The Tropical Fruit Forum

Looks like next Thursday to Sunday we may get 4 pretty chilly nights esp for late feb/early March ...upper 40s. What are the chances of 3rd bloom a few weeks after the cool stretch?

I'm also on second bloom for my trees like many here, and for one well established NDM tree in particular, I hoping for a 3rd as the first two blooms only covered about a 3rd of the tree.

Not sure, its the second year in a row  this has happened. Always in the fall when I stop watering ..a ton of leaves will start looking stressed all at once and after a couple days of futile watering they dried up and fell in mass.

So I've been thinking I over did it with holding back on watering. After that leaf drop I gave up  on getting any fruit this year but surprisingly its pushing a lot of flowers and also some vegetative growth in other spots. Which i dont mind, as I want the tree to fill out again and I suppose the tree will need some energy if it is to hold any fruit.

This winter has been very wet so lets hope this lets up for the mango bloom process. Regarding fungus etc.  In the last 15 days I think we have had rain in 11 of them.  I mow my own lawn and I really need dry grass to make it easier. Hopefully no rain or drizzle tomorrow.

My Carrie has the most blooms, then an NDM tree. I see some random blooms on other mango trees. None on Pickering so far.

So given these were conditions what should I be doing? I've sprayed sulfur a couple times so far...

I just went around and looked, my potted Maha Chanok is blooming. WTH? Doesn't it know the coldest part of the season is still a month and a half away? None of my in grounds are blooming and my potted Rapoza just seems happy to be alive so nothing there. In other weird flowerings I have figs on several trees that should have lost their leaves already for winter and some other trees that give us our FL fall colors haven't even turned yet. Weird winter.

Congrats!  By the way I don't think Mango trees necessarily need the coldest part of the season to bloom (Especially in orlando where it can dip near freezing sometimes). Cold/cool weather is a stimulus but not the only one, dryness, humidity drops as well as other things we may not understand can trigger flowering

Someone remind please ...for mango just starting to push flowers at this time, is it copper or sulfur to control/prevent fungus?

I guess some will call it a good problem to have, but I have an alano sapodilla I guess around 6-7 years old (from a 3 gallon). It's  around 7 feet tall, but the thing is it reached that height over 3 years ago.

Since then it's been in a constant cycle of fruiting and any growth has been negligible, occasional leaf growth. At any given time theres 20-30  fruit in various stages and it flowers every few months. 

The fruit are good, but I want the tree to grow. I try to push growth by fertilizing and other nutrients more regularly than I would, I've never pruned it just because growth is so few and far between. Any suggestions?

Oh I should add that it's technically on ground. But it was planted a 25 gallon pot partially sunken (to get around some HOA rules for the front yards) about 4 years ago and it's roots have long ago broken into the ground.

Quote from: Future on July 09, 2019, 12:30:08 PM

Quote from: gnappi on July 09, 2019, 10:01:25 AM

This year so far the flavor of the fruit from my Pickering has been underwhelming. The Glenn has gone from excellent to meh from fruits picked at the same time. The good ones are great.

My Julie seedling (Juicy Lucy) has been the best this year and right behind it the Madame Francis. Go figure.

How long did Juicy Lucy take to bear?

As a 4 year old (I think) seedling I got from a friend, it was only a couple of years. I grafted cuttings from it onto a store bought mango and the two I gave away have both fruited really well in less than four years.

Lucy is not affected by anthracnose like her parent, is extremely precocious and really needs fruit to be thinned to get larger fruits. My tree has not been top pruned and she's still under 12' tall.

The first couple of years the fruit was underwhelming, but now it's very good, the one graft I did I have knowledge of fruited this year and they are exactly like Lucy, juicy, sweet, fiberless and have the distinctive Julie "proboscis" :-)

Very cool, could you post a pic of the fruit? Plan on selling any grafted trees at some point?

Anywhere in Broward County I could get a couple decent sized scotch bonnet pepper plants?

Getting some inquiries and I'm happy to respond...

I just want to be clear first that I don't know if this is a true seedless variety, if it's just a temporary condition or whatever. The handful of sugar apples I got from this tree had no seeds, I figured maybe it just needed to mature or something...so with that disclaimer out of the way......

You dont need to wait till soft to pick a sugar apple...as a matter of fact I personally dont recommend it (the rish if insexts or vermin getting to it or the splat factor is great). 

Whether red or green type, it will lighten in color, especially around the sections, and the sextions will seperate.  If picked properly and hard, will soften up in a day or two and be perfect eating (exxept for the high seed count).

My sugar apple tree produces fruit with no seeds? How common is that?

Unfortunately that was a one off trip...no chance of shipping my way? Or do any of the local growers there ship to south Florida? I'm happy to pre-pay for shipping.

I think I’m going to move forward. I’ll put it on a fence line in case I ever want to section it off. I agree, they are beautiful trees, perfectly suited to our south Florida climate. I also have an affinity towards fruits you can cook with in a salt dish, like breadfruit, avocado, unripe jack, etc

Oh, and thank you all for the feedback. At the end of the day it’s on me, but my experience with the fruit is limited so I wanted some feedback

Sounds good, sectioning it off certainly doesn't hurt, as won't mentioning to you daughter when she can comprehend, not to eat unopened/uncooked fruit..it's something that was told to us as kids and that was that.

.Again I have never personally known anyone on the island to have suffered ackee poisoning or even any moderate sickness, having grown there up til  entering adulthood, nor in the 20 something years since while still being very connected there - and again trees are literally everywhere; yards, sidewalks and randomly at the side of the roads, schools, parks and public lands, whatever and wherever.

Nice trees..why not put them in the ground?