The Tropical Fruit Forum

Is this the start of Avocado flowers? It seems to be an insane amount. I just got the tree at the end of summer, so I'm guessing it shouldn't be allowed to hold fruit. Is the process the same as Mangos--let the fruit get pea sized then strip off? Thanks!

What type are these? Thanks!

I suddenly have a lot of Barbados Cherries and wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to what to do with all the fruits. They're tasty right off the tree but I can't keep up. Thanks!

I have a Coconut Cream seedling whose leaves don't smell like a Coconut Cream mango. The leaves have kind of an "off" Indian-type (aka piney) smell. It makes me nervous the fruit won't be good. What do real Coconut Cream leaves smell like?

On a side note, I've gotten the widest range of leaf smells from my Sugarloaf seedlings. Some seedling leaves smell like pineapple-type mangos, some like Indochinese-type mangos, some like Indian-type mangos.

These are from Citrus County, FL. I'm guessing Hachiya or Saijo? Thanks!

Still assessing damage here. Was in direct path. During the first part of the storm, I saw a Papaya had fallen. I went out and cut down my remaining 3 Waimanalo Papayas in hopes they will survive via side shoots.

During the Eye, I went out and assessed damages up till then and charged my phone in my car. The second part of the storm was much worse than the first.

My garden observations at this point:

Seedling Mangos fared far better than the grafted Mangos. All were recovering from freeze damage and severe pruning post freezes, and the grafted ones had lost a lot of limbs and leaves in the storm. My biggest grafted tree (~7' Pickering) was blown over. It's leaning on a PVC stake now in hopes it will be able to get a grip again one day.

Grafted Trompo Canistel (~6' tall) did really well.

Jackfruits did horrible. Expecting to lose a bunch. Had some smaller ones that were somehow protected, so there's hope I'll one day produce a Jackfruit.

A couple exposed Sugar Apples had a serious lean to them. I've straightened them out as best I could. Still have to straighten up the Soursops.

My two Barbados Cherries were knocked over. I've since uprighted them.

Loquats held on but were treated to standing water for a few days.

Asian and Native Persimmons did really well, though they got naked.

Mulberries are leaning. Native Red Mulberry was pushed over, but I've got it upright again.

All Eugenia species did well. The only one to lose limbs was the grafted Zill's Dark. The native Eugenia axillaris all look as though they're thinking, "Hurricane? What hurricane?"

Star of the show, but not a fruit tree, is my biggest Silk Floss Tree (~8' tall). Though she lost her leaves, she has no lean and looks strong as ever. Beautiful tree.

All the smaller (less than 2') seedlings did well (Sapodillas, Cinnamon Apples, Natal Plums, Black Sapote).

I'm curious to know how others' gardens fared.

It was a horrible storm and I'm sickened and saddened by what so many went through and must recover from.

[These are no more]

Meiogyne cylindrocarpa seeds, seven in number.

$25 PayPal friends and family shipped to US lower 48, California (and Arizona?) at own risk.

If not paying via friends and family, price is $27 shipped.

I have five seedling Annonas producing this year. I lost track of the source for each, but the seeds were mostly Sugar Apple, but also Atemoya.

On two of my trees, which are located side-by-side, I noticed a purple-hued fruit, and recently discovered a greenish-colored fruit emerging. Here's the first set:




In the second photo, you can see both the green fruit (to the right) and the purple one to the left.

The tree right next to it also has two different colored fruits, though the purple is super tiny:



Is this normal?

Chris mentioned in a recent Truly Tropical video that what we know as Chokanan is actually a seedling version of the original, which is larger and tastes different. Has anyone had an "original" and if so, how was it? (Thanks to the generosity of Orkine, I was able to graft Chokanan onto my Ice Cream tree😊)

I bought the seeds from tradewinds as Flacourtia jangomas, but a forum member IDed it as F. inermis. I believe it's dioecious, and only have this one tree. Well, it completely defoliated after the freezes, and I started hacking it back and placed a Silk Floss Seedling at its feet that will hopefully eventually fill up the space. As an aside, the Silk Floss is named Bob Floss.

Anyhoo, I left part of the F. inermis up to have its defoliated limbs help give Bob Floss some filtered light till he grows into a Happy Tree, and low and behold, the branches started leafing out and now there are flowers.

I am not sure It'll fruit, and wanted to know if anyone has had the fruit and if the tree might be worth keeping? I've read the fruit can be astringent and sour and not sweet, and if that's the case, I will feel less guilty about hacking it back.

Done for Now

Here we have Rollinia seeds from a Painter Rollinia, by far the best Rollinia I've ever tasted.

And the fruit? OMG the fruit was HUGE. I don't have a scale, so I don't know if the fruit was 5 pounds or 50, but it was HUGE! Look at it on a pie plate! You've had pie before, haven't you? Pies are big! This Rollinia was HUGE! I like using pie plates instead of regular dishes because they're kinda like a hybrid between a dish and a bowl, eh? Like, you could eat a steak out of a pie plate or you could eat soup. I've done both. Unreal!

But we're not here to discuss the virtues of pie plates. We are here to discuss that Rollinia. You've probably noticed by now I've been speaking about the Rollinia in the past tense. That's because we ate it!

So now we have seeds I'd like to offer.

10 seeds for $25 shipped to the lower 48 minus California, as I'm not certified to ship seeds there. If I could I would. Only selling in lots of 10.

If you're interested in seeds and you're in the Punta Gorda to Bonita Springs north Naples area, I can meet up with you somewhere thereabouts.

If we meet locally, the seeds are $20 for 10.

I'd like to sell these all this week. 9 lots available.

Thanks!