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04-23-2011, 02:56 PM | #521 (permalink) |
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Thanks Rae for all that information on Star Fruit!!!! I had found a few articles on it myself before I wanted to try growing them. I also encourage anyone that wants to, give it a try they are sprouting for me very easily.
More star fruit sprouting! ~JaNan
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Those are cool looking fruit Janan! Congratulations on the sprouts
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You’re more than welcome, JaNan.
I very much appreciate your showing us the star fruit seedling pictures in this thread. Just recently, I observed a container-grown star fruit tree, grown outdoors year round in a warm climate and loaded with star fruits. The tree was kept at a manageable height and in, I would say, a shady area. I was really inspired to grow my own star fruit trees since my children love eating star fruits. I just haven’t started my own seedlings yet. Congratulations on more star fruit seedlings. Keep them coming…
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Where can you get star fruit?
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Cam,
I have seen them in Publix, Kroger, Ingles (local American grocery stores) and the Super H, the Great Wall and Assi (oriental grocery stores). For a small one, the star fruit is like a dollar a piece. I only buy them sparingly when they are in season.
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Thanks Rae. I may try an Asian market here. Because I've never seen them in my local kroger
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Thanks Rae, for all the great information about Star Fruits. Now I wanna grow some too.
Terrific pics, JaNan! Thanks too for letting us know that the key limes and tiny Mexican limes come true from seed. Great you picked up a Blue Princess and Blue Prince Holly, Olaf! They are the hybrid offspring of the original Hollies in the Blue Holly series, called Blue Girl and Blue Boy. Yes, it is true that a male and female are required for pollination. Note that you will only get fruit on the female Princess Olaf, and not the male Prince. The shrubs are slow growing but they'll grow faster in the sun. You can also prune them between May and September for more dense growth. So cool you picked them up, Olaf! Princess is one of the most ornamental Holly shrubs around. Check out this thread, you may find interesting... Thank you Hollyberrylady!!!! We can discuss Holly shrubs further there, or here too... Evergreen plants... I'd just love to see pics of your new Hollies. Too cool that you are growing my favorite! |
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If you'd like to learn more about Citrus, here is the premier resource:
UCR: Citrus Variety CollectionWhile growing up in Redlands CA, we would occasionally visit with this relative of ours: University of California: Howard B. Frost, In Memoriam, December 1970
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Baby Winterberry sprouts. : ) |
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Richard, in our grocery stores here we have several choices from tiny to large in limes. The ones I was referring to are labeled Mexican and Key, with a marked difference in each. The tiniest of these two are Mexican, not much larger than a quarter. The Key labeled lime is about double that in size. They are both Mexican/Key limes but they are not hybrids, they are polyembryonic seed and grow true to seed. I was stating it the way they are labeled so Dean would know. A limequat is a hybrid here and it will not grow true from seed.
I have several citrus that I am growing from seed. Orange, Lime, Lemon, and Kumquat! They are in different stages of sprouting: Kiwi and that is a new lemon seed I just put in Friday Another Mango I think 100% of the star fruit have germinated! ~J
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Two of the Star Fruit are standing tall this morning! One has already shed the seed coat and has started growing it's second set of leaves. They are beautiful, very feathery looking!!!
Update - I love this Mango seedling, all shiny and fake looking: ~J
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Star Fruit - These are going to be beautiful trees!
Two more standing up and shedding seed coats! ~J
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Yup, I was told those were the purple castor bean variety. The sprouts are very attractive looking. Good for you Cam.
Olaf, next time just send your seeds loosely in the bag with no tape, because the moisture on the tape made some of them split and some of them were even beginning to germinate! No worries though because I got a few good ones out of the batch, but just so you'll know if you share your seeds with someone else in future. Gorgeous Hollies, by the way. Feed them with high Nitrogen all season long and mound them in the Fall. : ) |
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Sherry for some reason a couple of my castor beans wilted and are dying =( But one is looking very strong. The Passiflora Edulis seeds you sent are coming up. Its only been a couple of weeks. My other ones took over a month to sprout. Ill pics of it once it develops its first immature leaves
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