The Tropical Fruit Forum

The peach actually started its blooms...I just want to make sure I wasn't going to waste time and energy on a plant that may decline overall or not put out adequate growth...The plum may still get yanked because its about 80% girdled...

peach bloom

Should I let these plants try to recover or should I yank them? Will they ever produce normally?  The first is my Tropic Beauty Peach followed by Scarlet Beauty Plum and the last is Nuathong Atemoya.... This happened about 8 months ago when the grass got tall and I didnt see how close I was trimming. Now I have the bark protectors on my trees....hindsight...

Tropic Beauty Peach




Scarlet Beauty Plum






Nuathong Atemoya

Sorry, its dark out..I'll take a better pic tomorrow..the flash kept messing with the pic..They definitely appear grafted...

I purchased three jackfruit the other day at Excalibur, incuding Bangkok Lemon, Red Morning, and Cristella. The Cristella on the right seems large enough to plant out...but what about the other two? bangkok Lemon is in middle and Red Morning on left. They are grafted not seedlings.




also note the flower buds on the bangkok lemon....I'm gonna let it fruit.....maybe next year

I'll take 10

I was donated a seedling avocado tree that had been dug up twice by neighbor and moved around his yard. When I got home one day I found the avocado seedling in a 5 gallon bucket of water on my front porch step like an orphan in need of a home. Problem was I had enough seedlings and wasn't doing much with the ones I had. But I took it anyway and threw it on the side of my house waiting for it to drown slowly in the next week or so in the bucket of water. But as you can see by the pics not only is it not dead after six months but it has put out new root growth and its starting to push out some buds at the top. There is a mas of algae that has developed around the roots which is probably supplying the tree with oxygen at the roots...This tree seems very useful as a root stock...Any ideas on what will happen? Its been in that bucket for at least six months and all I've done is add a few mosquito fish recently to control the mosquito larvae population...just wanted to share the bizarre....

Been a while since I posted..started lurking about a week ago...working three jobs these days so time has been scarce. I took 6 weeks off work so now I'm all caught up. Here is a tour of my garden and yard as of 12/15. My American Bulldog 'Johnny Cash' in the pics is for size reference only..he is 85 lbs.. Will try to update with some close-ups of the garden and new growth on some of the trees...Sheehan anyway you can post a link to that old garden post we had going and I can add some pics there..thanks
A couple quick shots of the veggie garden....couldn't find the old vegetable post that was started so I'm adding it here...

Original post when I first bought many of the trees
Old veggie post




                                                             Pina Colada Mango

                                       Eureka Lemon (bent back from the windy weather this season)

                                                     base of lemon tree continually gets this fungus

                                                           Tropic Beauty Peach (also bent from winds)

                                                               discoloration of Peach leaves...?

                                                        Scarlet Beauty Plum..pruned heavy

                                                 nother shot of da garden....

                                      closest annona is Nuathong and the other to the right is Phet Pakchong

                                         dragon fruit..got this from Zill's produced many fruits so far!

                                     Genova Red...has taken to being planed out very well

                                              various mango seedlings I will soon be grafting

                              Jabo seedlings from Adam...1/2 survived and I gave the other 1/2 away

                            Kary---Carambola..new growth all the time..good base and trunk developing

                                                a shot of my soon to be aquaponics tank...still working on it....

                    right to left--Jamaican Red, Dwarf Cavendish, Raja Puri..lost some big stalks in the winds

                        closest to the left is Rollinia Deliciosa...good growth this year

                          closeups of maha chanok mango hiding inside my pineapples

       another close-up of discoloration on the top of the maha chanok....this mango has been isolated from other mangos since purchase...

                                       tree to left is Lisa atemoya, a dragon fruit climbing the fence behind it. on the wall to the right is a miracle fruit I've had great production from.. a little light green from all the sun...

                Atemoya Gefner to the left and Kampong mauve to the right. What I am trying to to construct is growth of trees trained to make canopy to walk under..they seem to respond to pruning well

                                              Merry Jaboticaba Christmas (Adam)....one of my first trees I bought at excalibur about 8 years ago...severely abused in the past is now being counseled....so should fruit soon right??? and its strung with lights!

                                                    Duncan Mango with heavy pruning within a foot of graft

                                                      Coconut Cream Mango...had a hard time heavy pruning this one...maybe next year
                                                       
                                                           

                                                              Sweet Tart mango with heavy pruning

                                                                 Hak Ip Lychee no flowering yet...did I read that some of yall got flowers already?

                                                                  Lemon Meringue Mango pruned heavy

                                                                    Lemon Zest Mango

                                                                   Sri Kembangan Carambola

                  Emperor Lychee with damage from Sri Lanka Weevil...is use nothing for control

                                             damaged Emperor leaves with new growth emerging

                                                 Brewster Lychee with sri lanka weevil damage...

                                                        Brewster leaf damage

                                                          Duncan Mango very nice growth

               neglected but hanging on Feijoa 'Nazemetz' my very first 'rare' tree..i actually fruited this at my old place in container by hand pollination.

Nice pics..anybody going down there? I'd like to put in an order.

The Broward Rare Fruit & Vegetable Council has a 3 acre property, which grows various rare fruit trees.  They were very kind and provided us a tour of their property.  One of our hosts, Eric, was the gardener/grounds keeper for William Whitman's house, while Mr. Whitman was alive.  Eric was our primary guide, pointing out the various trees as we toured the property.  He seemed very knowledgeable.  Eric said he has tasted 300+ varieties of mangos.  During the tour, he pointed out his favorite mangos, which included Mahachanok, Neelam, and Alampur Baneshar.  Eric was a pretty cool guy as were our other hosts & hostesses.  Thought I would share the mango varieties with the group.  With permission, I collected budwood of the Neelam and Alampur Baneshar.  I already have a Mahachanok, so I didn't get any maha budwood.  I noticed Pine Island rated the Alampur Baneshare rather low.  http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/mango/alampur-baneshan-mango.shtml  Any idea why?  Did they pick it when it wasn't ripe?

Are you sure you read that right? It has one of the higher ratings. Quote "Alampur Baneshan is considered one of the finest dessert mangos of Northern India."

Need and ID please...

I've never seen them on mine...just the occasional mealybug. I usually just wipe them off the fruit with a stiff paintbrush.

Thanks, a little better googling on my part next time.

Harry + Carrie = Charrie. If you want it to really sell name it Cherry. If you were like Zill you would name it Cherry Pie, Cherry Cream, Cherry Cake, Cherry Cobbler, or Cherry Merengue. I think the name Harrie Carrie would be really suicidal. Pun intended! 
BTW, i see the Guatemalan imported rambutan craze has hit your doorstep also!

How bout Cheri...like the liquor