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Tropical Fruit Discussion / My 'Sri Kembangan' carambola
« on: July 18, 2012, 03:20:00 PM »
Here's a small attempt to contribute something rather than just gleaning from everyone else's posts.  :D
I have learned a great deal about tropical fruit growing from you all and would like to share what I have going on.
We only moved into our house in April 2011, so my plants are still small, but I will try to do a photo tour soon.

My Sri Kembangan carambola has been growing fast, as expected. This was planted from a 3-gallon about one year ago. It's now about 8-9 feet tall.
I find it to be quite an attractive tree, if pruned/managed.  I have done some manual branch bending on this one to see if the branches would hang down, and it worked great. I ate one fruit from this tree last fall.



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I have a cutting of Natural Mystic dragonfruit (can't confirm 100% from having fruited it but I purchased it from a nursery and the label from Pine Island Nursery identified it as such). Info on this variety from PIN: http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/dragon/pages/natural-mystic.htm

I would like to trade it for a cutting of either Halley's Comet, Physical Graffiti, American Beauty, Purple Haze, or perhaps another self-fertile variety if you can convince me of it's worth in my yard  ;D.

These cuttings ship cheaply in Priority Mail boxes. I'm in Vero Beach, FL.



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My parents have a home in The Bahamas (Chub Cay, Berry Islands) and would like to plant a mango tree that would produce while they are there, which is roughly mid-October through mid-May each year.  A while back, my search for a mango that would bear in winter/spring led me to Choc Anon, but then I read about the downsides of this variety:

  • Not a reliable winter fruiter (at least in South Florida?)
  • Not a great tasting mango, just OK.
  • In order to maximize the chance of winter fruit, you need to strip off the summer fruit (which they wouldn't be there to do...)

Does anyone think that Choc Anon would perform differently in the Bahamas than in South Florida? Or would anyone recommend a different cultivar options for a chance at fruit sometime between mid-October to mid-May?

By the way, there is a fruiting mango tree on the property currently, but I don't know the variety. They were only able to sample it once when a neighbor froze some of the fruit for them to enjoy upon their return.


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