It’s a psidium sp that I named skittles myself. I should have seeds

That’s awesome. I literally just did another update video about me buying the metal mesh bags to try out.

Thanks man. Glad to hear it’s working for you. They got every single one of my mangoes this year so I’ll have to protect them like you did yours. Very glad to know it worked! When they would eat your mandarins, would they take the whole thing or would they just eat the skin and leave the rest?

I think that’s a good idea but not sure if the strawberry container would bulge ot even close around the metal mesh, but I’m going to try it

Thanks so much. I’ll try and do one early this spring. I put most of them in the ground and there has been both success and failures with that, but I just couldn’t deal with all those containers anymore. Unfortunately, raccoons dug up about 20 of the rarest ones and I didn’t find them until they were already Beyond recovering, but we still have enough to make this spring one interesting. Stay tuned. ;)

@@FancyPlants Cant wait!

Oh cool. I have one called giant atis that’s an atemoya. I’ll have to hunt down what atis translates to!

Omg. Your winters must be BRUTAL!!!!!

@@FancyPlants Our growing season is from Memorial day through about the first week in September. But in that short season we get close to 24 hours of daylight and our temperatures average around 70 f. Things that can grow up here grow in credibly fast and can get large. I've gardened for 20 years here and grow a lot of root crops and greens, but have also grown tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, and corn as well as squash. I also grow strawberries and my family grows honeyberries. Some gardeners up here have successfully grown melons, and there have been some breeders growing apple trees. But we also have some spectacular wild berries in our wild blueberries, crowberries, cranberries, and cloudberries. I'm a photographer and during the winter I photograph a lot of snow crystals and snowflakes which keeps me active and enjoying the cold.

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That’s awesome. Let me know if it works. Somebody tipped me off that there are metal mesh bags for fruit now. When I was researching them, they only came in fabric so I just purchased some of the metal mesh bags because I had not known they were available.

oh tell me more about these stale pecans as bait... never heard that. I didn't know they made mesh metal bag protectors. I've only ever seen the fabric ones which are terrible and useless, so I just ordered some for delivery tomorrow and will quickly save any of these I can. I hear ya. It's like each year they get worse and worse.

Yes I have, but on the stuff closer to the ground. Didn't make a bit of difference for whatever reason. And I had to make sure never to work in the soil then touch my mouth, lol. I am designing new protectors on my 3D printer, but I think what I'll do for now is get the metal mesh bags I was just told about. Didn't know they had metal mesh one, only knew about the fabric ones... here we go!

@FancyPlants sad it didn’t work. Those rats are dedicated…metal mesh sounds like a good idea, I didn’t know they made bags with it, but if you need too I’m sure you could make your own.

i dont think humans did this lol im pretty sure humans dont chew through plastic to get to apples when they can just open the containers.

I have never even heard of bitrex, thanks for the tip!

Sounds very interesting. Where do you source your Bitrex though?

I will soon

Oh wow! Which ones are you growing? My goal is to study as many cold hearty ones as I can get my hands on. Hopefully any of the ones that I would be able to grow here maybe you could grow? What are your winters like in your part of Florida?

I don’t have quite that many yet to make a collection video, maybe only about 12 to 15 and a lot of them just came to me as SP. I’m waiting on a few from Bellamy to fruit. If I had more room, I would grow a lot more, especially in any of them that fall out of the psidium guajava group! All the others tend to be so unique. Which ones will you be growing? Hopefully I’ll get a whole lot of these growing on the farm one day.

@ I have 11 coming, but I saved seeds from an unknown green/ pink variety likely ruby supreme, Thai white, and Mexican guava. Also saved some from an unknown guava in my brothers new back yard. Hoping to grab seed from the other 3 unique plants he has. All unknown as of now. The ones coming from Bellamy are: psidium glaziovianum Psidium Pohlianum Psidium Grandifolium var. parvifolium Psidium sp. Pulcherrimum Psidium austral Psidium sp guayaba Lisa Psidium longipetiolatum Psidium decussatum Psidium nutans Psidium sorocabense Psidium spp do rio I hope you have many bountiful harvests in your future! Hoping I’ll be able to find even more variety soon!….my main issue is lack of income….and space…and cold Oregon climate….

Thanks so much! I'm glad I could bring a little sunshine to Alaska 😊 Hopefully you get to try some of them someday.

@@FancyPlants Yes, I love watching, someday maybe I'll get to try. My cousin is in LA and when I visited her a couple years ago she took me to a farmers market and getting to see some of the fruits they were harvesting even in the winter was incredible.

I'm going to save a few for myself this year but sell the rest. Won't have many at all of parviflora, but will have some. And many of emarginata. I'll either post to my etsy store or just hit me up on instagram messenger!

@ oh nice! I’ll see if I can find ya later on.

Enough people are showing interest that I may post some either right before or right after the holidays on my Etsy store or you can just contact me directly, most likely on Instagram messenger

Oh but I do love a good persimmon! Yum. I'll try to post seeds soon, probably after the holiday.

Soon, i'll try to update my etsy store soon after the holiday or just hit me up on one of the messengers and we'll chat.

@FancyPlants brilliant 👏

I’ve heard of Barbie pink but have never seen it available. There’s a neon orange one I’m growing and hear it’s great but won’t know for a few years.

I love both of those, though the ruby supremes that I have haven’t been mind blowing. Where do you live? You in Los Angeles? I’ll do a yard tour in the spring!

I’m with ya on lemon guava. Yum! I’ve heard Ruby supreme is pretty variable so I need to find a good one.

​@FancyPlants what about airlayering those branches as opposed to just cutting them off when pruning?