The Tropical Fruit Forum

Mine did the same when it was shipped (3 weeks in mail). Just keep it humid in dappled shade (mine sits under a citrus tree in my gh) don’t over water (I agree with the r/o, dehumidifier runoff works too). Try to ignore it for about a month, hopefully it’s got enough energy to resprout.

FYI consider an achacha not as fussy and grows faster.

I tried this a couple of years back, when my ambitions were greater than my experience, with no success. I had these 32” tall pots that I grew them in, did ok during the summer but leaves often got fried by the sun if they weren’t shaded. For the winter I moved the pots around trying to get enough chill hours while not letting them get too cold. They never leafed out the spring, still green under the bark for the whole summer so still alive, they just never leafed out.

The tricky issue with the pots is they need to be super deep for the taproot, but by having them in a pot the roots will be way colder than they would be in the ground 3 feet down. Here in zone 3 the frost line is 4-8 feet deep depending on snow cover and winter temps. In zone 6 I bet the ground around the roots barely gets below freezing. If you have access to a bunch of seeds I’d try it but you may be wasting money on grafted trees.

If you harvest more that are not over ripe please post. I have one of these that put out only male flowers last year and would like to know if it’s worth keeping.

My vine is in a 35 gallon pot, 15 feet long trained up a boom I can lower and prune. The side shoots grow long and flower. If they get too long I loop them over the boom. The top of the boom is 14’ from the floor and it sits in a pot 3’ high. I always have 2 vines on the go and a cutting in a small pot, cause they sometimes just seem to die suddenly (3ish years). Just stopped flowering and I think 50 fruit set. You will have to hand pollinate if no bees.

I cut back the side shoots after I’ve harvested all of them. The main stem does get stiff with time so I’m not sure if you could somehow roll it up for the winter. Mine only has to bend about 45deg when I lower the boom. I’ve lost a mature vine once when the bottom pot moved and the base of the vine cracked a bit.

I just assumed I was old and my eyes are bad.

I found soil ph maps, who knows how accurate these are.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/qup4nu/soil_ph_of_conterminous_usa/

According to the map sandiego had average soil temps under 60 for only
about 3weeks during Jan. Dipped down sub 55F a couple of times.

Mas, for interest sake any chance you can dig a small hole on a cold day and check with an IR thermometer?

I think I had these while foraging in saskatchewan in late September (I think it was ripe) but there are 2 different types of buffaloberries and I’m not sure which one it was. Started off very sweet and pleasant…..then became the most astringent thing I had ever tasted. My entire mouth went bone dry to the point that my son and I almost thought about rinsing our mouths out with river water.

Yeah I put them in shaded area of my greenhouse. If they drop leaves don’t overwater.

Do you have a high water table or really compacted soil? Sometimes a freshly dug hole can act like a bowl. If you dig a hole nearby and fill with water does it drain? I have heard in some places in Florida people pant ona mound. I let my 25gallon loquat pots sit in 1-2” of water almost daily and do fine even in the coldest (55F) parts of my gh. They seem way more water tolerant than citrus.

passiont fruit didnt love the texture and the taste overall its gross i grow trees mainly in pots maybe i will get that tree out and plant a mango or a seedling i got of mamey

Do you grow the purple ones? My wife and daughter fight over them. There was a study that showed that they may do better in very acidic soil. I grow mine in big pots and use bokashi fruit waste leachate (quite acidic) to fertigate.