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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Kevin Jones on July 23, 2020, 06:15:10 PM
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Took these shots today of my Cedar Bay Cherries.
Kevin Jones
(https://i.postimg.cc/CRkdL7rk/Cedar-Bay-2020-01.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/CRkdL7rk)
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Looks good! What does it taste like?
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aka Beach Cherry, I have a couple of plants too (very small). The fruits are OK. The problem is this species is only propagated by seed so each one is different. One of my plants makes fruit that is sweet with little bitterness and some slight flavor; hard to describe but at least it's not completely bland.
By contrast, my Ice Cream Bean makes sweet fruit but with no flavor whatsoever.
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aka Beach Cherry, I have a couple of plants too (very small). The fruits are OK. The problem is this species is only propagated by seed so each one is different. One of my plants makes fruit that is sweet with little bitterness and some slight flavor; hard to describe but at least it's not completely bland.
By contrast, my Ice Cream Bean makes sweet fruit but with no flavor whatsoever.
Pretty cool! Can you grow Barbados cherries in San Diego?
ps Can you fix Anthem i like the mechanics of that game. Flying LoL
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Like most Eugenias... best flavor is attained when picked ripe.
These have a sweet slight vanilla flavor with a meaty texture.
Kevin Jones
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Been picking fruit heavily for the last few days... really sweet and delicious... especially when they turn true red and are dead ripe!
It's easy to plow through a handful.
Of course... I'm saving and planting all the seeds so I can share.
Kevin Jones
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aka Beach Cherry, I have a couple of plants too (very small). The fruits are OK. The problem is this species is only propagated by seed so each one is different. One of my plants makes fruit that is sweet with little bitterness and some slight flavor; hard to describe but at least it's not completely bland.
By contrast, my Ice Cream Bean makes sweet fruit but with no flavor whatsoever.
Try your hand at air-layering them. It’s worked pretty well for me (but then, I’ve grown Garcinias from cuttings, too).
I like the flavor of this one. Doesn’t have that funky astringency that E. uniflora does.
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I like that Uniflora flavor myself.
Kevin
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Pretty cool! Can you grow Barbados cherries in San Diego?
Yup, there are local nurseries that grow them and I have one that created a lot of fruit already the last couple of months and now has new unripe fruit and more flowers. Delicious and very productive.
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Which nurseries sell them? I would like to buy one.
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I have some for sale here:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=38772.0 (http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=38772.0)
Kevin