Anyone else have wind tolerance problems with their 'Coconut Cream' tree? This is the second time in the past few months that my CC has lost a decent sized limb in the wind when nothing lost anything.

I remembered a post on the forum a few months ago with Seadation's 'CC' that was broken at the graft line in the wind. I've never seen that happen before. Here's the link to the post and pics: http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=898.0

Anyone growing Platonia insignis? A friend sent me some seeds recently and I couldn't find much info about growing it online. Anyone have success growing it in FL?

Here is the wikipedia entry on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonia

Does anyone know what cultivar of ilama this is? It came from a grafted tree at Excalibur.

I ordered a box of mamey from Farm Tropical (www.farmtropical.com) a few weeks ago and I've been meaning to post a review of my order and the fruit quality. It was shipped USPS and I think I received it the following day. Even though it was not in shipment for very long all the fruit arrived perfectly ripe and if they were in shipment for one extra day they would likely have been over ripe. I think Farm Tropical accounted for short shipping time and included fruit that were riper. It was nice not having to wait a few days after I got the fruit for them to ripen.

I got 5 mameys and one avocado, I am not sure what cultivars they were though. I included a picture of the mamey cut open so maybe someone could identify it. I only made one milkshake and froze the remainder of the fruit. I cut them all open and put the pulp into a few zip lock bags and flattened them so they would be easier to blend later on.

The box came in good condition with no damage to it.


The box opened. Everything was packaged neatly and individually covered in the foam(?) wrapper. Above and below the fruit had paper as cushioning if I remember correctly.


Here is one cut open. Does anyone know what cultivar it is?


I used Noel's recipe to make an awesome milkshake.

http://www.custardapple.com.au/flash.html

Interesting video about Australian custard apples, or atemoyas as they are known here in the US.

Anyone know where I can get a Nadir avocado tree in S FL? If not a tree, then budwood? Thanks!

Saw this 5lb Lancetilla mango at Excalibur this weekend.

What's the largest mango everyone else has seen?

A few of us met up at Harry's house yesterday to sample a few more mangos before the mango festival this weekend.

We got to try: Lemon Zest, Maha Chanok, Imam Pasand, Mallika, Okrung, and a few others. The LZ wasn't fully ripe so it wasn't as good as it should have been. The Imam Pasand was probably my favorite of the day. We had a Mallika that was picked yellow from the tree and one that was picked green and ripened for 9 days. More people liked the one that was picked green.



Gerry brought some Lemon Zests and Orange Sherbets but the Orange Sherbets weren't ready yet so we didn't get to try it.


Grover brought peaches he grew in NY


Box of mangos


Orange Sherbert looks a lot different than the LZ


Anyone ever had the 05? It wasn't ready so we didn't get to try it.


We tested the brix on a bunch of the mangos but I forgot to bring distilled water to calibrate it and the numbers seemed to be too high on some of them. The Mallika came in at 24 and the Okrung at 26. I will have to test again once I calibrate it.

Here is a video of Clint cutting open a flattened jackfruit. It grew between the trunk of the tree and other jackfruit.

http://youtu.be/hApCMbiuXEA?hd=1

Anyone growing mauby trees? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauby

The bark makes a pretty good drink if you haven't tried it. I think different countries in the Caribbean make it differently so I can't comment on ones made other than Trinidad and Guyana. It's considered a FL native too I think but I don't know of anyone using it to make the drink here except for people from the Caribbean.

The drink is supposed to also help with hypertension: http://caribbean.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0043-31442005000100002&lng=en

Another article on its benefits: http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2009/12/091224_mauby.shtml

If anyone is willing to plant one in the ground and is in S FL, I have an extra tree in a 3g that I am willing to give away for free.

If you don't live in S FL, I have some seeds that I can share. I'd prefer to give the seeds to people who will plant the tree in the ground.

How To Make Mauby Drink.

In the book Five Decades With Tropical Fruit, Whitman says that he planned to graft durian onto South American sapote, IIRC in order to prevent the durian from being affected by Phytophthora. I can't remember what page I read it on but does anyone know if it was successful? They are both in the same family so it is a remote possibility that the graft would take so it would be interesting to try since Phytophthora is probably the main killer of durian in FL in cold temperatures was not an issue.

Does anyone in South Florida have a Fitzpatrick or a Fairchild 2 canistel tree that I can get a few pieces of budwood from?

Thanks!

I was looking for red chempedak seeds after seeing the post by Tomas about his red chempedak and I found this pic of a "honey chempedak": http://www.flickr.com/photos/assalabaqie/6943772950/#

It looks pretty good. Anyone try it before? It says its better than the regular ones.

This 'Excalibur Red 2' was grafted around Nov or Dec and it is barely over a foot tall and already had a male flower.

How does it feel Jay?