r/HawaiiGardening

Hey y'all, I'm doing an experiment in my backyard to see how deciduous fruit trees cultivated in regions like Bahamas, Africa, Etc could perform in zero chill regions of Hawaii like Pearl City. Most of them are in 5 gallon pots since I need to renovate the orchard area first before putting them in, the slightly older Apple Tree flowered so I picked all off except one to get one fruit without diverting most energy to flowers instead of the plant itself.

The apple was around the size of a Fancy Apple and a little less wide than a Danjou Pear. One thing to note was it didn't get picked at its maturity, I had to pick it off earlier. Tasted like a slightly sweeter granny smith but the ripe version would taste much sweeter.

Currently the tree is a little stressed but I'm hoping to get the others going later, I'll probably post updates on how all of them work out later.

Here are all the varieties I'm working with incase you're wondering.

Dorsett Golden Apple (This One)

Anna Apple

Methley Plum

Beauty Plum, though I wanted to get Scarlet Beauty instead

Flordaprince Peach

Eva's Pride Peach

I'll post more updates later of all the trees ;)

Constantly battling white flies but used a net this time, lots of neem oil, medium heat jalapeños !!

Had 4 beauties last night 🤙🏻🍻

Total of 9 blooms this first round 🍻🤙🏻

Hey all,
Recently planted my Punakenikeni tree in ground.
It has been doing well and exhibiting new growth.

My two questions are

1. is it way too close to that structure? Will I be looking at an ongoing problem cutting back, will the roots affect anything?

2 and secondly, I am impatient, anyone have a best guess on how long until I should be seeing potential flowers?

Mahalo

Wondering if it would keep out pigs at all . I like the idea of repurposing drift wood (get plenty in Hilo even big logs that I’m assuming get washed down wailuku river ) . And I have a lot of green waste as well.

I guess worst case if it doesn’t work on its own, I could add electric fence behind.

Update if anyone is interested : I spent about 11 hours today working on it . I used 6 foot t posts sunk down two feet. My neighbor had a huge green waste pile that I used as well as mine . I feel like it’s a lot more fun than a regular fence and I like that as it breaks down it’ll return nutrients to the soil. I have apple banana and sweet potato planted behind there .

https://imgur.com/a/aQfWOCx

Maybe just a year and a half old… can’t remember when I put it in the dirt, but she is thriving for sure. Just don’t know if I should top it to keep it a bit lower to the ground, or let her go free.

Never have seen mint plant that turned into a tree. The stem is square but this one looks like grew and grew and got really tall too like 12' wonder what type it is. Anyone see Mint do this?

I have a mature strawberry guava tree that will put out fruit frequently, but before they have a chance to ripen or get bigger than an inch or so, they start to turn brown and stop growing. The first picture is what they look like once they turn brown and the second picture is as far as they get before turning brown. What could be causing this and how can I prevent it?

I know strawberry guava is invasive. I didn’t plant this and it would be a lot of work to replace it. If anyone has any suggestions to also avoid birds from eating the fruit, I’d like to do my part to prevent its spread.

Location: Kaneohe

Gonna be a good DF Hawaii year!!