My usual vendor is Burnt Ridge Nursery and they don’t charge for shipping when replacing an item. The other was One Green World.
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Thank you, good to know. I have bought things from Burnt Ridge over the years. I’ve had good luck with Stark Brothers replacing things with no shipping charges for replacements.
@jamie did you have other bad experiences with Top Tropicals? They seem to be the only place I can buy and ship a Maher star fruit.
Careful with that. Just looked and i only see seedlings of maher star fruit. So not grafted
Correct. It is a seedling and not exactly what I want, but I’m fine growing out a seedling as long as it’s healthy and from the right plant. And, I should add, dwarf. I guess I should call and find out how the seedlings do from a dwarfing standpoint.
Well if its a seedling its probablt not the “right plant” in that its only half of the plant you want
i would not order from them again, hopefully you have better luck with them than i did.
I have no interest ordering and hoping for the best, if you’ve had multiple bad experiences! Thanks for sharing.
@snarfing I don’t understand seed genetics beyond basics (maybe not even that?) but it’s a self fertile plant, so I would think it shares more than 50% genes? It’s all moot if the nursery is not reliable.
I bought a “Honeycrisp” from Stark Brothers in the fall of 2021. I suspected last year (fall 2024) that it was not a Honeycrisp but the only fruit it set, dropped in early August. This year it set several fruit and I let them hang until Mid-September. I contacted Stark Brothers with pictures and they confirmed it was not a Honeycrisp, it is suspected to be a golden russet. They are sending a replacement next spring. They were also gracious enough to change to a semi-dwarf instead of the dwarf that I ordered.
Oh im not familiar with star fruit. If thats how it works this might be fine. Think of tomatoes which are also self fertile: heirloom tomatoes have been bred to be true to type, so their seeds will be pretty close to the parent. Whereas other tomatoes like f1 crosses will not be true to type, and child can be quite unsimillar…
Think of it like if they have 2 coppies of D, DDxDD always = DD. But if theyre Dd then 25% of the time youll get dd. Except its like that for every genem
You folks know stuff I never heard of.
starfruit seeds are monoembryonic and are not true to type, perhaps that’s why i only see grafted varieties sold at nurseries
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Dwarfism is a really undesirable trait in the wild and it is very very likely to be highly recessive.
Even a dwarf parent will probably produce mostly non-dwarf offspring most of the time
This is only speaking in generalities, I have no idea about star fruit heritability specifically
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