The Tropical Fruit Forum

I meow meow meow after eating a "Cat" mango. Nice tree, nice fruit. Congratulation!

Thanks for the kind words.

The fence is to keep the deer at bay. When I first started developing the land with citrus tree, the furry friends decimated everything. Yuzu lime is their favorite.

Yes. I'm going to look into the Malaysian Red Guava to replace my dead Fung Tung Starfruit courtesy of the underground furry friend.

Stan. Yup... some passion fruit plants are just flower. "Frederick" is the one I have which the flowers will turn into fruit. Fruit will bear into the winter (for this area), but the later fruit are much smaller and the content inside is not as great.

forumfool. The 2 plants were planted November 2013. They covered the entire 30-35  ft trellis fence (8ft high) that I built. Winter 2013-2014: some frost damage. Winter: 2014-2015 no frost damage. Winter 2015-2016: frost literally bounce off the plant structure; vine are so thick.

Lady living down the street (lower elevation) said her passion fruit plant was fried.
My thought on why there was no frost damage. (1) property sit at the base of the hill (warmer than the valley during the winter. (2) healthy plants; believe the plant cell are thick due to liquid fertilizing (fox farm grow big) and azomite feeding every 3 weeks from March to October.

After the winter, some of the older leaves turned yellow which I plucked out to increase air flow.

Congratulation. She looks beautiful. Mine 3 "Ice Cream" banana just want to grow big and tall 16'-17' and are approaching 20'. Maybe the relatives stop plucking the leaves for food preparation usage then its decide to flower.lol

My Valencia Pride on Florida rootstock grew like a snail too, but still alive. I'm not looking forward as a producer but more like an ornamental tree. I built a 6'x12'  garden bed next to it. LOL

Hey Stan.

My Mexican Papaya took off after a month of planting from the 1.5 gallon that I bought from Lowes. The trunk is like 3-4 inch thick in 2 month with fruits hanging like crazy. Unfortunately the furry friend ate the root. If you want your plant to take off, my suggestion would be to have one plant only. Lucky I still  have my 2 T.R. Hovey papaya. They are fruiting now.

This year I started seed of Tainung #1. I planted 6 plants onto the ground. 3 doing extremely well; 1 got eating by the deer but still have the lower trunk; 2 are iffy because of lesser sun light exposure. I'm really happy with the result. If all go right, I expect the papaya to be like 5-8 ft by the end of October 2016.  According to forum literature, Tainung papaya are fast grower.

I got 3 extra plants if you want for free. i go fishing all the time up north and drive past your city on the way. Just let me know.

Indeed. It looks like some kind of disease which I don't know. What you can do is to destroy the ones that are affected and move the healthy ones to  a different location on your land.

My 7ft. Honey Hart has zero fruit. Mine had like maybe 10 flowers total. How in the world do you get that many fruits? Anyway I turned the tree into a 4ft.

Hello all,

If you don't want root rot for your papaya plant during the winter season, use a black plastic sheeting (or thick black garbage bag) 2.5'x2.5' to keep the water out. Cut a line half way and place the sheeting at the base of the trunk. Place 4-5  heavy stones to keep the sheeting in place. The set up will keep the root dry and warm for the winter. Also, shovel some dirt at the base to create a mount prior to the sheeting, so the water can run  outward. 100% success on my 4 plants (2 brazilian, 2 T.R Hovey). Yup, I'm seeding my tainung papaya now. Good luck!

if you are down in los angeles, try to get the gem hass avocado. tree and fruits are beautiful

Carlos has grown a California variety name "Holiday" successfully in Florida. Big fruit and very good eating according to Julie Frink (California avocado curator).

http://www.myavocadotrees.com/holiday-avocado.html

Very nice Richard. Thanks for sharing. I miss Florida