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Just ordered my first box for the 2017 season.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Category 4 Hurricane Irma
« on: September 05, 2017, 04:08:28 PM »
Well, I was supposed to be in the Keys for a week starting this Friday.  >:(
Guess I will be sticking around home waiting to see if I need to board up or help the parents with their house.

Hope everyone in the path stays safe.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 14, 2017, 04:20:48 PM »

The second has straight edges different from any cereus I've seen. Any idea what this is?





My Cebra has straight edges like that.



DM

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Here's a google earth pic ..



How do you know how current the Google Earth image is?
GE image of my house, shows a car in the neighbors driveway that hasn't been there for 2.5+ years. Street view image is from 2014, but cant find anything saying when in overhead is from.

Maybe the former owners of your new place drive by and cant believe you are filling up that wide open yard with trees.  ;D

DM

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For $12 I will sell you a DF cutting with the same odds of getting blue skinned fruit as the EBAY one which is zero.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: July 21, 2017, 03:46:12 PM »
Couple of dragon fruit harvested from the yard this afternoon.
Clockwise, top center is Dark Star, American Beauty, Mega Red (from Pine Island about 2 years ago), Dark Star, Dark Star.
Also got 6 large white ones (had about 60 white blooms on three trellises open over the last three nights).

Same Dark Star (1lb 9.6oz)

Same Dark Star


DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best dwarf banana varieties
« on: July 18, 2017, 07:16:17 AM »
I am planning on making a trip down to Excalibur tomorrow for an Atemoya and I figured while I'm there I should pick up a banana as well. I would ideally like a dwarf variety of some kind that can stay under 6-8 feet 10 absolute maximum. I would like something that makes an excellent fruit and preferably one that fruits as often per year as possible. I don't know much about banana plants but all my research points only to the dwarf cavendish variety and Excalibur has several dwarf options so any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

Sent you a PM.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: I feel like bragging a little
« on: May 27, 2017, 01:16:44 PM »
Yes, congrats on the student.
40 years back when I was in school, I don't think I ever got a B either, I was more of a C or C+ type of student  :D

DM

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Wish I had bought another one or two more.

The apricot looked interesting

Only six pitombas and we know where two are.  Good luck on the new additions Dave

All of mine in the ground already

I got my pitomba at last year's sale.  ;)
This year I got 2 pitangatuba's, a large coffee plant (flowering w/fruit), a june plum and a Ice Cream Bean for my sister.


DM

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Didn't PIN release 'Cantaloupe' 'Orange Crush' and some other fruity sounding named jackfruit within the past couple years?
For the 2015 sale, PIN brought those 2 and two others (can't remember their names) up. Didn't bring any of them last year.

EDIT: Found the list from last year. Only time I can remember have varieties listed instead of just "assorted".
2016 jaks:
Black Gold
Cheena
Dang Rassini
Golden Nugget
J-30
Orange Crush
Thai 2
(Just because it's on the list, doesn't mean it actually made it onto the truck tho, and sometimes varieties not on the list come off the truck)

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jackfruit and mulberry
« on: April 02, 2017, 07:57:55 PM »
Sure they are not just the male flowers turning black and fading away?

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bloom Fairy Coming to South Florida
« on: March 19, 2017, 02:23:41 PM »
My Peach Cobbler.


DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Are your lychees blooming?
« on: March 11, 2017, 01:30:45 PM »
My honey bees were working my lychee blooms today.




DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bloom Fairy Coming to South Florida
« on: February 25, 2017, 02:07:23 PM »
Not South Florida but Central Florida.
My NDM bloomed awhile back and currently has thumb size fruits.
Peach Cobbler did a small bloom about the same time as the NDM and it is now doing a heavy second bloom.
Lemon Zest is doing a heavy bloom.
Irwin is doing a small bloom, but it is still a small tree.
PPK is doing a fairly heavy bloom.
Coconut Creams, Mallika and Kent are all starting to show blooms.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Are your lychees blooming?
« on: February 25, 2017, 12:30:13 PM »
Both my Hak IP and sweetheart are blooming. The Sweetheart more heavily than the Hak IP at this point.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Halley’s Comet At Home Depot $6.95
« on: January 05, 2017, 08:59:46 AM »
I cant recall ever seeing a actual named DF at HD (or Lowes), usually just listed as red, white or purple.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Are you enjoying mangos from your freezer?
« on: December 31, 2016, 03:59:05 PM »
When freezing I usually just cut them in small chunks and freeze, then just eat frozen.

This was passed along to me, but I have not tried it.
Peel a whole mango, press wooden chopsticks into the ends of the mango (one at each end, tho 2 at each end would stop it from possibly spinning later).
Place in the freezer.
Once frozen, use the chopsticks as handle and eat away at the mango (a mango Popsicle).

DM

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Wouldn't it be super-useful if we could come up with a chart listing all the Zill introductions of the last few years, starting with Lemon Zest and Sweet Tart, and include fruit information, tree information, ripening season for South Florida, and a rating of 1 to 5 stars?  You know, all-the-information-in-one-place kind of chart.
Well there is this thread.
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=1586.0
Which has this list.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T5yroo6oqvsERObsP-LtgS_zX43TkEMcqtf4_CajGGE/edit#gid=0

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 7HotDates.com -- The Finest Dates in the US
« on: December 09, 2016, 03:56:14 PM »
I search for a while and found another site for Dates and Figs u can also buy by the 15lb box.
https://nuts.com/wholesale/driedfruit/dates/
Or here; http://www.dateland.com/
Their prices do not include shipping.

Nuts.com just buys them from somebody else and then sells them to you from their warehouse. I would buy direct from the growers like 7hotdates or dateland.

DM

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One of the many types of scale.
https://firstdetector.org/static/pdf/mealybugs.pdf

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hurricane Matthew
« on: October 05, 2016, 03:55:07 PM »
Something wicked my way comes.  >:(

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: September 10, 2016, 02:45:38 PM »
That's a box of gold at today's retail prices!
Or a 2.5 gallon zip-loc bag of dried dragon fruit.



DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 29, 2016, 07:14:55 PM »

DM How do you keep them so clean? Do you have a spray program?

Actually I don't spray them with anything, didn't do much (if any) fertilizing this year either. Can't say I have had a problem with them looking bad, other than some splitting after days of rain.

DM

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 28, 2016, 03:10:12 PM »
47 dragon fruits harvested today.
14 Physical Graffiti
13 Dark Star
10 Vietnamese Jaina
10 Unknown types


DM

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I have weeds coming through, especially those grass blades which connect to each other through the white root network running through mulch. It almost seems like a waste of time to even try and pull weeds since they come back within a week or two at most. How do we stop weeds here in FL? Our trees don't grow fast enough to shade them out.

Sounds like torpedo grass. If it is, good luck getting rid of it.

DM

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