pics of Brads yard + updates on fruiting.

[greenman62]

for some reason i cant add more pics ?


getting my first Acerola fruits.
Mutingia fruits should be ripe by next week.
have 2 fruit on my Florigon Mango.

2 Elaeagnus latifolia seedlings popped up.

Mulberry is finished, but i had found 3 large trees at Wall-Mart parking lot.
2 blacks and a white.
The must have been planted. sweet / subacid, fat and fairly long.
i was a pig every other day for 2 weeks.

gauva + yellow guava are flowering like mad.
Fig tree is full of fruit.

I am thinking the Mutingia and Acerola may go well together Smoothie ?


Acerola - - - Baobob - - - Black Sapote


Cherimoya+black sapote  - - - Natal Plum seedlings


Elaeagnus latifolia  - - - Fig  - - - Florigon Mango


Front yard   -  - -  Mex Cream guava   - - -  Mex Cream fruiting - container.



   - -  Ice Cream Banana   - -  Jaboticaba seedling


Jujube    - - -  Kiwi    - - -   LSU purple Fig


Mango    - -   


Mulberry     - -   Muscadine

[Stan]

Better then me. When I tried to add more then 2 at a time...nothing.

The plants look great. I have Ice Cream too. Third summer. So far no bloom.

[shaneatwell]

Cool.

[greenman62]

Better then me. When I tried to add more then 2 at a time...nothing.

The plants look great. I have Ice Cream too. Third summer. So far no bloom.

yeah its strange.
the pop-up window turns into a message window when i try to add pics.
i have had this happen before on me.
on a different computer i think too

this is my Ice Creams 3rd year (starting) and we had a very mild winter
no freeze at all.
its got 3 pups starting out now.
i was going to remove them and let the plant focus on making fruit
but a buddy told me to leave them in...
that the photosynthesis added by them is better.

[pschill444@aol.com]

Hi Brad , nice photos is your jujube fruiting right now or is that an old photo?? what variety is it with thorns?       Patrick

[greenman62]

Hi Patrick
Yes this is a current photo.
Someone i did a trade with a few years ago gace me 2 of these.
1 almost died and is much smaller. it may produce a few this year.
Last year the larger one fruited twice, and gave me about a dozen fruit each time.
first time i had eaten them, and i was HOOKED !.
i love these things, especially when just turning red and a bit of wrinkles.
The tree now has about 50 small fruits on it. YAY!

He didnt know what variety it was,, and ive never had another
so, i cant wait to try the Li, Coco and Sherwood to compare tastes.
the Li lost all its flowers. The Coco and Sherwood lost most,
but look like they will produce  a few so i can compare tastes anyway.

i had gotten some seeds several months ago as well
and 1 just popped up yesterday.

It is hard to find seeds. Often you get the whole nut,
and usually they are empty, unless the tree had a pollinator
ive opened several empty nuts.
ive tried rooting from cuttings, and never got 1 to take.

[MangoFang]

Brad - great job - everything looks great...the mulberry looks like a ROCK STAR producer - can't wait for mine
to grow up into a big boy like yours.....

Gary

[EvilFruit]

Congratulation.

I thought New Orleans was in Florida and then i did some google search and i found that you live in a different state  . Anyway, i hope these trees treat you right.

Good luck

[BahamaDan]

Very impressive greenman, its good to see so many plants are growing so nice for you. A couple questions: does your Mexican Cream Guava get fruit fly? I just bought a small one a couple weeks ago but I remember my grandmother's tree used to have little worms in the fruit, it hasn't put out guavas in 10+ years or so though so not sure if that would still be the case. Does your LSU Purple Fig have fruits that are holding? I bought that exact variety last summer, its in a 12 or 13 gallon container and was putting out some figs but after the last bout of rain we had when I checked the tree all were gone. Lastly, do you know if mulberries need frost to fruit reliably and well? I'd like to get one if not, and I've seen them in stores but don't think I've ever seen one grown by anyone here so not sure if they can be. Again, great yard!

[gunnar429]

Very impressive greenman, its good to see so many plants are growing so nice for you. A couple questions: does your Mexican Cream Guava get fruit fly? I just bought a small one a couple weeks ago but I remember my grandmother's tree used to have little worms in the fruit, it hasn't put out guavas in 10+ years or so though so not sure if that would still be the case. Does your LSU Purple Fig have fruits that are holding? I bought that exact variety last summer, its in a 12 or 13 gallon container and was putting out some figs but after the last bout of rain we had when I checked the tree all were gone. Lastly, do you know if mulberries need frost to fruit reliably and well? I'd like to get one if not, and I've seen them in stores but don't think I've ever seen one grown by anyone here so not sure if they can be. Again, great yard!

mulberry doesn't need frost, that's for sure.  The dwarf everbearing type grows readily from cuttings and fruits even when young.  I found LSU Purple to be the best fig I have tasted yet (over Brown Turkey, VdB)

[MangoFang]

Brad - how do you like the Barbados Cherry?  Just ordered one for myself as I hear they do great out here
in the desert.....


gary

[BahamaDan]

mulberry doesn't need frost, that's for sure.  The dwarf everbearing type grows readily from cuttings and fruits even when young.  I found LSU Purple to be the best fig I have tasted yet (over Brown Turkey, VdB)

Funny to read this topic after such a long time and see some of the same situations still relevant to my current gardening endeavors. Unfortunately most of my plants were killed by Hurricane Matthew back at the end of 2016, and being that I was busy with both school and work full-time, so I'm just now getting back into it.

Since this post I have found a couple mulberry plants in yards here, although not frequent, so they do indeed fruit without frost. I also bought a dwarf mulberry recently from the local hardware store, not sure if its a dwarf everbearing or girardi dwarf etc, any thoughts?:








I also bought another one that has huge leaves but smaller fruit I believe, it's just labeled mulberry here so I'm not sure, and I don't think I took a photo of it yet. I also airlayered a branch of a guava tree at our other property over the summer, and I have it as a container plant at home but the ants seem to love that one's pot.

Shame that there aren't any LSU Purples on sale here right now, being that they taste so good in your experience. I do currently have a fig, one labeled Nero, but haven't been consistent with watering so I haven't gotten a fig to maturity from it yet. I have been eyeing a Chicago Hardy fig that came in to the local store recently, seeing as they seem popular and produce well, but I'm not sure how the variety fares down here in the heat and humidity compared to the northern US?

Lastly, how often can I prune mulberries? I realize it's supposed to be our "dry season" here now but we've had unusually frequent periods of rain, so even the dwarf mulberry I bought a week or two ago is still putting on new growth. The other one with large leaves has a couple random limbs that are long and spindly, sort of a bush habit than a tree habit, and very low-leaning so if possible I would prefer to prune it back and perhaps train one limb as a leader in an upright growth habit. Or should I just be staking it? In comparison, the "Dwarf Mulberry" has smaller, more aesthetic leaving and is also growing more in a shrub/bush habit but also puts out decent side-branching so the limbs aren't oriented all every-which-way or leaning towards the ground. Both still in containers.