E. involucrata and E. pyriformis

feijoa

Figs... Damn bees bite through unripe figs tunneling into the barely sweet interior, followed by ants. The figs sour before they even ripen. Then the fig beetles follow. The local beeshop doesn't believe me that the bees eat the figs but I've got pictures.

let's see these fig eating bees

sapodilla, soursop, mulberry

recently I've been paranoid about snakes in my yard, but now I think it might be useful to have them around for thieves

no good deed goes unpunished

just use grass clippings or horse manure

Quote from: Das Bhut on June 13, 2019, 11:48:21 PM

Quote from: gychang on June 13, 2019, 11:16:19 PM

So which are you planning to get?  Sugar Loaf and why?  I'm having similar dilemmas picking out here in hawaii.  Thanks!

if I didn't get sugar loaf I would've gotten an m-4

sugar loaf seems to be spreading and fairly disease resistant like a honey kiss, plus it's a green mango which will deter thieves a bit

Does sugar loaf tree produces lots of fruit in South Florida?

don't know it's still too new to tell

1. Sugar Loaf: pineapple/coconut flavor, fairly fast growing tree with a spreading habit. Green mango, gets a little bit of yellow when it's ripe.

2. orange essence: not very disease resistant, seems to be a huge tree that doesn't like to branch laterally, fruit is similar to orange sherbert. Medium sized yellow fruit.

3. honey kiss: dwarf slow growing tree, very precocious, highly productive, highly disease resistant, essentially the perfect tree. Fruit is 8/10 traditional mango flavor, polyembryonic, small red/yellow mango that will ripen on the tree. The fruit are also very easy to peel.

those are the 3 in my yard, if I had to get more then it'd be

4. Cac: highly vigorous, probably not precocious since it's a huge tree, highly disease resistant, best Indochinese mango (that I've tried) very sweet and very acidic, kind of similar to sweet tart.

5. sweet tart: vigorous, vertical growth habit, not sure about precocity, fairly disease resistant. Fruit is small and has a strong Indochinese flavor. May have trouble flowering.

6. po pyu kalay (lemon meringue): early season, easy to tell when to pick, great citrus flavor, very consistent producer. Fruit falls off the tree and bruises easily though. Parent of Lemo

7. pickering: dwarf tree, very precocious, good coconut flavor, fairly disease resistant

but it's probably a better idea to get fruit that will ripen out of mango season like sapodillas, jackfruit, avocados, etc. than be awash in a sea of mangos

I don't know about socal but in sfl alano tastes good even if you pick it when it's not ripe

Honey Kiss would probably fruit in 3 years depending on how it's own roots fare in your ground.

At least its a tree that seems to take care of itself. I enjoy the fruit from it too. I've heard of another tropical raspberry that is supposed to grow good in FL but I have yet to find it.

did you ever find it?

this is a good place to start with recommendations http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30789.0

looks like okrung to me but I'm pretty bad at identifying mangos. The info tropical acres farms has is good but I haven't gone through every mango https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/mangos

or PIN's mango info https://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/variety-viewer-variety-mango-reference-4