I live in the Ozarks,Arkansas and in the middle of the Ozarks forest is a Sam's Club with tons of champange mango's. I bought 6 boxes at $8.00 each.I planted a dozen seed's and they are coming up already. Question:  Is it worth growing in containers, are the tree's going to be big i mean big?Btw, they were pretty good for a store gought mango.
If this is not enough yesterday i went to Walmart yesterday and found several citrus tree's there,nice healthy tree's at $20.00. Red navel, Meyer,calamondin and a couple orange tree's.

When i took one out of the 3gls container because i thought that pot i planted the Xie shan in was too small and replanted in a 7 gls container i notice several long white roots allready develponing. The rootball it came with was well develop.
Harris must know what they are doing.

Adam,the mr.minh i got from you is starting to take-off,just hope it continue to grow like yours.The jabo is also doing well.

I have in my collection: Smith,negronne,stella,chicago hardy, l.s.u gold,salc and some unnames.Pul-up all my magnolia's, very large tree's and large fruits no taste.
I do have a lot of damaged from this past winter,because i am in zone 7 and they are all in the ground, ofcourse the potted ones are all ok.

Giombo,kiungsun ban si, Roya Brillianti, Sayo and a few different ones that have no names because last year storm i lost some tags/broken branches.
I also have a variety from Japan send to me 2 years ago(sionwood)from a friend of my of me who live in California who has this tree and have grafted them on native varieties(wild ones,they grow every where here on the property).
This one suppose to be very large and i believe them to be astringent,i might have a couple of tree's that have flower buds now. I have about a dozen grafted tree of this variety and i am very anxious.

After 2 years of complete silence on this forum i finally took the jump. I got a Mr minh atemoya from Adam yestersay as a start and had several citrus tree's from Harris citrus nursery delivered today. This company is one heck of a buisines and great people. I envy all you members living in zone 10 and grow them all without worries about weather. i always would like to move but i could not abandent what i am growing here in Arkansas and that is where the challence start.
I have read most posts but still confused, i keep on reading.My winter holding room is my old studio: 29'x16'x12'high. heat 70 degrees.
My tropical plants and citrus tree's are healthy looking and are outside now.I am looking for a few fruitree's that are easy to grow.

Can you guess what kind of persimmon this is? It is one of a kind,found it in the woods.

This is a converted stainedglass studio,with regular heating(72* degrees winter).Ceiling is ten feet high.
My manderin tree does not lose leaves and i am wondering about other tropicals wether it is ok to loose leaves at that temp.

I would sugest giombo first,i grow this tree eventhough i am in zone 6b/7.It has been a good grower for me.We had some cold winters and follow by droughts two years in a row,no problems. Very good tasting and if you like as.persimmon it is probable the best tasting in my op. Bob

Thanks members for your help, i was in Florida on vacation back in the 80's in the Naples area and like it a lot ,quite laid back. I don't know what it like now, but while i walking in the down-town area i saw large mango tree's everywhere.I said then here is where i want to retire to, then ended inArkansas. We are thinking to move to Florida, one member said Miami if you can afford,nothing fancy for me, small house with i/2 acre is plenty.Oh, what about mango thieves, we have open season here now,just kidding.

Spent 11 years on the island of Java, the town of Malang,Indonisia, thus i am very familiar with tropicals fruits. We had 4 acres of fruits describe on this forum.I like to add a mango variety that we grew that we grew with the name of kwennee, it is pronounce this way, but is spelled different i believe, it has lots of fibre and taste totally different(a aquired taste).It is a large fruit and you have to peel it thick and make shure you don't mesh with it or you end-up with thick lips.

I retired in Arkansas, U.S. now and like to grow a few tropicals fruits tree's.I am growing a Page Manderin tree for the last 5 years and it is doing good and so are my pomagranates. As i read articles in this Forum it brings back sweet memories(tears that is). Maybe i can find answers on this forum.
Bob.