The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thanks for letting me know

My “cheena” is flowering and it looks like there are me and female flowers next to each other. Any tricks? It’s 5 feet tall, in 15 gallon pot and is 5ft tall. In gh no pollinators except me.

Thanks for posting the video, always nice to learn from other people’s successes. It’s interesting how many of the fruiting challenges seem universal to greenhouse growers (ie soursop). I was curious about how many members grow in similar conditions?

I too am interested in your fan, do you know what model it is? I got one that was wet rated 7 years ago and the fan blades edges that hit my passionfruit have started to rust.

Here is my experience, not that I know what I’m doing. I grow only in containers, and  I was able to get several seeds from fruit I ate to germinate. 2 years later they aren’t doing much. I think they had been too dry in the winter next to my citrus and mangos and they looked terrible. Now I have them in a more humid region of my gh that is usually around 75-80% rh year round. I think all the ultra tropicals are like this. My rambutan is flowering and my mangosteen is finally growing a bit.

I also water my ultra tropicals with “distilled water” from my dehumidifier mixed with dilute organic fertillizer with a ph 5.5-6.

Where should u get scions from?

Definitely has not been worth the effort but that’s not the point I guess

I ended up cracking the base of a 5yo vine in a large pot they get very brittle. It looked intact but u could see the vine just dry up.

I currently have 2 purple in 35 gallon pots 3 and 1 yo. Looks like I may get 75 fruits this spring. I am curious about what is the max number you could grow in a large container? I staring doing proper pruning (not perfect) this year and it made a difference.

I’ll post when they germinate. If they don’t I’ll post as well.

Does anyone know what insect normally pollinates these outside of their native range, I was wondering about beetles and ants?

Youngster, Thanks for the info. Do u have any pics or info on your injection system? I’m trying to figure out an automatic fertigation system for my gh.

K,
Thanks for the suggestion.gonna order1.

Spaugh, do you change your fert once it’s starting to fruit? I wasn’t sure something higher in potassium would be better, the pure fish emulsion here is 5-1-1. Also do you know what kinda of concentration you use (ppm or ec) ? I was wondering if the leaves ever burn
If it’s not diluted enough.

Full sunlight,  I fertigate with every watering. My Meyer lemon and red lime produce 40-100 fruit per year.

Hey all,
I’ve had a (now 5ft) minneola tangelo in container for 7 years now and it’s been a complete disappointment. It’s only produced fruit a couple of times and they were the wrong shape and terrible. It has also has a little bit of die back periodically. I’ve repotted, and completely root pruned in the past and the leaves looks otherwise healthy.

My question is with the die back should I use this as a rootstock or just get rid of it?