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Tropical Fruit Discussion / THE FRUIT HUNTERS Official Trailer

« on: November 09, 2012, 05:01:56 AM »

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / South Florida Big Box Stores Raise Prices

« on: November 06, 2012, 08:53:59 AM »

I was recently in Home Depot here in West Palm Beach looking at their sickly tropical fruit trees and found out that they have raised their prices.

They used to sell their three gallon assorted trees for $29 (mango, avocado, sugar apple, barbados cherry, white sapote, mamey, etc..) but have recently upped the pricing to $36.95! Wholesale nurseries here and in Miami Dade have also raised pricing as well which in turn will eventually drive prices higher at the retail counter.

I assume Home Depot and Lowes have finally come to terms with the reality that providing a one-year warranty on fruit trees to an uneducated public has gotten too costly. Either way the value of buying from retail nurseries cannot be matched in terms of customer service and variety. The only bright side of the business lost to HD and Lowes is that the trees dont originate from overseas and more plantings occur by non-obsessive collectors like ourselves!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / !!! UPDATE YOUR LOCATIONS !!!

« on: September 21, 2012, 01:03:40 PM »

Being a member of Tropical Fruit Forum it is VERY important that you provide your location information.

It is impossible to answer questions or gain knowledge about what you are growing if members cannot tell your growing conditions.

Also, if you wish to buy, sell, or trade materials it is also a requirement for each party involved to know the specifics regarding the transaction (local laws, shipping/distance, permits, etc.....).

PLEASE be kind and follow the steps below to update your profile info!

1. Click "Profile" in Dark Green Bar below TROPICAL FRUIT FORUM Logo.
2. Select "Forum Profile" from drop down menu.
3. Scroll to the bottom of page and enter information in last white box marked "Location"
4. Click "Change Profile" and you have saved the information into your profile!

When you are finished your profile will contain your location information.

In the past members have posted the information under custom text fields and other places. By entering your information into this area your location will be able to be added to the member search feature where others can find you by zone, state, zip code, and country.

New members will be prompted to enter this information at sign up, unfortunately us old timers have to do it ourselves!

Thank you for your continued support as we further develop the forum!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / From Wilson Seedless to Kahaluu (Top Working)

« on: August 28, 2012, 07:33:30 PM »

Due to the three avocadoes over three year production rate I decided to experiment with topworking.. The budwood was from a Kahaluu, the original variety was Wilson Seedless.

For bulk pickup..

The grafts..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Hurricane Prep Planting

« on: August 23, 2012, 08:47:40 PM »

We figured it was time to plant out a 45 gallon Pantin Mamey as a hurricane prep! It even has a few small fruit on it! Hurricane Schmuricane!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / August 2012 Video Yard Tour pj1881

« on: August 12, 2012, 10:23:27 PM »

Please let me warn you ahead of time! This video is a little choppy and fast paced. I had to add the music to cover up my breathing as I walk.
I used my iPhone to shoot the video, Nero to edit. I tagged what I could at this pace; some things are left out, sorry!
Everything you see in my yard has been in the ground less than four years, most of which came out of three gallon pots or less! We moved in the house in August of 2008 and started planting almost immediately. As you can see I have left as much grass as I could and tried to maintain a landscape appearance incorporating heliconia, plumeria, turmeric, ginger, and other flowering plants. The property is a little over a third of an acre and I have planted out the following.

Edibles

Abiu
AllSpice
Bakupari (Garcinia Laterifolia)
Bananas (Dwarf Cavendish,Pisang Klotek)
Bayleaf
Crunchy Lemon Jakfruit
Barbados Cherry
Brewster Lychee
Buddha's Hand Citron
Ceriman
Cinnamon
Dang Suria Jakfruit(seeding)
Dwarf Vietnamese Mulberry
Fina Sodea Clementine
Geffner Atemoya
Green Sapote TREC
Grumichama Cherry
Indian Jujube
Jaboticaba (smallleaf)
June Plum
Kaimana Lychee
Kampong Mauve Sugar Apple
Kari Carambola
Kohala Longan
Kwai Muk
Lemon Zest Mango
Lemondrop Mangosteen (Garcinia Intermedia)
M.Vexator
Macadamia Nut
Madruno (Garcinia Madruno)
Maha Chanok Mango
Mai 2 Jakfruit
Marcus Pumpkin Avocado
Mauritius Lychee
Miracle Fruit
Multiple Dragon Fruit
Muscadine and Hybrid Grapes..
Myrciara glomerata
Nam Doc Mai Mango
ONG Guava
Pace Mamey
Page Hybrid
Passion Fruits..
Pickering Mango
Pineapple Pleasure Mango
Pink Marsh Grapefruit
Po Pyu Kalay Mango
Red Mombin
Rollinia
Ross Sapote
Sweetheart Lychee
Trompo Canistel
UF Sun Peach
Wilson Seedless Avocado
Vegetables (Hot Peppers, Potatoes, Garlic, Onions, Tomatoes, Herbs)

Inedibles

Timor Black Bamboo
Emerald Green Bamboo
Dwarf Buddha Belly Bamboo
Dwarf Ylang Ylang
Gardenia
Heliconia aemygdiana
Heliconia bihai Granada
Heliconia champneiana Maya Blood
Heliconia champneiana Maya Sunrise
Heliconia imbricata
Heliconia lingulata Red Tipped Fan
Heliconia Halloween
Heliconia Pedro Ortiz
Heliconia Sexy Pink
Heliconia collinsiana
Heliconia Valentine
Heliconia rostrata
Heliconia Dwarf Jamaican
Gingers
Tumeric
Jasmine varieties
Assorted Orchids
Ferns
Lillys

My hope is that this video will inspire others to do the same!
Its one of the reasons to forum was created, to move us into the 21 century!!
Special Thanks to MOFRO for the music, they are a Florida Band.

YardAug2012

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Tropical Fruit Online Library / Interactive Plant Zone Map

« on: July 16, 2012, 09:20:31 PM »

http://www.plantmaps.com/usda_hardiness_zone_map.php

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Zills Mango Store - Boynton Beach Florida (Pickering Origin Info)

« on: July 15, 2012, 04:25:21 PM »

ZILL
197 SE 27th Avenue
Boynton Beach, FL33435-7607
Phone: (561) 737-9419 CALL AHEAD!

Spent some time at Walter Zills home and mango store today, it turned out to be a great Sunday! On sale were a large variety of Mango and Carambola at prices ranging from $1-$2 a pound.
He has the original Pickering Mango tree growing in his yard and is happy to show it off! I ran into Har, he was bringing the remaining mangoes from the days sale at Truly Tropical and had a nice chat with him as well. All together we picked up over fifty pounds of mangoes! Along with the short tour he provided me a printed document about the origin of the Pickering Mango that he had written, with his consent, I will pass it on..

MANGO VARIETY PICKERING

By Walter Zill (pictured above in blue shorts)

"Beginning as a chance seedling sprouting in the grove planted by Laurence Zill in Boynton Beach, FL, it first caught my attention about 1980 when I saw about a half dozen fruit being supported by an unusually small plant having a trunk diameter of about one inch, with at total height about four feet, and numerous branches that bore small fruit. The fruit were not impressive in any other way other than exisitng in abundance on such a tiny first fruiting seedling. They turned bright yellow when ripe, and were suprisingly firm. The flavor tasted to me somewhat like Carrie or Julie, and the growth habit known as Sophie Frey. Animal habits being what they are, I surmise that a seed got transplanted some few feet west of a large fruiting Carrie tree where it germinated in the undercover beneath the limbs of an Irwin tree. In 1983 a severe freeze caused great damage in the grove, killing back some mango limbs that were up to three inches in diameter, and resulting in nearly every mango leaf on the premises turning brown. That exception, finding green leaves on that little seedling, caught my undivided attention. I thought perhaps the plant had more resistance to cold than other mango varieties, but subsequnet seasons have shown damage much like other mangos when the temperature dips below freezing. Eventually the seedling was transplanted to where it could demonstrate it qualities. It grew compactly and fruited heavily, fruit clinging fairly well on the tree when ripe, with little bruising when they dropped. When the tree grew larger, and in a season when fewer fruit set, the fruit weighed up to about two pounds, though average normal season weight is near one pound. There came a time when Dr. Wayne Pickering inquired of me about having a mango named for him. Since that variety had proven of sufficient worth to merit a good name, I sent a box of fruit from it to him to get his reaction. When they ripened, and he had fairly sampled them, his response was, "That's my baby!". So the name "Pickering" stuck. When fully ripe it's among the sweetest mangos, with a texture sutable for slicing and dicing, and it's fine fibers providing desrable bulk. As trees were multiplied and put into commercial plantings, it has provem very productive from compact trees. Many who have become familiar with eating the "Pickering" often specify it for the eating qualities they like. It matures relatively early in mango season."

ZILL
197 SE 27th Avenue
Boynton Beach, FL33435-7607
Phone: (561) 737-9419 CALL AHEAD!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Pineapple Pleasure, Fruit Punch

« on: July 06, 2012, 12:25:02 PM »

Two more mango descriptions!

Pineapple Pleasure definitely is a keeper, extremely sweet yet VERY tart! And yes, a detectable Pineapple flavor!

The Fruit Punch Mango was similar in color, size and taste to the Pineapple Pleasure but had a resinous first taste, and a wide range of flavor..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Ugly Betty, F-29 (Juicy Peach), HW-14, Sunrise

« on: July 02, 2012, 06:42:12 PM »

My wife stopped by Zills today and picked up some trees and a few mangoes! One in the box was labeled Ugly Betty and supposedly is in production for next spring!

Awesome mango, great sweet flavor, real ugly!

a couple others..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Opossum Round-up! (with Maha Chanok pics!)

« on: June 30, 2012, 02:16:23 PM »

I purchased an animal trap from Harbor Freight for less than $25 dollars to try and catch a raccoon that nealy cleaned out my Cogshall Mango tree.. I have set it three nights and caught an Opossum every night..

And just in time too!

These boys starting falling off the tree yesterday!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Go Daddy Servers Down 5/3/2012 7-8am

« on: May 03, 2012, 08:23:19 AM »

We had a short black out this morning. It was nothing to do with our site, just a host issue! Sorry for the outage!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Foliar Spray Dragon Fruit

« on: April 17, 2012, 09:09:53 PM »

December 2011

April 2012

If you look back in my posts you will see the first picture I posted back in January.. I have a Dang Suria Jak that has gone from five feet to eight feet in the same time!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / GT3000 Mahachanot?

« on: April 06, 2012, 06:09:23 PM »

Any opinions on my Ebay purchased Maha Chanok?

Some sort of Nam Doc Mai Maybe?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / This years first crop of Avocado and Mango!

« on: April 02, 2012, 12:32:57 PM »

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Montoso Gardens?

« on: February 21, 2012, 04:02:41 PM »

Why does Google tell me that Montoso Gardens will harm my computer? This happened once before about a year ago and it went away.. Why is this??

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How far north are you growing Mamey outdoors?

« on: February 08, 2012, 02:22:40 PM »

I am in South Florida, Palm Beach just west of Mounts Botanical Garden. I just planted out a three foot tall Pace Mamey and am wondering if anyone is growing Mamey this far, if not further north of me outdoors?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Know Your Poisons- Information On Commonly Used Pest and Herbicides

« on: February 02, 2012, 06:31:42 AM »

A topic started as a quick reference for those who are concerned that an infestation may require chemical use!

When is is time to apply these chemicals?

What will happen if you just leave the issues alone?

What happens to the beneficials when you use chemicals?

Can a yard become a self suppoting ecosystem in time that will control insect populations?

Is the Honey Bees demise being caused by chemicals?

Are home owners polluting more than huge farms?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Advertising

« on: January 24, 2012, 09:52:35 AM »

We do not charge for adding marketing information on this forum.
We do ask however that you maintain activity on the forum in return.
The intent of allowing for trade information posts was to provide a service for active members.
Active forum members will be identified by the highlighted green message titles. We do welcome all venders to post!

We hope all will understand this policy, we are trying to avoid becoming a commercial site.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / A Sincere Thanks..

« on: January 19, 2012, 12:45:16 PM »

I would like to extend a sincere thanks to everyone for joining and being so active in building this forum and making it into something really special. Murahilin and I had spoke back and forth about creating this forum starting with a discussion in the elevator at HoJo's in Mayaguez PR in August of last year. Over the past few months we discussed different ways to best create a really enriched format, one that supports all types of media with a user friendly interface. By using the basic platform SMF, we created a cost effective way to create this forum at no cost to the user. The way I see it, murahilin's history of killing expensive plants far exceeds the cost of the forum. We also purchased an additional domain name, www.internationaltropicalfruitgrowers.com to be used to create a type of one-stop source for tropical fruit enthusiasts to get opinion-free up to date information on the worlds tropical fruit "collection", with photos of leaves, tree habit, cross-sections of limbs to show cadmium layer structure, latin names, origins, pictures of the fruit, and so on. Being that this is a very intensive list of information, we may ask members of the forum to contribute photos and manuscripts for review, editing, and final approval to be used on the database. Any information you provide will be credited back to you, allowing everyone the chance to be part of this new website and historical venture!

Patrick/pj1881

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Palm Beach Rare Fruit Council Plant Sale! March 24,2012

« on: January 17, 2012, 12:44:01 PM »

Huge Plant Sale Saturday March 24, 2012 at the South Florida Fairgrounds.
9 AM - 2 PM. Hundreds of fruit trees, herb and spice plants to choose from.
Also selling 50 lb bags of 8-3-9 fertilizer made especially for south Florida soils.
Arrive early for the best selection. Free admission to the Fairgrounds.

Here is the info they emailed out:

"Fruit Tree Sale Presented by the Rare Fruit Council- Palm Beach Chapter at the
South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Boulevard, West Palm Beach, Florida 33411.
Saturday March 24, 2012.
9 AM to 2 PM.
Large selection of mangos, bananas, avocados, citrus, lychees, canistel, jackfruit and hundreds
of other tropical fruit trees, also herb & spice plants.
Arrive early for the best selection.
Any questions call 561-716-6816."

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mounts Botanical Spring Plant Sale West Palm Florida April 28-29 2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 09:30:01 PM »

This annual plant sale features over 80 vendors with an amazing assortment of quality plants and
goods. Palms, orchids, bamboo, begonias, bromeliads, fruit trees, and many
other types of plants will be for sale.This is your opportunity to learn about
the plants that grow well in South Florida and it’s the best place to find
something new for your garden. The American Hibiscus Society, Sunrise-Conrad
Chapter & Greater Palm Beach Rose Society will be having their annual show &
judging featuring many of the state's best blooms.Plants will be available at
their booths. The Palm Beach County Woodturners will be selling a large
selection of their beautiful woodturnings. Memberships will be available at
the gates.

Cost: Members free; Non-members $10.00

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Puerto Rico 2011

« on: January 14, 2012, 07:05:22 PM »

This was my first trip to Puerto Rico, thanks Jay, Sheehan, Ethan, Noel, and Warren for putting up with me! It was an amazing trip!! Enjoy the photos!!