Yup, Leaf footed stink bugs. Right now they are swarming on my beauty berry bushes all around the yard. Since its far easier to spray them when they are on an non-important plant before they jump to my citrus trees, Ill have to figure out a spray that will actually kill them.

Any idea what these guys are? They are on most of my Beauty Berry trees. Not that I care a bunch, they are beauty berries, are they a danger to my more serious fruit trees?

Interesting as I found the full sun part misleading. The nursery here told me very clearly, do not put it in full sun like you can other citrus, they are understory only and like the shade.

At first I thought they were selling it as candy, weird advertisement.

You or I could effectively grow smaller trees or a few large trees in a greenhouse and in theory extend the range pretty far north. I don't think that's economically efficient for large scale efforts. I know several of the original nurseries I have been to(where the regular nurseries get their trees) have all been clean room style green houses, all of their stuff that I have seen has been small. Disney's The Land has a fairly tall green house with quite a few various full size fruit trees including a good sized 9-pound Lemon tree, but they aren't trying to grow stuff on an industrial scale either, nor are there a bunch of citrus to infect that would attract psylids.

So to answer your question, if you had a decent amount of money to put into a good sized enclosure, you could do so on a small scale to sell, say at your local farmers market or produce stand. I think the costs would prohibit anything on a bigger scale.

Living where I live, I would love a small tall greenhouse for a few select trees and one day I might build one, not just for protection from greening, but for protection from deer and all the other bugs and nasties that frequent my area.

I have two I planted from seed with the intention of building a thorny hedge where a road entrance into the front of my property used to be that I fenced across to keep friends of the former home owner from just driving into my orchard. They grew quickly to about 2.5 feet and in the heat of the summer have seemed to stagnate. I figured with their original locale they wouldn't really care about the heat. We have gotten an absolute metric buttload of rain lately so I pushed the mulch back about a foot from each tree so they don't stay too wet like some of my trees(Who knew figs liked being submerged under 6" of water for two or three days at a time?). Hopefully once we get into a slightly cooler fall they will start growing again until we get our one month of winter.

I had heard the UN was trying to utilize these trees as a mass crop in Africa due to its ease of growth there. Wonder how that plan is going.

Yeah I tried the ebay seeds. Not a one germinated.  Edself65 Ill take a couple seedlings off your hands when you are ready

I didnt do my whole yard except in my butterfly garden area. I simply did areas about 5 - 6 feet with the tree in the middle. With the trees I scraped the grass layer off. In the garden I simply added 6-8 inches of mulch on top of the ground. The difference? I have had to pull grass out of the mulch in the garden when it grew through. Hopefully I finally have gotten it all.

I am looking to expand my apple orchard in 9B. I have a loquat that refuses to fruit(guessing the previous owner planted a non-self-fertile cultivar) and am thinking about something different there that will work well with my other nearby apples. And yes before someone says it, we can grow apples in central Florida just fine. If it wasnt for the damn deer I would have had close to a bushel of apples from my various small trees this year. (Anna, Dorsett, Em Shimer, Tropic Sweet, Fuji). I know there are low chill varieties out there but information on these guys is kinda hard to find. Augustifolia is listed as a Florida native.

Are there any nurseries in Central Florida or along the Space Coast that might carry them? I know my go to at Green Jungle doesn't have them. Provided I can find more than just generic "Crab Apple" any good varieties?

My alternative is finding a chocolate persimmon tree as I have other persimmons in the area as well, but after some early research and questions, most nurseries just give me a blank look.

BSbullie- Have had the all-spice for several years now haven't had any cold issues even with the surprise frosts we had last winter.(They said low of 37, it wasn't). Wasn't aware of the jujube appearance thing but it is in the middle of the front yard about the third tree back in the second row of trees so once the other trees fill out a bit, this guy will be hardly noticeable. I built a butterfly garden around my apple/persimmon grove so it looked a little nicer in the winter. Not to mention I have a 6-8 foot saw palm "hedgerow" across the front along the road further blocking line of sight into the yard.

Greenman- Hmm didn't even think of Jabos, I have two along my driveway and the lowest spot(currently occupied by a dying fig) would be a perfect place for one of those. So mulberry is a pretty water tolerant tree? That was one I was thinking about. How is the fruit on those taste-wise? Guava is another good option. Maybe I will move the one I have that's high and dry down there and replace it with the Yuzu if it doesn't die from drowning.

Rock salt and riot control shotgun rounds(keep a variety of loaded magazines for each type of occasion). I cant justify using lethal force for thieves of fruit(well the two legged kind) but I wont stand by and let the fruit of my labors get stolen by some miscreant. Hold them at gunpoint until the cops arrive. Theft is theft and I know in GA stealing pecans was an arrestable offense. I would be surprised if FL doesn't have similar laws on the books. At a minimum its trespassing.

Swarming? I always thought Psyllids were relatively solitary critters and hard to notice without a close examination?

Kind of an out of the way place to put it, I would have thought they would have built a citrus center somewhere relatively close to the actual citrus belt and not in a town of 143 people way up in Northern Florida.