I get like one fruit for every 200 flowers on my 10 feet tree. I only get about 6 or 7 fruit. I don't fertilize it.

One cluster of flower might produce one fruit if you are lucky.

There is a bunch of them growing in the parking lot at colleges and vocational schools here in Miami. There aren't many people who eat them.

My Makok is in the ground since 2011 as a 3 gallon but is still only 9-10' tall and has a trunk less than 2" and sets most of the flowers to fruit.

I wind up thinning them to get larger fruit.

As far as care goes, I have yet to trim it, fertilize a few times per year and water 2x per week.

justs because you haven't seen any insects pollinating them , doesnt mean they are not there.

You can however get some flowering plants to attract insects.

i make sure i have lots of flowering plants with blooms all year long. thats keeps pollinators around permanently.

You may want to just look around your neighbors yards to see what is in flower at different times of the year, and plant things that flower, when nothing else is.

Observation is the first rule of Permaculture.

Very beautiful looking spapodilla you've got there, Tony. Now I don't feel so bad if mine doesn't get to fruit too much for me. This plant is supposed to grow very well in the ultra tropics. I'm thinking it will need that hot weather all year round in order to be productive. Still, it's nice to see that mine has flowered for me this year.

Thanks for sharing the nice pix of your spapodilla. If you do get some fruit, do share your pix again.

Gnappi, I'm glad to hear that your Makok has fruited for you. I presume Makok is of a different variety of the spapodilla family than the Prolific that I have here? I wonder if one variety does better than the other when coming to fruit setting? Does the spapodilla in general fruit once a year? Any picture that you might wish to share?

Greenman, I appreciated your feedback. What variety of spapodilla are you growing now?

Someone gave us two of them just about the same size they are now. The two trees flower at different times even though they are the same type. They flower twice a year here in West Kendall. They flower immediately after the new growth has mature. If you enlarge the first picture, then you can see a very small brown fruit developing. The other flowers might die off. I haven't gotten more than 6 or 7 fruits.

I could fertilize the tree to get more fruit, but I don't want to spend too much money on this tree.

BF, The Makok is just another selection of the common sapodilla. It's a compact grower and gives a reliable crop for me. Like I said I have to thin the fruit, because it's typical I get 3 or even morez fruits set per branch terminal end.

The one nit I have with the sapodilla is the wait from flower to picked fruit is very long.

Anyway, heres 2 pics, the one with little fruit has 9 fruits which I will take 1 off of each branch.

Gnappi, very nice tree you've got there and a good helper around your yard too :) Thanks for sharing the pictures. Growing it close to the house is certainly a good thing to do for this plant. I should have done that with mine.

So far, my "Prolific" isn't doing too good. The blooms which appeared so promising are now drying out one by one. Maybe I should try sourcing out a Makok to grow instead?

Tony, I'm glad to hear that yours is flowering twice a year for you where you are. I'm afraid It may not do that here for me ... So, what's the variety you've got there?

The fruit is small. This is about as big as it gets. I don't know the variety. I got it from a friend.

Thanks for sharing the pic, Tony. Mine hasn't shown any signs of growth or blooms as of this point in time. I'm not too hopeful it will do much as obviously the weather here isn't too great for it to do what it's supposed to do.

I have a couple of Makok that set fruit pretty easily. I have a prolific as well, but it's too small to really do much (only a year in the ground, if even.) The makok is a dwarfish tree as well and the fruit doesn't have the grit that some of the other varieties tend to have. It's also a smaller fruit and more manageable to eat -- my Hasya produces monster sized saps that are too troublesome to really deal with since they keep breaking branches.

Chrobrego,

Mine has literally stopped growing since this Summer. It just looks like a museum piece frozen in time ... lol. With all the cold nights that we're having now, I'm not sure what to expect out of it. I just hope it doesn't die off ... more hoping for its survival than its growth or fruit production.