I should have posted months ago. My Carambola tree has been in the ground about 3 years and has been a champ. very green, fast growing, healthy, and productive.....Until 4-5 months ago. Leaves started yellowing, little flowering, and no growth. Then I began noticing little black dots all over the branches, almost like warts.....like a jaboticaba appearance....i used my hand to take some off and they felt almost like dried ants (whatever that feels like). My tree was all green and now it seems this thing/disease has taken over and i have lost 80 percent of the leaves/branches and is working its way up. I have no idea what this is or what to do to save the tree. I havent done anything differently. Please help........

About two years ago I purchased Gefner Atemoya  from Excalibur. It was in a 3 gallon pot and had a small fruit on it which ultimately split due to the rains. It's been planted in my mom's yard ever since and had a decent amount of flowers last year but no fruit set. I was told that this is self pollinating. Can anybody chime in on this? It's actually planted at my mothers house and i'm only there a couple of times a month. I want to know if I will ever get Fruit without doing anything or will I need to pollinate it by hand (which I have no clue how to do)?

Thanks!

Somebody gave me a small guava seedling a few months ago, I replanted into a bigger pot and have been taking care of it ever since. It barely grows. I don't know anything about guavas, do seedlings turn out good? Or should I just let this be.

Last summer, I had so many mangoes, I began cutting them up, putting them in a Ziploc bag and freezing them. When I went to eat them later, they were very mushy. I just bought a bag of frozen mangoes from my local whole foods, and they were very well textured, firm, and not mushy at all. I love using frozen fruits on a hot day. What mangoes, are good to cut up and freeze which will hold their texture? What other fruits are good? I know lychees work well, but many probably do not, such as black sapote, starfruit, atemoya, citrus, passion fruit.....suggestions?

There is an area in front of my office that is about 12 feet by 14 feet with small bushes that surround it and nothing in the center. Years ago i was going to make a deck with patio furniture. Now, I was thinking I could plant a couple low maintenance fruit trees. The soil is CRAPPY (very sandy, lots of odd stuff) and im not sure how deep it goes since the area outside of this is all pavement. Any ideas of trees to plant that will tolerate this average/below average soil which will produce fruit quickly and wont have huge roots? I was thinking Papaya and then drew a blank.....

I'm looking to add a few trees to plant behind my Mother's House (Miami-Dade), and would like some suggestions for trees that can get growing with little to no maintenance. I highly doubt that she will attend to them so Im basically planting and thats it. Specifically trees that require little watering.... I already have a few mangoes, carambola, lychee, atemoya. Thanls

A friend of mine brought me an interesting book the other day, entitled, "1001 things you must eat" or something like that. There was an entire section on Fruits, and specifically I read about the "Honey Jack". It was described as being the best Jackfruit all around. Has anybody heard of this? Is their another name? Living in South Florida, I am very curious about this..

I have been using Cypress Mulch on my newly planted fruit trees (in the ground 3-4 months). Is their a limit on how much I should use? Is more better?

So it is very obvious most people on this Forum LOVE Mangoes. I unfortunately am not in the "Love" Boat Category (let the beatings begin! lol). I havent tasted many mangoes, so I am a bit green. One thing I think would get me more involved is texture. Can anybody recommend a local Mango (grown in South Fla) that is Not Mushy, but has a firmer texture with a bite? I think I would enjoy this more... Thanks!

Does anybody know where I can purchase lychees in South Florida at a decent price? The asian market I bought from last month doesn't have anymore and the one I checked yesterday had fruit that was green.

This Mai-3 Jackfruit Tree was purchased in a 25 Gallon container at Excalibur 2 months ago, and has been in the ground ever since. It gets a Ton of Sunlight, is watered regularly (including the recent Drenching Rain in South Florida), and 2 weeks ago I fertilized it for the first time. Over the past 5-6 days, leaves have been turning yellow-orange and dropping fast. The leaves do get some black on them. Literally in the last 24 hours, 12-15 Green Leaves turned yellow with black around the edges and are dropping. It's happening at an alarming pace. What is this and what do I do?

I would like to add some fertilizer to my newly planted fruit Trees. I have read the 839 combo is best. Where can I buy yhis? Home Depot? Or do I have to find a Nursery nearby?

I have a lychee tree that is too young to bear fruit. I was looking forward to this season in South Florida but I hear it's going to be dismal at best. I heard that Mexico grows lychees and their season starts before ours does. anybody know if Mexican lychees are sold in this area?