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That's a good question. I haven't seen many other fruits beside JF original Yellow Birula with good colored skin. My grafted branches are huge now so I hope it has some fruits for the first time this year.
Yellow birula is a budsport of birula. It was accidentally pruned by his gardener. I was lucky to obtained a tree from him.
Here is a photo of yellow birula 3 or 4 yrs ago from a very small graft.
Now is matured enough..i should be able to get bigger fruits.
If only I could find a grafted yellow birula lolDon't give up or be discouraged if you can't find one. There are plenty of people here who are kind enough to take time and ship stuff to me that I never would've been able to get. Lots of people have been nice enough to trade or gift me plants I'm looking for. Also, patience is key. I've looked for several trees for several years before finding them. It's nice to see another fellow teenager into tropical fruit trees. I've been in this hobby since a young age and it's been awesome! I know that price is a limiting factor for people our age, but when there is a will there is a way.
Thanks I really appreciate it
Suggest you start now with growing and collecting seeds of good genetic tropical/subtropical plants. Grafted trees can be done later when you can afford them. You can't get time back, a seedling started today may fruit for you 4 to 10 years later.
The Yellow Birula was grafted in the spring of 2022. It is now in a 15 gallon pot. Hopefully it turns yellow when it gets larger.
Bill
I'm late to the topic, but this year I've finally had enough flowers open where I am definition trying to create cool hybrids. This year I've been working with longiflora, bahiensis, laufifolia, neoinsignis, parviflora, maritima, emarginata and then others like cherilata, pinks mammoth, etc. I'm sticking to trying to cross species with the same flower types.
Filozopher, mine is six years old now and about the same size as yours, or a hair larger, and it made
about eight flowers this past summer but none of 'em set any fruit. That was a first bloomng so I'm
hoping for better luck this coming summer.
Right now by the end of January it is partially deciduous but still holding 2/3 of its leaves.
Soon as the worst of the chilly weather has passed here I'm gonna give it a nice little bump of fertilizer
and hope for the best.
Good luck with yours!
Paul M.
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They like lots of sun, lots of water, and flower and fruit better when fertilized. My compost bin started leaking into the root field. Better flowering followed, along with fruits.
Thanx Roblack… That's very useful advice for any of us who're trying to grow a biribá!
Mine is getting two of the requirements: full sun & lotsa water.
Mine bloomed finally late spring this year but set no fruit. (I'm guessing that was a 'trial run'.)
Obviously I'm going to have to feed it more generously.
Cheers!
Paul M.
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spammer
Wow! I was unaware of this species. I know the species name applies to the country it is endemic to, but it shares the name with my first hunting partner, Buteo jamaicensis, the red tailed hawks. Before my main passion became growing rare fruits, it was growing psilocybin mushrooms, before that it was growing Cannabis, and before all my botanical passions in my life my msim passion was falconry... my first red tailed hawk was named "Bella", which is why I'm trying to track down Manilkara bella seeds/plants...
It's interesting how our past and present interests influence the one another.
Now I need this Annona sp....
Doesn’t look like it
Did anyone ever source any seeds?
I just added a couple of Kwai Muks [Artocarpus parvus - wrongly called A. hypargyreus] which are in 5 gals. but have taken off briskly right after repotting them, already making new terminal growth and leaves. They are supposed to be cold tolerant down to 25ºF so we'll see if they are after a warm season of growing this year.
Also added two small Olosapos [Couepia polyandra] out of curiosity. These will have to be given some protections from the cold I suspect, but they're worth a gamble.
Fingers X-ed!
Can Kwai muk bear fruit in pots?
Paul M.
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