I just got one at Fruitscapes. It’s fairly large, was in a 15 gallon I think I paid like $135??  I can post a pic if it would help.

That is promising!

35 or so rollinia's ripening here.

Some guanabana here and there.

First flowers on Geffner. Still no fruit.

Also, waiting on San Pablo custard apple that has been flowering well, but no fruit. Mother-in-law is growing this in the rich soil of Hialeah, hopeful.

I’d be happy to trade you a geffner for a rollinia 😎. My rollinia tree is growing like crazy, but not a single bloom.

I find invasive species a bit nonsensical. Pioneer species generally start the succession towards a forest on damaged or bare land. Eventually they make way for longer living taller growing climax species. Biodiversity is improved with all the different species that have made there way around the world in recent times and they are greatly trying to fix all the damage humans are doing.

Quote from: Rex Begonias on August 16, 2019, 10:07:37 AM

So many nitrogen fixers are serious invasives

Come drive around south Florida where Brazilian pepper and paper bark trees are crowding out almost EVERYTHING! 

Yes, cut off the flower. It’s now wasted energy the plant has to use.

For harvesting, I wait until one banana starts to turn yellow before I harvest. It seems to be pretty foolproof. 

Adding nails to soil isn't natural either!

Har, could you please expand on that? 

I got rid of my mysores. They are just not worth dealing with them. Consider replacing then with thornless blackberries maybe?

I have a young/ tebow and use them as my freezer mango

The size and quality of the fruit after thawing is a big plus

Can use the glass method to process the fruit for freezing also

We use them for ice cream and cooking

Have mango that tastes better but they never make the freezer

What is the glass method?

Great job. Thank you for doing that. Please post a link to the go fund me page.

I have one of each and they are quite different.
I can take pictures of each to share but you can check online as well.
Pine island nursery has both described.

look at june plum here
https://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/plant-catalog-reference-3#39

look at Hog plum under mombin here
https://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/plant-catalog-reference-4#49

I guess I shoulda addressed the above question to you.

I haven’t had a June plum, but had my first hog plum the other day. Large seed, not a ton of fruit, but I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was very good.

Which would they be and why?

Quote from: SeaWalnut on June 23, 2019, 08:01:48 PM

Its not for the tree.Who would shot his own kid?
The lady style hat makes the picture epic.

"lady style hat"   

i laugh so hard when u say that, hahaha!   i thought it was unisex or for men, but now i see they have a woman wearing it in the ad! 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sunbody-Hat-El-Humongo-8-brim-Guatemalan-Palm-Leaf-/222589010723

I doubt you’ll get much grief for wearing women’s clothing as long as you’re carrying that AR 😉

Maybe not an article, but a paragraph in the Collier Rare Fruit growers newsletter. 

ANNONAS
  - Atemoyas or sugar apples will be ready to harvest b
y August,
September, and October.  There is a trick to have a 2
nd crop in the new year
(out of season).
Pinch off new growth, plus five leaves back on the stem
.  New sprouts will
emerge with flowers.  (Yea Yea!)
To pollinate the flowers, you can use a fine sable brush
 to move pollen from
flower to flower.  Or you can place a small amount of
banana peel or fruit peelings at the
base of the Annona to attract a small hard shell beetle
.  The beetle will at night pollinate
the Annona flowers.