what happens when u lose your newbie statusyou get three yellow boxes and you are termed a "member".
Hello and thanks for the welcome.
I suspect very few pawpaw trees have been tried in the Denver area (what's locally called the "Front Range", right along the base of the Rocky Mountains) because their ideal growing environment- acidic, well-drained soil with protection from wind, moderate to high humidity-- is not what we have here. We get 70-100 MPH winds blowing down off the mountains several times a year, very low humidity, and we have alkaline, non-draining bentonite clay soil. A pickaxe is usually required if it gets dry and you need to dig a hole. A pawpaw tree haphazardly placed in the ground here has little chance of survival. With proper siting, on top of a hill for drainage, protected from wind by buildings and other trees, it appears it is possible to grow them in this area.
I planted two pawpaw trees (seedlings) about 12 years ago, about 6 feet apart. One died after 3 years, the other has now been blooming for the past 3 years but has yet to bear a fruit. Last year I did a search through local plant societies and found what was widely believed (among the social plant enthusiasts, anyhow) to be the only blooming pawpaw tree along the front range. It was also planted about 12 years ago as one of two grafted plants; according to the owner, both grafts died and re-sprouted from the rootstock, then one of his trees died entirely. He has had fruit form on his remaining tree, so it must be self-fertile. Mine certainly doesn't seem to be, and even after exchanging pollen with his tree last year, I still didn't get fruit.
Last summer I planted 6 more grafted pawpaws, but it will likely be a few years before they bloom. I'm planning on harvesting some budwood from some of my grafted pawpaws to attempt grafts onto my mature tree this spring; if I get lucky I'll be able to try the selected varieties in 2013! I'm still hoping I can successfully cross-pollinate it with the other tree 70 miles away this spring to see if my seedling's fruit is even worth eating.
Kevin
Hey everyone! My name is Kyle and Im in central Ohio. I am interested in growing tropical fruits, wrist watches and I am obsessed with fishing. I have always had a passion for plants but about a year ago I came across an article on miracle fruit and I had to have one. I then met OhioJay and ended up with many more plants than just miracle fruit. I have recently thinned out what I have as we have bought a new house and I've been busy with it and our old home. right now I have a Grumichama tree, 5 miracle fruit bushes, tazmanian poppy, a couple dragon fruits, 2 Butch T trinidad scorpions, bhut jalokia, fatali, white habs.
I look forward to being a member of the forum.
Kyle
I was Mango Dog at the "other" forum and had to change to MangoFang as "god" was taken. (Yeah, Murahlin - not a "dog" had been used here but a "god" apparently was....somebody's got a spelling problem ::) yes? Just kidding....)
Interesting. I hope the new grafted pawpaws work out. I was looking at the map where you put your location and it is amazing to see your location actually at the base of the rockies. I did not think it was going to be so apparent. That must be an amazing view though. The flat land in Florida is boring to look at but nice to drive on.
Terrible view! Don't know how you stand it. Murahilin would never survive in a location that is not flat as a pancake. The smallest of hills wears him out!! ::)
I've been for the most part a quiet reader on Gardenweb and Yahoo Rare Fruit. I am a police officer by profession and live 30mins north of Tampa with average winter lows of 20-25f. I have a growing collection of tropcial and subtropical fruits and my favorite fruit is lychee. I have been fairly sucessful fruiting in-ground tropical fruit trees in a not-so tropical location. My hopes are set of fruiting an in-ground jackfruit.
Marcus
Terrible view! Don't know how you stand it. Murahilin would never survive in a location that is not flat as a pancake. The smallest of hills wears him out!! ::)
Many athletes come to Colorado to train, as our high altitude forces the body to produce more red blood cells. When an acclimated individual returns to a lower elevation, they have much more energy and endurance. I'm always shocked when I'm on vacation and go snorkeling at just how long I can hold my breath at sea level. Perhaps Murahilin just needs to vacation in the Rocky Mountains, Tibet or the Andes before trying to climb any hills. :) The Himalayas and Andes have more interesting fruits than the Rockies, but the plane ticket may be more expensive.
I will be planting an Atemoya and a Longan. Maybe a Lychee and or an avocado.
Hello everyone. My name is Jeremy, and I have been growing sub-tropicals/tropicals for about 6 years now. I have successfully fruited lychees for years now, but the trees are finally coming into their prime fruiting age, so good things are expected from this time onward.
Hey Oscar, the Tazziberries(Chilean Guava) are extremely, I mean absolutely delicious! No kidding, they smell and taste kind of like cotton candy mixed with berry. Unfortunately, mine were very small, smaller than a blueberry and my specific variety didn't turn completely red, mine were very light pink with some green on it. If they were bigger and more red, they would be even more amazing.
Simon
I'm in Venus too, but weekends only. I wish I had a greenhouse, as I've lost every citrus tree, a "cold-hardy" Winter Mexican avocado, and other items to the hard freezes.
In Venus (9b) I have started a lot, but nothing has fruited yet: Angie and Jean Ellen mangoes (Fairchild), Loquat, key lime, jaboticaba, two seedling jaks (from Warren), three seedling kwai muk, imbe seedlings (Fruit and Spice Park), three banana varieties that are supposed to do well in zone 9, (Going Bananas), pineapples, charichuela (Whitman) (in pot, has flowered but no fruit), 4 garciania gardineria (sp? Whitman), moringa oleifera (sp?? the Kampong.) Ed is in the process of sending me some mulberries and hardy avocados. I have ordered Sunshine Blue blueberry plants and a couple other blueberry varieties to try.
I was very interested to see some posts on low chill northern fruits, because I want to try them, now that I can't grow much of the tropicals. I have a small greenhouse for the cold nights.
When I am not working on the fruit trees, I have more orchids than you can shake a stick at, even after giving away half of them, bamboo, and a vegetable garden.
Erica
Hey Oscar, the Tazziberries(Chilean Guava) are extremely, I mean absolutely delicious! No kidding, they smell and taste kind of like cotton candy mixed with berry. Unfortunately, mine were very small, smaller than a blueberry and my specific variety didn't turn completely red, mine were very light pink with some green on it. If they were bigger and more red, they would be even more amazing.
Simon
Sounds good Whit! Now where to get seeds or starts?
Oscar
My name is Ron just moved in to a home 1/3 acre in Kendall (Miami) and have set up a nice little collection of trees. Thanks to forum members Jeff and Sleep I now have;
Mango: Pickering, Neelam, Angie, and Coconut Cream
Ron
Hi John, welcome to the group. Your plantings look very nice. Been to Fiji a few times...i love Fiji and Fijian people! What island are you on?
Oscar
Hi John, welcome to the group. Your plantings look very nice. Been to Fiji a few times...i love Fiji and Fijian people! What island are you on?
Oscar
I'm on the most northern part of Viti Levu, the biggest island (the pin on the forum map is exactly on my farm). It's an intermediate rainfall area, which is great for citrus and mango. Too dry for vanilla and a few other tree crops.
The fishing is good - no need to buy cat food :-)
Right now I'm growing sour orange rootstock for valencia orange, grapefruit and mandarin scions that I'll graft later this year. I've also started a few hundred mango seeds that I plan to veneer graft several good varieties onto. I've been unsuccessful in finding any mangosteen planting material here and variety choices on most species is very limited. I am jelous of those you you who have access to so many varieties available in the U.S.
Below are some rootstock plantings in the shadehouse, which serves also as a rain-controlled zone in this rainy season!
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John
I'm on the most northern part of Viti Levu, the biggest island (the pin on the forum map is exactly on my farm). It's an intermediate rainfall area, which is great for citrus and mango. Too dry for vanilla and a few other tree crops.
The fishing is good - no need to buy cat food :-)
John
Hi John, i traveled all the way around Viti Levu, beautiful place. I stayed for a week at Nananu-I-Ra island, pretty close to you. Awesome snorkeling there! I have sent seeds from Hawaii to Fiji once and they made it through ok. You can check the seeds i sell at [url]http://www.fruitlovers.com/seedlistforeign.html[/url] ([url]http://www.fruitlovers.com/seedlistforeign.html[/url]) I can send mangosteen seeds in July if interested?
Oscar
My internet is delivered through the mobile phone network. I recieve it on a little modem that looks like a flash memory stick. It's painfully slow by EU and U.S. standards (no YouTube for me), but okay for most websites.
John
Hi John, i traveled all the way around Viti Levu, beautiful place. I stayed for a week at Nananu-I-Ra island, pretty close to you. Awesome snorkeling there! I have sent seeds from Hawaii to Fiji once and they made it through ok. You can check the seeds i sell at [url]http://www.fruitlovers.com/seedlistforeign.html[/url] ([url]http://www.fruitlovers.com/seedlistforeign.html[/url]) I can send mangosteen seeds in July if interested?
Oscar
Nananu-I-Ra is very near - a 10 minute boat ride. I picked some of my sprouting coconut starts (wild "Fiji Tall" variety - great for making coconut cream) from the north side of that island. I'm also growing some of the dwarf varieties that are better for drinking.
I'll consider the Rambutan seeds.
My internet is delivered through the mobile phone network. I recieve it on a little modem that looks like a flash memory stick. It's painfully slow by EU and U.S. standards (no YouTube for me), but okay for most websites.
John
Too bad about slow internet. Other than that, being on or very close to the salt ocean for fish to eat, plus growing all you do, where you are is ideal. Is your soil sandy? Do you have clay content and volcanic content in your soil?
The topsoil on my farm is mostly a good quality loam, with a little too much clay in some areas. Most areas drain well, but water weeps out of rock in a few places for 3-5 days after a good rain. The soil is shallow in some places, with soft volcanic rock underneath. It's a very dark soil. I use plain topsoil for starting plants in bags - nothing added.
I only started farming 5 months ago, and am still in the process of clearing land. Only the first 3 acres have been planted with fruit so far.
John
Hi everyone, I have been lurking on the other forum for a long time and decided to join this new one. I don't know much but I have been working on a tropical fruit orchard on a small dry island in the Turks & Caicos islands. Combatting drought, poor soil, hurricanes and my own ignorance, I have finally started to get some trees growing but not really fruiting yet. Really working on the soil by heavily mulching with ironwood needles, seagrass and wood chips and starting to add micros and sulpher. It is a red laterite soil as in parts of the Bahamas and lacks just about everything... Also started spraying with foliar micros but am only there two or three times a year. Just wanted to say thanks for all the vicarious advice and I look forward to getting to know you all. Dave
Hi everyone, I have been lurking on the other forum for a long time and decided to join this new one. I don't know much but I have been working on a tropical fruit orchard on a small dry island in the Turks & Caicos islands. Combatting drought, poor soil, hurricanes and my own ignorance, I have finally started to get some trees growing but not really fruiting yet. Really working on the soil by heavily mulching with ironwood needles, seagrass and wood chips and starting to add micros and sulpher. It is a red laterite soil as in parts of the Bahamas and lacks just about everything... Also started spraying with foliar micros but am only there two or three times a year. Just wanted to say thanks for all the vicarious advice and I look forward to getting to know you all. Dave
Welcome, Dave. Glad you decided to join the fun here on the new Forum. Do you have much of an issue with salt intrusion? You guys have been in the cross hairs of a bunch of Hurricanes that were near misses for us in recent years. How long has it been since you began your planting there? And, more importantly, what are you growing?
Harry
Hi Steven,
I'm from Algarve. We are practically neighbours, give or take 1000 Kms of ocean ;D
I've noticed that you selected zone 10b for your location? Surely, unless you are at some elevation,
Madeira is a solid zone 11b or even 12. What do you say?
Again, unless you are at some elevation, there's loads of species that you should try
at your favorable location. I suggest you give mamey, ilama, a bunch of Garcinias a try...
regards,
S้rgio
Hello guys.
My name is Janio.
I am working in lampung University - Indonesia
I am glad I found this forum.
Hello guys.
My name is Janio.
I am working in lampung University - Indonesia
I am glad I found this forum.
Harry - wow!! you've got momoncillo?!?! very jealous - i don't know anything about them except for what little information i've found on the net, but wow... might be an unattainable dream, but i hope to one day, somehow, i'll get my hands on a couple of seedlings/seeds... ;D
What's up murahilin. Will I see u at the mango fest agan this year?
Harry - wow!! you've got momoncillo?!?! very jealous - i don't know anything about them except for what little information i've found on the net, but wow... might be an unattainable dream, but i hope to one day, somehow, i'll get my hands on a couple of seedlings/seeds... ;D
The trees are dioecious so a seedling may be male, fem, or herm. What are the plant importation restrictions in AU? Ebay sometimes sells grafted spanish lime trees (mamoncillo) for pretty cheap. That may be a better option than growing a seedling.
Hi Murahilin
its practically impossible for us here in WA to import seeds let alone plants. Other states are not so strict, however, those of us here in the west can only dream.... we are restricted to whatever the local nurseries stock. we are not allowed to even buy a number of plants from the other states. the costs of delivery/quarantine inspection etc is an issue in itself, but a lot of the exotic plants are prohibited to us.
hopefully some other west australians join this forum that would by some miracle have in their possession some trees for sale...??? :D
What's up murahilin. Will I see u at the mango fest agan this year?
Hey, I should be there. Do you know what day you will be going?
Sounds kinda like California. Why are the restrictions so tough in your state?
Welcome, Mark. It sounds like you've made some fine choices. I hadn't heard of cherry guava, but it sure sounds tasty.
Hi, my name is Mark. I am new here and new to tropical fruit growing. I live in West Palm Beach, Florida. I have 1.25 acres of land with sandy soil and using well water. I started by buying six "minature green houses" from WalMart and planted various perennial flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables in the greenhouses, then went on a two week vacation. ::) I also cut 2 liter bottles of sodas in half and used those as minature greenhouses. When I came back two weeks alter, half of the seeds have sprouted. Then I bought my first true tropical fruit tree from a big box store called "Costco" a Red Lady Papaya. Within a week of planting the Red Lady Papaya, I planted a Carrie Mango, Sweet Heart Lychee, and Cherry Guava, which I got from a local grower. My newest acquisitions are an Choquette Avocado tree, Coconut Cream Mango and two dragon fruit cuttings. I apparently have dived head long into fruit trees. I need to figure out a micro irrigation system and some master plan on how I should be planting my trees. :-\ I discovered a free source of compost and picked up my first load today. I will also be planting my the flowers, veggies and fruits that I have started as seeds sometime in the near future. :)Mark - welcome...what veggies are you just now starting ? This is really not a great time of year to start planting most veggie seeds due to the approaching hot season. Most growers are on their tail end of the veggies, not to be replanted again till "fall".
Welcome to the forum, Jorge y saludos a su esposa dominicana. Happy to have another Florida member. Your collection is going to need some major additions, which I am sure Patrick will be very able to assist you with. We'll certainly do all we can to help you earn that solid green thumb!
Harry
Greetings Fellow Tropical Fruit Nuts,Welcome, or in your case, welcome back :D
Have been growing bananas and tropical fruit here in Port St Lucie, Florida for 7 years with some success. The plant obsession began 40 years ago back in New Jersey with orchids, tomatoes and bananas. They followed me to Charlotte, NC and growing stuff was much easier . Then came the figs, bunch grapes, full blown vegetable garden and more bananas, but the cold always brought a halt in Oct.
Came to south Florida to take care of family in 2005 and the darn things found me again. Also thought I’d finally be free of the cold but it still bites me a bit. This is the first year most bananas made it thru winter with fruit hanging.
Current plant list:
Bananas in ground ---- FHIA1 Golfinger, 2 Ae Ae, Pisang Klotek, Dwarf Brazilian, Belle, SH 3640, Raja Puri, Datil la Lima, Dwarf Namwah, Dwarf Puerto Rican Super plantain, Grand Nain x Sumatrana, Manzano (the real deal variety)
Bananas potted – Kru, Pitogo. Red Iholene, Baloy, Chini Champa, Grand Nain, Dwarf Orinoco, Logee’s ladyfinger, Maricongo plantain, ensette Maurelii, Saba, Hua Moa
Fruit trees -- -Minnie Royal and Royal Lee low chill cherries, Lula avocado, Eureka lemon, unknown Florida low chill peach, Tropic Beauty peach, Key Lime, Guanabana, Fuyu Persimmon, Spanish lime (genip) m/f grafted, Carrie, Nam Doc Mai and Duncan mangos, Jaboticaba
Muscadine grapes --- Black Noble, Black Southland, Southern Dixie, Blanc du Bois
Veggies --- Imperial Star artichoke, grafted heirloom tomatoes, Cachucha peppers (PR and Venezolano), Bih Jolokia peppers, Black Jungle butter beans, Blue Lake pole beans, Culantro, Italian parsley, basil, rosemary, onions, dozen pineapples unknown
Orchids --- Shomburkia, Cattleya, Phalenopsis, Blc’s – a dozen unknowns
New this year --- Vanilla planifolia, Cattleya Dowiana alba, Passifloras incense and incarnata , Monstera, Concord grape seeded and seedless, Emerald, Windsor, Primadonna, Sharps Blue blueberries, Lemon grass (for the bugs)
Anyone interested in a banana sucker let me know. Have some rare --- hard to get --- cold tolerant varieties.
Fruit trees -- -Minnie Royal and Royal Lee low chill cherries, Lula avocado, Eureka lemon, unknown Florida low chill peach, Tropic Beauty peach, Key Lime, Guanabana, Fuyu Persimmon, Spanish lime (genip) m/f grafted, Carrie, Nam Doc Mai and Duncan mangos, Jaboticaba
Hi all ,
Been collecting rare fruits for the last 15 years , was kinda slow on the rarefruit yahoo group so I decided to visit you guys.
Currently growing over 300 sp. and any seed I can get my hands on.....running out of space though...
Glad to see some of my old friends are also posting .
Oh yes forgot to say I am in Mexico , Puerto Vallarta area and the source for the now famous Mexican Garcinia , no accepted scientific name so far..
Hi all ,
Been collecting rare fruits for the last 15 years , was kinda slow on the rarefruit yahoo group so I decided to visit you guys.
Currently growing over 300 sp. and any seed I can get my hands on.....running out of space though...
Glad to see some of my old friends are also posting .
Oh yes forgot to say I am in Mexico , Puerto Vallarta area and the source for the now famous Mexican Garcinia , no accepted scientific name so far..
Hello everybody
My name is Zach and I live in the northern part of Dade County South Florida. I am a chiropractor by trade, and have taken a liking to exotic and tropical fruits. When I first tasted jackfruit a year ago I became hooked and completely obsessed. LOL. So far I have planted a carambola tree, nam doc Mai mango, keitt mango, and Mai 3 Jackfruit. I look forward to learning more. I would like to plant Avocado, sugar apple and passionfruit. I have a small trellis fence behind the house along the water where I live. I was thinking this would be good to grow passionfruit. Does anybody know how long it would take to do so?
Hi, My name is Mike. I live in Boynton Beach,Fl. I was a frequent use of Garden Web but found this forum and noticed most of yall on here are the same from the other forum only this one is set up better. Anyway, I had to foreclose my last house and finally was able to acquire my own space again. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take many of my plants with me as I had to rent a while before purchasing. I left the Tropical Fruit addiction for a while and am now ready to get back into it. I have been growing tropical fruits since about 2006. My favorites are the Lychees, Sugar Apples, Mangos and Sapodilla. I do have some experience grafting and budding..I took a class at PBCC a couple years on Plant Propogation. I am currently employed as a Firefighter though my dream is to live on a farm....I am working on setting up a 1000gal aquaponics system and I grow some organic vegetables in raised beds. It would be nice to meet up with anyone in the area to learn their cultivation techniques and meet face to face...Hope I can ad my knowledge and take some with me....Thanks for the forum, Mike
Notice the name is International Tropical Fruit Growers. Dear moderatiors, please do whatever you can to promote this as an international site and attract international members. I love Florida but don't want this group to become totally Floridacentric.
Of you Brevard area residents/members, any of you members of the Brevard RFC ? Any of you making the bus trip this month to Excalibur ?I am a member of the Brevard Tropical Fruit Club (formerly Brevard Rare Fruit Council), but am not able to make that trip.
I am a member of the Brevard Tropical Fruit Club (formerly Brevard Rare Fruit Council), but am not able to make that trip.
DM
Thank you jackfruitwhisperer, now i know who to call when my jackfruit is misbehaving.
Primetime11
introducing my self ...im from indonesia..
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My name is Berns, I am from the Philippines, I founded the Rare Fruit Society of the Philippines. I am also a fruit nursery operator and my website is [url=http://www.rarefruitnursery.com]www.rarefruitnursery.com[/url] ([url]http://www.rarefruitnursery.com[/url]). Jay invited me in this forum. Fruit trees that I am interested are Mangoes, Atemoya and Sugar Apples. I am interested in exchanging seeds and scions with different fruit tree growers in the world. I am currently starting a company that will help individuals start there own fruit nursery either as a business or as a hobby. :) I am also a member of the Philippine Fruit Association (PFA).
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My name is Berns, I am from the Philippines, I founded the Rare Fruit Society of the Philippines. I am also a fruit nursery operator and my website is [url=http://www.rarefruitnursery.com]www.rarefruitnursery.com[/url] ([url]http://www.rarefruitnursery.com[/url]). Jay invited me in this forum. Fruit trees that I am interested are Mangoes, Atemoya and Sugar Apples. I am interested in exchanging seeds and scions with different fruit tree growers in the world. I am currently starting a company that will help individuals start there own fruit nursery either as a business or as a hobby. :) I am also a member of the Philippine Fruit Association (PFA).
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Welcome Berns. Great to have someone so active in Phillippines fruit scene as you on this forum. Hope to be able to get some great scion wood from you some day. Still trying to get your great macapuno coconut over here! :'(
Oscar,
Hello, My Name is Ronald,
based in hills of Jamaica, zone 10
My Main interests are lychee, longan and atemoyas but have others including jaboticabas, sapodilla, guava, santol, white sapote etc.
Have no idea how I am just finding this forum.
Ronald
Hi, My name is Bill. I'm new to the forum. I have been posting in the GW forum and just found this one. I live in Long Beach, CA and just got 11 different mango trees! Besides that I grow Avocados, Bananas, Raspberries and Blackberries. I look forward to sharing and learning a lot in this forum.11 new mango trees is serious stuffs!! You are not fooling around. Fairchild Gardens says mangoes are the world's most delicious fruit. Welcome.
Bill
Thanks for the warm welcome, Steven :)Hi Chris,
As for the festival, I'm almost sure that none of them will have any names, as mango seeds have historically been planted at random across the island. The diversity of types I'm coming across is staggering but without any real effort to identify them all, named mango cultivars are extremely rare. It's two weeks away and I can't wait!
Chris
Harry,
I believe sleepdoc said it was a Mai I seedling from your tree. It was delicious. Low latex. I bought a Mai I grafted at the brfvc sales without ever tasting one so I was really grateful to get a glimpse of what is to come. Thanks!
My mango trees are PPK, florigon, keitt, kent, ndm, dot (I think this was mislabelled), and Glenn.
Hi Samuel, glad you finally made it over to this forum!
Welcome FrankA and Samuel it looks like you guys are a couple of seasoned fruit enthusiasts.
Samuel I imagine reunion and for that matter mauritius are almost the same latitude as the big island of hawaii and that place might be a good guide for you.
Hi everyone,
i am Samuel living in Reunion an overseas French department located in the south eastern part of the Indian Ocean.
I started to get consciously interested in tropical fruits at the age of 18 when i moved to Martinique (another overseas French department this time in the west indies) to take a 2 years technical degree in agriculture. Eversince i have been working in agriculture as a worker, a teacher and today as a farmer-manager. My main focuses have been ecologically sustainable ways of farming, vegetable seed production and tropical fruits.
I have been traveling in some parts of the tropical world which has made my interest into tropical fruits grow stronger. As i was saying above I have lived in the west Indies for few years, I travelled quite extensively in India and visited Thailand twice.
5 years ago we decided with my family to settle down in Reunion. The tricky part of that project is to access the land. Fortunately i had the opportunity to get a 2,5 acres plot at the beginning of this year. It is located at 350 m elevation on the southern coast oh the island. I also have a smaller plot at sea level in the same area.
For the past 5 years i have been sourcing and collecting vegetal material from the rarest tropical fruits that were introduced by some fellow fruit hobbyists. So It came to me naturally that i should first develop my farming activity as a nursery specializing in tropical rare fruits.
That's why i am very happy to participate in this forum, a wealth of information regarding what i would love to achieve.
Special Thanks to PJ and murahilin for doing this great job and to all of you for contributing.
I am a native Floridian, living in West Palm. I like to grow vegetables, herbs and fruit trees. I am hoping to learn more about taking care of what I have, diagnosing problems, propagating and of course growing more.
I prefer to grow organically.
I work as a paralegal and my husband is a knifemaker. My other interests are plant medicine, self sufficiency and permaculture.
Glad to be here. Thank you for the great reference material.
Anna
He makes every day use knives, entertains custom orders, has done everything from art knives to kitchen knives. Mostly working with carbon steel due to its edge holding capacity.
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He makes every day use knives, entertains custom orders, has done everything from art knives to kitchen knives. Mostly working with carbon steel due to its edge holding capacity.
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I looked through the entire gallery. Those knives look awesome. What is the price range on those knives? What type of knife would he recommend for cuttings open fruits such as mangos? I currently have one of the long thing flip open fruit sampling knives but I may be interested in purchasing something more substantial and non flip. Too much stuff gets stuck in a folding knife and a solid one would likely be easier to keep clean.
Hello everbody,
My wife and I got hooked on mangoes a few years ago when our Glenn produced its first fruit. My only experience with mangoes up until then was with backyard Hadens brought in by co-workers. The Glenn was a pleasant surprise. Last year I bought a Malika, Poi Pu Kalay,Lancatilla,Carrie,NDM#4 and a Maha Chanok.
The Carrie has 6 small fruit. We have lots of Papaya, some bananas/Plantains, orange, a few pineapple, and 2 Mamey Sapote from seed.
I just found a guy on Craigslist selling many different kinds mangoes from his house. This would be a great way to taste some of what we have planted so we paid him a visit yesterday. We picked up an Edwards, Jacarta,Bailys Marvel, Spirit of 76, Zill, Van Dyke, and a NDM. Turns out the guy bought the house from Gary Zill. Its in WPB. Didn't get a tour, but the property looked great, lots of mango trees! We're now having our our own mango taste test, and seeing how our Glenn stacks up.
Hi everyone. I'm Xeno (pronounced Zee-no). I'm 24 years old and live in Ventura County, Ca. About a year ago I got the gardening bug and it's been going ok.
A list of fruit trees that I have:
Citrus: Tango mandarin, Valencia, Washington navel, Cara Cara, Moro Blood, Tarocco Blood, Eureka Lemon, Thornless Mexican Key lime.
Stone: Anna Apple, Gordon Dorsett Apple, Mid Pride Peach, Arctic Star Nectarine, a 3 in 1 asian pear tree (forgot which varieties), Satsuma Plum, and Santa Rosa Plum).
Tropicals: Big Jim Loquat, white and pink skinned dragonfruit, Hak Ip lychee, Brewster lychee, Mauritius Lychee, Angel Red Pomegranate, 2 Wonderful pomegranates, Pink Satin pomegranate, and an unknown longan.
Etc: Heirloom tomatoes, Serrano peppers, Bhut Jolokia pepper, Brown Turkey Fig, Mission Fig, and Pepino Melon.
The majority of these are in pots. Wanting to get a Carrie mango, Timotayo mango, Black pearl Wax Jambu, Kajang starfruit, Giant Bangkok guava, Sapodilla, and a jaboticaba. Also would LOVE a jakfruit, just don't know where to put it. I'm here to gather information on how to grow near the coast. It's hard to find any info regarding growing tropicals in ventura county, even though I'm only like an hour drive north-west of LA county. I feel like I'm the only one growing tropical trees in my area! ;D
Hi Tropicdude, my wifes from the DR and grew up growing everthing from mangoes to coffee and tobbaco.
Any trouble getting those barerooted plants through customs? Our last visit was to Santiago in Nov.
A warm welcome to Roberto and Faezal. Good to have you both. Roberto, since you are in Pembroke Pines, where my office is located, please let me know if you are going to be in the area during the week around lunchtime to early afternoon. We do daily mango tastings and would love to have another opinion on which mango wins the best of the day award. Faezal....isn't human nature a thing of wonder. You are growing what we crave and can't really grow and you want what we have and have no trouble growing. Funny how we are.
Harry
Welcome all the new people to the forums. Jack it was a pleasure touring your garden, welcome to these forums.
Hi all, my name Faezal from Sri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia. I am keen to learn and find the right way to grow tropical plant that originated from the South American and try to get the seeds of the trees, especially seedlings of grumichama and jaboticaba.
I have planted some trees:
1.Dokong
2.Mangosteen
3.Longan
4.Rambutan
5.Chempedak
Regards,
Faezal
Hello All,
My name is Roberto. Been a lurker for a while as I was a member of the "other" forum.
I had to join to place a vote for my favorite mango- Julie :)
I'm originally from Trinidad and as a kid, I've always liked sweet...flavorfull...mangoes. I don't find fiber objectionable at all- as long as the mango is sweet.
I like Sapodillas too. I currently reside in Pembroke Pines and my yard has:
Mangoes: (yrs in ground, size, fruits bore, comments)
2 Julie (6yrs- 30+ fruit, excellent quality like last yrs. 1yr 7gal tipped)
1 Nam Doc Mai (6 yrs- 30+ fruit, 1/2 of last yrs crop...ranged from watery (5-6) to extremely sweet. teaspoon white sugar each bite sweet)
1 Dot (1 yr 7gal bore 1 fruit...flavorful, rich, delish, then pugged),
1 Pickering (1yr 7 gal, bore 3 H-U-G-E fruit, flavorful, sweet, no coconut hint though)
1 Mallika (1 yr, tipped)
1 Lancetilla (1yr, 7gal tipped)
1 Carrie (1 yr)
1 Cushman (1 yr, pugged)
1 Maha Chanok (1 yr, pugged)
1 Okrung (15gal, bore 2 small fruits tree ripened, sweet and melting)
Sapodilla:
Okutzcab (1 yr 3 gal)
Alano (1yr 7 gal)
Yes, my yard is ambitious. :)
Looking foward to all the mango discussions.
Hi all, my name Faezal from Sri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia. I am keen to learn and find the right way to grow tropical plant that originated from the South American and try to get the seeds of the trees, especially seedlings of grumichama and jaboticaba.
I have planted some trees:
1.Dokong
2.Mangosteen
3.Longan
4.Rambutan
5.Chempedak
Regards,
Faezal
Welcome to forum Faezal. I've been to Malaysia once (for a day) and I enjoyed it. I visited about 3 or 4 nurseries and I really liked the very wide variety of fruit available.
Are your fruit trees grafted or seedlings?
Hi,
I just found this group and immediately think that it is a valuable resource for any tropical fruit grower. I am also from the Yahoo rare fruit group, and look forward to learning and contributing to this group, as well. I live in Cutler bay, about half way between Miami and Homestead, Florida.
I have always liked the idea of growing my own food, but after getting married and buying a house 4 years ago, and suddenly having a small backyard to be able to plant things, I really started getting into tropical fruits. At first I fell in love with every exotic fruit I learned about and had the grandiose plan of trying to have one of every tropical fruit plant in my tiny backyard. I quickly found out that wasn't going to happen, but it hasn't stopped me from trying. I am growing about 100 different fruit trees, some are seedlings, some grafted, some in pots, some in the ground, all my babies, though.
I will post pics of some of them once they start blooming, like my Abiu which is blooming for the first time. Or my red-fleshed Pitaya, also blooming now...
My hope is to one day retire to a small plot of land in Central Chile where I can grow the usual temperate fruits in that region, plus a greenhouse full of the tropical stuff.
Jaime
Hi,
I just found this group and immediately think that it is a valuable resource for any tropical fruit grower. I am also from the Yahoo rare fruit group, and look forward to learning and contributing to this group, as well. I live in Cutler bay, about half way between Miami and Homestead, Florida.
I have always liked the idea of growing my own food, but after getting married and buying a house 4 years ago, and suddenly having a small backyard to be able to plant things, I really started getting into tropical fruits. At first I fell in love with every exotic fruit I learned about and had the grandiose plan of trying to have one of every tropical fruit plant in my tiny backyard. I quickly found out that wasn't going to happen, but it hasn't stopped me from trying. I am growing about 100 different fruit trees, some are seedlings, some grafted, some in pots, some in the ground, all my babies, though.
I will post pics of some of them once they start blooming, like my Abiu which is blooming for the first time. Or my red-fleshed Pitaya, also blooming now...
My hope is to one day retire to a small plot of land in Central Chile where I can grow the usual temperate fruits in that region, plus a greenhouse full of the tropical stuff.
Jaime
Hey Jaime, welcome to the forum! You now finally figured out where i've been. HAHAHA
A warm welcome to Jaime from Cutler Bay. Glad you joined us! Sounds like you have a nice little collection going. You don't necessarily have to wait for bloom to post pictures. Anyway, nice have another South Floridian in the group. If you are ever planning to get up to West Broward, let me know, would love to show you around my place.
Harry
Hi to all new fellow members,
Mangomaniac, Xeno, Vyvy, Jack, Tntrobbie, Tropical66, and Jez251...Welcome to the forum! 8) :)
I could only find this ''Welcome song'' on you tube...hope y'all like it ;D ;D ;D
Welcome Song ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPECOKbhBzw#ws[/url])
Regards,
Steven
Hi to all new fellow members,
Mangomaniac, Xeno, Vyvy, Jack, Tntrobbie, Tropical66, and Jez251...Welcome to the forum! 8) :)
I could only find this ''Welcome song'' on you tube...hope y'all like it ;D ;D ;D
Welcome Song ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPECOKbhBzw#ws[/url])
Regards,
Steven
Excellent little video, Steven. Thank for the warm welcome to, uh, Ponyville?!? ;D I hope to contribute on as many topics as possible.
JaimeI'm also liking the extra HTML features this forum has...
Hello everyone,
I just learned about this forum today and feel like I've discovered a real gem! There is so much great stuff here and I want to say thanks to everyone for whatever they've put into this great forum to make it what it is.
About me... I am a parent, a nutritionist, a dog trainer, and I've got the great blessing of now being able to start working with horses. I also have had a love of plants since forever, and for years now I have dreamed of growing tropicals but have never had the opportunity. Well, now it seems I've got it. I have the space to build a greenhouse which should be up by this spring. I'd like to create a few different ones, each housing it's appropriate plants. There is a local natural foods coop here that would like to buy fruit from me rather than having to import out of Mexico or California, so I'm really itching to get going! That said, I'm pretty new to growing trees and also to tropicals, although I have had some experience with this and that along the way. I'm hoping that I can come here to learn and get an idea of how I want to approach this - which trees to start with and so forth. I'm mainly keen on bushes and shrubs with edible or medicinal uses. As a nutritionist, I'm interested in bringing new foods to my community too. So it's a multifaceted reward for me. I live in Wisconsin, zone 4b, so it's a bit of a challenge I suppose, but I want to do the very best I can with it! So far I have a few cacao trees. So... thanks for reading, I'm really glad to be here!
I live in Wisconsin, zone 4b, so it's a bit of a challenge I suppose, but I want to do the very best I can with it! So far I have a few cacao trees.Welcome. Wisconsin... Isn't that the natural range for American ginseng? Do people there hunt for wild ones? ;D
Beautiful photos, robguz24. Quick question regarding your Fig tree, do you know which variety that is and how does it do for you in HI?It was a White Kadota fig. It grew quite quickly and well, but I ripped it out last fall and now have a naranjilla and a dwarf red banana in the same spot. The fig fruit was average and virtually impossible to harvest at the right time. Too hard and they wouldn't ripen well inside the house. Soft at all and they were already infested with fruit fly larva. When you open them up they kind of look like larva anyway, so it was even harder to tell if I was about to get a mouthful of maggots. So it was more trouble than it was worth for me.
There is so much I don't know about them, right now I want to learn grafting sugar apple to a cherimoya tree, since I was told Cherimoya root will do very well in Southern CA. This will be my first project and also that's how I found this forumInteresting. Cherimoya pollination was how I found CRFG. The Fruit Facts were always the first few results when I searched for any fruit back then. Welcome to the forum. Create new topics to ask about anything you want or share what you have and know.
Renee,Katie what part of Texas? I was raised in Corpus Christi, but went to school in Dallas and San Angelo.
Good to have another South Florida transplant from Texas here!
Wow so many new folks, welcome Vy Renee, Richard.
Hi all,
We found out about this forum after attending a mango seminar by Joe (Mangoman2). We moved to Merritt Island, FL, late last year. The previous owner had planted a number of trees, according to the 2x4 header in the shed:
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After searching the property, I've come to the conclusion that the mango and banana trees must have died. The other trees are alive, but obviously have been neglected. I'm working on feeding/pruning/spraying the remaining ones.
We also have ordered a Glenn and Zill mango trees.
Neither of us care much for grapefruit trees, so these might end up being replaced, especially since they're in rough shape.
We have a 0.66 acre lot, but about half of it is conservation area, so nothing can be done with it. The upside is NO neighbors behind us! Very tropical here on the island. Recently planted a pineapple as well.
Looking forward to learning and sharing.
Robert & Dawn
Hi VyVy, welcome! You have 4 sugar apples and no cherimoya? Don't worry. That can be fixed really soon. :) We have lots of good cherimoya around here.
You can also try attending a local CRFG meeting in your area for more in-person interactions if you aren't already. There are chapters in Riverside, San Diego, Orange County, South Bay, West LA, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, and I believe Santa Barbara as well.
Greetings everyone.....im from Indonesia,Hi Picko Jack
its really nice to read all those information and see the pictures of lovely fruit from tropical fruit lovers.... (my english was very..very poor....so hope that you can even understand what im trying to say/write.... :p
Greetings everyone.....im from Indonesia,Hi Picko Jack
its really nice to read all those information and see the pictures of lovely fruit from tropical fruit lovers.... (my english was very..very poor....so hope that you can even understand what im trying to say/write.... :p
Your english is very easy to understand. In fact it is very good. Did you learn it in school? Being from Indonesia you must get to eat a lot of nice fruit over there. Do you have many fruit trees yourself?
Hello all,Welcome...for those who don't know, naseberry is sapodilla.
My name is Sidney, I do believe I am the only member from the Bay Islands of Honduras on here.
I have been familiar with fruit and gardening from a very young age, but have not taken it seriously until about 5 years ago. Here on the Island, known officially as Guanaja, but as "Bonacca" to all local Islanders, hence my user name, we have grown the usuals for the area. Mango (numerous unknown varieties), breadfruit, cassava (yucca to some), hog plum (spondias mombin,and spondias purpurea), cocoplum, naseberry, banana, plantain, pineapple, sugar cane, mamey sapote, guavas, coconuts, soursop, various citrus varieties, sea grape, giant craboo, guava, avocado, cashew, rose apple, and a few others I can't remember at the moment.
Once I had aquired most of these I felt pretty good about my little garden of only 1 acre. Then I started researching to learn how to take better care of these and then it happened...
Lychee..? Marang..? Mangosteen..? Achachairu..? Grumichama, Okari nut..? Kepel..? Salak..? These things sounded like rare health conditions until I started reading... The more I read the more determined I was to grow these new(to me), unique, and (apparently) delicious fruit... I say apparently because the forums spoke of the taste but I had never tried them and the more I read the more enamoured I became with these unknown wonders...
I started buying seeds online and looking locally for what could not be found by seed, and like most of you agree, it just doesn't stop. Every time I brouse the net I seem to find a new fruit that is a must have...
Altough space is becoming limited I still run across a spot here and there where I can put just one more...
Sorry for the long first post. I look forward to reading more of the experienced posters comments...
Happy to be here.
Bonakyon.
Howdy and welcome Patty and Picko Jack.Picko Jack I am a neighbor of yours living just across in northern Australia.Hollywood films have all the english that is worthwhile.If you have a 'need for seed' there are many top guns on this forum.Keep having a try at posting the pictures and it will seem easy after a few times.
HI y'all from Central Texas!!! :D
I am avid tropical fruit fan, pushing the Zone 8b whenever I can & LOVE the challenge of germinating seeds!!
Am a tropical fruit nut...It all started with 3 little Dwarf Namwah banana plants. ;D
I have a few varieties of passionfruit, 3 varieties of dragonfruit, a variegated pink lemon, a mandarin orange, a mexican lime tree, 5 varieties of pomegranates, a loquat, a Lila avocado tree & SCADS of banana plants!! (Plus a few date, apple & misc. citrus seedlings) :)
Not a Novice, but not Uber smart in all the ways of tropical fruit-dom.
Usually ask questions about fertilization(kind & frequency) & soil amendments.
Love to talk about & trade plants/seeds.
Looking to learn & GROW!!! Glad to meet y'all!! ~Cheryl
so this my first time here so anyone want to give me seeds to grow here on guam
hey party people, im julian of lara farms.
we do all our grafting so that means we wholesale.
i was raised around tropical fruits thanks to my family.
we love introducing people to all the rare fruit variety here at the farm.
I try to have the best variety of what ever im selling.
also give you the best advice i can about how to care and how u install ur new tree(s).
Hello to all :),
My name is Nikki, and I will be going by the username littlegrower. I have been a lurker for a while now, and once I found out people can buy/sell/trade things on here I had to join! :) I also love reading all the informational posts on gardenweb. This place is awesome!!!
Anyway, Peter - wanted to ask you (and Dan too) how you grow you're stuff? Is it in a greenhouse or just in a large south-facing
window in the house or somewhere?
The climate here is much more Mediterranean and subtropical than the other parts of Greece and Europe. Crete is the southest part of Europe. The only problem is the weather in January and February with temperatures between 5 - 12oC. Some trees are very sensitive to those temperatures. My oldest trees are the avocado 4 years old planted in the ground not fruited yet. All other trees are in big pots, small pots and plastic bags 1-2 years old. I hope soon I can plant many of them. Last summer my NDM had a few mangos but the fruits didn't make it to the maturity because the tree is very young. if I find pictures in my computer I can post here.
Mike
Hi, thanks for the warm welcome
William
This forum is awesome, amazing interesting. Really international. Yes it will be very intereting to share my pictures and my experiences to the forum. As soon as I feel very comfortable with posting and my English I will post pictures from my trees. My experience is not very big because I am relative new in that field.
Harry
The climate here is much more Mediterranean and subtropical than the other parts of Greece and Europe. Crete is the southest part of Europe. The only problem is the weather in January and February with temperatures between 5 - 12oC. Some trees are very sensitive to those temperatures. My oldest trees are the avocado 4 years old planted in the ground not fruited yet. All other trees are in big pots, small pots and plastic bags 1-2 years old. I hope soon I can plant many of them. Last summer my NDM had a few mangos but the fruits didn't make it to the maturity because the tree is very young. if I find pictures in my computer I can post here.
Mike
Gracias Oscar, thanks, how long did you lived in Buenos Aires? (I am 260km from Buenos Aires, Capital)
Thanks for the welcome all, wonderful people here obviously. Love having a one-stop-shop for information and personal help.
Thanks for not making us newbies feel weird :P
Deeply involved in study of quantum physics and cosmology.
Hello my name is RoynMalibu. I am learning to grow passion fruit of various types to make exotic salsa. I have 7 types currently and will experiment this next year with tasty dishes to top mango salsa 8). I bought some sample vines in June, 2012 and have grown from small plant of 2' to 8 to 25' varies. I have some flowers violet and waiting for Flame reds to appear? I am open and have lots to learn. My goal to to cultivate and create new salsa line of product to rival the mango salsa sold at Costco.
Thank you everyone, look forward in chatting in the future :)
I'm a lot like Patrick : My hobbies include, walking around my yard aimlessly looking a each leaf of every living plant in my yard, pest and disease control of my plants, fertilizing my plants, explaining to my neighbors why I talk to my plants, explaining to my family why I talk to my plants, and seeking out new places in my yard that require additional plants in the ground... except my wife limits me as to where I can plant. Also, half of my property is on a solid limestone shelf that requires a back-hoe to cut out a planting hole that limits tree size.
I have eight varieties of mango (mostly dwarf), two of lychee, two of longan, three of avocado, two of Surinam Cherry, two of Mulberry, papaya, three of banana, Annona Squamosa (red), Gefner atemoya, Golden Nugget jakfruit, Arkin carambola, persimmon, Gulf Ruby plum, Monstera, soft shell macadamia, fig, Persian Lime, Key Lime, Meyer Lemon, yellow jaboticaba, loquat, dragon fruit and canistel. Had a grove of Hurado Buntan Pumelos before the citrus police in 2000, and black sapote before Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
I'm totally organic, so lots of time is spent hand killing pests. I also enjoy grafting, especially my favorite mango varieties, and air-layering the lychees.
Enjoyed finding lots of a large variety loquat (Nespola) around along the Amalfi Coast and Naples, Italy this spring.
I still work full-time, so time is the biggest challenge.
I wonder how many others are trying these pots and swc's and how they are working? Thanks Nullzero!
Hello,
My name is Ed Doyle. I have been growing tropical fruit trees and other things since I moved into this house in 1991. Through the years, I have been more of less serious as financial and health matters have often taken precedence. I have a unique pie-shaped lot in a treed neighborhood close to downtown; protected from the winter North- Northwest winds and freezing temperatures by a 20 foot high concrete wall at the rear of the property. This provides an excellent microclimate. I have collected a large number of cultivars of many species. Of course, the major problem here is Hurricanes, and I've had my share of heartbreaks with fallen trees and wind damage. Last November, we had a monsoon event. My property is 5 feet higher than my neighbor to the rear, so flooding is never an issue. However, he has some larger oak and ficus trees, two of which decided to topple on my property and house. The roof over one bedroom collapsed, and I have spent the last year repairing the damages and removing other large trees in order to maximize my future efforts. I am fascinated with the Eugenia/ Myrciaria and Garcinia/Rheedia groups, Lychee, and Mango; as well as the more usual fare. This year, I am doing a complete garden overhaul, removing older selections and replacing them. I am also installing self-watering grow boxes and vertical growsticks for production of more vegetables in a smaller space. I am studying the possibility of adding an Aquaponic system as well. Always on the search for the rare and unusual seeds and plants. In these times, I think people need to work at re-aquiring the skills of food production largely lost in our 'just-in-time' delivery system. Besides, foods grown at home with all the micronutrients is far healthier. This year, after reading about the legendary 'Terra Preta' soils of the Amazon and their insane productivity, I purchased a keystove to turn waste wood into bio char and wood ash. It is a pleasure to have found this board thru Pepe's Plants!
Hello fruit lovers,
I am an agronomist and I have a garden in Thailand with many types of tropical fruits.
Happy to have found this forum.
Hein
I wonder how many others are trying these pots and swc's and how they are working? Thanks Nullzero!
Hi everyone, I have been a 'lurker' for a while but finally found the courage to post! I love reading all the informative discussions on this forum also Daleys and love growing my own fruit to eat. This fruit-tree obsession has been a fairly recent one for me (over the last year really) but has been fuelled by all the fantastic information available from all you gurus! I love garcinias - starting with the purple mangosteen, furthered by the achacha and am growing a variety of other things most of which are too young to fruit yet but I hope over the next couple of years to start tasting all these exotic fruit which are not readily available in the shops - abiu, white sapote, cherry of rio grande etc.
I am a busy mum of 4 boys all at school & I study graphic design & I do photo restoration so it's hard to fit it all in but I try! My husband unfortunately does not share my fruit tree obsession, only tolerates it and we do not live on acreage so space is always a consideration. I am trialling the bonsai tree bags as discussed on the Daleys website for a few of my trees, so how successful this will be remains to be seen.
Hello fruit lovers,
I am an agronomist and I have a garden in Thailand with many types of tropical fruits.
Happy to have found this forum.
Hein
Aloha, Ryan. Welcome. Which of the Hawaiian Islands do you call home?
Harry
Hello
My name is Maurice and i have been growing and learning about fruit trees(as a hobby) since about 2009, rarely participating in any internet forum but silently reading. The collection and knowledge increased drastically during this time but at first people bugged me for having too many plants, now my family has finally gotten used to it :P.
As a proud nerd i have many hobbies which include reading about different topics,sports and computer science/programming which is what i majored in.
See you around :D
Spent 11 years on the island of Java, the town of Malang,Indonisia, thus i am very familiar with tropicals fruits. We had 4 acres of fruits describe on this forum.I like to add a mango variety that we grew that we grew with the name of kwennee, it is pronounce this way, but is spelled different i believe, it has lots of fibre and taste totally different(a aquired taste).It is a large fruit and you have to peel it thick and make shure you don't mesh with it or you end-up with thick lips.
I retired in Arkansas, U.S. now and like to grow a few tropicals fruits tree's.I am growing a Page Manderin tree for the last 5 years and it is doing good and so are my pomagranates. As i read articles in this Forum it brings back sweet memories(tears that is). Maybe i can find answers on this forum.
Bob.
Popular varieties of mangoes cultivated in East Java include Arumanis or Gadung, Manalagi, Podang, Chokanan, Golek, Gurih, Kweni, Madu and more. Cukur Gondang Mango Plantation (Department of Agriculture, Horticultural Research & Development) has its research ground in 13-hectares of land in Pasuruan keeping 210 mango varieties.
However, the most popular one for export is Gadung or Arumanis known as Green Mango in Singapore. Manalagi, Golek, Gurih, Kweni and Madu are good varieties popular locally yet have not won popularity like Gadung, be it locally or overseas. Podang produced mostly in Kediri - is just potential for export.
Spent 11 years on the island of Java, the town of Malang,Indonisia, thus i am very familiar with tropicals fruits. We had 4 acres of fruits describe on this forum.I like to add a mango variety that we grew that we grew with the name of kwennee, it is pronounce this way, but is spelled different i believe, it has lots of fibre and taste totally different(a aquired taste).It is a large fruit and you have to peel it thick and make shure you don't mesh with it or you end-up with thick lips.
I retired in Arkansas, U.S. now and like to grow a few tropicals fruits tree's.I am growing a Page Manderin tree for the last 5 years and it is doing good and so are my pomagranates. As i read articles in this Forum it brings back sweet memories(tears that is). Maybe i can find answers on this forum.
Bob.
Hello Bob
You must miss your tropical s from Java, some members are growing tropical fruits in Canada, and even Iceland, so I am sure you can learn from their experience.
not sure if you have tried some of the wonderful varieties mentioned in this forum, some do well in containers.
UPDATE:
I found the name of your Java mango, its called " Kweni".QuotePopular varieties of mangoes cultivated in East Java include Arumanis or Gadung, Manalagi, Podang, Chokanan, Golek, Gurih, Kweni, Madu and more. Cukur Gondang Mango Plantation (Department of Agriculture, Horticultural Research & Development) has its research ground in 13-hectares of land in Pasuruan keeping 210 mango varieties.
However, the most popular one for export is Gadung or Arumanis known as Green Mango in Singapore. Manalagi, Golek, Gurih, Kweni and Madu are good varieties popular locally yet have not won popularity like Gadung, be it locally or overseas. Podang produced mostly in Kediri - is just potential for export.
Big green mango.
Hi Everybody,
I am a mango-lover from Bangkok Thailand. I have 2 big NamDocMai tree's which i converted into multi-grafted tree's. I have about 10 species growing on them and since yesterday a graft of sangaria (ma-prang in thai) on it.
I also graft citrus on my pomelo-tree and i have plumeria's with loads of different flowers.
HI TFF, Placton here. I started to grow edibles 6 years ago after I was able to get a bigger plot on my house. I do not have much space but love to eat fruits from my garden. I'm always in the search of a good fruiting/spice/medicinal plant that is not too big and is willing to work with my 10/11 zone.
By now I'm able to have fruits year round with most all my plants being common to my area. My selection is not too big but is opened to whomever is in the look for seeds/cuttings/roots/branches etc.
I love to have the opportunity to sprout a seed, see it grow and let them say thanks by giving something back to you; amazing sense of accomplishment.
Hope for the best to your plants and caretakers.
Just a note that I will be largely unplugged for the next few months. Got some priority work to get one...
Hi Everybody,
I am a mango-lover from Bangkok Thailand. I have 2 big NamDocMai tree's which i converted into multi-grafted tree's. I have about 10 species growing on them and since yesterday a graft of sangaria (ma-prang in thai) on it.
I also graft citrus on my pomelo-tree and i have plumeria's with loads of different flowers.
Welcome to the forum. Do maprangs graft easily onto mango?
Hi Everybody,
I am a mango-lover from Bangkok Thailand. I have 2 big NamDocMai tree's which i converted into multi-grafted tree's. I have about 10 species growing on them and since yesterday a graft of sangaria (ma-prang in thai) on it.
I also graft citrus on my pomelo-tree and i have plumeria's with loads of different flowers.
Welcome to the forum. Do maprangs graft easily onto mango?
Yes Murahilin maprang and mango are compatible and easy to graft. Often done in Thailand.
I should say i haven't tired it. It is second hand from my friend in Lampang, Thailand.Hi Everybody,
I am a mango-lover from Bangkok Thailand. I have 2 big NamDocMai tree's which i converted into multi-grafted tree's. I have about 10 species growing on them and since yesterday a graft of sangaria (ma-prang in thai) on it.
I also graft citrus on my pomelo-tree and i have plumeria's with loads of different flowers.
Welcome to the forum. Do maprangs graft easily onto mango?
Yes Murahilin maprang and mango are compatible and easy to graft. Often done in Thailand.
I just see your reply now Oscar.
Well nobody here can believe me when i tell them i will graft maprang on mango, i have no idea if it is done often but so far my grafts died. I m trying a new approach graft now between them and will let it settle for 2 months before i cut anything of. If you say it is possible then i will keep on trying. My grafting techniques are getting better every time and now cleft grafts also succeed by the tips from the forum. I will let you know when i have a maprang scion growing on the NDM.
My name is Brian. I am a tropical fruit enthusiast. I have all sorts of fruit trees. I live in Western Palm beach county Florida. I am a member of the Palm Beach chapter of the Rare Fruit Tree Council. Right now I am really hooked on Mango trees. I have 13 and looking for a few more. I have a Choc-Anon, Cogshall. Duncan, Haden. Nam doc mai, Kent, Duncan, Glenn, Lemon Zest, Lemon Merangue, Coconut cream, Carrie, and Malikia. Any suggestions on good ones to plant? The next one has to be a condo mango. It is going under the powerlines. Height is an issue. I don't want a fight keeping it small. I intend keeping them all under control size wise. But I realize I wont stay young forever. I will have my hands full. In addition to mango. I also have apples, plums, peaches, nectarines, sapodillia, Mamey sapote, Loquat, pomagranite, jujubee, jaboticaba, grumachama, pitumbo, cherry of the rio grande, miracle fruit, persimmons, dragonfruit, guava, barbados cherry, Jackfruit, mulberry, allspice, cinnamon, carambola,strawberry tree, figs,and of course lemons, limes, oranges,tangerines, tangelo, grapefruit, blood orange. Lost my avacado, sugar apple, papaya and june plum in flooding after Isiac. Dont plan on replacing any of the ones I lost. Also looking for a goji berry.
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Would love to Harry. Sounds like a nice cruise on the Harley. What kind is that in your picture? Very colorful. I already have a Maha Chinok too. I knew I was forgetting one. WOW I do have a problem. LOL
I am Denise from Commonwealth of Dominica in the Caribbean (commonly called Dominica and not to be confused with Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic).
I am a nurse by profession, but my husband and I have a farm where we specialise in growing tropical fruits.
I look forward to sharing with others in this forum to learn more about tropical fruits.
Would love to Harry. Sounds like a nice cruise on the Harley. What kind is that in your picture? Very colorful. I already have a Maha Chinok too. I knew I was forgetting one. WOW I do have a problem. LOL
My avatar is a mango from my Maha Chanok seedling project. I love the look of that mango. It is a good, but not superlative tasting mango in eating quality. You can read about it here:
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Would love to Harry. Sounds like a nice cruise on the Harley. What kind is that in your picture? Very colorful. I already have a Maha Chinok too. I knew I was forgetting one. WOW I do have a problem. LOL
My avatar is a mango from my Maha Chanok seedling project. I love the look of that mango. It is a good, but not superlative tasting mango in eating quality. You can read about it here:
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My name is Brian. I am a tropical fruit enthusiast. I have all sorts of fruit trees. I live in Western Palm beach county Florida. I am a member of the Palm Beach chapter of the Rare Fruit Tree Council. Right now I am really hooked on Mango trees. I have 13 and looking for a few more. I have a Choc-Anon, Cogshall. Duncan, Haden. Nam doc mai, Kent, Duncan, Glenn, Lemon Zest, Lemon Merangue, Coconut cream, Carrie, and Malikia. Any suggestions on good ones to plant? The next one has to be a condo mango. It is going under the powerlines. Height is an issue. I don't want a fight keeping it small. I intend keeping them all under control size wise. But I realize I wont stay young forever. I will have my hands full. In addition to mango. I also have apples, plums, peaches, nectarines, sapodillia, Mamey sapote, Loquat, pomagranite, jujubee, jaboticaba, grumachama, pitumbo, cherry of the rio grande, miracle fruit, persimmons, dragonfruit, guava, barbados cherry, Jackfruit, mulberry, allspice, cinnamon, carambola,strawberry tree, figs,and of course lemons, limes, oranges,tangerines, tangelo, grapefruit, blood orange. Lost my avacado, sugar apple, papaya and june plum in flooding after Isiac. Dont plan on replacing any of the ones I lost. Also looking for a goji berry.
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Welcome Brian. What kind of a crazy person would have so many mangoes and still want more? Oh OK.....if you have to have more, I would suggest Pickering, Maha Chanok, Rosiegold, and Neelam for starters. Check back with me if you need more. Or, if you are in West Broward during mango season, plan to stop by to try some other varieties over at my place.
My name is Brian. I am a tropical fruit enthusiast. I have all sorts of fruit trees. I live in Western Palm beach county Florida. I am a member of the Palm Beach chapter of the Rare Fruit Tree Council. Right now I am really hooked on Mango trees. I have 13 and looking for a few more. I have a Choc-Anon, Cogshall. Duncan, Haden. Nam doc mai, Kent, Duncan, Glenn, Lemon Zest, Lemon Merangue, Coconut cream, Carrie, and Malikia. Any suggestions on good ones to plant?
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Hello all, my name is Mike. I am obsessed with fruit. The problem is that I live in Connecticut!
I envy all those who live in South Florida and can get pretty much whatever they want. My goal is to someday eat my favorite fruits right from the tree. Mangoes are high on that list. In the Northeast I have to deal with terrible quality mangoes most of the year. We only get Lychee in June. It drives me nuts.
Melons are a favorite of mine. In the summer I live on watermelon, canary, and rock melons.
I was in South Carolina over the summer and got my hands on dragonfruit, guava, and longan.
I'd love to move to South Florida and work with fruit. If anyone can help me with that dream I would be grateful!
Welcome Juan! :)
sorry, these are fruits that i have tasted, not that i ownWelcome to the Forum!
Exotic taste list, for sure you got there Wanderer!Get some cactus from Nullzero and put them at the perimeter to protect your mangoes!
:o
I'm in Palm Springs CA and a 9b zone, but grow only mangoes
and papayas because I'm squirmy about trying new things!!!!!!!
MangoFang the Scaredy Cat.....
Hey,
I'm 13, and I very much enjoy rare fruit. At first, I just ate the fruit. Now I've moved on to growing them. I'm not growing much due to the fact that I live in Tennessee, but I have 4 cherimoya seedlings, and a pineapple shrub-thing. I ordered a Violet de Bordeaux fig tree which should arrive in early March, and plan on planting 20+ goji berries in a few days. The only fruits that are available here in TN are guava, jak, ugli, lognan, and the occasional lychee. I get most of my fruits either online, Whole Foods market, or a place called K & S world market in Nashville.
Bai c:
Sorry, I should have explained it more clearly. Just a plain pineapple, sadly. I may get a feijoa in the future though. Supposed to grow well (protected, of course) in zone 7.
I think the youngest so far may be Henry (Mr. Caimito) at 13!!!Where's my award!? ;D
Jaime
The reward is the fruit you will get when you plant out one of these tropical seeds you are going to grow that takes half a lifetime to fruit.Yeah! Let's see... where'd I put those mangosteen seeds...
The reward is the fruit you will get when you plant out one of these tropical seeds you are going to grow that takes half a lifetime to fruit.Yeah! Let's see... where'd I put those mangosteen seeds...
;D
But I thought those were illegal...?I think it's likely illegal to export them from the Maldives. Maybe you meant illegal to privately own an endangered species. I was only kidding:)
But I thought those were illegal...?I think it's likely illegal to export them from the Maldives. Maybe you meant illegal to privately own an endangered species. I was only kidding:)
Sigh. That's the problem with youth. You don't have the money to do stuff you want, and by the time you do, it's too late to do some of those stuff.My thoughts exactly. :'(
Sigh. That's the problem with youth. You don't have the money to do stuff you want, and by the time you do, it's too late to do some of those stuff.My thoughts exactly. :'(
5!? Whoa!! Did he/she just like eating the fruit, or did they actually get in to growing things at age 5?Sigh. That's the problem with youth. You don't have the money to do stuff you want, and by the time you do, it's too late to do some of those stuff.My thoughts exactly. :'(
I know some people that started at this hobby at very yearly age, one at the age of 5, and they turned out to be incredibly productive and happy individuals. So i wouldn't despair! :)
5!? Whoa!! Did he/she just like eating the fruit, or did they actually get in to growing things at age 5?Sigh. That's the problem with youth. You don't have the money to do stuff you want, and by the time you do, it's too late to do some of those stuff.My thoughts exactly. :'(
I know some people that started at this hobby at very yearly age, one at the age of 5, and they turned out to be incredibly productive and happy individuals. So i wouldn't despair! :)
Hello everyone. We are in Taiwan. Little cooler than many tropical areas but still above 15 year round.
We have some land where we grow lots of different kinds of fruit and like to travel and try new kinds where we go :)
Next week we go Borneo and I hope to try new types of Durian!
I'll adopt a young fruit-fanatic ( afraid my collection and nursery is gonna go to waste the day I am not there anymore ) he or she will have to move to Mexico and learn Spanish ....
Here's our web site [url=http://www.sardinafarms.com]www.sardinafarms.com[/url] ([url]http://www.sardinafarms.com[/url])
Farm boy ;)
Here's our web site [url=http://www.sardinafarms.com]www.sardinafarms.com[/url] ([url]http://www.sardinafarms.com[/url])
Farm boy ;)
Nice web site. Welcome to the forum. I have a couple of questions for you. How do you deal with fruit fly on your property in your guava groves? Also, how do you get mature Keitt mangoes in June? I don't think I have ever had one reach maturity at my place earlier than late July and not usually until August or after? Thanks.
I will second Harry's comment about Kents in June and add to it Mamey in April??Are they Mamey, such as Pantin, Pace, Lorito, etc. or are they Maga๑a? Big difference...
We just picked 1700 lbs of mamey a week ago. Feel free to stop by, maybe I will let you squeeze a few......
I will second Harry's comment about Kents in June and add to it Mamey in April??Are they Mamey, such as Pantin, Pace, Lorito, etc. or are they Maga๑a? Big difference...
We just picked 1700 lbs of mamey a week ago. Feel free to stop by, maybe I will let you squeeze a few......
As far as the keets..... we sell them to a special Asian market that only buys them green.
However, I don't eat green mango's, it sounds like a recipe for a stomach ache.
My Father has grown guavas since 1969 in the Redlands district, he recently passed away and left the farm to my wife and I.
He showed us many ways to grow the red guava and how to care for it before he passed. I love my new job, we have moved the entire family to Florida to take care of the farms.
My wife and I owned a tractor dealership since the 90s in another state before we arrived, so farm equipment is second nature to us.
I look forward to meeting the members here and making new friends......
Here's our web site [url=http://www.sardinafarms.com]www.sardinafarms.com[/url] ([url]http://www.sardinafarms.com[/url])
Farm boy ;)
My Father has grown guavas since 1969 in the Redlands district, he recently passed away and left the farm to my wife and I.
He showed us many ways to grow the red guava and how to care for it before he passed. I love my new job, we have moved the entire family to Florida to take care of the farms.
My wife and I owned a tractor dealership since the 90s in another state before we arrived, so farm equipment is second nature to us.
I look forward to meeting the members here and making new friends......
Here's our web site [url=http://www.sardinafarms.com]www.sardinafarms.com[/url] ([url]http://www.sardinafarms.com[/url])
murahilin Im glad you met my Dad, he was a great farmer. I really don't have the time for a video tour yet, but you are welcome to stop by and have a real tour and some fruit .
Dr. Crane is a wealth of information, I have a lot of respect for him and his advice which we rely on a lot !
My Father was ill the last few years of his life and the farm kinda went down hill, so we have spent the last year repairing equipment, sprinklers, fences, pumps, tractors, and returning the groves to a healthy state. When we arrived the grass was 4' tall under the trees, and the irrigation system was not the best, plus the building was full of ........ so we have been renovating and fixing the place to get it to what it used to be. If my Dad could see it now, I think he would be proud, although we still have a few hurdles to jump through ;)
Farm boy ;)
Welcome to the forum Farm Boy. I'm sorry to hear your father has passed. I had the opportunity to meet your father and tour your farm a few years back with Dr. Crane during the Tropical Fruit Research and Production class I took at TREC. He showed us the packing house and gave us some guavas and also let us walk through the grove and keep any fruit we found that was ready to pick. It's great to know that you're keeping the farm and business going. Are you willing to post a picture or video tour of your farm on the forum?
If I remember correctly, they bagged some of the guavas at your farm to protect them from fruit flies right?
Hello to the community :)
This is Mike from Greece. I live in the island of Crete(Zone 10a/b?).
Am I the first greek member of this forum?
I was a lunker for some time and now I am here. I am a tropical fruit enthusiast after visiting Thailand. After tasting so many fruits there I said to me that I can grow some tropical fruiting trees in my place and enjoy the freshness.
At the momment I am growing the following trees :
Mango (many cultivars, grafted), sapodilla (from seed), Black Sapote (from seed), Jaboticaba (from seed), Jackfruit (grafted, from seed), Dragon Fruit (cuttings, from seeds), puteria sapote (from seed), Avocado (grafted), atemoya (from seed), guava (from seed), passifloras, papayas, pineapples. pawpaws (from seed).
I am looking for more mango cultivars such LZ, Maha Chanok, R2E2, Keitt, Mallika, KP or unusual and not common cultivars, durian seeds, lychees and more...
Mike
Hello :)Hello Kosta and wellcome. Κώστα καλός ήρθες στο φόρουμ για τροπικά φυτά - φρούτα.
I am Konstantinos Giannopoulos and live in Melissia,Athens,Greece,which is Zone 8b/9a. I have a garden 300km away at Pyrgos,in Zone 10a/9b and have been transforming it to a tropical garden the past 5years mainly with Palms,Cycads,canopy rainforest trees,bromeliads,orchids,aroids,ferns and bananas. I am trying to create a rainforest theme garden with huge canopy trees with epiphytes on them,palms towering above and others understory and lots of understory plants in general. A small part will have a few more arid tropical plants in a Caribbean style planting with palms and cycads requiring excellent drainage and more sun.
I am currently not growing any tropical fruit trees unfortunately(only bananas which are tropical fruit but not trees!),even though i have long wanted to. The main reason for that has been the lack of enough information on the cold hardiness and taste of many of them and the lack of pure seeds for others. Also a slight fear i will be attracting too many mice/rats to my property which could potentially damage my other plantings as the area has many fat tree rats which used to visit the fruit trees that were growing in the property before i started the garden(most deciduous,very unattractively pruned temperate species and a few Citrus hybrids(lemon,mandarin,not what i like)) but are not found wandering in my property much anymore. I am not afraid of rats but i know the damage they can do to small precious plants and thus dont want to be feeding them! The only fruit trees i retained are an olive tree(finally coming along after lots of careful pruning to give it a natural branch shape as it was badly pruned for years,i hate pruned trees) and a Ziziphus tree which i dont plan to keep long term as its deciduous and doesnt help the least bit with cold/frost/hail protection of the understory species i am growing,nor the orchids and bromeliads on it. So the plan is to let it get engulfed by a Ficus benghalensis...The olive tree will stay and is a host to a wide variety of epiphytes now that enjoy its protection.
Anyway,i want to be adding a few tropical fruit trees to my garden and i am really happy i found a forum dedicated to them. I will really need your help in choosing a few species that suit my needs and tastes! I am glad i found this great forum! :)
Greetings from sunny Greece!!! :)
Hi there everybody!Vlk, welcome to the forum with a litle delay. Durian is my prefered fruit also. Like you say it's a passion. I hope we can excange many experiences with the other forum mebmers. Mangos taste delicious too!
My name is Vlk and I am from Czech Republic, Europe. I've been collecting all sorts of exotic fruiting plants for a little while, but my real passion is collecting and growing durio and artocarpus species. I am not sure what caused this passion - maybe the little experience and rarity of these plants in our republic - as it is very little known about them, how to grow them and such. And many people and growers has been unsuccessful growing them. I want to change that and explore the durio species as much as I can (I already got a little research in my mind concerning durio seedlings). :-) Also I want to collect as much species as possible! Since I am from central Europe, it seems like an adventurous quest! :-D
I am glad to be part of this community!
Geia sou Jonas. Καλώς ήλθες στο φόρουμ. It is nice that you grow some tropical fruiting trees. In your area is some winter protection needed because the winter is a litle hard for the real tropical plants. We have here some nurseries selling mangos. Sorry to hear about the dead plants you got from the nursery. Maybe the way of packing was not right or they stand long time in the transport company? The way to your place from here isn't long.Hello to the community :)
This is Mike from Greece. I live in the island of Crete(Zone 10a/b?).
Am I the first greek member of this forum?
I was a lunker for some time and now I am here. I am a tropical fruit enthusiast after visiting Thailand. After tasting so many fruits there I said to me that I can grow some tropical fruiting trees in my place and enjoy the freshness.
At the momment I am growing the following trees :
Mango (many cultivars, grafted), sapodilla (from seed), Black Sapote (from seed), Jaboticaba (from seed), Jackfruit (grafted, from seed), Dragon Fruit (cuttings, from seeds), puteria sapote (from seed), Avocado (grafted), atemoya (from seed), guava (from seed), passifloras, papayas, pineapples. pawpaws (from seed).
I am looking for more mango cultivars such LZ, Maha Chanok, R2E2, Keitt, Mallika, KP or unusual and not common cultivars, durian seeds, lychees and more...
Mike
γεια σου Mike, I'm Jonas I stay in Athens. I grow mango, lychee, guyava and have a citrus collection (some varieties from Austalia, Vietnam, India, Reunion island,..). I'm particulary interested by spices trees as cinnamon, allspice, clove, star anise, pepper,... I ordered some mango, avocado,.. plants in a nursery in Xania, but all arrived dead. The best I think is to come and choose by myself, also to get better looking plants. I grow until now everything outside, but for equatorial plants (as nutmeg, clove, cacao,..) I'm building a greenhouse. Which mango varieties do you grow? τα λεμε!
Thank you Mike. :-) Iam glad to hear durian is your passion as well. :-))Hi there everybody!Vlk, welcome to the forum with a litle delay. Durian is my prefered fruit also. Like you say it's a passion. I hope we can excange many experiences with the other forum mebmers. Mangos taste delicious too!
My name is Vlk and I am from Czech Republic, Europe. I've been collecting all sorts of exotic fruiting plants for a little while, but my real passion is collecting and growing durio and artocarpus species. I am not sure what caused this passion - maybe the little experience and rarity of these plants in our republic - as it is very little known about them, how to grow them and such. And many people and growers has been unsuccessful growing them. I want to change that and explore the durio species as much as I can (I already got a little research in my mind concerning durio seedlings). :-) Also I want to collect as much species as possible! Since I am from central Europe, it seems like an adventurous quest! :-D
I am glad to be part of this community!
...I am also looking for these mangos varieties.
Me too, I brought from Reunion island some local varieties as Jos้ which is absolutely tasty. I'm looking for indian & pakistan mangoes varieties which are the best in my personnal advice as: Langra, Sindhri, Chaunsa, from north India/Pakistan and some other as Alphonso which is not too bad. I also tried south east asian varieties as Nam Doc Mai or Carabao, Manilla, but I don't like the strong taste as resin...
I think here the most important is to protect the plant from the wind. I have sugar can, litchi, allspice, star anise, mango , cinnamon outside but not exposed to the wind and they are well. Of course in Crete you have, particularly in Xania, a microclimate (As Kalamata also).
For the mango trees from Xania, they had absolutly no protection and they were carried by ferry.
Hello everyone! I am a new member to the forum AND a new grower as well, I am in South Florida and looking expand my collection and knowledge!
Happy growing
FRUITBOXHERO
Hello;
Im Ed New To The TFF,Been Lurking for a while , learn lots from this Forum !
Im a member of Bananas.org as well same Nick .
New To NE Florida , been here 1 year started to Grow :
Avacado & Mango Trees , all Killed By The latest frost here in NE Florida.
Since i bought a green house & i am starting again to acquire New Mango & Avacado trees.
Also wood like to try my hand at Grafting this spring.
Most of my Fruit Trees where purchased at Pine Island , Bens Grove a bought a Guanabana Tree .
Home depot and some other Nursery's in the Miami Area .
My Banana Plants from Don at going Bananas , all of the above are great folks to deal with.
Thanks Great Forum..
Hey everyone,Hello Julia, Welcome to the forum. I also can say it for sure: this forum is great! We exchange our experiences and have a lot of fun. Happy tropical gardening ;)
am Julia and I study landscape architecture near Munich. Yeh, it's cold over here but nonetheless I try to grow tropical fruit trees indoors. I started 2 years ago and am always looking for new stuff, sooo addictive - this forum is great. I have already seen so many fruits I didn't know before.
So, cheers ;)
Hey everyone,
am Julia and I study landscape architecture near Munich. Yeh, it's cold over here but nonetheless I try to grow tropical fruit trees indoors. I started 2 years ago and am always looking for new stuff, sooo addictive - this forum is great. I have already seen so many fruits I didn't know before.
So, cheers ;)
Hi Everybody mi name is Raul Gonzalez, I like to collect exotic fruits, I live by a small river on a almost half acre property with a small hill slope at the back, I started about 8 years ago so most of my trees are in juvenile stage, currently have jack f, bakuripari, Eug. Candolleana, Ilama, Garcinia macrophila, Mexican atemoya, mama de cadela, premium pitangas( twice the size very sweet & firm flesh with no turpentine flavor , achachairu, marang, champedak, mangostan,Kwai muck, dwarf ambarella, duku, long kong, pedalai,Bali Salak, durian, Durio graveolens,Ross sapote, cupuassu,caimito,biribas, apple mamey,Burmese grape, kuwini mango ( flowering for first time! ) seedless bread fruit, lychee ,longan,
Now my new passion are mangos, but I'm running out of space, so I have to be very selective ! I have a beautyful girl(23) and a boy(9) from previous marriage, I live with my wife 3 dogs, male rottie,fem lab, fem cocker, and 4 cats, I worked in hotelery industry, I'm really exited to join this group!
Un abrazo!!
Hi Harry
The elevation of my farm is basically sea level to about 40m. We often have some fruit here but the best time to come for fresh fruit is around September to November. I am seeing flowers on mangosteen, rambutan, and durian right now, to name a few. A visit could be easy from South Florida, I was up there in May and visited some very interesting nurseries. I got some material from Excalibur and a few bromeliads from Bullis in Homestead. It would be great to see you here.
Peter
Hi, I just joined yesterday, trying to find help for my tiny mango plant!
I am not a gardener....seems like everything I try to grow dies :-[
I live in Canada, we get very cold winters and very hot summers!
Hoping I can find some advice for my mango tree!
Hi, I just joined yesterday, trying to find help for my tiny mango plant!
I am not a gardener....seems like everything I try to grow dies :-[
I live in Canada, we get very cold winters and very hot summers!
Hoping I can find some advice for my mango tree!
I think you came to the right place because we have some forum members in Canada growing mangos, i'm sure they can help you, along with the many other mango experts here. Welcome to the group!
Yes Felipe ,
Soy Aleman ( Bavarian from Munich),My Job brought me to Mexico 25 years ago.
Thanks'for welcoming me .
Helmut
Welcome to the forum... :)
Rusahlynn. :) I'm glad you found other Canadian Mango growers.. hopefully they'll be able to help. But keep us posted on how your little tree does..:) It would be nice to see it make it through..:) I grow some mangoes in pots as well, so if there is anything i can help with, just let me know.
JD, you've a great collection so far and I'm sure you'll probably be adding much more..:) Here's a good place to start your Jaboticaba reading [url]http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=4238.msg58386#msg58386...:[/url] ([url]http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=4238.msg58386#msg58386...:[/url]))
Waldi1...welcome to the forum, retiring with more than a 100 different fruit trees sounds wonderful..:P
Welcome to the forum... :)
Rusahlynn. :) I'm glad you found other Canadian Mango growers.. hopefully they'll be able to help. But keep us posted on how your little tree does..:) It would be nice to see it make it through..:) I grow some mangoes in pots as well, so if there is anything i can help with, just let me know.
Thanks :) it is growing new leaves now...so I'm hoping they don't turn brown as well....I will keep you posted on how it does!!
Hello everyone, I registered with the site because I have been a hobbyist of fruit trees for about 3 years now. I looking forward to learning from others as I am still a novice when it comes to growing.
I think it could be done with the jujubes, I think Roger Myer has imported plants in the past. I think it depends on how the species is listed by Aphis. I am near the largest ag school in china and saw some cool looking photos of different types of jujubes before, but as I am going home at the end of july I wont be here during the right time of the year to import budwood. Yeah its good to have some young blood in this rare fruit stuff. What got you into it?
Greetings to all forumites,
I got interested in tropical fruits when, upon moving to Stuart, FL in 1994 from 4.5 acres on the Potomac river in rural Virginia where I grew apples, grapes, plums, vegetables, blueberries and others, I discovered there was nothing particularly tropical in my regular Publix produce area. Disappointed, I decided, well, I'll just have to grow them myself. So I got this little Sunset book, on Citrus and Subtropical fruit and got inspired. Then got my own little acre in 1997, had Richard Wilson bring a truck full of trees, and boom, I was off. I've pretty much continued this on my own as I didn't know anyone else in the hobby until recently. Most of my neighbors are sod farmers. (if that's harsh just pretend I didn't say it) So my interest waxes and wanes year to year. I sympathize with Patrick as he wanders around the yard looking for any unoccupied tree planting space, new fruit, leaves, bugs, squirrels, flowers. I have added new stuff and killed other stuff (3 persimmons...etc. ). Locally in Martin county we have Mike's Treesnmore which is a great nursery. I recently did a grafting workshop there with Adam and am very excited to try my hand at this new skill. I appreciate all who have answered my questions and hope to continue learning as I interact with others in the hobby. I also have some orchids, heliconia, bromeliads, collector palms & cycads.
Some fruit inventory....from 20 year old trees to potted seedlings : araca boi, black sapote, sweet tamarind, tropical guavas-Tikal, ?, cattley guava, lychee 2, tangerines, grapefruit duncan, mineola tangelos, uglifuit, pineapple, monstera, cherry of the rio grande, macadamia, mango 7cv-Tebow(Edward x kent), coconut cream,PPK,kent, Glenn, Beverly,valencia pride , longan, pitomba, pomegranate, papaya, guava, coconut, mamay sapote -pantin lorito1, avocado 4 cv., nangka mai1, peach 2, apples 3 cv on one(from Treesnmore) , limes 4 ,lemons 2, white sapote- redlands, rollinia, malay apple, starapple, starfruit- kari, pommelo, sugar apples- red green Puerto rican purple grafted,atemoya geffner 48-26mmm! , soursop,blueberries-3 cv., herbs, tomatoes, eggplant, bananas -gros michel , manzano, hua moa, tall red, short red, raja puri, ice cream, misi luki, dwarf cavendish, praying hands,kru +unknown ones, genip, mysore raspberry, grapes-2, blackberry-Brazos, passionfruit- purple, dragonfruit-pink red, white, yellow, sapodilla , miracle fruit, Ross sapote(canistel),barbados cherry ,... I'm tired....pulasan, terap,abiu coming soon, want chempedak,
OK, since there are others like me, does that mean I'm not crazy or that we all are? Hmmmmmmmm.
Regards, Rusty
Hello everyone
Although I have been growing tropical fruits for over thirty years I recently came across this forum and joined.
I originally lived in Naples Florida and grew all kinds of tropical plants at my home in town and on country property. I llost a 3 acre development of lychee, longan, citrus, and banana varieties to the three problems with groeing tropicals in Florida fire, frost, and flooding. To more successfully pursue my interests I purchased a farm im Maricao Puerto Rico. Maricao is one of the finest places on the planet blessed with natural beauty, nice prople, and a fantastic climate where no heat or air conditioning is ever needed! It also enables you to enjoy nature and the out of doors without the pesty mosquitoes so prevalent in Florida.
Anyway, my particular interests are in growing tropical fruits, palms, and flowering trees, although all of the tropical plant world excites me including the fantastc native plants we have here. I also have some property in the dry hot areas on the southwest coast to provide a different environment for fruits like mangoes which grow to enormous size in the rainy mountains but do not fruit well.
Since nothing is very level in Maricao, plantings are on steep hillsides or switchbacks constructed on the property. Working alone, I have concentrated my plantings enjoying the beautiful native forests on the rest of the property.
I have fruited lychees, longans, rambutans, mangosteens,and citrus and bananas of all kinds easily. Many other
Fruits like jaboticaba and langsat grow well but do not fruit. As a strong lover of langsat from my times in Asia, I'd love any advice on how to mak my trees fruit. Hope to hear from any of you interested in fruits or farming in Puerto Rico.
Welcome bienvenidos
Camilo mucho gusto de conocerte
Very nice to meet another person studying agronomy, tambien estoy estudiando agronomia, pero en los EEUU. You are lucky to live in a place with so many interesting species of fruiting plants. I also grow Mora de castilla and its one of my favorite tropical rubus species. This is a very good place to find and trade rare fruits and there is a lot of information available, aqui es un buen lugar si quierias hacer intercambios de semillas, y se pueda incontrar much informacion sobre frutas.
Mi gustaria ver fotos de las frutas locales que se tiene en este lado del mundo.
I would like to see some photos of the fruits from the part of the world.
Hi, has long wanted to participate in this great forum and meeting point for lovers of tropical fruits.
I hope to help in any way possible and learn from the great masters who appear here. I'll put my list of varieties and tropical species now I have on my farm. I own the web [url=http://www.frutalestropicales.com]www.frutalestropicales.com[/url] ([url]http://www.frutalestropicales.com[/url]), and prefer more sharing than selling. My English language is not very good, but hopefully enough to defend myself. Greetings and a big hug to everyone.
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Grafting zone for tropical fruit trees
Hey, my name is Alex Curtis-Slep and I live in St. Petersburg, Florida.hehehe, so close of believe I of that lives in russia
Ok, so I'm a newb.
This Wendy from MangoMaven.com, which is a blog geared toward consumers/layman interested in mangoes. I try to provide information the non-expert / non-enthusiast might want/need. I have a ton of questions about this or that related to mangoes - hopefully I won't drive you all crazy.
I confess that I'm jealous of *anyone* that can grow a mango tree. I live in Pebble Beach, CA where it's an average 65 degrees all the time. My particular location tends to be even a little cooler - can't even grow tomatoes! So I have to live through all of you... On my bucket list is the Mango Festival at Fairchild, and then possibly attending some international ones too. The big one in India has my name on it! On my mango site, I have a listing of festivals...if you know of any that I've missed PLEASE tell me! :)
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Oh, and I am a cat lady...and the mother of twin daughters who are now 21! I look forward to connecting on the forum.
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"Fruit Trees Attract Women...be careful" I wonder which one out of two of you have to be careful.. ::)
Welcome to all the new members. Tom, stop on by and say hi some time!When I see you outside sometime I will stop.
Welcome to all the new members. Tom, stop on by and say hi some time!When I see you outside sometime I will stop.
you should grow yellow dragonfruit, is so exquisite a good for the health.
the chilean papaya is resistent to the frost ,but not the snow, although here you can see papaya of mount like a wild plant, so that pucharse a fruit and extracted seeds of them.
the custard apple also grow good, just get cuttings in the section of interchange or buy of this forum.
you should grow yellow dragonfruit, is so exquisite a good for the health.
the chilean papaya is resistent to the frost ,but not the snow, although here you can see papaya of mount like a wild plant, so that pucharse a fruit and extracted seeds of them.
the custard apple also grow good, just get cuttings in the section of interchange or buy of this forum.
Thanks. Ill check them out. Actually have mexican papaya growing from seed. Its about 4" right now. Is chilean papaya the same as our pawpaw that grows in th southern US? I thought about custard apple but theyare too sweet for me.
you should grow yellow dragonfruit, is so exquisite a good for the health.
the chilean papaya is resistent to the frost ,but not the snow, although here you can see papaya of mount like a wild plant, so that pucharse a fruit and extracted seeds of them.
the custard apple also grow good, just get cuttings in the section of interchange or buy of this forum.
Thanks. Ill check them out. Actually have mexican papaya growing from seed. Its about 4" right now. Is chilean papaya the same as our pawpaw that grows in th southern US? I thought about custard apple but theyare too sweet for me.
the scientific name is Carica candamarcensis, is good and grow in mediterrean and subtropical climates
I am new to this site and have questions regarding how to and where to buy materials for mushroom growing in Costa Rica. I have experience back home in the U.S. but don't even know where I can find vermiculite and other materials in my new country. Any ideas? I don't even know where to look on this forum. Any guidance on how to find help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
Bienvenida Xisca!
Where are you lacated? In CI at 500m over sea level you will have a very hard time growing tropicals. In your case, I would focus on growing sub-tropicals and temperate fruits. You say you are growing mango, did you ever get them to fruit at your location?
aloha!
my name is Micah and i love to grow and eat things that are from our earth. i live in waipio valley hawaii with my wife and two kids. we grow taro and over 100 tropical fruits and nuts.. im always trying to expand the garden with other pleasantrees. ive been surfing the net for years looking for sources of the rarities from around the world. i have a small seed permit for importing seeds to grow. i love the fact that we do a service to all mankind by growing these treasures to perpetuate them for future generations all the while eating healthy saving money and helping our earth/air/soil...seems to me a win win situations. i growing the seeds of the trees i feel worthy to spread out on the island. my family does a horseback riding trip by the orchards with samples sometimes as this helps spread the word of these tasty treasures. :)
Hi there
My name is Jared and I don't grow (NYC apartment, couldn't if I tried), but I do have a love for hunting down fruits I've never had before. I travel a lot for work. Last winter I spent three months in Malaysia and was coming across so many new fruits that I decided to create a youtube series reviewing what I found. I am, I admit no expert in this field, but its a fascination of mine and I hope to learn more from this forum. The series I made is called "weird fruit explorer" if you'd like to take a look.
Hello everyone,Grant, welcome! Where in North Georgia are you? We have a cabin about 10 minutes from Helen in Clarkesville...
I have a mature charanja tree on my property that bears a wonderful crop of fruit each fall. I have been able to start some seedlings from this past years fruit and I found this site while researching the charanja. I live in north Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, so I was quite surprised to find such a nice citrus tree growing untended when I purchased this land.
I look forward to learning about growing tropical fruit and sharing what I learn about my charang as they grow.
Hello my name is Joใo Sousa I'm 17 years old and I live on Madeira island, Funchal and I have been interested in rare and exotic fruits since my 15, I hope to learn more about more this kind of plants in the future. I live in an flat on the top floor where most plants can get sun but most plants that i own are on my mothers boyfriend roof, unfortunately i don't have any kind of terrain to plant more plants but i hope to get one in the future, for now I'm going to put them in a VERY large pots.Olแ Joใo! Tens umas variedades fantแsticas! You will learn here a lot! See you soon! ;D
The plants that I have now are: passiflora edulis (both the yellow and purple variety), longan, grumixama, feijoa, jackfruit, black suriman cherry and dragon fruit (selenicereus megalanthus, the yellow one).
And the fruit plants that i hope to adquire in the future are berries with uncommon colors, rambutan both the red and yellow variety, durian, dragon fruit(selenicereus megalanthus hybrid) orange skinned with red pulp, jabuticabas, mangosteens and black and white sapotes or how i like to call them "pudding sapotes" because of what i heard they taste like pudding.
Well, that's i have to say, I hope to learn more from all of you. Good evening and thank you for your time.
Hello my name is Tim Thompson, I am an "old guy" and this is my first effort with internet forums. This is somewhat intimidating, and also at the same time very exciting. I started growing things with my dad's help and guidance as a child. Then it was just a hobby. I have special interest in tropical fruits, mangoes in particular. For the last 20 plus years many people have referred to me by the nickname: The Mango Man. My father instilled in me a sense of adventure in growing new and often difficult things. That desire to overcome obstacles is part of what made me take on the challenge of growing and fruiting mangoes in Southern California. I started that effort almost 40 years ago and now have achieved that goal with over a dozen mango varieties that are in the patent process and which will soon be growing throughout Southern California.WOW great story! Thank you so much for sharing your life story with us! :D
I live in Camarillo, about 15 miles inland from the ocean and grew up on a ranch between Ventura and Santa Paula after moving from frosty Nothern Illinois.
Welcome Patrick,Do you have tropicals with cold weather? By the way can you tell what do you have?
It's great to see a tropical fruit grower/enthusiast up in Arlington. I don't live that far from you, here in Richmond, Virginia. Just plant those tropical fruit seeds! I can tell you that it may be a little of a challenge to grow tropical/subtropical plants up here but it's not impossible. I have a small collection of my dearest plants after moving from Florida, and so far they are doing well.
Tomas
Hi Luisport,Yes i can try that too, but in potas it's more dificult to get a fruit stage...
Well, I grow my plants in pots so when cold weather comes I bring bring them inside/greenhouse. Here is what I have:
abiu
white, yellow, black sapote
various Eugenia species
various Garcinia species
various Myrciaria and Plinia species
and some obscure plants too
Tomas
Welcome Luis, Alphonzo, Jared, Joao Sousa, Phat, Kathy Thomas, Dietrich Cusseaux, Tim Thompson, Patrick! Look forward to your postings!Thank you so much! This forum is awsome!!! ;)
Hi all,
I am here in sunny England (NOT!) and am attempting to grow stuff I really should have more sense about.
My excuse is that we have bought a house in the south of Spain and I am preparing to plant the garden out there :).
Currently I have about a dozen Mango's from India,Pakistan and Bangladesh and new this year some Lychees.
I have previously killed dozens of Custard Apples (and related species) Tamerind and countless fruits from holidays around the world.
Chilli plants are everywhere and I grew Epezote for the first time this year.
I am looking to grow as many varieties as possible in my new garden, but I need to be realistic.
I see many plants advertised as suitable for Zone 9 for example, but I am not sure what zone I will be in.
My house is in Ramil Bajo, Andalucia, Spain, so if anyone who understands Zones can tell me which one I will be in, I would be very grateful.
I really hope to learn from you guys, and in return I can pass on my knowledge to you.
I am also willing to send seeds (Laws permitting) if I get something people want, just for swaps, (no money involved).
Mwambao from the East african coastal city of Mombasa Kenya.
Curently residing in Canada.Still have small farm at south coast of Kenya.
cheers
My name is Patrick (I am veggie on the tropical vegetable forum). I live in Arlington, Washington, which has a mind boggling amount of tropical fruit growers: three 😉. Us fruitarians are a rare breed up here. I started when my family went vegan, and we found a food co-op that carried chirimoyas. I had not gardened since I was little, but these seeds were just asking to be planted. Long story short, I turned into a total fruit junkie, with dreams of eating them all, fresh and homegrown, delicious 😋. Being new at this, I will probably have a few awkward and duh questions. Such as what to do when neighbors steal your cacao seedling (mine is now over seven inches, theirs died of neglect). I look forward to your answers (a much used line, I know)! Thanks!
Hello,Geeezzzzzzzzzzzzz congratulations! You should post photos to us! ;) Your collection is impressive... all of them are producing?
my name is Markus. I live in germany and started a hobby (5 years ago) to grow exotic fruits.
For the most i grow fruits which cannot be bought anywhere here in germany .
Till now I am growing :
Pouteria obovata => grafted plants
Canistel => grafted plants and plants from seeds
acca sellowiana (Coolidge,Unique,Mammouth,Triumph) => bought plants and from seeds -> got fruits
citrus australasica=>plant bought
citrus hybride (Faustrime) => plant bought -> fruits
Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis => plant bought
diospyros digyna(black sapote)=> from seeds and grafted plant -> got fruits
scasimiroa edulis(white sapote)=>grafted plants and plants from seed -> got fruits
pouteria viridis(Green Sapote) => from seeds
Mamey Sapote=>from seeds
pouteria multiflora (bully Tree) =>from seeds
Manilkara zapota=>grafted plants and from seed
sziziphus jujuba (different varieties)=>bought plants -> this year first fruits developing
ziziphus mauritiana => bought plant
carica pubescens=>bough plant -> died
carica pentagonia -> got fruits
theobroma cacao=>bough plants->flowering now the third year
Anacardium occidentale (cashew)
inga edulis=>from seeds
Manilkara kauki=>bought plants
pouteria caimito (abiu)=>from seeds
Stelechocarpus cauliflorus (Kepel)=>from seeds
Psidium friedrichsthalianum=>bought plant
psidium guajava=>bought plant
psidium guajava dwarf=>bought plant
Psidium cattleianum=>bought plants-> first fruits this year
ugni molinea=>bought plant-> got fruits
Cherimoya, Annona cherimola=>bought plants
Chrysophyllum cainito=>bought plant
Passiflora mollisima=>bought plant
passiflora edulis=>bought plant
passiflora decaisneana x =>bought plant
passiflora alata=>bought plant
Manilkara discolor=>bought
manilkara achras=>dead
Sapodilla-LaMudSriDa-Madhuca-esculenta=>dead
musa raja puri => plant
musa dwarf red => plant
musa super dwarf cavendish => plant
musa super plantain=>plant
Sandoricum koetjape (santol,lolly fruit)=>from seeds
punica granatum=>plant
aegle marmelos=>from seeds
asimina triloba=>(several grafted varieties, growing outside)
Cyphomandra betacea=>from seeds
myrciaria cauliflora=>plant
Dacryodes edulis (safu)=>from seeds
I already succeded in a few fruts but hope to harvest more types when the palnts get older .
Currently on my wishlist for seeds or plants I could not get till now is :
Malay apple
inga vulpina
ross sapote
Hello everyone!
I'm so excited to join this forum. I'm here because my teenage son - "Mr. Caimito" - has gotten me hooked on rare/exotic/tropical fruit.
I know precisely nothing about growing tropical fruit ;D That's the main thing that motivated me to make my own account here - I need lots of help!! Living in zone 7a doesn't really help matters much, either.
Mr. Caimito and I are attempting to grow a Cogshall Mango (from Excalibur), a Violet de Bordeaux fig, 3 cherimoya saplings (from seeds of a commercial fruit), 3 papaya seedlings, 2 miracle fruit seedlings, and one coffee plant.
I'm in my mid-thirties and work at home full-time as a Call Center Workforce Manager. My primary hobby is breadmaking - I bake all of our family's bread from scratch and by hand (except for some mixing). I also love jazz - it's playing in the house all the time.
My screen name is what it is because I am slightly obsessed with the pawpaw. Despite growing up in Tennessee (ideal pawpaw territory), I had never heard of the tree until a few months ago, and I was floored by the fact that it's a temperate Annona. So I love to hunt wild pawpaw trees in the woods. I have yet to taste the fruit as of this writing. I've found some large fruiting trees and can't wait to check them out in September!
Lastly - my favorite exotic fruits in mostly descending order: Durian, jackfruit, cherimoya, mamey, mango, canistel, rambutan, lychee
My apologies in advance for any noob questions I may ask! Thanks to everyone for making this such a great community.
Hello! zone 7a, huh. Looks like we're in the same situation ;) (i'm 7b)
Welcome to the forum!
Welcome Triloba Tracker. I grew up in N GA and am quite familiar with pawpaws although I never found a really good one in the wild. It's hand to hand combat with the wildlife to get them when ripe. KSU has many cultivars - [url]http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/[/url] ([url]http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/[/url])
I'm here because my teenage son - "Mr. Caimito" - has gotten me hooked on rare/exotic/tropical fruit.
Welcome Triloba Tracker. I grew up in N GA and am quite familiar with pawpaws although I never found a really good one in the wild. It's hand to hand combat with the wildlife to get them when ripe. KSU has many cultivars - [url]http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/[/url] ([url]http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/[/url])
Thanks!! Yeah, I've heard similar things about how hard it is to beat the 'possums and such to the fruit. I guess since I'm new at it, I haven't become jaded yet! I did learn about the KSU pawpaw program and have spoken with them a little. I would like to take a trip up there to see their operation and maybe get some trees.
I just love the feeling of foraging in the wild for fruit. ..it's such a cool feeling that nature is just handing out free, delicious, nutritious food! Of course, cultivating food has its own rewards too.
Before the onset of agriculture everything humans ate was handed out by nature.
Before the onset of agriculture everything humans ate was handed out by nature.
So true! With today's industrial agriculture machine, you have to sorta wonder if we've ruined it :)
Congratulations, normally it's the other way around. Very refreshing to hear kids getting hooked on tropical FRUITS rather than many other things, then converting parents to make great duos.I'm here because my teenage son - "Mr. Caimito" - has gotten me hooked on rare/exotic/tropical fruit.
Ha! Well, I will see if Henry can comment too, but my answer is: talk about rare fruit all the time, bug your parents to let you mail-order fruit, constantly beg to go to the nearest international grocery store, and start growing plants all over the house :):):):)Congratulations, normally it's the other way around. Very refreshing to hear kids getting hooked on tropical FRUITS rather than many other things, then converting parents to make great duos.I'm here because my teenage son - "Mr. Caimito" - has gotten me hooked on rare/exotic/tropical fruit.
Haha! I am also a teenager, but cannot seem to get my parents fully interested. Any suggestions, triloba tracker?
Ha! Well, I will see if Henry can comment too, but my answer is: talk about rare fruit all the time, bug your parents to let you mail-order fruit, constantly beg to go to the nearest international grocery store, and start growing plants all over the house :):):):)Congratulations, normally it's the other way around. Very refreshing to hear kids getting hooked on tropical FRUITS rather than many other things, then converting parents to make great duos.I'm here because my teenage son - "Mr. Caimito" - has gotten me hooked on rare/exotic/tropical fruit.
Haha! I am also a teenager, but cannot seem to get my parents fully interested. Any suggestions, triloba tracker?
Welcome! That is a wonderful and inspiring list from Canada! I hope to hear more from you. Make a topic and post some pics! I also have avocado, one of my favorite fruit. Is yours grafted? Avocado trees are very popular over here, and most houses have a little tree from store-bought fruit, but almost nobody has a grafted tree, and even I have not grafted mine yet. I like your citrus list! I also have a few, but kumquat is not technically a citrus, but instead a fortunella. Good luck with that babaco!
Welcome, Canadian Tropics!
What size are your potted plants, and what can you tell us about your greenhouses?
Hi, I'm Tony.Welcome! ;D
I'm the webmaster for SoCalPlantBreeders.com
I'm also an avid tropical gardner as well.
I currently reside in Ventura California.
I'm the webmaster for SoCalPlantBreeders.comWelcome Tony. You will likely find some interesting information on tropicals you can grow in your area. Hardiness zones change quickly over physically short distances in CA. Are you in USDA 10a?
I'm also an avid tropical gardner as well.
I currently reside in Ventura California.
My name is Jeff. I grew up in Massachusetts but moved to Miami in 2007. I just moved into a new house and had a baby boy (named Keegan) so I figured a healthy mini-orchard addiction would be perfect! I have a small lot--maybe 1/5 of an acre....but I intend to make it a densely-packed fruit and veggie paradise. I love the idea of self-sufficiency at least somewhat living off the land.
I may have missed some but I think that's it. Suffice to say, I have "the bug" like many of you. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Harry, Rob, Lisa, Jeff Hagen, squam, sheehan, and others for your mango cultivar reviews as well as many other fruits. Without you guys, I would've been in the dark and probably got a Tommy atkins and choc-anon--lol
Anyway, I look forward to interacting with you all as time goes on and I try to bring this mini-orchard up to speed. BTW, what is oolitic limestone? My soil here is sandy (some parts are always white in color, but most are a light gray--have hear people say it's sugar sand. I know i can have it tested by UF extension but i like instant gratification.
Let the journey begin!!
~Jeff
Mango (lemon zest, coconut cream, nam doc mai #4, Maha Chanok, mallika, pickering, graham, rosigold, Neelam, fairchild, Glenn, angie, madame francis (already existing--may graft onto it in later years)
Hi All
Im very interested in tropical rare and exotic fruits.
i also like medicinal herbs and just about all edibles (im a vegetarian)
I liveb in the suburbs, but my backyard is full. mainly Papaya trees, but have guava, satsuma
and a few other adult treesd
but mostly i am still in the growing stages for lots of stuff
like Mamey, Baobob , Lychee, opuntia, dragonfruit, cherimoya etc... seedlings i have.
i keep a photobucket account of stuff here...
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I am outside of New Orleans, so it stays warm most of the year
and the winters are pretty mild. - i think im in zone 10 (maybe 9a ?)
not sure... i saw 2 different maps
one was hard to read.
i love to trade
and am looking for (especially) Marang/Terap - Cacao and Lucuma
or almost any exotic tropical fruit that will grow here.
(also medicinals)
Brad
I plan on pruning intensively...as i have seen from dave wilson nursery online. Pepe also has some info on mini-grove culture on his site. Not much pruning yet because things are just starting to take off. I have planted a few multi-trees in one hole and pruned them accordingly upon planting so they wouldn't shade each other out.
Old Alchemist from Canada who married someone from Brunei, nearly 30 years ago. We currently live in California so are growing citrus, avocado and a couple of Paw Paw. We have a small farm in AL. I'm interested in PAW PAW as we need to take the tropical favors north.
Hello,
My name Moh'd and I'm from Dubai, UAE. I started this hobby when I was 12 years old . My first grow was a mango that was bought from a supermarket. Right know, I 'm growing over 20 different types of fruits from all over the world (most of them are not available here). I got Genip, Mammea Americana , 5 types of Garcinia , 6 types of Eugenia , Eggfruit , Jackfruit , mango , Malay Apple , Rose apple and More.
Mohd
Hello,
My name Moh'd and I'm from Dubai, UAE. I started this hobby when I was 12 years old . My first grow was a mango that was bought from a supermarket. Right know, I 'm growing over 20 different types of fruits from all over the world (most of them are not available here). I got Genip, Mammea Americana , 5 types of Garcinia , 6 types of Eugenia , Eggfruit , Jackfruit , mango , Malay Apple , Rose apple and More.
Mohd
Hello!
Just wondering, how do such plants fare in your arid climate?
Welcome Moh'd! That sure must be a challenge to grow tropicals in such a arid area! Are you growing your plants in ground or in pots? Where does your irrigation water come from?
Hello,
My name Moh'd and I'm from Dubai, UAE. I started this hobby when I was 12 years old . My first grow was a mango that was bought from a supermarket. Right know, I 'm growing over 20 different types of fruits from all over the world (most of them are not available here). I got Genip, Mammea Americana , 5 types of Garcinia , 6 types of Eugenia , Eggfruit , Jackfruit , mango , Malay Apple , Rose apple and More.
Mohd
Hello!
Just wondering, how do such plants fare in your arid climate?
Well, I live 8 km away from the sea so, it not that dry. The humidity level is between 40% to 80% most of the time and the temperature ranges between 8C in winter and up to 45C in summer. I can grow Jackfruit , sapodilla, mango, Mullberry, Figs and lemon without any problem as long as the root system is well developed.
Hello,
My name Moh'd and I'm from Dubai, UAE. I started this hobby when I was 12 years old . My first grow was a mango that was bought from a supermarket. Right know, I 'm growing over 20 different types of fruits from all over the world (most of them are not available here). I got Genip, Mammea Americana , 5 types of Garcinia , 6 types of Eugenia , Eggfruit , Jackfruit , mango , Malay Apple , Rose apple and More.
Mohd
Hello!
Just wondering, how do such plants fare in your arid climate?
Well, I live 8 km away from the sea so, it not that dry. The humidity level is between 40% to 80% most of the time and the temperature ranges between 8C in winter and up to 45C in summer. I can grow Jackfruit , sapodilla, mango, Mullberry, Figs and lemon without any problem as long as the root system is well developed.
That's really awesome!! good luck in all your growing pursuits!!
Old Alchemist from Canada who married someone from Brunei, nearly 30 years ago. We currently live in California so are growing citrus, avocado and a couple of Paw Paw. We have a small farm in AL. I'm interested in PAW PAW as we need to take the tropical favors north.Welcome! AL is the closest forum member location I've seen to my location in Middle Tennessee. ..we're only 30-45 mins from the Alabama line. I'm interested in pawpaws as well but so far I've not planted any. Good luck!
Hi Everyone,Glad to have you, Bruce. Your story sounds a lot like mine. . .good luck!
The tropical fruit bug infection me. It got kindled when my son was showing some interest in gardening and dug up the old garden bed (that went unused for 12 years) and wanted to grow some peppers, strawberries, and tropicals. Then to add fuel to the fire in July of 2012 we when to the AZFRG meeting in Phoenix, AZ and walked away with 3 loquat seedlings, a fig tree, banana plant, and sugar cane plant. This started a mad rush to collect as many tropical plants that could possibly grow and fruit in Phoenix, AZ. The collection as grown to many plants with most of them in containers for the sake of moving them around winters cold and summer heat. Currently in the process of sorting out what will survive planted in my yard without any protection from winters frost. Looking for info on best practice on growing Tropical fruit trees in container, soil mixes, fertilizer types application, container size, and plant types best for containers. Just about any info that will make container growing fruitful! Ive spend many hours buying plants, planting seeds, and looking for info on the net also attended classes at the county extension office and club meetings for this information but still looking for more info to increase my success.
Bruce
hello everybody,
I'm Gabriel and I'm italian
I want to create in my garden all tropical fruit
I hope that here is possible to find all information
thanks
Hey I'm Pineapple Bob, a pineapple and blood orange grower from north Georgia. I am now in New Orleans (much easier to grow tropical things when your weather is tropical). Anyways I figured I would share some pics of my fruit with you, maybe one of you might know what type of pineapple I have! (it is very sweet and smells amazing)
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New to any type forums and this one came highly recommended, no turning back now. Met Murahilin and Patrick on Saturday to pick up some of the free pomerac seedlings to share with family and fellow Treasure Coast Rare Fruit Club members. Was very impressed by Patrick's garden and Murahilin's knowlege. I felt right at home in Patrick's garden - fruit tress in his front lawn, sides and back. PARADISE!Welcome, check out echonet.org...it's involved with helping people in third world countries become self sustainable
My reality has been working with the mental health population, and in 2010 realized that I had my own mental health issues. I could not wait until retirement to create the exotic fruit garden I dreamed about daily, so the OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) personality took over. Quit my job, cleared out the grass from my lawn, went to excalibur, and today blissfully enjoying the fruits of my labor; 20 years before my retirement. Somehow I keep finding room in my already polulated yard to add just one more tree. Peppers were my 2013 obsession, 2014 will be tomatoes, and the OCD continues! For the last 3 years I enjoyed being in heaven; no time clocks, no traffic jams, no deadlines, no "normal" people to deal with; it was just me, my garden (100 plus fruit trees) and fellow fruit tree fanatics (no offense).
Gardening lowers my blood pressure, relieves my anxiety, feeds my OCD, and allows me to escape the rat race of life. Social Activism is my reality. I founded an international Human Rights Organization working with families permanently separated by US deportation policies. When immigrant parents are deported, many of their American children are either lost in the US child welfare system and / or thier parental rights are taken away and we have a mess. I am also very active in my community, currently working with one of the local schools to develop a sustainable school garden, assiting a local AIDs organization with a fundraising project, and working with the FAU (Florida Atlantic University) Collegiate chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals as a program developer, while working on my Masters.
I purchased 15 acres of land in Trinidad just in case I run out of planting space on the one lot lot I live on in Port St Lucie FL. I know my mental issues are deep especially when I was able to convince my Therapist and my Psychiatrist to join me (lol).
My current mission is figuring out how to marry my passion (fruit tree gardening) with my reality (human rights activist). Ideas welcomed.
Marlene
New to any type forums and this one came highly recommended, no turning back now. Met Murahilin and Patrick on Saturday to pick up some of the free pomerac seedlings to share with family and fellow Treasure Coast Rare Fruit Club members. Was very impressed by Patrick's garden and Murahilin's knowlege. I felt right at home in Patrick's garden - fruit tress in his front lawn, sides and back. PARADISE!
My reality has been working with the mental health population, and in 2010 realized that I had my own mental health issues. I could not wait until retirement to create the exotic fruit garden I dreamed about daily, so the OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) personality took over. Quit my job, cleared out the grass from my lawn, went to excalibur, and today blissfully enjoying the fruits of my labor; 20 years before my retirement. Somehow I keep finding room in my already polulated yard to add just one more tree. Peppers were my 2013 obsession, 2014 will be tomatoes, and the OCD continues! For the last 3 years I enjoyed being in heaven; no time clocks, no traffic jams, no deadlines, no "normal" people to deal with; it was just me, my garden (100 plus fruit trees) and fellow fruit tree fanatics (no offense).
Gardening lowers my blood pressure, relieves my anxiety, feeds my OCD, and allows me to escape the rat race of life. Social Activism is my reality. I founded an international Human Rights Organization working with families permanently separated by US deportation policies. When immigrant parents are deported, many of their American children are either lost in the US child welfare system and / or thier parental rights are taken away and we have a mess. I am also very active in my community, currently working with one of the local schools to develop a sustainable school garden, assiting a local AIDs organization with a fundraising project, and working with the FAU (Florida Atlantic University) Collegiate chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals as a program developer, while working on my Masters.
I purchased 15 acres of land in Trinidad just in case I run out of planting space on the one lot lot I live on in Port St Lucie FL. I know my mental issues are deep especially when I was able to convince my Therapist and my Psychiatrist to join me (lol).
My current mission is figuring out how to marry my passion (fruit tree gardening) with my reality (human rights activist). Ideas welcomed.
Marlene
Hello everyone,Welcome!! What part of Taiwan are you in, and what is your job? Pretty cool to have a fruit-related job. ...
A delayed self introduction.
My name is Rock from Taiwan. I'm interested in tropical and subtropical fruits. Collecting new fruits is my hobby and job. if you have special ones, please let me know.
Hello everyone,Welcome!! What part of Taiwan are you in, and what is your job? Pretty cool to have a fruit-related job. ...
A delayed self introduction.
My name is Rock from Taiwan. I'm interested in tropical and subtropical fruits. Collecting new fruits is my hobby and job. if you have special ones, please let me know.
I live in central Taiwan. Planting fruits (pineapple, papaya, tomato etc.) and selling them is one of my job, owning a nursery is the other job.In other words, I'm a farmer and nursryman.Excellent! My wife's family lived in Taipei for 11 years back in the 80's and 90's. We are trying to save up to visit.
Hello everyone,Welcome!! What part of Taiwan are you in, and what is your job? Pretty cool to have a fruit-related job. ...
A delayed self introduction.
My name is Rock from Taiwan. I'm interested in tropical and subtropical fruits. Collecting new fruits is my hobby and job. if you have special ones, please let me know.
I plant a lot of exotic fruits, but only some fruits start to fruit including jaboticaba, white sapote, star apple, abiu, soursop, black sopote, imbe, cherry mangosteen, white logan, waxberry, ChempedadI live in central Taiwan. Planting fruits (pineapple, papaya, tomato etc.) and selling them is one of my job, owning a nursery is the other job.In other words, I'm a farmer and nursryman.Excellent! My wife's family lived in Taipei for 11 years back in the 80's and 90's. We are trying to save up to visit.
Hello everyone,Welcome!! What part of Taiwan are you in, and what is your job? Pretty cool to have a fruit-related job. ...
A delayed self introduction.
My name is Rock from Taiwan. I'm interested in tropical and subtropical fruits. Collecting new fruits is my hobby and job. if you have special ones, please let me know.
Do you grow any exotic fruit?
Hello and welcome!! the cherry mangosteen seems interesting, what is it?I plant a lot of exotic fruits, but only some fruits start to fruit including jaboticaba, white sapote, star apple, abiu, soursop, black sopote, imbe, cherry mangosteen, white logan, waxberry, ChempedadI live in central Taiwan. Planting fruits (pineapple, papaya, tomato etc.) and selling them is one of my job, owning a nursery is the other job.In other words, I'm a farmer and nursryman.Excellent! My wife's family lived in Taipei for 11 years back in the 80's and 90's. We are trying to save up to visit.
Hello everyone,Welcome!! What part of Taiwan are you in, and what is your job? Pretty cool to have a fruit-related job. ...
A delayed self introduction.
My name is Rock from Taiwan. I'm interested in tropical and subtropical fruits. Collecting new fruits is my hobby and job. if you have special ones, please let me know.
Do you grow any exotic fruit?
Hi Jason, welcome to the group! Are you able to find any durian there in Ecuador?
Hi Harry and Jason,
I would say Me encantan las frutas dulces. Amo is not really used in this context, but if you really want to use it I would shortn the phrase to Amo las frutas dulces.
Jaime
Hi Harry and Jason,
I would say Me encantan las frutas dulces. Amo is not really used in this context, but if you really want to use it I would shortn the phrase to Amo las frutas dulces.
Jaime
See.....that's what happens when you get a gringo attempting to speakor write Spanish. You are absolutely right, of course. I was trying to conjugate what was written, and translated literally to a wrong conclusion. Thanks for the correction to my correction.
Hello everybody, My name is Nancy, I live in So Cal, and just started to grow tropical fruit trees. I have been reading this blog for the last few months, but I wish I had known about it before I started planting my few trees 2 years ago. I have some citrus trees in containers, a Haas avocado and a seedling guava in the ground. Earlier this year I planted 2 Atemoyas in the ground, but one got root rot, so I googled to find out how to deal with it, that's when I found this forum and some others, I have been lurking all this time, and now finally found the courage to jump in. LOL. I learn so much from reading your posts. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Hi my name is Stephen I live on Big Pine Key, just wanted to introduce my self, lots of good info here!
Hi, I just joined the other day. My name is Carolyn, and I live in Boise Idaho. We are USDA zone 6, but I have a 15x30 ft zone 12+ greenhouse in my back yard (ok, it sort of IS the back yard...). Costs more to heat than the house.
I have about 80 different species out there right now, and I am mostly interested in tropical fruit - I some cavendish banana (have had two crops so far, and am hoping for a third this year off these new plants), two different varieties of cacao (have not tried to pollinate them yet), coffee (lots of beans, learning how to roast them properly!), vanilla orchid, cinnamon, dragon fruit and a couple other varieties of blooming tropical cacti, lychee, several different citrus, date palm, jelly palm, coconut palm, a really weird fruiting conophor vine from Africa, and a bunch of other things.
I am ALWAYS looking to buy, sell or swap tropical fruit plants, seedlings and seeds!
Hi, I just joined the other day. My name is Carolyn, and I live in Boise Idaho. We are USDA zone 6, but I have a 15x30 ft zone 12+ greenhouse in my back yard (ok, it sort of IS the back yard...). Costs more to heat than the house.
I have about 80 different species out there right now, and I am mostly interested in tropical fruit - I some cavendish banana (have had two crops so far, and am hoping for a third this year off these new plants), two different varieties of cacao (have not tried to pollinate them yet), coffee (lots of beans, learning how to roast them properly!), vanilla orchid, cinnamon, dragon fruit and a couple other varieties of blooming tropical cacti, lychee, several different citrus, date palm, jelly palm, coconut palm, a really weird fruiting conophor vine from Africa, and a bunch of other things.
I am ALWAYS looking to buy, sell or swap tropical fruit plants, seedlings and seeds!
Nice to have you on the forum, Cassandra! I have never tried longan, but have a small seedling, your love of them makes me wish I had kept more! Good luck with the jackfruit (another fruit I have not tried), I hope they all do well! Jackfruit are fast growers, so I have heard, and can begin flowering after barely a year.
Nice to have you on the forum, Cassandra! I have never tried longan, but have a small seedling, your love of them makes me wish I had kept more! Good luck with the jackfruit (another fruit I have not tried), I hope they all do well! Jackfruit are fast growers, so I have heard, and can begin flowering after barely a year.
Patrick, I was first introduced to them while staying in a small village up in the northeastern region. I don't know why, but once I started eating them, I just couldn't stop. I think I bought out all the fruit the local market had, which was maybe a few pounds (I suspect that they were at the tail end of their season). Then I bought another large bag of them at Suvarnabhumi airport on my way out of the country. They were my sustaining food for the flight home, since I ended up with last picks for my choice of "airline meals". Some folks say it's sort of a coconuty flavor. I don't actually think so. They are unique. And as for jackfruit... have you ever had Juicy Fruit Gum? I've been told that jackfruit is where it gets its flavor from! Folks in Thailand don't typically let their fruits ripen (case in point, green papaya salad is a favorite dish over there). When I had jackfruit there, it was yellow and OK, but the flavor sort of reminded me of a banana. Then when I got back to the states, I found a huge chunk of jackfruit at a local Asian market, and the edible pieces had a deep orange color. I brought it home, and that was that. Favorite tropical fruit #2. My other favorite I have not attempted to grow here yet; mangosteen. Fresh, it's awesome. Aged... well, trying to cut through the shell/skin once it's browned is like trying to saw through a log. And unfortunately all the mangosteen I've found locally is the tough stuff.
I'm glad to hear that jackfruit grow so fast. I don't know what species of jackfruit I ended up with. The seed retailer just said the fruit is deep orange, sweet, thick and crunchy, with very little fibery membrane, and supposedly it's also "latexless". I personally didn't mind the latex. I actually thought it'd be cool to utilize the latex into materials for making art.
Good luck with your longan seedling! :) I hope you get some fruit from it.
Nice to have you on the forum, Cassandra! I have never tried longan, but have a small seedling, your love of them makes me wish I had kept more! Good luck with the jackfruit (another fruit I have not tried), I hope they all do well! Jackfruit are fast growers, so I have heard, and can begin flowering after barely a year.Yeah, you can get both jackfruit and longans at the international market in Nashville (Rambutans too) But the longans aren't that good, we compared them to some we ordered from Robert Is Here, and Robert's were far superior.
Welcome, Cassandra! You sound about like me. . .we have a tropical fruit plant collection but nowhere to really house them. We are getting a grow tent/light setup underway right now so hopefully they'll last thru the winter.
I also love jackfruit and have had similar experience with it - fresh/local stuff I had in South FL wasn't as good as the deep golden, super sweet stuff from the asian market in Nashville.
Indoor gardening in small spaces... Fun times! ;) I actually rather love having green in my room during the winter. All that white fluffy stuff and bare-leafed trees are depressing.
I'm not sure why fresh local stuff isn't tasting all that great. I wonder if that's a Cultivar/type issue, or just a matter of the fruit not being ripe enough. Maybe a little of both?
Hi, my name is Cassandra. I'm not in the greatest climate (zone 5B) for growing tropical fruit trees, but after I spent 6 weeks in Thailand last fall, I fell in love with a few! My favorites were longan. I planted a few seeds after I returned to the states and I now have three beautiful little longan trees. They seemed to do OK outside during the summer months, but I really think they prefer the indoors here because of some issues we have with high winds in their outdoor space. The other fruit I just love is jackfruit! I ended up receiving 32 seeds last month and thought, what the heck, I'll try planting. 31 out of the 32 have sprouted, and the most robust already have leaves on them. If they keep growing at this pace, the will soon be taller than my year-old longan!
Ideally, I would love to own a small greenhouse for them all, but that's just not possible in my location. I have all my trees on a large table in my room with a grow light suspended above them. I dunno how long this setup will last, depending on how tall the jackfruit get. I've brought in a heater, which I normally do for the winter, so this room should be at a minimum in the 70's.
I am here mainly because I have never grown anything tropical beyond these guys and I need all the pointers I can get.
Nice to meet you all!
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P.S. Yes, I even have a Thai pepper plant in the mix now too. :)
My name is Saksith and I live in Thailand. I can speak Eng little.
I am interested in rare fruits.
In my country have a lot of local fruits ( mango, mangosteen, rambutan, durian, longan, jackfruit and... ). Every where have these friuts and I think it looks like apple or berry fruits in USA so I try to looking for rare tropical fruits that look tasty and sweet taste.
Now I m also interested in Inga edulis ( Ice cream bean) seeds. I think this forum is amazing. nice to see eveyone, Thank.
My name is Saksith and I live in Thailand. I can speak Eng little.
I am interested in rare fruits.
In my country have a lot of local fruits ( mango, mangosteen, rambutan, durian, longan, jackfruit and... ). Every where have these friuts and I think it looks like apple or berry fruits in USA so I try to looking for rare tropical fruits that look tasty and sweet taste.
Now I m also interested in Inga edulis ( Ice cream bean) seeds. I think this forum is amazing. nice to see eveyone, Thank.
Welcome to the forum Saksith. I find some irony in your introductory post. There you have all the tropical fruits that we all crave and covet....and you are looking for Ice Cream Bean, something I stopped growing long ago because of its inferiority to almost all fruits that I can grow or have access to. I assume that you have never had Ice Cream Bean and so your quest is in full swing. Best of luck in your quest. If you find it and try it and think it is going to taste like Ice Cream, you will be disappointed. If you want a nitrogen fixing tree with a nice growth habit and fruit that has edible cottony flesh with a mild sweetness, then you may actually appreciate Ice Cream Bean.
No problem. Happy to be of assistance. Most of us on the forum have some measure of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when it comes to fruits and fruit trees. We recognize this and embrace it. We have all had our "had to have" trees and plants for whatever reason that our brains conjured up triggering the mad rush to find our "had to have" plant material. Over the years of desiring, seeking and finding I have found much material that, in retrospect, did not warrant the time, mental energy and especially money that I put into the effort of locating and obtaining the sought after material. But, I always enjoyed the quest.
Oh....have to run. One of my friends is calling me about a new mango cultivar that I just have to have. :)
My name is Saksith and I live in Thailand. I can speak Eng little.
I am interested in rare fruits.
In my country have a lot of local fruits ( mango, mangosteen, rambutan, durian, longan, jackfruit and... ). Every where have these friuts and I think it looks like apple or berry fruits in USA so I try to looking for rare tropical fruits that look tasty and sweet taste.
Now I m also interested in Inga edulis ( Ice cream bean) seeds. I think this forum is amazing. nice to see eveyone, Thank.
Welcome to the forum Saksith. I find some irony in your introductory post. There you have all the tropical fruits that we all crave and covet....and you are looking for Ice Cream Bean, something I stopped growing long ago because of its inferiority to almost all fruits that I can grow or have access to. I assume that you have never had Ice Cream Bean and so your quest is in full swing. Best of luck in your quest. If you find it and try it and think it is going to taste like Ice Cream, you will be disappointed. If you want a nitrogen fixing tree with a nice growth habit and fruit that has edible cottony flesh with a mild sweetness, then you may actually appreciate Ice Cream Bean.
My name is Saksith and I live in Thailand. I can speak Eng little.
I am interested in rare fruits.
In my country have a lot of local fruits ( mango, mangosteen, rambutan, durian, longan, jackfruit and... ). Every where have these friuts and I think it looks like apple or berry fruits in USA so I try to looking for rare tropical fruits that look tasty and sweet taste.
Now I m also interested in Inga edulis ( Ice cream bean) seeds. I think this forum is amazing. nice to see eveyone, Thank.
Welcome to the forum Saksith. I find some irony in your introductory post. There you have all the tropical fruits that we all crave and covet....and you are looking for Ice Cream Bean, something I stopped growing long ago because of its inferiority to almost all fruits that I can grow or have access to. I assume that you have never had Ice Cream Bean and so your quest is in full swing. Best of luck in your quest. If you find it and try it and think it is going to taste like Ice Cream, you will be disappointed. If you want a nitrogen fixing tree with a nice growth habit and fruit that has edible cottony flesh with a mild sweetness, then you may actually appreciate Ice Cream Bean.
Keep in mind that not everyone has the same taste buds as Harry. For example, in the book Fruit Hunters the author, Adam Gollner, describes ice cream bean as one of the best fruits he ever had. (BTW it was a fruit he tasted here from one of my trees.) Also it's not true that Thailand has all the tropical fruits we crave. They are extremely poor in fruits from South America: sapotes, jaboticabas, achachairu, and ofcourse all the ingas. Inga is a wonderful multi purpose tree so i would encourage you to introduce it and spread it in Thailand.
My name is Saksith and I live in Thailand. I can speak Eng little.
I am interested in rare fruits.
In my country have a lot of local fruits ( mango, mangosteen, rambutan, durian, longan, jackfruit and... ). Every where have these friuts and I think it looks like apple or berry fruits in USA so I try to looking for rare tropical fruits that look tasty and sweet taste.
Now I m also interested in Inga edulis ( Ice cream bean) seeds. I think this forum is amazing. nice to see eveyone, Thank.
Welcome to the forum Saksith. I find some irony in your introductory post. There you have all the tropical fruits that we all crave and covet....and you are looking for Ice Cream Bean, something I stopped growing long ago because of its inferiority to almost all fruits that I can grow or have access to. I assume that you have never had Ice Cream Bean and so your quest is in full swing. Best of luck in your quest. If you find it and try it and think it is going to taste like Ice Cream, you will be disappointed. If you want a nitrogen fixing tree with a nice growth habit and fruit that has edible cottony flesh with a mild sweetness, then you may actually appreciate Ice Cream Bean.
Keep in mind that not everyone has the same taste buds as Harry. For example, in the book Fruit Hunters the author, Adam Gollner, describes ice cream bean as one of the best fruits he ever had. (BTW it was a fruit he tasted here from one of my trees.) Also it's not true that Thailand has all the tropical fruits we crave. They are extremely poor in fruits from South America: sapotes, jaboticabas, achachairu, and ofcourse all the ingas. Inga is a wonderful multi purpose tree so i would encourage you to introduce it and spread it in Thailand.
Thanks, Oscar, for pointing out the mistaken points in my response. I want to clear up any misconception I may have created. I was not trying to totally dissuade Saksith from buying seeds or planting Inga. My comments were to point out an irony that I was feeling and to temper the view of the fruit in light of its very inaccurate name. I am certain that you have absolutely wonderful Ice Cream Beans....probably one of the best in the world. And Saksith, if you are planning to buy seeds, I would highly recommend Oscar for that purchase as a reliable source of excellent quality seeds. I do feel that this fruit has been romanticized or hyped by the English name chosen for it. To most people, Ice Cream anything sounds really, really good. So any fruit that is named Ice cream is a must have to most collectors. Well, with all due respect to Oscar's Ingas and Mr. Gollner's hype in a book he is trying to sell, they just don't have any relation in flavor, texture or anything else to ice cream. So I am suggesting some tempering of the excitement based on my experience and my taste buds. Know one knows better than me that other people like things that I don't like. However, if Gollner describes Ice Cream bean as one of the best fruits he has ever had, it causes me some pause to wonder. Even the most ardent supporters of the Inga species that I have encountered in my few years of growing tropical fruits have ever said such a thing with a straight face. Oscar......would you agree with Gollner that Inga is "one of the best fruits in the world?"
Greetings,Hi Bush2Beach congratulations! It would ne nice to see your wonder pics! ;)
I'm Jonah. I enjoy caring for fruiting plants and exploring the woods and beaches. Some of my favorites are the citrus, Avocado, Guava, White Sapote, the hybrid berries in my garden, Cherimoya, Tamarillo, Dragonfruit, Passion Fruit, Loquat, Cereus Cactus, Pakistan Mulberry, Peaches, Figs, and Cherry's I manage.
In my Greenhouse I have Jaboticaba, Cabelluda, Babaco and Granada Papaya, miracle fruit, and lots of babies that are currently wintering in there. I have terraced a fruit orchard in the Redwood and Oak hillside that is very steep and challenging at times but I am happy to have a place to grow fruit.
Hello everyone, my name is Souphanh leaving in Euless TX. I got interested in growing tropical fruit tree when I stumbed on Cherri blog searching for something else other then fruit tree. I thought to myself if she could grow them in PA, why not me in TX. My first tree was a sweetheart lychee, on the second year I almost got fruit, but one day of 45mph wind blow most of the bloom away. From there on I got a few more to my collection, kohala longan, silaswood sapodila, nam doc mai mango(hail storm victim) and a bunch of rambutan seedling(3month old as of today, Dec 10, 2013. Looking forward to learn from everyone on this forum.
Hi All-
My name is khalid, I am a morrocan .
I am happy to see this new forum and look forward to learning and interacting with the other members.
Hello all,
My name is Greg, based in the UK (Coventry) and have just planted 100 avocado trees in The Gambia West Africa.
i must confess that I have no knowledge what so ever about planting and i'm hoping to muddle through with the support of your good selves!!
Currently I'm paying someone to water the avocado trees every other day but at some point would like to put in an irrigation system to make things easier for my farm manager.
I found this site by logging on to myavocadotrees.com . . . all I can say is that I am a fast and keen learner.
Many thanks/regard
Greg
Hello Everyone,Hi Hernan! Nice to see you here! I love to be frugivorous too... maby one day when i have suficiente diferent fruits here... Thank you for sharing your experience! ;D
My name is Hernan Posada and I am originally from Colombia. In 2012, I started to become extremely passionate about fruit.
I am 20 years old and will be living permanently in South Florida starting Jan 7th, 2013.
I am on a 99% fruit diet and will occasionally have leafy greens. I have been a raw foodist since December 2012 and I have never felt so amazing in my life.
This fruit diet has inspired me to seek my passion in life which is to be a fruit hunter and some day have a huge fruit orchard and be a mentor for those who want to reach new levels of health and vitality through raw foods and fruit.
I may plan on moving to Costa Rica or Colombia some day but right now I will really be enjoying my time in South Florida.
I feel as if Tropical Fruit are the healthiest foods we can be consuming, having our biological origin in the tropics.
In the summer of 2013, I attended the Woodstock Fruit Festival, one of the world's largest raw foods event with access to unlimited fruit and amazing presenters and speakers.
Really looking forward to learning all that I possibly can about Tropical Fruit so I can start growing it in the backyard of my home in South Florida. It would be amazing if I could eat most of my food from my backyard.
I also look forward to meeting and connecting with like-minded people.
Thanks Luisport. Really glad to be joining this forum. There's no limit to how much I can learn here and it's amazing how everyone can expand their knowledge of the vast and mysterious world of fruit with the power of the internet.And what fruits do you grow?
Fruits that I would like to grow include: Papaya, Persimmons, Longan, Caimito, Lucuma, Abiu, Sugar Apple, Canistel, Mamey, Miracle Fruit, Figs, Sapodilla (Nispero), Chupa Chupa Sapote, Rollinia, all different types of melons etc.You have to make a post with your fruit tree photos! ;D
Hi fellows
I am 60 years old, specializing in subtropical and tropical fruits.
Living on my hobey farm in Central Israel growing exotics and rare fruits
I raise animals as horse, goats, farm dogs, chickens, ducks, quails
I have many types pf prickly pears, pitayas and longans among numerous other exotics
I am interested in the local wild species of the Medit. area such as wild almonds, carob, pistachios, oaks, rare figs and rare punica granatum such as the Black types that I breed
I have visited folks and collections around the globe countries some 30 years ago - where it was possible for an Israeli to visit, but did not cover South America.
Allan Carle and many Ausies gave me that ime an introductory entrace to the Amazon Fruit literature and findings of those days
All are free to contact and share
Ariel
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Welcome to the forum community.Hi fellows
I am 60 years old, specializing in subtropical and tropical fruits.
Living on my hobey farm in Central Israel growing exotics and rare fruits
I raise animals as horse, goats, farm dogs, chickens, ducks, quails
I have many types pf prickly pears, pitayas and longans among numerous other exotics
I am interested in the local wild species of the Medit. area such as wild almonds, carob, pistachios, oaks, rare figs and rare punica granatum such as the Black types that I breed
I have visited folks and collections around the globe countries some 30 years ago - where it was possible for an Israeli to visit, but did not cover South America.
Allan Carle and many Ausies gave me that ime an introductory entrace to the Amazon Fruit literature and findings of those days
All are free to contact and share
Ariel
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Welcome to the forum "neighbor". This a great place to learn, to teach and to exchange ideas, experiences, seeds, plants etc!
Wellcome Camillo. Your list of the trees is amazing! Do you have a big orchand?I have but it's mainly nutmeg and cocoa 10 acres and I'm trying to turn it into a fruit garden but it is a lot of work. I have a lot of plants in pots as I intend to plant them in a planned and organized way. I'm hoping I can get some advice and guidance from anyone who has done an organized orchard.
Wellcome Camillo. Your list of the trees is amazing! Do you have a big orchand?
Wellcome Camillo. Your list of the trees is amazing! Do you have a big orchand?I have but it's mainly nutmeg and cocoa 10 acres and I'm trying to turn it into a fruit garden but it is a lot of work. I have a lot of plants in pots as I intend to plant them in a planned and organized way. I'm hoping I can get some advice and guidance from anyone who has done an organized orchard.
Grenada generally has a lot of fruits that you get when you purchase lands but they are sparadic all over the place, Spanish lime, citrus, lots of varieties of mangoes, hog plums, Sugar Apples, Soursop, star fruits, Malay Apples, star apples and it's smaller relative.
Here we don't employ a lot of pruning and most of our trees are propagated by seeds resulting in trees that are over grown and lacking proper light.
Grenada has rich volcanic soil almost all of our fruits are laden with flavor, but because we don't allow importation of plants not very many people would plant exotics as they would have to smuggle seeds.
Still there are persons who have Rambutans, Jackfruits, Mangosteens (all of which fruited in 6 years from seeds), Velvet Apples, Atemoya, Dragon fruits and one person has Durian.
I want to remove everything except the nutmeg and cocoa as they are our main export crops, plant lawn grass keep the fruit trees reasonable heights those that can be, and plant palms create a pond etc. I'm the largest collector that I know of on the island.
Hi Everyone,
I have a background in International Sales and Business Development and a keen interest in sourcing great fresh produce and ingredients (perhaps for specialty shops / brands / restaurants). I would love to be able to combine the worlds as a profession. From some of the stuff I have recently read, the job I want to have is something along the lines of: International / Exotic Fruit / Ingredient Procurer / Buyer?
Can anyone advise on how someone like me might be able to make this profession a reality? Honestly, any insight anyone is able to offer me on this front would be awesome.
Best,
Vin (NYC)
Hello. My name is Brando and I reside in Loxahatchee, FL in Palm Beach County. I have around * different fruit trees and am looking for someone that can assist in grafting my trees. I have the following trees in my yard.
1) Carrie Mango
2) Lychee
3) Sugar Apple Anona
4) Star Fruit
5) Sweet Tamerind
6) Mamey
7) Nispero
8) Pomegranite
9) Quenepa / Mamoncillo / Spanish Lime
Wow and wow. I was just in Sabah last month. I wish I could have seen your place. What's that chrome durian next to red one? Are any of those red ones "tenom beauty" variety, D. Zib. and D. Grav. mix?
Doug Furtek, Proud American from Chicopee, Massachusetts, retired from the Malaysian Cocoa Board, now Director of Innovation R&D at Teck Guan Group (oil palm plantations, palm oil mills, oleochemicals) in Eastern Sabah
Check out my "Sabah, Malaysia: Durian Wonderland" photos at:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112261781100492755854/albums/5967583987572082737
I noted the latitudes and longitudes of my favorite durian locales.
The few photos not taken in Sabah are noted.
Hi!Hi Joใo, it's good to see you here! You will love this f๓rum! ;D
My name is Joใo Franco. I live in Portugal and have several exotic species, specially passiflora. I am eager to trade and exchange seeds of new species!
Best wishes,
Joใo Franco
Welcome Mystee.
Dragon fruit will only flower from horizontal or pendulous stems. A vertical (upward growing) stem will not do so. That's one of the reasons they are trellised or grown in pots with stakes. Let your plant form drooping branches from the main stem and you will be in business. I tried growing one in a basket and it got so heavy that the basket broke.
Hi Everyone - I grow d. fruit, because a friend said it was interesting. She sent me a large cutting with no i.d.
I waited for roots to come and then planted. It quickly grew large , to 3 ft. no flowers or fruit. So, this year , I hope to
get flowers and fruit. I would also, be interested in trading cuttings and selling. I am in zone 8, Texas. Please, pm me if interested.
Thanks for your nice replies, Mystee :)
Hello everyone! Glad to have run into a forum like this on tropical fruit.Welcome to the forum. Do you by chance sell and ship your produces? I would love to order some when they are in season :)
David Perez, with Green-Land Tropical Nursery and Perez Groves. We have been growing tropical fruit commercially since 1979, specializing in Mamey Sapote, Sapodilla, Longan, Lychee and Caimito. Our nursery contains many tropical fruit trees including
Mango(30varieties)
Avocado(15 varieties)
Lychee
Longan
Mamey
Sapodilla
Jaboticaba
Cashew
Star Fruit
Sour Sop
Atemoya
Sugar Apple
Caimito
Tamarind
Peaches
Spanish Lime
Persimmon
Mulberry
Loquat
Guava
Fig
Barbado Cherry
Jakfruit
Citrus
I hope to learn from this forum and hope to be of some assistance to some of you.
Happy Growing!
I also enjoy growing tonic and medicinal herbs especially from ayurveda and TCM.
Hi Keith,
Nice to hear from a grower in a neighboring state. I am in Virginia myself. NC is really pretty. I have been there many times. Growing Eugenias and Garcinias sounds like a great idea. I am into Eugenia species myself. I assume you have a greenhouse for your most tender plants.
Tomas
Hi Keith,http://www.colecionandofrutas.org/eugeniaklo.htm (http://www.colecionandofrutas.org/eugeniaklo.htm)
E. klotzschiana is very hard to grow - at least for me. I only have a small plant. It's more a curiosity for me. The fruit is supposed to be very sour.
Tomas
Hello there fellow fruit growers, Im buddyguygreen real name Jordan.
Im 23 florida native and live in Kissimmee FL at 125 feet altitude on a quarter acre. I just recently started growing exotic fruit trees. Im into chinese and aryurvedic medicine and thought why not try to grow the herbs to save money. So when i got into amazon herbs it was more of fruit medicine with herbs so I bought some camu camu seeds for the vitamin C, which grew amazing with some trial and error but ending up helping me with my green thumb, next thing i know Im getting into exotic fruit trees and it took off from there. I always tried to grow papayas, mangos and avocados but never had any success and they just were never happy so I sort of gave up for some time (only my tangerine and grapefruit tree seemed to be at home), Then randomly 2 weeks after the japanese tsunami in 2011 I had a bunch of seeds i planted around my yard that never grew suddenly pop up and without doing any work they grew like it was their native region. So i tried various other fruit trees like figs and bananas and they grew amazing, better than ever before with the same work and soil. So I did more research and found this forum which is awesome with knowledge and good people. I then realized ive been living in a bubble with fruit trees thinking the ones in the store were the good ones (was i wrong, a trip to kauai'i fixed that ;)), So after realizing the possibilities of flavors I am now on a mission to have them all (with one problem not enough room but it doesn't hurt to try to fit as many as possible) ;D, I believe in canopy layering just like the amazon (tall trees that like sun, then medium trees that like partial sun, the small trees or bushes that like shade, and then ground cover). So with your help lets create a utopia of fruit trees :)
me in the beginning stages of my garden
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Thank you oscar and may i say you have an amazing abundance of knowledge when it come to the exotics, Ive already learned so much reading through some of your posts, so Thank you. The lilikoi passion fruit was actually the first exotic I bought along with giant guava and their thriving, I recently purchased a few other different types of passionflower seeds like banana passionfruit, sweet calabash and giant granadilla, also some guava seeds like red strawberry, pineapple or feijoa, chilean guava, wild, Brazilian, and purple forest guava that just all sprouted so i cant wait to see what they taste like also. But I have to say the best fruit I tried in kauai was the cherimoya ;D, So Im definitely gonna collect the annona family. I have a few cherimoya seedlings growing now along with an ilama about 2 years old and a kepel thats about 2 years also, so Im catching up for lost time but still have few years before I get to taste the fruit.
Hi Jordan
That's a very nice collection you have going there:)
I would love to try some of the exotic passionfruits it's great that their flowers are so pretty too! I'm also very jealous of your kepel I wonder if there's any truth about its fruits making your sweat smell good? Probably not but interesting lore nonetheless:)
May I ask what TCM and Ayurvedic plants you grow/take? It's rare to find a westerner who takes and grows such things although jujube goji and Longan are widely grown for fruit not medicine but and are some of the 50 fundamental/superior herbs of TCM. I have tried many times to germinate schisandra berry but have never been good with stratification.
This forum is a great place I only just joined but.have been getting info here for ages! Oscar is not just a sage of fruit wisdom but also provides an awesome range of fruit seeds of very high quality. My slow mail took well over a month but nearly all my seeds survived I got 100% germination on rollinia and Starfruit even! A saviour for us third world.country folks ha ha. I must thank you Oscar as I would only have dreamed of growing such things otherwise:)
Thanks GreenThumb, it was great hearing from you! I could always take some pictures of my trees haha. What kind of trees do you have? Or would like to grow? Looking forward to hearing back from you.
-ishani
Hi,Hi Luis! I'm Luis too... Good to have more portuguese people here! What do you produce? ;)
My name is Luis.
Iดm from the south of Portugal and iดm a passion fruit producer (in the beginning).
I have some experience in other agriculture products.
Iดm interested in all of themes about tropical fruits.
Congratulations for this f๓rum.
Regards,
Luis
Hello,everyone.
Myname is Jie.I live in Zhanghua of Taiwan.I plant many Fruit trees in my garden.Such as mango mangosteen achacha jaboticaba cambuca Mamey apple and so on.
I like reading, listening music, gardening and Chinese boxing.
I am not good in English.If you do not care,everyone is wecomed to discuess about fruits.
Here is my garden.
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Good evening (time-zone dependent), everyone. I figured it's about time to finally say hello to the group. My wife and I are fairly new to fruit as a hobby but we've been slowly building up our plant collection. We lived in San Diego for about six months but recently drove across the country to North Carolina with four pets and a trunk full of plants. We have some white sapotes and kei apples from Exotica in Vista, CA, two types of Garcinias and some cacaos from Montoso, some quenepas and miracle fruits from seeds we brought from a trip to Puerto Rico, and a few other miscellaneous plants.
We want to add more Garcinias and some Annonas to our collection and are also interested in Eugenias and Joboticabas. Some of the rare things that pop up on these forums seem quite interesting so I'm sure I'll be in touch with a few of you soon. We definitely need to plan a trip to Florida to visit Bender's, Flying Fox, and Pine Island. We hope to make it down there sometime this Spring.
Since we live in a temperate area, we'll have to get a few Pawpaw cultivars, some persimmons, and more. We're buying a house with two acres so we should have plenty of room for plants both inside and out of the greenhouse. I look forward to getting to know the lot of you soon. Have a good one!
Keith
Hi everyone!
I am very fortunate to have recently moved to the Florida Keys, to live out my dream of growing every tropical fruit I can manage. I was a decent gardener where I used to live in the NE, but I never got to try my hand at very much. So now that I can grow nearly any tropical fruit I want to, I'm going a bit crazy with it! My list is ever growing, but at this point I have about 100 tropical fruit plants total, roughly 50 different kinds. I have been regularly searching the internet for help with all these plants, and regularly find pages of this forum, as well as the GardenWeb forum. I didn't realize how many other fruit freaks like me were out there! So I've joined both, to feel a bit more sane, and to get advice for whatever issues may crop up over time with my many tropical plants. I grow only organic, and have to always be careful about preserving the fragile ecosystem here in the Keys (which is also right next to the Everglades), so I expect to have a few more difficulties thrown my way because of that. I want to be prepared so I don't lose all my plants before I know what's happening!
I also grow tropical vegetables, so I'm happy to see there is a forum for that also here.
I look forward to getting to know everybody, and learning from what you all have to share.
Good evening (time-zone dependent), everyone. I figured it's about time to finally say hello to the group. My wife and I are fairly new to fruit as a hobby but we've been slowly building up our plant collection. We lived in San Diego for about six months but recently drove across the country to North Carolina with four pets and a trunk full of plants. We have some white sapotes and kei apples from Exotica in Vista, CA, two types of Garcinias and some cacaos from Montoso, some quenepas and miracle fruits from seeds we brought from a trip to Puerto Rico, and a few other miscellaneous plants.
We want to add more Garcinias and some Annonas to our collection and are also interested in Eugenias and Joboticabas. Some of the rare things that pop up on these forums seem quite interesting so I'm sure I'll be in touch with a few of you soon. We definitely need to plan a trip to Florida to visit Bender's, Flying Fox, and Pine Island. We hope to make it down there sometime this Spring.
Since we live in a temperate area, we'll have to get a few Pawpaw cultivars, some persimmons, and more. We're buying a house with two acres so we should have plenty of room for plants both inside and out of the greenhouse. I look forward to getting to know the lot of you soon. Have a good one!
Keith
veinte cohol banana is supposed to be good for fast fruiting for those where the season is shorter and winter temps drop low. I have it, but can't say for sure , as mine are still small, and planted out a month or so ago. Also, if you want bananas in GH, there are many that will stay short even at maturity.
Thank you Zands! Many of the trees I bought are 7-gal or 15-gal. I bought nearly everything I could in the largest size available. Many others are in 3-gallon but I bought them already fruiting because they're dwarf variety. Hopefully I won't have to wait much more than a year for the majority of the fruit - except of course the Mangosteen, which if it even survives will probably take some 5 years or so from now to fruit. Patience is a virtue, I guess. I bought a lot of native plants that are cheap here and should fruit easily, to help satisfy my cravings until the bigger harvests. Many of them have edible berries, and even if they're not the best fruit ever they're still things that few people anywhere have eaten. And, I am growing strawberries, various melons, etc. to supplement these early leaner times. :)
Overheard Don from going-bananas the other day at fairchild, saying that nematodes can be a problem here in FL...He recommended 2 feet of mulch! FWIW, but i trust he knows his stuff regarding bananas
Hello,
After a few years of reading the forum I have taken the next step and joined. I live in Coral Springs, FL and have been an avid tropical fruit fan for about five years now. I have purchased tropical fruit trees from Pine Island, Excalibur and Tropical Plants, and have had very good experiences with each of them. Like most of the people in the forum, my most challenging decision is where to put the newest addition. I have used this forum thoroughly in years past and found it my main source of research. I enjoy growing tropical fruits and look forward to joining many discussions here on the forum.
Kind regards,
John
Overheard Don from going-bananas the other day at fairchild, saying that nematodes can be a problem here in FL...He recommended 2 feet of mulch! FWIW, but i trust he knows his stuff regarding bananas
What is the problem? That nematodes attack bananas or that bananas spread them? I have never had any problems .... I have bananas of diff kinds none are tissue cultured
Thanks for the welcome gunnar and mangokothiyan.
Mangokothiyan,
In ground, I have two red Grumichama, one Gefner Atemoya, three dwarf pomegranates, sugar-cane, two dwarf coconut palms, Pickering mango, Choc-anon mango, Sweetheart Lychee, Mauritius Lychee, Rhode Red orange, Mai-3 Jakfruit and several desert bananas.
In pots, I have several varieties of mangoes, lemons, figs, carambola, oranges, pineapple guava and my favorite...miracle fruit.
Mangokothiyan,
Thank you for the offer. Your other non-mango trees are very impressive as well. I am a huge mango fan myself, but not nearly as experienced as most of the people here in the forum. The current collection in pots is Cogshall, Fairchild, Neelam and a pickering (my first tree).
I would love to hear more about your mango collection. Which is you favorite?
New to the forum. This is Tony from SoCal. To be exact, I am in San Gabriel Valley.
Have anyone have any luck on growing Mangosteen & Rambutan in California?
The real reason I decided to come out of the shadows tonight is I'm concerned about my Van Dyke, which was transplanted from Zands yard to mine yesterday. It may be quite normal but may also be indicative of a problem so I'm hoping one of the mango docs can lend some advice. I noticed today that some of the new growth towards the top of the tree, so far only on one side, has some unhappy leaves curling up. Here's a pic:
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I welcome any thoughts, comments, suggestions.
Thanks to all for this awesome forum, look forward to chatting with everyone and learning more!
The real reason I decided to come out of the shadows tonight is I'm concerned about my Van Dyke, which was transplanted from Zands yard to mine yesterday. It may be quite normal but may also be indicative of a problem so I'm hoping one of the mango docs can lend some advice. I noticed today that some of the new growth towards the top of the tree, so far only on one side, has some unhappy leaves curling up. Here's a pic:
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I welcome any thoughts, comments, suggestions.
Thanks to all for this awesome forum, look forward to chatting with everyone and learning more!
Looks like normal tranplantation shock. Keep it very well watered and you should be fine.
The real reason I decided to come out of the shadows tonight is I'm concerned about my Van Dyke, which was transplanted from Zands yard to mine yesterday. It may be quite normal but may also be indicative of a problem so I'm hoping one of the mango docs can lend some advice. I noticed today that some of the new growth towards the top of the tree, so far only on one side, has some unhappy leaves curling up. Here's a pic:
([url]http://s27.postimg.cc/6ff4359fj/image.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://postimg.cc/image/6ff4359fj/[/url])
I welcome any thoughts, comments, suggestions.
Thanks to all for this awesome forum, look forward to chatting with everyone and learning more!
Looks like normal tranplantation shock. Keep it very well watered and you should be fine.
The real reason I decided to come out of the shadows tonight is I'm concerned about my Van Dyke, which was transplanted from Zands yard to mine yesterday. It may be quite normal but may also be indicative of a problem so I'm hoping one of the mango docs can lend some advice. I noticed today that some of the new growth towards the top of the tree, so far only on one side, has some unhappy leaves curling up. Here's a pic:
([url]http://s27.postimg.cc/6ff4359fj/image.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://postimg.cc/image/6ff4359fj/[/url])
I welcome any thoughts, comments, suggestions.
Thanks to all for this awesome forum, look forward to chatting with everyone and learning more!
Looks like normal tranplantation shock. Keep it very well watered and you should be fine.
I agree with Harry. Along with watering it well i also suggest to mist it several times a day. It's having trouble absorbing enough moisture. Also would be good to throw a sheet cover over it for a couple of days, or anything to shade it from full sun, while it recooperates.
Hi,
Tropical fruit grower in California. I currently have passion fruit, avocado(not fruited yet), mango seedlings, cherimoya, sugar cane, bananas, and coffee seedlings. In actuality I have been more focused on growing and breeding my own vegetables. For example, growing out potatoes from true seeds. Hope to have some fun on this forum asking questions, answering some, and trading.
Hearty Welcome to the Forum! Excellent Dragon Fruit plants!
Hello Rooster01 and everyone. Ever bearing mullberries sounds like a dream. Is that possible in other places or just in florida?
Hi, just joined this forum. I'm in zone 8a and limited to growing tropical fruits in containers. I do not have a greenhouse, therefore, the guava that I grow stay in an unheated garage 5 months out of the year.
I have grown a large crunchy white guava in this manner for about 6 yrs. I get a single crop a year that ripen from September through October.
This weekend I added Ruby Supreme and Indonesian seedless guava to my collection. I also bought a Gefner atemoya and a seedling sugar apple. I am hoping they will survive the garage treatment over the winter.
Besides these I grow about 15 varieties of figs, a multi-grafted Jujube and two multi-grafted pear grown in ground.
If anyone has any pointers regarding growing atemoya and sugar apple in containers please chime in.
Welcome to the family, what kind of guava are you growing on such a large scale farm?
Hi All,
My name is Ahmed Dirir and I live in Somaliland in Horn of Africa , [url]http://somalilandgov.com[/url] ([url]http://somalilandgov.com[/url]). I am establishing a new Guava Plantation on a 10 hectare piece of land with good quality soil and excellent quality and quantity of water through borehole I dug few years back. This is my first large scale project in fruit tree farming and my knowledge of propagation and management is basic.
I moved here from UK around 8 years ago and my main business is drilling water wells. I am now really committed to establishing high and ultra high fruit tree orchards in Somaliland as 90% of fruit and vege is imported.
I've really joined the forum to gain support from members knowledge as Somaliland is a new country and there are agricultural extension offices or consultants here.
I'm 40 , married, no kids and love farming.
thats me.