Orange Cherry of the Rio Grande begins setting fruit after seven years from seed

Real grower update · Huertas Urbanas seeds

Approximately seven years after a 2019 seed order, an Orange Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia involucrata) is flowering and beginning to set fruit in the ground in Inglewood, California.

Orange Cherry of the Rio Grande grown from Huertas Urbanas seed. Photo by @laloscorner, used with permission.

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From seed to fruit set

The grower maintains two orange Eugenia involucrata trees in the ground. One has now flowered and begun developing small fruits. Since the seeds were purchased in 2019, this represents approximately seven years from seed to the first documented reproductive stage.

The exact sowing date was not recorded, so this individual result should not be interpreted as a universal fruiting age.

Other survivors from the 2019 collection

Two jaboticaba selections from the same order remain alive in containers: INTA Misiones and El Dorado.

INTA Misiones jaboticaba from the 2019 Huertas Urbanas seed order.

El Dorado jaboticaba from the same collection.

A Black Pitanga from Junín also survives and is growing in the ground.

Black Pitanga from Junín growing in Inglewood, California.

Not every accession appears to have survived: the grower believes that the Campo Ramón jaboticabas are no longer present. Useful cultivation records should document losses and uncertainty as well as successes.

See information and current availability for Orange Cherry of the Rio Grande at Huertas Urbanas.

Grower and photographs: @laloscorner. Photos published with permission.
Important note: This is one grower’s experience, not a guarantee of germination, survival, adaptability or fruiting time.