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re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted on 8/5/26 at 9:19 pm to Tigerlaff
Posted on 8/5/26 at 9:19 pm to Tigerlaff
Yes I was skeptical when it got it. I forget which nursery it was an online retailer; the only dwarf namwah I could find at the time
it was a wispy tissue culture anyway. The current growth is kind of plastic-y and brittle, very weird. I’m going to pull it out.
it was a wispy tissue culture anyway. The current growth is kind of plastic-y and brittle, very weird. I’m going to pull it out.
Posted on 8/5/26 at 9:36 pm to Tigerlaff
Alright passionfruit people. I've been on a quest to source top tier passionfruit vines over the past year and I think I've really hit on one.
Michelle Hoey is a gardener in the SF bay area who came across a particular selection of Taiwanese Purple (edulis). She sells rooted vines on Facebook and has documented the brix readings for quite some time. Her best fruits are hitting 20-21 and her worst are around 15. For context, the Bounty passionfruit that I harvested this year was a 14.5 and was the best passionfruit I've ever had. This is far better than the inferior vines you find around here (Frederick, purple possum).
So I bought one and Michelle included a sample fruit with the plant.
This was amazing and it's hard to imagine that this is the low end of quality for Hoey's Taiwanese Purple. I'm also growing qinmi #9, another top vine, but qinmi is a yellow passionfruit that is more vulnerable to cold than purple ones. This vine appears to be a real winner. If you'd like to look into it, you can find her listing on marketplace or message her directly. She's happy to send you photos and whatever proof you need:
Michelle Hoey is a gardener in the SF bay area who came across a particular selection of Taiwanese Purple (edulis). She sells rooted vines on Facebook and has documented the brix readings for quite some time. Her best fruits are hitting 20-21 and her worst are around 15. For context, the Bounty passionfruit that I harvested this year was a 14.5 and was the best passionfruit I've ever had. This is far better than the inferior vines you find around here (Frederick, purple possum).
So I bought one and Michelle included a sample fruit with the plant.
This was amazing and it's hard to imagine that this is the low end of quality for Hoey's Taiwanese Purple. I'm also growing qinmi #9, another top vine, but qinmi is a yellow passionfruit that is more vulnerable to cold than purple ones. This vine appears to be a real winner. If you'd like to look into it, you can find her listing on marketplace or message her directly. She's happy to send you photos and whatever proof you need:
Posted on 8/5/26 at 9:41 pm to cgrand
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Yes I was skeptical when it got it. I forget which nursery it was an online retailer; the only dwarf namwah I could find at the time
it was a wispy tissue culture anyway. The current growth is kind of plastic-y and brittle, very weird. I’m going to pull it out.
Got ya covered. I've got two dwarf namwahs both with pups. The real question is whether you want to start them right now in August. It would probably work but obviously you will get the best results by waiting until spring to get one or overwintering in a pot and planting in spring. Let me know what you want to do and I'll save one for you.
Posted on 8/5/26 at 10:07 pm to Tigerlaff
wow that would be awesome. I can keep it in a pot to overwinter no problem. Thanks brah
Posted on 8/5/26 at 10:27 pm to cgrand
No problem. I'll go out and inspect them tomorrow then text you about pickup.
Posted on 8/6/26 at 10:13 am to Tigerlaff
quote:You're speaking martime law to me here. Can you speak LA torts please?
Michelle Hoey is a gardener in the SF bay area who came across a particular selection of Taiwanese Purple (edulis). She sells rooted vines on Facebook and has documented the brix readings for quite some time. Her best fruits are hitting 20-21 and her worst are around 15. For context, the Bounty passionfruit that I harvested this year was a 14.5 and was the best passionfruit I've ever had.
Posted on 8/6/26 at 10:23 am to Neauxla
a gardener on FB sells rooted passion fruit vines named Michelle. She’s selling a variety with very sweet fruit on the Brix degrees scale which is a measure of dissolved sugar in water…1 degree Brix = 1 gram sugar in 100 grams water. The higher the Brix the sweeter the fruit. There’s a handy Brix meter you can use to measure which, as will come as no surprise, the patron of this thread owns and uses
Posted on 8/6/26 at 11:44 am to cgrand
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Brix degrees scale which is a measure of dissolved sugar in water…1 degree Brix = 1 gram sugar in 100 grams water. The higher the Brix the sweeter the fruit. There’s a handy Brix meter you can use to measure which, as will come as no surprise, the patron of this thread owns and uses
Posted on 8/6/26 at 11:45 am to Neauxla
I know I could have asked ChatGPT and/or Google but what's the fun in that? Is Brix used for lots of fruits? I've never heard of it before.
Posted on 8/6/26 at 12:48 pm to Neauxla
This cracked me up. Thanks for the explanation!
Posted on 8/6/26 at 8:25 pm to Tigerlaff
Posted on 8/7/26 at 1:24 pm to Tigerlaff
thank you so much. In its new home till spring. Once I clear out a bigger pot I’ll put it in some better dirt
This one was sold as blue Java, no telling what it actually is but you never know. Does this look like namwah to you? It wasn’t a rooted pup
one the way running errands the other day I stopped and pulled up a couple native hibiscus, these had already bloomed so I got a bunch of seeds too. But the last time I did this the stalks immediately died back after planting (they’ve resprouted though). This time I dropped the plants in about 6” of water in a bucket and let them soak for a few days and not only did they not turn brown they put on new growth
I passed a bunch in a ditch on the way home that will soon be at my house
This one was sold as blue Java, no telling what it actually is but you never know. Does this look like namwah to you? It wasn’t a rooted pup
one the way running errands the other day I stopped and pulled up a couple native hibiscus, these had already bloomed so I got a bunch of seeds too. But the last time I did this the stalks immediately died back after planting (they’ve resprouted though). This time I dropped the plants in about 6” of water in a bucket and let them soak for a few days and not only did they not turn brown they put on new growth
I passed a bunch in a ditch on the way home that will soon be at my house
Posted on 8/7/26 at 1:52 pm to cgrand
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thank you so much. In its new home till spring. Once I clear out a bigger pot I’ll put it in some better dirt
dwarf namwah: for my money, THE BEST banana you can grow in south Louisiana 9a. Both the most cold hardy dessert variety and the best tasting. quote:
This one was sold as blue Java, no telling what it actually is but you never know. Does this look like namwah to you? It wasn’t a rooted pup
No telling. The only way to tell a blue java from namwah is once it fruits. Blue java has "knuckles."
Never had blue java but most say namwah tastes better.
This post was edited on 8/7/26 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 8/7/26 at 3:58 pm to Tigerlaff
South Florida, and especially my area, has been in one of the biggest droughts in the past 50 years. Hell, it has not rained good in 18 months and we went 6 months without a single drop.
Until about two weeks ago. Now, it just wont stop raining. Absolutely insane. It has rained close to 20 inches at my house in the past 18-20 days. And it is raining every single day. Some days it is raining straight for 5 hours. Everything here is getting saturated to death
. Our pond in our back yard came up 7 feet or so in a week.
One thing about this place. It is either all or nothing. There is no middle
Until about two weeks ago. Now, it just wont stop raining. Absolutely insane. It has rained close to 20 inches at my house in the past 18-20 days. And it is raining every single day. Some days it is raining straight for 5 hours. Everything here is getting saturated to death
. Our pond in our back yard came up 7 feet or so in a week. One thing about this place. It is either all or nothing. There is no middle
Posted on 8/7/26 at 6:45 pm to LanierSpots
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One thing about this place. It is either all or nothing. There is no middle
Pretty much the same here. We need a 1-4 -hour rain event. But what we get is 20 minutes onto bone dry soil every 4 weeks. I live on a waterway and that ground is DRY.
Posted on 8/7/26 at 7:05 pm to LanierSpots
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Until about two weeks ago. Now, it just wont stop raining.
We’re getting a lot of rain too. Much needed; we are still 12-14” inches behind on the year. My fruit trees are much happier now though.
Posted on 8/8/26 at 7:11 am to wiltznucs
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We’re getting a lot of rain too. Much needed; we are still 12-14” inches behind on the year. My fruit trees are much happier now though.
Yea, they still have us listed as "Severe" but man we could use a little sunshine for a few days. Yesterday started out sunny and hot AF which I love. Then about 2pm, those "You are gonna die" clouds started rolling in and it started flooding around 3. I sat on my lanai with the neighbor last night having a drink and it was still sprinkling. I went to bed around 11 and it was still raining.
Posted on 8/8/26 at 9:43 am to LanierSpots
we finally got a little rain yesterday, less than .25” though. An inch more of rain would do wonders for my place but most everything perked up a bit.
I wanted to show you guys these roselle hibiscus plants. They are bionic. These are in the sunniest and hottest part of my yard, if it doesn’t rain it dries up quick and these things do not GAF.
these were 12” plants back in June. No fertilizer and very little watering. No bugs, no fungi, perfectly healthy.
I can’t wait to see them in bloom and we should be able to harvest multiple gallons of calyxes. It dies every winter but you can reseed easily
I wanted to show you guys these roselle hibiscus plants. They are bionic. These are in the sunniest and hottest part of my yard, if it doesn’t rain it dries up quick and these things do not GAF.
these were 12” plants back in June. No fertilizer and very little watering. No bugs, no fungi, perfectly healthy.
I can’t wait to see them in bloom and we should be able to harvest multiple gallons of calyxes. It dies every winter but you can reseed easily
Posted on 8/8/26 at 7:25 pm to cgrand
Heads up to those in BR area, Cleggs on Siegen has 4cu. ft. bags of vermiculite now. $49.99
They also have the same size perlite for 29.99.
They also have the same size perlite for 29.99.
Posted on 8/8/26 at 7:26 pm to cgrand
Man, I love Roselle tea. I should grow that in the sunny part of my food forest next year. Does it do a good job of shading out weeds below it?
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