The Tropical Fruit Forum

This plant has set two fruits , i am wondering what to do with it over the winter, i am assuming that they should ripen next year arround summer so can i keep it in a basement without strong light and temps arround 2-5 C. Theese temps are the maximum lowest ones that i get in there in the dead of winter, it can get a little colder thought at arround 0-1 C at rare times.
Will the fruits drop?? They will definitely stop growing ,but the question is if they do not drop ,will they continue their growth next spring??

The alternative is to bring it in my greenhouse ,which i will heat .
What is the minimum temp a fruiting pomello can withstand without damaje to its fruit? The plant is grafted on flying dragon btw.
Thanks ! 

Thanks for the comments ! It may be the maturity thing going on, since i looked at pics of barbadensis and some of them show exactly the same plant as mine, others show much lsrger plants without the specled leaves .some of those big plants have babies that also had the specled leaves so this should be also a clue .
I will research the consumation thing , will let the plant get bigger first then to see what variety it may be. Meanwhile  i will use it on wounds and such.

About the eating i tried both of mine just like that, yet only a little nibble, the dark green leaved one was very bitter, the other one had no bitterness whatsoever.

Do your homework. Pretty sure even "edible" aloe should be processed in some way before ingesting.

thanks i will research this more deeply !:

This plant seems to be having some kind of a problem, its growing normally thought. The new leaves ado not get affected ,but when they get mature the discoloration slowly shows up.
I digged arround the plants root perrimeter and it seems to me tha a vine with so much vegetative mass shoul have a thick mat of feeder roots near the base. I did not saw any...the  soil is moist. I am thinking now that i have overwatered the plant and the feeder roots died off, which in return leads to it not being able to support its growth. I have had such things happen to different plants in the past...
Thanks for your opinion on the problem, i want to get the plants as healthy as possible since its starting to form flower buds and i will be self pollinating theese in hope for a fruit set. I'll quit wattering it, untill it shows some watter stress sighns, in case the problem is too much water.

I am also interested in this as i have one seedling in the ground in my gh.
My tought is that u may be good with providing some kind of frost cloth protection on the coldest nights. I've read that lychees do need a bit of chill in order to fruit, tought -6 may be too much. Better wait someone else with direct experience in the case, to comment.....

Yes I would expect sun injury to take at least a couple seasons to manifest. It doesn’t kill them quickly.

nice thanks for all the information, i will paint them then, after leaf drop...

Super fantastic! Impressive collection, especially for your locale. And they look so happy.

thanks ! Some of them have deficiencies which i need to sort out ....its hard to keep everyone happy 🤣

Quote from: Plantinyum on September 04, 2021, 11:19:07 AM

Thanks once again for the kind words to all of you !! 🙂

Nice work, thanks for sharing.

How do you get this forum to load all those photos?  I get to 2 maybe 3 photo links and then the posting window rejects any more.

i dunno ,i uploaded the first set of pics without any problems, just add the links and then the writing was kind of hard sinse i was always forgetting what pic was next ....i dunno why u are having problems with this , the site via which i post the images is postimage...

Thanks once again for the kind words to all of you !! 🙂

Thanks everyone !! Most of the plants are young still ,but gradually they should pick up on fruiting.... i have some other plants that i havent shown but was exhausted from uploading pics and all and decided to call it a day . .. 😀😀
There are others here that also are keen on tropical and rare fruit plants, we sometimes exchange plants.... its nice to have other plant geeks close by .

Hi, i havent updated my yard this year, everything has grown ALOT,  following are a load of pics accompanied with some information and several questions. Thanks for taking time to chek my garden.
Starting with the greenhouse
Vanilla and monsterra


Dragon fruit, coffee arabica, carambolla


Some unknown coffee species, does anyone recognize it ?


Epiphillum quatemaliensis


My other dragon fruit plant


Hylocereus megalanthus grafted onto rooted cuttings of one of my big dragon fruit plants.


Cinnamon and some kind of pineapple,prolly a decorative one 


Avocado seedling


Two surinam cherries, two aloe vera varieties,tammarind and orange gasmine


Camelia sinensis/tea camelia, will be flowering soon....



Cashew seedlings


Pineapple top starts, jackfruit seedling, natal plum and tammarind.


My two cherimoya's




My other two avocado seedlings


Dwarf cavendish, two salack's ,jackfruit,lemon grass


Strawberry guava


Curry leaf/ muraya koenigii


Yewoll small fruited guava in front, apple guava behind ,then strawberry guava


Papaya, in ground and potted




Some more guava plants, apple guava with fruit set






 Tammarind and salak


Lychee


Yewoll lemon guava with fruit set.


Baobab seedlings





Some more sweet tamarind seedlings and cherimoya grafts


Passiflora quadrangullaris , this one has some kind of deficiency ,anyone recognize it from the leaves ? Its starting to bud thought.






Passiflora ligularis, its a monster ,i am constantly trimming it, it has flower bud starts which do not progress growing....dunno whats the problem here...

Tamarillo, do theese look close to ripening? Some of them have a more yellower colour to them...








Jujube and passion fruit on the background




Passion fruit loaded






From left to right, arguta kiwi's, regular kiwis, a violet dessert grape variety, cherry and akebia behind


Asimina and figs






Phisalis peruviana


Some blueberries, opuntia, phisalis and asimina


Apple varieties, u can see i have several medlar grafts on one of the apple trees i topworked this spring, i'm surprised  they took  ..










Pomello, lemon , some other citrus, pistacio, loquat and others








Lapsi

Quote from: vnomonee on September 01, 2021, 08:43:25 PM

Yes! A few more flowers that are open on the new vine have smooth ovaries. This will make it easier for me to distinguish between the two while hand pollinating next year. Hoping to have a lot more fruit set 🙂

Awesome!
So have you had mature fruits from this smooth vine yet? It will be interesting to see if they are unique in any other ways.
Sometimes small differences like this can portend larger ones - once I started several seeds and one came up with pure green stem while all the others had some redness. The green one turned out to be a white-flowered vine.

Very interesting about the white flowering incarnata, any pics of the flowers ??

None that I can see. It's too late for any to mature if I hand pollinate now. But I will definitely need to keep the older vine pruned next year  so it doesn't take over the entire fence leaving some room for this one.

I grew this edulis from seed which has very pronounced red pigment in the leaves and stems compared to another edulis I have with only green in the leaves

the edulis reminds me of my flavicarpas, which generally have reddish stemms and main veins on the leaves. Thought your vine has way more pronounced colour then mine have ever had 

Nice greenhouses everyone.
Heres mine, it's like a jungle in there haha