congrats! i'm sure after a "few" years of serious breeding and selection it would easily surpass the commercial cherry, heh. did you need to cross-pollinate it? my biggish plant flowered for the 1st time but the first flowers to open quickly fell off. i tried cross-pollinating the remaining flowers on one side of the plant with pollen from cherry of the rio grande, and a few flowers have started to develop fruit. but on the other side that i didn't pollinate there are also one or two fruits developing. so maybe it just took a while for the bees to find it.
The plant was indoors and produced hundreds of flowers of which only the last 2 set and one failed. I tried hand pollinating all of the flowers with no success so I don’t know the reason for success or failure. I’ve had various friends that live in warmer climates day their plants have never set fruit so it’s a mystery 😁
Lol just getting a single fruit was a success 😂. From what I’ve seen most tropical ‘cherries’ have a very poor flesh to seed ratio which is why they never get sold in shops even in the tropics 😂. Only popular with home growers because they can’t go cold climate cherries anyway 😁
@@lyonheart84 I only said disappointing because I heard these are meant to be alright. I think it’s a great success that you managed to get one to flower and fruit. i’ve got a couple of seedlings, the dwarf variety and supposedly the golden variety. Many years before I will see flowers and fruit.
To get to eat your own, pot-grown tropical cherries so far north, is a serious achievement!!!
Congrats from me!
Haha I guess one is better than none 😁
Great to see it was edible, Brett. Incredible to have grown one in the UK! Hopefully next time the fruits will get a bit larger 🤞
Sad that they have so little flesh but seems to be a common theme with tropical cherries 😬
congrats! i'm sure after a "few" years of serious breeding and selection it would easily surpass the commercial cherry, heh. did you need to cross-pollinate it? my biggish plant flowered for the 1st time but the first flowers to open quickly fell off. i tried cross-pollinating the remaining flowers on one side of the plant with pollen from cherry of the rio grande, and a few flowers have started to develop fruit. but on the other side that i didn't pollinate there are also one or two fruits developing. so maybe it just took a while for the bees to find it.
The plant was indoors and produced hundreds of flowers of which only the last 2 set and one failed. I tried hand pollinating all of the flowers with no success so I don’t know the reason for success or failure. I’ve had various friends that live in warmer climates day their plants have never set fruit so it’s a mystery 😁
Oh that’s a bit disappointing…
Lol just getting a single fruit was a success 😂. From what I’ve seen most tropical ‘cherries’ have a very poor flesh to seed ratio which is why they never get sold in shops even in the tropics 😂. Only popular with home growers because they can’t go cold climate cherries anyway 😁
@@lyonheart84 I only said disappointing because I heard these are meant to be alright. I think it’s a great success that you managed to get one to flower and fruit. i’ve got a couple of seedlings, the dwarf variety and supposedly the golden variety. Many years before I will see flowers and fruit.
@user-dg5pv5fv2l lol I knew what you meant , I find that a lot of these non commercial tropical fruits are often disappointing to eat 😂