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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Grimal Jaboticaba seeds Plinia sp Peluda de Alagoas
« on: April 11, 2021, 03:33:48 PM »
I sent a pm too but no reply. I live nearby and would like to pick up some seeds.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: I let 3gal mango trees bear fruit and then this happened
« on: March 29, 2021, 12:03:46 PM »
They all look great to me. If they were my trees I'd let those varieties fruit at that size.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mystery seedling
« on: March 29, 2021, 11:57:44 AM »
I did plant some pond apple so that may be it. I still have some seeds, so I'll sow those too and see if they come up the same. Thanks everyone.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mystery seedling
« on: March 27, 2021, 05:48:18 PM »
This took around 6 months to germinate by which time I forgot what I planted. Anyone have an idea what they are?
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Apple seedling flowering super young
« on: March 10, 2021, 02:11:08 PM »
Great to see such amazing photos.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Letting young Mango trees bear fruit?
« on: February 23, 2021, 01:50:12 PM »
Rather than height look at the overall bushiness and size of the tree trunk. A bushy four foot tall Pickering with 2" wide trunk will easily bear fruit and not suffer any consequences. A six foot tall skinny VP is almost certainly a much younger weaker tree. Also, don't get fixated on pot size. A 7 gallon tree might have just been up potted and its roots are still 3 gallon size.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: favorite fruit 2020
« on: January 28, 2021, 03:51:33 PM »
My favorites are the ones I am eating at the time. However, while some trees have excellent fruit, but do not produce many of them. The winner is the Thai Giant Jujube which produces not only gorgeous tasting fruit but also a massive number of them.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tree's and floodings
« on: November 15, 2020, 03:38:24 PM »
Thank you Frog Valley Farm I always find wisdom in your comments and will think about more wild areas, but I’m also going to dig some swales. Jagmanjoe hang in there. It was worse thus year than last year.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tree's and floodings
« on: November 12, 2020, 12:16:46 PM »
I had flooding Florida Zone 9b back in September and now again after Hurricane Eta. All the trees were under water for a few days, before the water drained away. The peaches and nectarines did not like the wet conditions and I will have to see if they live after this latest flooding. In my wettest area I had a Hog Plum, Neem, Barbados Cherry, bananas, Noni, Starfruit and Java Plum. This area had standing water for 3 weeks. The Hog Plum lost all its leaves and I had to move it to a drier location, (it's now got new leaves), whereas the others were okay and the Java Plum actually thrived and increased in size.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rosigold Flowering Now
« on: October 14, 2020, 10:33:28 AM »
i have a Valencia Pride that is flowering (October 2020 Zone 9b). Seems kind of late or early to me. One of my neighbors has Nam Doc Mai that often flowers in November and produces fruit very early in the year.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Quickest producers from seed?
« on: October 12, 2020, 02:53:18 PM »
While cuttings are always quicker to fruit and will be truer to the parent, the following can fruit in a couple of years: cocoplum, noni, seagrape.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Would Che tree fruit in Bradenton, FL?
« on: October 07, 2020, 02:38:30 PM »
If planting here in Bradenton I would not put them in a suntrap area. Put them in the coolest part of your yard, with shade in the afternoon.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Asimina species of interest native to FL only please...
« on: September 29, 2020, 03:27:05 PM »
I have dozens of Asimina reticulata growing on my property. Unfortunately the fruit are pretty small and not that appetizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwqRCtPaGlA&t=75s
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grumichama vs Jaboticaba
« on: September 23, 2020, 03:55:12 PM »
For me they are as different as surinam cherry is to CORTG. My grumichamas are like miniature peaches, the jabos like tropical custard.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grumichama flowering!
« on: September 23, 2020, 03:45:54 PM »
I'm in 9B W. Central Florida. The Eugenias flower in March and September. They give more fruit after the March flowering when it is drier here. Less fruit after the September flowering, when it is wetter here. Not a completely scientific experiment, but I would say they fruit better with drier conditions.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Palma Sola Botanical Park Plant Sale October 3rd Bradenton, FL
« on: September 18, 2020, 11:47:09 AM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit id
« on: September 18, 2020, 11:40:39 AM »
I appreciate the replies. It didn't taste anything like peanut butter. Just blah. I had one of these plants and sold it. Glad I did.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit id
« on: September 18, 2020, 06:05:54 AM »
Here’s another fruit I did not recognize. Again it was not very tasty.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit id
« on: September 18, 2020, 05:51:57 AM »
I thought it was possibly in the Annona family and with your opinions I cross checked it and it does appear to be a pond apple. It tastes similar to the Asimina reticulata. The tree I found was in Palma Sola Botanical Park, Bradenton, FL.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Fruit id
« on: September 17, 2020, 12:22:07 PM »
Please let me know what this fruit is. It doesn’t taste that great, but I’d like to know what it is.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone has tips on grafting guava? Please share.
« on: September 09, 2020, 11:16:13 AM »
I've had success with ground layering low lying branches. Weighting them down and putting some soil on them for a few months until they grow roots.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Land size
« on: August 25, 2020, 06:35:15 AM »
We acquired 6.2 acres last year and now have over 200 tropical trees on the 3 cleared acres. It’s a lot of work.
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Pawpaw orchard video update
« on: July 29, 2020, 12:16:37 PM »
Looks beautiful. Where do you get the tree nets from?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Wonderful pomegranate FL
« on: July 23, 2020, 09:53:36 PM »
This year has been very dry, which pommes like to a degree. I have a young Padgett pomegranate, less than 3’ high, which fruited a couple of months back, but then it rained and the fruit split. Someone near me has a slightly older bush which is covered in fruit. I don’t know the variety they have. Zone 9b.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Stink bugs on avocado tree
« on: July 16, 2020, 01:47:27 PM »
The smell doesn't bother me so I just grab them and squish them if i see just one or two. If you have larger numbers bothering your trees, there are some videos out there that show you how to make a homemade stink bug catcher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoNbvhld8rM You can make a free scooper or one with a light.
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