My wife grew a lot from Seed, most died, but two lived in pots and one flowered this year, they are almost three years old I try to water them as little as possable they don't like it wet.

even sub-par carambola are good dried. I would also like to know how you pickle them that sounds good.

It's possible that my squirrel fruit eating problem has not reached the level that it has for you guys. Today I found and avocado literally eaten in half by squirrels. What I don't like about .22 is that if I miss, it'll come down God knows where. If my squirrel problem starts to get out of hand, I'll probably use a combination of methods that you guys have mentioned, and maybe others not mentioned yet, like maybe using one of those police electrocution wire shooting hand guns, and maybe, while the squirrel is dying from the electrocution, I'll be saying: 'Die zombie/plage, die.' LOL

A good pellet gun will kill squirrel and not travel as far. work for iguanas as well.
Although my biggest pest are key deer, they are endangered so i can't do a thing but fence off the trees, i cant fence of my whole yard because  the deer need to walk through.

red hogplums are real easy to root

yes it is they are the biggest pests we have they eat everything

Wow!  Thanks for all the information about seaweed.  I'm very impressed.  Looks like with all the seaweed available to me all I need is to get the manure from some local stables to create the perfect compost and soil and a super-garden. 

Yeah that would be the bomb! I use a lot of compost, I have 4 composers i made out of trashcans that takes most of my garbage, and a big plus for me is the fact that no food in the trash means the key deer don't get into the trash and spread it around my yard, those deer are my biggest pests, do more damage than any bug  or disease.

thank you all, I'm hoping for less cold wind than last winter, because it burned a lot of the leaves on the breadfruit, its crazy how weather in the 50's pisses off true tropicals lol.

I have noticed the fruit down here look perfect, some of the trees near canals grow slower.

Prices you pay for good weather right lol

Wow, Really nice looking trees. Especially the breadfruit!  Looks great  Dave

Thanks, it's in a hole from a Jamaican dogwood and that seems to help it a lot
Can't wait to get fruit off of it  it's been in the ground almost a year and growing fast

man o man no fun. I try not to dig down any more i build up planting in mounds or raised beds

i gotcha, so you are stuck with shallow soil like me, but probably harder rock