The Tropical Fruit Forum

In full shade, indirect sunlight, you do not have to worry about the temp. 

A bagged plant should not get any direct sunlight.  In direct sunlight, heat goes in the bag but does not come out.

When ever your spouse, who is not a fruit tree addict, allows you to plant something fruit bearing in "restricted space", AKA "the forbidden zone", it is cause for celebration!  My wife granted me permission to plant pineapples in the front yard.  My front yard is relatively barren except for palm trees and a loquat tree that was probably planted as an ornamental.

Back in May/June of this year, I executed phase 1 of my plan.  I acquired a stupid number of tissue cultured pineapple plants.  I offered them up to you all, my brothers and sisters who share my fruit tree affliction. Luckily for me, not many of you took advantage.  I have not had a single casualty either.  These plants can take some abuse.

Now that the weather has cooled a bit, I decided to execute my incursion into the forbidden zone. In the middle of my front yard is a lonely palm,  planted in an over-sized raised area.  Previously only weeds covered the empty space.

Behold the pineapple greatness!!! (well, at least the beginnings of it)  25 plants in the ground so far and that has barely put a dent in my stocks.

Gold Finger (FH01), Raja Puri, Red, and Lacatan.  These are all from tissue culture. 

I also have pineapples in 1 gal pots for $5 each, White Jade, Elite Gold, Florida Special, Sugar Loaf.

I am located in Southwest Ranches, FL.  PM me for an appointment to pickup.

Cash and credit cards accepted.

Took 12 cups of water to boiling, put in about 40 dried calyces in (seed pods already removed) and left to boil for about 10 minutes, let it cool, got impatient and added ice, and put it in the fridge. Nice dark red color, like cranberry juice.

Can be picked at 1/4 yellowing. Commercial growers pick at first sign of yellowing. It will continue to ripen after picking.

My father lives in Gables by the Sea on a canal that is 0.5 miles from the bay and he gets fruit.  He got a bumper crop of Sweet hearts in 2012, enough to freeze.

My rapoza was the same. I cut it free of the Zills stake and it flopped right over like it was made of rubber.  Stake the central leader with as thin a bamboo stake as will hold it up and put it somewhere that gets light exposure to wind.   Mild wind exposure and movement will send the signal that it needs to harden.

Kei apple maybe

Sounds like the same tree, right next to the building entrance to the left.  I saw where it had been severely cut back.  I agree that the foliage looks exactly like the achachairu I got from Montoso Gardens, long and skinny.  I thought it was the same plant but Jeff (gunnar429) told me what the label said and I had to check for myself.

The tree in front of the Whitman pavilion is labeled Garcinia acuminata.  The growth habit of Fairchild tree is different from the ones in Puerto Rico, but it is not growing on the side of a mountain.  You saw orange, smooth-skinned fruit?

Some of the jackfruit varieties make beautiful landscape trees.  Lemon gold and gold nugget have a dense canopy and nice natural pyramid christmas-tree shape. Pineapples are beautiful for the lower tier. 

I agree, forgiveness is good, I was just pointing Jeff to the potential authority since his search came up empty.  When my parents built houses, the drainage district required installation of a drainage ditch by the road, culvert under the driveway, and berms along the perimeter of the neighbors.  The houses elevated a large portion of the land, over 4ft in some areas. I doubt The Cookie Monster Orchard Project will be a drainage problem but our ruling bureaucracies can find issue with the dumbest things. Best course of action is to make friends with the neighbors and ask them to come to you if there are any issues.  If they complain to code enforcement, that is when things can go down hill fast.