Here in Southwest Florida, Thai Giant seems to be the only variety that does well here.

I also use the stepladder/plastic tarp/table lamp trick. I haven't lost one baby tree to the cold since I learned this trick years ago.

I can't seem to crack my macadamias without also busting the kernel into bits as well. I spent more than a hundred bucks on a macadamia cracker, and it certainly does a good job breaking the shells with very little effort on my part.
    Problem is, only about one in ten comes out as an entire, unbroken kernel. I've let them sit in the Florida sun on a drying rack for a couple of weeks after they fell off the tree. Should I leave them out there longer?
    Any advice would be appreciated.

This is a great cracker, but it is on the more expensive side.

https://www.amazon.com/TJs-Macadamia-Nut-Cracker/dp/B008XCIJQO

Say, I've been watching some demo videos, and they show these machines cracking macadamias which have already been de-husked. How were the husks previously removed? By the same machine?

My macadamia trees are beginning to produce so many nuts that breaking them in the bench vice on my workbench is becoming tedious.
   Anyone have any suggestions on where I can find the perfect macadamia cracker?

I planted an atemoya about six months ago and it's growing well, even fruiting. However, the branches sure do look long and leggy. Should I be pruning them back, or just leave them as they are?

I just harvested my lychees and me and my neighbors have eaten all we can stand for now. How can I preserve some for later? Can they be frozen or dehydrated? Any advice would be appreciated.

In my case, down here in Southwest Florida, it would be a Thai Giant jujube tree. I have two of them. They tower over the house and crowd their neighbors. So, last summer I took a chainsaw and literally cut them down to almost stumps. Now they're back to towering over the house and crowding the neighboring trees again.
   I've never seen anything like it!

Hmmm... fake plastic lychees?
   I'm getting desperate enough to try anything!   

Speaking only for myself, my particular rant wasn't simply over fruit. It was mostly over the coming "Balkanization" of America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Sure, our long-ago ancestors stole it from the Stone Age people they encountered. Too bad their descendants aren't strong-willed enough to hang onto it. New invaders who still have testosterone will someday end up with it. I would go ahead and predict a future race/civil war, but seeing as how tomorrow's white metrosexual "men" will probably have even less testosterone than today's white metrosexuals, I'm pretty sure the takeover will be bloodless (unless our new masters are Muslim).
     Multicultural societies don't work. By the time Joe Sixpack figures that out, it'll be too late. But hey, I can't really blame Joe. The mainstream media has been brainwashing him for generations. This Trump phenomenon appears to be the closest 21st Century white people can come to rioting. Unfortunately, it's too little, too late.

My lychee is just starting to produce tiny fruitlets and every time I walk past, a cardinal flushes from the tree. I can't find a nest there, so I'm beginning to suspect something else is afoot. Could birds be eating the fruitlets? Does it happen to you?

Here in Southwest Florida, we've had a very rainy summer and fall. It's still rather hot and humid, even though we're deep into November. I should have turned off my air-conditioning by now, but I'm still running it.
   The Thai Giant is the only jujube the local nurseries carry. The fruit is usually ready in December. These trees had better get their act together, or else! They take up way too much room to be non-producers.   

Have you ever noticed that the worst fruit thieves tend to be third-world immigrants? At least that's the way it seems in my part of Florida. What is it about the concept of Private Property they don't understand? Maybe it's just a white people thing?
     A few years ago I pulled into my driveway and got quite a shock. All three of my citrus trees were totally stripped, 75 fruit in all. I eventually found out an old Korean immigrant did it. I confronted him and told him I would have happily given him some if he would have asked. Why did he take them all? He had no satisfactory answer.