The Tropical Fruit Forum

White Pirie smokes those other two taste wise, it’s easily a top 10 mango most years, top 5 last year for me. Ice Cream is unique but not even top 25. Lil Gem is very good, but not top 10.

I just came across Talinum paniculatum, common names are Fame Flower, and Jewel of Opar. The leaves taste just like the baby spinach I buy at Publix. It’s native to South and North America.

OFDSurfer, I was at your place 7 or so years ago, to drop off some 3 gallon Luc's garcinias. I remember you having jackfruit, is your tree still doing well? I've got friends that just moved to Indialantic and were wondering what tropical fruit they could grow.

Mine is in full shade under several mature live oaks, and is 12 feet tall and produces fruit 6-8 months out of the year.  I'm 15 minutes west of Orlando, in Winter Garden/Ocoee and winter temps haven't affected it all.  Each year the crop load gets larger, and the fruit also gets insect probing, but no larva in the fruit so far.

Dwarf Orinoco, Dwarf Red, Dwarf Namwa, FHIA 1, 2, 3, and 18, 1780, Mysore, Blue Java, Dwarf Iholene, Dwarf Brazilian, Apple, Pear, and Patupi/Kokopo are all good banana cultivars

There's some others, just can't remember right now

Seeds are gone.

I have Sicana odorifera (cassabanana) seeds for sale, $5 for ten seeds plus postage ( plan to send in small padded envelope). The fruit was harvested yesterday.

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I'm on the southeast corner of Lake Apopka, 15 minutes west of Orlando, on the border of northern Winter Garden and Ocoee.  My yard was 31 first night, 30 the second night, and both nights were fortunately fairly windy.  Those temps were at daybreak and lasted only a few hours.

All in ground mangos and one in ground Alano sap have no damage.  Some mangos are in the 5-6 foot height range some in the 10-12 foot height range.  Brought the entire potted collection inside the garage, except some 25 gallon sized mangos, figs, and sugar apples. No damage on any of the exposed 25's, just standard annona winter leaf loss.  25 gallon dwarf ambarella, stored in the garage is dropping all leaves, and will need 4 fruit bunches pruned away.  Banana collection had full foliar burn on specimens planted in full sun, ones under live oak canopy had no foliar burn.

Next door neighbor lost soursops, pigeon peas, and had extensive leaf loss on adult sized acerola and mangos.  All the leaf loss was on the lower canopies, most likely coinciding with sprinkler coverage during late afternoon yard irrigation each day.  I was curious to see how the wet lower canopies handled 30 degree temps. Not a good idea.
 

I took his class in 2012 while working on my B.S. in Horticulture Science.

They have onsite housing that was only $200 for the six week long class.  I highly advise staying onsite, as you can walk the grounds anytime.  There are a couple of non tagged old growth longan trees that you can eat from towards the end of class when the crop comes in.

Just call and talk to the program assistant at TREC to see about availability.

I figured I ate around $3k worth of fruit during my six weeks there.

I highly recommend that class, and he accepts just about anyone,  transient students as well.

If you plan on using plastic for the bed tops then also plan on doing lots of pressure washing or spraying sanitizers, due to algae buildup.

If I was building my own place, leaf wetness didn't matter, and groundwater is plentiful, then wobblers are the way to go.

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Has anyone had any success using potassium bicarbonate to treat powdery mildew or anthracnose on mango flowers? 

It is part of my shoulder season rotation for treating powdery mildew and some other pathogens in my mist beds at work.