The Tropical Fruit Forum

What's a good coconut for north Florida ?

No chance in north or even central Florida for coconuts. There are a couple palms that look virtually identical (Beccariophoenix Alfredii is one) but none produce coconuts.

I think I got 4 for 4 with grafts onto mangosteen rootstock. Still too early to tell for sure but all are starting to push. I have one tree now with a male and female scion and also a mangosteen scion. The other just has a male and female cherapu on one mangosteen rootstock.

Quote from: Jsvand5 on January 05, 2017, 09:15:21 AM

Looks like my lychee flower spikes might get toasted on Friday. Hoping the forcast inches up a couple degrees

i just check the weather for Ocala, it's about same as mine (I gave up on checking the weather stations near me, because they are all about 5-10F warmer than me)...but for the last freeze they predicted 35F, we got 32F...you were probably at 28-30F if you're in a cold spot in Ocala.

I think this one is gonna be even colder.

I don't think I have hit freezing yet this season. My back yard is a little protected. I might put a space heater under the lychees but they are too tall to cover. I'm assuming the lychees and the jackfruit will get burned back some. I think the mangoes should be ok as long as the temp doesn't go lower than expected.

I bought a propane heater for the ultra tropical greenhouse.

Pollinated or too early to tell?

I want to grow Purple Mangosteen in my yard and I'm looking for advice on how to care for the tree like what size container would be good for a seedling for the first few years, type of soil that works well, and etc. Anything will help to give me some knowledge on how to care for this exotic fruit tree.

If you are trying to grow it in your yard it's not going to happen. Only chance in CA to realistically grow one to fruiting age would be to grow it in a greenhouse that never gets below around 60 degrees and have a system in place to control humidity. I am in Florida but I have not found the trees difficult to grow as long as the temperature and humidity are kept in check.

Alright Jay, next time you are in Thailand you need to buy one of these and bare root it so we can see what they end up looking like.

lets see picture of the whole tree

Not much to the tree. Just a recently approach grafted tree that's been in the ground a few months. I'll be cutting the flowers off once the leaves on the panicles harden off.

Flowers are opening. I'm assuming they are either female or hermaphodite but I can't find much online to compare

Hello, there is an arctic cold front right now, and my cacao tree still hasn't recovered from the horrid shock. Please help me and Give me Advice! The tree's leaves are completely silver, but the main stems are still ok. Help me Please

Thanks
Matthew

If you don't have it bagged I would do that to keep the humdity up and bring it inside next to a sunny window until the cold snap passes.

You would be fine in Merritt island

These seem to be pushing pretty quick now. I'm excited to see the sex of the flowers. There is about a week time span between the first and second pics. It is a grafted tree but I don't know the variety of the tree that the bud wood was originally sourced from. I'm hoping between this one and the seebabat I'll get some pollination and fruit set in the future. It's going to hurt to cut the flowers off this one but I'm hoping it might be big enough to hold a few fruit next season

lsu purple, lsu gold, smith, and Hollier are a few that do well. Most do pretty terribly here. You will more than likely never get an unsplit fruit from magnolia here in FL. Brown turkey is productive but one of the lower rated as far as taste. Most nurseries seem to call pretty much anything brown turkey though so you might get lucky. Just Fruits and Exotics has a good selection of figs that do ok in Fl.