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I ate a delicious sweet fruit Monday night.  I have 4 lots of 25 seeds available, $20 each lot + $2.50 USPS first class shipping.  Shipping to US only.  PM me if you are interested.

Must have happened Thursday night when we had the storm that brought us 5+ inches of rain.  I just found it this morning.  The bamboo rotted out.  One tie below the graft broke, the second tie below the graft stretched out without breaking.  It was about 4.5 ft tall and bushy.  Where it broke, it was a little under an inch in diameter.  I had heard this variety had breakage issues, usually under the weight of heavy crops of fruit, and had planned to thin. 

This jak was the clear winner of the vigor contest.  When I planted the tree, it was 4ft tall and it had grown in less than a year to 10ft.  About a month and a half ago, I went on a search to find some 8ft bamboo to stake this tree along with some of the others that are above 7 ft now.  I found a pack of 50 for $100 but I could not justify the cost in my mind.  This Sunday, I finally broke down and decided to spend the $100.  To my surprise, the pack of 50 was reduced to $70 delivered and I pulled the trigger.  The stakes will be delivered today.

Yesterday we had some good wind along with the rain and now I have a stout 4ft Lemongold where my 10ft beauty used to reside. The top two ties broke and the tree snapped cleanly.



Learn from my mistake and reward your trees good growing behavior with some bamboo.

Clint and I hit Fruit & Spice Park today.  It was empty and rainy and there were lots of fruit on the ground.  We were eating our way down the mango isle, when we came across the notorious Donkey Killer mango.



Clint, protector of animals large and small, tried to convince Donkey Killer of the error of its donkey killing ways.  Donkey Killer lost control of its anger and dropped mangos on Clint with intent to kill.  Clint was forced to resort to donkey violence to escape the clutches of this dastardly tree. 



After tempers cooled down, Clint spoke again to Donkey Killer.  Donkey Killer expressed remorse and offered an apology, promising to never kill again.  Donkey Killer had turned a new leaf and offered a gift to Clint, a ripe mango.  Clint accepted the offering. Even though he was stuffed from all the mangos we had eaten previously, he didn’t want to chance offending Donkey Killer and spoil the wonderful progress. Clint took a bite of Donkey Killer’s gift.

Unfortunately for Clint, Donkey Killer mango gift was poisoned (and tasted horrible).  Within seconds of taking that fateful bite, Clint fell to the ground.  Attempts of Jakfruit resuscitation failed. He was pronounced at the site by Chris Rollins. 



Donkey Killer mango is on the run.  If you see a 9 foot mango tree with a silver tag, last seen driving away in a white Ford pickup truck with Miami-Dade County decals, please call the police.  Do not try to apprehend this criminal yourself.  It is producing bad tasting mango and considered dangerous.

I moved in the end of October 2012 and I have been putting my shovel to work.  Here are some pics to document my progress. 

The northwest corner








The leftover nursery stuctures from when this was a palm nursery


The southwest corner


The southern midsection - Lychees


The southest corner - Mangos






Wide shots


73 trees in the ground so far.  I have built up some calluses and I am actually on my second shovel but I am having fun.   

Here is today's haul, mostly smalls.  Looks like the average size this year will be down to a pound.  The first four I picked on Monday were 1+ pounders but the large from the first bloom mostly need a few more days of brewing.

I was trying to stake up a leaning pineapple for a few more days of on-the-plant ripening. It still had some green and did not smell.  I pushed a stake in the ground and tilted it back up and found a mess down below.  Mealybugs and fire ants had eaten out a section.  After I was done fuming, thinking it was never going to ripen without rotting, I took it inside and cut off the bottom. I was greeted by a wonderful aroma so I cut up the rest.  Even though it still felt hard and did not smell from the outside, I have only had one pineapple better that I grew myself around three years ago. 

That brings me to the question.  I have around a dozen other pineapples in various stages of growth.  I was not able to look because it got dark but I am sure others probably have the same infestation, hopefully at an earlier stage.   What remedies are you guys using for this?