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#3. Eugenias - Tropical Cherries

💙 Eugenias are favorites of Southern gardens. They are relatively cold hardy and start producing right away. Black Surinam Cherry Lolita and Grumichama are our favorites!

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• 💋How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

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🍉 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#2. Guava (Psidium sp.): Cattley and Tropical guava

❤️ Guava is a reliable producer, starts fruiting in a pot at small size. Some varieties, especially Cattley guavas - Psidium littorale - are relatively cold hardy and can take some frost without damage. Guavas are fast growing small trees or large bushes.

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• 💋How to always have lots of Guava Juice
• 💋Pineapple Guava
• 💋Refreshing drink Fresco de Cas
• 💋Costa Rican Guava
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

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🍏 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#1. Annona - Sugar Apple, Custard Apple

💚 Annonas are the fastest fruiting trees: 2-3-4 years from seed to fruit, depending on species. They are the best tropical fruit trees suited for container growing, due to their small height and can be maintained within 6-8 ft tall.

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• 💋Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple
• 💋The best tropical fruit tree for container growing
• 💋Spiny Hedgehog fruit
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

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🥭 What trees will fruit quickly? Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

Q: I would like to plant several fruit trees... I am 85 years old and hope to see them fruiting soon. What fruit trees can you recommend that will fruit quickly?

A: Most grafted fruit trees, such as Mango, Avocado, and Peaches, will fruit quickly - often within the same year or the next. There are also many wonderful tropical fruits that will produce for you within a year or two, even without the need for grafting.

⚠️ In our next posts we will introduce to you the top 10 of most popular, most rewarding and easy to grow fast fruiting tropical trees...

📚 Discover 10 fast-fruiting trees in the following posts:

1. Annona - Sugar Apple, Custard Apple
2. Guava (Psidium sp.): Cattley and Tropical guava
3. Eugenias - Tropical Cherries
4. Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra)
5. Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)
6. Papaya (Carica papaya)
7. Mulberry (Morus hybrids)
8. Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)
9. Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)
10. Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)


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🥭 What trees will fruit quickly? Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

Q: I would like to plant several fruit trees... I am 85 years old and hope to see them fruiting soon. What fruit trees can you recommend that will fruit quickly?

A: Most grafted fruit trees, such as Mango, Avocado, and Peaches, will fruit quickly - often within the same year or the next. There are also many wonderful tropical fruits that will produce for you within a year or two, even without the need for grafting.

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🍋 What fruit is more sour and has more vitamin C than a lemon

• 🍸Costa Rican Guava, Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) is native to Central America and known for its intensely sour taste, which makes it perfect for flavorful juices and beverages rather than eating fresh.
• 🍸Cas Guava fruit is used in traditional Costa Rican drink "Agua de Cas," a refreshing blend of cas juice, water, and sugar.
• 🍸Cas Guava fruit is packed with vitamin C: about four times more vitamin C than a lemon, making it an excellent immune booster. It's also rich in antioxidants, which help combat oxidative stress and reduce inflammation.
• 🍸Cas guava tree is pretty hardy, thriving in poor soils and resisting pests and diseases.

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🍒 How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry

Surinam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora), often used as a hedge in Southern landscapes, also has a tasty fruit with a unique flavore. The black-fruit variety Lolita is especially valuable - the fruit is large, dark red to almost black, very juicy and sweet. It fruits profusely and there will be enough fruit for preserves too!

🎀 Surinam Cherry Jam

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  ✔️ 4 cups seeded Surinam Cherries
• ✔️ 2 cups sugar
• ✔️ 1 cup water

🍷Combine the sugar and water, bring to boil and add cherries. Cook slowly for 20 to 25 min until the mixture thickens slightly. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.

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💞 What does Clitoria flower look like?

💙 Clitoria ternatea - also called Butterfly Pea, has distinctive, delicate blooms resembling certain anatomical features... These curious flowers have the shape of clitoris - hence the name of the plant.

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🌺 What hibiscus has the most health benefits

🥃 Hibiscus sabdariffa (Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle) flowers have deep red calyces that are used worldwide to make a refreshing teas "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea, known for its tart flavor and health benefits. This is one of the most fast growing plants, bringing from seed to big bush a big flower crop within just one season.

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• · 5 most useful edibles for tropical garden
• · How to eat and drink Hibiscus plants
• · Most useful Hibiscus plants

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🍒 How to make an exotic treat: Barbados Cherry Jelly

Barbados Cherry is a vigorous grower that starts producing right away, and by the second year you have so much fruit that you don't know what to do with it - you can eat only so much fruit out of hand! Earlier we shared a recipe of delicious Barbados Cherry Juice drink. The juice tastes very similar to Guava juice: it is very aromatic and tasty, and has a beautiful Baby-pink color. The Jelly recipe is even more exotic teat!

🎀 Barbados Cherry Jelly

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  ✔️ 4 cups cherry juice
• ✔️ 5 cups sugar
• ✔️ 1 package dry pectin
• ✔️ 2 tbsp lemon juice

• 🍷To fully ripen cherries, place them in plastic container, cover and leave overnight. Cherries will be dark, rich red color the next day.
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  🍷To make juice: Place cherries in a pan, cover with water, bring to boil. Crush cherries and simmer for a few minutes. Strain.
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  🍷Add pectin and bring to a boil again. Add sugar and lemon juice and boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and skim off foam. Pour into sterilized glass and seal.

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• • Cherry juice recipe
• • 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange - in Barbados Cherry
• • Barbados Cherry Mini Version
• • Learn more about Barbados Cherry

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