The Tropical Fruit Forum

Dragon fruit usually start blooming in June for me and ripening 45-50 days later. Guavas have been blooming in July. Avocado and citrus start flowering around Feb/March. Cherimoya and atemoya start early spring but you can induce earlier flowering by defoliating the tree. Ive also found that white sapote flowers year round.

Thank you ! Seems like guavas for me and you flower at near the same time, our zones are the same also thought judjing by the maps i have looked at lately i may be a bit colder at a zone 6, My dragonfruits havent flowered yet, hopefully this spring i can get some action on them.
For my cherimoyas i thought i will wait till the start of march when the temps for new growth will be a lot more favorable, thought they do grow now also from some of the leaf free nodes. I will prune them and strip some of the leaves and hope for a nice flowering on both of them. One of them has two flower buds forming right now.

Interesting question -
For mangoes and lychee, they normally flower when the weather warms up (March), but it varies by the year. Couple years ago I had my mango flower in may and February. Most of my trees that bloom do so when there is a change in the weather or during the summer.
I think I'm about 1-3 months behind the people in FL regarding when fruit ripens.

I also have a mango and a lychee, longan, jackfruit and others all in the gh, but they are seedlings and a long  way till flowering. I may buy a  grafted mango if the seedling one survives winter.

Just want to update my guestion. I did the nylon thing and it totally worked, two days after i placed it the plants dried up and did not had any drops on them ever since. Now i saw one time when the heating wasnt on ,on the nylon it also had some condensation but it didnt drip....
So for everione that wonders ,do this and you will not have a problem any more, only the nylon shouldnt be touching the outer layer of the gh, i have some places like that on the vertical sides and it does condense hard on those.
Also found out that heating with a wood stove will dry up the air guite a bit and general condensation inside will not be as severe..

Can anyone provide a guide for the ripening and blooming times for different tropical fruits that are grown in northern countries like here in Bulgaria? Interested in species like guava , cherimoya ,avocado ,coffee, dragonfruit and others you have information on.
Is there a relation with the earths  paralell lines, can u tell by your geographic coordinate that a sertain species will fruit or bloom at a sertain time, given that most of their growing conditions are met...
I'd imagine latitude will also be a factor ...
I am talking mostly about greenhouse growing, but if there is a difference between a gh inground plant and a potted one that gets brought inside for winter, please point it out !

Thanks for any input !!!

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Hello and excuse me to the OP for this question, but i started some salak seeds and wanted to know the possible varietie, the fruits were all with 3 segments and the pulp had some brown coloring at some places . What variety could this be??
Once again sorry for the hijack,  thought this was not worth a new tread, did not find information on the web...

Two of my guava seedlings (inground in a greenhouse) produced fruit last  year which was their second year from seed. The fruits havent ripened yet and are still growing atm. Just wanted to share this since i thought this is very fast for my climate, i'd imagine in the tropics they could fruit at the end of their first year .....


EDIT :  here are the fruits that i'm wating to harvest soon, they got huje for a first crop, its a promissing little tree from the start, hopefully the fruit tastes good....

On the last pic i see oak leaves, u need to provide a beter pic of the leaves if u need a proper id, the first pic does not look like any oak i have seen, the leaves look to be big and oval.

Hello, i will be setting a few air layers on field maple, hornbeam and elm trees for starting bonsai, and was wondering what is the best time to set them? Read that its best to wait till the plants have their first set of leaves hardened, but as awlays i would like to hear an first hand experience.
Can i set them before the trees have leafed out ??
Thanks a ton !!

Hi everyone and happy holidays! Just making an update on the happenings at my gh as of today. As jenerall all is well ,excluding two salak casualties, and one vanilla orchid that had rotted at the root area, but is now inside and will be nursed back to health.







Heres the gh from the outside and a an group picture of the inhabitants.


My pasiflora decaisneana, having some new growth .



Here u can see seedlings of longan, oranje jasmine,  lychee, carob and one lemon guava at the back.





Heres a cumquat and pomello with some fruit, both of them are shedding some leaves... on the pic with the pomello u can also see my surinam cherry ,one very small pineapple, ant two aloe vera species.









Next are my tropical guava seedlings, 4 plants in total, 2 from a big fruited type guava and 2 from a smaller fruited one. Both of the ones that came from the bigger fruit are fruiting this year, one of which has quite big fruit which i think will be starting to ripen soon. In-between  them there is a half dead papaya, i had 3 of them , will prolly lose this one also, i think the soil temp is too cold for them.


Pachira aquatica/glabra , no idea which one of those...







Curry leaf tree/ muraya koenigii ,one lemon guava which is hardly visible, and my strawberry guava which has alot of new growth and some flower buds.








My two cherimoya seedlings, the one next to the wood stove got defoliated due to heat and has some new growth and two flower buds. Happy to see this, hopefully in spring there is alot of flowers on both of them.


Jackfruit, longan and a super dwarf cavendish banana.


Lemon guava


Lemon grass, this shit is amazing, gives such a nice flavour and smell to dishes, way better that lemon itself.








My 3 avocado plants, all of them are making new growth constantly.



Mango seedling


Camelia sasanqua, will use it in future for tea


Pasiflora ligularis coming along nicely with new growth, following a hard pruning.











Dragonfruits, also making new growth, only the grafted megalanthus seedling are sitting still.


True Cinnamon also making new growth since october, infront of it a pineapple with a rotten center.
 

Coffe arabica


Monstera deliciosa also growing at the moment...




Carambolla shedding most of its leaves , in some places i read that this is normal with them in colder climates.

Thanks for stopping by , for everyone that has experince with growing those species in a similar climate to mine, 6b -7a and colder , in a greenhouse, i would love to hear your reccomendations on keeping the plants alive trought winters, thanks !!

I also have three yellow guava plants, the catleyanum type. One of them produced quite big fruits this year, but were not very sweet nor did they had much of a flavour to them.
I have another one which was bought as a red stralberry type ,but turned out to be yellow, i makee smaller fruit but the flavour was way better than the one with the bigger ones. It should be said that i ususally pich most of my fruits slightly under ripe, due to beeing not able to wait them out.  ..
I also had several fruits from my red strawberry guava this year, they were also very nice .
Expecting alot more from all of those next year. By the way they are all greenhouse grown under a 4 mill policarbonate and some shade cloth suspended high above the gh.
They seem to be ripening from mid october onwards for me.

The first link screwed up, i think the second should work fine....

A long read for everyone interested in the effects of climate change on tropical fruit plants. At page 45-46 starts the more interesting part ,in which particular species's native range temperature conditions and reactions to sertain temps are described.

https://www.google.com/url?
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I have always germinated them in small flower pots with basic plant soil with perlite. Fresh seeds sprout way faster and generally as a group, stored ones sprout very slow and u get ones that sprout 8+ months later, ive had poor germination from stored ones also. I sprout them at room temperature, around 20C.
They are generally very easy to sprout, last winter i sprouted around 100 seeds, most i tinned, the rest ( 60 or so) were stransplanted in small plastic cups and are now in my basement for the winter with the citrus.