so now that the Californian order from the Chinese nursery (http://www.fruit-trees-nursery.com/) arrived with about half the trees in good shape, i would like to try and put together a new order from them for delivery to Harry's place in Florida. Each individual  buyer would be responsible for picking up their trees from Harry's place  and Harry would not be able to provide any care and attention to the trees beyond allowing a place for them to be parked in his yard.

The nursery sells several varieties of yumberry, lychee (including a supposedly seedless lychee), jackfruit, longan, dragon fruit etc. I am not sure what his minimum order is or what is price per tree- that I imagine will depend on how many trees we order. I believe on the last order for Yumberries, they paid under $20 a tree. When I tentativly reached out to him, he had mentioned that we may have to stick to two varieties of tree, so I suggest you start with yumberry and lychees and then add any other trees you want with the understanding that if there is not a large enough request for those trees, we may be limited to lychee and yumberry.

I am willing to put the order together. Please post here what trees you would like and what quanity, if you would like to be part of the order. I suggest that you order two of any tree so that if one tree arrives in bad condition, you have a back up.
I will be ordering yumberries and his seedless lycee.

I will give everyone a week (to till next Friday, March 9th) to place their tentative order, at which time I will contact the nursery and ask him if he can fulfill our order and what the cost per tree is.

I love the statistic section of this forum and am geekily thrilled I make a couple of the top 10 lists.

Here are my humble suggestions for additional stats to be shown:

number of members who have never posted
top 10 posts with highest number of replies as a ratio of views
top 10 posts with smallest number of views

top 10 members with worst taste in fruit (#1 spot already booked by Sheehan)

here are the latest pics from my garage/greenhouse in NY. These plants help keep me sane during the long cold winter.

view into the garage through a window



view into the garage from the bottom of the garage



my jab- not completely happy- it drops alot of leaves every year in the garage even though the container is inside another container that doesnt have drainage holes and I water heavily every two weeks. it always grows all the leaves  back in the spring but it must take alot of energy out of the plant. i wonder if it needs  more humidity.



my sweeteheart lychee tree



one of the lychee bunches, including a rare double lychee





my largest lychee


one of the last two pannicles to open- unfortunately, its 100% female and all the older male flowers have dried up- so no pollen available to pollinate these females- its killing me. i should have stored some of the male flowers in the fridge so I would have some pollen to pollinate these females.



2 of my smaller lychee trees- the nearer one came from a harry airlayer- possibly kaimana- the one further away is a mauritius.


this is also a harry airlayer- possibly garnet- harry- see how the leaves are cut up like your garnet tree is


my Maha Chanok mango- was so scared that it would snap off in my hand!




all the other smaller mangoes fell off- but 3 new ones have formed (out of focus)


new buds forming where i cut off a panicle whose mango-lets had all fallen off


last mango bud about to open- presumbly also a flower pannicle



my PSM mango- looks very healthy but hasnt had a gowth spurt in about 9 months.


my golden nugget tangerine- fruiting for first time



couple of pommegranates



thats all folks!  hope you enjoy!

 

please feel free to chime in. I have already nominated Harry to start an online journal where he keeps a record of the flowering and fruiting performance of each of his lychee trees, and now, I figures, I may as well turn this into a series of tasks I/We should nominate Harry to perform.

the latest in the series is...
harry- i love the 5-6 mango tasting videos that dr crane has up at fruitscapes website. i think this season you should take a video of you cutting open and eating one of every mango type in your garden

after watching for years from afar, with saliva adrooling, i will be able to make it to this year's Fairchild mango festival. so psyched!.
anyone else planning on going?

im ordering 3 custom lychee airlayers from Oscar and as the minimum order is 4, i will round out the order with a mango-i asked oscar for his suggestions for a good tasting mango that can fruit in a container and he suggested one of the following.
please say which you think i should choose- i like my fruit sweet but with a definite hint of acid.

Julie (dwarf), Carrie, Neelam, Golden Glow
(sometimes spelled Golden Globe), Rapoza.

a minority of my lychee and mango bloom pannicles ended up not producing any fruitlets. is there any benefit to cutting these off the tree or should i just leave them to do their own thing. (they dont have any leaves on them)

bought a few pounds of passion fruit back to NY from Robert is Here. I'm in passion fruit heaven. I just cannot understand why it is not more popular. Especially compared to dragon fruit. It is 100 times more flavorful than dragon fruit, 10000 times more fragrant, the flowers are prettier and smell better. sure they can be tart if not properly ripened but thats true of almost any fruit

i have some bugs and or fungal disease on my tangerine leaves. i have a packet of alcohol wipes (70% alcohol) that i thought would be a good idea to use to wipe down the leaves. will the alcohol on the wipes damage the folliage?

last summer, whenever i ate tropical fruit, i planted the seeds - didnt keep track- could be mangosteen, jackfruit, passionfruit,  custard apple, canistel, pulsan.

any ideas?

mystery seedling 1-





mystery seedling 2

AM HEADED TO FRUIT AND SPICE PARK TOMORROW MORNING.
does anyone know whats fruiting there at the moment?
in particular, does anyone know if any of their jabs r fruiting at the moment?

considering this was a non fruit vacation- i have done pretty well.

have managed to pay a visit to the mecca of tropical fruits- harry's place where i got to taste black sapote for the first (and last) time.  got my family to stop off at robert is here for milk shakes- oh what a surprise, they sell fruit as well?
i picked up 3 pounds of passion fruit- purple and yellow ( i love passion fruit) , some asian guava which i had never tasted before and was quite impressed with, and some kent mangoes from peru which robert told me were amazing - i picked up a box and a half of the mangoes  and got home tasted one- very bland and insipid.  i asked robert if he had ever tasted Maha Chanok mango and he dismissively told me he wasnt sure because  there are 600 mango varieties. i wasnt very impressed with his answer-not much of a fruit person for someone who spends his life selling fruit.

tomorrow i head for fruit and spice park and then maybe pine island to pick up a plant or two