The Tropical Fruit Forum

First sabara flower!!!! Just noticed it today , tree stands about 4ft with the pot (5gal). So excited i had to share lol. Less than ideal spot kinda put in the corner but i guess its happy enough!

I hope everyone has a great holiday!!!! Its been a blizzard in buffalo the past few days so if everyone could just blow alittle warm air up here that would be great haha! Thanks to all the great people on the forum and i hope next year brings alot of new flowers to everyone!

Hey guys and gals! Headed to davenport fl beginning of dec wondering if any good farmers markets or fruit stands are near that area also nurseries or collections! (First time in a tropicalish place since catching the tropical fruit tree bug 6yrs ago) Not a great time for fruit but figure i can easily find something more odd than here in buffalo lol. Thanks in advance for any hotspots!

Hey guys got some rooted jolly tiger fig cuttings from a reverted branch (no varigation)  . $10 each (also open to offers). Below are a few pics of a couple plants

Hey everyone! Anybody know if pitomba could be grafted onto anything else but itself?

After months of fighting iv finally found a good way to get rid of thrips without any chemicals. Lady bugs and yellow sticky traps. I let loose 1500 lady bugs into my 5x5 grow room, i know it sounds like alot but they thin out quick after the big feast ,they dont eat any leafy material only thrips and other bad insects. The yellow sticky traps helped catch the thrips that started flying and didnt attract any lady bugs luckily. I run led lights with no problems of lady bugs grouping up around the light/heat. After a few days i noticed clean flushes and no more squiggles on new leaves. I will more than likely keep adding more lady bugs to keep all the insects in check! They will also eat scale bugs before they harden there is another lady beetle that will eat hard scale if anyone is interested its called Lindorus lophanthae. Iv tried green lacewings too for thrips with not great luck lady bugs are my goto! Hope this helps someone save some plants!

Hey guys i bought a 2 pack of honeyberries taka and willa. Not sure why they sold thoes 2 together as they wont pollinate eachother😑(take that me for not researching). Anyone have a tana and kawai layin around? Or any variety that would pollinate these? Thanks everyone!

Anyone have any grafted (maybe a decent age seedling) cherimoya and/or atemoya trees they are tired of looking at and want to sell?  something shippable and tasty hopefully! Not to picky about variety first ones ill be adding to my garden , will only have room for 1 tree of each.

Hey guys just looking at some of my red jabo seedlings and noticed one looking odd. Kinda looks like variegation but iv never been that lucky lol. If its a nutrient issue iv never seen it show like this. Its just on the new growth that i show in the pic theres light blotching on a 2 lower leaves.Any ideas?

Today looking at some cuttings im rooting and noticed these tiny beetle like bugs on them, Quite a few too. The picture is the best i could do but from what i could see with a mag glass it had 4 white dots and hard to tell but possibly a brown line down the center of its back. They do jump when you try to catch them so that made this pic extra fun! There actually kinda cute looking but usually thats a bad sign haha. If anyone could id these that would be awsome! In the one picture its in a paper towel dimple to give you idea of size.

Thinking of trying to grow some persimmons in zone 5b. Will be a new exp for me. Anyone know a good tasting variety that will grow in my zone?  Thanks for peekin!

Looking for a smaller already fruiting jaboticaba able to ship to ny. I know its a tall order lol.