lahuasteca
04-25-2020, 08:08 PM
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).
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).