Is American Beauty self-fertile? How about Dark Star?

Just to be on the safe side, moved in the following plants:

acai palm
jucara palm
purple mangosteen
borojoa

also brought in some cacao seeds that are germinating outside in pots.

leaving one jucara out to see how it fares with the cold spell.

Mine arrived the other day. Soaked in warm water overnight, and most were sprouted already by morning. thank you Carlos

Both of my Indian jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana) are flowering and fruiting right now. Do great without any chill hours. Fruit is delicious and refreshing.

Congratulations! Can't wait to try pitangatuba as well. My plants are about a foot tall, so it will be a while. How was the taste?

I expect a better crop, as will have 4 fruiting size trees this coming year vs 1 last year =)

Improve your odds and grow more trees!

Hopefully the weather and thus ripening will be better in 2018.

Mission complete. Picked up a 15 gal m casturi today. Big "THANKS!" to Squam256 for hooking me up with this hard to find beauty, and for the boxes of delicious mangoes this past summer. He has a beautiful orchard with all kinds of mangoes and avocados and who knows what else. Can't wait to order more mangoes to compliment our own harvest, and for blue mangoes sometime soon. 



...now on to the next missions...

Not sure about the book, but as for palms you might want to consider acai and jucara. Planning on trading out my araca palms for acai and jucara when they grow out enough. Beautfiul trees.  Hoping for fruit one day, but they reportedly are also good for hearts of palm.

still looking for plants and sticks of m. casturi, seeds too

That's good to know, as I haven't seen that distinct of coloration in new growth before.

A nice sized tree with new growth colored up like that would be beautiful.

This is a little kuini (m. odorata) that a fellow forum member was kind enough to share with me. The color on the new growth leads me to believe that "yes", several of the hybrids pictured must be of kuini mixed with mango. 

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