The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yes, agreed drymifolia.

Getting back to the OP’s question.  Has there been any recent construction in your area?  It can affect the hydrology of the area. Retention ponds can drain the surrounding area while building up a nearby neighborhood can cause flooding in the older areas.

Usually, you let them fully bloom and then cut off most of the flowers.  Just leave some flowers at the base so it won’t send out more of them. Then, take them off if any set fruit. Mangoes set fruit based on cooler temperatures so I’m not sure what will happen in your climate with cooler nighttime temps for a large part of the year.

I had a Cempedak seedling slowly die on me even though it made it through one winter. I have another Cempejack seedling that has made it 2 winters and even came through in better condition than my grafted jackfruit but it is a much slower grower and only wakes up once the night time temps are in the 70s and lots of rain. I would agree that the Cempedak has a much less vigorous root system and grafting into jackfruit would be the trick.

I also finished setting up drip irrigation the week before it started raining as well 

I put a 1gal Sunrise in the ground a year ago. It pushed a growth flush this February/March and then started showing signs of bloom before all the leaves had even fully hardened off. Nothing had popped out as of last week but I spent the weekend with family and came back to this:


Of course, this tree is way too small to fruit and with no chance of cold weather, I cut it off hoping for several growth flushes this year. I have been watering this tree occasionally since it’s still very small so I’m not completely sure what triggered this bloom.

How often are you watering? Fertilizing?  That’s what the new growth on my lemondrop mangosteen looked like when I fertilized a bit too much.

Longevity spinach will handle full sun like a champ while Okinawan spinach likes it a little bit more shaded. These will take over an area and crowd out most weeds. I have them planted under most of my fruit trees.

Fwang Tung and Sri Kembangan have very different flavors. Both good. Sri Kembangan is more of the “typical” sweet carambola orange-y flavor. Fwang Tung is much more sweet lemon-y flavored. Fwang Tung is my favorite but I have both trees in my yard. They are both juicy and Fwang Tung gives a bigger fruit.

It was a surprise to me too. Maybe a combination of 33 degrees and strong west wind. It was a very small tree but it didn’t get all the way down to freezing here either. At least it’s coming back from above the graft.  My neighbor has a 30’ tall jackfruit which didn’t sustain damage so I do know that they grow here. 

Pedalai sounds like it needs a bit more of a tropical environment plus it gets huge. I hadn’t thought about green sapote so that may be an option. I’m also thinking about an ice cream bean.

I don’t have many spots left in my sub 1/4 acre lot but I’m borderline high density planting in my back and side yard.  I have a north-south line of plants in the back with a Cogshall mango on the southern side and a carambola 20’ to the north. I plan on keeping the Cogshall at 10‘x10’ and I’m looking for something to plant between them that is ideally higher-stratum to provide some shade for the carambola and not encroach on the mango. I currently have an Indian almond (beach almond) growing in this spot but it’s had dieback at the top when we touched freezing temperatures a couple winters ago and then hurricane Nicole broke it off at 8’ last year so I don’t think this tree is going to do what I want it to.

What other plants could I fit into this space in zone 10a Sebastian?  I’m not sure if I want another mango although I could let a seedling Turpentine shoot up to the sky and fill this spot nicely (I enjoy Turpentines).  This area is very well draining sand that I heavily mulch.  I’d like to hear your comments.


I already have:
PPK, Sunrise, and Cogshall mangos
Mai 1 and Red Morning jackfruits
Oro Negro and a really good seedling avocados
2 loquats
Barbados cherry
Everbearing mulberry
Miracle fruit
June plum
Bananas
Strawberry tree
Cassava
A variety of perennial vegetables

2nd year fruiting on my red hybrid. It bloomed earlier this year but dropped the fruit when it became hot and dry. Its trying again now for round 2.

This past December cold snap caused my parents tree in Jacksonville to lose all its fruit. They hit 25 degrees for 2 nights in a row and were below freezing for 12+ hours at a time. The tree, itself, was fine.

Yes definitely. I’m a couple miles inland in Sebastian and have a couple producing mangoes.