Growing Luc's Garcinia or Garcinia sp. Limoncillo in Southern California

[BestDay]

My tree is flowering again!  This time there are 50-100 flowers! 

[DaveLoch]

This is fantastic!! Keep up the good work, Bill, and keep us apprised of your progress.

[Dreammangosteen]

Did you get any fruitlets to hold from all those flowers?

[BestDay]

It is still flowering now. It has about 75% male and 25% female flowers.  I believe I also saw one hermaphrodite flower. I took a Quick Look yesterday and saw about six fruitlets. So hopefully I’ll be eating Lucs Garcinia next summer.

Bill

[Southerncatropicals]

Here’s mine in more coastal San Diego. I’ve been getting 2 growth flushes a year. Planted in like 70% shade so not a whole lot of sun. Based on the looks of it when would you guys expect to see the first flower? I fertilize with fish emulsion very lightly because I don’t want it to produce bad leaves bc it grows so slow.

[BestDay]

Southerncatropicals, that is a good looking plant.  I is probably planted in the perfect spot with mostly shade.  I would recommend other fertilizers in addition to the fish emulsion to get a more balanced fertilizer.

My plant flowered three times this summer!  It has at least two fruit on it now.  I need to take a better look at it because it may have more.

Bill