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BMc,how the heck do they have a fruiting one of these in Australia!! ??I wonder who has it, and how many more there are?I've never tasted one, so I'm very excited to try one.Was the aroma of the skin, (or flavor of the tannin in the skin) altogether different than that of the more common types (sabara)?Thanks for sharing!
Was just looking at my close to 3 meters aureana today , still no sign it will flower soon , it just grows and grows , taller than my regular jabs that have been fruiting for several years now .I will take a pic in the next days , but I don't think it is missing anything ...
Quote from: luc on December 12, 2012, 08:30:26 PMWas just looking at my close to 3 meters aureana today , still no sign it will flower soon , it just grows and grows , taller than my regular jabs that have been fruiting for several years now .I will take a pic in the next days , but I don't think it is missing anything ...Should have fruited long time ago. May be some nutrient deficiency. Try giving them high potassium fertlizer. BTW wood ashes has lots of potassium, just in case you cant get the right fert over there.
Alright, I want one!Who has plants of white jabo for sale?Jaime
Quote from: fruitlovers on December 12, 2012, 10:53:15 PMQuote from: luc on December 12, 2012, 08:30:26 PMWas just looking at my close to 3 meters aureana today , still no sign it will flower soon , it just grows and grows , taller than my regular jabs that have been fruiting for several years now .I will take a pic in the next days , but I don't think it is missing anything ...Should have fruited long time ago. May be some nutrient deficiency. Try giving them high potassium fertlizer. BTW wood ashes has lots of potassium, just in case you cant get the right fert over there.Even only 2 meters distance can make a change in soil in some rare circumstances. More likely your white jabo is a slow starter. Supposedly precoce (hybrid) and white jabo take about same length of time to start fruiting.I'll do that Oscar , the strange thing is that a ' precoce ' planted 2 meters away fruits very well .
I have two fruiting jaboticabas from seeds traded with Helton Josué, in Brazil. At the time, he said they were white jaboticaba. After a painful start due to alkaline conditions, one of them fruited and produced dark fruits, with a red tint when immature. I assumed one of us made a mistake and they were not white jaboticaba. The second one, fruited for the first time this past summer. Just a couple of fruits. Surprisingly, the fruits were a bit larger and fully green when ripe. I am not sure what is going on. The plants look the same to me, yet the fruits are very different. Maybe the seeds are hybrid and one reverted more to its white jaboticaba parent... I am hoping next fruiting will provide more clues...