The Tropical Fruit Forum

Lychee, longan, persimmon, pineapple guava, muscadine grapes, maybe peach selected for Fla also.

I have tried growing these before by trying to start from five seeds I bought, none germinated. So I'm now awaiting 20 more seeds and I am going to give them another try.

Does anyone have experience growing these? Can you give and advice on how to get best germination rate and methods to plant them in favorable soil get them to bear fruit?

PS. I have a number of true dwarf banana plants and have had great success with them.

Well it was more than the tree could hold and the massive amount of new growth along with a large crop of fruit, a huge chunk of my mulberry tree broke off. I spent the better part of a day chopping it up holding larger branches to cut into pieces less than 5" around for feeding my firepit next year.

I left an enormous pile of branches for the trash guys but they were gone in an hour and it was not a trash day, it seems my neighbor took it for wood to smoke meats.

Gads the wood oozes so much latex I'd have thought that it would make meat taste like a surgeon's glove :-) After reading that many use seasoned mulberry with the dried bark as a smoke wood I still have reservations on smoking food with it. To that end I started skinning / bark removing a bunch of them to try smoking meat with.

My questions are...

Does anyone here use mulberry in their smoker?

If so do you use it with or without the bark?

If so have you tried it with and without the bark and do you notice a flavor difference in the meat??

Also I buy a truckload of "Australian pine" for the firepit. The seller says it's a HARD wood (proven by my giving up trying to chop it) and makes delightful smoke wood.

Any comments on Australian pine as a smoke wood?

I hate that tree. :-)

Gadzooks, I'm a good 30 miles north of you, kudos to you for being a determined fruit nut! :-)

Quote from: gnappi on December 26, 2022, 01:54:06 PM

I personally can't stand them and I'd have rather eaten a few puke flavored papaya. That was BEFORE my neighbor grabbed a few deep black samples from his yard and asked me to try them. I gotta say at least from HIS bush, I'd rather eat his Surinam cherry than a puke  flavored papaya :-)

It's not saying much but the possibility of a dessert Surinam is still a dim possibility.

Gary, my wife discovered a papaya that doesn't taste pukey; like you, she doesn't appreciate strong papaya flavor, so she kept propagating this one that has less sweetness but definitive floral fragrance, fresh "clean" taste, almost like a honeydew. I like very sweet (don't mind musky) papayas and don't care for "her" variety but she really loves it. Next time we see each other I can share seeds if you want.

Thx, I would appreciate it.

I have grown several that were quite good but the plant is short lived and my limited experience with them is the seeds from their fruit has been variable as to flavor.

I'm always willing to try again


 

My GF has lots of orchids in her north facing patio and I have scads of them in my yard. In both locations they get lots of filtered light.

If you mean by "low maintenance" complete neglect, orchids are not gonna happen unless they're are outdoors. 

Since the thread started and now has been resurrected my Rollinia has had a few years growth I can state my observations...

I tip prune mine from top to bottom but I let it get a bit taller than wider so I can walk under it and right now it is at ~12' tall, and the overall shape looks "correct". It flowers well and I get what I consider a fair amount of fruit without hand pollination for a young tree that's been in ground four years.

If I live to see it decline, I'll have another few started from the fruit seeds to replace it.
 



 

Funny, I must be cursed.

I bought one that was nearly 8' tall and put it in ground maybe 18+ months ago it's very healthy but no blooms. The second one I got is nearly 5' tall in ground and same thing. Grrr... 

I was at a flea market last weekend and a grower had a little guava with a half dozen fruits on it?

Quote from: Galatians522 on March 19, 2024, 08:27:10 PM

Oddly enough, while we have had no severe cold, it has been chilly all winter--which is what lychee needs.

About what temperature is the threshold between chilly and severe cold? I planted a lychee last summer.

To me anything staying in the 50's is chilly below the mid 40's is cold.   

No only do I leave the leaves :-) where they drop, my gF bags huge amounts of leaves from her lawn and I take the home to spread around my yard.

Doesn't look like my Pickering but my Carrie is so big by comparison I cannot tell.