The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hi , the first of 3 flowers opened today as a female, the two other ones i think have a few days to go before they bloom, so i dont really think its worth it to collect the pollen from this one. I shut it tight with a rubber band, to keep it humid and prolly a better chance this way to self pollinate , i think ive red somewhere that keeping the flower shut helps with self pollination, dunno.. 


I just saw my other cherimoya plant ,which has some branching on the new growth and a t a closer inspection i saw flower buds on the small branchlets. Almost all of them have tiny round flower buds, is this a weard behaviour?









Heres a double leaf from the second plant

My vine just flowered a week or so ago, and one interesting observation i carried.....most of the flowers like 99% were small in size, but there were also two that were way bigger that the rest. The two big ones were like a steroid laden version of the rest ,and had somewhat of a star shaped ovule i quess at the center.
So are the big ones the female flowers?
The smaller i would assume were the male ones, and they had pollen carrying organs, but without any pollen that i could see...
Wanted to artifficially pollinate the bigger ,supposedly female flowers ,but there was no pollen....
Will they set without pollination ?

Well just checked in the web and yes, the bigger ones are the female flowers...also read that the plant needs cross pollination ,so i wont get fruit this year, hopefully my other plant will get big this year and flower next, so they can pollinate each other....

Sorry for the off topic! I am searching for the name of the desease/ fungus for several hours now . I just found it on some of the stems of my weaved willows, it seems to apear at places which are little scratches or cracks in the bark, dunno it the cracks are a symptom or the way the fungus got in.... i have some severe cuts on some of the stemms ,and those big wounds do not have this. The visible orange part is dust-like in texture.
I desected one of the ill spots and the fungus is only present just near the crack or wound and the bark tissue is sorta orange colour which means i think it is infected and not just a surface thing.
I will spray all of the plants with a fungicide later today ,and i wonder if i should like cut the damaged parts and spray then or just spray??
If anyone knows what this is ,please share and thank you !







As a side note i think it would be helpfull to have a place on this forum to comment and post about decoratives and other non fruit related plants, if thats possible, like a generall ornamental plant forum ?

Found this for sale, red its a sour type fruit. Is it worth growing this, how is it tastewise ??

So this is complicated, but for plants that are known to root via airlayering, but are slow or hard to do so like my carambolla, i was thinking of trying to graft a few roots on the stem and leave the joining part away from humidity and water. Anyone tried this?  I'd like to hear some feedback on this ' thanks !!

Hi, so i have those two dormant baobab seedlings with no leaves, one of them shed its leaves in nov- december , the other one sometime January i think, both of them are now naked.  The branches are green and there are buds visibl3 at the tips but they are not swelling. I am holding off the water on them to not rot them, the soil has some moisture to it 
Will they leaf out on their own come spring or should i force them somehow.

Hi, this is my papaya from the gh which roots rotted away and today i salvaged the top portion since it was a goner anyway. Can i root it, how should i proceed to do so? Right now its sitting in a glass of water with some rooting hormone added.
Thanks for the heads-up !

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 !!!

Hi all !! Are theese babies close to ripening ?? Asking since the mother fruit that i got the seeds from was bought green like they are now, it was pinkish inside but was probably way underripe. Am i wating for a all yellow colour on the fruits? They have began to get paler green/ yellow but are still hard and i do not sence any fragrance to them. Thank for the feedback.

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 !!

Just found theese were available and they seem way under ripe now, compared to those past year when they were alot more softer and had the right colour under the peel.
Now i know the scrape method, tested it on some of them and the color underneath is a light greenish/yellow , no salmon colour.
Almost every fruit was rock hard, some of them were getting a bit softer, csraped those a bit and its the same greenish colour.
Last year i bought a rock hard one and it just molded inside instead of ripening. I quess they will not properly ripen ,to be consumable, no ?
My main target of course are the seed ,but do they have a chance on sprouting if they come from an underripe fruit ?

I am just highly let down by this, since i'm a big fan of tropical fruit and will buy everything new, but the stores just sabotage themselves importing such bad guality fruits. People will buy once and never buy again, there will be no demand on those fruit ,thus no availability. Thats a big shame, the prices are also skyhigh for a fruit that deserves to be in the garbage can........

As above, i have those fruit, which i harvested from my plants that i brought inside the basement for overwintering. I doubted that they would ripen on the plants in the dark cold basement ,so harvested them and placed them in a paper bag along with a few apples. Most of them have a tiny bit of colour at the bottoms, some of them have a bit more colour than others,yet some do not have any. I would assume all of them look like the cut up one on inside. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

Hi, i found this for sale ,the woman thats selling it has labeled it as pandanus. Its kinda variagated, and i did an research and found there is an variegated pandan version.
I just want to know that i am not bying some kind of a decorative grass or smth.