@sultry_jasmine_nights - very neat looking pics.  You are correct re Logees.  There website specifically excludes Florida, among other states that they cannot ship to.

@BMc - very cool looking pics.  Do you have a source that will ship inside Australia? Your improved varieties are very intriguing.

@Zands - thanks for the lead, I'll follow up with them.

@Nullzero - appreciate the offer.  I'll check back with you later! 

Jacob, damn nice looking greenhouse!!  Not a weed to be seen anywhere!  Very impressive collection too.

The sugar-apple in pic #3 does not look like any I have seen before.

Adiel's got it.  Mennonites = Knaus Berry farm.  They have excellent shakes as well, just as good as Robert.

There are plenty of other spots to get fruit, however usually they specialize in only a few.  Going Bananas for....bananas!  They also have other fruit, depending on what is in season, such as lychee, canistel and a few others.  Lara Farms usually has mamey sapote and sapodilla.  Even Pine Island Nursery has fresh fruit available.  There is also a fruit & veggie stand across from the Fruit & Spice Park on 187th Ave.   Many locals will sit on the side of the road and sell what they have fruiting on their property, but more so during the summer (mangoes, avocados, lychee, longan, dragonfruit, etc.)  I also know a guy that sells jakfruit if anyone "needs" one.

Noel,  from what I hear, out of hand the canistel is better tasting,  and the lucuma tastes better in ice creams and maybe baked goods, but since I've never tried the lucuma, I'd like to give it a try.

Does adding iron chelate help with soil alkalinity?

Iron chelate would help with iron availability in an alkaline soil, but I don't think it will be the magic bullet that allows seedling green sapotes to grow in S. Florida.  Of course, I would not mind being wrong!  I base my thinking on the work with green sapotes done at TREC over many years, and I doubt that Drs. Crane and Campbell as well as Dr. Balerdi from the Extension Office would not have tried that over the years.  That would also be my rationale for canistel not being a better rootstock than mamey.  Having said that, even if they had tried that before and it didn't work, I would certainly encourage people to try it again.  Different rootstock characteristics, different soil conditions, all could play a role.  I would definitely like to see more green sapotes planted and fruiting down here! 

I understand that they grow lychee in the northern part of the country.  Besides, you are "OHIO"JAY, you can grow anything in any climate!    (Don't forget the durian!)

To overcome the alkalinity problem here in Dade County, they are usually grafted onto mamey sapote.  The large tree at TREC and most likely the one at the Fruit & Spice Park as well are so grafted.  I wish we could fruit lucuma here.      

Thanks to all for your kind words of encouragement.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some fruit.  Seeds will be made available if (when!) I get fruit.  Sorry Harry, no pic of the original fruit from which it came.  Seeds were shared by Dr. Coronel when he spoke at a Rare Fruit Conference (at the Fruit/Spice Park) years ago.  The only fruit I have seen in person were from Paulette's trees.  Red in color and similarly shaped to G. hombroniana.

Thanks Oscar, I'll take a look.   

Hi Harry, my maprang is flowering now as well.  Actually this is the second "wave" of flowers (I hesitate to call the first attempt of 2 inflorescences a wave! lol) this year.  It also flowered last year however not a single fruit set.  Mine was imported from Thailand and labeled "sweet" maprang, which I believe is translated as "Wan", though I am not suggesting that it is the cultivar 'Wan'.  With a little luck, we can have a blind taste test in a few months!   

Hi Oscar,  I did take a couple of pictures, which are attached.  I was with Chris Rollins at the time and he said he didn't know what it was and that what it came labeled as, it was not.  Its located near the jaboticaba grouping if anyone is in the area and wants to get a closer look.  I'll try to get more (better) pictures.  The taste was not really sour, at least when overripe.

Top 5 in no particular order:

Durian
Pulasan
Cherapu
Mango
Watermelon

That said, I'll eat almost any fruit (and there are LOTS of other fantastic fruit - tropical, subtropical and temperate) however two exceptions immediately come to mind:  Surinam-cherry and Noni!

I hate having to protect anything from the cold. If it can't handle the cold, it deserves to die.

Bite your tongue!  It's crowded enough here.  We do not need all those Northerners moving down when you take away their protection from the cold!