The Tropical Fruit Forum

@paranoidjack To get fruit, the flowers must be pollinated by insects, or by hand in your case. Due to the fact yours is growing indoors, there are no insects available for pollination. This is the opposite for cannabis, as you don’t want pollination to the female flowers. You may want to do some additional research on how to manually pollinate fruit trees indoors. Keep trying and keep us posted.

Great thread. I am also doing this exact thing for my three boys, ages 4,2,1 month:

I am in zone 9b, in a shaded position I highly recommend #1 Carambola,#2 red Jaboticabra, #3 avocado. Then the more sun the better for mulberry, mango, dragonfruit, peanut-butter fruit, sapodilla, banana, pineapple, sugarcane, lychee, papaya, atemoya.

Your Choquette appears to be in the young fragile stage, within 1-2 years from graft taking hold. When young like this, it’s very important to protect from anything close to frost, or temps below 40. Once this tree is in the ground and throwing new growth for a season or two, it should be able to withstand temps sub freezing for short periods. the first few years in ground are the most important, I would still protect with frost cloths for first few cold snaps to get the most growth and trunk stem insulation as possible, before allowing to take the brunt of Mr winter. On cold snaps or predicted frosts, If you can reach top to cover it, cover it! Help it build cold endurance with quick size!

Hey Pinkturtle,

Yes, that appears to be a black variety I’m in search of!  Is this your planting? How’s the flavor, chew-ability, and overall growth pattern? I am interested. PM me.

Thanks

In florida, Are we seeing earlier than usual blooms this season you think?

Just wait a tad longer. Give plenty of water. On average it takes 10-15 months to flower. The plant will throw out a “flag” leaf just before the bloom comes out. The flag is just a small leaf usually smaller than 24” or so. Once the flowers emerge, expect about 6 months from flag leaf to harvest. Once the bloom stops producing the banana fingers, I just cut off the Purple Heart of developing flowers to help direct growth into the fruit. In central florida, I’ve had best luck waiting until the bottom most banana fingers just starts to turn yellow on the tree. The longer left on the tree, the higher the sugar content, experienced. The bananas sliced, topped in cinnamon, and lightly fried in coconut oil in a pan on the stove top makes a great natural sugar-glazed banana snack!

Jaboticaba and carambola are known to do OK in dappled sunlight.

I have always used organic fish emulsion for light feedings (1x month) in between the routine spring, summer, fall organic granular slow release feedings. I believe a light fish emulsion feed would not hurt anything at this time.

This morning at 7am Longwood (North Orlando) hit 34 degrees at my place. Frost was seen around the yard and on roofs. I’m glad I placed heat lamps under my trees, they are looking unscathed so far...

Very interesting. I wonder how some of the new florida cultivars are compared in other parts of the world, in similar, non-native conditions? I guess time will tell. Maybe there is a good crossover yet to be found.

Also check out “A Natural Farm”, just outside NW Orlando, FL.

I have had success with liquid fish emulsion applied every 1-2 months, in conjunction with slow release applied spring, summer, and again in fall. I try to stick with organic as much as possible to avoid burn.

Hey Guys, so what’s my 1.5 year old VP telling me is wrong? Starting seeing this about 3 weeks ago. I sprayed southern AG Foliar spray for citrus, advocation, mango just two days ago to try to correct micronutrient deficiency. Seems within last 2 days things have gotten worse. What do you think this is and What do you recommend to correct the issue?