Didn't realize he wasn't going to live on site. I cant imagine trying to run a small hobby farm and not live on site even if it is just trees you like. My neighbor across the street lives 45 minutes away and he is there every day, especially in this horrific drought. Theres rarely a day I don't have something to work on in my yard even if its just fertilizer and I have auto-irrigation. Need to water today stuff that needs more than what I irrigate or isn't on irrigation. Yay. I guess you could do something maintenance free like olives and just water them once a week but anything else is going to take a chunk of time.

With this severe drought on right now in central Florida I wouldnt advise planting anything. This is brutal. I think and this is only theory some of my trees are being affected by stuff in my irrigation water that is normally diluted out by rain. I don't think we have had a significant rain in my immediate area in at least a year. We might have gotten a half inch during that hurricane in November. My canal which is normally 6-7 feet deep is down to 3 or so. Much lower and I am going to sneak down in defiance of my water management branch and start shoveling topsoil from the canal bed and lugging it back in buckets to the yard to use later.

Not really sure BSbullie, got it from my neighbor. He isnt as exact on his labeling as I am.

I am in Central FL in a rural-esque neighborhood in far eastern Orange County called Wedgefield. Aside from the northern end of the neighborhood the lots are all minimum 1 acre to develop on with a 105 foot street frontage. There is a lot of land available usually in 2-5 acre sections. We are all on well and septic here unless you are unlucky enough to be in the northern section(the north south road is 6.5 miles long) and have private Pluris water. Everyone on the eastern side of he north south artery is on one mile long dead end spoke streets.

There are a lot of us who grow fruit trees and other who have farms with horses. Lots of chickens and poultry in the area as well and many canals from east to west connecting with the Econlochatchee River(the Econ) although right now with the drought there isn't any outflow into the Econ and most of the canals are at the lowest the old timers have seen them. I sat in the yard and watched alligators under the water trying to hide but its shallow enough now to see the bottom all the way across so they weren't hiding very well. Great fishing. We also have state parks on almost the whole west and North side of the neighborhood and Mormon pastureland on the east and southsides(plus the 528).

Whatever you do, visit the site before buying. There are many plots of land for sale which are almost entirely covered by Cyprus trees and thus completely undevelopable. You wont get a permit.

--as for care, voluntary HOA, as long as you don't let it go wild the HOA stays hands off for the most part. I have 2 acres and have guerilla gardened into a third undevelopable(water easement, land locked, owner hasn't been heard from in 40 years, and doesn't meet size requirements for building) lot of land as well. I put in an irrigation well with sprinklers at each of my 100+ trees and in the summer when it actually rains mow the grass once a week. I might mow the weeds this weekend, as there currently is no grass growth due to the drought(we haven't had a real rainstorm in over a year at this point). I go out once or twice a week with a battery powered weedeater, and when the juice runs out, time to do something else. 

I am literally right across the county line in orange county. I have Pink Barbie, Egyptian, white, lemon, and three other guavas I cant remember at this time. They all do fine and the two that are old enough to fruit do so profusely. Lemon produces year round. White is a once a year thing. The only issue I have is white flies on some of them. You shouldn't have any growth or fruiting issues where you are.

If you were making your own soil mix for mangos in a pot using easily obtainable(from a big box, no material selling nurseries close by) off the shelf materials what would you use?

OK, took you guys advice as well and picked up my go to nursery's last Mahachanok. Also got a Cotton Candy that I have been hunting for. If you are in Orlando area, Green Jungle still has CCs.

If they make it to ripening I will let you know. This is its second year. It fruited its first year but dropped everything at BB size.

My Pickering in a 20gal rootmaker pot is blooming like crazy again, and it still has three golfball sized mangos from a little earlier in the season developing. Nice and pinkish purple. Its currently my best performer out of the 4 I have, but it had an unfair advantage of not getting raided by deer or those damn weevils that destroyed the tree or all the blooms(in that order). I hear Pickerings aren't the best tasting compared to some others, but the taste is very subjective, but it seems to be a good all round general grower and producer that the weevils that attacked mine simply ignored.

Loquat season is done here. I only got to have a few relatively sweet ones off my original on the property tree due to birds and pests but the tree is very healthy. My other one, a 'Christmas' variety loquat, got assaulted by a deer earlier in the year and completely girdled about a foot off the ground. Now I am looking to replace it but obviously too late for fruit this year. They are great trees, I am thinking of snagging a seedling from a property up in Savannah GA from a tree three stories tall on the waterfront, there are loads on the island my parents live on and no one eats them. That said I grew up there and was surrounded by them and never knew they were edible until I moved to FL.

Yeah mine is planted right at the house end of the driveway too so it gets seen every time I go by.

My Bengal has a few blooms, my big sweetheart  has lots of new growth, no blooms, and neither my small sweetheart or mauratis have either.

Ordered from there a few years ago. Had no issues with the three trees. They did ok although I have since replaced them with trees that do better.