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Q.Growing Brazil Nuts

Zone Brisbane, Australia | Anonymous added on June 21, 2022 | Answered

I’ve just read Amy Grant’s article on growing a Brazil nut tree. The article says that to obtain fruit requires a special bee and commercial attempts to obtain crops of nuts have been unsuccessful. Is it possible to get fruit from a home garden tree and if so, what human intervention can be taken that might produce fruit?

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GKH_Susan
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Answered on June 27, 2022

Every source I found said they have not been successfully grown in cultivation. Plus, they take 10 to 20 years to bear fruit. Not only does the nut need a special bee, but the bee orchid is necessary, as well as Amazon forest fertility, light, etc.

https://plantvillage.psu.edu/topics/brazil-nut/infos/diseases_and_pests_description_uses_propagation

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