It is rainy and cold and too nasty to do anything outside today so I thought I would make my first post with pics to the forum.
View from the door. Center is Staghorn fern and Variegated Shell Ginger. Clockwise from upper left, papaya 'TR Hovey,' Lychee 'Sweetheart,' banana 'Dw. Namwah,' Coffea arabica, one of my citrus, Annona squamosa, and just a couple of branches of jaboticaba:
I had my dragonfruit in ~25gal pot to which I added a support structure. It rotted. I rooted cuttings, sunk this 6x6 in the ground, and moved them there:
Cogshall mango:
My larger jaboticaba. Six fruits at the moment, including one on the main trunk virtually at soil level:
Garcinia medrona, 1.5 yrs old, from PR seed. The one on the left got so top heavy I had to stake it:
Garcinia laterifolia, 1.5 yrs old, from PR seed. Interesting difference in height. They are in exactly the same mix and on the same fert schedule. Th one on the left has been dwarfed virtually since the beginning:
Abui, 1.5 yrs old, from PR seed. I've topped it:
Sapodilla 'Silas Woods' which I just got a couple of weeks ago:
Rollinias, each 1.5 yrs old from PR seed. All of them have been topped/pruned in an effort to achieve some sort of decent structure:
Cherimoya from seed; both of my cherimoyas have flowered, but no fruit set:
Sapodilla from PR labelled as 'Nipser Mexicano 7' which is very slow growing but now has some blooms:
Pitomba. I like this plant in spite of the fact that it is very slow growing and sparse; the bark is crepe myrtle-ish; finally this year some blooms and maybe fruit set:
Pitanga:
This is a Purple Grumichama over 6' tall but it has never bloomed:
Carambola 'Kari,' can you count the fruit?
Lychee 'Brewster' which had great bloom and zero fruit set despite meticulous hand pollination with a brush. I wonder if our freaky temps could have anything to do with it:
Sugar apples blooming:
This is the jab from Bryan in PR:
Lychee 'Sweetheart' which did not bloom this year. I'm thinking that both lychees need to go back into pots to better regulate the temps (get chill requirements met sooner):
Strawberry guavas:
Another new plant, Loquat 'Premier'