Tropical Fruit Forum - International Tropical Fruit Growers



Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Das Bhut

Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 13
1
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Room for 12 Trees Max
« on: July 31, 2019, 02:56:00 AM »
plant things you like eating

2
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Which Fruit Trees Can Tolerate Oceanfront/Beach Location?
« on: July 23, 2019, 11:36:36 AM »
sapodilla, soursop, mulberry

3
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Coconut Cream Mango New Leaves Question
« on: July 20, 2019, 09:35:31 AM »
Not sure about leaves but it has been known to be a fragile tree.

4
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Video of someone stealing my mangoes
« on: July 19, 2019, 08:50:24 AM »
recently I've been paranoid about snakes in my yard, but now I think it might be useful to have them around for thieves

5
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: July 19, 2019, 08:09:12 AM »
Quote from: TriangleJohn on February 10, 2012, 04:07:12 PM
Here's some photos of the best of my small collection.

I protect the one in the ground with a wire cage filled with dry leaves and then wrapped in plastic sheeting.

The newly purchased tree shows its label but all I can read is Yamamomo without any cultivar or variety name.
There was an addition ribbon tag put on by the friend that brought it to me with the hand written name 'Zulko'

I grew up in Japan and that is not a Japanese word.







ah so it's called mountain peach in Japanese, good to know

6
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Time Difference
« on: July 18, 2019, 04:40:09 PM »
no good deed goes unpunished

7
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help need mulch source for north Broward county
« on: July 15, 2019, 11:51:03 AM »
Quote from: Bishop on July 15, 2019, 10:30:17 AM
Quote from: Das Bhut on July 14, 2019, 08:13:30 PM
just use grass clippings or horse manure

I don’t find posts like this helpful, if a person is coming to this board they will generally have basic knowledge like this. I asked for a source, as in, a place I can go to get some volume of what I need, I am not asking for methods of making my own.

I disagree, a lot of people come this board with no prior knowledge. Also if you get mulch from an outside source you don't know what insects, pesticides, herbicides, etc. are in it so making your own or using manure is usually better.

Also you can get horse manure from most ranches in Davie, it's really good for bananas and attracting earthworms.

8
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help need mulch source for north Broward county
« on: July 14, 2019, 08:13:30 PM »
just use grass clippings or horse manure

9
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Shade tree suggestions - 20-30ft - wind tolerant - zone 10a
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:41:51 AM »
white sapote grows fast, is very productive, and very cold tolerant

10
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PPK, orange sherbert, Pickering, Sugar loaf, buttercream, or coconut cream?
« on: July 11, 2019, 01:28:34 PM »
Quote from: JulianoGS on July 11, 2019, 12:50:22 PM
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

11
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Truly Tropical video: PPK vs Lemon Zest
« on: July 11, 2019, 01:27:34 PM »
goes over the history, tree, fruit, and then a taste test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWmfVliN0GQ

12
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What would be your top 7 mangos for Florida?
« on: July 11, 2019, 08:59:34 AM »
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

13
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: So what Mango fruit varieties are available for July ?
« on: July 08, 2019, 10:56:24 PM »
I picked Honey Kiss a few days ago, should ripen up in a week or so

14
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Alano, Hasya, or Silas Woods sapodilla for So Cal? TASTIEST?
« on: July 06, 2019, 07:13:51 PM »
I don't know about socal but in sfl alano tastes good even if you pick it when it's not ripe

15
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 10-30 Ruby Supreme Guava.
« on: July 04, 2019, 03:50:18 AM »
just bought a Ruby Supreme and didn't want to start another thread, any new information?

16
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What mango varieties are known as early producers from seed?
« on: July 03, 2019, 09:27:42 PM »
Honey Kiss would probably fruit in 3 years depending on how it's own roots fare in your ground.

17
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: So if you could only have 5-6 mango trees?.
« on: July 02, 2019, 12:35:07 AM »
I don't like this defeatist attitude, you can always make more room

but to answer the question:

1. m-4 mango: best coconut mango
2. sugar loaf: pineapple/coconut mango
3. sweet tart: complex flavor
4. orange sherbert: just to see how it does in my yard
5. coconut cream: cool looking tree and coconut cream flavor
6. Kathy: just to see how it does in my yard

18
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mysore "raspberry"
« on: July 01, 2019, 10:47:54 PM »
Quote from: murahilin on January 18, 2012, 11:23:30 PM
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?

19
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Please help ID these plants
« on: June 30, 2019, 11:33:51 PM »
the second one kind of looks like an olive

20
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New cultivar recommendation
« on: June 30, 2019, 10:08:15 PM »
this is a good place to start with recommendations http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30789.0

21
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What type of fruit tree is this ?
« on: June 28, 2019, 07:12:06 PM »
Like someone else said those are carrotwood. It's related to longan/lychee/ackee

22
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Carrie and Julie mangos checking in for the season
« on: June 28, 2019, 03:56:32 AM »


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

23
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What’s on my mangos??? Please help
« on: June 27, 2019, 07:51:25 PM »
looks like mealybug to me but I'm not 100% sure

24
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Brainstorming for ground heating a Durian in Greenhouse
« on: June 27, 2019, 06:53:31 PM »
let it grow in ground and inside of a big compost pile, but not big enough that it'll cook the tree

25
Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« on: June 27, 2019, 06:35:45 PM »
David Bowie dragonfruit has a flower on it.

Honey Kiss mango is getting big, but no color or smell yet. Maha Chanok has 15 fruit on it and my neighbor's abandoned 30 year old tree has a bunch of half bright red/half yellow Bailey's Marvel shaped fruit

Molix and Alano both have a few fruit/flowers forming

Guanabana flowers on my seedling trees seem to have been sunburnt to death

everything is throwing out growth flushes after being heavily pruned. Orange Essence is the only tree that wants to grow straight upwards in spite of pruning. Every other plant sends out at least 3 new branches but the orange essence is vertically sending out 1-2

I've also noticed orange essence's leaves are more than twice the size of the Honey Kiss. Sugar Loaf is medium. Sugar Loaf seems to be the middle ground mango.

HK: red mango, small leaves, slow growth, compact spreading habit, great disease resistance, late season PRECOCIOUS
SL: yellow-green mango, medium leaves, moderate growth, upright but responds well to pruning, good disease resistance, mid season, maybe precocious
OE: yellow mango, big leaves, vigorous growth, upright, poor disease resistance, mid season, not precocious I remember Mike Bender saying they take a while to bear fruit when I bought it

Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 13
Copyright © Tropical Fruit Forum - International Tropical Fruit Growers