My Edible Fruit Trees: Vine

Kiwifruit - Male Sweetie

Planted: 2020

Kiwifruit Sweetie (Female)

Planted: 2019

Passionfruit - Panama Sweet Gold (G)

Comments: - Vine has finally started fruiting--looks like it wasn't getting enough sunlight in spring and autumn, as it's to the south of the house. 2020 we got beautiful sweet fruit where it had escaped up into the trees.

Fruiting Months May, June, July

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Dwarf Grapefruit - Rio Red ^9/10

Comments: - Healthy and eaten often.

Passionfruit - Panama Red (Seedling)

Comments: -

Plant arrived in Feb 2020 in great condition with soil still damp. Will plant this into a pot after 1-2 weeks outside and provide updates. 

May 2020 - The vines have been growing well. No flowers to date. We will see how it copes with winter in Toowoomba - may have to bring it inside on cool nights.

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Panama Red Seedling, Panama Red Pandora

Passionfruit - Panama Sweet Gold (G) (Grafted)

Comments: -

Plant arrived in in Feb 2020 in great condition with soil still damp. Will plant this into a pot after 1-2 weeks outside and provide updates.

May 2020 - Has been growing well, flowered a few times in Apr/May, yet to set a fruit.  We will see how it copes with winter in Toowoomba - may have to bring it inside on cool nights. 

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Passionfruit - Panama Red Pandora (Grafted)

Comments: -

Plant arrived in Feb 2020 in great condition with soil still damp. Will plant this into a pot after 1-2 weeks outside and provide updates.

May 2020 - Has put on a reasonable amount of new growth. Trying to grow in pot - up a stake temporarily before a final place has been decided for it to grow on. Began flowering in April, set it's first fruit this May after hand pollination was attempted. We will see how it copes with winter in Toowoomba - may have to bring it inside on cool nights. 

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Passionfruit - Sweet Lilikoi (Grafted) ^1/10

Comments: -

Grows vigorously and has many flowers each year, but has not set a single fruit for over 5 years in spite of attempts at manual pollination and cross pollination with granadilla x lilikoi variety. Therefore have removed the plant.

Planted: 2003

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Hand Pollination

Kiwifruit - Hayward (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: - Growing in Katoomba - one female and one male. Not very sweet, but makes excellent jam.

Planted: 1999

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 50% in Summer

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Netting required to protect from Possums and birds.

Kiwifruit Gold Seedling (Seedling)

Comments: -

Fruit is sweeter than the green kiwifruit so decided to grow a seedling (grafted and cuttings not available). First flowers in 2018 turned out to be female. Also growing additional seedlings which flowered in 2019 - one with female and one with male flowers. So now waiting to get pollination in 2020.

As a matter of interest, flowering in golden kiwifruit is a few weeks earlier than for the greeen kiwifruit, so can't get cross pollination between these two varieties.

Planted: 2013

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 5

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 40% in Summer

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Must protect from possums and birds with netting.

Grape - Carolina Black Rose ^10/10

Comments: -

A fantastic shade plant, it looks beautiful. Does not go dormant until early August, and only for a month. About 15 bunches of grapes in it's first year, 30 second year, only six in its third year. I also have a Maroo seedless on an archway, which fruits about three weeks earlier than the Carolina Black Rose. Maroo seedless is sweet, Carolina Black Rose is quite sour.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: occasional seaweed spray

Comments

Wow Diana, fabulous picture of your grapes. I also bought one from daleys and had it in the ground...first season. Do you happen to have more pictures of it? I would like to learn how you train it onto the roof? Can you send your pics to au0rey @hotmail.com I am having a bit of headache how i can do it. It is grown against the patio support pole. Has it been disease free since you had it? The young new leaves of mine come out curling and distorted. Do you have any idea why it is like that? Thanks!

Thanks, au0rey, I have answered your questions in the passionfruit thread of the forum.

Hi Diana, this spring my vine finally put on flower clusters and loads of them. I am sure yours do as yours seem to grow very similarly to mine, on the roof beams. Do you trim off any extra shoots so that fewer clusters can have better fruit development or do you just leave them alone? Thanks!

Hi Diana, can you tell me what colour your CBR grapes are when they first appear? If green, when do they turn black? And are your grapes oval or round when young? I have a funny feeling that mine may not be carolina black rose.

Hi au0rey, I prune off excess growth of leaves and shoots during summer as it is very vigorous. The grapes start off green and go black when ripe. Mine are just starting to turn. I have a Maroo seedless (a seedless sibling of the Carolina Black Rose apparently), which is already all ripe. They are both pretty round.

Thanks Diana, hopefully mine will turn round and black and be CBR.

Grape - Maroo Seedless (Cutting)

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Left is Menindee, Right is Maroo This is a partial shade position

Planted One in Front Garden as well, propagated from mother plant as Original is is Partial sun

New Vine planted on 01.09.2019

Passionfruit - Panama Gold (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: - Ndw Vine planted on 06.09.219 Tried This variety before, Loved it

Planted: 2019

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Passionfruit - Banana

Growing: In the Ground

Grape - Sultana H5

Grape - Black Muscat Hamburg

Planted: 2019

Grape - Golden Muscat

Planted: 2018

Growing: In the Ground

Grapefruit - Honneffs Surprise

Grape - Black Muscat ^10/10

Comments: -

taste of fruit

Grape - Glenora

Grape - Sultana H5

Grape - Kyoho

Grape - Cabernet Sauvignon (grafted)

Passionfruit - Black

Grape - Sultana H5 (Cutting) ^6/10

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 30% in Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Question:

Extremely sweet, crisp and seedless berries.

Growing in a Pot on east side of colourbound garage, will get harsh western sun. hopefully this will ripe berries well in time before cool temps/rain comes in late summer in my area/climate

Comments

relocated to ground in 2017

Reloacted AGAIN to front garden in Aug2019 as this location is SUNNY and Airy. Have cut down to knee height,

DIED IN SUMMER 2019

Grape - Menindee Seedless (Cutting)

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Left is Menindee, Right is Maroo This is a partial shade position

Muscadine Grape - Adonis (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - Liked the idea of a grape that's suited to the hot humid western Sydney climate and is able to handle humidity without the need for spraying. Not disappointed by this native grape of Texas and Florida. Tough skins but very tasty distinctive flavour. Adonis is large and juicy ... very fleshy, with pips. Puts on rampant growth, so make sure it's pruned each year (autumn/winter). A helpful tip: I Googled for info on how to manage muscadine grapes successfully. Lots of help from USA ... YouTube videos. Look for the vids from Ison and follow their pruning and growing techniques.

Fruiting Months February, March, April

Planted: 2016

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 8 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Mushroom compost and pigeon poo

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Netted when noticed fruit fly interested. Draped fruit fly netting around most of vine. Grapes were saved and had good harvest ... 6-8kgs on the one vine. Will be harder to do next season ... vine will cover larger area.

Organic Status:Organic

Kiwifruit - Bruno (female) (Cutting) ^5/10

Comments: - Removed. It didn't get enough chill here to flower reliably - even though Bruno needs far less chill than Hayward and should have been ok here. I actually prefer the Kiwiberries anyway.Large vines that need a very strong trellis and resent hot weather and especially hot winds. Need a great deal of water on hot days. Not a water-wise plant here. Doesn't like any alkalinity either - gets chlorosis readily. 
Needs some shade here and lots of sand improvement to increase it's water holding capacity.

Planted: 2014

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers. Little and often during the growing season.

Passionfruit - Enduro Goldl (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - This is a new hybrid variety here. Produces huge yellow fruits that have a lovely flavour and sweetness. Starts fruiting in it's first season and prolifically. The fruit did tend to take awhile to ripen though and many were affected by the rainy and cool weather in late Autumn/winter. The vine was in a spot that was probably not ideal for winter. I have started a new vine in a much warmer/drier and sunnier (for winter) spot and will see if this works better.  

Planted: 2017

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release organic chook manure pellets, a couple of small side dressing of potash in summer, sometimes Acid lovers fertiliser. Mostly try not to overdo the nitrogen.

Passionfruit - Sunshine Special

Pollination: Self Pollination