Beautiful!

I have a question for everyone here...when my blooms dry up and DONT fall off, do I pluck them? Also what is that huge dark purple thing that grows? Thanks guys!

Yes, pluck them off to get a rebloom. In that sense, they're just like your roses. The dark purple thing is a seed pod.

AKA fuchsia berries!
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I never knew they could be eaten. Nevertheless, I probably wouldn't eat them except in some kind of emergency. There's no shortage of other berries. to eat.

They're rather insipid and can be mildly astringent. I've tasted the fruit of many varieties and haven't found one that I'd eat unless there wasn't something else to sustain me. Maybe someone should start a fuchsia fruit improvement breeding project.

Hello friends,

I live in Fort Worth, Texas in North TX, love Fuchsia but haven't had any for quite a long time, unfortunately I think it need a lot cooler & more shade than I have here...
But maybe any of you know if there is any kind of Fuchsia that can withstand full sun ?
Thanks...

Hi, javaMom. Welcome to the Fuchsias Forum. I grow all of mine in the shade, so I can't help you find a full-sun fuchsia, but maybe someone else has experience growing them in sunny locations.

I count myself lucky when the fuchsias survive in the shade. Sun is right out. Though, Fort Worth is a lot more humid than here, and I'm sure that would tilt the equation.

Thanks Zuzu & Paul,

Fort Worth actually super dry, our Summer is very hot but we hardly ever humid unless its getting ready to have bad storm...

Fuchsia would suffer in those conditions. Here in Calif. we grow them in dappled shade.

Humidity is in what you're used to, I suppose, but Fort Worth is classified as a humid region, as documented by NOAA and Koppen classification maps. It feels extreme to me when I visit in the early summer, but I live in an arid region, so most of the country is more humid, and Fort Worth is certainly less humid than many places in the South. I always fall back on official measurements for reliable indicators when planting and growing.

I'm not trying to argue with you about whether it seems dry to you, but the numbers make a difference to the plants you grow and how you grow them. Fort Worth gets more humid in the hotter parts of the year, and this has both positive (protection against water loss) and negative (clumping pollen, encouragement of certain diseases) effects on plants.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/?n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (Piney Woods section)

In your conditions I would try with Fuchsia boliviensis hybrids .It is a native Fuchsia growing in the montane meadows just above the forests of the Yungas formation in nwestern Argentina all the way up to swestern Bolivia. It does grow in full sunshine and also has summer hot and humid conditions. It is a tropical Fuchsia, but adapted to periods of drought in winter. So cultivars that have F. boliviensis in their genes would have better chances I suspect to thrive in your conditions. Many years ago I spotted a three foot bush while working at the Argentine N.Parks Admin. at Parque Nacional El Rey, in the state of Salta., just above the tree level. It has a very long floral tube and short petals. VERY pretty. By its positioning that bush takes some below freezing in winter though probably not much less than -3ºC. Where I live native forest ravines have six feet tall F.magellanica growing in dappled shade. It is a deciduous shrub and is in the parentage of most Fuchsia hybrids.

Thank you all,
Fuchsia is very pretty flowers, unfortunately I do not have the shade to enjoy it...
Saw some in the stores in Spring, but mainly ones with smaller flowers...

I don't know if it would be needed as much in the US, but in Australia we have fuchsias especially bred to take full sun. I have killed three so far, so I am sticking with the older ones that I can grow in semi-shade.

I guess we might have them here too, but I've never run into them or heard any publicity about them. An article in SFGate says: "Fuchsias grown in full sun should be a sun-tolerant variety, such as F. microphylla ssp. aprica "Dolly's Dress" or F. magellanica "Hawkshead."

Monrovia carries 'Dolly's Dress,' but says nothing about sun tolerance in its description of the plant. Joy Creek and The Earthworks carry 'Hawkshead,' but they are located in Oregon and Washington, where "full sun" is nothing like Texas sunshine.

I couldn't find any reference outside Australia when I googled. This site has the two I have tried: http://sprinthorticulture.com/...

Neither survived for me, but that may have been my fault rather than a fault with the plant. We do get temperatures above 40C, but from memory mine died in winter, and we never get below 1C, and they are meant. to survive down to -3C

I haven't seen much Fuchsias here in North Texas , tried a few times but as soon as the heat came they died, and I put them (in a pot and ground) under a little shade area...

I am in south Florida and really want mine to live. It's hot and humid here. Does anyone ever bring the plant in the house a couple of days per week to give it a break from the sun?
I have mine in an urn style planter with morning sun.

Thank you
Jen

Hope someone can help me. I got this which I believe is a Fuchsia Triphylla and the leaves/flowers are drying up.
Is it entering its dormant stage or there's something wrong with it? I water once every few days but about 4 days ago there's a heat wave of 42 deg and this plant might have been exposed to the afternoon sun without shelter.

I'm in Melbourne/Australia. Thank you in advance.