Should there be an Ultra tropical section on this form???

[BenG]

Hi. This is just a proposition. Ignore it if you want.

Anyway, I was thinking of adding these categories to the forum:
-Ultra-tropical (durian, mangosteen, etc.)
-Mango Corner (Mango questions/comments? Take them here. I notice that there is a lot of mango-related discussion going on on the forum.)
-Zone-pushing (People like me, in zones <10a, who are attempting to grow tropicals at home.)
-Tour (Show us around your garden!)

Just a suggestion.

[spencerw]

Hi. This is just a proposition. Ignore it if you want.

Anyway, I was thinking of adding these categories to the forum:
-Ultra-tropical (durian, mangosteen, etc.)
-Mango Corner (Mango questions/comments? Take them here. I notice that there is a lot of mango-related discussion going on on the forum.)
-Zone-pushing (People like me, in zones <10a, who are attempting to grow tropicals at home.)
-Tour (Show us around your garden!)

Just a suggestion.

that sounds like the ideal categories! ive been pondering this a few days and thats actually the same conclusion i came up with. was just going to share the idea but youre already on it!

[bovine421]

To me, sub/tropical/ultra is like this
Subtropical, anything that can take some frost 25-28 cherimoya atemoya passion fruit mango avocado sapodilla guava cattleyanum guava most eugenias and plinia etc.
Tropical, anything that struggles below freezing ie soursop, jak fruit, mamey, miracle fruit, milimbi, abiu
Ultra tropical anything that just goes bleh below 45 usually
Durian breadfruit salak mangosteen marang etc.

Thanks, I read that anything in the high 30's was fatal to soursop. I/m glad  planted mine well protected from winds.

I think a better barometer would be. At what temperature can they thrive not survive As someone from Avon Park pointed out. If a soursop defoliate's every winter with slight dieback. It will probably not produce fruit which is the goal.

[bovine421]

Would it be possible for someone in Key West Florida to successfully grow Durian?

[Ulfr]

I only ever check this section despite also growing and enjoying citrus. I just don’t think to check/keep up with the other section. I bet many others are in a similar boat and further splitting would compound the issue. Splitting is really only necessary when threads are disappearing to page 3,4,5 in the first hours, that doesn’t happen here.

[fruitlovers]

Would it be possible for someone in Key West Florida to successfully grow Durian?

Mangosteen, pulasan, breadfruit, rambutan, have been fruited there, so why not durian? It's definitely possible, just hasn't been done yet.

[BenG]

To me, sub/tropical/ultra is like this
Subtropical, anything that can take some frost 25-28 cherimoya atemoya passion fruit mango avocado sapodilla guava cattleyanum guava most eugenias and plinia etc.
Tropical, anything that struggles below freezing ie soursop, jak fruit, mamey, miracle fruit, milimbi, abiu
Ultra tropical anything that just goes bleh below 45 usually
Durian breadfruit salak mangosteen marang etc.

So basically

9b/10a+

10b+

and 11+?

[Tropical Bay Area]

To me, sub/tropical/ultra is like this
Subtropical, anything that can take some frost 25-28 cherimoya atemoya passion fruit mango avocado sapodilla guava cattleyanum guava most eugenias and plinia etc.
Tropical, anything that struggles below freezing ie soursop, jak fruit, mamey, miracle fruit, milimbi, abiu
Ultra tropical anything that just goes bleh below 45 usually
Durian breadfruit salak mangosteen marang etc.

Thanks, I read that anything in the high 30's was fatal to soursop. I/m glad  planted mine well protected from winds.

I think a better barometer would be. At what temperature can they thrive not survive As someone from Avon Park pointed out. If a soursop defoliate's every winter with slight dieback. It will probably not produce fruit which is the goal.

I’m not sure if I should make a new thread for this, but doesn’t soursop usually flower in the winter, in cold places the flowers get knocked off rihgt after they flower or the young furit fall because of the cold, and then no fruit untill next winter right? Is there a way to delay the flowering on soursop of untill after winter and perhaps spring so in colder places we can have soursops in fall?

[Gone tropo]

Hi. This is just a proposition. Ignore it if you want.

Anyway, I was thinking of adding these categories to the forum:
-Ultra-tropical (durian, mangosteen, etc.)
-Mango Corner (Mango questions/comments? Take them here. I notice that there is a lot of mango-related discussion going on on the forum.)
-Zone-pushing (People like me, in zones <10a, who are attempting to grow tropicals at home.)
-Tour (Show us around your garden!)

Just a suggestion.

This is great

[Oncorhynchus]

I only ever check this section despite also growing and enjoying citrus. I just don’t think to check/keep up with the other section. I bet many others are in a similar boat and further splitting would compound the issue. Splitting is really only necessary when threads are disappearing to page 3,4,5 in the first hours, that doesn’t happen here.

Totally agree. I check this section several times a day but only check the citrus section a couple times a week. Subdividing into different sections will effectively divert attention away from smaller topics not give them more attention. There are other forums that have divided like this and they are terrible.  I visit those maybe every six months.