The Tropical Fruit Forum

Couldn't resist adding a few more plants to the collection, looking forward to them.

Your C. Phaea is a bit bigger than mine and has larger leaves, probably mine will get bigger as it gets older like my C. Reitziana (fingers crossed for self sterile for that one as I only have one of that plant). 

The E. Azeda I noticed is a very slow grower as well, what I do like about that one though is it did not seem to mind to be in direct sun unlike some Eugenias.  Speaking only from end of summer heat experience though but seems promising even if it takes us forever to get to fruiting stage lol.

My phaea were in 50% shade till just recently when I peeled the shade cloth off for winter. Greenhouse gets ripping hot daily now, into the high 80s.

I have protected my Azeda from full sun, but it sounds really promising if I can introduce it to full light... But oh well... Probably will leave it in the GH till it gets too big for that, so I guess 45 years.

Some Eugenia / greenhouse details

Red repanda went into a 7 gallon square, it'll be outside fighting frost from now on


Black repanda is really full of fruit


Stipitata soraria is really slow going, but it's trying


Eugenia Cribrata starting to grow better in a bigger pot


Eugenia calycina putting on a winter show, bummer they won't set / complete with how cold it is


Blue guac from SHV, who said they grow fast / well. He wasn't wrong


Campomanesia Phaea are very quick growers


Eugenia azeda, good lord I'll be a year older by the time one new leaf opens. This one is SLOW

Anyone figured out the best way to catch moles? I never had them up till about a year and change ago. They are way harder than gophers for me.

I did get one this morning using Trapline mole traps, one in either direction of the tunnel. I have occasionally gotten one in a Gopherhawk but total luck, you can't deploy them that shallow most of the time and it was just wandering down a gopher tunnnel I would guess.

Any mole tips appreciated.

K-Rimes and nana7b, not sure if now is a good time to be grafting Che, may I purchase a few male cuttings from either of you in a couple of months?

Graft in Spring

Will that turn the fruit into seeded which is less desirable?

Guy in town in SB here had same story, lots of fruitlets all dropped, then he got a male and has fruit now. His fruit have seeds, but they're like little blades, I barely notice them and eat handfuls of them when they're in season. I am going to see if I can sprout some che's this winter.

What's your assessment of the the black eugenia repanda?  Does it need a second plant for pollination?

It is self fruitful, extremely fragrant flowers, fruits and flowers at the same time. The fruit is small, and a bit underwhelming, but they're tasty morsels. I keep it for the fragrance and my bees adore it. I have a red repanda coming up that should flower next year, and I am curious if fruit size will improve with cross pollination. It sets basically 100% of flowers.

It is a more tart eugenia, but yeah, bulletproof grower, frost tolerant.

What opuntia variety are you growing in the third pic from the bottom?

That optunia was here when I moved in, it has never flowered, it was discarded by the landlord decades ago and took root. I do have some Bush2Beach's selected varieties I am growing on a shallow soil shelf, great sun year round, but I don't water there so it grow slowly. I need to gather a bunch more paddles of good fruit and go to town up there.

Wow, thanks! I don't even know what most of what you wrote means but I'd like to know. I'll read up and get back here.

In the most simple explanation, people are saying chainsaw your tree down some to a stump or low branches, then get graft some new varieties onto it.

My plan of attack would be to pop some holes in the pot and bend the stalks away from each other, ending up with a kind of goblet shape - then let the stalks go straight up once separated. You'll need to periodically clean out the centre growth.

Super awesome, K-Rimes! Have you tried Campomanesia guazumifolia? Recently got seeds from Bellamy, just because they were on clearance.

I had one tiny fruit, looked like it wasn't pollinated right or something. It tasted like eucalyptus extract... But I am not going to judge it on that, apparently it's very good! I need another one for cross pollination is my guess, even with adding bees to my yard I didn't get any fruit this year.

The tree was 6' tall and really nice then was decapitated by a falling dragonfruit trellis so it's still kinda in rebuild mode...

A rare gloomy day, but felt like a nice time to update. I actually really like this time of year for all the fall colors, there are no other deciduous trees in the area.

This really was my best year yet in the yard.


Cocktail apple with pink lady midstock, pink pearl, cox's orange pippin, and white winter pearmain, i258 in the pot, there is a newly planted corg to the left not shown, and a bunch of random eugenia sprouting up in that island (I spit a lot of seeds there)
 

Long leaf guava left, a severely mite'd grafted vermillion pitanga that has almost rebuilt its canopy on right, on far left another cocktail apple with the same as above and Goodland, Akero, Regent, Cinnamon Spice. The apple REALLY put on weight this year


Better view of the apple, a contorted mulberry, grimal in the pot on the left, yangmei seedling in ground tucked to the left of the apple


Some figs foregrund, dwarf mulberry with pakistani and himalayan (the lighter green leaves), white mulberry background



White mulberry on the right, Skittle guava on the far corner, pots from right to left: skittles guava, orange corg, campomanesia guazumifolia, on the deck calycina, el dorado corg, cocktail corg, red pitanga


Can see from above the types on cocktail corg


Dragonfruits put on a new canopy, yellowing from cold and wet, black eugenia repanda in the pot


Black repanda fruit, it's a lot bigger this year



Some pineapple sizing up in the gh


Red jabo really put on a nice bloom after root pruning


The other side of the house, clockwise from top left corner: persian mulberry, cocktail feijoa behind it, pitanga (sir prize avo and unknown guava behind it), pear in the cage, small cherimoya seedling and myrica californica in ground, kohala longan, kari starfruit, blueberries, spicy thai peppers, pawpaws, 15g on the right psidium mytoides, square pot cedar bay cherry, brokaw hass avo. Hard to see a: white sapote seedling, red pitanga, lucuma seedling, tobacco in the garden beds.


Greenhouse is kind of empty this year, surprisingly, all the bigger jabos have to tough it outside this winter. Real big campmanesia hirsuta in the middle of the photo, put on tons of weight this year


Unknown guava left, sir prize avo looking bad, inga growing back from roots, that seedling cherimoya


Rootstock pineapple guava looks good, successful graft shown


Fig forest really came up nicely, a deer must've came by and decimated that himalayan honeysuckle (oh well)

Mine says I'm 10b / 10a now, but I know it's not really true due to being at 2200'. I had the coldest year by far last year, with two snow visits of 4".

Just cause it says mango zone doesn't mean it will be reliably...

Here are a few of my plants (Lucs and Intermedia), which are mostly shaded:

I will never cease to be jealous of the ease of which Florida growers have it.

Looking awesome.