The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hi everyone! I'm desperately seeking scions of:
Nishikawa
Wurtz
Day
Kampong
I'll of course pay for the scion, your trouble, and shipping to Miami. Happy to wait for the best time to take quality scions - I don't know when that is - for the best chance that the grafts take.
Any leads please let me know! Thank you!

Hi everyone, I have a mandarin tree that I stupidly let hold quite a few fruit last year, its first year in the ground. Since then it's been completely dormant while the other citrus planted at the same time have been putting on tons of growth. So that's to be expected and I wasn't worried, except that the leaves started showing the discoloration you see in the photos. For awhile it's been like this and hasn't put out a single new leaf. Now finally it's covered with buds, which is encouraging, but I'm still wondering what if anything I should be doing about the issues with the older leaves - I'd prefer the new leaves not end up looking the same. Is it a nutrient issue? I can't match it to the photos I find online of any particular deficiency. Thanks for your input!

I'm thinking of buying some Plukenetia Huayllabambana seeds from them but not if they're not reliable. Anyone have any experience good or bad to share?

Seems better to start a new topic for this I guess. I'm getting closer to pulling the trigger on the mango trees purchase and I came upon the relatively new Phoenix. I've done the searching but find very little specific info on it other than that most people seem to think it's top tier (unless I'm missing a more detailed discussion, in which case I'd welcome a link). My current list is Pickering, Kesar, Maha, Sweet Tart, Edgar and Venus - how does Phoenix compare with ST and Venus in terms of taste, disease resistance, tree size/vigor, and season? What's top tier about it? Thanks in advance.

My dh went to a friend's place to scoop up coffee seedlings and this one got caught up in the bunch. I know there's loquat on the property. Is this a baby loquat?

My 6-month-old Meyer lemon graft is flowering. It's way too small for fruit - should I cull the blooms themselves or wait for small fruit to form like with mangoes? Thanks for your help.

This might ramble a bit so excuse me in advance - maybe if I get some responses they will help me clarify my questions! I'm trying to understand citrus and its temperature needs. I live in a tropical environment, temps never lower than the high 50s and more often only to the low 60s at night. My navel oranges from a very young tree are already scrumptious, as good as any I ever bought when I lived in California. So they don't seem to be lacking for cold weather. But the grapefruits I've had here have been inedibly sour, and I've read that some citrus needs cold weather to "sweeten up". On the other hand, I've read comments here that people's grapefruits didn't sweeten up because they didn't get the necessary heat. Now I'm confused.
Most info I read is speaking to people in temperate zones where the concern is cold tolerance. But what about lack of cold tolerance?
What are the "rules" about citrus and temperatures? Which varieties will produce good fruit with no chill to speak of?

Looks like it from a distance, but the fruit are so tiny and the pads don't have those nasty spines I see when I look for nopal images online. I really want to eat the pads, but I don't know if it's the right plant! Can anyone help?

I know this has been done to death and YES, I've spent hours and hours of my life searching the forum for everyone's mango opinions. But often you mango experts are talking amongst yourselves under the correct assumption that you've all tasted all the varieties in question and can make comparisons based on that common knowledge. So I'm posing the question as someone who has tried almost no mangoes, but I know some things I like/ don't like and some preferences I have for the trees. So here goes:
I'd like to have 5 mangoes. I hate Hadens, which is the #1 grafted mango here. I hate them because they're like dental floss with an insipid, watery mango flavor. Yuck. There are 2 other mangoes here - small yellow ones many of which are probably seedlings, with varying levels of fiber. If they're not too fibrous, I can enjoy them because they have a stronger flavor with a resiny kick. Not terrible. The other grafted mango here is Irwin. I've had only one of those - they're not at all common - but it was quite good. Compared to a Haden, it was spectacular. I've scoured the forum for info on Irwin and have seen that it's no where near top tier, but the one I had didn't have internal breakdown or any other nastiness, so I guess I got lucky. (I'm considering getting an Irwin tree just because it's the one decent mango available here. But it doesn't count towards my 5.)
So I hate Hadens, I like some resin flavor. I don't really want heavy citrus flavors in my mango because I prefer to get my citrus flavors from citrus (for that I've ruled out LZ). I like intense flavors but not just straight sugar bombs (Rob's description of Cotton Candy put me off). I hate jelly seed, and while creamy sounds nice, mushy definitely does not. We do have anthracnose around here so resistance is important - we're not going to spray. Not being an overly giant tree would be great too. My plan is to bring down 2 already grafted trees and get scions for the other 3 to graft - one day I'll have to get a mango graft to take!
I've got 4 on my list so far: Pickering (for size, precocity, disease resistance, consistent production and good quality fruit, though I know many sneer at the Pickering, I've also seen quite a few positive reviews), Sweet Tart, Maha, and Kesar. I'm open to debate any of those, but they got on my list from the extensive forum searching that I've done so far - those 4 seem to consistently stand out positively in ways that appeal to me.
If you were me, what 5 would you choose? And which 2 would you buy already grafted, while grafting the other 3? Remember, I've never tasted the top tiers, so no fair using them as reference points! (also no fair suggesting varieties I could only get if I lived in FL and knew the secret handshake!  )
Thanks everyone!

I have one, trying to figure out how much space it's going to need. Anyone have any idea?

Could a mango tree survive 3 weeks shipping by boat if it had some air (not sealed air-tight in a box)?

Meaning, if you have 2 trees that need a distance of 4 meters between them, is measuring 4 meters down a steep slope the same as on flat land? Or does one need to adjust in some way for the slope? This is a hard question to google