The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hello fruit members!

I made a short trip down to the lower keys to do some wildlife and tropical fruit exploring since I work for the fire department in Marathon it really gives me incentive to go explore that area. First thing I did was walk around the native big pine habitat. The harshest I have ever seen in Florida. Behind the grove is just straight caprock with these small pools of freshwater here and there.







I heard some rustling in the bushes and found a great little Florida keys rat snake! Elaphe guttata rosacea.


Upon some light flipping I found a very pretty bark scorpion with neat red legs Centruroides gracilis.


Now on wards to the grove itself.




























Here are the legendary cisterns Adolf blew out of the ground with dynamite. There was a pretty narly looking pachimascus beetle stuck in one of them...He wasn't very grateful and bit me as I released him.















































I must admit, seeing a Alupang really blew my shirt up!!









A really neat fruit that  kinda taste like bannana.




Biggest lychee tree I have ever seen!


This is not the whole place but you guys get the idea

I will wrap this up with a trip to the humble little nursery, with a super friendly guy named Tim who talked with me for about a hour about fruits trees and how this place came to be. He also makes these neat little ukuleles.

Well here it goes my first post!
I was cruising on Top Tropicals website and found these hormones from Russia for sale. Has anyone used these for their plants? Especially the EPIN which claims to increase the hardiness of the plants. 

Reason being I have become very interested in the mangosteen species. First thing did was purchased the book "5 decades with tropical fruit tree" great book gave me so many ideas on what to do.

Cheers

Hello everyone. I just recently got the bite to grow fruit trees after having them in my parents yard for years! Now i just bought a home and have a small piece of land to plant stuff. I currently have a Mulberry tree, Guava, Katuk, Native passion vine, and about 25 Papaya trees all under 5 ft tall.

I love plants and animals and have kept my fair share of....venomous snakes, fish, tarantulas, scorpions, monitor lizards....even roaches! as pets.

This is a really great forum and I have learned so much already!