Eugenia condolleana (forum)

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Anybody have any experience with sprouting these?
Mine seem to have rotted at the tip after breaking the soil, even after I got them out of the humidity box I'd set up. Bummer as I only had a few.
Rio grande and cambuca have come up okay in identical conditions with sterile seed mix etc.
Any ideas?
Al

Time: 25th November 2015 4:21pm

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Don says...
Candolleana shouldn't be too hard, just keep in shade and keep a bag over top of pot to keep humidity there. Sometimes I have found town water will not help either as the chemicals tend to leave a residue as it dries and these stick to growing tip and burn it aswell.keep a dish of water under it in the hot weather too.

Time: 6th December 2015 6:04am

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MIke T1 says...
They are easy to sprout unless seeds are old.Older seeds can take many months to germinate.

Time: 13th December 2015 11:26am

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S t a r l i n g says...
I've never met any Eugenia that wasn't exceptionally easy to germinate...almost impossible to get wrong.

Time: 13th December 2015 11:03pm

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Don says...
Haha, you havnt met Eugenia mosenii then! Over 12 months and only two germinated out of ten. The rest are easy. I sent you a tff pm the other day too mate

Time: 14th December 2015 8:09pm

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MIke T1 says...
I germinated E.moseni and it took a long time.

Time: 15th December 2015 10:00pm

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S t a r l i n g says...
Nope, haven't tried E. Moseni.

Not a huge fan of the genus. They're ok, but I wouldn't preference them over Garcinias for example. I'm fairly unforgiving with fruits though.

Yeah I got your message Don, admittedly I'd forgotten all about them. I Don't really trade anymore and I've been having major headaches with my little composite planters side project (4 hours per planter is way too long, I need to cut down my work input to make the exercise worthwhile). I sent the kakadu plums yesterday.

Time: 16th December 2015 10:00am

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Don says...
No worries Luke thanks very much. Have a merry Christmas.
Don

Time: 17th December 2015 6:13pm

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Al says...
Thanks for responses guys.
I've found that a few of the sprouts I thought had rotted off have regrown from lower down the stem, so I have a few coming along okay now.
My problem in retrospect was babying them too much - providing a heat source and high humidity - as they've done much better being left outdoors in a shady spot as Don suggested. Because I 'invested' in these seeds from o/s I changed my usual germination style and promptly killed a bunch of them.
Oh well, live and learn :)
Happy holidays all!

Time: 23rd December 2015 3:15pm

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Don says...
Haha, I'm hearin ya! I lost heaps till I learnt to just leave them alone. Just some osmocote azalea mix and megatube and water every second day in this weather and they pop up pretty well.
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Time: 23rd December 2015 4:16pm

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denise1 says...
If you have chlorinated water causing dieback, you can leave the tapwater in a bucket for a day for the chlorine to dissipate before watering. Just the same you would do for preparing water for the fishtank. I have installed a chlorine filter for watering the garden

Time: 23rd December 2015 7:06pm

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