Quote from: Aaron on January 26, 2016, 01:31:17 PM

gunnar you need to adopt a cat. just make sure its spayed/neutered

I know right?  My wife is allergic  , but c'mon, this is fruit we are talking about!    I may need to find a way to keep one around the yard.  I actually saw a neighbor's cat climbing my banana stalks last night, so maybe with a better strategy (catnip?), I can lure them to the yard

I am allergic to cats (scored highest possible on allergy testing). We have 5 outdoor cats on squirrel patrol. I have no problems with allergies. We found the lean, male adult cats from the animal shelter are the best at controlling squirrels/rats/moles.

If you look at the pic at http://www.floridahillnursery.com/banana-tree-plants-c-3/musa-ice-cream-banana-tree-p-54
my fruit looks exactly like that.  Slight blue tinge to it, but not as much as the Blue Java that is really blue.  I stuck a blue and green piece of paper down next to the fruit I just cut off today and took a pic.  The fruit has a slight blue tinge, but not as blue as the Blue Java you sometimes see.

BTW, does anyone in Central Florida have a pup of the "really Blue Java"?  I would be interested in getting one to compare with what I have.

Your plants looked great!
I have blue Java in Sarasota. They taste very different than namwa. You may want to search ''Florida Hill' on the forum (and bananas.org)

Nice looking fruits, Geo.

you grow yellow passionfruit (P. edulis flavacarpa) in SW FL?  I thought they were a PITA to fruit here.  Do you hand-pollinate them?

I heard someone say that the purple doesn't do well here, but never the yellow. Our plants are covered in honeybees (which I guess aren't the best pollinators due to small size) and ants. I did hand pollinate each flower of the yellow with its own pollen this last time and the fruits were heavier.
The issue I have with the purple is crown root rot. My husband grafted possum purple onto the yellow and onto a red flowered ornamental to see how those do. I have one purple cultivar that seems much less prone to crown rot than possum purple (where we are anyway). The production of our purple fell after three years, so we replanted. Year 2 was the heaviest production. We have only had the yellow in the ground a year.

Things we have ripening now in our yard are dragon fruit, bananas, miracle fruit, sapodilla, starfruit, and passion fruit. Local friends have shared some citrus, jujubes, and avocados they have grown.

We are just a few miles west of I75 in Sarasota. I sent you a PM.

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We have Hua moa available

Wow! Chupa Chupa, one of my favorite fruits. Do you sell seeds?

Stuart, an inga edulis that I had in Orlando Florida held up well on multiple nights in the high 20's F. It seemed unaffected and grew well as soon as the temperature rose.

Are you certain it is Inga edulis? Where did you purchase it? I have not seen a true Inga edulis in Florida (with the pods over a meter).

Cinnamon apple plant/tag from our visit to f&s

Quote from: ftmyersfruit on July 04, 2015, 05:52:09 PM

The orange sherbet I have had in SWFL this year were incredible. I would love to find someone with grafting material.

Here we go again...   

We asked about the Orange Sherbert fruit being sold at one fruit stand on pine island and were told it is PPK (lemon meringue).

May be I got the wrong scion. One of the issues I have with the collection at Williams Farms is that there is little or nothing published so one has to rely on their memory. Mine is definitely not a seedless. Has any one seen the seedless from Fairchild is there a picture of it any where?
Mine is productive and decent quality it ripens in the middle of summer where we have plenty better.

The photo of the Juan Jose published by Fairchild is in my post above. That is also how Noris described it to us.

Since a couple of members have posted recently about purchasing Raja Puri bananas and receiving something different, I thought I would share this from the bananas forum http://www.bananas.org/f12/mislabeled-rajapuri-22183.html.

Perhaps there was a big batch of tissue cultured Raja Puri recently that was really dwarf cavendish.