I know I don't post much here and reason being I'm not half as intelligible about fruit trees as most all of you are but maybe I can contribute in another way
Motivation
About 1 1/2 years ago I started a process to petition and gain permission to grow fruit trees at work. I am an air traffic controller and there is so much open land at the facility so I thought its worth a try and after soil samples, clearing it with all the correct people I finally was granted permission to plant 12 fruit trees!
I gained funding from my local union NACTA for 1200.00, 'no tax dollars' and I started right away.
2 rows of 6 trees 19' x 23' spacing
There are a couple of palms kinda close but I used the space as best as I could
My plan was for some variety that all employees could enjoy
Row 1 nort to south
1 Brogdon avocado
2 pineapple pleasure mango
3 lemon zest ( not planted yet)
4 Hamlin orange
5 dancy tangerine
6 Mauritius lychee
Row 2 north to south
7 fl hass avocado
8 valcarie mango
9 coconut cream (not planted yet
10 Honeybell minneola tangelo
11 ray ruby grapefruit
12 Mauritius lychee
I still have to get my 15 gal lemon zest and coco cream
My goal besides having delicious fruit to share and enjoy is to get people who may have never tried anything but a crappy publix mango to realize we live in a special place that can grow amazing stuff
Get out there n grow!
A special thanks to Excalibur for the 25 gal pineapple pleasure that was difficult to find for some reason
The FAA, NACTA, the coworkers who helped me dig holes, and all of you in this forum for the great wealth of knowledge, what a great community!!