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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Ever blooming mulberry
« on: December 19, 2017, 05:08:23 PM »
I live in zone 9b ion the Florida Coast. I have 3 everblooming mulberries and they took a whipping after the hurricanes in October. To get them bearing again should I prune them. Do they fruit from new growth?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best potting soil
« on: December 04, 2017, 09:09:55 AM »
Truly Tropical has a good video on this using parsley seeds as a test. Lambert’s was best.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mini Guava
« on: November 24, 2017, 08:14:12 AM »
Quote from: marklee on November 22, 2017, 12:15:18 AM
Here is a photo of my mini-guava.


Where can I get a mini plant?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Any good book recommendations for Florida Tropical Palms and Plants??
« on: November 24, 2017, 08:09:25 AM »
Quote from: Johnny Redland on November 23, 2017, 08:54:35 AM
I’ll include coconut palms and other fruiting plants in this question as not to digress from the typical forum subject matter, but my wife and I are building a new home and I’d like to landscape with some rarer palms and more specialized plants and foliage. Is there a “big book” or two that anyone can recommend that’s all encompassing with Photos and info? It will need to be a Florida book, not just a general info book. Thanks!

-Jon
the University of Florida has several good books you can buy online from their bookstore.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: macadamia time from fruit set to maturity?
« on: November 23, 2017, 06:42:23 PM »
Quote from: Zafra on November 22, 2017, 09:12:25 AM
bump?

So how long will it take my tree to start bearing? It bloomed a little last year for the first time, the tree is three years in the ground and is about 8 feet tall.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado lace bug
« on: November 23, 2017, 06:37:55 PM »
I have brown burned looking spots on one of my avocados and looked uhder the leaf and saw some tiny black headed bugs aunning around. Will a spray of horticultural oil kill them? I think they are lace bugs.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Grafting
« on: October 26, 2017, 09:55:44 AM »
I am new to grafting and learned that there is a chart somewhere that gives the best months to graft different tropical fruits and best temperature range for graft. Where can I find this.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lisa atemoya
« on: October 25, 2017, 11:39:29 AM »
Trees and more is having difficulty getting any, thank you.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yellow dragon fruit.
« on: October 25, 2017, 10:28:09 AM »
I have a 3 foot long rooted cutting from a friend here, just transplanted it fron a ploy to the arbor, I read somewhere they like less water than the other varieties.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lisa atemoya
« on: October 25, 2017, 10:22:07 AM »
Well, I really want another atemoya but can’t locate one on the Treasure Coast so.........

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lisa atemoya
« on: October 25, 2017, 06:31:31 AM »
If I plant the seeds will I get an atemoya.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Figs in south Florida
« on: August 23, 2017, 02:01:37 PM »
A Celeste fig came with the house got some figs early but now not much, is this the time to prune. It is 5 feet tall and 7 feet wide / partial sun.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Figs in south Florida
« on: August 22, 2017, 05:38:53 PM »
I need help growing fig trees. If anyone has success please share.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango tree fertilizer
« on: August 21, 2017, 10:38:25 AM »
I don't know much about mangos but recently attended a talk by a grower at our club meeting and he recommended using lie nitrogen ratios. The goal is not dark green leaves but high sugar fruit. I am trying his ideas.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Grafting atemoya
« on: August 18, 2017, 06:07:48 AM »
Can atemoya be successfully grafted to sugar apple root stock?o or ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Guava recommendation?
« on: August 17, 2017, 08:37:51 AM »
I planted this year Rubt Supreme guava and it offered 6 large fruits in the first three months, very fragment fruit, few seeds and sweet pink flesh, growing very fast as well.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Everbearing Mulberries
« on: August 17, 2017, 08:28:37 AM »
I have three trees now and the t,so oldest bore fruit onc3 in the early summer but nothing since. They look healthy. Where is the everbearing part?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tasting Mangos of 2017 in your Palates opinion.
« on: August 17, 2017, 08:26:11 AM »
I went to one mango tasting event at a local nursery and found most mangoes had a resinous off taste and were overripe but one stood out, Venus. Now where can I get it and harder yet where do I plant it. Maybe my grumichama cherry if it does not start bearing this spring. It is 4 years old.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Angie tasting like Pine???
« on: August 13, 2017, 09:08:28 AM »
Try dehydrating some.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sweet Tart Mango
« on: August 13, 2017, 09:05:31 AM »
A local grower, lets call him Alex told me at a recent fruit club meeting that he is not as keen on sweet tart as he once was because of low production. Of course he is commercial so for dooryard growers it may produce enough.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Turmeric !
« on: August 05, 2017, 03:28:31 PM »
I have tried ginger but it does not grow. How much sun does it need. I gave tumerics but just learned what they were, used to call them hidden ginger because the beautiful flower is almost hidden down low.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Soursop (guanabana) or atemoya?
« on: August 05, 2017, 03:23:20 PM »
Depends on your zone, soursop won't take any cold less than 50f.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Calcium Helpful
« on: July 21, 2017, 11:09:31 AM »
I attended a talk last night about sapodilla trees and the lecturer recommended calcium for slow growing saps. I wonder if this might be true for other tropical fruits , my Grumichama is very slow growing and not fruiting after 4 years in the ground. A ready source for calcium is sheet rock.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Guava
« on: July 16, 2017, 02:57:47 PM »
Just got my first fruit from the Ruby Supreme guava. Very nice, yeiilw, tender, few seeds!  Fragrant fruit. Shared it with a friend and now he wants one. We went to 5 places but no luck, but one place has Barbie Pink that is supposed to be as good and larger fruit. Anyone can offer ideas?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Help text size and color
« on: July 15, 2017, 07:30:51 AM »
Sorry, but I need help reading the postings. My text is light grey and very small, how can I make adjustments?

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