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Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« on: November 17, 2017, 03:00:08 AM »
Recently, the Eugenia candolleana thread came up and I decided to read through it. I thought it was interesting how even five years ago, there weren't that many people that had the personal experience of eating this fruit.  Even some of the heavy hitters on this forum seems to only have tried it relatively recently.  The reviews in general was pretty much everyone that had some went nuts over there because they were so tasty.

My question to those that have had candolleana and probably have had other eugenias/plinias to try since then (five years can either be a very short or long time depending on persepctive).  Does the reviews of candolleana still stand or have you fruit eaters found other Eugenias (and its like) that that blew it out of the water.  If so, what are those fruits?

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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2017, 08:02:21 AM »
I have watched my bush flower now for 3 years and right now I have about 12 fruits holding for the
first time. I am not a real patient person. I was convinced I needed 2 for pollination but have been unsuccessful
growing another bush but will keep trying, hopefully with my own seeds! Is it just me or does everything I grow
taste better automatically. One advantage I see is it fruits in the fall. My grumichama, cor, pitomba all produce in
the spring.

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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2017, 09:14:31 AM »
I'm interested in hearing more on this too.  I get flowering off and on throughout the year but poor fruit set on my one tree.  The birds think this fruit is pretty good as well.
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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2017, 11:11:28 AM »
Here, 2 years old, flowering and fruiting continously. A must have fruit very juicy, sweet and good flavor. my daughter loves it. As it is a wild species you got a lot a variation in taste shape and sweetness. They love potassium, i give them plenty of it. can only compare it to uniflora and stipitata, love them both equal, flavor is so different. From my opinion eugenia candolleana is more consensual in term of flavor comparing uniflora and stipitata

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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2017, 12:42:25 PM »
I love them , planted several more and all flowering now ( I think I have 5 in total now , 3 fruiting ) here they give 2 x a year , the best fruits are in the dry season .
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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2017, 03:54:12 PM »
They have exceeded expectations and have a firmer texture than most congenors.I am a tough critic with Eugenias and I would only place E.lutescens ahead of it from all the species I have tried.

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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2017, 04:49:01 PM »
i still think E. uniflora (zill dark), and E. involucrata (large fruited type) are my fav eugenias for eating out of hand.  I do like the E. candolleanas, but not quite as much.

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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2017, 04:58:41 PM »



Depends on the variety of E.uniflora and really ripe brazil orange is good compared to the darks and standards I have tried and I am optimistic about my Lolita.I am too hot for corg and chopped the fruitless trees down.

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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2017, 04:22:10 AM »
I have about a dozen large rainforest plums (E. candolleana). What i notice about them is, like someone already said, there is a whole lot of variation in taste, but not so much in size or shape. Some are really excellent and others have a kind of an off taste. They are all extremely productive here. The plants were slow growing at first and then get into turbo charge mode.
I just got to taste some other excellent eugenias in Brazil. One is a surinam called nude. No it is not a topless surinam.  ;D ;D  Nude means cream colored in portuguese. It was very sweet with zero resin taste. Another excellent surinam was a dwarf  round shaped surinam. Another excellent one was a sweet selection of uvaia. I will try to post separate threads on these as time permits.
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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2017, 04:47:55 PM »
He is a picture of a few fruit I harvested recently.
I found the more oval fruits have small seeds (like the ones in the picture) and the rounder ones have larger ones.


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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2017, 05:45:33 PM »
Mine ( candolleana?) are about 3 millimeters, almost invisible, and tasteless.
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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2017, 06:41:34 PM »
I have 3 fruiting trees; I too find that some fruits are really sweet with a nice plum like texture while others are bland with a watery taste; what is really puzzling is that this happens even with fruits picked at the same time.
The good tasting ones do pay off for the 'bad' ones.
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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2017, 06:52:28 PM »
Mine ( candolleana?) are about 3 millimeters, almost invisible, and tasteless.

A strange thing happen to mine a few weeks earlier.
Half of each tiny fruit turn black, at this stage I ate one and it didn't taste great.
Eventually they started to grow fast and those black spots stretched to red

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Re: Reflections on Eugenia candolleana-Five years on
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2017, 09:09:41 PM »
Mine ( candolleana?) are about 3 millimeters, almost invisible, and tasteless.
Sounds like aborts. The smallest of the small won't ripen at that size.
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