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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Weboh on January 12, 2019, 09:40:39 PM
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I want to get more fruiting plants, but most of my yard is in the shade, and most of the shade can't be helped (neighbors' trees, houses, etc). I know most plants that flower and fruit basically require full sun—or more than my yard gets, anyway.
Are there any plants that would produce a decent amount of fruit in mostly shade in zone 10a?
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almost all garcinias and annonas prefer shade...
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Maybe not a large amount of fruit and the fruit is more of a novelty, but Monstera deliciosa/Ceriman grows in heavy to dappled shade.
Plants are available at garden centers I got a $10 pot at Home Depot which divided up into 10 new plants. They may take a year or more to mature and a year to ripen after flowering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL6xzDmiJY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL6xzDmiJY)
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That plant looks really interesting! Have you grown it before? Some places say to grow it as a vine and others as shrub. (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Split-leaf-Philodendron-LTL0049/3930145 (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Split-leaf-Philodendron-LTL0049/3930145)) (https://sowexotic.com/products/monstera-deliciosa (https://sowexotic.com/products/monstera-deliciosa)) I have seen a couple places in my neighborhood what looks like that vine growing on trees. They don't look very healthy though, and definitely don't have fruit:
(https://i.postimg.cc/R34T3zkj/IMG-20190114-102003.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/R34T3zkj)
(https://i.postimg.cc/bDvHT9Ng/IMG-20190114-102706.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bDvHT9Ng)
Or is the vine variety a different one? I've noticed most of the vine versions of that plant seem to be variegated. Do variegated plants just not have the energy to spare to make fruit?
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there are a few older post on this topic.
Look up shade tolerance
Here is a link i had bookmarked
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=3494.0 (http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=3494.0)
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Your photos are not Monstera, but the links are correct. As with all plants good care water and fertility will grow and fruit better. I have 35 Monstera and another 30 getting ready for planting it is making a good under story plant to occupy the shaded zone under dense fruit trees. Mine are 1 year old but neighboring vines have fruited in 2 years with 12 fruit each. There is an adolescent phase where the leaves are not split. The best material for propagation is an older vine. Chop the 1-1/2 inch diameter vine into 2 node segments and bury them 1/2 covered. If kept moist & warm the pieces will strike strong new vines fro dormant buds. It might take 6 months to get to good size. Last month a neighbor cut down and threw away 10- 15 feet of vine which would have made so many new plants I was sad to have missed the score.
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Maybe not a large amount of fruit and the fruit is more of a novelty, but Monstera deliciosa/Ceriman grows in heavy to dappled shade.
Plants are available at garden centers I got a $10 pot at Home Depot which divided up into 10 new plants. They may take a year or more to mature and a year to ripen after flowering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL6xzDmiJY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL6xzDmiJY)
That’s what I was going to suggest. Don’t know if I’d put them in a novelty category, have you eaten one? I mean I get why you might, but OMG one of the best tasting fruits I’ve ever eaten.
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There was a YouTube video observing a mango by a home grower in full shade that was fruiting. It was in Arizona, where temps exceed 110, so perhaps that helped.
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Its fruit was probably terrible though. Generally the more sunlight plants get, the sweeter the fruit. So you have to think about quality as well.
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I agree, probably would never get the superior fruit regardless of plant at complete shade. How high until there is sunlight?
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The plant pictured is Pothos, infamous among Florida gardeners as "The-Vine-From-Hell." Nothing edible.
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Jaboticaba fruits very well in bright indirect skylight, where the side of a building completely blocks the view of the sun, but no branches or eves overhang the tree.
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Maybe not a large amount of fruit and the fruit is more of a novelty, but Monstera deliciosa/Ceriman grows in heavy to dappled shade.
Plants are available at garden centers I got a $10 pot at Home Depot which divided up into 10 new plants. They may take a year or more to mature and a year to ripen after flowering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL6xzDmiJY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL6xzDmiJY)
That’s what I was going to suggest. Don’t know if I’d put them in a novelty category, have you eaten one? I mean I get why you might, but OMG one of the best tasting fruits I’ve ever eaten.
Agree - Monstera is great eatin' in my opinion