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Hi everyone.
I'm a rare fruit collector based in QLD Australia. I have around 158 species (I think, at last count...at this point I'd rather not know lol). My main interests are fruiting cacti, and hylocereus, or dragonfruit. I have one of the largest collections of these in Australia. I also collect fingerlimes and have 15 varieties, mostly yellows, red and pinks, and opuntia varieties, the rarest of which being a luther burbanks type which is the only kind he developed for fruit quality. It is not spineless.
I love trading seeds, especially internationally, and I'm a very experienced seed swapper. I have traded with many South American collectors and growers in particular, a lot of Mexican collectors also.
So that's what I'm good at--what I'm not, is growing vegies. I'm trying to improve in this category, but as it stands anything more complicated than peppers and tomatoes is pretty much beyond me. So hopefully I can learn what I'm doing wrong here lol. I'd like to trade for obscure temperate species if possible--Australia isn't lacking in exotic tropical fruits, but the state of temperate stuff here isn't going to hold a candle to what's available in places like the uk.
Thanks guys, look forward to jumping in.
I'm a rare fruit collector based in QLD Australia. I have around 158 species (I think, at last count...at this point I'd rather not know lol). My main interests are fruiting cacti, and hylocereus, or dragonfruit. I have one of the largest collections of these in Australia. I also collect fingerlimes and have 15 varieties, mostly yellows, red and pinks, and opuntia varieties, the rarest of which being a luther burbanks type which is the only kind he developed for fruit quality. It is not spineless.
I love trading seeds, especially internationally, and I'm a very experienced seed swapper. I have traded with many South American collectors and growers in particular, a lot of Mexican collectors also.
So that's what I'm good at--what I'm not, is growing vegies. I'm trying to improve in this category, but as it stands anything more complicated than peppers and tomatoes is pretty much beyond me. So hopefully I can learn what I'm doing wrong here lol. I'd like to trade for obscure temperate species if possible--Australia isn't lacking in exotic tropical fruits, but the state of temperate stuff here isn't going to hold a candle to what's available in places like the uk.
Thanks guys, look forward to jumping in.
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