nice mango spread. what lychee variety is that

whatever it is, damn that looks good.

wow- what an incredible kaleidoscope of exotic fruit.

cool pics

im obviously not a florida watering expert, but generally, the experts recommend to avoid watering as a fruit is ripening to avoid diluting the flavor. if it were me , I'd keep a close eye on my tree every day and not water unless I saw signs that the leaves were starting to droop a little.

Look delicious! thanks for posting.

ed- if u ever want me to ship anything new york to you in FL, just shoot me a PM and ill be happy to do so

Thanks for the all the kind words. Ed, just say the word and I'll swap my brooklyn stamp sized garden for your slice of florida heaven.
and while growing termperate fruit is great, i'd swap it in a second to be able to grow luscious lychees and juicy mangoes

You are killing me!

lucky you. they look like mauriitus but not sure. do u know which variety

these first few pics are of "orangered" apricot. this was grafted onto a non-productive peach tree and it took off. this graft is only 3 years old and should produce about 30 apricots this year.









here is shot of the tree. the pink blossoms to the left are a peach graft added to the tree a couple of years ago. if you look carefully bang in the center of the picture, you can see a couple of white blooms which are plum. he rest of teh greenery is apricot. none of the original peach tree was left except for the trunk.



this a cox orange pippin apple tree- unfortunately it has bloomed very lightly this year- although i get about 15-20 fruit every year from the tree, it has never thrived. not sure why- though i think it gets the least sunlight of all my trees which may explain it. if you look carefully to the right of the pic, you can see a green ribbon which denotes a graft and you can see the graft is blooming.



this is a mystery lychee airlayer made by harry. unfortunately it got badly sunburnt when i took it out of the garage. it has produced a few fruit which can be seen in the next pic.





here are quite a few pics of my golden russet multi-graft apple tree because the blossoms are so breath taking.













and here is a pic looking back at the tree from the back of the yard.



this is a hardy kiwi growing uo a pergola followed by a bunch of blooms just about to open. the foliage is also stunning and the leave sturn shades of pink and white. you can just see the color change starting to happen in the next pic.





one of my mutli graft cherry trees starting to form little cherries





delicious pink gooseberry patch





this was a nectarine tree but i removed one of the 2 main trunks and added a peach graft. so now the right trunk is nectarine and the left trunk is peach. this is another graft that took off like a rocket. the graft is about 3-4 years old - i will likely get about 50 peaches from the graft this year.



petite negron fig showing little figlets forming for the first of the 2 crops. the major crop is formed in the summer.





looking nice a nice muscat grape crop this year. excellent fragrant sweet grape but i have a hard time keeping the bees out when the grapes ripen and once the bees get in, it causes a tremendous amount of rot to set in. i lose about 70% of the crop to the bees/rot.



a grape bloom about to open



this is a nectacrest nectarine that I added a plum too. thats why you can see pink and white blossoms on the same tree.

One of our forum members noticed that I was hankering after some Florida mangoes and kindly offered to ship me some. He refused any payment for his time and bother despite making a special trip to purchase the mangoes and another trip to ship them. What incredibly kind and thoughtful people populate this forum.  Thank you.

Littlegrower...they were referring to pics from another Imbe thread I started a while back.

whoosh! right over his dear little head