tree?

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2020, 04:05:35 PM »
Damn Brandon!  Stomp on my dreams man!!  LOL!  Plant is at least 13.  It's planted directly into the ground inside the greenhouse.

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2020, 04:45:21 PM »
Thanks for setting yourself up so nicely for a stomping! Better to tear the band-aid off. At least now you will do all you can to get fruit. Here is another kicker, one of the flowering madruno trees I know of put out 11 males and only a single female flower on its last flowering. You are welcome for yet another thing to keep you up at night, muahahahaha!

My tree flowered at around 6 - 7 years from seed. So far all female flowers on my tree. No fruit yet.
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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2020, 01:16:36 AM »
That is really exciting.  Congratulations!  Please keep us posted. How big is the plant

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2020, 09:54:28 AM »
12-13 feet tall.

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2020, 03:04:37 AM »
Excellent, what color and shape are you expecting? If you know

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2020, 06:36:43 PM »
madronos are round and bright yellow with prickly skin.

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2020, 06:46:53 PM »
madronos are round and bright yellow with prickly skin.

13 years old :'( Any sign of fruit setting? What is the difference between Madruno and Acuminata?!

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2020, 07:40:38 PM »
madronos are round and bright yellow with prickly skin.

13 years old :'( Any sign of fruit setting? What is the difference between Madruno and Acuminata?!

Garcinia madruno generally has a more roundish shape, there's a few cv. of this documented. Leaves are larger than G. acuminata.

Garcinia acuminata fruit is pointier or acute as per the epithet of this species. I have also seen this referred to as Rheedia bentameriana

Another one of the specimens I found was Rheedia sp. 'Possum 2' / Rheedia acuminata, which was presumably progeny from Bill Whitman's famous charichuela from Iquitos, Peru (1963).

This species can also hybridize with other Garcinia resulting in different colored fruit.
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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2020, 11:19:28 PM »
madronos are round and bright yellow with prickly skin.

13 years old :'( Any sign of fruit setting? What is the difference between Madruno and Acuminata?!

Garcinia madruno generally has a more roundish shape, there's a few cv. of this documented. Leaves are larger than G. acuminata.

Garcinia acuminata fruit is pointier or acute as per the epithet of this species. I have also seen this referred to as Rheedia bentameriana

Another one of the specimens I found was Rheedia sp. 'Possum 2' / Rheedia acuminata, which was presumably progeny from Bill Whitman's famous charichuela from Iquitos, Peru (1963).

This species can also hybridize with other Garcinia resulting in different colored fruit.

Thanks for the info! I wonder if there is a taste difference in the fruit? Or if one fruits faster than the other?

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2020, 07:55:45 AM »
Blooms have not opened just yet.  As for setting fruit?  According to Dr. Doom himself, Brandon  :'(, it is unlikely there will be any fruit set this first year.

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2020, 09:03:15 AM »
Blooms have not opened just yet.  As for setting fruit?  According to Dr. Doom himself, Brandon  :'(, it is unlikely there will be any fruit set this first year.

Let's not think that way!! It is possible to have fruit set so let's go with that positive thinking :P

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Re: Garcinia madronos finally blooming
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2020, 09:55:48 AM »
Misery loves company!

In the upper right and lower right, you will see the fruitlets that formed on my madruno, bumpy with four distinct quarters. These aborted after a month or two. I don't think they were truly pollinated. 


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