We have one that was 4ft when we got it, it's about 9ft now and constantly pushing new growth year round. It's been just over a year and a half I'd guess. Still a fairly thin trunk. Inch and a quarter roughly. So I could see it getting quite large if unkempt.

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Thats badass.

Saltwater intrusion would be my concern with the 2" well on the property. Maybe send in a sample for chemical analysis before you use it on anything you care about. Any modern well drilled on PI shouldn't have an issue as long as you get a good driller and have a pvc double cased well (The requirement on barrier islands.)

They look cool but will definitely return to that spot again and again.

There is a 20+ ft fruiting Cuban Mangosteen at echo in ft Myers. The fruit is only OK. I would plant only if I had a lot of space.

What time of year does it fruit down there? Its been  7 or so years since I've last been at Echo.

Strip and prune right away. Hit it with super bloom (grow more 0-50-30 so you get significant bloom by April and hopefully fruits in sept .

What brand do you use for super bloom?

I saw that Russian listing on ebay. Its a really impressive plant. I'm curious to see if they will be able to get it to fruit at F&S.

I'm seeing heavy mango blooms from St Pete south to Sarasota at least.

I got 5 on it! Lol, sent.

Any chance of seedlings being available at the Manatee Fruit Tree Sale?

If you go in season around the Loop Rd in Big Cypress National Preserve just off US41, you will pass hundreds of wild trees, may out of reach in the water but easily 60+ on the roadside banks. I recommend just cruising and looking for fallen fruit. Yields aren't bad at all. Many spindly trees have 10+ fruits with 1 or 2 on the ground around mid august but early September is probably the ideal time. All the fruits I had were pretty tasty but incredibly seedy.

Hey, I was looking around on the internet and on the forum, Any recommendations for a Lorenzi style book on Asian fruit and nut identification? It seems like the quality and quantity of books drops pretty greatly once you cross the Atlantic. Most of what I've seen for Asian ID is pretty fluffy without much detail or diversity which I know doesn't reflect the actual case of  species diversity in that region. Can some one offer up some recommendations and prove me wrong. Thanks in advance and sorry for bumping this 3yr old thread back up the board. Any other books people want to add that were released in the last 3 years would be welcome too.

I would say books and fruits hold about equal footing in my heart.

I had some at fruit and spice park 2 weeks ago, I think I'm going to order one from going bananas! It's so dense and tasty.