The Tropical Fruit Forum

I did the Lara Farms bags of ice trick, I am getting mixed blooms. 3 bags of ice (gas station size) per tree spaced 4 to 6 inches from the trunk like the Mercedes symbol on the coldest days of the year starting in Dec. (leave ice in the bag) This coming week in So. Fl. I will do it again.

I have a squirrelinator it is ok, when I set it out I will get one at a time using peanuts. One time I had two but one was alive and one was just a head . I have no idea what got the body and tail. I do have a feral cat that patrols most nights.

In West Davie Fl, I still have Galaxy, Orange Essence, and Venus hanging on the tree. Less than a dozen of each.

I vote Honey Kiss, extend your mango season.

I like the chok anon eaten on the green side, left to fully ripen, my tree can give a funky aroma and taste.

Does anybody have a bookmark/link that can guide me when to pick different mango varieties? I just had a Guava mango not fit for consumption. Last year they were good, this one had an onion taste. I am looking for help when to leave on the tree and those that must be picked mature green.
thanks

My Florigon  and Chocanon has this on quite a few flushes





Thinking of eliminating the new growth.

grumichama cherry, I don't see the attraction.

I agree Jabo-45, Robert is Here, he has a wide variety of local grown, Milkshakes are pretty good and it is somewhat on the way to the keys.

Search Grimal Grove in the Big Pine Key, never got down there but it interests me.

Just to let everybody on here know, Mike Bender, of Bender's Tropical Grove passed away this week. Bought many trees from Mike, He could always locate what I was looking for. RIP

I don't know of any variety which is "immune" to MBBS; likely all varieties are affected by it, at least when the fruits' skin is rubbing against another fruit or against a branch.

So I agree with the original poster's wording, that we are looking for "resistant" varieties.

Totally agree with the fruit rubbing aspect from observation, as a test I am taking my heavy fruiting Hatcher (this year) and separating any fruit that rubs against each other or a branch, leaf. Years past I noticed multiple fruits that touched never saw a knife. Who knows maybe when all the fruit count is lower I will get some of those jumbo fruit that grow on the hill.

My 14+ year old mauritius gives me 20 to 40 lychees per year.

The 10 or so year old sweetheart has been a better bloomer (prolly 20% bloom each year), but fruit set and retention is terrible. I've been told that even the slightest drought stress will cause them to abort fruits and / or fail to set. And fruit set happens during the driest part of the year usually.

I'd tear them out, but I like the shade.

Quote from: Squam256 on March 03, 2020, 10:32:15 PM

Our Mauritius flushed growth. Yawn.

I was told lychees have a lazy root system and to put a sprinkler under the tree and water heavily once a week. This is my first year doing just that. it was also suggested to cut nitrogen as good producers had low nitrogen in the leaves.
A neighbor said fruit trees up North that are poor producers are beat with a chain to an inch of its life, so I did that this year and girdled 30% of the branches after the trunk showed signs of healing, over half of this 15 year old Mauritius tree is flowering.
I did this because only after a hurricane did it produce like it should.

Ice cream is my biggest disappointment, maybe 1% fruit set at this time, loads of dead flowers.