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Nice looking tree, how old is it?5 years old but it has been neglected (lives at my parents' house off of rainwater, only gets repotted or fertilized when I am visiting).
The general rule I have is that when the canopy is stick out well beyond the pot walls, and it drinks its water within 24 hours and is light again, you could up pot. That looks like a 5 gallon? I'd put that into a 10g for sure.
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.
Is it Cherry of the Rio Grande?
Usually referred to as Eugenia aggregata?
If so, it's like an intense cherry.
My jabos periodically get bothered like that sometimes. They tend to spring back, sometimes it takes forrreeverrrr though. In my case, I think it's due to extremely hard water and lockout. I add a bit of fertilizer and that seems to help them out. Liquid fertilizer seems to really be the ticket for situations like these.
What are the temp highs and lows there? How bad is wind? Cool collection
We get over 100f very regularly during summer. The highest I've seen was 117f and a huge number of plants were damaged, even really hardy stuff like pineapple guava burnt up. The winter is cold so I am zone pushing a lot with some of this stuff. I just accept some frost bite and call it day, we get down to 25f sometimes, but generally briefly. It does tend to sit at 32-34f for hours at a time, sometimes almost the whole night. The greenhouse is very important for my potted plant collection.
It is extremely well protected from wind and we rarely see more than 30mph.
