Tropical Fruits: What Tropical Fruit are you Growing?, 1 by dwallace59

dwallace59 wrote:
Jltbaw

Are you growing the sugar apple, coffee or mango in the ground? If the passion fruit is left outside does it freeze to the ground?

I find it very interesting at the number of people growing tropical fruit plants in cold regions. I have problems with some of my tropicals with the mild winters we have here. My soursop lost its leaves and flushed out new growth 3 or 4 times last winter. It would not go dormant. I have been told that is why they can not be grown here.

We got a late cold snap and my Thousand Finger banana had just put out its bloom. The leaves all fried and the bloom never got full size but some of the fruit did ripen.

I have my first sugar apples on my trees now and am looking forward to trying it. I got it at one of my Rare Fruit Club meetings raffle and it is only a couple of years old. It was kept in a small pot and it has fruited before my other larger sugar apple in the ground and my Atemoya which is also in the ground.

DW