The fruit groups on FB seem devoid of any substance. This place seems like a reasonable place to post. Are there folks here from Hawaii or similar tropical climates or are most people here from the US mainland? Really looking for folks to exchange knowledge. Our farm is nested in the rainforest and pastures on the lower southeastern slopes of Mauna Kea. Generally it's very moist with 90-100% humidity and daily precipitation and a very narrow temperature range from 62F to 80F all year, and a handful rare Mornings with lows in the upper 50's when the jet stream drops some arctic air down our way. Main commercial fruit crop are the American garcinia (achacha and Lucs), many artocarpus trees, cacao and cupuacu. Then I also do some hobby growing of hundreds of distinct odd tropical and temperate distinct fruit species just for biodiversity and experimentation sakes, I am very interested in tropical nuts and oily fruit like pili and so on. And I have a small experimental deciduous orchard on one of the North facing slopes on the farm that turns out to be surprisingly successful with producing low chill apples, peaches, blueberries and blueberries.
That's about it when it comes to fruits. I should mention the whole farm (45 acres) focuses on regenerative farming practices so we have herds of dairy cows and dairy goats for rapid regenerative nutrient cycling to create fertilizer, with commercial dairy production as a byproduct, so we also grow a ton of nitrogen fixing tropical fodder crops - trees, vines, ground covers and bushes.
FB has been stealing audiences from forums like these but the FB groups are superficial and of no substance. Hopefully I am not the only one who's figured this out and people here post frequently enough to make it more interesting. Thanks for reading.