TommyMacLuckie

To answer your second question, yes, I have one that is blooming right now but with considerably less fruit on it. It's in a pecan stump and I actually cut it down to about 2 feet high or so. I was amazed that it came back instead of just sending out a bunch of pups. It's about 5 feet tall, maybe higher.

Another one I cut down last year after a huge wind line came through bloomed and it was only 2 feet tall. I don't recall if it had set a flag before the wind event or not but it seemed to have stopped getting taller.

So from what I can tell, it's nothing to do with the size of the plant so much but, in essence, like when a spider runs out of silk, the amount of leaves it makes. It makes so many leaves and then blooms and they need so many leaves to make fruit and more leaves to make good fruit etc.

The first question - I don't know because I don't think there are dwarf Orinoco in the Gulf Coast that are growing wild like the "regular" Orinoco. I want to get some though. In New Orleans the Orinocos get up to 25 feet tall. In Mandeville where I live they get to maybe 15 at best. Big difference. All the ones I've got in Mandeville I brought over from New Orleans.

Hope that helps.