The Tropical Fruit Forum

Lol! I was scheduling a car to rent when taking a trip, and they had a "mystery sedan" and other similar options. Fruit of Mystery sounds good to me, and safer than car of mystery. Still waiting on Fruit of Misery to flower.

While you don't want continued leaf/plant damage, if you can wait 'til a nice cold snap comes along –one when the iguanas tend to fall out of the trees– then you could plan to police your area for the fallen of same said before the day warms up. (The smaller ones should be more susceptible to the cold.)

But eliminating them from your yard isn't a permanent soution but rather a stopgap one, because like with squirrels, nature abhors a vacuum and next season you'll surely have some new iguanas moving back into the now 'unclaimed territory' that you will have ccreated.

OK — HTH

Paul M.
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Thank you, that's a great idea and will hopefully work for at least a few. It's so thick up in some of these trees, they wouldn't fall all the way down unless perched on a lower branch. Going to try traps baited with papaya, mango, and hibiscus.

Have caught a few, when they get around the pool. The trick is to chase them into the pool. Then, follow them until they come up for air, and grab behind the head (and base of the tail) asap. Helps if you have something ready to put them in. Otherwise, you gotta an angry green clawed demon thrashing and whipping you, and no plan.

Noticed significant damage to several papaya plants; something is munching hard. Wondering what might be doing this, any ideas?










...I'm thinking iguana, but have never seen them eating papaya leafs, and the leaf stems don't seem damaged from the likes of a heavy lizard. They are notorious devourers of passion flowers, and are unwelcome in these parts for that alone. Time for a recon mission with the drones, see what's lurking up there.

They both are good mangoes, and I will happily eat RGs and DHs while waiting for the primo choices. DH is better to me, and RGs start to get boring after a while.

Glad to see you posting about your growing and fruit adventures, and love of chickens. Always great to see what other people are doing, and you have something special going on up there. Following

I have a hard time not overwatering bananas in pots. Might be a good idea to pop it in the ground, with fresh and well draining media.

Happy Thanksgiving Kaz and TFF!!! Very grateful for all the sharing of knowledge and plant material, ya'll brighten my days and yard.

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40's shoudln't kill a healthy mulberry, but will slow growth. I would bring it in when it's cold, till it gets established.

Plant medium looks strange to me. Garcinias can be finicky about soil and root conditions. May want to repot. Russells can get a pretty deep tap root, tall skinny pots work well with my small plants.

Pikmin games have lots of fruit, as does Zelda BOTW.

There's a native wild one that grows all the way up here.
It's good tasting just like any other passionfruit.
Super cool to see them up north like that

Send some cuttings! =)

Only need one tree. Fruit is okay tastewise. It is wonderful as a refreshing winter fruit. I've learned not all fruits need to be flavor bombs. Also, is medicinal. Anecdotally, my kid was suffering from growing pains, and when ate at least one jujube, no growing pains that night.