The Tropical Fruit Forum

BLOOM UPDATE:
Here's my pickering, coconut cream, fruit punch (somewhat), and sweet tart in bloom. The coconut cream and pickering smell amazing! I didn't know that the coconut cream blooms could be so big, and the pickering be so red. I ve since clipped the blooms in half on my sweet tart. I don't want it to produce anyways it's too small. I've also recently added orange sherbet from tropical acres farm and plan to add more soon.

Sweet Tart


Pickering






Coconut cream






Fruit punch




And lastly my new orange sherbet


I don't know what the brown discoloration is, but hopefully it grows out of it. Maybe I'll get some mangoes this year! But before that, I'd like some advice on how many mangoes I can get out of pickering without stunting it. I have to keep my trees smaller, and if fruiting them heavily enough stops them from getting big quickly, then so be it. So any advice on that would be appreciated! I may also dig out either that papaya or avocado and plant the OS or ST instead. What do you guys think?

I can't wait until I get my handa on it! As soon as they come back in stock, It'll be grafting time. The minneola i have in my greenhouse is on khuharske which does poorly in heavy clay. So I'll take buds from it, and a gold nugget with other different varieties I'll graft on and make a cocktail tree to maximize space. Even if it recovers, I'll more than likely dig it up and replace it.

Here's that fruit from the guava that I harvest today next to an orange. The smell from this thing is incredible!

Does anyone know a source where I can get either a us942/897? Seeds from these would be optimal, or a rooted cutting. I've looked through various seed sellers and none of them have these two particular rootstocks.

I forgot to mention that I also planted those in March of this year. The bigger champagne i have looks like it's getting ready to flower but since it hasn't been in the ground for long so I'll just either prune it off or let it freeze off.

I'm in the western part of the state.

I'm still ironing that out. I've had this project on the back burner for a while until I got tired of lugging them in pots inside during the winter. But I'm going to put in more water jugs, add more bubble wrap, and maybe some Christmas lights on the more sensitive trees to cost heating costs down. I put the greenhouse plastic up in mid-March and didn't take it off until May.

Hello I'm not exactly new to the forum, but I've never made an account, only browed silently. So then I thought I show you guys the crazy idea I had of throwing everything I had in a container to the ground. Being in TN, we have heavy clay and areas of silt loams, but I got stuck with heavier clay.I grew citrus in pots for 5 years before I got tired of lugging them in and out of my house every winter. It wasn't until last year that I got into more tropical fruit like mangoes and went on a buying spree. I've labeled then almost in order, but I'm doing this on mobile so it's a toss up. But I have currently: Red lady papaya,  A sad minneola tangelo, Smith Red Blood, Sanguinelli, fukushu kumquat, brown select satsuma, variegated eureka lemon, nules clementine, pickering mango (the bushy one) Persian lime, Cara Cara navel, Valencia, Río Red, Coconut Cream (Somewhat spindly), Meyer lemon, Sweet tart (in pot), Super Dwarf Cavendish banana, Wurtz Avo, Fruit punch (tallest one) And finally the ruby supreme guava with some fruit. Some bonus scattered pineapples as well as guanabana I got from a nursery in Kissimmee went I visited FL. My greenhouse is a mess with random water jugs and bubble wrap to keep the heat in better during the cold. The propane heater is there only the coldest nights. All of these were planted in March of this year. If anyone has questions about anything let me know, I like learning too.