We have the best jabuticabeira in USA here in central FL, besides outside of Brazil of course!!!
Are you sure about that? Not! Getting Florida-centric on me again? You need to check out some giant jaboticaba trees over here!
Oscar
I think its beyond Florida-centric, its Adam-centric...after all, there are tropical fruit trees growing south of Central Florida, and can even be grown in the ground.
Oscar, and Bsbullie,
I am always FL centric, but In my defense I must say, that Hawaii is hard for me to keep considering a part of the USA, due to the fact that I and just about everyone I know hasn't been, and can't afford to go, and it's a small group of islands in the middle of the ocean.
These are just my feelings, and I wish I could go to Hawaii, and take part more in what goes on there....but you are just too damn far away for me to come...so I keep forgetting your not just some random group of Polynesian islands.
Nothing against Hawaii, I'm sure you guys have amazing jaboticaba there...I keep forgetting to say within the 48 contiguous states...
not the whole of USA...U know Alaska has some nice ones to!
BSBULLIE,as far as South FL, compared to Central FL, for growing jaboticaba in the ground...if you don't keep on your tree with chelated Fe, you are not going to have a pretty tree...and the most beautiful trees are in Central FL in my opinion due to the soil composition and ph.
Go ahead and plant in the ground...have you seen what fruit and spice parks jaboticabas look like? Nice yes...but the really sensitive varieties like M. glazioviana, and M. aureana look like crap...all because they planted in the ground and gave the tree the wrong growing environmental conditions...so no I haven't forgot about the good growers and huge trees down south, but I have compared the two growing regions and how the plants look...trust me...the cambuca at fruit and spice looks like garbage compared to the one up here near Orlando, and even the regular varieties in my opinion are generally much more established and healthy looking than those planted in south FL soils.
There is much more than you think going on up here in Central FL, especially in the realm of Myrciaria and Plinia. I've seen first hand, many jaboticaba trees all over FL, from Homestead to Jacksonville, and have found that here in Central FL is a hidden world of giant gorgeous Jaboticabas, of many varieties.
One day maybe I'll give you a tour....or you can just look at my photos..I have photographed one of the most beautiful specimens I have seen...although the picture doesn't do it justice, the M. spirito santesis, is a truly stunning tree, and I don't believe it would grow as well further South, by Dade Co. Same for M. truncilfora, and the M. caulifora hybrids.
