The Tropical Fruit Forum

Mine is in the ground this year, it bushed out a little and grew a new central leader. Hoping it will be hardy, it's surrounded by an evergreen shrub in an L shape so area is pretty sheltered. House is right beside it. Plant in the back is maypop and there are strawberries in this bed. Don't know if I should remove the strawberry and maypop.

I had bark splitting with Poncirus+ on own roots but not the one grafted to regular Poncirus, they are planted in different parts of the yard so not sure if the one is getting more southern exposure. Have you tried painting the stem/ trunks with white paint to reflect some of the sun? Thinking of doing this. My citrumelo did have some bark damage on the southern exposure but has already healed over

 I bought a Mexican cream guava from home depot as well and so far it's only made green fruit without any sweet flavor at all, never turned yellow. We'll see what happens next season lol

Some more info about the prague aside from this forum :

https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/thread/521/prague-chimera

http://hardycitrus.blogspot.com/2020/02/prague-citsuma.html

Haven't been able to find any other info on Sherman, even emailed the professor at the university that created it directly but did not get a reply. Figured since Sherman is deciduous it might be hardier than SunDragon. Florida does not have a budwood program for home growers only for commerical growers unfortunately

The vine with the smooth ovaries produces oblong fruit. Shape is more distinct while they are smaller and still growing, almost look like a banana passionfruit. The flavor is not as good as the round one on the right. But something very interesting about it is the smell, I get hints of pawpaw and banana.



side by side with the other vine

You will know very quickly if it has set, and to me it looks like it has! I noticed that your vine also produces fuzzy ovaries, my other genetically distinct incarnata vine has ovaries that are smooth:

original vine with fuzzy ovaries:








new vine: smooth ovary (before pollinated, and after)

Hmm so the "Mexican guavas" I've seen at the grocery store are small and round, these two fruits are pear shaped. Could be mislabeled or a different "Mexican" variety? The inside was white when I bit into the fruit, and seeds were fully developed.

I have the plant in full sun, it appears to be an air layer as I don't see a graft. The fruits are lowest on the branch which probably did not get full sun due to being shaded by the leaves. Maybe the tree did abort the fruit too soon and the heat softened it up?

Here are some pics, it's in a 3 gallon

Just did Hindsii x poncirus+ (dry pollen)





I have a little bonsai/ year old hindsii cutting noticed several flowers today.

My eyes hurt. Biggest issue I had was the dry pollen would not adhere to the paint brush

Let me know what they say, can't be coincidence that we both have infected plants from them

Taste is subjective but some tropical/subtropical stuff I have fruiting right now I grow in 3-5 gallon containers:

Mexican guavas, I bought a rooted cutting that was a foot tall and now have about 6 fruits ripening on 3 branches in a 3 gallon container fruited in the spring when I bought it.

Feijoas fruiting now after 2 years. Really fast growing but they do need chill hours, I had to up pot to 5 gallons.

Meiwa kumquat, in my experience, smaller citrus fruit like kumquats or key limes work well in a container because they give a lot of fruit (40+ fruits in a 3 gallon). And you can eat the whole fruit peel and all.

A little more difficult but passion fruit in pots work for me, but they need something to climb. I have to wrap the vines back into the container and bring the whole thing inside which is not ideal but I get 30+ fruit in a 3 gallon. Need to up pot these to 5 gallon soon.

I grow under LEDs in the winter and actually my new leaves get huge but chlorotic / yellowing does not happen if anything I get leaf drop before I notice this.

Outdoors if my plants have been getting constant water esp since the heat is having me water daily, I do see this on the new leaves and I assume its nutrients washing out or a PH change like you said causing uptake problems. It eventually corrects itself since I do apply diluted fertilizer once or twice monthly with watering. Try lightly fertilizing if you haven't already.

My turunji is back from the dead via cutting. Battling spider mites now.

Did anyone get fruit yet?