The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yeah it isn't even unpleasant for me I'm just lazy.  If this El Bumpo isn't absolutely amazing I'm replacing it with my Geffner atemoya which is nice and fruits without effort

Darn I thought you were saying you grew one.  I was gonna say congrats, I still have not succeeded at pollinating mine yet after a few years of half-assed trying.

This should put out a flower pretty soon, right?  And do I cut off all the pups except one?   

It is in a 20gal container, and is about 10ft tall

Have you tried key limes in the tree-ripened yellow stage? That's when their flavor really is outstanding and pretty different from Persian limes IMO.

Yup!  I picked a bunch of persian, key, giant-key limes at stages from green to yellow.  There was a large taste difference between green and yellow stages of each, but yellow persian tasted like yellow key, green to green, and so on.  Again... I'm willing to accept its just me that can't tell the difference and others may be able to

Thanks for the report.  I had seen this for sale and figured, because of appearance, that it would be much like pitangatuba.

Thank you.  I want to try rambutans again sometime, I will probably get a bunch of seeds and try various bagged composts and heavy soils and also try planting directly into the soil in my greenhouse, just to see if anything works.  Clearly the potting mix I use for every other tree is just not to their liking.

The solution is to have so many plants you forget what is fruiting or what even exists, and then randomly stumbling across ripe fruit onr plants you forgot you had

How long from flower to edible fruit?

A month or less I think, they mature pretty quickly

The fresh seeds seem to sprout readily.  I throw them in the pot of the tree it came from and always find them sprouting. 

The pitangatubas I've eaten so far had a taste that reminds me of sweet&sour soup.  If the texture was more like pitanga/surinam it could be a really good fruit.  It feels like the flesh is a bag around the seed rather than a solid fruit.  There might be some seedlings that are less fibrous and more fleshy that could be propagated. 

Mine often fall off the tree before they are fully orange, also.  Not sure how common this is.

Yes I watered them

Gah, I just experienced something like this.  I brought a bunch of citrus and eugenias out of the greenhouse as low temps were in the 40s.  It was cloudy/rainy/windy/overcast the entire time.

A half dozen eugenias and a couple citrus with tender new growth took damage when it was about 48F the first night!  Eugenias that can take freezing temps sustained cold damage while, ex. lemons and limes that can't handle any frost did fine with their hardened leaves.  Some of the tender growth only wilted and then recovered once warm again, but a few took permanent damage and their new growth blacked and died.

So, not only is sun shock a risk but cold shock on tender new growth is a risk even for plants that can tolerate freezing

Wow, thank you so much for pointing out this thread.  My experience matches exactly... plants are in a greenhouse (glazing blocks UV entirely), it has been overcast and wet for a week, and only ilama affected not other annonas.

I guess I can try moving the container/grafted one outside the greenhouse during the day.  I can't move the in-ground one, it might end up that it is impossible to grow ilama in a greenhouse because of UV requirements!  That would be unusual, never heard of such a thing

Guys he posted this in February.  I doubt he still has any left