Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Fuchsia Cultivation, 1 by PedricksCorner

PedricksCorner wrote:
Here is a photo disproving that way old fashioned notion that you have to remove the berries on a fuchsia if you want it to keep blooming. I have never found that to be true. I think people just thought perhaps they weren't as pretty as the flowers and they take energy from the plant that could otherwise be used for flowers. A well planted and fed fuchsia should be able to do both.
So if you are like me, and want those berries, then now you can rest assured your fuchsia will indeed continue to bloom while the berries ripen ;-)
Some fuchsias will be covered with berries at times, with few blossoms, but if you look closely, they are busy producing new blossoms at the ends of the same branches.
This is Delta's Parade on October 6, 2009