The Tropical Fruit Forum

Let me first explain the subject .

I just bought the only available lot right next to my orchard/nursery at a total rip-off price ( I may get a divorce over this ) I could have gotten a few hectares somewhere else for the same price but considering it is in a tourist area , Tequila factories , 3 Zip lines , hiking , horse back riding and name it...I feel in the long run it will get more expensive , unless the Mayans where right about December 21 - 2012 end of the world as we know it .

That said , I still have a lot , and I mean a lot , of plants still in nursery bags some even fruiting and quite a few that I have no idea what they are ( lost tags , happens to most of us fanatics )

So , I have my doubts about the following if they are really worth the square meter price keeping in mind I am not 20 anymore , more like going down the hill :

Kola nut
Tahiti nut
Cinnamon
Pili nut
Monkey pod
Amazon grape
Joazeiro
etc....

Or to make it easier for you , if you only could only plant 5 fruit trees which ones would you , forget about mango , lichee , longan and the more common ones , I am talking about the hard core collectors stuff , that may appeal to the general public.

Who has cheena fruiting in this part of the word ( FL and Caribean )
Mine was planted from seed in 2008 , now only 5 feet ( 1.50 meter ) tall , grows faster than chempedak but I have jack varieties ( from seed ) that fruited in less than 4 years....
Once in a while I trow some triple 17 at it ( nothing else available in this tourist area )

Today I picked the biggest fruits so far , 8 cm in diameter  , super acid with the nicest apricot smell and flavor , I was gonna post these but they were stolen while unloading the pick up .....

Still I am not 100% sure that this small bush was correctly ID'd , they look like an oversized E. stipitata , more fuzzy and orange , different in taste also . They are definitely not the E. victoriana , leaves are different....( victoriana keeps on flowering and no fruit ....)
Fruit is not round or pear shaped....and fruits several times a year.

Googling the uvahla says fruits are 1 to 2"...I give up and leave it to the experts ..you guys....

I have the bad habit of planting every seed that comes in my path and not always marking the pot or nursery bag , most of the time I remember....but this one no idea...

The reason I mentioned a Baobab is that it came up in a planter where I planted baobab seeds a long time ago.

Got lucky on this one , only 3 trees and 2 females , climbing a ladder every few days to smell the fruits , as soon as they smell like a Camembert that is ready to be thrown out they should be ready to pick .