The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hah I have the same problem.  Some of the seed packet writing eventually faded in the weather and now I have a few late sprouting seeds labelled like "unknown 3mm Eugenia seed... from spring 2023 Bellamy seed order". 

It might help if you print all the seeds from your order that they could possibly be.

I hope he doesn't ever delete the photos of the sold out seeds from his site or some I may never be able to figure it out.  I've been meaning to print them.

I looked it up once and got the impression it is really sour based on this post:  https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=14202.0

Yes this is from seed, or maybe a 9waters starter seedling.  I will have to check my records to see how old it is.  I have a bunch of them so I haven't really babied them, figuring at least one would survive.  They have been pretty easy to grow

They seem to be pretty much like all the other eugenias I am growing.  I did have random severe dieback one year, though, no idea why.

Is it possible yours are too wet?  The ratio of soil to plant looks high.  I usually down-pot plants that die back severely as they don't seem to need much water while they struggle

Don't Puerto Rico and Hawaii have plant inspections to mainland?  I know the stuff I get from polologrower has APHIS markings.  I don't think I've ever ordered from PR

One of pitombas made fruit for the first time this year, but the fruits were tiny and seedless, runts I guess.  Hoping for a real crop next year.  The plant itself looks healthy.

I recall that Millet on the citrus subforum had tried growing citrus in primarily (or entirely?) lava rock and gave up because of unsolvable nutrient deficiencies.

I know this isn't what you asked, but it seems these grow very easily from cuttings and rooted cuttings are readily available for low prices, you might have better luck that way.

I tried germinating these seeds once and none grew.  I think I remember looking into it afterwards and the consensus seemed to be that they are really hard to sprout.  I ended up buying a rooted one and it grows like a weed.

Same here.  I need to get off my butt to hand-pollinate to actually get to taste fruit from the large cherimoya and rollinia trees I have.  They are wearing out their welcome in my greenhouse, where lots of self-fruitful trees are producing without obvious insect pollination

... If I have to pick only one, then Monstera deliciosa  fruit.

You are making me regret my decision to trash my monstera plant, it got too big and never flowered and I didn't think it was worth the space.  I have always wanted to try the fruit

Jackfruit

...Other plants that died in the same period were a chempedak hybrid and a young peanut butter fruit.

Hah maybe I can use this to finally figure out which of my jackfruit trees that lost their label is the Cheena (chempedak x jackfruit hybrid).  The one that dies is it! 

I still have my 20gal peanut butter fruit tree outside in the 40s.  It seems to be okay so far.  That is one for the next round for when we break into the 30s.

I have some "test plants" that I don't care so much about that I can use to judge how cold it really got outside as the weather reports are not very reliable.  A tomato volunteer growing in the mulch pile, a starfruit seedling-rootstock whose scion had long died, and some excess seedlings that aren't worth the effort to try selling.