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Post by steev on Nov 29, 2011 0:37:33 GMT -5
Has anyone got experience with these, grown it outside a greenhouse, under what conditions?
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Post by oxbowfarm on Nov 29, 2011 7:13:34 GMT -5
They are these hairless doglike things that attack goats and suck their blood.
WAIT! I was thinking of chupacabra! Sorry, Jaboticaba are these Mexican Triffids that attack citrus trees and suck them dry. Beleive me, I totally know what these are...
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Post by steev on Nov 29, 2011 11:35:19 GMT -5
Nah, they're weirder than that. Are there any temperate-zone trees that fruit from the trunk, or are all these, like cacao and jaboticaba, tropical?
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Post by raymondo on Nov 29, 2011 14:43:17 GMT -5
Here they thrive in the sub-tropical regions of the country, and into the warm temperate zones. The fruits are available in the shops but very rarely. They haven't taken off as an orchard crop here but they are popular in home gardens.
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Post by steev on Nov 29, 2011 19:56:13 GMT -5
Apparently they are sometimes grown here in the Bay Area, though I've never seen one; looks like I could only have them in a greenhouse on the farm. Too bad; they're pretty cool looking.
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Post by castanea on Nov 29, 2011 20:47:02 GMT -5
If you have them in a pot during the summer and don't water them for two weeks, they die, as I found out this year.
I had a really nice one that had fruited for two years in a row and left on vacation with instructions to a local boy to water it and other pots. He didn't. Apparently the walk from his house to my house (about 300 feet) was just too much to deal with. He still expected to be paid though.
If you have them in pots, the secret to healthy growth and early fruiting is lots of water. Two or even three times a day is OK. I am in zone 9 and kept mine outdoors in a semi-protected spot. There was always a little die back in the winter (at 25-26 degrees F or less) but not too much.
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