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Title: Which website to buy Barbados cherry tree?
Post by: ccc3570 on July 12, 2020, 06:48:52 PM

Hi all,

Where can I buy a Barbados cherry tree online please? I am in CA.

Thank you all
Kevin

Title: Re: Which website to buy Barbados cherry tree?
Post by: pinkturtle on July 12, 2020, 06:51:17 PM

Quote from: ccc3570 on July 12, 2020, 06:48:52 PM

Hi all,

Where can I buy a Barbados cherry tree online please? I am in CA.

Thank you all
Kevin

I know Mimosa Nursery carry them.

Title: Re: Which website to buy Barbados cherry tree?
Post by: ccc3570 on July 12, 2020, 06:54:05 PM

But they don't ship it :(

Title: Re: Which website to buy Barbados cherry tree?
Post by: palingkecil on July 12, 2020, 07:27:52 PM

Just be careful when you purchase a Barbados cherry online. I purchased 2 online and they never bear fruit, even after 5 years in the ground. Most likely grown from seed. The leaves are causing bad rash on touch too. Then I purchased one from Papaya Tree nursery, bear fruit the 1st year, and the leaves never cause itchiness like the other. All trees look very similar, same leaves, same flower, but the ones i got online never hold any fruit.

Title: Re: Which website to buy Barbados cherry tree?
Post by: palingkecil on July 13, 2020, 03:41:48 PM

Just browsing around for a passiflora, and found this website offers a Barbados cherry. It says grow from cutting, not seed. I never buy from them though.
(https://i.postimg.cc/mtSgFN6m/Screenshot-20200713-123853-Chrome.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mtSgFN6m)

Title: Re: Which website to buy Barbados cherry tree?
Post by: CGameProgrammer on July 13, 2020, 06:40:37 PM

There should be plenty of local nurseries that carry it. Make sure you get a "sweet" cultivar, the most common of which is Manoa Sweet. Don't get a random seedling or unknown cutting. I'm just familiar with San Diego but Ong Nursery has it, tropicalfruittrees.com (in Vista) had lots of them, as well as a mature one in-ground, Kartuz used to have it (that's where my now-productive tree came from), etc. So ask around and make sure it's a cultivar like Manoa Sweet (or taste a fruit if possible).

Title: Re: Which website to buy Barbados cherry tree?
Post by: K-Rimes on July 13, 2020, 07:51:45 PM

Champa had them last I was there. Call ahead to be sure