Hydro

Hydro

Growing fruits and vegetables just makes sense to me. The idea that so many delicious and diverse foods can be made from a single seed, big or small, is just so amazing to me! I’m always up for trying new fruits! I love gardening and want to grow as many different kinds of fruits as I can, even if people say that it might not grow so well in Hawaii. The temperature is pretty mild year-round with days reaching into the high 80’s during summer and nights into the low 50’s during winter.

One of my all-time favorite fruits happens to be peaches, which people assume you cannot grow in Hawaii. This is simply not true. I have a neighbor who has grown from seed what I believe to be known as a “ceylon” peach. I understand that peaches more than likely will not come totally true to seed, but I believe they have best ability to adapt to local conditions, especially if those conditions are not harsh.

Also, my grandfather was a farmer in Minnesota, so I think growing things is just in my blood!

Some of the fruits I’m growing:

Citrus
Oranges- Washington Navel, Moro Blood
Lemon- Meyer
Tangerine- Clementine, Dancy, Honey

Peaches
Tropic Snow, Babcock, Eva’s Pride, May Pride, Florida Prince, Santa Barbara, Saturn, and Ceylon seedlings

Plums
Beauty, Inca, and Methely

Apples
Anna, Ein Shemer, Red Delicious (seedling), Honeycrisp (seedling), wild Washington seedlings

Loquats
Gold Nugget, seedlings

Figs
Brown Turkey, Celeste, Flanders, Desert King, Tiger, Violette De Bordeaux, Osborne Prolific, and White Dakota

Annona
Cherimoya, Atemoya, Sugar Apple, Rollinia, Soursop, Posh-te

Coffee
Kona, Caturra

Bananas
Apple, Ice Cream, Cuban Red, Lady Finger, Hawaiian Dwarf

Dragon Fruit
Frankie Red, Arizona Purple, Graffiti, Israel Prototype

Blackberry
Prime Ark Freedom, Prime Ark Traveler