The Tropical Fruit Forum

There are a couple of reports of people who were able to grow them outdoors and get a crop around vancouver.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4274337

Can u share some pics? It may help with problem solving.

Passionfruit in a 35 gallon has worked really well for me. While I agree with Carolyn, passionfruit has been the exception. Last fall I potted up a passionfruit from 2 to 35 gallons (it had been sitting in that container for 2 years and had already sent off a flower) , and with proper training now have 45 fruits on a 10’ vine. I put a lot of partially decomposed fruit and food waste in the bark/potting mix (indoors so not worried about rodents) so it had a good feed as it grew. I read in a paper that with organic farming in a field expected yield for passionfruit is 38 fruits per vine, so I think containers work pretty well.

After watching Carolynns greenhouse tour I realize the “grafted rambutan” is actually a cacao.

For indoor container the tree is an indestructible beast but has some downsides. I think it’s a great starter tree for tropical fruit growers. I think it can handle over watering and over fertilization better than most trees, which is good for those starting out who don’t neglect their trees enough. I have mine sitting in 2” of water almost all the time. Only problem are pests, and underwatering in the summer heat causing fruit loss. All that vigorous growth causes it to be a bit of a magnet for mealey and scale, and the bark morphology makes in impossible to totally eradicate.

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?