Tamarillos are tree tomatoes as far as I can tell they are synonyms. I just thought a dwarf would be better option for earlier fruiting on a compact plant. Also it was the only type the seller had haha whiskey hill has some really cool cuttings available but I can’t see paying $40 for 4-6 cuttings. I only want 1 or 2 anyhow.
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I just got this feijoa from a local FFA sale. Pretty decent size, no cultivar though. I’ll probably graft on some scionwood if thats possible in the future. I saw a beautiful one at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, really made me want one now instead of waiting for my seeds to grow.
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That’s cool, FFA around here just sells tomato’s and marigolds
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Ours are nearly all landscaping trees. It just so happens pineapple guava is a popular landscape plant here. Similar to loquats, the first fruit I ever had from one was in the Arby’s parking lot.
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These have a pretty long hang time, only just now falling from the tree and reading fully ripe. Other than that, a pretty nice little fruit.
I had picked one early and wasn’t impressed. It was soft, sweet, and juicy, but very mild tasting. The flavor then was similar to a yellow tomatillo, but, again, very mild.
A few days later, they were ripe enough they fell off the tree. Much better. There’s still some yellow tomatillo flavor, but now they’re more aromatic and fruity, with a little bit of acid I think. Overall, probably closest to a cross between a good physalis and the yellow tropical fruit flavored gum. Very soft, with about 8-10 small seeds. The skin is mildly astringent, about like a yellow banana, and very thin. Come to think of it, there’s a little bit of a lady finger banana flavor. Sweet, juicy, but not incredibly so.
Just slightly aromatic. Absolutely no typical guava flavor, which surprised me.
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Welp, my plants are barely two feet out of the ground and I’ve already seen three of them. I might need to control their numbers a bit. Last year the swallowtails striped my fennel and dill to the ground before they were big enough to pupate, not looking to repeat that with the flitteries.
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They’ve already destroyed my yellow passionfruit (P. edulis flavicarpa). My two purple possums luckily have doubled in size, so they should be fine. We have a ton of the inedible native passionvine (Passiflora suberosa) specifically for the purpose to get caterpillars, and the butterflies almost completely ignore it for egg purposes. So we attempt to move all the caterpillars to those. Just too slow for the yellow one.
According to my mother, gulf flitteries prefer passionvine in full sun while the zebra longwings prefer the ones in the shade.
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Is the passionfruit a named hybrid? Would you be able to share the source? I’m very interested in hardy passionfruit!
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I am currently continuing to grow a few kumquats (grown from seed) in pots until they are ready to plant outside in a few years. There’s also some brand new seedlings from this year - feijoas, pomegranates, and lemons. Does anyone have success growing pomegranates or lemons from seed that are the least bit cold hardy?
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I grow the fennel just for them, but this year it’s giant already, 3x3 I’d say. 2 that size and a ton of seedlings here and there. So far the passiflora has went unharmed. However the damn slugs and pill bugs do not let my moringa come back ever. They eat every leaf that tries to regrow. I may give up on trying to get one established here.
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Define the least bit. Because I’d say the Philadelphia area is a tad more than the least bit cold. While you may get kumquats to survive there, even I think it’s likely with some effort you can get them to live in ground. It’s pretty much a 100% chance you’d never eat a fruit, because I imagine the fruit wouldn’t ripen before you get a hard freeze. Nagami for me ripen in like January or February even. Meiwa and marumi are much more doable those ripen November for me. The problem with Nagami isn’t just the fruit ripens late, but the tree is really vulnerable then. I lost a bunch of fruit 2 years ago and a couple branches which split due to being not very dormant. Meanwhile the Meiwa and marumi right next to it didn’t get a leaf harmed because they were more dormant at the time and had already been harvested all the fruit.
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My Nagami in fact still has a greenish fruit on it, it staggered a bloom in winter so I get one spring fruit also haha. Actually 3/4 (only the Fukushu didn’t bloom, but it hasn’t yet it was so tiny but this is the year for it) flowered a little bit in early winter so they all had 1-2 straggling fruit right now.
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Welcome to the forum!
These are tetraploid hybrid passion fruit. I got them from this eBay seller, he has some named and some seedlings as well. They are not self fertile so you need at least two.
Regular maypop is pretty darn hardy but these hybrids might be less so. They’ve survived one winter for me so far, but I’m in eastern North Carolina so my winters are usually mild.
The first year they didn’t start flowing until pretty late, and so didn’t ripen any fruit on the vine. I’m thinking this year I’ll get flowers much earlier as the bones are actually established now.
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Last year, on first year plants, the first bloom was in late July.
I might be counting the proverbial chicks, but…
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Yeah my “pink pop” has buds now too and it didn’t even bloom last year, caterpillars never gave it a shot.
I bought just about every Eugenia Trade Wind Seeds offered last year and gave them a shot. I over wintered them in the basement and remembered to water them maybe once a month.
The survivors where Eugenia unifolia black surinam cherry
Eugenia Azeda
Eugenia Unifolia Zills Surinam cherry
Eugenia Pyrifolmi Uvaia
Cherry of the Rio Grande
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The amount of seeds I have bought this year is obnoxious haha. I’ll report back next year with the survivors like you. I have a sete capote and eug. uniflora in ground, so we will see if they manage to survive. Also what were your germination rates approximately, and how long roughly
Eugenia-(some of all have germinated or came as)
Complicata
Brasiliensis
Speciosa
Neonitida
Myrcianthes (rare sweet)
(Plant) uniflora (3 were in the pot so separated them)
(Last year plant) involucrata
Psidium-(0 germinated so far)
Myrtoides
Longipetiolatum
Robustum (Araza Grande)
(plant) littorale
(2 years ago plant) cattleianum
(3 years ago) guajava Barbie Pink
I’m sure I’ve forgotten some of those, but the amount of seed starts is becoming an issue. Going to make some more shelves in the greenhouse and likely buy a small hoop house to keep some of the citrus in that doesn’t really need heat protection just some frost help. If all my seeds happen to survive and begin to thrive, I will absolutely have to sell off many of them.
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I’ve bought nearly all my seeds from them too. I’ve had some Eugenias start fast, and others slow. I just learned to be patient with tree seeds. My Sugar Apple seeds were sowed end of October, beginning of November, and they didn’t germinate until April, and those were fresh from the fruit.
Same! I got at least 10 different Jaboticaba seeds, a bunch of guava seeds since they came in large packs, my Eugenias, and a whole bunch of one offs like some tropical raspberry seeds. And I only bought 2 Ice Cream Bean seeds and now I have 6 just from the seeds pushing out more than 1 plant. When there all small, they are easy to manage, but now that alot of things are growing, I’m running out of space fast. Especially shaded space.
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Yeah next year will be the year I have decisions to make, think I’ll manage until then. I’d say it’s a good problem to have, or at least a fun problem to have. Do you fertilize any seedlings? I haven’t yet I’m afraid to burn them, tropicals are so tender when young, mine stay shaded and I keep them wet
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I used a weak fish emulsion once (5-1-1 I think). I was getting ready to do so again. I usually dilute it in my watering can and just water them with it and then water then again. When I did it the first time, I had some stubborn seeds that sprouted right afterwards, could be a coincidence, but its enough of one to get me do so again.
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