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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What do you do with your Suriname cherries?
« on: March 03, 2015, 09:33:19 PM »
They make a good Brazilian cocktail. Cachaca, cherries, sugar, lime.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Creative Shading ideas for mangosteen and other garcinias etc.
« on: February 12, 2015, 08:38:05 AM »
I would plant a couple Moringas about a year in advance before transplanting. Moringa trees grow superfast and provide a nice filtered shade. Also, it would probably be easier to chop down and remove after several years then banana patches. Any artificial setup is going to have problems in strong winds.
Moringa is also easy to prune back with your bare hands and you can use the prunings as green manure.
Moringa is also easy to prune back with your bare hands and you can use the prunings as green manure.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jujube - Thai Giant
« on: February 10, 2015, 09:00:40 PM »
Our Thai Giant fruited this year and we love it, both adults and kids. Slightly smaller than a small Granny Smith, crisp, like a mild-tasting apple. And it was larger than I had expected: a good 4-5" lengthwise.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best SourSop Variety for Location
« on: June 21, 2014, 03:01:13 PM »
This is a neighbor's tree. I don't k ow what variety, but it seems to have a good ratio of fruit to leaves.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: June 11, 2014, 04:33:13 PM »My tree produces 400+ mangos. The problem is that birds, squirrels, and my beagles ruin many of them. There is a squirrel that takes up residence in the tree during mango season. The other problem is I get tired of the taste. Last year I was forced to eat hundreds of these since my other trees are too young to produce and my mature keitt and haden did nothing last year. This year the haden and keitt both have 75 to 100 but, of the young trees, only Rapoza is fruiting.
Do you have a dehydrator? All our family members have already "placed orders" for bags of dehydrated mangoes. I have no problem getting rid of anything we don't eat! There is never enough, it seems. Hence, the additional mango trees I've planted this year.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: June 08, 2014, 09:59:30 AM »Maybe there is a shelter or food bank nearby that would be appreciative?
Probably not a good idea... I know of a couple of businesses that used to donate to places like you suggested and someone always ruins it with a lawsuit because someone choked or got the squirts and a bellyache.
I'd throw them away before being the target of an ambulance chasing lawyer.
Harry is more of an authority on this because he practices in the personal injury area of law, but I don't think you need worry about lawsuits over mangoes. The businesses you mentioned delivered prepared or prepped food/produce. As the farmer, you aren't responsible for washing g and prepping the produce. That is the food bank's problem.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: June 06, 2014, 07:38:23 PM »I agree with Rob and Clint. I spend more time throwing them at my banana clumps then eating them.
Maybe there is a shelter or food bank nearby that would be appreciative?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: June 04, 2014, 11:07:55 PM »
To summarize the quality of Glenn as others have: it is a crowd-pleaser, for sure. All of my family and friends love it. What it may lack in uniqueness or complexity, it makes up for in simple, wholesome mango-goodness. No one is offended by Glenn. And yes, it is early-producing and consistently-bearing.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: June 02, 2014, 11:05:29 PM »I believe Katie's is about a year in the ground, year and a half at most, from a three gallon.
hahahahahahahahaha!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone kept their jackfruit tree pruned fairchild style?
« on: June 02, 2014, 10:37:24 AM »
I thought I've heard Campbell tell growers to not prune jackfruit until October. Has anyone else heard this?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2014 Jackfruit Festival at Fairchild
« on: June 02, 2014, 08:54:59 AM »the jakfruit samples will have been frozen during jakfruit season and defrosted for eating at the festival. does not sound too appetizing.
Every party has a pooper.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Moringa Oleifera flowers
« on: June 01, 2014, 07:50:55 PM »We usually cook our greens by steaming them to softness. Then we toss them into a blender with some olive oil, a clove or two of garlic, and perhaps some curry powder or cumin. The result is a purče. We use mostly kale, collards, beet greens, spinach, or broccoli leaves. Often we mix several of those together. This is also a way to include moringa in our diet. It is nearly impossible to get the tiny moringa leaves free of the tiny stems. So this blender purée approach serves to combine the moringa nicely into the kale or collards or whatever - both tastewise and texturewise
That is such a good idea! I had limited moringa to stews because of the stem issue, but now I see a lot more possibilities.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: June 01, 2014, 09:33:02 AM »
Here is an updated photo of the tree this morning.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: June 01, 2014, 09:05:56 AM »
Thanks. Har takes care of the shaping quite nicely. You will also notice from the photo that last year was a strange one for mangoes. See the blooms and ripe mangoes? I had 2 crops last year- easily 400 mangoes from that one tree.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Glenn Mango
« on: May 31, 2014, 09:29:21 PM »
My Glenn is a workhorse. We have lived in this house 4 years, I am guessing our Glenn is about 15 years old. Every year it produces about 300-500 mangoes without fail. This is a picture form last year. It is loaded right now but I haven't taken a picture.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2014 Jackfruit Festival at Fairchild
« on: May 31, 2014, 09:20:39 PM »
Exciting! I will try to make it- I love jackfruit.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Pugalicious Mango Tree in Oakland Park
« on: May 31, 2014, 09:16:17 PM »
Drove through Oakland Park tonight and took a picture of this gorgeous little mango tree. I think it may be Glenn. Whatever it is, it is a cutie.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: This is a Florigon?
« on: May 26, 2014, 10:26:09 PM »
Whatever they are, they are lovely. 
BTW Zands, your Sweet Tart budwood took really well. My VP top-worked tree has not produced this season, I assume because of the grafting work in the Fall, but I look forward to tasting Sweet Tart in 2015!
BTW Zands, your Sweet Tart budwood took really well. My VP top-worked tree has not produced this season, I assume because of the grafting work in the Fall, but I look forward to tasting Sweet Tart in 2015!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Effectiveness of Praying Mantis?
« on: May 22, 2014, 12:21:19 AM »
I agree that ladybugs would probably be most effective, even though the praying mantis is much cooler. Also, there are some issues with introducing foreign species of mantis that are endangering native mantises: http://nativeplantwildlifegarden.com/praying-mantises-which-are-the-good-ones/
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Salt tolerant fruit trees
« on: May 19, 2014, 10:23:26 PM »
I see a lot of sapodilla in the Keys.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado didn't set fruit
« on: May 18, 2014, 07:12:42 PM »
I didn't know that avocados were unreliable bearers! Good thing I picked up another avocado tree a few weeks ago.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Giant Matt Black Sapote
« on: May 18, 2014, 06:34:51 PM »
I bought mine just last year as a 3G, so I don't expect any fruit for a few years. It is about 3' tall, 3-4' wide.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Indian Jujube - growing 'sideways' (pruning question)
« on: May 18, 2014, 06:26:33 PM »Mine grew from a pencil thick twig to a HUGE tree in three years. It took me a whole day to get the trunk out of the ground when I axed it. It produced heavily and grew so fast I could watch it grow for real. The only thing was the fruit went from a bland green apple to a mealy rotted red apple with no stellar moment in between, add in the scant flesh and diamond hard seed in the middle, out with the axe!
What variety did you have?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rare Fruit Conference at F&S Park July 9th-13th
« on: May 17, 2014, 11:44:54 PM »
I plan on attending this year. Looking forward to it!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Indian Jujube - growing 'sideways' (pruning question)
« on: May 17, 2014, 11:43:54 PM »
I concur. Don't be shy with staking, re-staking, and aggressively pruning jujubes. Eventually the trunk will grow thick enough to support an upright growth habit.
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