The Tropical Fruit Forum

My name is Jeff.  I grew up in Massachusetts but moved to Miami in 2007.  I just moved into a new house and had a baby boy (named Keegan) so I figured a healthy mini-orchard addiction would be perfect!  I have a small lot--maybe 1/5 of an acre....but I intend to make it a densely-packed fruit and veggie paradise.  I love the idea of self-sufficiency at least somewhat living off the land. 

Since I moved in on June 1st of this year, I have planted:

Jackfruit (Crunchy Lemon and Cristela)
Passionfruit (Purple Possum)
Pomegranate (Vietnamese Red)
Papaya (red lady and solo sunrise)
Banana (cavendish, goldfinger, double mahoi, raja pisang, Jamaican Red)
Jaboticaba (red and black)
Acerola/Barbados Cherry
Mulberry (white, everbearing, unknown)
Macadamia Nut (dana white)
Moringa
Caimito (purple and hippolito green)
Coconuts (yellow and green)
Pineapple Guava
Figs (brown Turkey, Black Mission, green one I cut from South beach garden)
Sugar Apple (Na Dai)
Atemoya (Gefner)
Grapes (Alachua, Burgundy Bunch, Noble)
Tropical Guava (Red ruby, Excalibur Variegated)
Soursop (already on-site when I moved)
Ackee
Katuk
carambola/starfruit (Lara)
Peaches (UF sun, Tropic snow)
Loquats (Big Jim, Yehudah)
Avocado (brogdon, oro negro)
Citrus (Persian lime, variegated lemon, meyer lemon improved, red navel, navel, orlando tangelo)
Pitaya/Dragonfruit (Dark star, purple haze, natural mystic, vietnamese jaina)
Blackberry (thornless)
Blueberry (varied--we'll see)
Mammee apple/Abrico
Hog Plum (technically neighbor's tree but hangs over my property)
Sapodilla (alano, Silas woods)

I may have missed some but I think that's it.  Suffice to say, I have "the bug" like many of you.  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Harry, Rob, Lisa, Jeff Hagen, squam, sheehan, and others for your mango cultivar reviews as well as many other fruits.  Without you guys, I would've been in the dark and probably got a Tommy atkins and choc-anon--lol

Anyway, I look forward to interacting with you all as time goes on and I try to bring this mini-orchard up to speed.  BTW, what is oolitic limestone?  My soil here is sandy (some parts are always white in color, but most are a light gray--have hear people say it's sugar sand.  I know i can have it tested by UF extension but i like instant gratification.

Let the journey begin!!

~Jeff


Mango (lemon zest, coconut cream, nam doc mai #4, Maha Chanok, mallika, pickering, graham, rosigold, Neelam, fairchild, Glenn, angie,   madame francis (already existing--may graft onto it in later years)