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Post by richardw on Jan 27, 2013 12:42:26 GMT -5
Couldn't believe my eyes yesterday when i saw this 5 month old seed grown Feijoa with a flower,normally takes 3-4 years before there first.  |
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 27, 2013 12:47:11 GMT -5
Wow! After 20 years, mine finally has fruit!
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Post by richardw on Jan 27, 2013 14:28:55 GMT -5
Thats a long time holly.
That wee bush above hopefully could turn out to be a really good producer flowers.
I'm realy pleased i started grow feijoa's from seed because last winter we had a -14Cdeg frost which killed all my bought grafted bushes where all the seed grown ones came through it with flying colours,the leafs didn't even change colour.
Plans are to grow truck loads more and to select from the best suited to this climate.
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Post by cortona on Jan 28, 2013 18:06:04 GMT -5
any chance to have an excange for some of your fejoa seeds?
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Post by richardw on Jan 28, 2013 19:07:21 GMT -5
I just took seed out of some supermarket fruit,can you buy the fruit over there??
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Post by bertiefox on Jan 29, 2013 13:51:17 GMT -5
Gives me hope! My five year old bush has been covered in flowers every year, but despite the supplier's claim it is 'self fertile' I haven't seen even an embryo fruit on it. I decided I needed something to pollinate it so accordingly I grabbed some new seed in a botanic garden in northern Spain where there were some trees fruiting in 2011 and now have some good sized bushes.
Your experience encourages me that this might be earlier than I had hoped! Any idea what dastardly things you did to that tiny seedling to force the little thing into flowering so young?
On a technical point, I've had this happen with a citrus (I think it was a grapefruit seed) which flowered once at around the same size, but never since. Can Feijoa seed perhaps produce a clone from the seed coat, in the same way that certain citrus can do and could this be an explanation for abnormal premature flowering?
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Post by cortona on Jan 29, 2013 17:57:33 GMT -5
never see a fejoa around on supermarcket, i will loock around for some!
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Post by richardw on Jan 30, 2013 12:09:14 GMT -5
I just took seed out of some supermarket fruit,can you buy the fruit over there?? never see a feijoa around on supermarket, i will look around for some! Its a bit early in the season here yet but i would send you some seed later. PM on its way |
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Post by bertiefox on Jan 30, 2013 13:34:51 GMT -5
Once you have a few different seedlings, take cuttings from the small shoots around the base of the plants. They root enormously easily. This should help you build up a group of plants for pollination later.
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Post by richardw on Jan 30, 2013 15:38:14 GMT -5
yep,should do that i reckon too
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Post by mountaindweller on Jan 31, 2013 20:29:39 GMT -5
Not all named varieties are grafted. I had a flower of one of mine some month after buying it. We didn't let the fruit properly ripen because of the birds. I have some unnamed they flowered after 3 years but only sparely. They like a lot of muck.
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Post by richardw on Feb 1, 2013 4:01:25 GMT -5
So what birds do you have problems with
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Post by richardw on May 2, 2013 18:00:13 GMT -5
The same seedling plant has gone and produced another flower and we are really close to winter now,so what a strange plant ive got,it will be interesting to see how this plant preforms later when it reaches maturity cortona- i see above we talking about getting you some seed,how did you get on?,its the time of year when i could get you some.  |
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Post by richardw on Jan 16, 2017 12:11:27 GMT -5
Report on how this plant has grown since 2013. well, its grown into a good sized bush but hasn't flowered again. Maybe next next year.Couldn't believe my eyes yesterday when i saw this 5 month old seed grown Feijoa with a flower,normally takes 3-4 years before there first. |
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Post by steev on Jan 16, 2017 15:35:22 GMT -5
If you get lots of flowers, but no fruit, it's not a total loss; the petals are tasty and pretty in a salad.
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