The Tropical Fruit Forum

Is it producing flowers?

It will either grow or die, it can't do nothing forever!  Be patient. 

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RIP easy greenhouse dreams  I think I can budget close to 40-50k, even though it hurts to even type.

That's all very good to know about water, insulation, etc. I'll be keeping everything in pots except maybe some citrus on flying dragon rootstock that I know won't hog up space, should also keep them less sensitive to cold ground issues. I'm hoping to do a relatively cheap geothermal system for heat to help with that, too.

You could do it all yourself if you want to do the research.  But think about heating, cooling, watering, etc.  Even if you have a simple greenhouse and simple foundation, you either have to run utilities haphazardly across your lawn or get some trenches dug.  If you don't care about permits you can do the electric easily, but theres no getting around physics when it comes to frost lines

... looked it up... "As of 2014, the frost line depth for the majority of North Carolina is 6 inches"

hah you lucky dog.  It's 36 inches for me.   

Yeah you could probably dig a shallow trench in a day and run all your utilities through it.   I don't think your dreams are dead

Given that your winter lows probably aren't so bad in NC... I'm starting to think you could make this work with electric heat if you use containers.  Geothermal may be fine most of the time, buy you will almost certainly need a backup plan for long periods of cold weather. 

The kit itself isn't too bad, but contractors will kill you.  Realistically you want water, which means a below frost line trench.   Electricity, which means buried or overhead lines and a new circuit, subpanel, grounding rods.  Heating, which means either propane tanks, natural gas line, or electric heaters.   

If you're gonna grow perennials over winter in-ground, you probably want an insulated foundation, which means an insulated stem wall that goes down below grade a couple feet, which means excavation, concrete forms or masonry block. 

I could easily see this running 100k total to "do it right" if you hire out everything.

The cheapest route would be to build a foundation of something like railroad ties/big pressure treated wood or some concrete blocks.  If you grow in containers you can get away with uninsulated ground/cold floor.  An extension cord or some fat romex or ufb for power... run across the yard from your house.  Heating depends on your fuel source.   A problem you'll run into is with water.  If you just run a garden hose it'll freeze solid in winter, and then you will be stuck running bucket of water from house to yard.  I have been through all this with my last house/greenhouse. 

Wow those are some dark green leaves, nice looking tree.  You are making me think I am under fertilizing my trees.

Okay, thank you so much for the info! That's comforting, it rarely ever hits freezing where I am so maybe I can try it out and just see - there is a grocery store that has Jackfruit I get to eat (no idea the variety, also probably picked unripe) so I have seeds readily available to experiment with 🤞🏽

Ripe jackfruit seeds sprout very readily, so you should have good success (if they were picked ripe enough)

Do you think the buds will go on to form fruit this season with no leaves on the plant?

I would remove all but one or two fruitlets, if you just want to try the fruit.  Without leaves to support them, most will drop off anyway and/or be severely undersized

I use about a teaspoon of EDDHA in a 5gal bucket when I apply it. 

Enough to make my the blue fertilizer turn bright green.

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I am actually happy to hear that there is little difference between the types of mamey, as it prevents me from feeling like I am missing out on some different types.  I had a couple mamey sapote fruits (unknown cultivar) and I liked them alot, and I am growing a green sapote based on it being "almost the same but a little better".

Ah, gotcha.  You had my doubting my container

That looks line a comparatively huge container, is the intent to minimize repotting?  Last time I repotted a mangosteen seedling I was surprised how little root volume it had, I probably could have waited another year or two before it got root bound

I certainly believe you, this particular type sounds interesting to me also.  I started noting my the seeds/scion/plants I acquire as "from so-and-so" as I suspect there will be a lot of variability once things come to fruit.