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After hundreds, if not over a thousand flowers, on 3 different seedlings and 1 grafted tree, all flowers have dropped with no fruit set. There are still a few straggler flowers hanging that bloomed later, maybe 10 in total, but they are not getting any bigger and I expect them to drop. The vast majority of flowers presented as female but there were 30 - 40 that presented as male flowers. I hand pollenated and there were plenty of bees working the trees for nearly a month. These trees are 8 years old and have fruited in the past when I hand pollenated using pollen from a male tree grown by a friend.
My J33 jackfruit fell down as a cyclone brushed past an probably won't make it. A friend helped me chop down my giant siam starfruit also and I was looking for other volunteers for mulch patrol as some trees need to be cut from the team to make room for new additions. My big Luc's garcinia has been skating on thin ice for a long time and has had a few reprieves from death row. After seeing my 2 younger smaller ones burst into flower once again for an off season flowering, its fate was sealed. Suddenly this ass dragging 12 ft tree has burst into bloom a day or two before it was going to be chopped after 8 years. Nostradamus would be proud of this tree and I am glad I hung on a nit longer.
I looked at the flowers on my 3 that are festooned with flowers right now.The two younger smaller 9 footers have flowered many times and only produce a few fruit not much bigger than achacha at the biggest. At this moment both of these trees have 96% male flowers and only a few fruit set. My big 13 foot tree has flowered for the first time now and all flowers so far are male although only a small proportion have opened.
Quote from: Mike T on April 15, 2021, 07:49:33 AMI looked at the flowers on my 3 that are festooned with flowers right now.The two younger smaller 9 footers have flowered many times and only produce a few fruit not much bigger than achacha at the biggest. At this moment both of these trees have 96% male flowers and only a few fruit set. My big 13 foot tree has flowered for the first time now and all flowers so far are male although only a small proportion have opened.My experience here is that the bigger trees are males. The smallest tree fruited first.
Quote from: fruitlovers on April 16, 2021, 05:21:28 AMQuote from: Mike T on April 15, 2021, 07:49:33 AMI looked at the flowers on my 3 that are festooned with flowers right now.The two younger smaller 9 footers have flowered many times and only produce a few fruit not much bigger than achacha at the biggest. At this moment both of these trees have 96% male flowers and only a few fruit set. My big 13 foot tree has flowered for the first time now and all flowers so far are male although only a small proportion have opened.My experience here is that the bigger trees are males. The smallest tree fruited first.If I understood right, male trees would make good rootstocks for female scions from Raul then?
Stumbled upon this in my nursery area. One one my Luc's holding fruit in a 1/3 soil filled 3gal pot. The tree must be about 4 ft tall. Is it a 'runt' fruit (male)?
I have a small Lucs in the ground 4 years or so. It is just below 3 feet tall and is holding its first fruit.It is a small tree (old, enough to hold fruit, but really small) and I am surprised it is flowering and holding fruit. I have others, that are larger and planted about the same time but not doing much right now.I will post a picture later.
Quote from: Orkine on December 26, 2023, 04:48:00 PMI have a small Lucs in the ground 4 years or so. It is just below 3 feet tall and is holding its first fruit.It is a small tree (old, enough to hold fruit, but really small) and I am surprised it is flowering and holding fruit. I have others, that are larger and planted about the same time but not doing much right now.I will post a picture later. nice, sometimes they can start flowering just at a meter tall, I remember one in Luc's house flowered like crazy, I guess yours is a seedling?