The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thanks for posting the picture. That looks exactly how mine looked at that size.  all the other pictures I have seen oline all show much larger matue trees.  this helps me be a little more confident with the verification.

Does anyone recognize this tree?  Is it a tropical fruit tree.  I don't want to continue growing it if it is not.

Which of the tropical cherries (cotrg, suriman, grumichama) most emulate the taste of the cherris grown up north. I have some limited space in my yard in Brevard Fl, and want to appease my wife with a tree with cherries with the taste that most replicate cherries from the north, but can be grown in 9b climate

Wow, not to enthused about sniffing "farts" lol.  I will give this a try.  Thanks for the advise.

You might try Rockledge Gardens in Rockledge.  They had some fruit punch mango trees a couple of weeks ago when I was there.  I would call first and see what they have in stock.

Quote from: puglvr1 on June 18, 2015, 02:56:27 PM

Thanks Brett...other than the large holes I think it should work? But wish I could find something with smaller holes so the critters can't chew through it...but have the same 'easy to work with' as chicken wire  ...the ones with smaller holes are very stiff and need pliers and are capable of doing some serious injuries to your hand 

Appreciate the picture!

My Maja should ready by late July



here is the tree

You can take your chicken wire and create an inner liner with aluminum screen(used for windows).  Has worked like a champ at my place when the squirrels were still getting their paws thru the chicken wire.

Quote from: clannewton on July 10, 2015, 01:03:37 PM

Any other ideas?  Does the bumpiness on the fruit distort it beyond recognition?

Has the fruit always been bumpy like that?

The trunk is about 4 inches in Diameter.  This is only the second year it has had fruit and I don't remember what it looked like the first year it fruited.

Quote from: clannewton on July 09, 2015, 06:07:41 PM

Quote from: bsbullie on July 09, 2015, 05:45:52 PM

From the looks of the fruit only, I would say its a seedling.  Can you confirm it is grafted and this is indeed the graft material?

Does not look like any NDM or Okrung I have seen.

I got the tree from either Home Depot or Walmart about six years ago so I would have assumed it was grafted.  I lost the id tag as I was  transporting it and several dozen other trees into my pole barn during likely freeze mornings when they were all in buckets.

Can you please post a close up picture of the graft union.  Its the odd "bumpiness" to the fruit that I have concerns over.

The first 2 pictures are of the unknown mango tree.  I really can't tell where the graft union is.  After the tree gets so big or reaches  a certain maturity, does the graft union become difficult to distinguish?  The third picture is of my 15' Valencia Pride and the fourth picture is of my 16' Kent that I got from PIN about 5 years ago and I can't distinguish the graft union on them either.  On the unknown mango tree I believe I got a couple of fruit off of it a couple of years ago and the only thing I can recall about it was the fruit was fiberless and not tupentine(thank God!).  Would have hated to have used all these growing years to have saved a turpentine mango

That green tape looks too tight/////  Is it? The tape securing the tree to the pole. Looks to me like it has indented the bark in another place previously
Better to use an old rope. Or I have an old electrical cord doing it.

Is this tree grafted? Did you look for a graft line?

You were quite right.  I removed the tape as it is about 13 ft high and no longer needs it.  Also removed the tape from about 3 dozen other trees in the same condition.  Thanks for pointing that out and my trees thank you also!

I am really interested in acquiring those trees.  I sent a pm.  Hope to hear from you.