12 NEW ULTRA RARE GARCINIA FRUIT TREE UNBOXING

[@courtneynewey]

Wow! I love the garcinia family and had no clue there were so many varieties!

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Hundreds! Arguable the best tasting fruit family in the world. Hard to argue in my opinion, am yet to find one I didn't love.

[@maggiewang8861]

Just bought 2 similar small plants that were made by Steve but sold by an unprofessional lady. Currently nothing grows with only 2 half yellowed leaves remaining, so I realised they should have been grown under the shade cloth in the past, so they haven't sunlight hardened yet, and the seller should tell this to the buyer when selling them!

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Garcinia's do grow very slow. And yes most small plant's need shade cloth as they are not hardy enough to tolerate full sun. Hope yours survives. Good luck.

[@tristannugent409]

Mine me asking where you purchased these plants?

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Local grower in Northern Australia. His name is Steve Trenerry

[@fruitsmoothie]

@@mytropicalfruitforestlife Awesome! Thanks for the info. Amazing collection.

[@Heyheygday]

How are your Russell sweet looking after winter?

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

The baby seedlings died :( But my grafted varieties have grown over winter pushing new growth. Will give an update soon.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Bravo! This helps me with my Daleys purchases :) Hope they all do well for you and fruit soon!

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Good ol Daleys :) Not sure about any cold hardiness of them down in Melbourne though.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

@@mytropicalfruitforestlife By far achacha is the easiest garcinia to grow down here, almost doubling in size over summer, survives winter in a greenhouse. Imbe and mandruno have remained on pause for the entire spring/summer, purple and yellow mangosteen went bye bye quick.

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

@@RealLifeFruitopia Purple is very difficult even in Brisbane. It's very fussy needs hot humid climate. I agree Achacha is very hardy. I don't bother to protect the small seedlings here over winter anymore. It's brilliant and tastes so good too!

[@TuppyMSM]

Cool

[@johannesels5288]

Wow wow wow, I have recently fallen in love with Garcinia and enjoy this video. Are you up in North QLD? Where do I get my hands on those beauties?❤️

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

No SEQLD, up north is the place you want to be to grow them. Ask around different nurseries they stock them here. Otherwise check facebook groups. Plenty sellers there. Good luck :)

[@mauroc7611]

I got seeds of Garcinia Intermedia or lemon drop mangosteen . Waiting they grow soon.

[@stephaniearnold2775]

When homegrowers have to come to terms with the reality of how much our addictions are worth lol

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Insert cry face emoji haha

[@jolus6678]

looks like macrophylla has small leaves and macrocarpa has small fruit 😤😆

[@HFTLMate]

I am so confused, Garcinia Humilis, that looks to be synonymous with Gardneriana. And what about Intermedia and Brasiliensis? Are they synonymous? Can anyone shine light on this?

[@nataliacontreras5549]

Ibacurú - garcinia macrophylla Bacuripari - garcinia benthamiana Bacupari - garcinia brasiliensis Bacuri - platonia insignia ( Amazon related and similar taste to the garcinia macrophylla, but much bigger size “giant”)

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Bacupari wikipedia says Garcinia Gardneriana. Brasiliensis everyone calls the standard or superior Lemondrop Mangosteen no?

[@nataliacontreras5549]

@@mytropicalfruitforestlife from what I understand from the experts in Brazil, the true bacupari is Gardneariana, but there another variation which is also called Bacupari but is Garcinia Brasiliensis, but lemon drop mangosteen is definitely garcinia intermedia

[@raden23]

Bar the squat and Peruvian mini I have all of those garcinia and from Steve aswell. I plan on grafting male and females on both forbesii and Rsw but I do have 2 of each of those. And the plan for all of mine are to stay in pots. With a good system in place they should all be able to fruit in pots. Good luck on yours!

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Thank you, good luck to you too! Pretty game of you to try keeping them in pots. Where do you like, you'll have to watch watering if you live in a dry hot climate. I'm not at the grafting stage of anything yet. Still accumulating haha Expecting a couple grafted plants soon though, so hopefully I can have some fruiting in a year or 2.

[@wildforestorganics7298]

I have a similar collection of seedling garcinias. I'm still looking to get Lindero and Luc's when I can find/afford them.

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

2 of the best apparently, good luck :)

[@mathewbacsik8681]

Where do you live? Let everyone know how the gacinia’s go in your climate

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

I'm in Brisbane, will give updates when I eventually get around to it. I repotted some, and they didn't do so well so will keep them protected over our mild winters here.

[@sydneyfruitgardening]

Great instant garcinia collection!! (From Steve?) Do you think you got a male and female RSW? Totally agree that the taxonomy of garcinia is so mixed up, eg as you say madrono by Daley’s is actually intermedia! My grafted Lucs hasn’t done anything since I got it but they can be slow..

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Yeah Steve again. He said male and female, but I already have 1 grafted female russels sweet from another bloke so I should be sorted. I've had it for 1year now, was slow for a few months, and looked fine over winter then as spring came it dropped off its only 2 leaves. Has bounced back now with 2 sets of leaves and some lateral shoots starting to push out. I have a Madruno Rheedia that JUST set a ripe fruit. I ate it... definitely intermedia. I think that was a different nursery tho, not daleys so everyones mixing them up.

[@sydneyfruitgardening]

@@mytropicalfruitforestlife the RSW are temperamental. Mine, from someone else, didn’t do well and died. The female looked on the way out upon arrival, perhaps didn’t enjoy the trip through the post. The male survived winter but dies in spring. I moved on to other garcinia after that!! Too expensive lol.

[@willsgarden6740]

Haha dam you went all out. Very jealous of your collection :)

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

My plant bank acc is way overdrawn haha I think I'm done with the big purchases now. Stick to 1 off purchases, and finding some grafted ones so I don't have to wait so long.

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

Isnt Mundu Garcinia Dulcis? whereabouts are you based?

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Yes it is, but Xanthacymus also known as the yellow mangosteen essentially has the exact same looking fruit and tree. Same shape colour leaves etc. Both are more on the sour side, so I'm not 100% on them. I need to try both fruit myself to compare one day.

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

Brissie

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

@@mytropicalfruitforestlife Do you know Josh ? He did a Mundu Vid a while ago of a Sweet Fruit near you over 20yo - Ive got a couple from him but very slow down south but do survive winter.

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

@@melbournesubtropicfruits9474 No I've only met a few guys in the game. I'm still pretty new, only at it for 3years. Is he a local?

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

@@mytropicalfruitforestlife Her link Josh Morris kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnXYY42rpM10qqs

[@kgtropicalflavors]

Nice collection Tim. I just bought a Lemondrop a few days ago.

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

Naughty but I love it.

[@mytropicalfruitforestlife]

This purchase is for Educational purposes only ;)