My favorite fruit is the one i pick off my own trees dead ripe! Just about any fruit will be a blissful experience when done that way! 
That said it seems that my favorite fruits are the ones that are hardest to get-- have a very short season:
1) Lychee
2) Pulasan
3) Mango
4) Watermelon
5) Mangosteen, close tie with Royal Ann Cherries
 
Fruit i eat the most of and love, but never make it to my favorites list because they're always around:
1) Avocado
2) Banana
3) Coconut
4) Pineapple
5) Papaya
Oscar

Oscar

Have you had any problem with your pineapples sunburning? I have some white pineapples sent from Hawaii that I'm planting this spring. There are warnings on the internet that these can sunburn while ripening.

Sunburn usually only happens if the pineapple plant falls over and the fruit is therefore fully exposed to the sun. That is why they are usually planted in multiple rows, close together...so that the plants don't fall over.
Oscar

Wow, black sapote is that bad to you?  I thought about obtaining a grafted tree from Toptropicals or growing seedlings.  However, I'm reassessing if it's something I want to have because of the comments I've been reading here.

Rodney, don't think you should take lycheeluva's comments to heart until you taste the fruit yourself. Believe it or not there are people that hate lychees! Gasp!!! Does that mean lycheeluva shouldn't plant lychees?
That said black sapote rarely makes anyone's top 10 list (while lychees consistently do) and black sapote is a large tree. So if you have a very small yard it's probably not a good choice. But the real litmus test always is to taste the fruit yourself BEFORE planting.
Oscar
Oscar

Ok, seeing is believing Adam. I think those really are new buds coming out. Congratulations! Will be interesting now to see if buds stay on at such an early age? Possible plant could abort them.
Oscar
PS i noticed by accident previously that if you click the first enlarged photo from the thumbnail it does go to the original size photo, and then you can really see fabulous amount of detail!

Maybe you know the plant is pregnant before the plant knows it Mr. Pro man? HAHAHA If i was a plant i would be embarassed to have somebody look at me so much! 
Oscar

Swallowtail butterflies like to lay eggs on citrus and citrus family, like white sapote. Round thing could be an egg, but other weird shaped thing?
Oscar

I'm more likey to agree that you're obsesessed than that those are flowers. Can you do a super macro closeup shot of what you think is the flower in waiting? BTW, can you also predict who will get married and have babies, even before they are engaged? HAHAHA
Oscar

Adam, thought you might like to see these photos of immature Pouteria torta subsp. gallifructa, Sapote de Mico, fruits on the trees. I think they are way cool looking! Very different from any other Pouterias. Look more like rambutans.
Green fruit closeup on tree

Green fruit clusters on tree

Ripe fruits

Oscar

Oscar,
I am 100% positive that the photos I posted are achachairus that I ate in Recife Brasil, on April 4, 2011.  I am also 99.999% sure that they are descendants of achachirus from Santa Cruz, Bolivia.  The .0001 % error margin is because I was not in Santa Cruz, Bolivia when the seeds were purchased by my close friend Romero.  Romero is currently the biggest producer of achachairu in Brasil.

Hi Berto, what you may not realize is that ALL of the rheedia specias in Bolivia are called achachairu. If you look at the book Frutas Silvestres Comestibles de Santa Cruz (Wild Edible Fruits of Santa Cruz [Bolivia]) by Roberto Vasquez, then you will see what i mean:
Rheedia arubayensis is called Achachairu Largo (long)
Rheedia brasilensis is called Achachairu Chico Cascara Blanda (little with soft skin)
Rheedia laterifolia is called Achachairu Comun Cascara Dura (common with hard skin)
Rheedia macrophylla is called Achachairu Grande Cascara Dura (large with hard skin)
Rheedia sp. 1 is called Achachairu chico amarillo de cascara bland (little yellow with soft sking)
Rheedia sp. 2 is called Achachairu de Buena Vista chico cascara dura (Little Buena Vista with hard skin)

So yes, what you bought in Bolivia was definitely an achachairu 100%, but it was not the achachairu that we were talking about. The one we were talking about is the one above called Common Achachairu. I think they call it common because it is considered the best quality and the one most commonly sold.
From the photos in this book it looks like what you posted was Rheedia sp. 2, Achachairu de Buena Vista. Yes they have two Rheedia species that they realized were either unnamed previously or could not figure out the correct latin name.
Btw, this is a very nice book despite a few errors, like Rheedia laterifolia.  But it is difficult to get it, and ofcourse is in Spanish only.
Oscar

What??!!  You're not raising chickens over there??!!

Hi Jay, yes ofcourse we have chickens and we love them!    Unfortunately our dozen or so chickens will not produce the hundreds of pounds of chicken manure needed to feed all our trees. Also as much as i've asked my chickens to only poop around the drip line of the tree they demand to poop wherever they want.    We like to have them free ranging, makes for excellent eggs, but terrible manure production.

Quote from: fruitlovers on January 25, 2012, 03:45:52 PM

Usually they are used by large farms to pick fruit at perfect sugar content.

oscar, no disrespect but surely you cannot be serious when u talk of farms picking fruit at perfect sugar content- based on the fruit i buy from the stores, the farms pick fruit at just about the lowest possible sugar content so long as it will travel well and look shiny in the stores

Lycheeluva, i was perfectly (or imperfectly) serious when i said that. If you think about production of grapes for wine making then you have to have the grapes at just the right brix stage. Even for other fruits which are picked on the green side for long transportation to market the good farmer will want to know the perfect unripe stage to pick at to endure the many weeks from field to eating without rotting.
Oscar

Don't understand why the only way to get true TR Hovey papaya, which i've never heard of, is from tissue culture? If it's a hybrid then it should be possible to get the hybrid seed.
Oscar

That is truly bizzare. I wonder if it could be some type of egg layed by cateripillar or other bug? Does your camera do ultra macro closeups?
Oscar