The Tropical Fruit Forum

Zands I havent seen a doctor in over 25 years when I broke my kneecap off.  Had that kneecap sitting up on my thigh and my knee swelled up like a softball.  Spent the night in the hospital and had surgery the next day.  I was trying to hold out but at 3am the pain got to me.  I rang the bell and nurse came and told me to roll over and she injected my with morphene in my butt and laughed at me.  Thats the last time I took a shot.   

I had a Springfel mango last week and it was probably three pounds! I didn't weigh it, but I should have. It was excellent.

Ha!  I wish I had a full acre. I have about a 1/4 acre residential lot. I have a total of 153 tropical fruit trees on property with 73 in ground; 19 of which are mango trees that are about 12-14 feet high. The mangos are spaced at five feet apart. Anyway, I think over many years I've accidentally mastered the art of high concentration growing. I even have a mango tree hedge made up of pickering, rosie gold and ice cream. Anyway, it looks like a botanical garden in back, but you would not notice anything amiss in front even though every single tree on property is a fruit producer except for a couple of tall Michelia Alba trees and a purple tabebuia in front. The highlight in the backyard is a long row of several tall mango trees and a couple of 14 feet lychees.

It's hard to balance the line between 'crazy plant guy' and also fit within the scheme of a normal residential neighborhood. I think, by accident, I pulled it off though. Helps that my wife tells me 'no' a lot whenever I try to plant a tree in a bad spot.

I'm headed to Delray Beach to pick up my Sweet Tart and a Sugar loaf mango tomorrow based on your recommendations; maybe a Kathy too (WTH). Thanks very much for your help.   I'll post some pics later this week if anyone is interested.

Quote from: zands on July 22, 2022, 06:45:55 AM

I have a huge front yard, but we use to have a mango tree in the front, and every year someone would steal all of our fruit. One of the hurricanes took it down, but I have been hesitant to plant fruit in the front yard since then.

It only gets real when you plant in the front yard. Stealing is how they show their love and flattery. No I do not believe the every year part. Where is BS Bullie anyways?

What is BS Bullie?
It was a tree that was closer to the street, and someone would come in the middle of the night, back their truck up in the very lower part of our driveway and pick every single fruit. We caught them on the ring, but there was really nothing we could do. A friend of ours said that there was a group of people that mapped out fruit trees in front yards in our neighborhood and would take the fruit every season to sell. I don't know if that is true. We also have a coconut tree in our front yard and I would always catch people climbing up and taking our coconuts. In the middle of the day, when we were home. They would put a mattress on the ground and just take them off and drop them down. One guy told me that the lady that lives in my house lets him do it, but it was like 3 years after we bought the house. So maybe the previous owner didn't eat mango and coconut and just let people take it? We live on a busy street and a lot of people that walked buy would knock on the door and ask if they could take some mangos, and it had more than we could eat so I would always say yes. But to go to bed with a tree full of fruit and wake up to an empty tree was pretty frustrating. It only happened for the first 2 years we had the house then a hurricane destroyed the tree. However, these experiences have made me leery to plant in the front yard.

Best compromise would be mango and pepperoni pizza.