The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yeah I’ve had it outside for a month, I was hoping that would do the trick. It’s not dropping below 45 anymore at night.do you know if peach trees leaf late if they haven’t had enough chill, or do they just not flower?

Not sure which ones, I’m  still trying to figure it out. They need pollinators and sometimes their flowering barely overlaps. I had nikita but it was so early it would only be able to set a couple of fruit cause its flowering period was over before others started. The New Zealand ones sound like they may be best tasting. Mutligrafted varieties look cool, one of the members (perhaps platynum sp?) had an awesome looking tree. I’m trying unique and Coolidge this year as they apparently self pollinating, but unsure of fruit quality. Check for other posts on this topic.

What are peoples opinion on ambarella? Precocious and little but to me tastes like a bad cheesy mango. I am wondering if I just haven’t had good ones.

Congrats on even finding seedsI realize that the chance of me ever being able to get this to fruit is next to impossible, but I’ve been looking for seeds for about 4 years. All the online sellers seem to be sold out. Would u be willing to tell us where did u get the seeds?

How many seedlings are you planning on growing? Are you looking for male and female
Plants?

Thanks everyone for your insight. Yeah, I had actually taken a cutting a while back and it’s already ina 2 gallon pot ready to go. I was actually thinking about getting rid of the old vine anyway this year but it was flowering like crazy and setting fruit this early spring….I guess it knew it’s time was up.

I was wondering if anyone could identify the source of damage of my rambutan leaves? I’ve never seen any bugs on the plant but they are completely full of holes.

I find it pretty funny that I someone in Florida wants to try to grow fruit from northern Canada, while I spent years designing a greenhouse to grow what you can do in your backward with ease.

Let me know how it goes. I’ll give updates this year if I get a good crop.

My Jabo is great I love it, it also loves a lot of water. I have a bonsai friend of mine a seedling I had and it dropped all its leaves (really messy) when I took it out of the greenhouse and despite a humidified it didn’t re leaf yet. The issue here in the northern plains it that in the winter interior humidity drops to 10-15% and I don’t think the Jabo liked that. I also takes a while to get fruit (probably longer if it’s not growing in ideal climate) It can also get hammered by aphids, the tree can handle it fine but it’s messy with the honeydew and the frass. Also if u have non plant fanatic family members they don’t like bugs they won’t encourage further expansion of your hobby.

I haven’t grown this non climate controlled environment, but cattley guava (strawberry guava) seems to be the most trouble free tropical fruit tree I have. No pests (in cold climate) doesn’t get waterlogged, flowers year round (in my greenhouse) and produces large amounts of a good tasting fruit. I think the fruit can be astringent, but i think it way have been to me initially underwatering. I assume it needs as mush sun as you can give it. It also has nice glossy leaves and interesting exfoliating bark. I think it has major problems with carribean fruit fly laying maggots in the fruit (florida), it is also invasive in places like Hawaii.

Also grew coffee bean tree indoors in front of a window(nice plant as well) and was able to get some fruit. But it has a huge problem with mealey bugs to to point where it wasn’t worth keeping.

This looks like a Naranjilla. I tried to grow one of these but they were sooo spiny it was dangerous. What’s the fruit like and are they spiny?

I had bc greenhouses build a custom one for me 7 years ago (I supplied the dimensions). It’s actually more of a solarium (I’ve posted a couple of pics in other posts). They shipped it by rail and have delivered as far as Sweden . The aluminum frame and double glazed low e glass (shatterproof for the ceiling) was 30K (Canadian) plus 8k to have one of their guys to come out for 4 days to put it together. Pretty good product, paint started chipping off in one area, and a little problem with a seal over a 3foot area. They were only responsible for the frame and glass, not the foundation or climate control.

Does anyone know of good places to check out fruits or botanical gardens in Cuba? I’m arriving there today.

Bovine,
I live in zone 3, I actually grow them year round in my heated greenhouse zone 11. I grow yellow wonder and they are delicious. Very small i can usually get about 3berries per week per plant all
Winter long. I have them next to a window so they may dip down to 8-9c in January. I grow them in 2 gallon buckets and they produce well until the heat of the summer, my greenhouse maxes out at 32-33c. I will usually divide the plants in summer and plant them all Outside except for a couple. I grew them from seed and chilled them in the fridge for a month.