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Use liquid Fish fertilizer and dry fertilizer once a month and use Iron fertilizer once every 2 months. This feeding schedule was recommended to me by echo farms, I followed it and grew my most productive papaya.

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I thought i did a rather fine job of getting pollen on the gooey stigma @ 5.30 am but still not seeing a fruit set, there must be something I am missing. I see another Florida grower has removed a couple soursops from his yard because they did nothing for him, he did show one of his soursop trees that is actually a producer and loaded with fruit with no hand pollinating.  Im just curious why some soursops seem so reluctant to set fruit. From looking at how the pollen falls and is collected near the stigma on the petals naturally it seems to me it should set fruit rather easily on its own.

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The trees are doing great especially after storm etna, my best producer has been Excalibur guava which i think is also known as common homestead guava. Its in the lowest spot for my guavas others are further up on hill and don’t do as good, i would plant Guavas in lowlands.

Quote from: FMfruitforest on November 11, 2020, 07:29:17 AM

Planted possum purple passion fruit along my fence in full sun bout 2years back. Tons of flowering but none fruit. No other passionfruit growing in the area. No bumblebees here either.  Does this variety need another companion plant to sex with?

It sounds like we both planted the possum purple passion fruit at about the same time and we apparently have similar results after 2 years as I have gotten one mature fruit with seeds and the typical taste. Most of mine have been empty green balls that turn brown and empty like table tennis balls and light weight. It has been a major disappointment to me and something I wish I had NOT purchased as no one is responding on how to get it to fruit with juicy seeds to be enjoyed instead of empty fluff balls.

Originally I fertllized and then stopped and it grew good and I thought I should decrease fertilizer to help it fruit. It did not or very little. Probably next year I tried fertilizing a lot and in hind sight this is probably what I will continue doing as that is when I got some fruit and one with some seeds and typical taste.

If someone knows, please comment as apparently many people are not getting typical juicy fruit after even 2 years of vine growth...

So, should we fertilize very heavily like bananas as maybe I still have not given it enough??? Also what type of fertilizer was successful and inorganic or organic or both etc. etc. etc.  My guess is yes but just a guess.....

Yea i feed mine too, I don’t think its the fertilizer for me since It has no problem flowering but will not set any fruit, I have honey bees in the yard but I don’t think they interested in the flowers.

Is this the flower in right stage for hand pollinating?

I follow Flying fox fruits advice and step them up once the taproot hits the bottom of the pot and has started to branch out some roots on the bottom.

Got more than a foot of new growth in a year on Sabara here in Florida.

Great Thread, I feel it’s worth a bump. I wish I could find more nutrition facts on the fruits.

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