The Tropical Fruit Forum

Congratulations for your trees!  Your climate must be very appropriate for the tropical fruit trees. Can you write the tags of your pictures?

Thank you for your comment!

Yes, most of tropical fruit trees feel happy here, but for some of the most tropical/Ultra tropical, it is quite tricky to keep them alive, because, from time to time we have some temperature drops, that come with no warning, as for example, last week (18th, 19th, 20th) we had snow falling above 800m, and hail, to the see level, all that combined with strong wind, that has caused many damages, in some crops, and even some plants lost. Didn't had yet time to look for the papaya plants in these pics, but think they're quite damaged by hail...
The temperature drops, took me 2 rambutan seedlings, and I still need to check for my Korlan seedling, but think it might be lost as well! The hail took me a baobab seedling, and many papaya seedlings.

About writing the tags on my pics; I can do it, but there's not to much to say, as the papayas, are not of any known cultivar (at least that I know), except for the 2nd image, that I'm not sure if it could be a Kak-Dam one, as once I bought seeds from that variety, but mixed it with others, and at a moment lost it's track, now that it's fruiting, the fruit have some similarities, but not sure.
The mangos are all from diferent cultivars, but don't know it's names! 5th and 6th images, from the same tree, 7th from the oldest one of my mango trees, and 8th is an old seedling mango that I converted in a "cocktail tree", with 3 different varieties, on it.
Last image, is of seedling Pitanga/Surinam cherry, that have very dark red skin, medium/small fruit, very juicy and sweet pulp.

Congratulations! Your trees are great! 

Thank you, Luís!

By the pictures it seems ripe enough. You can allow it to ripe a bit more, but not to much, as I already pick some that were overripe, and at that point they start fermenting.

I don't think a rainy winter will be a problem, as here, we have rainy winters, and they do really fine.

These bees, are normaly smaller than the Appis genus right???

Can anyone tell me if these are stingless bees? They're about 1cm long.

Hi everybody,

Recently I've benn attacked by a lot of this larvae, and they're eating almost everything, in their way, specialy my fruit tree seedlings, my herbs, and even some ornamentals...
Does anyone knows what kind of bug develops, from these larvae? Recently I've noticed a few grasshopers on my backyard, could this be their larvae???

Thanks for any help!

sorry this is an old post...no seeds now...and no seeds on the horizon...but i have small seedlings i'm selling from when I imported and planted seeds from Brazil about 1.5yr ago?

they are small, and expensive..and very limited supply!

Sorry! Just look at the October 27, didn't noticed the 2014...
About seedlings, if our customs weren't that greedy, I would maybe take the risk, but knowing the possibilities of them passing trough it are close to 0, I prefer not to take the risk!
Do you have any other Myrciaria/plinia species, seeds available?

I guess this el Nino thing isn't just impacting the US.

Quote from: Grapebush on January 23, 2016, 07:42:15 PM

Quote from: Grouchomax on January 23, 2016, 12:06:59 PM

It's probably behaving just like tomato seed germinating inside a ripe tomato as the seed got tricked into germination due to temperature change or whatever.

It is possible that it was tricked by the temperature change, as we are having a crazy winter, with many temperature variations! One day we have 25C and the next we have 15C and a lot of rain...

You can bet it isn't! Even the Azores anti-ciclone, seems not to be working anymore...

It's probably behaving just like tomato seed germinating inside a ripe tomato as the seed got tricked into germination due to temperature change or whatever.

It is possible that it was tricked by the temperature change, as we are having a crazy winter, with many temperature variations! One day we have 25C and the next we have 15C and a lot of rain...

Has anyone ever saw this? I had a little strawberry plant, growing directly, out of a strawberry fruit.
It is very bizarre, for me, as I've never seen nothing like this, and I'm quite familiarized with strawberries, as my family always had them...

Here are the photos of that:





Ps. I know the fruit is quite ugly, because a slug ate half of it...

Quote from: Grapebush on January 20, 2016, 06:56:24 PM

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on January 20, 2016, 06:37:05 PM

Actually it's hard to tell which tree will flower next ... There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason...some of the shorter trees have bloomed before the larger ones.

I know they're quite tricky, about blooming age, size... My mother in law, have one that she brought from Brasil, and that should be arround 10 years old, more than 2 meters high, quite thick trunk, seems happy, but never flowered... She's starting to desperate, as she loves the fruit, and it is her childhood fruit (she's brasilian), and the tree doesn't want to cooperate... lol

tell her to grow hibrida / precoce (what we call Red jaboticaba in USA)....it fruits much quicker from seed, in about 2.5-5yr ...the red jaboticaba grove i have planted is only about 3.5yr old...most of them should start fruiting by this year

She don't even know what species and variety it is.
And I'm not sure if she can easily get the red one down there (yeah, I know it is hilarious, they come from there, but it seems it's not easy to find most species/varieties, down there). Let's see if one of these days I would be able to get some seeds and try to grow the red one.

lol, that's just a cool kawinkydink

but I was thinking something along the lines of battle ship!

who's going to guess the next direct hit?  which tree is going to flower next? H6?

LOL

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Quote from: Grapebush on January 20, 2016, 05:19:19 PM

Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on January 07, 2016, 12:56:27 AM

found another tree blooming in the grove today!  I think there must be more, but I haven't had time to look closely.

based on the system I set up, the code for the tree would be #6E (the grove is arranged in a square 8 x 8... the northern most row is "A", the southernmost is 'H', and the columns are numbered 1-8, from west to east) 

I will keep logging updates of which trees have began to bloom, and when the last tree finally starts.

here is a little diagram of the grove, to make it easier to visualize the placement of each tree.  "X" marks the spot of tree that has confirmed blooms.

   12345678
A oooxoooo
B oooooooo
C oooooooo
D oooooooo
E oooooxoo       
F oooooooo
G oooooooo
H oooooooo

You arranged your grove like a Chess Board... lol    Do you intend to play a chess game with your Jaboticabas?

That's not going to be a fair game, as you know the battlefield better than anyone else... lol

By the images I would say, a Passiflora species, however I never seen any with that color of flesh, and that kind of skin...

If you would like to give it a try, here's what you need to keep in mind: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/universal-edibility-test1.htm

Quote from: Grapebush on January 18, 2016, 08:28:26 AM

The fruit from Cereus genus, is said to be sweeter, as more cracked open it's skin is... Was the fruit you ate already cracked/open?

No, it was not cracked open.  I saw another thread about someone's cactus (I don't know if it is from the same genus), that the people also said you have to wait until it is cracked open.  Will try it next time.  The plants still have lots of flowers on, so we can keep experimenting.

So if you have the chance to try one in these conditions, get back to us to report the experience, on how it really increases sweetness, or not that much.
If possible try to taste a cracked one, and a non cracked, so you can made a better comparison.