haha nice !
Florida has a few advantages in terms of growth over socal:
- Sandy soil: easy for trees to root out quickly. Heavy doses of fert can be applied regularly, as it leaches quickly.
- High temps: mangoes can flush once every 3 to 4 weeks during the ridiculously hot summers
- Plenty of rain
Having lived in both socal and sofl, the rate at which trees grow in the latter is 5x that of the former.
But, we can't fruit cherimoya here. So, we're even :-).