Was a very cool show. Very talkative people. Door opening felt like it was Black Friday, kept waiting for a fight to break out over a lemon tree :p.
Observations-
Why the heck are people fighting these lines and other people to buy hum drum citrus trees? Exotic fruit sale, I wasnt expecting home depot citrus trees in the numbers I saw. Kudos to the vendors for knowing people would buy them in droves rather than simply go to HD for the exact same trees. Same reason I dont own a fish store, I would only have the exotic stuff and no bread and butter fish. Maybe I am just too much of a tree snob to have even thought of it. Note I separate normal citrus from the exotic stuff you have to hunt down to find. Weirdly enough I did not notice any exotic citrus, not that I was really looking. Harris citrus would have really racked up I think.
Bring a cart, after carrying around a mango tree in a 7 gallon pot for and hour, my arms were a bit sore, especially after I added a zills surinam cherry and 5 gal named jackfruit.
Overall fun time, might do it again in a couple years. Too far a drive to do it two years in a row, I go all the way out there so close to the beach, its almost a tease not to go.
Met up with Adam again and another forum member, so that was cool. Very cool selection of trees, kind of glad I did not have a cart. As it was I limited my purchases to what I could carry. My score for this event, Sweet Tart mango, already pugged
, Zill's suranam cherry with fruit, IS#2 jackfruit, one of Adam's new fuzzy jaboticabas, a white sapote from a nice guy who gave me a sample of the fruit, a red wax jambu, and something else.