First fruit: Rollinia

[echinopora]

Just harvested my first home grown rollinia. Thought I would share some pics from seedling to fruit


21/02/2015- newly planted rollinia on right and soursop on left by fence




27/11/2015- espalier frame installed




22/12/2016- setting fruit, no hand pollenation


















17/03/2017
Picked the first one, still setting more fruits. Unfortunately the flavor was not the best, sweet but not alot of the lemony tang I have had in other rollinia.  On the plus side it set heavily without any hand pollenation,  few seeds and firmer flesh. Hopefully the taste improves with age.

And bonus, the neighboring soursop has set 4 fruits on its own.

[forumfool]

Very cool. Never had Rollina but have had soursop and love that.

That is a cool looking duck too (muscovy?)

[Vernmented]

I love what you are doing with the espalier. How do you have your dragonfruit trellised? I have seen some really neat looking dragonfruit trellises but they never seem to have as much fruit as the single posts. I have a bunch of varieties i need to put in and little space but I was leaning towards pouring some cement posts.

[fruitlovers]

Nice work. Nice garden.
Yes the first fruiting is usally not very good with rollinia. Also taste can be affected by rainfall even for mature trees.

[Future]

This is encouraging.  My 4 year old seedling flowered this year for the first time.  Still small tree, no fruit set.

[echinopora]

The df are on a concrete post and rail. The vertical posts are 6ft tall from ground level and the rails 8ft long. I was gifted a concrete mixer (one of those l've no place to store this so I'll keep it at your place but still come use it whenever I want kind of things) that has poured alot of cement in the 3 years since we moved in. They have not grown in all the way but this year we have so far gone through 2 bloom cycles with about 80 fruit harvested, just starting to get flowers from the 3rd cycle.


9/10/15



27/11/15

[FruitFreak]

I love what you are doing with the espalier. How do you have your dragonfruit trellised? I have seen some really neat looking dragonfruit trellises but they never seem to have as much fruit as the single posts. I have a bunch of varieties i need to put in and little space but I was leaning towards pouring some cement posts.

Ive done a lot of deliberating on setting up a proper DF trellis for commercial production in SWFL and I keep coming back to this.  My question is what type/size of pipe or top rail is being utilized?

[FruitFreak]

Just harvested my first home grown rollinia. Thought I would share some pics from seedling to fruit


22/12/2016- setting fruit, no hand pollenation









Rob

Your trees look so healthy and happy.  Thanks for sharing the pics.