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One moringa producing seeds and a second one doesnt

 
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Hi, i moved to the peruvian amazon forest. I wanted to plant some moringas but ive read that moringas are for dry climates, then i found a nursery that has moringas adapted for wet climates but i havent bought seeds nor plants.

Then i realized that in from of the house i rented there are two moringa trees, they are the same age, but one is producing seeds(pods) and the other one doesnt produce anything . Any idea why is this? I asked the owner and he told me thats maybe because moringa are sexual plants that has male and female versions and only female version produces pods?, but then i tried to corroborate that and i havent found information about male and female moringa trees.

Do anybody have an idea why one tree produces pod(seeds) and the other not?


Maybe its related to the adaptation process?
any idea?
 
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Hi,
sometimes a tree refuses to seed. There can be several reasons. Maybe it's a hybrid and cannot produce seed. Maybe it's still too small and the tree is keeping its energies for root growth.

Sometimes it's an environmental problem, when the conditions around the plant don't give the proper signals (you know, some fruit trees require a number of cold hours for it to produce fruit), or the plant is too stressed to spare energies fruiting.
Sometimes it's just the plant being lazy, precisely for a lack of stress. In this case, you can hit the tree trunk with a baseball bat or something like that to stress the tree and scare it into fruiting.
 
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