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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mango
« on: February 06, 2012, 01:34:14 AM »
Ed,
Where did you hear of these mangos?
Where did you hear of these mangos?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What tropical fruits impress normal people?
« on: February 06, 2012, 01:33:32 AM »
Tomas,
more people are catching on! Also if your collection is relatively new, it can take around 10yrs for some stuff to really fruit, so it will take time for trees to grow, and peoples brains to expand...so they can accept your amazing plants for who they are!
LOL
You will have amazed friends, eager to eat your fruits before you know it!
more people are catching on! Also if your collection is relatively new, it can take around 10yrs for some stuff to really fruit, so it will take time for trees to grow, and peoples brains to expand...so they can accept your amazing plants for who they are!
LOL
You will have amazed friends, eager to eat your fruits before you know it!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picked a Rollinia today
« on: February 06, 2012, 01:31:33 AM »Definitely one of he better annonas, deliciosa for sure!
congrats,
-Ethan
Ethan,
U have good taste!
I trust your judgement!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing mangoes in NY
« on: February 06, 2012, 01:30:57 AM »
thank God this guy found u lycheeluva!! U gonna blow his mind!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help needed to identify this Annona sp. Possibly Annona cacans
« on: February 06, 2012, 01:29:29 AM »
closest I can think of is Annona rugulosa....but I don't think that's it!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rolilinia 25 gal, 4.5 yr old. Fruiting now, & nonstop Flowering for 2yrs!
« on: February 05, 2012, 10:36:19 PM »Amazing growing! Good job. I hope that fruit hangs in there.
Rollinia are one of my favorite fruits. I just wish mine were more prolific. I could eat them every day.
to make them more prolific, I think plant them in 75% sun, or FULL sun, and make sure they don't get too much wind...even though it can handle wind...its better it doesn't get wind...
Also pinch all of the tips, encouraging branching! This makes for a more flower packed tree, I've found.
Also, keep regularly fertilizing with a fertilizer high in phosphorous, and not too high in nitrogen!!
Keep well watered!
GOOD LUCK!!
MY FRUIT WILL HOLD! I HAD A SPIRIT VISIT ME IN MY DREAMS THAT SAID IT WOULD...SAME WITH MY SOURSOP THAT FRUITED LATE LAST YEAR IN A POT...LIKE SCROOGE, XMAS STORY...LOL
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Have you considered growing Myrciaria vexator??? I love this jaboticaba relative
« on: February 05, 2012, 10:31:46 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How large will a Pickering mango tree get?
« on: February 05, 2012, 10:21:08 PM »
Hey to all in question about the large trees of Pickering I heard about,
Still waiting to hear back from Charles Novak! I left a message! But I swear he told me he saw some around 15ft, and way larger than he expected them to be...
Maybe he was confused and it was a different cultivar, or maybe I'm confused and I dreamed this all in my head!
Keep you posted! I hope the are dwarf!!! So far I'm leaning towards thinking they are an easy tree to keep at around 12-15ft tall, forever!!
I hope so, because resistance to anthracnose and fungus seems excellent, and fruit is amazing!!
Still waiting to hear back from Charles Novak! I left a message! But I swear he told me he saw some around 15ft, and way larger than he expected them to be...
Maybe he was confused and it was a different cultivar, or maybe I'm confused and I dreamed this all in my head!
Keep you posted! I hope the are dwarf!!! So far I'm leaning towards thinking they are an easy tree to keep at around 12-15ft tall, forever!!
I hope so, because resistance to anthracnose and fungus seems excellent, and fruit is amazing!!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ross Sapote Growth rate...Central FL container over 1.5yr or so...
« on: February 05, 2012, 03:59:58 PM »First pic is from August 01, 2010, when the tree was in a 5 gal I believe.
Also, is one pic of the tree on October 28, 2010, after stepping up into a larger white container..around 15 gal maybe less.
Here are a few, more recent pics of the same tree from 2012...flowering like mad!! 25 gal...ready for action! and fruits again like last year!
Had fruits to eat in mid 2011, only 3 set, and 2 made it...bird got one...amazing fruits!! tasty as can be...harvested over 8moths after flowering though! They stayed on tree in greenhouse for cold winter we had in 2010...but fruit was fine...ripening around July of 2011...
Seeds will be distributed, if a few of you may want seed. Hope to have lots of seed to share!
Those are incredible looking trees!! How would you characterize the taste of Ross Sapote? I do not like Canistel or Lucuma so if it is similiar I wouldn't be interested.
JF
try one first...but if you dont like a good canistel...thats all the ross is....a good canistel selected from costa rica...(there is some debate if it's actually a separate species)
try ice cream or milk shake instead of raw canistel!!! If you don't like it, I'll give you your money back! LOL not really
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Have you considered growing Myrciaria vexator??? I love this jaboticaba relative
« on: February 05, 2012, 01:29:58 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Have you considered growing Myrciaria vexator??? I love this jaboticaba relative
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:33:49 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ross Sapote Growth rate...Central FL container over 1.5yr or so...
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:20:51 PM »Adam, great job and great pictures! You're my idol
Haha Felipe!
Funny Ohiojay is my hero! (lycheeluva up there to!)
Glad to be a role model!!!
Oscar is my arch-nemesis! able to grow all the best fruits in USA, with true tropical weather!
LOL not really, Oscar my hero for sure!!! I'm just jealous!!! He needs to mail me 100lbs of rollinia fruit, and dig up his two G. prainiana and express mail to me....if I win the lottery watch out! I'm making you an offer that's gonna b down right, hard to turn down (yes u Oscar, Ohiojay, Cherapu hoarders!!!)
LOLOL
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Have you considered growing Myrciaria vexator??? I love this jaboticaba relative
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:15:47 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Foliar Feeding
« on: February 05, 2012, 01:54:20 AM »
I talked to a company rep last week and I ordered a gallon of Turf and Garden Pro and of MegaGreen. What can you tell me about MegaGreen? How often do you apply these products?
JF
I will find out asap! The megagreen is new, and i'm getting some to! soon!
Turf pro is applied with a pump sprayer, and added to water (i think like 2 tablespoons per gallon more or less) I always over do it, but it doesn't hurt plants, I've found...just stains leaves dark, and can stain concrete...plants always look greener, and stains on foliage go away over time.
I apply them as often as every 2weeks, depending on how much fertilizer I've put on the soil, or how rainy it is, or what season it is...but only really every 4weeks...I also always use the Fe Iron Formula, as a drench only, to correct iron deficiencies! Its the only organic Chelated Fe Drench I know of on the market!!! You should consider this formula if you didn't order it!!!
Mention my name, and maybe you can get some kind of discount, or extra product?
The owners are local near me, and very nice people!!! They always have a bottle ($40 size) donated to our Central FL Tropical Fruit Club raffle!!! I always go crazy and buy like 10 tickets when I see it one the raffle table!!! I've won it like 2 or 3 times!!! LOL...It was meant to be i suppose. I have so much of this stuff at my house, I won't run out for about 1.5yrs!!
I have like 3 gallons....
GOOD LUCK! PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW IT WORKS FOR YOU, if you don't like it, I may want to buy the bottle from you!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rolilinia 25 gal, 4.5 yr old. Fruiting now, & nonstop Flowering for 2yrs!
« on: February 05, 2012, 01:07:47 AM »Amazing that the rollinia is so cold tolerant as they come right from the heart of the Amazon.
What's the white powder on your leaves?
Oscar
Senior member lol!
I'm jealous! Now I wish I was over 50yrs old! Discount at perkins, on auto insurance, and better ranking on forum!!!
LOL
Ah, duuhhhh, i think it has to do with number of posts, not age.Anyway if you were over 50 you wouldn't have to cut your finger off to eat a rollinia because your trees would all be big and bearing! HAHA
Oscar
So Oscar,
I guess you aren't interested in taking a pinky finger, or toe, for trade (mail me a rollinia fruit).
You can post pictures of my toe on your website, and get all sorts of media attention!!!
It will be great for business! Besides, these pinkys and small toes have really been getting in my way.
Also, I think If I prune my feet and hands back (just smaller digits pinkies and lil toes only) it will improve my manual dexterity.
So we up for a trade!
LOLOLOL
JUST KIDDING!!!
SORRY!!! HAD TO TAKE IT THERE!! LOL
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rolilinia 25 gal, 4.5 yr old. Fruiting now, & nonstop Flowering for 2yrs!
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:41:37 AM »Nice job, rollinia seems much more cold tolerant than soursop in my experience too.
-Ethan
THanks!
If you want seeds let me know! others to!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rolilinia 25 gal, 4.5 yr old. Fruiting now, & nonstop Flowering for 2yrs!
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:12:27 AM »Amazing that the rollinia is so cold tolerant as they come right from the heart of the Amazon.
What's the white powder on your leaves?
Oscar
Senior member lol!
I'm jealous! Now I wish I was over 50yrs old! Discount at perkins, on auto insurance, and better ranking on forum!!!
LOL
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rolilinia 25 gal, 4.5 yr old. Fruiting now, & nonstop Flowering for 2yrs!
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:09:19 AM »
water,
not white powder....
maybe reflections making illusion.
The tree has no mealy bugs or scale to speak of.
not white powder....
maybe reflections making illusion.
The tree has no mealy bugs or scale to speak of.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Ross Sapote Growth rate...Central FL container over 1.5yr or so...
« on: February 05, 2012, 12:02:13 AM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« on: February 04, 2012, 11:02:57 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Have you considered growing Myrciaria vexator??? I love this jaboticaba relative
« on: February 04, 2012, 10:19:04 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Garcinia exuding Gamboge? What species exude more?
« on: February 04, 2012, 09:28:57 PM »
Hi,
Let me see. Luc's Garcinia/Rhedia exudes a yellowish sap. Does that qualify as gamboge???
Yes, this is gamboge...sap from trunk!
Lucs does it, intermedia, and my unidenitified, possible madruno does it.
I love the sap that just oozes out of the bark!!!
Thanks for comments
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Garcinia exuding Gamboge? What species exude more?
« on: February 04, 2012, 06:50:59 PM »
no gamboge comment? 
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picked a Rollinia today
« on: February 04, 2012, 06:48:53 PM »Here's the first of my "Amazon Giant" Rollinias that I have picked this year. I intended to harvest it and let it get fully yellow but it was way up in the canopy (20feet) and it fell off off of my "clip & hold" picker then fell to the ground. Since it was not fully ripe, the fruit survived the impact. It weighed one kilo (2.2lbs). Since this one ripened in the winter, I was worried the flavor would be bland, but it was pretty decent. Tastes like lemon custard pie.
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetops,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, ROLLINIA and all.
I would have cut my pinky off for a taste of this fruit! Or maybe a small chunk of my small toe.
Seriously though, best of all fruits!
Great growing Noel, U DA U DA BEST
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Birthday Present Ideas for my Tropical Dad
« on: February 04, 2012, 03:28:57 PM »Hey everybody,
So my Dad, who recently bought a house in St. Petersburg, FL, (zone 10a?), is having a birthday later this month. Good news:
1) he loves fruits (when I was visiting last I helped him plant a pickering mango and a murcot tangerine). Now he's stoked and is talking about ripping out some scraggly oaks to make room for more mangoes, citrus, etc. He grew up in South Florida and had a few huge Haden trees that he loved.
2) he lives close enough to Jene's Tropicals (www.tropicalfruit.com) that I could order something from them for delivery.
So here's my question, what would y'all recommend that would be dwarf/semi dwarf and would either be a mango or something more exotic. Must be available from Jene's or someplace similar nearby, and must be tasty!
He already has two big avocados, a great old white grapefruit, a pickering mango, a murcott tangerine, and another orange tree.
HAHAHA!
YOU will most likely overlook the Red jaboticaba, hybrid variety...It is hands down the best semi dwarf tree you can plant in FL. (most parts at least!
)Contact me if you want details!
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