The Tropical Fruit Forum

Sabara hasn't got going here yet, but red is on 2nd crop.

I've been watching one of the videos. Very cool how there are so many rare plants just hanging out in the high grass. Gotta get me some mini bovine!

We are all plant people; maybe for a reason. Few of us have great social skills. Let's stick together and work it out, for fruit's sake.

Please keep posting Eric, and PineIslander, Bush, and others; that's what makes this site great. Sometimes I miss Rob. Was watering my miracle fruit tree, and remembered when he called me out for stating it was more than just a novelty and that I enjoyed the fruit. lol, he was right, haven't eaten one in ages.

Getting exciting! Lots of signs of a good season on the horizon. Sadly, Sugar Loaf blooms were hit hard by PM, got a lot of cold misty rain when it was at peak bloom. Low fruit set, and not sure any will hold. Hoping it will bust a new bloom soon. Otherwise, things are looking good here.

Check out Sweet Tart:







Round 2 =)


This tree is not very old, and 1st produced last year. Very happy with these robust little fruitlets.

ON flowers and has decent fruit set here. Definitely get some fruit drop, and the squirrels make matters challenging, so haven't got much fruit yet. Plopped a 1g in ground about 4 or 5 years ago, so hoping it will do better in time. Fruit is very good. Easy to manage height, wide growing tree. It is starting to flower now.

Quote from: palingkecil on February 25, 2024, 01:53:19 PM

Everglades.com
Me and my friend bought over 50 trees from them. Good size trees, wrapped carefully, and their rootstock is healthy mature trees.

Are you sure you've got that URL correct? Looks like an alligator farm, not a tree nursery.

Free mango tree with every gator purchased!

Mine fruits on the side that gets good fertilization. Realized this when a compost bin spilled on one side, and that side produced all the fruit. Any chance the side with fruit is getting fertilized, with the sunny side not?

Quote from: SplorKeLZ on February 27, 2024, 11:52:40 PM

You should try planting the seeds from the biggest of those fruits.

Quote from: vnomonee on February 28, 2024, 09:58:11 AM

Amazing, definitely worth propagating

Quote from: mangoba on February 28, 2024, 12:28:56 PM

I think you've got a winner, how vigorous is it?

Hoping that Frederick will reply to these questions AND consider, naming, propagating
and sharing (t)his distinctive new Passiflora cultivar.  It really looks to be a winner!

Cheers!

Paul M.
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Maybe Frederick received a ton of cutting and seed requests, and has since gone underground, never to be heard from again. Best of luck Frederick with your heavy tasty jumbo purple passion fruit!

Soil looks heavy and waterlogged. I would shake off as much of that dirt as possible (without hurting it), and start over in a new pot with new media.

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Mike at TreesNMore can probably get them, if he doesn't already have.

You probably have Ewais. This info is from www.TropicalAcresFarms.com:

"Ewais is from Egypt, originating in the area near the Suez Canal and was named after an Egyptian minister. It is a small, ovate-shaped yellow fruit with a fiberless flesh and exceptionally sweet flavor that surprises those who have never tried it. The fruit are very prone to post-harvest anthracnose, but resistant to bacterial spot.  The seed is very thin and small, and polyembryoic.
 
The tree is non-precocious, and takes a while to start producing. It has a medium vigor, upright growth habit with dense canopy and may struggle to flower some years in the climate of south Florida. When it does flower though it sets a lot of fruit and makes very nice crops.
Ewais is a mid-season cultivar and ripens mostly in July here. We feel this variety might perform well in southern California due to its lack of precocity and growth habit.
 
Flavor: Egyptian/Indochinese
Country: Egypt"