The Tropical Fruit Forum

When the branches are dry and brittle then you have a problem. As long as the
branches bend but not snap there is hope. 

Eugenia Victoriana???

There is at least one member of this forum that has devoted the space to have a small orchard of red jabos. So it seems
the value of the fruit is catching on. A U-pick is a huge under taking but remember people laughed at Walt Disney.
Maybe throw in the word Organic U-pick and...

I vote for Friday 17th

Just kidding

2 out of 7 between damp paper towels

so far

It looks like a red jabo. I have 3 in 15 gallon pots and a couple years ago
I put a different tree in the ground in Florida and it went downhill. I ended up repotting it
and to this day it looks crappy. It has very yellow leaves and I have given it chelated
iron several times and it won't darken up. All my trees have burnt tipping on the leaves.
My three red jabos in the 15 gallon pots have produced fruit since last summer nonstop.
I pushed them under a tree more this year cause the leaves were getting light. I am so
happy with the almost constant supply of red jabos to eat. If I was you I would water it
a little more then every 3 days and increase the size of the pot. I am in Florida though and
if your trees are doing ok in ground then go for it. I assume our ph is not the same. I have
white sand for dirt and have very high ph, Hopefully someone in your area can tell you
their experiences with red jabo but I plan to leave my 3 in a pot, eventually I will put them in 25 gallons
pots next Spring. My soil has allot of perlite in the mix and drains well and I water very frequently.
I try to give my jabos morning sun and indirect sun in the afternoon. 

Hi Matt
Glad to hear you are alive and in great spirits considering.
It sure could have been worse for us all.

I have red jabos, peanut butter fruit, Na Dai sugar apples, pitangatuba, and muntingia calabura
fruit and maybe a couple Black Suriname cherry seeds now if you are interested? No charge for postage,
If you would rather wait a month or two the offer stands, Also next spring I should have
allot more available and I would be happy to get you something out then.

I lost power for 9 days but only lost a couple trees, half of my lanai flew 150 feet from the back of
my house to the front of my house and squashed a St. Rita fig that I hated. It always dropped the fruit
premature and I couldn't wait to replace it with anything else. Three weeks later the people I hired to
replace my lanai tore down the old lanai and cleaned up the large piece in my yard. The squashed fig
that was covered for three weeks has new leaves and is going to make it. Damn I can't tear it out now!

I lost a large loquat tree that I grew from a seedling and I figure I can put 6 sugar apples in it's place.
I would have never gotten rid of the loquat even though the fruit was average at best and was wasting
too much real estate. It was one of the first trees I planted 7+ years ago. It's amazing how fast fruit
junkies can utilize new space and improve their place to be more productive. Let me know if I can
send you anything?

Mike

Adam is the best and really goes out of his way if you can go by. Call and make an appointment.
Also  around Tallahassee http://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/JFE/

If you are coming down the West coast http://www.fruitscapesllc.com/
is an awesome place

Mike T is correct, pick the fruit when it is green and you will have your sour fruit.

Good Luck limiting yourself to one Eugenia. There are so many to choose from and they
all seem to fruit well in a pot. What about Pitomba, or grumichama, and pitangatuba?
The list goes on,
I do have a COR that is pushing 8' and fruited well the first time this past Spring.
I really enjoyed the fruit! I have another smaller one that has totally different leaves that
is around 4' and two years old. I can't wait to try the fruit. I also have a calycina doing well
and hopefully next spring I will be able to try the fruit as well. I would not want to have to
limit myself to one Eugenia and I especially couldn't pick one favorite. 

I have several Chinese jujube. I had around 7 and am down to 3. If you are getting
flowers that is a start. I think you need a pollinator and the different varieties flower at
different times so you need one that flowers the same time. Just fruits should be able to
recommend a variety. In China the jujube is grown in temperate zones not in the subtropics/tropics.
It is an uphill battle to fruit Chinese jujube in Florida. I had a sugarcane and eventually after several
years I dug it up. My trees would leave out every spring but didn't have good branch growth,
the more nitrogen I gave them the greener the leaves turned. I have two of the Thai giant or
Indian variety and they produce well here in Florida. I still have a So variety and it is the contorted
variety. It looks neat but no fruit yet. It is a dwarf tree and mine is 6' and has grown the best of the Chinese
ones. It flowered this year but the fruit dropped off early? Good Luck

Hey Jay
I thought I heard somewhere that mango leaves can be used as an organic pesticide?
I had some weevils on a mallika but they seem to be gone? I contacted this company yesterday
and they said one of their products will kill the weevil but will not kill the larva. I plan to try it this
winter?   http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/talstar-talstar-one-p-97.html.

Please let us know if the weevils infest the mangos or if they hopefully disappear. I would have to
come see you when you prune and beg you for your leaves if the mango leaves are effective. I saw
a you tube video that said sour milk controls the weevil.

How old is the tree? I noticed last year my tree kept flowering but had very limited fruit set,
I got another tree and this year the first tree was having much better fruit set and the second younger
tree was flowering with little fruit set. Hopefully your tree will get better like my trees are. Unfortunately
hurricane Irma destroyed half of my older tree and currently neither tree has flowers or fruit. Last year
I found a lone tree in a neighborhood and it was full of fruit without another tree around.