The Tropical Fruit Forum

Rooted Himalayan Red using Hormex, bottom heat 75F, humidity dome, and peatmoss seedling mix. However still getting less then 50% rooting taking.

Yeah Olosapos are good. I have a 8 year old tree in ground hopefully it produces fruit soon.

I have a Sugar Belle it's near oak trees in Florida. It appears to be healthy even though it only gets rain and is seldomly fertilzed. The Xie Shan and Yuzu did not do well, yuzu died and Xie Shan does not look as healthy.

Loquat and Dragon Fruit are both pretty bullet proof in containers.

St Lucie County is good if your closer to the river, intercoastal, or ocean 5mi or so. I grow all types of tropicals and subtropicals outside and get little to no leaf burn recently. Coconuts and mangos grow really well. Soil is sandy slightly acidic with a couple chunks of clay scattered at deeper depths.

Myrica cerifera is growing very well for me here in Southern CA. I have not looked for Myrica californica plants recently, recall it being more expensive and harder to find. The native plant movement in CA prices a premium on it.

I already have CDA and SJDK but this is a solid deal for anyone else


Never heard of buzzone. What’s the origin?

Buzzone is Italian, it is one of my favorite varieties. Flavor is really good and its production and pest resistance is very good. It also has the longest season of fruit production of all the figs I am growing. Dark fig and Mt Etna type. Should be a staple in anyone's fig collection. I rate flavor at 4 out of 5, production 4 out of 5, vigor resistance to humidity and pests 5 out of 5. Southern figs has a good thread on Buzzone Nero fig.

Yes your close to zone 9a. Check out "sunset zone" 8 or 9 in California may be closer to your climate and latitude.

I am surprised, I know higher elevation Maui is like southern california.

I am only growing Cipocereus bradei, have not had the fruit yet.

Quote from: nullzero on December 20, 2022, 12:53:19 AM

Jabo, White Sapote, Macadamia should all do well for you. Would also consider Psidium species and hardier Eugenia species. For annonas would go with Cherimoya and Atemoya. Longan should well long term.

Thanks for the suggestions! Good call on Psidium, do you have any favorites? I do have young strawberry and lemon guavas as well as whatever the white available from Four Winds Growers.
I really don’t know much about Eugenia yet. I have a couple Surinam Cherry that are doing pretty well. I had fruit from a friend and found it very interesting. Maybe I need to look more into this genus…
Macadamia! Dang! I hadn’t thought about that at all. Gonna need to give that one some consideration for sure.

My favorite Psidium so far has a Tawainese Emperor type seedling I tasted. Locally sourced the Diamond guava from Exotica nursery are really good. Large superior selections of Mexican cream guava and the Vietnamese green crunch seedless guava are worth it as well.

You have to be mindful on size of guava and ripening period. Some of these tropical large guavas like ripening into November and will slow or stall ripening on cool to cold weather.

I also like Psidium robustum from huertasurbanas,  I tried my first fruits this year. The flavor is unique and better then strawberry guava in my opinion. Any of the Psidium sp. That huertasurbanas gives good review of are probably worth trying.

On Eugenia sp. Surinam Cherry is a good one. If you like sour pitangatuba is another good one. I also like Eugenia luschnathiana. I hear good things about Eugenia lutescens.

I have a solo tree in FL, this one does well in frost free FL. I am not sure if I need another plant to get fruit.

I am hoping it is self fertile. I have tasted the dried fruit and it has a great flavor. I may try taking some cuttings and try to root it.

Jabo, White Sapote, Macadamia should all do well for you. Would also consider Psidium species and hardier Eugenia species. For annonas would go with Cherimoya and Atemoya. Longan should well long term.