Hi everyone!
Just found this forum, we have been growing tropical (and not tropical) fruit trees for a year now but we expanded from just a couple trees last year to a few dozen trees this year. We're in north-central Florida, zone 8B, so we keep the majority in pots (we tried a few in ground last year and had mixed success). Right now, we've got the following in pots:
Mango: Kent, Southern Blush, Nam Doc Mai, Pram Kai Mea, Lemon Zest, Duncan, and Coconut Cream.
Avacado: Day and Florida Hass
Lychee: Sweetheart and an unknown variety.
Guava: standard pink/red apple
Longan: Kohala
Rambutan: Arka Coorg Arun
Mangosteen
Pulasan
Maprang
Charichuelo
And the following in ground:
Mango: Nam Doc Mai, Kent, Southern Blush, and Duncan
Avacado: Brogden
Orange: Valencia and Wasington Navel
Lemon: Meyer
Banana: Willams
Guava: standard pink/red apple
Pomegranate: Sienevyi
Kiwi vines: Issac and Vincent
Not tropical but we also have these in ground:
Peach: Suncrest and unknown varities
Nectarine: Mericrest
Plum: unknown varities
Apricot: Royal Blenheim
Cherry: Bing
Apple: Fuji and a golden variety
Pear: Bosc and Bartlett
Pear-Apple hybrid: Shinseiki
We also have a few sprouts and seeds, including Arka Coorg Patib Rambutan, Lemon Cattley Guava, Sapodilla, Sugar Apple, Gac, Salak, and Makak that I'm going to work on sprouting this summer. I also have some dragonfruit cuttings but I had no luck rooting the ones I had last year so I don't hold out hope for these either.
Ornamentally we have pulmeria and hibiscus of several varieties in pots as well.
I joined to get somet tips and tricks, we're going to stick with containers on the ones that are in pots just due to the mixed results last year of growing tropicals in ground because we had a really bad series of freezes and lost a couple despite covers, heat lights, etc. I'm even considering uprooting the Brogden and citrus since we don't have backups in pots, but I don't know how well that would go as they have been growing in ground for over a year now. At some point I'd like to learn how to graft too, but I know that I'm nowhere near ready for that!
I'm probably not going to be super active, because we have a small farm (goats, pigs, poultry, etc.) along with day jobs, but I thought I'd say hello!