The Tropical Fruit Forum

Man that Pouteria saliciflora looks crazy!  Great selection!

Fantastic drop!

Any left I'm interested

Quote from: Shovel n Seed on February 14, 2023, 11:42:30 PM

I so wish I could buy that restinga from you.  Beautiful tree

As Jimmy Cliff said, "You can get it if you really want..."

Haha I'm close to accepting that challenge.  I just made an 8 hour round trip to Port St. Lucie for a fruiting grimal and sabara

Bump! Just looking for more mangoes and any lychee. Also an jaboticaba scions like red and grimal. Coming from a fruiting tree.
Can pay or willing to trade for stuff.

I have fruiting red and grimal scions I could trade soon.  Do you have any fruiting jabos?

Yeah you would make the drainage holes as part of your form.  Styrofoam works great bc it's easy to remove. Also I'll see if I can get my friend recipe but he combines 3 ingredients to make light weight concrete pots. Big ones too

I've spent a decent amount of money on annona seeds without much success at germinating them, any good methods?

Keeping doing what you do Hapa Joe!

2/22 12:30pm

Pm sent

Quote from: Timbogrow on January 21, 2023, 11:20:50 AM

I'm no millionaire, dont insult me 😆 🤣 😂 I sweat like 6-600 shirts a day in the summer for these bill/taxes.

You already own your property. Buying it now you have to be rich.

Your best bet would be to buy an empty lot that is "scrub jay". It's going to be dirt cheap, because you can't build on it without paying through the nose. The property must be kept wilderness to preserve the bird. You could still plant a garden on it so long as you left it in a relatively wild state. I don't think you are supposed to chop down any large oaks. Theoretically it should stay pretty desolate as scrub land is mostly sand dunes and grass with a few trees on it. The bird needs the open grassy area.

You could camp on the land and plant some mango trees or whatever it is you want. I bought a lot online trying to do this and it had no road, just dirt trails and the neighbor attacking me and chasing me off my own property (which he did to everyone who bought property there) and the police wouldn't help me. So beware of those type of scams too.

I just feel it isn't worth the huge expense. You can just grow stuff in pots or use a greenhouse. If you buy land in the Florida panhandle or southern Alabama or something and build a cheap greenhouse- it's only going to get cold a handful of days out of the year. Most of the time you could just open the green house up.

Yeah I have 10 acres west of gainesville in Trenton,  FL. We bought in 2014 for 135k, and that's with the 3 bed 2.5 bath house.  Even though it's my dream to be able to grow all these sub-tropicals outside, right now and for the foreseeable future just building a greenhouse makes the most sense.

I'm actually constructing my first greenhouse now and will look into the NRCS program if I want more....ahh I guess the tropical dream will have to wait !

I do appreciate everyone's input!

I live in Miami near Homestead and the whole Miami area is very crowded.  Even Homestead is very crowded.  Yes there are farms/fields/groves, but it's still a very busy area and the city area of Homestead is very busy as well.  The quality of life here isn't good but the weather is amazing. 

Jaboticaba, I know last year was horrible but overall is Miami/Homestead still too far south to get good mango blooms?  Summer 2021 was still a great year for mangoes, I had many Glenn & Pickering mangoes.

I wouldn't even consider Miami just bc how busy it is there.