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Well, 1000 Fingers and Praying Hands are neat looking, and edible - although there are certainly better cultivars for eating.
I've never tried any, but there's also variegated bananas that look pretty cool. Ae ae is supposed to be a pretty decent eating banana.
A Wurtz I planted in the summer of 2015 bore 18 avocados this year -- plucked the last two today (they were pretty well hidden in the tree, so I missed them earlier).
Have been eating them the last month. Give them 7-10 days to ripen after plucking them off the tree, and they're fine.
My Wurtz isn't as fast-growing as someone on this thread mentioned. It's about 8 feet tall now.
A Day avocado planted at the same time is a bit taller than the Wurtz, and a Lula is much taller and wider.
But they all take well to pruning. I took a couple of arm-sized branches off the Lula a month ago, and it's putting out new growth in several spots - not just near the cut, but all along the branches. The Lula carried 60 or so full-sized fruit; have already eaten some, and letting others stay on the tree longer to see if there are changes in flavor if I harvest them later.
The Day had just one this year, but it was delicious. Nothing like the Hass, more "watery," but tasty nevertheless.
All the avos are planted in the ground.
I also bought an Excalaber Red and it produced 16 fruit on first fruiting,at 3 years old, the fruit had a slight red tint and was firm or crisp, with a nice taste. ive only tried 3 other kinds of Jak before and it's my limited experience it seemed very good..I've tasted ns1, bankok lemon,Amber/berry cross
And it seemed as good as them, but this was from memory..
There was no laytex at all
The Pitogo that I got from you looks great now. Fantastically healthy plant, thanks!
Glad to hear it. One thing that I have noticed with Pitogo is that the first inflorescence tends not to hold fruit for some reason. Sometimes it does, but don't be disappointed. I have always gotten fruit the second time around. I have two baring currently.
Isn't cogshall from haden?
Raja puri is short but dwarf cavendish makes way more fruit. Both stay small. Not sure about frost tolerance, I dont get frost.
Mulberries are really more of a zone 9 tree. The most tolerant variety for zone 10 is Pakistan mulberry.
(You can grow any mulberry variety in warmer areas, they just may not do as well)
General direction currently eyes Bermuda. Early days
Florence is nowhere near land and not expected to ever make landfall. It's turning north and heading into the cooler waters of the north Atlantic where it will fade away harmlessly.
