Cold hardy to 28F/-2C, can be grown in a pot. Fruits 4-5 yrs from seed.
It’s the fruit that makes it so special. The peel is very sweet and chewy and the fruit inside balances it with a nice tartness. And bc you eat fruit+peel, it’s very nutritious.
I sell seedlings for $15 plus shipping available in early spring. Open to reservations now.
The peel comes away from the fruit easily and the fruit is sectional/easy to pull apart like a mandarin. The taste of the fruit is like a tart orange but the pith has sugar in it so it’s not completely sour. The peel is very sweet. Sometimes the fruit is seedless, but no more than 2 seeds per fruit.
Just came across something ppl should know about: grafted jaboticabas.
Red hybrids grow fast from seed and flower within 3-5 years. Most species flower after 6+ years. When you graft a flowering branch on a jabo, it can take 3 yrs for the graft to finally flower. So it makes sense to graft other species of jabo but not red hybrids which is what this Etsy seller was marketing for $220! 😱🤯
I just got this plant in a trade and I’m going to do a before and after 6 months pic to guilt the person I traded with as being a bad plant parent. This is the before pic. Will take a new pic beginning of June.
I knew that they probably get too large to keep in a pot but I found a mamey fruit 3 yrs ago that was the size of a large sopadilla and had a “small” seed inside. I grew it out thinking it would be a dwarf tree. Nope.