The Tropical Fruit Forum

Blackberries. My daughter and husband are them all before they were ripe and I could eat them.
Phlox paniculata. Not a fruit, but they have a nice taste.
Marigolds. Also boy a fruit, but tasty.
Cucumber berries. Pick them and pop them in your mouth while passing by or pickle them. Very tasty.
Mutinga Calabera. I didn't get to eat many because my daughter enjoyed them so much.
Kumquat. My daughter and husband were fighting over the ready ones. I can only imagine what they'll be like once I find and plant a Meiwa.
Okra. You can pluck it and eat it raw. It might produce year round for you depending on your temperatures. You can have beans vine up it as a bonus.

Legally allowing trees to be cut down for fire breaks and controlled burns would help the fires.

I call the next pack

Quote from: cassowary on January 07, 2023, 06:17:32 PM

What about setting up a World fair and have a real fruit tasting!
Then it all will be settled!

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Nectarine, apricot, pluot, and sweet cherries deserve a place in the world champion fruit taste test. I know with certainly they're light years better than citrus. Mango not sure. As with any fruit it's all about growing condition and peak ripness. Getting all the best together at once will never happen.

There are hybrids coming out that are fantastic. I'm really excited to get to eat them again when they come back to HEB

Your Cara Cara should have had a variety/rootstock tag on it when you purchased it.

It should be trifoliate like the rest, but it is super slow growing.

Generally you can harvest Early St. Anne from September to mid October, Miho and Brown Select from October to November, and Owari from late November/December to first freeze.

Perfect. I'll plan to get all of them 😊 thank you!

Um, I am in Houston as well and had a large grapefruit and blood orange diagnosed with HLB by Texas A&M a couple of years ago.  Harris County is in the quarantine zone for greening and while the trees you buy may not have the disease the Asian psyllid is here and can infect your tree as it did mine.

Thanks for the info. That's really heart breaking to hear.

Your owari must be on the right rootstock for great flavor.  The tree also must age a good few years before it will produce excellent fruit.  It should do well on PT or FD.  Seville sour is great if it is compatible.

Thanks. When I go next I'll see what they are on. Most of what I see here is on trifoliate.

Probably an Owari, but not sure.

Thank you. That's one I was thinking to get, so I'll pick one up and try it out. I've got room for a couple of types, so hopefully others chime in with guesses.

A friend in Lafayette has the best Satsuma mandarins I have ever had. The trees are quite large. He bought them from Home Depot at least a couple of decades ago. They are very sweet and the fruit is ready in January. The skin completely separates from the fruit when ripe. It is definitely able to survive freezes.

Anyone have any idea what variety this could be? Or another worth trying? There are so many varieties at my local nurseries I don't even know where to begin to try to get the same one.

Why are you buying them from someone instead of buying them from the store? Hong Kong Market and Heb have them. If you want to grow them they have been treated to not sprout, so you have to deal with that. I'm trialing a vitamin c (ascorbic acid) bath before planting.

Did you figure out how to manage tubors treated to not sprout? I'm really hoping I did it right this time by soaking them in water with ascorbic acid added (vitamin c capsules). The elephant garlic is definitely growing and very obviously doing well compared to the one I just soaked in water. No sign of growth from the purple and white sweet potatoes though.

I got one recently for the same reason. It was not so good that I fussed with trying to save the top, but it was a nice pineapple.
I do have the seeds in water though to grow them in case I win the lottery and get a spectacular and pink fruit