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Haven't had a meed in a while, but we bought a place in Melbourne and will need to buy a few mango trees either up there or down in Broward to bring up. Any good sellers in Broward remaining? Or anywhere in the Melbourne area?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Loquat fruit fly
« on: March 10, 2023, 08:37:24 AM »
Right there with you. Seriously considering cutting our tree down as none of the fruit ends up being edible. Tried traps etc.

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Very likely purchasing property on the beach in Melbourne Beach/Sebastian area. Worth it to plant a mango or two? If not, anyone know what will grow relatively well? This would right along A1A on the beachside.

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As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, my perception of a minor problem turns out to be a whole-tree infestation. I pruned the tree back over the weekend and there was not really any limbs not completely overrun by these damm bugs. Going to start spraying sulphur this weekend.

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Noticed some mild erinose mite evidence on 1 of our 2 lychee trees. Should I take care of this myself or report it to the State? Worried that Florida will either do nothing or kill the entire tree.

Also, does it matter which sulphur is used for spray? Florida seems to recommend MICROTHIOL DISPERSS as the only one approved, but how is that any different than the typical 80% sulphur stuff?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu finally producing
« on: November 11, 2021, 06:16:38 PM »
Sry guys forgot about this thread. It's ostensibly "good" - my wife really likes it. I'm not really sold on it. I agree on the vanilla/caramel taste. I'm just not a gelatin/melon type of guy, so I'm happy with just a few bites (whereas I can eat 4 mangoes in a row).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Abiu finally producing
« on: November 07, 2021, 05:21:07 PM »
Only took 8 years or so (last year we found 1 on the tree by chance), but finally getting a decent amount of abius (seedling from Noel many years ago). This year I spotted 1, which turned into 2, which turned into a couple dozen. Difficult to spot the little buggers. Pretty good.








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Just confirming before I give the tree a haircut. Pretty sure flowering season was months ago.



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I like fruit punch on the firmer side. Has the most "punch" at that point. With a mango that big, when the outside gets soft, chances are some parts of the inside get really soft and I'm not a fan of the flavor change.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: May 23, 2021, 07:22:23 PM »
Hi,
Love your clamshell idea. I have about 25 new mango trees  recently planted and looking for some sort of future protection. Where did you purchase your clamshells and what size would you recommend? I’m going to try the CD option also.
Thank you.

The ones on the LZ tree are standard size strawberry clamshells. There are various plastic packaging sites you can buy them from. I don't remember where I bought mine but pretty sure we bought a case of 500. We also buy a lot of strawberries throughout the year and save all the clamshells.

I also bought larger size clamshells (I think it was a 2lb grape size) for the bigger mangoes (e.g. fruit punch) and for avocados.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: May 15, 2021, 05:18:20 PM »
First rosigold of the season (at our house).




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: May 11, 2021, 08:05:48 PM »
Should be a good year here. My favorites (lemon zest, sweet tart, fruit punch) are pretty loaded this year as well as many others:







The top one (photo) is Lemon Zest? ---- I like all the clear plastic clamshells protecting the LZ fruits. Clamshells from buying strawberries probably. You must be serious about getting as few robberies by animals. At least for LZ. Your high priority mango is LZ (I suppose)

You can also take a stack of old AOL CDs and cut through with a circular saw to the center hole. Then fit them through the stem so they lay on top of the mango. Critters like to climb up then bite downward on the mangos to make them fall.....I think I have some of those from AOL. Or other junk CDs.

Ya top one is LZ. It is definitrly high prioroty, but that is an earlier picture as most trees have good clamshell coverage at this point. By my estimate, we've put out probably 400 - 500 clamshells at this point. Some of those are just strawberries bought throughout the years, but I have separately bought cases of regular and 2x size clamshells so i probably have a total of around 1,000 at this point.

My guess is we have a 100-200 more worthwhile mangoes to cover.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: May 08, 2021, 07:41:59 PM »
Should be a good year here. My favorites (lemon zest, sweet tart, fruit punch) are pretty loaded this year as well as many others:

 



Amazing lemon zest.  I have just 1 fruit on my lz tree this season. What did you do to your lz to get so beautiful fruits?

Mostly luck I guess. Last year all the flowers dried out and I didn't get a single fruit. I spray my trees pretty frequently with all sort of concoctions. Not necessarily all at once, but I'll spray with micros, kelp, neem oil, copper, sulfur, and some other stuff like 'ripe blend' (kelp4less). Also mix in copper/sulfur depending on time of season. My trees definitely look nice and healthy.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: May 07, 2021, 08:49:28 PM »
probably won't be any good, but found a small fruit punch today that was colored up nicely and very fragrant. came off in my hand, so here's to hope.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: May 01, 2021, 01:03:06 PM »
John, I do!! My neighborhood around me have many large Oak trees and I'm very close to a State Park, we have deer daily, recorded a bear at a neighbor's driveway and even had a Florida panther too...one of them attacked one of my neighbors dog and eventually died  :'(  the squirrels  >:( though are my worst thieves and destroyer of my mango fruits and lychee (no fruit this year, though)

The clamshells I use (see my above pics) work pretty good for squirrels/iguanas. The raccoons tear them to shreds but nothing is foolproof. I would say the clamshells are single best thing we've done with real results in protecting fruit.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: April 30, 2021, 08:31:47 PM »
Should be a good year here. My favorites (lemon zest, sweet tart, fruit punch) are pretty loaded this year as well as many others:

 







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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: April 30, 2021, 05:49:35 PM »
Those look real nice Pug; I would be happy to feast upon any of them.

Thanks roblack! Can't wait till they are ready, I lose about 70% of my mangoes to squirrels, racoons, rabbits, you name it they eat them  >:(...I will be placing the produce clamshells when they get more mature, it doesn't stop them, but it does slow them down a little  :o

We have a raccoon that is all over our mango and lychee trees during the daytime. Saw him out there around 12pm today. Is that normal? I thought these guys only came out at night?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this tree a malay apple?
« on: April 26, 2021, 09:58:26 AM »
Yup looks like it to me
The seedlings that I bought from here basically do the same thing.
My tree been growing for around the same time and nothing.
Planted a tree by my dad's house and he chopped it down after only fruiting once in 15 years.
I figure the normal genetics for malay apple in the nursery trade sucks though I hear excalibur has some superior grafted ones.

People I know from Guyana and Trinidad who brought seeds over seem to have more luck

Ya that news doesnt bode well for this tree. Definitely not an Excalibur grafted tree. I'm assuming it came from PIN or maybe Bender but I don't remember. I kinda wanted to try the fruit but if it's going nowhere, to the chopping block it shall soon go.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Is this tree a malay apple?
« on: April 25, 2021, 04:46:23 PM »
Put this guy in the ground around 7 - 8 years ago. To date no sign of flowers/anything. I know malay apple is wildly mislabeled, but I want to make sure I'm not just growing an ornamental here.






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Other than giving my family cancer with chemicals legal only in North Korea, is there anything we can do in Floroda to slow down, reduce, or control fruit fly infestations? Other than just digging up the trees they love (e.g. peacbes, papaya, loquat).  I've tried the half soda bottle hanging from tree with apple juice etc. - catches a ton of regular flies and stinks up the yard, but nothing as to fruit flies. If I can train my great danes to just eat them like a whale eats plankton, that would also be a viable solution.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Extinct Florida Variety Peach Trees?
« on: March 16, 2021, 05:19:59 AM »
We had a tropic beauty that never did anything for 4 - 5 years (might have just been a bad tree) - dug it up a couple years ago and tried replacing it - couldn't find a peach tree for sale anywhere in Florida for over a year and finally gave up.

We have a UF Sun (I think) tree that we've had for probably 7 - 8 years. I fully agree on the melting vs. non-melting, but the one redeeming quality of the UF Sun is that it 'was' a prolific producer early-on. Over the last several years, we're lucky if it makes 10 total peaches per year, and then it's a fight with the fruit flies. My guess is age of the tree is the problem, but given all of the above issues, this is probably its last year in the ground.

I really wish we had a viable fruit fly solution in Florida because they really murder a large number of fruit varieties down here.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu questions
« on: March 08, 2021, 08:18:12 PM »
I got 1x fruit (our first) last year. The tree has flowered prolifically at least 3 or 4 years without ever setting a single fruit. As with whoever above, our tree is no baby - I would say it is planted at least 7 years. We just had another round of flowers so we'll see.

The only 'issue' I can think of is that the lobate scales love the tree. It is always covered in them.

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Hoping for a good mango year. Just about all the trees are in full bloom - a couple have transitioned and appear to be holding lots of fruit. Too early to tell at this point but we'll see. Just a few standouts:

Glenn in full bloom (usually a workhorse in pumping out fruit):



Fruit Punch holding a ton of fruit:



Lemon Zest (last year didn't even flower so hoping for a good year):



Rosigold:



Bonus lychee tree - let's get some fruit going:



We feed him a steady diet of mango thieves:



This guy wanted to know what I was taking pictures of:



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You need one of these...




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abiu - what am I doing wrong ?
« on: October 30, 2020, 09:37:50 PM »
Just the 1 tree. It's flowered for like 4 years un a row without any feuit.

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