Went to give my jaboticabas some water last night, got a call and ended up forgetting about the hose running until this morning. They got a bit more water than I originally contemplated.....along with everything else on that side of the yard. Anyway, it was a gorgeous morning and I took some update pics. I hope you enjoy:
Sorry for the poor positioning of the shot in relation to the sun....the white colored area at the bottom is water. This is the lowest point on my property, but the flooding spread out about 25 yards in all directions. Should be good for pushing some new jabo bloom. Not sure sure how well the nearby mangoes and their bloom/fruits are going to respond:
Kensington Pride with fruits and new bloom still coming.
Pickering mango
Extrema mango
This is my Maha Chanok seedling project three trees in one whole, looking from the east. The tree that bears the colorful fruit, from which my avatar has been selected has not previously bloomed this year, but is beginning to now.
The northwestern Maha Chanok seedling bears the largest of the fruits. It bloomed nicely earlier this season, is blooming again and the fruits that did set from the first bloom are about 1/3 of their mature size.
Coconut cream mango in its second bloom. There was fruit set from the first bloom, but I can't seem to find any of the fruits that set. So either I am missing them or they have dropped.
For all those of you that write me privately asking advice about your trees, thinking I have all the answers.....here is my Green Sapote. I haven't a clue what the heck went wrong with it. It was healthy an vibrant. Now.....well, just look
That's more like it.....Alano Sapodilla
Surinam cherry "Zill Black" in full flower after just completing a fruiting.
Tiger Eye longan
Ross Sapote....a bit out of frame, but I wanted to chronicle the fact that it still had one fruit left on it from the last bloom. This is an unusual situation from my previous experience with this tree.
Canistel "Bruce"
Caimito seemingly taking forever to size up. I am still wondering if there is any purple coloration in their future.
Another sad story......My Kai maprang set two fruits......the last of these has turned yellow and is ready to drop.
Kau Dwarf mango from Hawaii.
Close up of Imbe blooms on my sideways, hurricane blown over tree
Maha Chanok (tree #3) with a close up of the fruit The size of the fruit would ordinarily not be this big for several months in a normal year.
Cluster of Thai Everbearing mangoes
Royal Lee cherry (foolishly purchased thinking that we could grow low chill cherries) the grafted portion of the tree is dormant or dead, but the root stock is growing like gangbusters. I figured I let it grow to see what it might produce.....if and when it flowers.
Miracle fruit sporting a few hundred mature fruits
Momoncillo getting ready to push something.....probably new growth, but I am hoping it will be bloom. Although the leaves are chewed up slightly by weevils, the new flush/bloom is going to be earlier than usual and so the Cuban May Beetles are not going to be around yet to devour all of the foliage like they usually do. Below is a close up of the bud. They swell for seemingly a month and then burst one day when you least expect it.
Bosworth 3 lychee and close up of fruiting panicle
My two, very different looking supposedly Sweetheart Lychee trees. Neither of them is fruiting particularly well, after some promise early on. But the more squat growing tree is definitely doing better than the more lanky growing Hak Ip like tree.
Van Dyke mango
Jamaican/Cuban Red banana
Beverly mango
Goldfinger banana (FHIA1)
Clusters of developing (what I have been calling) Dian Guaw mangoes
Mauritius lychee (apologies for the poor photography and washed out from the sun shot). Interestingly, half the tree is fruiting like gang busters and the other half, not all.
Rataul mango to the left, Julie to the right with Edward and Dot behind.
Okrung mango, dripping with fruit....and this is just one side.
Angie mango
Last, but not least, Jean Ellen mango. This was the subject of a thread I did in Garden Web regarding....To Prune or Not to Prune. You can find it here:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tropicalfruits/msg1221370531594.htmlFor those that may remember, I planted out a Fairchild purchase as a typical whip of a plant and never pruned it to see what would happen. It has still never been pruned.