I have p.edulis in the greenhouse fruiting now, p. mollissima seedlings which will go in GH, p. incarnata Which I’m growing out in greenhouse and will plant out come spring. I’m getting mixed signals on this surviving n our area even though it is good down to zone 6. Someone did say they need good draining soil else they die so maybe that’s it.
I also have 3 other ones im trying to start from seed now.
How’s this guy doing? I had one a few years ago but it died over winter one year pre greenhouse. Now I have pink Barbie or something - just a little guy but it has fruit on now.
My lemon guava does great here. Not the guava guava but similar.
Small golf ball size with seed crunch.
I have a tiny one with fruit on now.
Also have pineapple guava but that does fine in ground here.
I have very well-draining soil and they grow horribly slowly outdoors, in some cases my three year-old vines are smaller this summer than they were their first year. The ones in the greenhouse do OK but nowhere near the vigor you’ll see in their native range. I think they are simply too heat-loving to ever flourish in the PNW. They often don’t emerge from the soil until late June, and they grow pretty slowly for a few months, then stop growing in September. They seem to only grow when it’s above like 52°F at night, which is not a very long growing season for us.
Kumquat does good here too. They are a bit hardier too.
I want to try it but they take a while to produce I think.
This is more of a novelty fruit I think. Along with peanut butter tree and blackberry jam.
9waters on Etsy sells them all for pretty cheap. He sends healthy stuff.
Ha - I have like 100+ container figs and 7 in ground. Loaded this year.
I have 8 different citrus I think?
Lime
lemon
key lime
Limequat and kumquat
Orange, grapefruit
Also avocado and Polmogranite
Naranjilla (Lulo) is a fun tropical I have grown for years. Big, super fuzzy leaves with purple prickles, producing strange fuzzy orange fruits that are lime green inside and make a great limeade-like juice. Very fun plant. My wife hates them because she steps on the fallen leaves which are pokey. Easily grown from seed.
Looks like a small tree/shrub 4-5’ tall and wide?
How many fruits per container grown plant?
How big of a container? 10-15g?
How quick to fruit from seed?
I grow them in 3 gallon pots due to my tiny greenhouse and get 10-15 fruits a year. I’m sure if you put them in something big or planted them in the ground in your greenhouse you could get alot. Mine take over a year before they start producing from seed. I think I am going to plant some mature ones in my garden next spring and let them produce fruit until winter. Regardless, its like $5 for seed. Worth every penny.
I had lots of trouble with Solanums damping off and/or being devoured by slugs when I tried to start a whole bunch of different species this year. Zero made it. I usually have good luck with seeds, but I did use non-sterile mix that included plenty of local microbes. If I try again I’ll use a sterile mix, and would recommend the same for other PNW people wanting to try sprouting Solanums.
I’ve been there. Slugs are the devil. My worst damping off experience was using Jiffy expanding peat pellets.
Nice. I’ve been on google since seeing your initial response.
Seeds purchased!
You growing any other less common fruiting plants?
If you’re wanting suggestions for Solanum species, this thread is pretty good… Here are the ones I tried that all germinated ok and died immediately (so not the seed seller’s fault):
Are all of the Solanum that produce fruit about the same taste wise?
I did see one that was thornless - fruit looked similar. Solanum lasiocarpum, synonym Solanum ferox L
Awesome! I hope they do well for you.
Currently nothing you probably haven’t heard of, though I’ve grown a lot of weird stuff in the past that I’ve killed over the years. Check out the trade winds fruit website. Its my favorite for weird tropical fruit seeds.
@swincher has just got me on Raindance seeds! Also looks to be a great website for weird tropical seeds.
I haven’t tasted any except underripe grocery store fruit from the main commercial species, but the descriptions on Raindance (where I bought the seeds, linked in that post) definitely make it sound like they have a wide range of flavors.
Have you considered jaboticaba? They do quite well in pots. I have heard eugenias do well, too, but mine are still small. I have seen papaya fruiting in a 15g pot if you’d like to try that 
I did just order some solo papaya seeds the other day.
I do already have babaco papaya but that’s different I think.
As far as jaboticaba - that is a huge tree so I’m assuming it takes years to produce?
I like quicker fruiting things.
There are varieties of jaboticaba that fruit within 3-4 years like the red hybrid. Sabara can take up to 20 and gets very big. I am growing red hybrid and grimal, they are quite small and slow growing but don’t mind being in small containers.