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« Reply #1375 on: June 11, 2017, 03:58:45 AM »
Hi everybody

I didn't see this topic until now so I came 5 posts late, sorry!

I'm a Spanish biologist and a big fan of gardening and organic agriculture. This year I'm starting seriously to set my collection of subtropical and tropical fruit trees. Since I live in a coastal town surrounded by mountains, my plants enjoy a real microclimate with a never freezing, always over 39F weather (which on the other hand is quite a problem regarding most varieties of temperate fruit trees).

I have several fruit trees like kaimana and wai chee litchis, Nam Doc Mai and Keitt mangoes, Tanaka loquat or La Molina Lucuma. I have sown this very weekend Rollinia deliciosa, Annona muricata y Annona deliciosa. Also planning to graft next month 5 top varieties of mangoes.

Amazingly useful info you've gathered here. After so many weeks reading you, it's just a pleasure to become a member of this forum.

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Jose

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« Reply #1376 on: June 12, 2017, 11:06:19 PM »
Hello everyone!

My name is Jen.  I've been an orchid grower for about the past ten years (usually cramming a couple hundred plants in and outside of the few apartments I've lived in, which was quite a challenge, but given that I had no other option I made it work!) .  I tend to grow mostly species like dendrobiums, laelias, cattleyas, a few bulbous, but also many others!

Earlier this year I moved into a house which (wonder of wonders!) has a front and back yard!  After I almost immediately built a shade room for my orchids I realized the full potential of the space I had and started to explore the possibilities of finally growing some of the tropical fruit that I've always absolutely loved.

For many years I've searched out as many kinds of interesting fruit as I can possibly find.  My favorites have to be (in no real order) mangosteens, cherimoyas, longans, lychees, papaya,  mangos, and pineapple.  Being that only so many things are available in markets around San Diego, I have a LONG way to go when it comes to tasting even a small fraction of the things out there, but I'm actively trying!

Recently I've begun to grow some fruit trees (jaboticaba, fuyu persimmon, Pickering mango, nazemetz strawberry guava, miracle berry) and have been starting seeds or cuttings of others (lychee, rambutan, mamey sapote, random yellow mango, longan, figs, cherimoya, papaya, fuyu and chocolate persimmon, pineapple).  I'm having better luck with some than others but I'm the type of person who will keep trying until I succeed or exhaust myself!  There are still many things I'd like to grow and am planning on getting a strawberry tree (muntingia calburia) in a couple of weeks to add to my collection.  I'm just so excited to finally have the space to garden and grow everything I've always wanted to, even if they have to potentially stay in containers since this is a rental house (though we may be buying it in the future- I'd rather be safe than sorry.  Wouldn't want to have to leave any of my beloved trees or plants behind!).

I've been mostly growing in containers, but if I come across something I must have and it must be grown in the ground I'm willing to go for it, however the yard isn't huge and is largely taken up with orchids, various epiphytes, and my garden, so size, deliciousness, and time until fruiting are the most important factors in what I'll be choosing.

Other than that, I'm just excited to be growing, and I feel really fortunate to live in such a perfect climate for so many types of fruit!  I'm looking forward to taking with you all!

Cheers!

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« Reply #1377 on: June 22, 2017, 04:11:41 PM »
Hi, everyone my name is Alina I am new to this group and joined a few days ago. I grow lots of different tropicals and am on the hunt for named varieties now. I hope to learn from ya'll! Thank you!

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« Reply #1378 on: June 23, 2017, 09:06:35 PM »
Hi

I have Myrciaria Glomerata, Seeds and Scions for sale.

I m From Argentina

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« Reply #1379 on: June 23, 2017, 09:11:14 PM »
Hi

I have Myrciaria Glomerata, Seeds and Scions for sale.

few seeds only

I m From Argentina

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« Reply #1380 on: June 24, 2017, 03:59:41 AM »
Hi Everyone

We have a soursop farm in Johor Bahru and would like to share that we have soursop fruits for sale in Singapore

I got soursop fruits tomorrow
Let me know if you would like to order

1.1.532kg
2.1.651kg
3.1.678kg
4.2.145kg
5.2.194kg
6.2.251kg

Do contact me @ +65 9186 4757 for any orders

Thank you

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« Reply #1381 on: July 05, 2017, 08:33:53 PM »
Hello all, I am a mango tree grower and fruit lover. I love the mango fruit so much I even created a Facebook Page called Mango Tree Growers Of America with lots of information about mango tree growing and the members are very active posting photos and information. It was originally called Florida Mango Tree Growers Club, but do to popular demand the members expanded from Florida to USA statewide and now I am receiving messages that it should be renamed Mango Tree Growers of the World  ;D. I don't plan to expand it that much because mango trees were originally imported from other countries, so we are currently trying to help each other grow the perfect mango tree and fruit in all kinds of zones from Florida to California to Alaska :) . So that is a little bit about me and my goals are to expose all information regarding backyard mango trees and propigation, grafting, container growing, and fruit tasting.

My current list of trees are

1. Haden
2. Valencia Pride
3. Kathy (k-3)
4. Maha Chinuk (Maha Chanok)
5. Nam Doc Mai
6. Coconut Cream (Coconut Cream)
7 Piña Colada
8. Orange Sherbet
9. Angie

Thank you all!

Here is the Facebook link... https://m.facebook.com/groups/656091337926681

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“When life gives you lemons, throw it back & say, “I said I wanted a MANGO!”

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« Reply #1382 on: July 06, 2017, 02:19:50 PM »
Hello everyone,

I have been reading here for too long without an account, but theres so much interessting stuff so I decided to finally register.
Iam from Austria and so far i only grow 5 citrus plants in containers, with not that much success, but iam trying to learn from what Millet and others write and it seems to get better with every step i do like Millet says ^^

I also grow some other fruits and vegetables but for me citrus is the most interessting, because i thought it would be way more easy to get them growing in my climate, oh boy was i wrong....

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« Reply #1383 on: July 09, 2017, 11:27:26 AM »
Hello everyone,

I just moved to Southern Cali and am in the process of planting a bunch of tropical fruit trees. So far, I have guava, avocado, longan, miracle fruit, jab, atemoya. I still have a long list to go. I have 0.35 acre of land here. This forum is wonderful. Thanks everyone!

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« Reply #1384 on: July 09, 2017, 11:23:51 PM »
Hello everyone,

I just moved to Southern Cali and am in the process of planting a bunch of tropical fruit trees. So far, I have guava, avocado, longan, miracle fruit, jab, atemoya. I still have a long list to go. I have 0.35 acre of land here. This forum is wonderful. Thanks everyone!

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« Reply #1385 on: July 12, 2017, 08:09:13 AM »
Good Day, I am in the central Florida locale and have been involved in horticulture in one form or another for the past 25 years.

I am having some issues with the forum and am wondering how to get in contact with a moderator who has full permissions over user accounts? If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. TIA Yohi

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« Reply #1386 on: July 16, 2017, 11:08:51 AM »
Hi all, my name is Sunny and I live in San Diego county. I am an amateur gardener and I am very interested in tropical fruits and vegies. I try to grow the vegies by saving few seeds from last harvest and have been doing so for few years. I have successfully grown a Morangey tree (a.k.a. Tree of Life) from seeds that I found in Hawaii and a guavava from from the seeds of a fruit (white flesh, each fruit about the size of a softball). I will be asking some questions about grafting fruit trees etc. in the forum and am looking forward to some excellent information from all the experts.

Regards

Sunny

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« Reply #1387 on: July 17, 2017, 05:31:50 PM »
Hello, I'm reasonably new to subtropical fruit collecting.

We live in the north island of New Zealand, it's a zone 9b here, we get the odd frost in winter.

We are on a lifestyle block with a couple of sheep, chickens and ducks, I'm also a hobby beekeeper in between looking after my 3 preschoolers.

Some of the subtropical trees I have so far
Suriname cherry
Jujube
Miracle fruit
Honey berry
Blackberry jam fruit
Lucuma
Jackfruit
Casana
Mountain paw paw
White Sapote
Black sapote
cherimoya
Papino
Tamarillo orange
Tamarillo red.
Banana Australia ladyfinger
Fig, dwarf venture
MULBERRY -  Black Ukrainian
MULBERRY -Dwarf Shah Toot
Inga Bean 
jabuticaba

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« Reply #1388 on: July 22, 2017, 02:46:36 PM »
New to this forum; just signed up today.  Originally from India, and naturally, am interested in growing tropical fruit I grew up eating back in the old country.  I am trying to learn as much as possible on how to grow tropical fruit in containers living in NJ, zone 6b climate.  Just started on this project this year, and I presently have a few small fig tree plants, a couple of pink guavas, two dwarf pomegranates, and just ordered a couple of dwarf papayas.  I am also looking for an inexpensive source to get a couple of dwarf star fruit plants.   Would like to learn from others' experience if any here have successfully grown these fruit in similar climate (zone 6).   
 

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« Reply #1389 on: July 25, 2017, 10:22:08 AM »
Hello ,
My names is Roberto, I am From Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

I am starting the cultivation of fruit trees in the interior of Minas Gerais, a friend told me the forum, he said that I could learn many things from people outside Brazil, from what I read so far, yes it really is true, many Important tips.

I hope to learn and talk to many people from this forum, maybe exchange some species of seed or similar.

Thank you

Roberto Oliveira


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« Reply #1390 on: August 01, 2017, 03:58:09 PM »
Hello, I'm Laura, currently living in Palm Bay Florida right along the Indian River - hence the 9b/10a designation since we are on the cusp and can grow some things they can't just a few miles inland. I'm originally from Connecticut and moved down to Miami about 20 years ago and since then have bounced around to a lot of places including southern Florida, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Asheville NC, Little Rock Arkansas and finally back to Florida to an area that feels so weird after living in sub-tropical Florida. This region I live in can be as dry as the south of France or as wet as South Florida and makes it really challenging.

We've got about 1/3 of an acre. When we moved here there was a Haden mango, Myer lemon, guava, some miscellanous bananas, loquat, sugar cane, papayas, and a Spondias purpurea - hog plum. Since then I've added an Everbearing mulberry, a mango that someone gave us and I have no clue what it is, elderberry, ice cream banana, dragon fruit, moringa, and a passion fruit plant that came from Brazil, and a kaffir / makrut lime. I've always loved plants but not been so interested in growing them, but that has recently changed so while I recognize a lot of tropical fruits and vegetables from around the world and even their plants, I'm not very knowledgeable about growing them and am eager to learn.

I've also got a great neighbor from Cambodia who has such a cool variety of fruit trees and vegetables, many unique to Asia, but he's not tech savvy so occasionally I will ask questions for him as well :).

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« Reply #1391 on: August 01, 2017, 10:21:35 PM »
Hello all, I am a mango tree grower and fruit lover. I love the mango fruit so much I even created a Facebook Page called Mango Tree Growers Of America with lots of information about mango tree growing and the members are very active posting photos and information. It was originally called Florida Mango Tree Growers Club, but do to popular demand the members expanded from Florida to USA statewide and now I am receiving messages that it should be renamed Mango Tree Growers of the World  ;D. I don't plan to expand it that much because mango trees were originally imported from other countries, so we are currently trying to help each other grow the perfect mango tree and fruit in all kinds of zones from Florida to California to Alaska :) . So that is a little bit about me and my goals are to expose all information regarding backyard mango trees and propigation, grafting, container growing, and fruit tasting.

My current list of trees are

1. Haden
2. Valencia Pride
3. Kathy (k-3)
4. Maha Chinuk (Maha Chanok)
5. Nam Doc Mai
6. Coconut Cream (Coconut Cream)
7 Piña Colada
8. Orange Sherbet
9. Angie

Thank you all!

Here is the Facebook link... https://m.facebook.com/groups/656091337926681

Mango Tree Growers Of America, come help us grow the perfect mango tree!

Welcome to the forum. It is 100% not "chinuk". It is either Mahachanok or Maha Chanok.

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« Reply #1392 on: August 14, 2017, 05:56:49 AM »
I am Kevin, a Prof at Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai, Thailand where I have lived for 10 years. I am a mycologist and a plant pathologist. Since I have a reasonably sized piece of land I thought I would cover it with a collection of tropical fruits trees for my children (not being so young). I am new to finding tropical fruit seeds and I am finding it quite difficult to find the unusual things as we of course have many of the normal fruit trees (Longan, mango, star fruit, star apple, etc) in Thailand but not many of the rare things. I am therefore looking for more unusual tree seeds with the hope that one day these will also become popular in Thailand. Any help or suggestions with getting unusual seeds of trees that produce delicious fruits would be welcome

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« Reply #1393 on: August 16, 2017, 03:07:08 PM »
This seems like a great place to seek out information for growing fruit trees.  Since this is my first post, I'll keep it short and just say hi!! :-*

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« Reply #1394 on: August 17, 2017, 07:16:23 PM »
Hello everyone !

i'm stefan and i'm from the Netherlands, the climate for tropical fruit trees is not optimal but surely not impossible ive just started with this hobby and im really starting to enjoy seeing everything grow currently ive started germinateing all kind of excotic fruits from mango to citrus fruits

Hope to see you guys on the forum !

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« Reply #1395 on: August 18, 2017, 02:17:03 AM »
Hello,

I am from San Diego and an avid gardener.  I enjoy growing exotic plants and horticulture.

Please let me know if u have rare and unique annonas u want to trade or share.
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« Reply #1396 on: August 21, 2017, 08:13:12 PM »
Hello all,
This is the best forum on tropical fruits. I'm from Tampa, FL area so Tropical fruit trees are only options. On my small yard, I have several mango (LZ, MahaC) and few annonas (4 Atemoya, a sugar apple, a A. Reticulata), few citrus trees, lychee, sapodilla, guava, Acer. Cherry, Red Jabot., Jackfruit, loquat. That's about it.
Hoping to learn from all your experience on TF.

Cheers,
Joe

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« Reply #1397 on: August 26, 2017, 11:41:44 AM »

Hi Everyone i just reg. on the site and hope it will be helpful. I am a new grove owner of a 10 acre grove located in Fellsmere fla. I am growing Lychee,s ,longans and High end Asian Mangoes and assorted fruit trees. Also we just put in a plot of macadamia nut trees. so i was wondering if anyone has any EXP. in growing macadamia trees and what there needs are. my trees are around 3yrs old and seem to be doing well. but want to put them on a maintenance plan. .so any info would be great Ty.

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« Reply #1398 on: September 12, 2017, 03:28:18 PM »
Hello out there in plant land.  I'm a 70 year old fa#t that just finished building a 20 by 68 foot greenhouse on our Southern Oregon property. Our plan is to grow dwarf avocado trees and oranges, tangerines and lemons. I hope to get lots of information here to make it successful  :)

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« Reply #1399 on: September 25, 2017, 01:45:21 PM »
I'm a hobbyist, wondering about growing fruit in Sarasota. I live on a standard lot, and I am looking for a non-deciduous fruit tree for my front yard.  Something I can keep at 15 ft or so, not something that wants to be 40 ft. tall.  Any suggestions of an easy fruit tree to try? 
Also, I have an Oro Negro avocado in a pot.  Any idea if it will grow well in Sarasota in the ground?