I've found that many people who have never tasted a mango are very pleased with their first one (if it's a good variety nicely ripened).
Those whose first experience was a bad mango can be very hard to convince to even try a taste.

If I'm working with good but not great mangos to share with friends, I'll slice them up, and add a sliced banana. It adds sweetness and mellowness.

Nice pics.  If a persimmon sets fruit in the winter, should it be grown mostly in frost-free areas?

I have the Winterset growing in a pot and it just fruited. Photo #1. The second photo is a group of a Florida grown fruits, the smallest one was grown by Jeff and the larger ones were store bought. I had lots of trouble growing Persimmons down here until I tried the Winterset. The bugs in FLA love Persimmon leaves and would devour every leaf of my Triumph tree.       

I've been happy with my Brewster (likewise the neighbors, the mail carrier, the garbage pick-up guys....)    But it would be nice to have a lychee with a better ratio of fruit to seed.
Any suggestions for good tasting lychees with chicken lip seeds?

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Many thanks for trying, gentlemen.   For now I'll try Ethan's idea.  It seems simple enough for a non-tech guy like me.

PJ,  can you buy these items locally, or do you order them somewhere?

(I can attest to the efficacy of PJ's techniques, unless he was joshing me about how long some of his trees have been in the ground.)

A Minneola tangelo might be good; they have a nice rich taste and lots of juice.  (unless his other orange tree is actually this)

Ooops      I figured you were joking about the price part.  I'm not sure if I've ever seen fruit trees in huge pots, so wasn't sure how transplantable, or how fruitful they would be at that state.   Is root pruning required?

Welcome, Ray.  Do you get any hard freezes in your neighborhood?
I gave a friend in N Ft Myers a couple mango trees a two or three years ago.  Both were killed by some cold nights.

Perhaps planting larger trees helps a bit with this?

Those peaches have such good color. When do you think they will be ripe enough to eat? Plus have you ever eaten a peach grown in PB County or nearby? If so can you rate it?

Growing peaches is completely new to me. I'll have to read up on it, as I don't have a clue when to pick them.   It's not clear in the photo, but these peaches are about the size of a half dollar. I don't think they will grow any larger. It's a small tree in a small pot.

The tree had fruit on it last spring when I bought it from a nursery in west Broward.  I tasted a couple and they were good. I think there is room for improvement as the tree grows, and if I thin the fruit.

I planted the tree in Venus (central Florida) in the spring. In November when it flowered I dug it up and moved it to Lake Worth for the winter.  I figured otherwise the tree would die in the hard freezes to come.

I'm going to replant it in Venus in the spring. I'm curious how it will do after such an early fruiting.

Did you take out that other mamey tree that never fruited?

No, I pruned the Pantin back after I planted one of the new mangos next to it. It's always been very sensitive to drought. I figured maybe its limited root system might do better with less tree.
Maybe some day I'll taste a Pantin.

During seed collecting trips i would save the last day or two for eating/washing/cleaning all the seeds i w

I thought you were going to say you swallowed the seeds whole, and then, ummm, recovered them when you were back in the states. 

The local place where I buy my fruit is called Doris Italian Market. Located in several locations in Broward & Palm Beach counties, they carry a nice assortment of Homestead grown fruits-veggies most of the year. During July, they sell some awesome Guatemalan grown Rambutans for $7lb.     

Good to know!  BTW, does Doris make a good cannoli?