Conclusion to Bay Area Tropical Experiment

[@calvinlum]

Man what a lucky person who bought your place! So much work to plant all those trees over the years. Really great channel seeing what fruit can grow here in the Bay Area! Good luck in Hawaii!

[@neerjapancholi9645]

Thanks a lot Joe for these videos! I think you've saved all of us a lot of money with buying and killing expensive tropical trees! :) RIP my chikoo sapote...

[@theuglykwan]

Could you make strategic use of walls, planting trees close to a wall to provide thermal mass and some frost protection? Those used to be used a lot commercially in Europe for growing fruit. In the UK we still grow trees on southern facing walls of the home to protect them.

[@TropicalGardenGuy]

excellent experiment.... looking forward to a new hawaii fruit channel!

[@duongdo1]

Loves your channel, very helpful videos, thanks you and I’m looking forward to see your videos in Hawaii.

[@colemiller1591]

Hey, thanks for your series! I found it really helpful to select which plants I can reliably grow in my neck of the woods. I'm in Alameda in 10a, but 10b is just a mile or so away to the west, so think whatever worked for you should reliably work here and hopefully thrive in the summer months. I'm sure I could find in blogs and the like, but having videos with results in front of your eyes is always the best. I appreciate your consistency and commitment to showing results!

[@colemiller1591]

My gf is brazilian so I bought a Jaboticaba tree last May or so, played it safe and didn't want it to die so minimal growth this year, but next year I'll move it to full sun.

[@pauliewalnuts2007]

Nice to see your videos again. Can't wait to see your Hawaiian adventures

[@unconventionalme8048]

Man! So cool to see you/your video!!! Been excited to see your Hawaii project!!!

[@DuyNguyen-lo2mm]

Logan growing in San Jose area for three years producing fruits.

[@feralkevin]

Great video! My ice cream bean tree is still in a 15 gallon pot and has been unprotected in winter and never has lost its leaves. My peanut butter fruit did fine for 3 years until died of fungal infection in rainy season. So excited about the guabiju!!

[@fathualable]

Great video I had fun experimenting in Phoenix as well and found out my limits as well. For me I want to have plants that fruit well and to have fruit consistently throughout the year.

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[@alliecatnz]

Thank you so much for sharing! We live in a similar zone in New Zealand and I really appreciate everything you shared on your experiment, it must be heart breaking to leave but I know your new adventure will be worth it too. I can’t imagine leaving our food forest.

[@fathualable]

Can’t wait to see your new videos in Hawaii

[@KONIXMUSIC]

Do you get a little sad when you walk out there and realize one is dying? This would be death by a thousand cuts for me. I grow attached to my baby tropicals.

[@GrowAllTheFruits]

yeah man I hate killing trees. that's why I moved to Hawaii shortly after this video was made

[@geesmith1944]

Do you know the pH of your soil? The yellowing of the leaves is an indicator of an iron deficiency which could be corrected by using iron chelate. The soil would also need sulfur added to make the soil more acidic in the range of 6-6.5 pH that would allow all of your fruit trees to look better.

[@ghesline]

great video!

[@lowlylisalisa]

you have saved some people a lot of money LOL thank you for your experiment!!

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

i will be eating jackfruit in my temperate climate mark my words im already growing it in a pot lol

[@ksitigarbha9787]

Hows your jackfruit?

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

@@ksitigarbha9787 it died hahaha but i have more now they are about a foot tall lol

[@Liger_333]

Thank you for the update

[@JJBoudreau]

I wish I could buy some of those potted plants from you

[@JJBoudreau]

I’m growing 2 green sapotes. I really want Lucama! Hard time finding one. Did you get them in southern cal?

[@XoroksComment]

What are some unusual fruit trees you could imagine growing in zone 7 (-16°C/3°F)? I've already stumbled across loquat trees, monkey puzzle trees, pomegrenades and figs in my area. Unfortunately, loquats flower in the winter so I will probably never get any fruit off of them and it takes several decades before monkey puzzle trees start bearing cones (doesn't mean that I won't be growing both of them anyway 😄).

[@joehewitt7596]

Pawpaw, Jujube, Persimmons, Hardy Kiwis, Feijoas, Juneberry, Raisin Tree, Goumi, Trifoliate Orange, Maypop and Che just to name a few. Look up Lee Reich, he writes about this topic from the perspective of a zone 5 grower in upstate NY

[@XoroksComment]

@@joehewitt7596 Thank you very much for your quick and extensive answer. I'm surprised to see Feijoa on your list, as I've read from several people that it won't make it in zone 7. I will try planting it against a south-facing wall. Any recommendations on varieties with more cold hardiness?

[@joehewitt7596]

@@XoroksComment Feijoa can make it in zone 8 so I figured it could work in zone 7 with some protection.

[@pulsecongregate6675]

do you kinow if the macadamia is an airlayer or a seedling.

[@joehewitt7596]

Seedling

[@fortmyersfruitforest5214]

Great Video Thankyou Sir

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

there are native plants that wont survive out in the open either man :p some suprises tho ey! yould have fun in hawaii, all year growth

[@lilihawaii634]

I am Vietnamese and I am interested in yours farm in Oahu Hawaii. Could I visiting it?

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

could just be root rot ploblems especially if you either mixed in compost or didnt wash the original organic potting soil off the roots before planting i noi have more issues with rot than cold, kinda need to get all the organixc matter away from rots and trunk cause of winter, ad to scrape some compost away from a apapaya yesterday that was eating into the stem

[@andrewachal9828]

What did u plant the allspice in and what do u fertilize with?

[@thenamesaregone9]

If you stayed in SFO area, which sensitive fruits would you try again (but maybe do something differently)? Are there any fruits you didn't get to try growing/didn't mention, but that you'd recommend for 9A/9B zone based on your research?

[@joehewitt7596]

I would try again with Longan, buy a larger plant and give it some protection. I would continue to search the Myrtaceae family for unknown fruits that can produce here, because a larger chunk of that family is from southern Brazil where it gets fairly cold.

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

Mangoes are getting easier by the year to grow in the bay area..but they are slow to get tree sized. I would tell people "Don't plant one,plant five..or more". You will get more fruit that way sooner than if you wait 20 years for one tree to give all you can eat. I had a best ever harvest this year...why I wish I had planted five back in 2012.

[@KONIXMUSIC]

Hi Stan, what growing zone are you? I'm in 10A and I have a baby pickering mango. i would like to grow more than one but I'm not sure about the time investment in case some of them die, I'm considering using the remaining space for things that have a a higher probability of living. After watching this video I'm very interested in a jaboticaba.

[@PuertoricanPatriot1]

The lychee die???

[@raghazzoreal]

Congratulations Joe for moving to Hawaii! Your videos are inspiring and motivational for dreamers like me and for the ones Who live in Zone 9b (Tracy) Central Valley! And hope to grown Tropical trees! Please advice me where to buy Tomato Tree because I want to grown them In my area! Good luck and keep up the great videos! Thanks 🙏

[@joehewitt7596]

Not too many nurseries sell these trees. Your best bet is to grow them from seed. Try rareseeds.com

[@raghazzoreal]

Thanks much for the info Joe! How long it took you to grow your tree tomatoes from seed?

[@watchanime331]

What happened to lychees?

[@Nicopasta85]

I’m sorry to tell you but cherimoyas don’t grow well in Hawaii, and they are also deciduous and lose their leaves every year, they actually need a dormancy period to fruit better.

[@yeevita]

Um, totally not true. Cherimoya grow super well in tropical places like Taiwan. Never seen them lose their leaves. If one did, I would worry about it. They fruit super well, just need to hand pollinate because their pollinators are not in California. People I know get a brush and container and polinate each and every flower when it is female and get lots of fruit. Love it!

[@cerverg]

They loose their leaves during the dry period (which happens usually in March/April) not because of cold it's different and it does not happen every year with every variety of cherimoya some they don't drop the leaves at all even if it's bone dry

[@nexxogen]

@@yeevita Those are probably sugar apples and not Cherimoyas.

[@FknNefFy]

Wow thanks! I’m saving this video to reference- please don’t delete it!

[@justinfalk7511]

You mentioned not being able to grow apples or pears in Hawaii. Maybe you can - apples at least. Check out Kuffel Creek apple trees for hot climates and the tropics kuffelcreek.com. Aloha!

[@magenelliepikrati8594]

Starfruit is Balimbing.

[@bachconneshon7809]

Shoulda grew them in actual bay area. Half of the ones that died would have grown in san jose or palo alto