See examples of all the different stages of Jaboticaba flowers and how to identify flower bumps from new foliage growth. Ripe fruit tasting and brix measurements. Music: www.bensound.com
Thank you! I would have gotten zero fruits if I didn't net the tree. Dang birds eat them before they turn any color. I hope the yield will drastically improve as it ages.
Cool Vid - Do you have a Grimal too? Anomalies are just being seen in Australia. I have a Coronata and still trying to compare / identify to others because of its quite long leaves that go to a point. Like a long tear drop
I believe it's a combination of them all. I did hand pollinate the flowers that became fruits. I figured I did it too late though since I did it when the flowers were fully open. My guess is about half of the flowers became fruits.
I think we need a Jabo identification group on FB or something... I have a flowering tree (it dropped its only small fruit last spring) I am not sure what it is. I think it's a Red.
I will probably make a video on the subject if that helps. There is no single one answer to germinate them. There are many methods that work. You can simply enjoy the fruit and spit the seed out and plant it. That works, but it's not 100% and it tends to take a while before you know if it works. I like to clean the pulp from the seeds either by hand (if only a few seeds) using light pressure of my finger nail to scrap off the pulp and rinse off with water or if many seeds then using a mesh bag filled with the seeds and a generous amount of perlite. With the seeds in the mesh bag in perlite agitate and massage the bag for like 10 minutes while dunking the bag in a bucket of water to rinse the pulp away several times during that 10 minutes of massaging. The perlite is abrasive and helps scrub the pulp away from the seed without damaging the seeds. After the seeds have the pulp removed you can take extra steps like: cleaning with soap and water then soak for 30 minutes in 3% hydrogen peroxide then rinse and place in a bag of humid vermiculite. Keep bag of vermiculite and seeds somewhere warm like next to a computer tower or somewhere that stays 75F to 85F. After about a week or two the seeds should have roots starting to poke out from the seeds. Plant the sprouted seeds in peat/perlite based potting mix just beneath the soil level. Plant the seed no more than 1/4 inch deep to prevent the seed rotting or taking too long to sprout above ground. Hope that helps.
I gave my tree a good feeding of coffee grinds, triple phosphate, chicken manure pellets, and liquid fish emulsion and plenty of rain water or filtered water. After that it started to flower and has gotten more flowers each round.