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This is also a great time for some of the fall-ripening tropicals and subtropicals. If you’re interested in keeping updated with new arrivals, check our order pages—we always add items as soon as they are available. You can also sign up for our Rare Seed E-Mail list:
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The rare seed list is e-mailed every month or two and features new additions to our seed offerings. It is text only, and we (of course) do not share nor sell you e-mail address to anyone. The rare seed e-mail also includes the occasional restocked item, however most restocked items are just added to our order page.

More to come soon, with ideas on overwintering and a closer look at some of the plants we’re hoping to produce seed in the future.

Chinese Five Color

Aji Dulce Yellow – Yellow fruited, heatless, habanero look-a-like.
Aji Habanero
Aji Pineapple
Condor’s Beak – An ornamental habanero type.
de Arbol Purple – Uncommon purple fruited variant of de Arbol.
Pimenta de Neyde – A rare purple leafed and purple fruited pepper.
Tabasco Yellow – A rare orange/yellow colored tabasco.

There are quite a few others, but we’ll save those for another day.

Surinam Cherry – Grown from seed, in cooler coastal parts of California mature trees might need a tiny bit of winter protection for fruit production. A couple of three year old, 4 foot high trees have just begun producing fruits in 5 gallon pots. Surinam Cherry

Strawberry Guava – One of the easiest to grow subtropical fruits. It stands temperatures as low as 20F. Both the red and the yellow type fruit quite well in 5-10 gallon pots. We have a couple of eight foot strawberry guavas confined to pots and they have yielded a couple of hundred fruits over the last season. Strawberry Guava

Passion Fruits – Very fast growers that do well in pots. Fruit production will be less than terrestrial bound plants, but you can still enjoy quite a few fruits even from compact plants. The vines do need pruning in the down season and in cooler climates will need winter protection. Passion Fruit

Jaboticaba – Our trials are still early, but supposedly jaboticaba’s fruit nicely in pots. They remain somewhat compact trees, which should bode well for container production.

Any plant that naturally grows to a smaller size would seem an excellent choice to try as a container fruit. Drainage can be an issue in containers, with soil near the bottom becoming water logged, while the soil near the top stays bone dry. Water evenly. Consider a soil moisture tester to check water content at depth. Most plants enjoy wet soil, but few tolerate water logged roots for any extended period of time and a number of problems can subsequently develop. We’ll check back with more ideas for container plants again in the future….