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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango blooming now.
« on: December 05, 2017, 08:46:45 AM »
Our Eldon has flowers now. Our friend down the road has Harvest Moon blooming.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: tropical fruit growers on instagram
« on: September 05, 2017, 06:56:43 PM »
Quote from: raimeiken on September 05, 2017, 06:29:29 PM
that last one isn't right, it goes to a model's page with only two photos.
Thanks! Should be correct now.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / tropical fruit growers on instagram
« on: September 05, 2017, 06:02:28 PM »
We use instagram as a way to upload photos when our fruit trees bloom/fruit - so we can look.back to see how they do year to year. Anyone else post their fruit/fruit tree pictures to instagram? Would love to see what others are growing.

Our page is instgram.com/sulcatagrove

Some pages which post lots of pictures of what they are growing:
Foxxotron
Floridafruitgeek
GrimalGrove
StarryNursery
GrowFoodFlorida
TrulyTropicalMango

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Not impressed with Ice Cream banana
« on: August 24, 2017, 11:31:31 PM »
Sounds like you let them get too ripe. When eaten at the proper time, the fruit is fluffy (not mushy) and delicious.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Sarasota FL, Looking 4 trees,Logan,Mulberry,Guava,Jack Fruit,Sapodilla,Sapote
« on: August 19, 2017, 06:07:22 PM »
Quote from: temecula on August 18, 2017, 11:29:26 PM
Hi. I'm in Sarasota, FLorida. Looking some trees to fill my new home. 3 gal is a plus.


Logan,Mulberry,Guava,Jack Fruit,Sapodilla,Sapote, Kaffir Lime.


Looking to buy

Thank you


I have 3 gallon mulberry, 3 and 7 Sapodilla (Alano, Molix, and Morena), Mamey (Viejo), Green sapote, White Sapote (younghans), and longan. Lots of other fruit trees and bananas too. We are in Sarasota near University/Tuttle and sell by appointment.
sulcatagrove.com
Sulcatagrove@gmail.com
Instagram.com/sulcatagrove

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tasting Mangos of 2017 in your Palates opinion.
« on: August 15, 2017, 03:57:47 PM »
Our Coconut Cream and Lemon zest Mangos were fantastic this year. CC was probably the best.

Also good this year we're our Valencia Pride, Fruit punch, PPK, and NDM

Ice Cream an Dot had some fruits which were great and others which had a bit of an off putting taste.

Our Cogshall fruit had a very off taste this year. One of my daughters thought it tasted like the fluoride varnish the dentist put on her teeth once.

We still have some Lemon Zest, Ice Cream, and Sweet tart mangos on the trees.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Not an Ice Cream banana?
« on: August 10, 2017, 10:07:22 AM »
Quote from: bsbullie on August 10, 2017, 02:55:11 AM
Quote from: mikemap on August 10, 2017, 02:51:30 AM
Looks 100% like namwa, not blue java. Lucky you--blue java is a great banana, but namwa is a thousand times better.

That is where tastes are subjective.   I would rather have a perfectly ripe Blue Java over a perfectly ripe Namwa.

I agree! My youngest daughter won't even eat Namwa now after tasting many of the bananas we grow - she says they are boring.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Not an Ice Cream banana?
« on: August 09, 2017, 06:56:03 PM »
If you ever want the real Blue Java, we are growing it in Sarasota. I find the fruit of Namwa is better for a longer period of time - keeps a nice texture. Blue Java has great, white, fluffy fruit when eaten at just the right time, but can get mushy when over ripe.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafting inga
« on: July 19, 2017, 07:41:54 AM »
My husband grafted an Inga vulpina scion (from Oscar) onto a two year old Inga vera seeking tree. Graft took and is growing well. It's certainly worth trying.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best dwarf banana varieties
« on: July 18, 2017, 06:38:53 PM »
Quote from: beefyboy on July 18, 2017, 09:49:21 AM
That is exactly what I am hearing as far as size of both Rob!  And what you said about Praying hands, I have heard and read that also.  It seems to be a bit of a pain to separate the fruit cleanly unless you know otherwise. A very cool specimen to have in the yard, that is for sure.  I am literally amazed with the fruit quality of Nam Wah in a smoothie, I just can't see another banana beating it. I made sure to get two different sources of Blue Java, just in case.

Praying Hands separates quite easily for us. It is one of our favorite tasting bananas along with other in the Saba subgroup.  It definitely not dwarf. Our other favorites are in the Maoli-Popoulu subgroup.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best dwarf banana varieties
« on: July 18, 2017, 06:33:36 PM »
Quote from: bsbullie on July 18, 2017, 07:48:19 AM


I think people abuse the word dwarf.  Just cause it has dwarf doesn't mean its going to stay small, its all relative.  Yes, the dwarf Namwa can get to 10 feet with no problem but compared to its taller non-dwarf which can exceed 15 feet, its a "dwarf".  The same goes for the Reds.

As to Agristarts and tissue culture mixups, I have only seen the problem with Ice Cream and Dwarf Namwa (which after the hiatus in producing the Ice Cream, problem is supposedly fixed).  Other mixups could be nursery driven...

I have never had any of my dwarf bananas sport tall or grow over 6' or so. However, I have seen many tissue cultured dwarf namwas grow tall with a smaller psuedostem - very different growth pattern than dwarf namwas which are propagated by pups. The dwarves have psuedostems with a larger diameter. Agristarts Goldfinger is another known issue a few years ago. People now refer to that as American Goldfinger. Red Iholena is another one which swemed to have sported with the batch 18-24 months ago.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best dwarf banana varieties
« on: July 18, 2017, 07:39:31 AM »
The dwarf Bananas we have which do well are Raja Puri (dessert banana), Dwarf Orinoco (cooking banana or eaten really ripe out of hand), Dwarf Red (delicious dessert banana, but ours take 18-24 months to fruit), dwarf Namwa (dessert banana). With all of these, if you buy a tissue culture plant, don't expect a guarantee it will be dwarf or even the correct plant. There have been mix ups with tissue cultures - whether mixing up germplasm or mutations during propagation. Ours are all around 6'. The dwarf red and dwarf Namwa seem the most notorious for growing tall after tissue culturing. Our original plant material was pups from friends. Raja Puri tissue cultured plants have been mislabeled in the past, but maybe the issue has been corrected.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Places to buy fruit and wholesale trees in Palm Beach Area
« on: June 27, 2017, 05:19:41 PM »
Thank you!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Places to buy fruit and wholesale trees in Palm Beach Area
« on: June 26, 2017, 09:23:00 AM »
Quote from: bsbullie on June 25, 2017, 10:10:38 PM
Quote from: geosulcata on June 25, 2017, 01:49:08 PM
I am driving my daughter to the Palm Beach area to go diving Wednesday and would like to pick up some fruit and possibly some wholesale mango trees while I am over there. Any suggestions of places to visit and if an appointment is necessary?

Do you have a nursery or landscape license?
Yes

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Places to buy fruit and wholesale trees in Palm Beach Area
« on: June 25, 2017, 01:49:08 PM »
I am driving my daughter to the Palm Beach area to go diving Wednesday and would like to pick up some fruit and possibly some wholesale mango trees while I am over there. Any suggestions of places to visit and if an appointment is necessary?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Banana Identification
« on: May 19, 2017, 07:06:52 PM »
Bottom and top right ripe ones look like burro/dwarf Orinoco to me.. To the left of those, maybe Raja Puri. Did Rane list any of the possible varieties? You could email him a picture and he might be able to help more, knowing what he harvested.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / MRFC - Annual Rare Fruit Tree Sale - May 21st.
« on: April 22, 2017, 12:47:33 PM »
Manatee Rare Fruit Council will be holding its annual Rare Fruit Tree Sale on Sunday, May 21st from 10am-4pm.
Same location - Bradenton Area Convention Center 1 Haben Blvd, Palmetto, FL 34221.
There will be around 20 vendors again this year.

We plan to bring some Dream cherimoya, jackfruit, mangos, several species of Inga (ice cream bean), bananas, passion fruit, mamey, caimito, spineless naranjilla, green sapote, and some other stuff.


http://www.mrfc.org/p/fruit-tree-sale.html

https://www.facebook.com/events/609238712588347/

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 'Sweet Song' Lychee
« on: April 14, 2017, 10:37:00 AM »
Quote from: SonnyCrockett on April 13, 2017, 11:07:07 PM
Wayne Clifton - katway@outlook.com.  He will also be at the Sarasota rare fruit growers plant sale coming up. 



The tree sale where Wayne (and many other fruit tree vendors) will be is the Manatee Rare Fruit Council tree sale on Sunday May 21st. More info at http://www.mrfc.org/p/fruit-tree-sale.html

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Multiple rootstock grafting
« on: April 13, 2017, 09:43:38 PM »
My husband does a lot of in-arch grafting of multiple seedling rootstocks on his grafted jackfruit trees. It seems to help push the growth of the trees.



(edited to post video)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Three Ingas
« on: March 31, 2017, 10:08:56 AM »
Great photo. Thanks for posting Oscar!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Three Ingas
« on: March 31, 2017, 10:08:23 AM »
Quote from: arvind on March 31, 2017, 06:22:25 AM
So which of the three taste the best and sweetest? Thanks for post

Out of the ones I have tasted, Inga edulis is my favorite. The pods are super long and the pulp is very moist and sweet.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can I grow Inga Edulis in South Florida
« on: January 29, 2017, 10:15:31 AM »
I have yet to see anyone with a mature fruiting Inga edulis in FL - but several other Inga species mislabeled as such. I have some small seedlings of Inga edulis that have done fine so far without protection.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for purple haze, natraul mystic and voodoo child dragon fruit varieties
« on: January 27, 2017, 10:10:40 AM »
I have Natural Mystic and Purple Haze (as well as other magenta flesh varieties) in Sarasota.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Question about effects of miracle fruit
« on: January 22, 2017, 08:55:51 AM »
If you are looking to reduce cane sugar intake and currently use sugar in smoothies, juices, or on fruit, it is a wonderful plant to have. I have a miracle fruit before my smoothies and before eating berries because they taste so much better afterwards. The best is making lemonade without any sugar - just fresh lemon juice and water. It tastes just like sugar filled lemon aid after one miracle fruit. I now make all my fruit juices without sugar - guanábana, mora, naranjilla.
They are easy to grow in a pot with peat moss and a little sand. Just water with rain water. I keep a shallow pan of water under mine. I add coffee grounds and compost from time to time.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango flowers before xmas?!
« on: December 16, 2016, 09:06:24 PM »
A lot of ours are blooming here in Sarasota. Last year, I think ours started  blooming late January or early february.

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