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Botany and Research => Botanical Information => Topic started by: SoulGrower on April 07, 2016, 08:26:17 PM

Title: Hello Yopo!
Post by: SoulGrower on April 07, 2016, 08:26:17 PM

So, I found this guy on CL with some bamboo I've been wanting to try out....

In his backyard, he had two 25-30 ft tall Anadenantheras.  Full of seed pods!  So, holy crap.. I guess these guys will do just fine in central florida! 

Interesting to learn to that this species is quickly stunted by restricting the tap root.  When I mentioned to him how  slow mine are growing.. he affirmed that they will grow very quickly if put in the ground.

Beautiful trees too.. at first I thought it was a silky floss bc the trunk had the serrated teeth, tho not as prominant.  But as I glanced up I quickly realized it was not a silky floss :-)

I will have to ask him how old they are.  We had a bad freeze (for us) about 8 years ago.  Be interesting to find out how low of temps these guys have seen.

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: Mangrove on April 07, 2016, 10:01:00 PM

Did he (or you) mention the possibility of starting a Yopo pod giveaway?  :D

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: SoulGrower on April 08, 2016, 12:07:29 AM

Oh Heck yeah buddy!  I def told him about STS  ;D  He would def fit right in and has been growing alot of interesting plants for some time now.

And even if he's not interested in joining, I'm sure he'd be cool if a collected a bunch of seeds to send out if there's any interest from the community.. I know they've been relatively abundant in the past

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: oplopanax on April 08, 2016, 01:22:39 AM

I would love a fresh pod!

I have heard that there is a species of Anandenanthera that someone has kept alive in the ground in England or something like that, Trout was talking about it... It was a specie I had never heard of...

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: Mangrove on April 08, 2016, 04:38:10 AM

Quote from: SoulGrower on April 08, 2016, 12:07:29 AM

Oh Heck yeah buddy!  I def told him about STS  ;D  He would def fit right in and has been growing alot of interesting plants for some time now.

And even if he's not interested in joining, I'm sure he'd be cool if a collected a bunch of seeds to send out if there's any interest from the community.. I know they've been relatively abundant in the past

I'm sure there's a lot of interested folks here who would love a yopo pod or four (your's truly included)!

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: Chicsa on April 08, 2016, 04:43:52 AM

I had thought mine died but it went dormant and spit out new leaves a few weeks ago :)

I would enjoy to try some from seed, never had luck so far. he got any tips?

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: Bach on May 02, 2016, 02:42:09 AM

Any luck there SoulGrower?

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: misplant on May 03, 2016, 08:23:06 PM

I keep looking for pods, all i see are fuzzballs

(http://i.imgur.com/qO0jtGg.jpg)

Title: Re: Hello Yopo!
Post by: Bach on May 04, 2016, 07:08:19 PM

Fuzzballs are good! They will eventually give way to pods.

But you knew that already...  ;D