The Tropical Fruit Forum

We go every year, you never know what varieties of trees they may have that are difficult to find anywhere else, be awesome if we can plan a get together there for the people on this forum,this way we can all meet. hopefully see many of you there.

If we catch a nursery involved in renaming cultivar names or changing tags on a tree to make the sale, etc, this should be reported to the forum.  This will help the Tropical Fruit collection community.  It would help filter out the people doing this and help us fruit collectors.  Maybe making a sticky where an incident/multiple incidents by different confirmed users can be reported?  This would have to be done carefully as abuse can occur.  Maybe only administrators can post to such thread after an incident is confirmed?

Thanks,
Adiel

Agree, I have a handful of trees myself that we have lost either tags or cant be sure of the variety from either age or storms ripping off tags,I would not sell them, in fact we have about a half doz mango trees that we keep for customers looking for a cheap tree that dont really care about the cultivar and are happy to sell those at our cost, we call it our "take your chance lot" you have to be pretty sleazy to just name something to make a couple of bucks.

We have one we got at Fairchild last year,agreed it is a beautiful tree,can't wait for it to bloom,I heard the fruit is very good.

I agree, that is why i have not carried any citrus product,I remeber quite a few nurseries having to dispose of their entire inventory of citrus with the canker fiasco,I hate to lose biz,but I would rather lose biz than customers or have to sell a tree that has no shot at surviveability. i guess I will stick with what we have been doing and focus on that. Thanks for all the imput

Just curious how big a threat folks on this forum believe citrus greening to be in south Florida, from a little of what I have obsereved it seems to be pretty prevelant throughtout Dade and broward county, I keep having customers ask for citrus trees and I have been cautious to carry any just because I think with this Greening it is unwise to invest the money in either trees for a yard or inventory for my nursery. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, Thanks Mike

That's when we purchased ours, and in fact for the very diesease resistant reason,so I guess we will see, just really curious about the taste.

trying to get some info about emerald mango, if any has tried this variety?? we have 2 in ground would appreciate some info on taste and growth habit. Thanks Mike

Hey Jaboticaba lovers, check this out ! These incredible Jaboticabas are grown by my friend George in Parkland FL which is near my home.  He has over 30 Jabos in the ground including 8 or 10 that are over 20 years old. Some years he gets 3 to 4 large crops per year. He sells almost every one to the local Brazilians who go crazy over them! I have never seen more prolific trees than his. He uses lots of mulch and waters a bunch too. Besides the Florida guys, which other forum members have fruited Jabos?     

 

Awesome pics,amazing what some folks can do!
 

We have had trees stolen ourselves,months ago,guess part of doing biz,now we have watchdogs that are out when we are closed. They are very good at there jobs!! now if I can only train them to catch all the fruit eating squirrels I have that would be awesome!! they do a heck of a job on raccoons and possums,so they rarely come into our grove anymore!

I would assume if they are a yard crew working an area,they case yards by day and come back at night, I am no Sherlock Holmes, but that would make the most sense,one of the people told me he saw a landscape truck and trailer (red trailer) with no markings driving up and down his street the day before he had a carrie mango he just purchased stolen, just sucks cause now he dosent even want to replace the tree fearing it would happen again,cant say I blame him, but you cant let fear rule you either. I would say these fools are no brain surgeons,sooner or later they will hit the wrong place.,problem is who is gonna prosecute these guys when they cant even put real crimminals in jail.

 One thing I hate is a thief!! I would assume they may be stealing these to re-sell, but you never know, if it a landscape crew then i assume they are re-selling them, nowadays people will pretty much steal anything they can re-sell,guess a bad economy brings out the best in our fellow citizens!!

After watching that video i wanted to throw up,brought back some BAD memories,we were totally trashed also,and they continue to say it was a cat 1,I beg to differ,we where out just after the eye passed and believe me in Davie we had much worse than any Cat 1 could produce. I wont sleep tonite thinking of the next one!, at least we can always replant,but its tough watching hard work go to waste!
That's living in south fl for ya!

Don't know how, but thanks for the offer.

Check bak with me in late spring,hopefully by then i will have some available. keep in touch