Getting real close with these guavas.
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Those donāt look like guajava or cattleianum leaves to meā¦ what species is it? The fruit also looks somewhere between those. I saw some talk on TFF recently about how many of the people who have been making available all these interesting guava seeds recently are growing them in close proximity and thereās a decent chance of getting unexpected hybrids. Wonder if maybe thatās what youāve got there?
EDIT: I see up-thread you mentioned that it is littoraleā¦ Iām pretty sure itās not, though. Hereās what that looks like usually:
Your guava has much more prominent/indented leaf veins, more like guajava (but also a lot less so than guajava does). I could be wrong, but I think yours is either a mislabelled mystery species or an accidental hybrid.
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Iāll take some more pictures of it then. It being a hybrid or the wrong species would not be surprising.
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Yeah we were discussing how different his looks to both of my cattle/littorale
I think youāre right itās a hybrid of sorts. I saw Marcos had a few hybrids available but checking the foliage on those photos they donāt match up to @a_Vivaldi
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Sorry I wasnāt ignoring you I am just not very sure, I know they really like acidic conditions though. I would guess mimic the blueberry conditions as far as ph goes and they wonāt complain. My plinia arenāt happy enough for me to give advice to anyone haha
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Those look similar to mine now. Yeah my Barbie pink arenāt aromatic until they basically fall off the tree. I would assume the same with the littorale
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Yeah those angles do look more typical, I wonder if it was just a difference between leaves that developed indoors vs outside? The fruit still has more the rough look of guajava (and others) rather than the smoother look of cattleianum fruit, but I donāt know enough about them to know if thatās something that varies that much.
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The immature fruit is much rougher than these nearly ripe ones.
Iāll dig up some flowing photos, since those will also show indoor leaves.
Granted, even indoors I had them under pretty strong light, hence the flowing.
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Your stuff looks so healthy inside, what kind of grow lights you running?
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Much.
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I started with two of these, well, not quite these but I canāt find the ones I have:
Then I switched to two of these
The color isnāt perfect. While the guavas loved it, my fig leaves looked a little weird, but that may have been mites or something. Seedlings are the least leggy Iāve ever grown, though, again, my pepper plants have a bit of an odd color to them. Everything that Iāve mixed outside so far as hardened off really well too, since itās not much of a jump in intensity.
Real grow lights seem excessively expensive. I figured Iād compensate with just moar light, and bought the biggest check shop lights I could find.
My wife hates it because even with the door closed itās like I have the sun itself stored in that room, especially with all four going (the two old ones moved to a shelf for my citrus seedlings.
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I got another tetraploid and a solanum from that eBay seller, my wife is gonna divorce me one day because plants just keep showing up and I keep saying every purchase āthis is the last one, I am out of roomā
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Our wives should form a club, theyād have plenty to commiserate about together.
Do you have a trellis for those passifloras? You probably have less slug pressure than I do, but regardless, they donāt do well unless they can climb.
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I have a small one, but gonna grab a cattle panel I think. Yeah slugs kept eating my maypop last year but it finally got going only to be ate by that host butterfly caterpillar whoās name escapes me. But I didnāt mind that too much. Eventually it will be vigorous enough to support both I think
Luckily she is on board but gotta be irritating with my constant āI have everything I want finallyā hundred times laterā¦
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It has at least two host caterpillars. Gulf flitteries and zebra longwings. My yellow passiflora edulis is currently being eviserated by gulf flitteries at the moment. They seem to like my edible passionfruit more than my native corkystems.
What type of solanum did you get? I have a few, hoping my Solanum Sessiliflorum tastes good and handles the summer heat well. It hasnāt been happy with our dry sunny spring so far.
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Yeah these guys, and I mean en masse
I got abutiloides itās a dwarf. I donāt suspect to love any of the Solanum fruit, as I donāt even love tomatoes; and if not for my wife I doubt Iād even grow them. But solanum seem cool, any that youād specifically recommend
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https://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenAnoleFarms
This shop has cool stuff, if rare seedlings are your thing. No shipping to CA, AZ and TX so I posted it here instead of the Cali thread. Quite a few things Iāve had to search because Iāve never heard of it at all. Thatās why I like tropicals and subtropicals. There is a seemingly endless amount that Iāve never heard of, plus the endless possibilities of breeding hybrids etc
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Apparently that solanum is the same thing as dwarf tamarillo, which I have seeds of. The seeds I got used an old botanical name, Cyphomandra sibundoyensis. Didnāt know tamarillos were also solanums, makes sense though.
I donāt have any to recommend, I have a habit of buying stuff before tasting, and the only solanum that Iāve had fruit for me so far is apparently a bug favorite, because right before they get ripe the whole plant gets devoured (Wonderberry/Solanum burbankii). Other than tomatoes and Everglades tomatoes which are different species I guess.
That website has some good stuff, especially with free shipping.
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