Growing Tropical Fruit In Containers


This not only benefits the plants, but will also benefit the human as well. Walking in a garden, pulling weeds and tending plants have very beneficial effects.

Fertilizing

Another thought to consider is fertilizer. In the ground, a plant can absorb many things, but in a pot it will quickly absorb its nutrients. Rather you use a liquid fertilizer or a time released fertilizer is completely up to your preferences and the time you have to tend to each individual plant.

I prefer liquid Shultz Acid Plus just because I like to spend time with each plant and I think that fertilizer does an excellent job with them, but again it is your call. Tropical fruit in containers will definitely need extra doses of fertilizer during the flowering and fruiting period in order to optimize the results.

You may be wondering if you are over fertilizing or under fertilizing your plants. A sure sign of this is overgrowth of the plant, poor fruit and signs of the plant starting to dieback. This is usually caused by salt accumulation in the soil. A sign of proper fertilizing is mature foliage that is deep green in color.

An excellent fertilizer for fruit would include the following ingredients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in equal amounts. Lesser amounts of traces of magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc and copper should also be present.

The Best Fruit For Containers

When you decide to grow tropical fruit in containers there are some that just naturally will give you a higher success rate than others. I'm not saying you can't grow other fruit in containers because I believe you can, it just may be more difficult.

For the highest rate of success you may want to try growing the following first to get a feel for growing and producing fruit in containers. Tropical fruit that can easily be grown this way includes the following:

Avocado

Banana

Capulin Cherry

Cattley Guava

Ceylon Gooseberry

Coffee

Guava

Grumichama

Imbe

Jaboticaba

Kei Apple

Miracle Fruit

Natal Plum

Papaya

Pineapple

Pitanga

Pitomba

Citrus is another fruit that is fairly easy to grow in containers. Some of the recommended citrus fruits to try are:

Calamondin

Grapefruit (dwarf)

Key Lime

Kumquat

Lemon

Lime

Limequat

Orange (dwarf)

Finally there are a few temperate fruits that can be container grown with ease, they are:

Apple (dwarf)

Blackberry

Blueberry

Fig

Stonefruit (dwarf)

As I said earlier this is a suggestion of fruits that have been container grown and fruited successfully. There are others I am sure. The best way to know for sure is to experiment and see what happens.

Another thought to keep in mind is that many times

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