Mulberry, any grafted superior variety. Grow/fruit very quickly and tend to grow vertical very quickly. Did not see them on the list, so perhaps worth adding.

Wax jambu can be fairly quick to fruit. i planted a fairly small 3g this growing season and it's flowered. Around 4-5 feet tall now.  They are fairly attractive plants as well. Grow in a nice shape with little training, big long deep green leaves.

I have not found Acerola to be as quick as stated, it usually takes 1-2 seasons to establish before beginning to fruit heavily for me. This is planting it from a 3g.

smaller mango tend to fruit, establish and grow significantly faster than larger specimen, i.e 3,7,15 gallon vs a 25. A well cared for 15 gallon mango will likely fruit fairly significantly the next growing season after it is planted.

Do you know if the star fruit trees are strong meaning the tree is still alive even if the leaves are dried up? I'm planning to wait until spring and then put it in the ground.

Mine have recovered a few times, but they do seem to get progressively weaker each time they re-flush, particularly as the new growth is extra sensitive to wind.

Mine also seem particularly sensitive to PH in the soil and show deficiencies regularly prior to correction.

I am in ne cape Coral.

I purchase the lot next to me and planted it out over the last 1.5 years. Overall extremely lucky for 90+ winds +gusts .

1 absolute casualty in a snapped sugar apple. 1 probable casualty in a star fruit.  Plenty of tree that needed straightening stomping and staking and one large mango that needs heavy staking to correct a lean. But all in all super lucky and grateful for 50 trees  and such light correction needed

No power 3 days now is the worst part

i ordered figs and blueberry from them before. Have no idea if they were the variety they claimed as i never successfully fruited them beyond  a small handful of berries and figs before i got rid of them prior to a move, but they came promptly and were well packaged. Be aware they are very small plants, 1-2 inches in height with corresponding rootball.

Would be willing to help but on the opposite coast in cape coral. I work at home so am always around, other than fairly frequent business travel though i doubt watering will be an issue this summer in any case. Have purchased the vacant lot next to me which i'm turning into an orchard so plenty of room for storage there. Its far but if no other option feel free to drop me a line.

First guess was pickering as well

They are easy to root from cuttings and develop significantly quicker than from seed, if you cant find one for sale.

I didn't have enough time to do the tour but checked out the nursery today. It was really busy!

Picked up 2x Cotton Candy mango (one for a friend)
an abiu, custard apple, himalayan mulberry and a malay apple.

There were a few other things that piqued my interest but i had limited room as i only had my car. I had my eye on the blue jaboticabas (they had 2, decent size around 3/4" caliper for $50) but passed due to other interests... now thinking i may go back and get one. There was also some salak palms but they looked too nasty (thorny) to even pick up so i passed although i know thye are a bit of a collectors item. Few other less common trees here and there as well.

shoot....I missed it Next year. I keep telling myself I will go visit. Many of my friends have told me I would really like it. Is there anything else coming up in the next month or so with ECHO? Thanks for letting us know:)

~ Paraponera

it's tomorrow (18th) i think he put 17th by mistake... if you're local can still make it

Quote from: achetadomestica on March 13, 2017, 09:31:25 AM

When you see a Asplundh truck (usually orange) in your area. Approach the crew and ask them for the mulch.
They always want a local place to dump. I have never had them say no. You will be swimming in mulch in no time!
Mike

Don't you guys ever worry about that stuff having weed killer in it, and wiping out your trees? Those trucks pass by my house all the time, in fact my sister's ex boyfriend is a manager for a tree trimming service but I'm afraid they might have chemicals in them. Am I just paranoid?

I bought a chipper, and keep it at my parent's ranch. There's no shortage of stuff to dice up there but admittedly it can be a lot of work.

Not sure I understand the concern - if a topical had been applied it'd have to still be wet for it to come into contact to have any effect, and the contact would have to be on something that hasn't lignified or the leaves which seems unlikely given the application of mulch. If it's a systemic they are almost universally targeted at specific weeds, typically broadleaf or types of grasses. If a tree or bush that had been chipped has absorbed some of the chemical I cant imagine it would be in a stastically significant amount to cause any hard. I think the only real concern is seeds of invasives like Brazilian pepper but those are abundant enough to likely already be present anyway.

I bought a 3g one in the Odessa flea market off Gunn. Fairly far(ish) from SW FL and no guarantee they still have them as it was several months ago but figure I'd share since I see at least one SWFL person inquiring.

i found them extremely easy to grow, even in a pot (15 to 25g) and bore fruit pretty abundantly, for a potted plant. Grown from seed from a tree in DR

However the fruit i found insipid and disgusting (musky) and i never bothered trying to process the nut and used ti in compost. They germinate easily, similarly to how mango germinate very easily in compost.

Not worth growing in my opinion for the fruit, and the nut processing sounds quite involved and potentially dangerous to do by hand.

No. Not from what I can tell from the picture

You really want to see the base colors of the mango begin to lighten, and then color up.  Right now the base colors are still very dark and there's just a bit of lightening on the shoulders from sun exposure.