MRFC Rare Fruit Tree Sale

[cmichael258]

http://www.mrfc.org/p/fruit-tree-sale.html

[FlyingFoxFruits]

this is the only plant sale that I participate in...I love the fact that it's a one day event, dedicated to the sole purpose of selling tropical fruit trees.

I save some of the rarest and best plants I have, for this amazing sale.

Hope to see you there.

[Hobo62288]

I wish there was anything like this I could attend.  Anything at all that was tropical fruit and remotely close.  Really need some people to organize a East Coast/Mid Atlantic group.  Just because we dont live in zone 9-10 or above but there has too be a lot of interest still.  Anyways, awesome event I'm sure and hope you guys get an awesome turnout.

[palologrower]

this is the only plant sale that I participate in...I love the fact that it's a one day event, dedicated to the sole purpose of selling tropical fruit trees.

I save some of the rarest and best plants I have, for this amazing sale.

Hope to see you there.

does the sweet uvalha make its appearance here?

[vlan1]

This almost sounds road trip worthy

[eduardo_98]

May just have to bring my grandparents along 😀

[starch]

Man, that is awesome! That would be a lot of fun to shop at.

[Daintree]

Geez - I have GOT to hit the lottery!

[kingoceanos]

Wow, wish I could get away with going.

[Tropicaliste]

Man, I really want to go to the sale. Let's all zone 6,7,8ers carpool, what'dya say? Lol

[Doglips]

At 5000 trees, that is bigger than the Urban Harvest sale in Houston (they broke the tropicals off into a different sale this year).
Very impressive, it is one heck of an operation to pull off a sale like that.

And I'm sure this one is far more tropical than ours.
I'm jealous, sounds like fun.  Fun to volunteer at these things too.   

[Vernmented]

It really is amazing. Last year was my first time going/working all day. I am the secretary of the MRFC. It is an entire indoor, air conditioned civic center filled with tree vendors. Heavy hitters like Adam (Flying Fox), Wayne Clifton (of the Dream infamy), my dear friend Larry Atkins usually has a bazillion mango cultivars, and another close friend Sulcata Grove (geosulcata on the forum) has an incredible banana collection as well as top tier cultivars in lots of other stuff. There are plenty of other great vendors and also Ray Jones is there hanging out. I'll post some pictures for those that can't make it. Anyone that is a regular TFF poster would be a kid in a candy store. There is normally quite a line outside before the doors open. Definitely make it if you can.

[johnb51]

How does it compare to the RFC Fruit Tree Sale in West Palm Beach at the Fairgrounds?  Has anyone been to both?

[geosulcata]

Here is the Facebook event page for the sale.
https://www.facebook.com/events/435569943304908/

[Tropheus76]

If I don't have anything else important going on, I may have to drive over. Still missing two trees from this years list to buy.

[chicomoralessxm]

anyone going there? Would you be willing to buy trees for us both

[geosulcata]

The sale is just one week away! Several vendors are bringing more unusual trees not listed on the flyer.

[Tropheus76]

Looking forward to this. Dragging my wife along, she isn't looking forward to this. Both of us are saying "Yay, more trees."

[chicomoralessxm]

Looking forward to this. Dragging my wife along, she isn't looking forward to this. Both of us are saying "Yay, more trees."

Would be nice to go to this, hey I should get you to buy me some trees

[Tropheus76]

Was a very cool show. Very talkative people. Door opening felt like it was Black Friday, kept waiting for a fight to break out over a lemon tree :p.
Observations-
Why the heck are people fighting these lines and other people to buy hum drum citrus trees? Exotic fruit sale, I wasnt expecting home depot citrus trees in the numbers I saw. Kudos to the vendors for knowing people would buy them in droves rather than simply go to HD for the exact same trees. Same reason I dont own a fish store, I would only have the exotic stuff and no bread and butter fish. Maybe I am just too much of a tree snob to have even thought of it. Note I separate normal citrus from the exotic stuff you have to hunt down to find. Weirdly enough I did not notice any exotic citrus, not that I was really looking.  Harris citrus would have really racked up I think.

Bring a cart, after carrying around a mango tree in a 7 gallon pot for and hour, my arms were a bit sore, especially after I added a zills surinam cherry and 5 gal named jackfruit.

Overall fun time, might do it again in a couple years. Too far a drive to do it two years in a row, I go all the way out there so close to the beach, its almost a tease not to go.
Met up with Adam again and another forum member, so that was cool. Very cool selection of trees, kind of glad I did not have a cart. As it was I limited my purchases to what I could carry. My score for this event, Sweet Tart mango, already pugged , Zill's suranam cherry with fruit, IS#2 jackfruit, one of Adam's new fuzzy jaboticabas, a white sapote from a nice guy who gave me a sample of the fruit, a red wax jambu, and something else.

[eduardo_98]

I liked the event as well. Even though I came pretty late into the event I still managed to get some trees I wanted except for star fruit. I picked up a wax jambu, jackfruit, lychee and loquat. Will be coming back next year for sure

[cmichael258]

Also enjoyed the event and the opportunity to meet Adam and
Tropheus 76. How nice it was to attend an event inside an air conditioned building.

[chicomoralessxm]

wow glad everyone enjoy this maybe in 2 years time I will be able to visit.

[merce3]

What a cool sale. So many trees in an air conditioned room that even my wife was amazed. I picked up a lemon zest and venus mango, a premium low-fat, and a garcinia

[John Travis]

Sorry I missed this one. My wife and I have newborn twin boys so I couldn't make it out. What were some of the highlights of the show? Anything mind-blowing?

[dwfl]

Was a very nice sale. I liked Adam's selection and setup. TopTropicals was right across from him and they had some good stuff as usual too. I bought 3 of Adam's plants and that was all for me. Would have probably bought more if I had brought a cart instead of the wife. 

[Tropheus76]

I didn't notice anything crazy but I was on a mission to find the mango I was looking for before they sold out. You really have to have an idea of what you are looking for in advance because by the time you are just wandering around, a lot of the rare stuff is gone.

-I only found a single vendor with named jakfruit. Everyone else that I saw only had leggy seedlings from a tree in some park which I found kind of weird. By the time I found him he only had three left and one was grabbed right after I grabbed one.

The vendors seemed to be having a great day, many in the middle area were mostly sold out in the first hour. By hour 2 I went to one vendor and had a white sapote sample, all he had left were a couple little 1 gallon or less pots of seedlings he grew and only a half dozen of them.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

thanks to everyone who showed up at the sale!

it was great to meet some forum members, and put faces to usernames.

to be honest, I was worn out!  I fell asleep at 3 am the night of the sale, and had to wake up at 4:30am...

I ate a small breakfast, and headed to the sale...I got in early, as planned, and was able to unload well before the doors opened to customers.  This was the first year I did it with no hired help (thanks to Vernmented, and other club members who helped load, and unload...it took a load off my shoulders)

I brought about 10lbs of red jaboticaba, some Grimal fruits, (about 5 white jabo fruits) and a pound of pitangatuba fruit...I wish I had brought even more...but I'm not that generous.

People went crazy for the red jabos...it helped me sell a bunch of larger size trees...all of my smaller trees sold out...I should have brought more smaller trees.

sold lots of small pitanagtubas, and even some flowering size ones.

sold quite a few rainforest plums, one gal about 1ft tall

brought 4, but only sold one big ass miracle fruit tree... (btw, I have a bunch more here i really need to get rid of....might be able to deliver to certain locations in South and Central FL....they are over 6ft tall, over 20 yr old...$100 ea...buy more than 2 and I reduce price to $90....gotta get rid of them...they are too big...and all need 25gal pots...)

sold grafted Myrciaria vexator, should fruit this year..sold some big yellow jabos...one was like 6ft almost...sold bunch of the small Plinia spiritosantensis seedlings,..about 8-12 inch tall.

sold a few Plinia sp. (Escarlate)  6 inch tall one gal.

sold grafted Plinia trunciflora, about 4 ft tall,...this tree was beautiful!

sold some seedling rollinias from my Monstrinho tree,

sold a seedling of Kimber Red, about 7ft tall with first flowers, in 7 gal,  (a man came and got it about 5 minutes after I reduced the price)

sold a seedling atemoya from australia (pinks mammoth), flowering in a 3 gal pot, about 4 x 4ft...
sold out of Garcinia intermedia seedlings, I think i had 3 of them about 3.5 ft tall, close to fruiting .

sold grafted illama "genova red", just healed about 10 inch tall, one gal pot,  (thanks to the kind man who got it)

also sold small grafted A. salzmannii just healed, about 10 inch tall, branched very well, one gal pot,..(I didn't see who got it...I wanted to talk to person who bought this plant, and tell them how special it is...)

sold a few myrciaria guaquiea seedlings...quite small...and also had a lone M. strigipes seedling that sold....

and then almost sold out of Grimals...I had one close to fruiting, seedling, and one grafted, close to fruiting...and then a few smaller ones

that's all I can remember for now..thanks again to all who attended, and supported me.

[geosulcata]

-I only found a single vendor with named jakfruit. Everyone else that I saw only had leggy seedlings from a tree in some park which I found kind of weird. By the time I found him he only had three left and one was grabbed right after I grabbed one

Did you buy our Bangkok Lemon? I wasn't able to put faces to screen names.

Next year, we plan to bring more grafted jackfruit trees. Those sold out quickly. Like Adam, we plan to bring fewer large trees next year. 

It was so much fun being able to talk with other people who love growing fruit!

[Leviathon51]

Adam, I should be getting a bonus check on the 31st.  I was hoping to spend most of it on stuff from you.  Can you post a pic of the miracle fruit?

[chicomoralessxm]

wow adam I really have visit the sale next year if i can make a special trip but i'm really planning for 2yars from now.

[Tropheus76]

Geo- no I bought an NS-2 from a stand near the front. They brought 10 and there was one left  when I passed the booth again in line.

My neighbor is really interested in your grafted jabo if you still have one. He will likely want a big red as well. He likes to buy bigger trees.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

here is the booth before the sale.....

[cmichael258]

-I only found a single vendor with named jakfruit. Everyone else that I saw only had leggy seedlings from a tree in some park which I found kind of weird. By the time I found him he only had three left and one was grabbed right after I grabbed one

Did you buy our Bangkok Lemon? I wasn't able to put faces to screen names.

Next year, we plan to bring more grafted jackfruit trees. Those sold out quickly. Like Adam, we plan to bring fewer large trees next year. 

It was so much fun being able to talk with other people who love growing fruit!

I see that you have several pom. trees, including a Gissarskii and a Sirenevyi. Have either of them fruited?

[geosulcata]

We put the pomegranates in less than a year ago. I think it will be another year or two.

[geosulcata]

Geo- no I bought an NS-2 from a stand near the front. They brought 10 and there was one left  when I passed the booth again in line.

There was a super nice guy who had his hand on our last Borneo Red. When someone else said they wanted it he took the last Bangkok Lemon instead. Lots of great people at the sale.

I brought some Pitogo bananas for people to sample...that lasted under 30 seconds I think.

We are Selling our 7 gallon mangos and avocados at a big discount -  email or message. We are in north Sarasota. Still looking for a few banana cultivars if anyone is interested in trading.

[chicomoralessxm]

here is the booth before the sale.....

Nice picture I really missed out what are the large trees on the left adam?

[FlyingFoxFruits]

here is the booth before the sale.....

Nice picture I really missed out what are the large trees on the left adam?

thanks!

those are the big ol' honkin miracle fruit trees!!!

Adam, I should be getting a bonus check on the 31st.  I was hoping to spend most of it on stuff from you.  Can you post a pic of the miracle fruit?

thanks brother!  can you see the miracle fruit trees in my pic?

[Tropicaliste]

Was there anything super rare, like longkong or kepel? I'm curious whether a few of those things pop up.

[Tropheus76]

I didn't see anything super rare. There were some uncommon odds and ends at least by Orlando standards, like a good sized Lilly Pilly tree, and a bunch of super tropicals that Top Tropicals brought up. But nothing I would class as super rare. But then I am guessing most of the rare stuff got grabbed in the first 15 minutes before I got to see it. Wax jambus, some oddball guavas, a few hidden treasures here and there like the Zills suranam cherries, Adams super grafted Jabo was neat to see.

[dwfl]

thanks to everyone who showed up at the sale!

it was great to meet some forum members, and put faces to usernames.

to be honest, I was worn out!  I fell asleep at 3 am the night of the sale, and had to wake up at 4:30am...

I ate a small breakfast, and headed to the sale...I got in early, as planned, and was able to unload well before the doors opened to customers.  This was the first year I did it with no hired help (thanks to Vernmented, and other club members who helped load, and unload...it took a load off my shoulders)

I brought about 10lbs of red jaboticaba, some Grimal fruits, (about 5 white jabo fruits) and a pound of pitangatuba fruit...I wish I had brought even more...but I'm not that generous.

People went crazy for the red jabos...it helped me sell a bunch of larger size trees...all of my smaller trees sold out...I should have brought more smaller trees.

sold lots of small pitanagtubas, and even some flowering size ones.

sold quite a few rainforest plums, one gal about 1ft tall

brought 4, but only sold one big ass miracle fruit tree... (btw, I have a bunch more here i really need to get rid of....might be able to deliver to certain locations in South and Central FL....they are over 6ft tall, over 20 yr old...$100 ea...buy more than 2 and I reduce price to $90....gotta get rid of them...they are too big...and all need 25gal pots...)

sold grafted Myrciaria vexator, should fruit this year..sold some big yellow jabos...one was like 6ft almost...sold bunch of the small Plinia spiritosantensis seedlings,..about 8-12 inch tall.

sold a few Plinia sp. (Escarlate)  6 inch tall one gal.

sold grafted Plinia trunciflora, about 4 ft tall,...this tree was beautiful!

sold some seedling rollinias from my Monstrinho tree,

sold a seedling of Kimber Red, about 7ft tall with first flowers, in 7 gal,  (a man came and got it about 5 minutes after I reduced the price)

sold a seedling atemoya from australia (pinks mammoth), flowering in a 3 gal pot, about 4 x 4ft...
sold out of Garcinia intermedia seedlings, I think i had 3 of them about 3.5 ft tall, close to fruiting .

sold grafted illama "genova red", just healed about 10 inch tall, one gal pot,  (thanks to the kind man who got it)

also sold small grafted A. salzmannii just healed, about 10 inch tall, branched very well, one gal pot,..(I didn't see who got it...I wanted to talk to person who bought this plant, and tell them how special it is...)

sold a few myrciaria guaquiea seedlings...quite small...and also had a lone M. strigipes seedling that sold....

and then almost sold out of Grimals...I had one close to fruiting, seedling, and one grafted, close to fruiting...and then a few smaller ones

that's all I can remember for now..thanks again to all who attended, and supported me.

Adam, your set up was great. I didn't see any other vendor with garcinia species. The jabo samples you had up front were drawing people in droves. Having samples out is a great idea. I bought two of your g. intermedia trees - how old are they? (one was 3.5 feet tall, the other about 2 1/2 feet tall. Did you have them in full sun or? I have them in partial sun underneath some wide spread Inga trees right now. Also bought a Rainforest Plum (eugenia candolleana).

[Leviathon51]

I should be in contact with you this weekend Adam.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

thanks dwfl,

the garcinias are about 3-4 yr old, they could fruit this year if you are lucky, but most likely, within 1-2yrs.

I have a 3.5yr old seedling, I'm keeping, in a 3 gal root pruner pot, and its about 4ft t all x 3ft wide, it just started flowering this year.

thanks for supporting my nursery! good luck with the garcinias, (they can handle full sun, but might show some leaf burn...if you wanna play it safe, keep them protected from mid day sun, but give them max sunlight, and water....they like lots of water, and can handle prolonged flooding like some of the common Plinia sp.)

Leviathon51,
please send an email, thanks!

[Tropicaliste]

What do you have left to sell, Adam? You know, I'm easily tempted.   

[chicomoralessxm]

adams trees are more then a temptation,  in a year or so i might need rehab
do you have any grimal or grum. Adam