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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Seedling Starfruit First Flowers
« on: January 07, 2024, 01:27:50 PM »
In late 2020 or 2021, I bought some Fwang Tung starfruits from the local fruit stand. They were delicious and I potted up a few of the seeds. They stayed in pots for a year before I found a place to stick them in the ground. I just noticed that the largest one has flowers for the first time. It has 1 1/4-1 1/2” caliper at the base of the trunk and is maybe 7’ tall. This one wants to grow straight up so after 4 feet or so, I’ve been tipping it and trying to force it to branch. Looking forward to seeing how close the fruits are to the parent. Its sister is about half the size and branched out on its own at a low height. Between the two seedlings and the grafted Sri Kembangan and Fwang Tung that I have, I figure I’ll decide on the best ones and graft them all onto one of two plans for better space utilization.