Is my Abiu plant ok?

[Budtropicals]

Hello everyone, my Abiu tree has just finished flowering and not a single fruit. It is for sure at the very least 4 years old. Everywhere I read points to the tree producing 2-3 years from seed. Is something wrong with my plant, or should I just wait more and hope for the best?

[savemejebus]

Mine is at least 6-7 years old, has flowered 3 years in a row, and yet to form a fruit.

[Doug]

I was wondering if your trees are getting too much sun. I have a number of abiu trees on my farm, raised from seed. The ones growing in partial shade produce plenty of fruit, but the ones getting lots of sun don't. Also, they fruited between two and three years old. Good luck. It's one of my very favorite fruits!

[Budtropicals]

Interesting. Everywhere I look says to put them in full sun, so I did! If it truly is helpful to give em some shade, I could allow the trees next to it to grow a little bigger, as I have all of my trees packed pretty tightly together, but as of right now the Abiu is the tallest standing.

[kalan]

Interesting. Everywhere I look says to put them in full sun, so I did! If it truly is helpful to give em some shade, I could allow the trees next to it to grow a little bigger, as I have all of my trees packed pretty tightly together, but as of right now the Abiu is the tallest standing.

Sounds like me. Both my abiu's are pretty lanky and a bit crowded  in part shade. They are 5-6 years old (7gal) from seed and flowered twice but have held no fruit either. I feel your pain.

[sunny]

Abiu's don't like my place...i had some large tree's though but when i planted them in full soil things went sour.
In total i killed 15 of them but i couldn't resist to buy another one...it had nice large leaves, i planted it in a very good soil, sun untill 1 pm....and then the leaves became very narrow....dunnow why...

This is it....

[Mike T]

Abius are so variable and this a common problem. They always produce vast numbers of flowers of which only a small proportion can ever set fruit. Some individual trees and even varieties are shy to bear and take longer to open their accounts. Having more than one variety for cross pollination helps. The big improved spherical types with low latex etc seem to also be more productive and reliable with bearing. You can be lucky with small fruited un-named types and get a precocious heavy bearer. Hang in there as they often come good after a couple of years of flowering without setting fruit.

[bsbullie]

Mike - wont they benefit from cross pollination with a second different type/variety of Abiu?

[Mike T]

Thought I said that and yes that helps but some like z4 don't seem to need that.

[bsbullie]

Thought I said that and yes that helps but some like z4 don't seem to need that.

Yes, you did.  Need to wear my reading glasses...

[xmario]

Check out this recent post for a Florida reference, I have my 3 seedlings in part shade (shading from each other and neighboring trees),  sand soil - no limestone, plenty chop-drop and watered Every day
This is first year I picked 4-5 fruits off of each tree.

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=31524.msg402647#msg402647

Cheers