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Edself65 - Last year was the first year for my trees to fruit. They all had a few flowers on them the year before but only one of them made fruit. Last year they were covered in flowers and I got all the fruit I could eat. The tree that fruited twice is one of the weaker trees in the row. It seems to suffer from drought stress even after a rain or I have hand watered it and it starts to turn yellow months before the rest of them - so I'm not too sure it is healthy. Only a few of its branches bloomed a second time last year. I was grateful for late season fruit because I got to enter them in our state fair where they won a blue ribbon! Last year I left everyone alone and most of them formed clusters of fruit (sometimes as many as 5 fruit per cluster) and this kept the fruit small. This year I plan on thinning them to see if I can get larger fruit.
man I can't think of a prettier tree to grow in temperate regions...or a more tropical looking one!
is that tree at your house Ed?
Make me want to plant a bunch of those here at my house, even if they don't fruit!Pawpaw growing and fruiting in Texas. Notice how it is planted against the east side of the house. Null and other growers in Florida I would recommend the same either against a house or other structure to provide protection from after noon sun.
I'm in zone7b (Raleigh NC) and mine do best growing on the edge of shade, so they get some sun but not long extended periods of full sun. Mine are all offspring from named varieties, grown from seed, about 5 years old and 12 feet tall. They have started to sucker but I am afraid to dig the babies up for fear of damaging the long tap root. All the fruits from my 5 trees tastes the same but come in different sizes and shapes and ripens at different times (sometimes even from the same tree). One of my trees blooms and sets fruit twice each year - the normal early Spring bloom with summer fruits and an August bloom with October fruits. This same tree also goes to sleep in the fall earlier than all the others. This is the tree that happened to be blooming when my Cherimoya (greenhouse) was in bloom so I tried to hand pollinate them. I have those seeds sowed and isolated from all the other pawpaw seeds to see if they will sprout. I should be able to tell when they get their first set of true leaves since the pawpaw leaves are long and thinner than the Cherimoya. To me the pawpaw fruit flavor is as good a grocery store Cherimoya, not as good as a perfectly ripe Cherimoya in South America or California but still pretty good.
what size propane tank? 20lb?
how much you pay to fill them?
i paid $15.50 at ace to fill a 20lb tank the other day....
it can get costly if you need to use heaters every day for a week!!Yes this is normal central Texas weather. I'm north of Austin. We can have mid 70s during the day and and drop to low 20s at night. This time of year sucks!
The large one is Coconut Cream and the small one is Sweet Tart that I grafted.
EdWow Ed , is that unusual for your part of Texas to have this cold weather now?
Just curious. BTW, what variety is that nice healthy looking potted mango and also the nice small grafted one near it?
I wish you luck, i'm confident you know what you gotta do to protect them properly, just make sure you do it
Mike- in the desert enjoying my 80 degree temps. LOL
Wow Ed , is that unusual for your part of Texas to have this cold weather now?
Just curious. BTW, what variety is that nice healthy looking potted mango and also the nice small grafted one near it?
I wish you luck, i'm confident you know what you gotta do to protect them properly, just make sure you do it
Mike- in the desert enjoying my 80 degree temps. LOL
WoW Ed, that's going to be cold hope your plants make. Looks like you ready how warm will G.H. stay with heater on? Will it run thru the night on one tank?
Stay warm,
Ed,
is this plant in the ground or in a pot?
what variety?
nice pic amigo!A few clusters of hand pollinated fruit from my only variety that was blooming at the time of pollinating.
How many chill hours do you normally get?
Ed
They would be planted in Port Saint Lucie, 1 mi from the river 4 mi from the intercoastal. Zone 10a, +10 year old coconut palms.
Nice pics of the fruit, Ed.
