Jaboticaba are notoriously very very slow growers and take 7- 15 years to fruit from seed. Well, I'm proud to announce after waiting 10 years my first jaboticaba has its very first flower! This tree has been in my yard for about 5 years and it was around 5 years old when someone let me transplant it from her yard. Her yard was overgrown and asked me for some advice. I spotted this jaboticaba growing and immediately grabbed it for the labor I did. Well is it worth the wait? I don't know...do you have a flowering jaboticaba...much less ever tasted the fruit? (I have a total of 8 trees, but only one is old enough to flower...finally)