Growing Solanum Quitoense In The U.K., Growing Naranjilla Fruit In The U.K., Get Gardening
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2022
- Growing Solanum Quitoense In The U.K., Growing Naranjilla Fruit In The U.K., Get Gardening
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There is also a spineless version which lve managed to over winter . Relatively easy to start from seed. Approx week
Thanks for messaging, very much appreciated.
A thornless variety sounds amazing especially if it overwinters better. Do you know what the variety name is or where I can get the seeds from?
I enjoyed your video on Solanum Quitoense Naranjilla. How did they do this year? I just bought my first seedling, overwintering them here in Boston, MA USA. Thanks for posting, I appreciated the review on such a cool plant!
Hi Melanie. Thanks for watching and messaging.
So last year the plants grew okay but didn’t get particularly tall because the high, mid summer, temperatures were too hot for them. However, because we had a long summer and autumn with good light levels and higher temperatures the plants were able to set and develop fruits.
This year the plants were initially slow to develop but then grew much quicker as temperatures were much lower and more consistent, the plants stop growing over about 28 degrees. However, no flowers have formed or any fruit developed as light levels and temperatures have not been consistent. We have just had too much rain and dull weather.
Now we approach September there is not much chance of the plants doing much else unfortunately.
You can definitely see why they only thrive in certain countries and regions.
They are amazing to look at though so worth growing for the foliage alone.
Enjoy growing yours and hopefully you will manage to get yours to fruit 🪴🌸
Thanks for the advice of growing these plants in the UK
@@jmmd4059 Thanks Javier for watching, very much appreciated.
@@diyhomeandgardeningI wanted to ask, have you have any experience growing mashua ( tropaeolum tuberosum) or Oca ( Oxalis tuberosa ) in the UK these are Andean tubers.
@@jmmd4059 I haven’t grown tropaeolum before but have grown Oca for a few years and have a posted a couple of videos on it. It does grow well but you have to wait until winter for the rhizomes to develop to a good and useable size. Definitely worth growing 🌸
Solanum quitoense started late in my first year, but couldn't keep the fruit over the winter. Now in the 2nd year after repotting in the spring, fruits have already set in Germany in June, I hope that there will be my first harvest this year.
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Last year was my first year and until May the weather was perfect for them. June onwards it was just too hot and they just stopped doing anything. The plants don’t like temperatures above 30 degrees and also prefer a dappled shade.
They also need a bee to pollinate.
Have fun growing them, the spines are vicious aren’t they 🌸
@@diyhomeandgardening
I also have Pseudo Lulo, the spines are even worse, up to 15 mm long.
@@AnanasDoktor 😮 that sounds really painful. Good luck with growing that 🌻
Hi, I'd like to know the first steps of planting "naranjilla", that part was a success and I'm really interested as it's my favourite fruit! A glass of naranjilla juice is my favourite drink!! 😋
Hi. Many thanks for watching and your message.
I started the plants from seed, as I have done again this year. Maybe I’ll do a short video to show them at juvenile stage.
The seeds take a couple of weeks to germinate and then seem to grow slowly initially.
I literally potted the plants up this years plants on Thursday last week, going from being seedlings in cell trays into 10.5cm pots.
Plants need to be kept on the moist side but not wet.
Hopefully this year I can get the plants to grow better so I can enjoy more than just 1 fruit😀
Happy gardening 🌸
@@diyhomeandgardening Thanks for your reply. I look forward to your short video.
@@gladsm9435 Just posting a video on my baby plants that have been started from seed
Apparently can be kept as a houseplant
That’s a big houseplant
i have only one plant grown from eight seeds so i'm looking for advice on watering and feeding.
Hi.
Thanks for messaging me.
What size is the plant at the moment and what size pot is it currently in?
My advice is to keep the plants just on the moist side whilst the plants are small. When big enough to pot up into a 1ltr, 13cm, size pot then that is also the time to increase your watering.
At this larger size I water my plants every other day.
When the roots have filled that pot size and plants need to go up into a larger pot size then watering will be on a daily basis.
Feeding is fortnightly.
How do they handle the winter temperatures there? I've been tempted to grow them, but I hear frost kills them.
Hi.
Thanks for watching and your message.
Simply put the plants can’t cope with the cold at all.
I put my plants into the unheated greenhouse and both plants eventually died.
I had given a plant away, to a lady at work, and that was overwintered in a heated greenhouse. That one survived but only just.
I have started new plants again with fresh seed.
Once I have used up the current seeds then I won’t bother growing the plant again.
Hope that helps you make a decision. 🪴
@@diyhomeandgardening Ahhh I understand, thanks for the reply.
i might give this another go to grow it again my other one kind of died for some reason this time i will grow more than one this time 😆
Hi Barry. Thanks for watching and the message.
I sowed 5 seeds and all germinated. After potting 2 died off as they got too wet. I gave away one of the big plants so just kept the 2.
I was surprised how easily they grew and yet they hated the hot summer we had, literally stopped growing once the temperature went above 30 degrees.
The plants are so nice to look at, just spiteful to handle😄
Definitely worth growing again for something different.
Enjoy your Christmas
@@diyhomeandgardening From what I remember I don't think that they like bright sunlight a great deal and to ripen the fruit they will need to be kept warm. With its size and the spines is does not make a great houseplant though!
@@johnthomas7038 John.
Thanks for watching and message.
This Solanum is definitely too big to be kept as a houseplant, and very spiteful too.
It does prefer a partial shade position to grow but with plenty of warmth, but not over about 30 degrees.
I started my plants indoors and then grew them outside before putting into an unheated greenhouse over winter.