Originally Posted by lahuasteca

Hi everyone,

My first post here. Don’t have pictures yet but they are forthcoming. Here’s my observations on what works best in our very hot humid climate with erratic rainfall. Raja puri - best I actually had some fruit stalks sent up this winter. They are now ripening. Plants sent up lots of pups - I’m constantly thinning them out. Dwarf Brazilian - good. Handles the cold fronts well and does not sucker like the Raja puri. I have one plant, about to fruit, trunk is at least 8 ft. High. Dwarf cavendish - poor. Does not like winter winds nor intense summer heat. We’ve been in mid-90’s since March and I’ve noticed lots of leaf burn. Water every day or it burns up.

Something called 1780 that I got in Louisiana. Lots of foliage growth but rarely fruits. Resistant to heat and cold. My rec. for South Texas - Raja puri - will fruit with stalks anywhere between 4 and 7 ft. Next - Dwarf Brazilian. I may try a super dwarf cavendish if I can find one. My Dwarf Cavendish were tissue cultures from Florida and never really adapted to the South Texas heat (we can be mid-upper 90’s with blazing sunshine for 5 months without a break).