Here's pics of my Sweetheart

This year is looking good, several trees are blooming that had not or have not set fruit yet and others that bloomed lightly last year are blooming strong this year.

Green Sapote - A surprise bloom in the pot. I wasn't expecting this and had planned to keep it in a pot for a while but planted it instead... wait and see.

Makok Sapodilla - These bloomed late last year and the fruits have been slow to develop, but are delicious.

Winterset Persimmon - Third year flowering, so far no fruit set. Hope this year gives me some fruit

Sweetheart Lychee - First bloom this year and a growth flush drove the tiny fruits into oblivion :-(

Tropic sweet peach - Very small fruits the birds are getting while still green. I may bag them next year.

Lemon drop Mangosteen - In a pot so I have low expectations of it keeping fruit.

Fairchild #2 Canistel - Disappointing third year in the ground. The first year had a half dozen fruits it is healthy and growing but no fruit.

Mulberry tree - lots of new fruit... Delicious!

Muscadine Grape vines - First blooms on 5 vines, can't wait

Geffner Atemoya - Last year had maybe a dozen blooms and only 4 excellent fruits. This year it has dozens of flowers and has set many fruit :-)

Pineapples (5) all have little fruits on them.

My Gold nugget Jackfruit, Ruby supreme Guava, sugar apple, White Sapote and Excalibur Mamey STILL make me wait!!!

I got married!! Then fixed it by getting divorced!!,not before I watched 2 lawyers walk away with 10 years of hard work! Sorry I couldn't resist!!! Lol.

Only 10 years? You got off easy :-)

A few years back I bought a few guanabana (a.muricata) and a few sugar apple (a. squamosa, which are flowering right now) trees from home depot.  They all have tags from Pine Island Nursery, but I have no idea what cultivars they are.

 Does anyone know what varieties PIN supplies Home Depot with?  The tags just say "sweetsop" and "soursop", but no info on the variety.  Funny since all their mangoes and avocados from PIN have the variety on the tag.

Thanks.

I have a HD sugar apple in a pot and it gave me 10 or so fruits this first season I owned it. The fruits are DELICIOUS. Since the seeds are so much larger than those in watermelon I find the seeds to be no problem at all.

The fruits have been on the smallish side but I hope next year they will be larger.

As far as seedlings not being true to the parent goes, I read that growing seedlings is one way "new" cultivars are selected. I have a seedling Julie mango that is delicious and wouldn't trade it for a new designer cultivar :-)

Quote from: gnappi on August 25, 2012, 06:47:40 PM

I REALLY like Carambola, as much as if not more than Mango. Can anyone suggest what could be my problem?

Well.......first, I would suggest trying some better variety of mangoes.  If that doesn't work, I might seek the advice of an ENT doctor. 

Seriously......I've never heard of a carambola doing what yours is doing.  Any pictures of the trees?  Are there are obvous mineral difficiencies?  You describe the canopies as "dark green".  Could it be that they are getting too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus?  What is your soil like and what are you fertilizing with?

Harry

I classify mangos like sugar apple, nice, sweet, but like a box of chocolate, can't really enjoy more than one. OTOH, Carambola when tree ripened I can (and sometimes do) eat all day.


Anyway...

I think your observation on mineral deficiencies may be on the money. After starting this thread, I drenched the soil with micro nutrients and this weekend EVERY flower has started to turn to fruit. Now I'm faced with aborting some later on!!!

Quote from: gnappi on August 25, 2012, 06:47:40 PM

I REALLY like Carambola, as much as if not more than Mango. Can anyone suggest what could be my problem?

Well.......first, I would suggest trying some better variety of mangoes.  If that doesn't work, I might seek the advice of an ENT doctor. 

Seriously......I've never heard of a carambola doing what yours is doing.  Any pictures of the trees?  Are there are obvous mineral difficiencies?  You describe the canopies as "dark green".  Could it be that they are getting too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus?  What is your soil like and what are you fertilizing with?

Harry

First up, I've tried dozens of Mango cultivars, while delicious, they do not "quench" my thirst or satisfy me like a Carambola or sweet Watermelon. Sorry mango lovers, On a table I'd take cold Carambola over Mango any day.

My soil is great, a nice dark sandy soil. The last two seasons I had no problems. I fertilize sparingly with the fertilizer I get from Excalibur (with minors in it) and Fish emulsion. My lot has always had several inches of mango tree (the horror) mulch. Everything grows exceptionally well. My Bananas are full of fruit.

I've seen Jeff's Carambola with nearly white leaves from chlorosis with fruit all over it, I don't get it.

By tip do you mean, "Don't bet the horses" or throw coins at the base when they give up good fruit :-)

Or... Do you mean either cutting the top to control the height or cutting the branch ends to keep them from spreading too much?

My potted loquat is in a 3 gallon pot is blooming right now.

I agree with Harry.  The Madame Francis at Truly Tropical is much longer and more curved and very smooth, and the yellowing is not orange.  Very disease resistant and heavily productive.

I'm 90+% certain that it was grown from seed. The orange tint you see was from a reflection on the table, as the skin is totally yellow with hints of green. The one in my pic was one of the smaller ones, I sent the largest of the crop home with my brother. I guess that the largest were a bit over 7".

Funny thing, last year the fruit were not s good as this crop. I was going to dig it out, now I'm glad I did not.
 

My dog has dug up this jackfruit tree twice.  Any recommendations on how to get him to stop?

I have a sweetheart lychee and a 60+ pound dog that bowls everything over when we play fetch the stick. I added a circle of garden wall stones around it, problem solved.

Hi,

I just ate some Kari carambolas and they were so sweet and good.  Is Kari the sweetest varieties around?

Tomas

I have Kari, Bell, and Kajang carambolas and all are good. But from side by side taste tests with several people, all agree that the Kajang is the best. My Kari are best when the fruit starts to get brown "age spots" but before they fall from the tree.

Quote from: Jackfruitwhisperer69 on June 24, 2012, 09:19:59 AM

Hi Mike,
I really luv carambolas...They are not the sweetest fruit on the block...but, they are very refreshing and very exotic

Thanks for sharing

I really want to love carambola.  Not just productive and exotic, but so pretty too!  But they just taste like... well, nothing.  Like someone took a good tasting fruit, then took all the sugar and flavor out, leaving moisture-filled pulp with the flavor of fruit skin.

At least that's been my impression of grocery store stars.  Are any varieties better than others?

Buying carambola in a store is a waste of money, just like papaya. I have three cultivars and let them ripen on the tree, they're sweet, and juicy. My fave is my little Kajang, but I don't throw away the Bell or Kari either :-)

Hawaii either doesn't allow concealed carry or makes it nearly impossible I obtain the license if I remember correctly. Florida gun laws are much less strict.

I saw a multi camera indoor/outdoor security system for about $400 which captures and stores a ton of video on a large hard drive. Much more reasonable than in the past.

Brad

I'm torn about the ease of getting a concealed weapons license here in Fla. As a firearm instructor I see the worst of the worst "teaching" the class, the students get legal advise which is against NRA instructor rules, and few teach a real NRA approved class which is "generally" required by the state with a few exceptions. Add to that the state "proficiency" requirement is a joke and you get incompetent people teaching incompetent people with weapons.

Anyhow, I lost a lot of mangos this past week from thieves and the mangos were STILL GREEN, which means that they have patience to let them ripen. I did get to see them on my DVR security system. LOT of good that does, police have better things to do, hell, even when a crime is SERIOUS bleeding heart judges let them off with little more than a slap on the hand, trust me, I KNOW this first hand. 
 
The cameras will come in handy if they murder you though. :-)