The Tropical Fruit Forum

I was lucky enough to taste this yesterday, it is delicious. Unlike any other annona I have had.

Looks like it could be to me.

One of the best mangoes I have tried this year.

My florida prince has provided 30 peaches in 6 years. 28 the first and two this year.

I have tried some from four trees. It's good overall. Not my favorite but worth growing.

I have a friend who had a lot for sale. Pm me if you want.

Quote from: ftmyersfruit on February 26, 2018, 09:53:41 AM

I was told it's a small fruit. I have a seedling as well. I think it's like a hybrid or just a jackfruit. Doesn't look like the chempedak I have. Also it dislikes my soil greatly and mostly refuses to grow.

Dieback happened in bags or ground? Chempedak has problems surving being in pots / bags.

No die back. Just hasn't grown in almost a year. I put it in the ground the day I got it. It survived the relatively bad winter undamaged.

Both grow very easily anywhere in 10a/b.

From my experience with hurricane Irma at probably cat 3 winds. I had the following trees bent to the ground: muntinigia, lychee, Beverly mango, NS1 jackfruit seedling (4yaears old), grafted cheena, coconut (small in ground 2 years), peanut butter fruit (dead), tall nam wah bananas and manzana, moringa, Neem, red Sugar apple seedling, green sugar apple seedling, rollinia (probably dying), 3x soursop, red morning Jak. All the remaining mangoes, Jak, and lychee were almost untouched. Chupa chupa was defoliated, achachariu was bent by bananas, atemoya held it's fruit but looks terrible with some broken limbs. Tamarind is completely windswept now as well as a Barbados cherry. Mamey x4 were untouched. Ice cream bean defoliated on top branches.

I use MW yearly. It is the best around.

They seem to do well. None have ever shown water related stress. Even after having about .4 inches of rain the first four months of this year. All of them at my place have been in ground at least two years  I also have seedlings planted on a vacant lot that have never had a drop of irrigation since planting two years ago. They are growing slower, but fine last I checked.

My Ross fruits in clusters. Here are flowers from today.

Here is one I grafted from the f&s tree. Hard to tell, but flowering in clusters.

I tend to think they are the same species or very very closely related to canistel. The second photo is grafted onto canistel.

I have a total of 1 branch on 3 trees flowering now with no signs of future flowering.