What are you feasting on?

[Tim]

[shaneatwell]

Guava. Strawberry guava. Feijoa.

[TnTrobbie]

Grocery bought (Publix) Tangerines

[PltdWorld]

Now ripe and eating: mangoes, tomatoes (4 varieties), lemon yellow guava, figs, passion fruit, feijoa.

[fruitlovers]

Last night a giant rollinia. Fresh orange juice and durian for breakfast. Snacking on some very large sized rambutans i just picked. And ofcourse the usual reliables: apple bananas, avos, and papayas. Can't keep up with all the rainforest plums (E. candolleana) and flying saucers (Campomanesia phaea). Froze a bunch of bilimbis to try and make a vinagrette sauce to saute breadfruits in. Massive amounts of starfruits. Wish my dehydrator was working! Instead we just pop the starfruits in when making smoothies. They are great blended with banana and lilikoi (yellow passionfruit).

[CoPlantNut]

I can't match Oscar, but I've been filling up on the last of the produce from my yard (it is snowing here now and first froze 10 days ago): 8 varieties of tomatoes and 9 of peppers, peaches, blackberries, watermelons and strawberries.  I won't have any more until next year...

But I've also been feasting on a few fruits a day from Acerola, Eugenia reinwardtiana, mulberries, and many miracle fruit, and those will likely keep producing almost continuously for me in my indoor plant room. 

My mouth is watering for the 4 mangoes [Pickering], dozens of strawberry guavas and starfruit [Kari and Sri Kembangan], and a lone babaco papaya that  should all be ripening within 1-2 months.  I'll finally get to try my first Pickering!

   Kevin

[BMc]

Mostly dust. It's 'incinerator' season here. Have just a modest haul of mulberry and early nectarines ready now.

[NewGen]

Last night a giant rollinia. Fresh orange juice and durian for breakfast. Snacking on some very large sized rambutans i just picked. And ofcourse the usual reliables: apple bananas, avos, and papayas. Can't keep up with all the rainforest plums (E. candolleana) and flying saucers (Campomanesia phaea). Froze a bunch of bilimbis to try and make a vinagrette sauce to saute breadfruits in. Massive amounts of starfruits. Wish my dehydrator was working! Instead we just pop the starfruits in when making smoothies. They are great blended with banana and lilikoi (yellow passionfruit).

Must visit the Big Island and meet Oscar!!!
 

[Tim]

Haha at least your season is fast approaching.

I was hoping to see a few more pictures on this thread...

Mostly dust. It's 'incinerator' season here. Have just a modest haul of mulberry and early nectarines ready now.

[JF]

Tim, these were mostly from my yard and some persimmons and mangos from neighbors, all home grown.

Persimmons: hachiyas, saijo and fuyu.Gauvas: hong kong pink, indian red, jalisco roja, ultimate mexican cream,tropical pink, ruby X, malaysian red, thai maroon. Mangos malika(last one) pinha, maravilloso and thomson. Avocados: pinkerton and sir prize. Annona Lisa.

Contrary to popular belief, we have fruits year round in Socal....maybe not in Escondido were is doesn't get above 50F in the winter







I left the ultimate mexican cream and Thai marron out

[Felipe]

Amazing JF! What a great diversity of homegrown fruit!

Which guayabo do you consider the best tasting?

[emegar]

White Brazilian guavas, Raja Puri and Goldfinger bananas.

James

[plantlover13]

Tim, these were mostly from my yard and some persimmons and mangos from neighbors, all home grown.

Persimmons: hachiyas, saijo and fuyu.Gauvas: hong kong pink, indian red, jalisco roja, ultimate mexican cream,tropical pink, ruby X, malaysian red, thai maroon. Mangos malika(last one) pinha, maravilloso and thomson. Avocados: pinkerton and sir prize. Annona Lisa.

Contrary to popular belief, we have fruits year round in Socal....maybe not in Escondido were is doesn't get above 50F in the winter







I left the ultimate mexican cream and Thai marron out

which persimmon do you like the best? it's one of the few things that i can grow here.

What am i feasting on? store bought guava. Store bought oranges. Store bough rambutan. Sore bought, well, apples, i guess. and maybe a store bought banana or 2.

[JF]

Amazing JF! What a great diversity of homegrown fruit!

Which guayabo do you consider the best tasting?

Hola Felipe y muchas gracias muy amable.

The best guava have been the ultimate Mexican cream, but not too far behind are Thai maroon, Jalisco red and Hong Kong pink. I have pics I took that I will post of these outstanding selections side by side. Let me ask you, my ultimate Mexican cream has produce red and white flesh guavas for the same tree is this unusual? Last year I had a small crop and they were all white flesh.

Plant lover

I like saijo this years crop has been excellent. I have a thread in the forum on persimmon tasting from last year and I can't remember a variety I sample that day that blew me away....

[GwenninPR]

We have fresh picked chironja, grapefruit, bananas, garcinia sp (achchachiru-like), starfruit, dragonfruit, avocados, papaya.  Jackfruit should be ripe any day now.

[nullzero]

JF,

Amazing display of fruits, you are so lucky! I went to the persimmon festival the last two years. The best tasting persimmon for me was Maru.

[Felipe]

my ultimate Mexican cream has produce red and white flesh guavas for the same tree

What?!  I have seen on my trees that there is some variation in the fruit the same tree. Sometimes fruits are more pink, sometimes less. But nothing compared to what you are telling...

I'm currently growing 6 guavas, seven before my dad removed a thai guava. I bought them all locally and don't have a clue about a cultivar name.

This is a pink and very tasty one with small fruits:



A white fleshed (very tasty too)



Another white fleshed:

[plantlover13]

THe two types of guava thing probably has to do with grafting. My grandmother has a massive (20+ foot) tall guava tree that gives both white and red r=fruits, and it is actually two trees planted into one hole.

[JF]

my ultimate Mexican cream has produce red and white flesh guavas for the same tree

What?!  I have seen on my trees that there is some variation in the fruit the same tree. Sometimes fruits are more pink, sometimes less. But nothing compared to what you are telling...

I'm currently growing 6 guavas, seven before my dad removed a thai guava. I bought them all locally and don't have a clue about a cultivar name.

This is a pink and very tasty one with small fruits:



A white fleshed (very tasty too)



Another white fleshed:

Felipe, it's freakish, I don't know what's going on. Here are pics my 4 favority guavas I have a total of 9 the rest will de donated.



here is a pic of the ultimate Mexican cream in isolation....notice the have the same shape but the color of the exterior and interior are different.



Plantlover here is a pic of the 3 persimmons the one to the right is a perfectly ripe Saijo which Joe450 describe the taste as brown sugar very much like a sapodilla.

[nch]

Such nice fruits, and such nice pictures, JF.
I am learning to post pictures. Hope it works. These are my very first Suebelle white sapotes.
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[nch]

It worked! 

[roboto212]

these durians were very good. tasted of oreo frosting with a strong bitterness that really stimulates

[Pancrazio]

Persimmons, pomegranates (bumper crop for me this year!), and miyagawa satsumas.

[Sven]

Pomegranates, white sapote and a single quince.

[JF]

If you dont like the taste of guava you can make marmalade and use it as sweet syrup over yogurt, cottage cheese or cream cheese. Here is how it looks



you stir it and viola!