Just a quick post, I've been having very good success with this tree the past couple of years after finally discovering a commercial fertilizer product called Photogreen-S.  This species is native to Grasa's homeland of Brazil.  I think she imagined my tree as being much larger as she once said she was going to climb it and eat my fruits! LOL  If you search online you'll find photos of some very large trees with trunks loaded solid with the purple fruits.  The skins are tough and somewhat bitter but the pulp is very sweet and tasty like a nice grape, though maybe a bit tropical in flavor.  It seems slightly less hardy than lemon to me and lost quite a few leaves this past winter but bounced right back.  I've had mine in the ground for about 5 years.  This fruit probably matures faster than anything else I know of.  These were just flowers on August 17th.

 

Nice!
The fruit inside reminds me a Lychee. How about the taste? Do the squirrels like the Jaboticaba?
Does it like a moist soil or a dry is fine?

Jabuticaba, as is in Brazil... has taste of childhood. Nothing like it. The new propagating techniques has watered down the unique flavor. you eat the pulpy fruit, spit out the seeds and save the skin. Wash the skin and soak it inside a container in the refrigerator. It makes the best juice you can have. if soak for 2-3 days it tastes like 'heaven'. 

Harvey, this tree will be the most productive after 10- or even 15 years.
  Good luck with it. it made my day. they do like hot weather, so whatever you can do to make it hot...

Check out this guy saving a hundred year old one, that was going to be chopped down in the city. He hauled it back to the countryside.

http://gcmcajurusp.blogspot.com/2012/04/jabuticabeira-centenaria-foi.html

Igor, they like a lot of water.  Someone suggested giving it a lot more water a couple of months ago and, after doing so, I had a second flush of growth and flowers.

Grasa, I don't know if my tree will ever be super productive as the climate is less than ideal here with the cold winters. As far as hot, we get plenty of that.  It's presently 92F, supposedly, but feels hotter.  We were supposed to to 100 today and then next few days.  I usually don't eat more than 2-3 fruits at a time and stretch out my small harvest over 2-3 weeks to get greater satisfaction.  I think I'll have to have much larger crops before I try making that nice drink!

Thanks for posting this Harvey. I was just doing a little home work on this fruit as well as sugar apple, white sapote, and cherry of the Rio Grande. Seems the Jaboticaba and white sapote are the most cold hardy of the bunch I listed. Ive never tasted any of them unfortunatly but hope to one day. The first thing that came to my mind when seeing the fruit of jaboticaba was a muscadine grape. Thick skins with a tasty treat inside. I find the tropical fruits facinating and one day hope to have a large green house to try and grow every tropical fruit I can squeeze in there. There is a great video on youtube called Fruit Hunters. If anyone is interested in tropical fruit its well worth the time to kick back and watch it. There are 2 parts to it. Here are the links. Enjoy!

I was about to buy one of these trees. Before I did, I saw that the nursery had some fruit for sampling. After I tried some, I decided to skip growing this one. It tasted a lot like a grape... but not as good as a grape.

Paul, I opted out also.

Mine tastes better than most grapes, IMO.  I also have a smaller tree of a grafted 'Grimal' variety given to me by a friend that says it is even better.

I grow quite a few white sapote and think they are great.  I have 12 trees in the ground (grafted to about 30 varieties) and they had some foliage burned this past winter (only got down to 26F but had about 45 nights with frost).

Wayne, Suebelle is a smaller variety that can probably be kept in a greenhouse easier than many others.  Some varieties I have one to reach for the stars.  My tree of 'Chestnut' also seems to have dwarf characteristics although I don't know if that is typical.