The Tropical Fruit Forum

Was there a lack of flower production this year? Do people ever thin their fruit during productive years? I was wondering if they are alternate bearing.

My loquats flowered for the first time last summer, I took them all out of the gh in spring when the nights were in the 40’s. I was wondering if I should take one out and leave one in to see if the cold triggers flowering? Thoughts

That’s where I got mine from as well.

I too am struggling with fruit set for the past 2 years. Does anyone know how long the pollen is viable for? Also I’ve been trying the bag trick for over a year with no luck, the shed pollen ends up being very wet as I think the humid air condenses in the bag at night? I was wondering if a little mesh bag like a tea bag may work better.

I like loquats and live in Canada. I’m usually a “by the book” kinda guy. I don’t want to be responsible for the next eab or Dutch elm disease. Does any body have a good contact?

Hey all, I’m looking for advice on whether these are good Eugenias to get, we don’t have lots of options up north. Are brasiliensis or uniflora worth growing? I have limited space and have never been able to sample one of these fruits.

Brian, my feelings exactly, the store bought ones (even way up north) were amazing. I’ve never had anything like them. It is grafted but I lost the tag a long time ago before I knew much.

I guess my question is whether anyone else has been in the same situation (semi mature tree, poor fruit so so), just chuck it out? I also have a sugar belle which is of moderate size and looks healthy but has not flowered ye, should I just focus my attention to that one instead? I wondered if they were much diffent.

15 gallon, 5 foot tree, 1.5” trunk diameter.

I have had good luck with tropical Plantae. My order was just before covid lockdown and it had to go through us and Canada screening for pests. Because of covid my mangosteen, pulsan, rambutan  and rollinia where in a dark box for 3 weeks. Amazingly all survived but my rollinia. Rambutan has flowered already but hasn’t kept fruit.

Nice list, what is salad like to grow? How big does it get?

Hey everyone looking for advice. My wife daughter love passionfruit, and it the growing of such that results in them supporting my crazy obsession. So I’m looking for the way to get the most yeild. Due to my growing circumstances I’m willing to put more time in micromanaging the vine. FYI I have 2 vines each in a 35 gallon which I trained on a beam.its adjustable so I can can get right in there and hand pollinate and purine when needed.i kept it trimmed in the winter and then let it go on the spring. I fertigate weekly.

Question should I terminate the budding limbs to promote better fruit production? Some vine ends have between 5 and 11 flower buds and there are 14 of these limbs on each vine. In the past by letting it grow wild and hand pollinating with a brush on a stick (probably missed a bunch of flowers) I was able to get 50 fruits. 200 per plant seems to much. Any experience with acitvelt managing a vine. I’m wondering if it’s like grapes in a vineyard.

Here are pics with the aluminum beams in the down position, the up, down from
The indside, and the vine limbs that one has 2 flowers and 11 buds.
 

Murahlin,
Thanks for the info, I appreciate all the work you do keeping this site clean and organized. Damn AI messing with our plant nerd speak.

What happens with these, as moderator can u just remove? There is a cbd post as well on this forum.

Thanks for pointing that out, I guess I’ll keep them. I wonder how accurate hawthorn identification is, they seem to hybridize easy and are hard to distinguish from what I’ve read.

As for other “native” berries I have got pubescens, ideaus,and articus also had pedatus (not from my region, I got it confused with pub.) articus grew like an out of control weed in my raised acidic beds.I  was trying to use it as ground cover between blueberries. It actually swamped my blueberries, had lots of flowers and no fruit despite 2 cultivars, but I only gave it 2 seasons and then removed most of it. Ideaus grows just fine for the wildlife, I have a different (yellow Ann) that I cultivate for berries, needs pruning but gives 2 harvests per year. Pubesc. was just planted last year, I wanted a trailing white flowering plant for my front yard ornamental  “English white” native garden. I am trying native strawberry for that as well.

I have a couple ribes as well but most are cultivars as they are my wife’s favourite and I need to keep her on board with my plant obsession. I have golden current but the jury is out on that one still, grows well only a couple of fruit and birds beat me to them. Native black current flowers well but no berries yet.

I have native grape for the birds and hardy cultivars of which valiant is the best.

 I’ve got haskaps but all are cultivars that most likely have European and Asian genetics.

For serviceberries autumn brilliance is the best, standing ovation tastes pretty good and is a nice columnar form. I’ve got other local Saskatoon cultivars that had poor productivity due to soil compaction and rabbits, they should do better since moving and wiring.

 I’ve got other “edible” ornamentals; mountain ash, Nannyberry, sand cherry (very tasty if you can’t grow sweet cherries) and some Aronia which are supposedly melanocarpa (taste good but astringent) but as suspicious are hybrids. I also have some sambucs cultivars which are supposedly native too, but few fruit so far.

Next on my list are native plums and some pin cherry.