Hello everyone!
I'm so excited to join this forum. I'm here because my teenage son - "Mr. Caimito" - has gotten me hooked on rare/exotic/tropical fruit.
I know precisely nothing about growing tropical fruit
That's the main thing that motivated me to make my own account here - I need lots of help!! Living in zone 7a doesn't really help matters much, either.
Mr. Caimito and I are attempting to grow a Cogshall Mango (from Excalibur), a Violet de Bordeaux fig, 3 cherimoya saplings (from seeds of a commercial fruit), 3 papaya seedlings, 2 miracle fruit seedlings, and one coffee plant.
I'm in my mid-thirties and work at home full-time as a Call Center Workforce Manager. My primary hobby is breadmaking - I bake all of our family's bread from scratch and by hand (except for some mixing). I also love jazz - it's playing in the house all the time.
My screen name is what it is because I am slightly obsessed with the pawpaw. Despite growing up in Tennessee (ideal pawpaw territory), I had never heard of the tree until a few months ago, and I was floored by the fact that it's a temperate
Annona. So I love to hunt wild pawpaw trees in the woods. I have yet to taste the fruit as of this writing. I've found some large fruiting trees and can't wait to check them out in September!
Lastly - my favorite exotic fruits in mostly descending order: Durian, jackfruit, cherimoya, mamey, mango, canistel, rambutan, lychee
My apologies in advance for any noob questions I may ask! Thanks to everyone for making this such a great community.