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These are the guys braving the elements. The little guys I have extras of in the greenhouse, the Manila Tamarind I don’t have space for (its a thorny monster) and it has firmly rooted itself in the ground. I’ll trim it up in spring and then pull it out of the ground, but I don’t want to do that before the cold.
I have space for more seed pots and small seedlings, but nothing bigger than that in the greenhouse. I have to buy 10-20 7+ gallon pots next year, its time to let these guys grow.
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I had no idea a tamarind was so thorny. I’m leaving my Australian finger lime out this year, it stays so riddled with scale of one form or another and loads of dieback from every sort of factor. It’s sink or swim for it this year.
Manila Tamarind (Pithecellobium dulce) and Tamarind/o (Tamarindus indica), while both beans, are not closely related. I thought they were at least kind of close, but it turns out they aren’t even in the same subfamily. Manila Tamarind is also from the Americas apperently, which makes it even more confusing when all the youtube videos about it were in India.
There is actually a native Florida Keys cousin in the same genus as Manila Tamarind. I’ll have to look into that.
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Nothing I have had any cold damage (we got down to probably 37-39° which isnt that cold). My tomatoes looked droopy, but it was from lack of water (my sprinkler was messing up for a few days). I accidently left a soursop outside and it has started to lose leaves, but I wouldn’t say dormancy is damage.
At the nursery, some surprising things got a little fried. The malays and wax apples all have crinkly leaves, which is a shock to me. I have an inground one that I didn’t cover that is perfectly fine, and its only about a foot tall. Arabica coffee and noni also have a fair bit of cold damage, and one blackberry jam had some mild damage but it has already bounced back. All the soursops and hog plums have started to go dormant. Other than some new growth getting fried on a mango here or there, no other damage. Didn’t get as cold as expected.
Nothing in the greenhouse was affected, however I didn’t water my blackberry jam and its leaves got all crispy real fast. So I probably need to water more often while everything is in the greenhouse.
manila tamarind’s name i am familiar with is guamuchiles, which i think is what most people call it in the americas. might find more american content with that name ( ive never heard of manila tamarind and when i looked it up it looked familiar)
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I typically use the name I bought something as. This makes it easier to go through my notes and reciepts. It is also called guamuchils as you said. There is pink and white fleshed varieties, but I have no idea what I have or if the two will even be the same.
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Did some uppotting yesterday. 2 Thai Guava (Psidium sp.) seedlings from fruit I had, a Pouteria salicifolia, a Lemondrop Mangosteen (Garcinia intermedia), 4 Gin berries (Glycosmis pentaphylla), a fig and probably a Wild Coffee (Psychotria nervosa). I also moved my Junglesops (Anonidium mannii) and germinating pawpaw seeds into treepots.
There is a non-0 chance the Lemondrop is true Mangosteen or Achacha, but I’m pretty sure its Lemondrop.
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@Gkight how did your kei apple cuttings do? Did they root easily? I will probably be getting some from Marta if she has them availible this year.
anyone doing dragonfruit in the northern east coast? I’m thinking of trying a self fertile one in a pot i bring inside
Josh “the plant techie” on social media who has an extensive container garden in NC had one. Looked like a massive endeavor with a whole trellis built into the container. They are a cool looking fruit but so light in actual flavor, I can’t imagine it’s worth the hassle to attempt to grow it in a container?
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I enjoy growing cactus and I do think some cultivars are allegedly quite good and flavorful. I mean i guess time would tell lol
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I had a few for years. I got flowers a couple times but no fruit.
Also, due to my climate I had to move them indoors and back out each year. It was the most annoying plant to do this with as it is basically a vining cactus. I’d end up with needles all over and this was after trying to wrap them up before making the move (down stairs into my basement and back up and out again).
After years of this I decided these could just be left out and die one winter.
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Mine didn’t root, but I wasn’t diligent enough. I’m excited to hear if you have better success than I did.
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I had the same idea but after one season it was hundreds of pounds, and not easy to move. So I planted mine in my greenhouse and just added irrigation. So far just one flower, but I cannot recommend one for bringing inside unfortunately.
African Peach (Nauclea latifolia) cuttings I’m trying to root. Seller said they were as easy as figs to root, I guess I’ll see if thats true. I also have cuttings off my Ceylon Gooseberry (Dovyalis hebecarpa) and Tropical Apricot (Dovyalis hebecarpa x abyssinica) that I am trying to root in water.
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I am going to be grafting to this guy this year. Do I need to prune all the side branches off if I want to prune to the center? Or can I leave some? I will be trimming off some of them. I am not sure how well the graft will take if the other branches are also growing, I just don’t know enough about grafting and loquats. I also could graft to one of the side branches if that is a better option.
Basically the same question, but for feijoa. I will more than likely have to graft to the main stem (depending on scionwood size). I will be trimming off some, just wanted to know if it will have to be all of them.
For both of them, I would like to keep some side branches for additional grafting in the future, but if its not possible, thats fine. I also have a smaller seedling loquat I could probably graft to instead if I would have to remove everything on the big one.
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Wow i didn’t know it! I will try to do it too with red and yellow fleshed african peach! Thanks!
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Ok, getting some good hardiness information now that we’ve had a bunch of nights in the 20s, one night down to 16 F, and some warm days for damage to start showing. And it’s still December, yikes.
Psidium longipetiolatum is for sure hardier than P. robustum or P. cattleianum. Cherry of the Rio Grande handing things surprisingly well.
Longipetiolatum
Robustum
CoRG
Cattleianum
Guabiju is looking pretty rough, but a little better than most of the guavas other than longipetiolatum.
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