Red and black Suriname cherries (Eugenia uniflora)

buyraretropical... Suriname cherries (Eugenia uniflora), come in two colors, red and black. The rarer black fruited variety is by far the better tasting fruit. I have both available in my nursery.

[@backyardsnackyard]

They're so cute! I'm trying to grow one here in England.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Good luck with that! Let me know if you have success.
Cheers

[@jamestropicals8262]

My black Surinam cherry that I’ve had for 2 and half years finally fruited this year for the first time and it already has 14 fruits growing

[@jamestropicals8262]

Can’t wait to try them one day they look delicious. I have a red and black Surinam cherry seedling and hopefully they will fruit in possibly a few years

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

These are fast to fruit for the first time. 2-3 years to first fruits but significantly longer before you get big harvests.

[@jamestropicals8262]

I hope I can get a black Surinam cherry plant

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

I only have red available tight now.

[@harriettmatthews768]

My tree is 4 year no fruit

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Eugenias from seed can be funny. I've seen them do all kinds of things at this point. Generally they begin blooming very early, but most flowers drop, and you only get a handful of fruits. I've seen them bloom after one year, and then not again for four years. Even when they bloom like crazy, they don't really start producing well for at least five years, but it can be as long as seven years from seed. You'll get a lot of flowers before you start getting a lot of fruit. Even now, my best producing tree still drops more flowers than it sets fruit. I get tons of fruit anyway, because at this point, the tree (the one in this video) blooms nearly constantly during the warm months. This video is 9 years old and the tree is still there, and,doing better than ever, so these days I get thousands of flowers a year and hundreds of fruit. It just takes time.
Don't lose patience!
Cheers

[@BedimpledJazzy]

Cool! I love eating them when I was young, now I rarely see them here.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Hey Jazz! I don't love these fruits. The black ones are pretty good, but I won't eat the red ones. I'm eventually going to try making jam out of them, which is supposed to taste really good even if you don't like the fruit raw. They certainly do produce enough fruit to make jam from them. I give these trees very little care, and they produce SO MUCH fruit.

[@BedimpledJazzy]

Maybe that's why it's fruiting loads for you, they want you to try to get the hang of its taste and eventually love it :))