Eugenia yard tour with 62+ species in Southern California

[@ziadalnajdi8754]

You should do an update of your Eugenia collection. Such a great video!

[@FancyPlants]

Thanks so much. I’ll try and do one early this spring. I put most of them in the ground and there has been both success and failures with that, but I just couldn’t deal with all those containers anymore. Unfortunately, raccoons dug up about 20 of the rarest ones and I didn’t find them until they were already Beyond recovering, but we still have enough to make this spring one interesting. Stay tuned. ;)

[@ziadalnajdi8754]

@@FancyPlants Cant wait!

[@YusupPurkait]

Iam happy your Eugenia collection

[@william6509]

Dang this is a legendary vid👍

[@FancyPlants]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@aaronmayne6138]

This collection is so amazing and has inspired me to take more of an interest in Eugenias. Your channel amongst others inspiring me to correct, grow and perhaps even breed rare fruit. And I'm only 18! I'm in South Africa in a very hostile desert climate and I plan to move to the frost free warm temperate coast and find a farm there. Thank you for everything you do and I hope your project in Hawaii is a roaring success. Nature relies on us to preserve these unknown species and appreciate them.

[@FancyPlants]

Thanks so much!!! Wow, 18 and into plants. You are gonna do amazing things with them then. Rare fruits definitely need to be protected, just because they can’t live on the store shelf people forget about them, and they are quickly in danger of going extinct. We have the land in Hawaii but no way to move forward with it so we’ll see how this goes. I hope you make South Africa and wherever you end up living to be a rarefruit haven! I’ll try and make more like these soon. If you just have lint frosts but warm days, there’s sooooo much you can grow.

[@aaronmayne6138]

@@FancyPlants Yeah I'm Busy germinating a bunch of passiflora. Mollissima, Quadrangularis, Ligularis, Alata and the rare Popenovii. I've also had success germinating Naranjilla and Dwarf Tamarillo and my Regular Tamarillos are big enough to fruit this winter. The coastal forest area of Knysna and Plettenburg bay is where I want to move because of the climate. It's about 80 km away. Your favorite Grewia Occidentalis is native to that area and grows everywhere. I'm hoping that Eugenias and Plinias will do well there as the temp is rarely below 40f or above 90f there. Kei Appels (Dovyalis Caffra) grow like weeds here in my harsh dry desert area. I've been selling seedling Kei Apples to fund my next seed order. I want to know if I should risk buying perishable Eugenia and Plinia seeds from Farewell Fruit Farm with International Shipping or be safer and buy more Passiflora seeds that don't dry out from Rarepalmseeds. I can't waste money lol I'm a bit broke rn. 😅

[@billsbackyard6545]

great video

[@FancyPlants]

Thank you!!

[@shpazshpaz]

Would love an update on these plants and trees :)

[@GrowsGoneWild]

Amazing collection!

[@Lobsterray]

Awesome video. Love seeing these and knowing they can grow well here. Now I have a much longer want list and you even popped up on my FB while watching this. Keep up the great work.

[@FancyPlants]

Thanks so much. Comments like this keep me going. I can hook you up with the guys I collect seeds from if you ever want something rare ;) unless you already buy from them 😂

[@tinyjungle_]

Epic tour!

[@FancyPlants]

Thank you!

[@JeremyMayDDS]

Nice nice! I have about 5 Eugenia plants in Oakland ca.

[@JadeVineTropicals]

Pitangatuba definitely requires a companion plant for fruit set. And yes, massive variability in fruit quality, including shape and size of fruit.

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

Awesome video Kelly,it's great to see all the varieties. I only have room for about 10 of the tastiest varieties of Eugenias. Garcineas, Pouterias and Plinias take priority here. I do have 6 fruiting grumichamas, probably my favourite Eugenia.

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

your doing well Doug

[@FancyPlants]

Thanks a ton, and that's awesome. I do love grumichama a LOT. Hope my yellow cultivar finally fruits this spring. You're growing all the good stuff. I also love Garcinia, Pouteria and Plinia. Plinia is what got me started in this crazy journey! Do all your grumichama taste similar? I've noticed slight differences...

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

@@FancyPlants yes they are different. I have my two oldest black grumichamas that have a nice plum/cherry taste with a single/double seed. My newer black and orange ones are not as nice and have big multi segmented seeds. Still waiting on my yellow to fruit. I also have pitomba, pitangatuba,repanda,ligustrina ,stipitata,observa,cedar Bay cherry,red and black Surinam cherry.

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

@@melbournesubtropicfruits9474 hey Mark 👋 , I see you guys have been having one hell of a strange Spring , hope it warms up for you.

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

@@dougs_urbanfarm Its been 💩 here all November - not la nina - el crappo -i call it - today 28c out of the blue thats normal at beginning of month 🙄😎

[@johnorsomeone4609]

This is so cool.

[@FancyPlants]

Thank you!

[@Sir_Ol]

Hi! I think you should keep the trees you want to remove as rootstocks for the eugenia the root of which cannot tolerate your soil, which the established trees do! By the way you should start an etsy account to sell those seeds! Great video as usual!

[@FancyPlants]

I do have an Etsy shop 😃. Thanks for watching! I appreciate it.

[@i2manu]

Happy to watch your channel,great going ,keep the good work,Manoj from India

[@FancyPlants]

Thank you so much. I’ll try to bring more videos soon. Hi from the US.

[@frutiferanovasoomarcavalca7076]

Very good 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

[@FancyPlants]

Many many thanks

[@jackmoore1623]

Thanks for putting this together and documenting your experiences. How do I go about acquiring your uniflora '2215 Black' trimmings? I have some uniflora I'd like to top work, but have some seedlings too available for small grafts. FYI, my experience so far is that uniflora is tough to graft but I do get some takes.

[@FancyPlants]

You can find me on Instagram and pm chat me there. We can talk and figure it out. They are definite tough to graft but my own friend did it successfully several times so it’s possible.

[@eugenefriedlander726]

There are many different cultivars of red pitangas and some are excellent with a peach flavor but I agree that the black varieties like Nelson Westree's 369 is also excellent. Regarding E. aggregata, which I grew for 20 years in Orange County, CA, I read that it will set fruit only with a heavy rain a week before

[@michaelcorrea1885]

Amazing collection!! Continúe please making videos of eugenias with taste test 👍🏻. Do you have eugenia victoriana?

[@FancyPlants]

Thank you! Will do. I do have E. victoriana now but it’s really small, just a few inches, so will be a few years to fruit ;)

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

Nice video - we can't import these new types into Australia due to Myrtle rust. My Mattosii flowered first time but no fruit set - seedling ive had about 3y - i quite like Cedar Bay Cherry over Acerola. - my Uniflora still don't hold fruit yet but don't push many flowers.

[@FancyPlants]

That sucks about the importing of new species. I really wish you guys could. I wonder why your Surinam cherry doesn’t push many flowers or holding much fruit? How old is it? Hopefully it’ll get better. I wonder if it could use a neighbor? Do any of your friends grow one where you could add another? My black is right next to my red and they probably cross pollinate each other but they don’t need it from my understanding.

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

@@FancyPlants Yes i havea couple seedlings showing very different leaves from light green to deeo red flush and going from green very red in winter. I have a grafted Black Beauty sold here not flowering yer but grafted this to the others recently. Have a Pitangatuba loaded with flowers hoping they set this summer

[@JJBoudreau]

My Eugenia Leitonii survived Northern California winter outside. I’m going to see how it does this year. I hope I can buy some Eugenia’s species from you at your socal home someday soon!

[@FancyPlants]

That is so awesome to hear that it lived outside in northern California in the winter! You guys have more humidity than we do but still nice to know I can handle the cold. Do your leaves look just like my leaves?

[@Robert_Hermigua]

It is an awesome video and I enjoed it a lot. I love to see all the different Eugenia species. Unfortunately I couldn't read all of the additional information given in the text boxes. The font is hard to read, especially on the left side, even in full screen mode on my 23" monitor.

[@FancyPlants]

Think I replied on FB with all the reasoning but will definitely do something different on the next ones then. Thanks!

[@EastsideGardening]

Serious amount of work on this video. Impressive!

[@FancyPlants]

Thanks so much. Glad you see the efforts and comments like this keep me going. Hope you're having a great one.

[@EastsideGardening]

@@FancyPlants do you have Eugenia victoriana?

[@FancyPlants]

@@EastsideGardening I seriously thought I did, but when I went to look for it I couldn’t find it. Could have missed it. I meant I forgot Eugenia coronata, which for being a small fruit, is so fricking awesome it’s unreal. Tastes like chocolate? I kid you not. Is Victoriana possible to eat out of hand without your mouth puckering?

[@EastsideGardening]

@@FancyPlants I've been growing out some E. victoriana seeds for a year or so, but they are nowhere near fruiting size.

[@EastsideGardening]

Pretty interesting about E coronata tasting like chocolate.

[@michaelhudson4171]

Wow. Serious eye candy for fruit collectors. Where do you get all those seeds? I've bought from Trade winds for decades, but I don't think they have that bredth of Eugenia's.

[@nateblackmore]

I've got about 20 or so E. klotzschiana and I only have one that is really doing well. Think it's about growing out a bunch of em and finding that distinct individual that thrives.

[@nakrul987]

I've noticed that some Eugenia seeds from the same batch planted in the same exact conditions produce weak plants that die or stay tiny while others produce large healthy plants.

[@FancyPlants]

Same here!!!

[@thedomestead3546]

Going to list the E procera on etsy? (Walker B)

[@FancyPlants]

Depends. If I can have 2 survive here and 2 survive in Hawaii, then I would sell the rest. My entire go with us geniuses to get everything large enough so it’s fruits and then share the seeds around all the collectors.

[@AJTheGraftMan]

Awesome video! Super helpful. I’ve fallen down the Eugenia rabbit hole and I don’t think I’ll get out anytime soon

[@FancyPlants]

Thank you so much and I applaud your following journey as far as you can go :-)

[@mfrancuzik]

Hi. In my garden lot of plants kill kats. Thay lake fresh soil for pup. Special big pot. After start growing and after withering death.

[@DankFroot]

I was worried when I first heard of the "cerrado curse", but i have found that all of my cerrado species thrive on neglect. Luckily enough in this rare instance, my absent mindedness has everything growing great! Lol My E. klotzschiana are doing very well on neglect.

[@kellytodd]

That is so awesome to hear! How old is it? I have one hanging on. So you keep yours dry?

[@djseaquist]

Any updates on Eugenia jonenssonii? I heard it supposed to be of the cold hardy eugenias.

[@ramonbril]

Do you measure the co2 in your greenhouse?

[@FancyPlants]

I don't currently. I go in and out of them so often, I assume I knock it down to baseline each time I do, but I'd love to get a gadget to test stuff like that someday.

[@ramonbril]

@FancyPlants highly suggest so. Plants eat all the co2 in there very rapidly and then they starve.

[@erdoganahmetoglu6847]

Congratulations you must have the biggest collection of Eugenia’s on the face of the planet in one place no one tells you the botanical names like you do even botanists don’t that’s the most important thing in the world keep collecting Eugenia species until you have them all one day they mite be extinct all the best good luck from Eddie the rare fruit fanatic

[@FancyPlants]

Thanks Eddie! I know someone in Hawaii that’s truly collecting them all… if I only had the room but I’ll try. And I’m glad you appreciate the Latin name! Drives me nuts cause a common name could be like 5 different things ;)

[@Blackdog1811]

Let's get a one year update!

[@jolus6678]

The Eugenias I've tried all had unpleasant herbal aftertastes :( That Eugenia letonii I would probably plant here in South Florida for the foliage alone. I don't see any domestic source of seed for it online, however.

[@FancyPlants]

The seeds came and went super fast domestically… all gobbled up in one day. Don’t give up on Eugenia… I’ve tasted about 20-25 species so far and it’s literally about 50% gross and 50% fantastic, depending on the species! Yeah leitonii is gorgeous

[@jolus6678]

@@FancyPlants , I'll have to keep an open mind then. I am curious about the one you said when underripe it tastes similar to guava.

[@JoseReyes-xs3js]

What kind of led grow lights u use ?

[@FancyPlants]

You know I’m terrible about brand names, I usually get whatever is on sale or cheap on Amazon but there is a particular one from Home Depot that has not let me down and I think they’re pretty good. Feit electric

[@JoseReyes-xs3js]

@FancyPlants oh yeah feit grow light the long lengthy ones yeah I seen those at homedepot back in the day I'm going look into that probably order one threw the homedepot online if they don't have any at the homedepot store . I'm trying to buy a escarlet jaboticaba like a 2yr old one and grow it indoor during the winter I got like 4 but there small some are sprouting from seed and some are 9 months old

[@Myth1n]

Small nitpick, but you keep using temps like -27F when you mean 27F. -27f is ridiculously cold haha.

[@Myth1n]

Also your collection is absolutely insane, im just starting out and i just have 3, so many species i never even heard of here!

[@FancyPlants]

Are you talking about in the captions or something? That’s automatically generated so I’ll see if there’s a way I can fix that. Thanks for bringing that up because I didn’t know that was happening.

[@Myth1n]

@@FancyPlantsits in the little boxes on screen, like at 5:35 and 6:11 you can see it says -25 and -27

[@virusmyth4930]

Nice to see so many fruit trees from my country featured in this video. Great work, Sir! There are so many different varieties in Brazil that even many brazilians are not aware about them. The Myrtaceae family from which the Eugenia genus stems from is absolutely huge and every year we see new species and varieties popping up here and there. The world is just begining to discover what south america has to offer. Also it's funny to hear all the mispronunciations of all the names, but that's ok and expected although a google translation from portuguese would help. 😁 For those who are really into it, I recommend the book by Harri Lorenzi "Frutas no Brasil", it has more than a thousand native and exotic fruit species in Brazil. The author runs a botanical garden in brazil with more than 6000 native species. It's called Plantarum and is the biggest botanical garden in Latin America. Worth checking it out.

[@FancyPlants]

Thanks, glad you like the video! I actually have the book in printed format (but in Portuguese so I can't read it), but also the English version as an e-Book and that one I use all the time. I completely agree... so much variety in the Myrtaceae family from Brazil, it's amazing. I had to stop collecting because I ran out of room to grow where I'm at now, but have a small plot of land where I can plant more stuff in the future. It's hard though, when you see seeds available, sometimes that's the ONLY time you'll ever have the chance to get them and if you have no place to plant them... :) What do you grow over there. I try to be better with pronunciations by using the Latin names, but sometimes it's like "that's a hard word in any language", haha. I've heard so many opinions on how to say stuff by different experts and even they disagree with each other. Which garden does he run? I think my friend Joe visited but not sure. I'd love to visit someday. Of course I'd want to bring everything back and will be sad I couldn't.

[@virusmyth4930]

@@FancyPlants Dont worry about pronunciation, I was just joking. Over here I grow around 5 or 6 varieties of jabuticaba, it's hard to really know the varieties. 2 of them are definately sabará with 20 years old that my father planted, other 2 are "olho de boi" (big golf ball sized fruits), other ones have gorgeous red leaves when they leaves are new, I have other 6 varieties that I have no clue what they are, and they are still 3 years old and didnt bear fruit yet. Other fruits (not necessarily from the myrtacea famility or eugenia genus) that I grow over here: cambuci both yellow and red araçá açaí achachairu (love it) bacuri bacupari cupuaçu acerola uvaia cambucá jambo pitanga araçaúna abiu camu-camu both yellow and purple grumixama siriguela mangaba jambolão Most of them are native to my region (atlantic forest, east coast of Brazil) and a few others are from the north equatorial Brazil (rain forest climate) so they require very little care other than an occasional pruning and training to keep some of them under manageable height. Also love growing a specific type of pine that is native here (Araucaria angustifolia) which produces wonderful pine nuts that are very traditional here. Im fortunate enough to live in a climate that allows growing basically everything except cherries or other fruts that require long periods of cold. I also grow rambutan lychee pitaya (dragon fruit) soursop graviola guava mangoes jack fruit coconuts cacau cashews figs grapes peaches apples pears avocados all sorts of citrus mulberries blueberries raspberries strawberries pecans macadamia Although the 2nd group above tend to be more high maintenance in terms of pruning, fertilization and pest prevention.

[@bmag4368]

I germinated e. Stipitata seeds last year from fresh fruit. The seedlings have for a full year exhibited extreme poor growth but stays alive. I'm almost thinking genetic problem at this point. They remain about two inches tall with micro leaves!

[@FancyPlants]

Don’t give up! Did you try using RO water and LED lighting? Mine were great using RO water and morning sun. They hate they shade but are now peeking up since I moved them. Maybe they don’t like being where they are now but once they hit the right conditions maybe they will rebound? How did you like the taste? Too sour?

[@JadeVineTropicals]

Also, your Eugenia leitonii doesn't look like ARAÇÁ PIRANGA in the leaf structure. Those funky leaves and the stringy red exfoliation on the bark looks much more like E. stipitata (ARAÇÁ BOI). That might be why the other commenter said about it looking so different from his.

[@FancyPlants]

But he said I had the real one versus the fake one he has so who knows. Mathias is an expert on these things so I was going by his word ;) I see what your saying. When I hold them up side-by-side though there’s enough differences where you can tell they’re not the same species. I’ll just wait until they fruit. Unfortunately I heard is not a very tasty one.

[@valterzc8187]

Even though most of these plants are from Brazil most of them I am hearing about for the first time

[@FancyPlants]

Brazil has the most amazing plants ever

[@aarona5581]

Where did you buy them from?

[@FancyPlants]

All over the world. Have been collecting for years. I can give you some good places to hit up if you want. There’s a few people living in the US now that sell an amazing selection of seeds.

[@aarona5581]

@@FancyPlants Hi please send the links if possible. Thanks!

[@lancekimura3695]

beauraipiarana....it's the bane of my existence. idk how some people just go gangbusters for others.

[@FancyPlants]

Seems like we are having the same luck, then, and with your conditions that really surprises me. It doesn’t give me much hope lol.

[@hammondvanhoren5402]

My eugenis beau died also super fussy plant

[@user-tc7fo8vg8e]

Sale???

[@FancyPlants]

I will once these start producing

[@RenSauceMan]

Which Eugenia is your favorite?

[@FancyPlants]

I’m still on the hunt. There are sooo many. For now it is my black Surinam cherry and my Eugenia SP Orange. What about you?

[@RenSauceMan]

I have pitangatuba which is surprisingly sweet, and am now growing from seed a mysterious eugenia I got from some sketchy dude from who knows where. @@FancyPlants

[@lancekimura3695]

anthropophaga...promising!

[@FancyPlants]

how's yours doing?

[@lancekimura3695]

@@FancyPlants die back but making a comeback. Got a few new seedlings trying to get them going