The Tropical Fruit Forum

Mine looses many of its leaves in winter even with a min 55F temp in the greenhouse, but if always bounces back in spring

If you can't get a response from the seller after a reasonable amount of time I don't understand how your bank wouldn't help here, "goods not as described" is the easiest chargeback category to win.  Hopefully it doesn't come to that, though.

Is the Dymo label the same as a P Touch which I already have?

Dymo makes both modern printed labelmakers and old style embossed labels - raised latters made by a partial punch.  I use the raised letter embossing type.  Not familiar with p-touch

I just wanted to drop by and say thanks for all your testimonies.
I'm in Paris France and I've been having this exact question!
Currently my only tropical to have fruited is strawberry guava. Which I found awesome.

I have seedlings of lucuma capote, jackfruit, passion fruit, grenadilla and tamarillo. And like 40 cherimoyas seedlings too, all of them in ground, perhaps I'll select a frost Hardy one this way! What do you guys think of lucuma and jackfruits? Any chance of them fruiting at some point?

I got a white sapote, McDill variety after I've seen someone in the UK getting it to fruit in a small container. Maybe fruit as early as next year!

After reading this topic, I plan to get :
- Eugenias
- jaboticaba (but in Europe I can't find any big one... Only little ones like 20cm, so they'll take like 15 years to fruit...)
- sugar apple (if it can fruit I'm all in)
- sapotilla
- achacha and lemon drop mangosteen would be also super awesome. Anyone managed to fruit them in temperate greenhouse?
- perhaps mangos. I thought I was not possible, but from what I read they can make it in container.

Oh and to share my experience, I have a baobab tree, it's been surviving for 10 years indoor in a small pot, but barely. I don't think this one can fruit anytime soon

The only one you mentioned that sounds unrealistic is jackfruit, but it might be possible if you prune it often and wait a long time.  I have a temperate greenhouse and my container lemon drop fruited, I am sure it will work for you too.  Acacha may take longer but another forum member fruited one in his temperate greenhouse also. 

Good luck!  And post pictures

Darn!  I have one that is just about fruiting size, expecting flowers any time now.  It is neat looking, but not enough for me to keep it unless the flavor is uniquely good.  I already have a pink guava that is excellent, so the bar is high.

Congrats on fruiting it, though!

I started building an Arduino thermostat system with heavy duty contactors as a replacement for my line voltage thermostats that fail over time.  Arduino boards use a 5v DC system but the contactors needed 24v AC to operate.  I ended up with a 24VAC power supply and a middle layer of   5v DC (amazon) relays to trigger the larger contactors which operate the usual 115/230VAC line voltage.  When I was assembling it I found the Arduino and 5v relay wire connection clamps to be weak and wires would easily come loose.  Then I started thinking about how the boards and relays would fare in hot humid conditions with a good amount of vibration (from fans).  The fear of entrusting my 8year effort into some fiddly wires, exposed circuit board, and no-name relays made me abandon the whole effort.  It is a shame because the design is very simple, coding Ardunio is easy too, and an equivalent commercial controller costs like $5,000 while my planned setup cost $100 in parts and would have offered infinite flexibility. 

I tried to get too fancy, also, by building it inside of one of my greenhouse structural ribs to conserve space.  I might retry again one day with threaded wire and a waterproof box with rails.

I have had mixed outcomes with dried-out eugenias.  I would say about 50:50 chance on survival for me when this happens.  I am glad yours is bouncing back!

Anyone have a decent sized E. minutifolia?  I picked up one because it has cool tiny little leaves and thought it would be a nice decorative plant once it got to a decent size.  At its current growth rate, it might get to a decent size when I’m dead. It’s a race for last place between that and E. azeda

I'm not sure where the bar is for "decent size", but I have a minutifolia that is at least past the most dangerous growth period, where eugenias seem to have a high chance of simply dying.  This tree has had a couple of branch dieback events, losing 20-40% of its canopy each time.  It is a slow grower even ignoring the dieback. This one was started from seed nearly three years ago.

I found coffee arabica to be quite easy to grow and fruit, and I see the plants for sale everywhere for very little cost.  Unless you are planting a ton of them you are probably better off buying a few established plants, I often see them for $10 or so in 4in pots.

I had started one for fun, and to taste the cherry fruit.  I got rid of it after a couple years... saw they were selling for less than it would cost to ship so I just threw it in the woods.

I have never seen this on any of my annonas.  Mine get full direct sun when outdoors

All of mine did that and never recovered.  I keep trying new ones, though.  This time I am also trying seedlings at the same time.

My first guava airlayer took over 6 months to show root growth.  I still haven't cut it off yet.

The problem with extension cords is thin wires + long distance.  What you are describing sounds totally fine, because 10awg wire is huge and 10ft distance is very short.  According to the tables you can run a 15amp circuit on 14awg wire, and normal 20amp home circuits are 12awg which is thinner than 10awg.  https://www.cerrowire.com/products/resources/tables-calculators/ampacity-charts/

I have never personally seen a 10awg extension cord, but adding a 10ft extension when even using a cheapo 16+awg extension cord is common.  You'll notice that beefy electrical appliances may have flimsy power cords because it is only a short run.

You'll be fine.  Just don't let it fall over or set anything nearby on fire.

As far as cost, I used to run two of these 15amp space heaters in my old attic greenhouse.  It probably added $150 or more to my power bill but it wasn't a killer.  My power cost around 11cents/kwh.   I also had a propane space heater as a backup in case of power outage or really cold nights where the electric heaters couldn't keep it warm enough

And one last thing, get a wireless battery powered temperature alarm in case you lose power while you are sleeping.  They have saved me many times.