I ended up getting about 8 huge lychees from my tree. Another 20 or so fell vicitm to a scale infestation.
The fruit tasted very similar to hak ip. not as good as mauritius but not bad at all for NY grown!

picked about 30% of the cherries from one of my multi graft cherries trees today (no bing unfortunately). they look beautiful but taste wise, di only gived them a 5 or 6 out of 10. hopefully as the tree matures the flavor will improve and we did have a ton of rain over the last month which probably didnt help. these cherries are about on par with the average cherries in the store and not as good as the most expensive store cherries.

as is my custom, I screwed myself over. I tried to move my mango tree on a dolly, out of the garage so I could water it, and even though I was holding on to the mango fruit as I moved the tree, the mango still dropped into my hand. The mango had just turned color from green to yellow about two days prior but it is still hard. some sap flowed for a couple of seconds when the mango dropped- i dont think it was clear but im not sure.

here are some pics next to an average sized over ripe atulf mango. is the mango sufficiently developed that it will ripen and soften off the tree? will the flavor be lesser because the mango didnt ripen on the tree?  Harry, is this mango a little on the small size for a Chanok?

we'll start with my pride and joy- my sweetheart lychee tree. one of the fruit has reached full size and is just starting to color up.

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next my Maha Chanok- dont think the fruit has grown much bigger in the last few weeks-




my PSM mango, finally about to bust out a new growth spurt after about a year of doing zilch (its the recipient of my lychee peels and stones



two lychee airlayers from harry- variety unknown but possibly garnet and kaimana - at the beginning of nice growth spurts




business is so good, i'm expanding!
kidding- because i pack so many trees into my tiny yard, i get very little sun on my patio so i have put 3 of my containered tropicals on the side of the street.



golden transparent plum



kilomoka kiwi


fantasia nectarine ( the squirrels get most of these every year


delicious black raspberry


delicious red gooseberry


fig airlayer


golden muscat grape- really tasty but a little seedy


cherries now netted


nectacrest nectraine


mirabelle plums grafted onto golden transparent plum



cox apples under nylon footies



pommegranates

thats 18 pounds of mauritius on the left and 10 pounds of brewster on the right and if you look closely, you can see the outline of a few more pounds of lychees hidden away in the bottom draw. these will only last us 2-3 days.

by all accounts, there are not many lychees to be found in florida this year. How's the longon season shaping up? any better?

my Maha Chanok had set several bloom spikes but all the mangoes eventually turned yellow and dropped off besides for one which is now about 2/3 sized up.
after moving the tree directly under my most powerful light hoever, it has sent out about 10 new growth spurts, including at least one bloom pannicle at the site of a prior bloom pannicle which failed to set any fruit. it sure seems to like this light. during flowering phase, i will leave open my garage door a crack- hopefully enough for flies to get in to pollinate the flowers but not enough for the squirrels to get in and steal my ripening lychees and solitary mango

as for the sweetheart lychees, theyare continuing to grow bigger- a couple are close to full size but no coloration yet. I have noticed the damn scale even attach themselves to the developing lychee fruit.

developing bloom pannicle at site of prior spent fruitless bloom pannicle



top of mango tree with growig mago visible at about 3oclock


my largest lychee




growing mango fruit with cluster of lychees in background


lychee growth spurt


mango growth spurt

i bought this jaboticaba 4 years ago as a 7 gallon. Its been in this pot ever since. should i take it out of the put and prune the roots? does the foliage need pruning?

again, apologies for posting non-tropicals but this tree is so frikken beautiful when in bloom i wanted to share.

its a Golden Transparent Plum. This tree has been in the ground about 5 years.  i got about 10-15 plums last year but should get a bumper crop this year. its so beautiful in bloom. its a dave wilson tree. dave wilson is in CA and is kinda the Zills or Pine Island of temperate fruits. their trees are top quality and very precocious. the few plums i got last year were really delicious.
this first pic was taken at night.



this pic is from my upsatirs bedroom window

this is one of the less rare fruits that i have not yet tried. am i missing anything? anyone growing it in FL? if yes, when does it ripen in FL.

i hope im forgiven for posting these pics of non tropical fruit trees  but this is the only opportunity i have for posting pics of trees in the ground

Italian plum blossoms-this was grafted 3 years ago onto a greengage tree-





orangered apricot grafted just last year- the graft took off like a rocket because i completely pugged a disease ridden peach tree- so all the energy of the established tree went into the apricot and a couple of other grafts.



grape vine (golden muscat (needs pruning) up against my back wall)


petit negron fig



fantasia nectarine tree but the entire left limb is a red haven peach graft from about 3 years ago, and the peach graft itself has a new peach grafted onto it (where the green tape is)



fantasia nectarine tree almost in full bloom. the limbs resting on the garage roof are slightly ahead in full bloom due to the heat emanating from my greenhouse garage



kolomikta hardi kiwi growing up an obsolisk- really pretty foliage and flowers and great fruit



black raspberry- small berries but very tasty- better than any red ive grown



limb of  nectacrest nectarine showing an apricot and plum graft



nectacrest nectarine about to burst into full bloom- i had to completely remove all the foliage and fruit last year as the tree was absolutely infested with aphids



multigraft cherry tree (i have 2 of these)


close up of cherry blosoms about to open



golden russet apple tree with about 15 grafted varieties on it



golden transparent plum with about 10 varieties grafted onto it



golden transparent plum about to burst into bloom



cox orange pippin apple

went to check out china town (in nyc) today- its still way off peak season for tropicals which is June and July but I was pleasantly surprised to find some decent fruit.
they had rambutans for $6 a pound. less red than many of the common varieties- had a lot or yellow/orange in the peel. one novice pair of shoppers (seen in the pic below) asked these exact qs about the rambutan....

"is that a fruit"- (the fact that it was situated among several different fruits was not enough of a clue for these wise shoppers.)
"can I touch them" (pic shows her doing just that)
"are those spikes- do you eat the spikes?"
(pointing to a rambutan that had the skin peeled back to reveal the flesh for display purposes) "is that what it looks like inside"

when the saleslady said it tastes like a lychee, the inevitable response was "what's a lychee"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I despair.

anyway, the rambutan was a little juicer than usual, really clingy and had somewhat of a sacarin after taste. wouldnt eat too many of these. I would guess these were imported from mexico but thats just a wild guess.

there were longons for $4 a pound.  were pretty decent. had a bit of a smoked fish taste to them! i know that sounds very weird.

the ever present large green crunchy guavas and tasteless dragon fruit.
champagne mangoes of various sizes- i bought half a dozen but havent tried them yet.

here's a pic of some of the produce