The Tropical Fruit Forum

What a coincidence! I am going to a native plant nursery this weekend to buy sunshine mimosa. I have 800 square foot common area that i don’t enjoy mowing and I thought this is a better solution than pouring concrete.
Glad to have found this thread. I thought it was as simple as burying the 1 inch plants in the ground. 

I had to pick an immature jackfruit from my purportedly Mai-1 tree. After a couple of days at room temperature, it became relatively easier to open compared to others that I’ve had.
The flesh was on the soft side, bright yellowish, and delicious. I love the balance between sweetness and acidity of the flesh, and I cannot wait to taste the ripe fruits!
There was some latex but not much. The latex was not super sticky and was easily cleaned from my fingers with vegetable oil.
I forgot to take pics to share this time. I still have about 16-17 fruits on the tree and will have pics when I pick them.

Hi Tom, do the squirrels eat the unripe fruits?

I don’t think they do. Experienced members please correct me if I am wrong.
In my case, I think the squirrels were attracted by the fruity aroma from the flowers. Or they were just just doing a fruit recon.

I’ve been nursing my bruised pride after a 0 for 10 mango grafting record. Not going to do any tree surgery for a few years and learn to be happy with what I currently have. Everything else will come from farmers market.
Focus for this year is to learn a more efficient watering, fertilizing, and spraying regiment. learning from fellow fruit tree growers is also/always a focus.

Winds continue to reduce the number of fruits on my trees. I’d be happy to get half a dozen fruits this year. The Fruit Punch tree has new panicles while trying to hold on to the last couple of medium-sized fruits. Odd.
I spoke to a couple of Thai mango vendors in from Clearwater/Tampa and they said their fruits were not ready to pick until next month.

Congrats! Sounds like you’ve hit the jackfruit jackpot.
Few years ago, I bought a piece of jackfruit at an Oriental grocery store in Orlando, FL and it did not have any latex; its flesh/pulp was pale yellow, not enticingly red like yours.  I was not into growing fruit trees at the time, and now I wish I saved the seeds. lol.

Thanks all. I did not know a dwarf coconut tree could grow to 60ft. My cabbage palm tree is saved, for now.

I planted a 6 foot Jackfruit two years ago, an unknown variety I got from a local nursery here in Merida. It's now 20 feet tall almost and that's after I looped 6 foot last year. This Spring it flowered for the first time and set three fruit, one of which is already huge. I'm not sure what pests are going to get attracted to it, particularly at night where we have possums, iguanas, and fruit bats, so I might need to put some fruit bags over the fruit to protect them.

I am not sure what animals are attracted to jackfruits; I guess a lot of them.
I saw a video where people are putting bags over their jackfruits, so we are doing just that after seeing the squirrels climbing up my tree.

Second blooming of Carie seems promising.
Cat Saigon is trying to hang on to tiny fruits after the powdery mildew outbreak.
Most mango trees in my neighborhood and nearby areas are stripped naked on all fruits, likely from PM.

It’s too early to tell for me, but this mango season so far looks better than the last one despite the struggle with powdery mildew. I need to do a better job with preventive sulfur spraying next year.
I was hoping my Pim Seng Mun would fruit, but powdery mildew had a different opinion. It may be better for the tree that we wait until next year.
My Carrie is having a second bloom, which is much much less than the first one.
I pruned my Maha and Cat Saigon in September and that multiplied the number of panicles on the trees big time. It’s relaxing to look at the big 3 mango trees full of panicles and small fruits. The Fruit punch tree recovered from the PM outbreak, it seems like it.
My other mango trees, less than 2 years in ground, also had panicles and I cut them off when small fruits showed up.

PM is pretty persistent for some trees after my latest attempt to wash it off. The fruit punch tree seems to remain clean but the Pim Seng Mun and other trees seem to be reinfected.
I gave the 2 y-o Carrie (bought @ 7 gal) a hair cut to get rid of the millions of dead flowers. Such an unproductive tree; it's interestingly immune to the PM problem.

Pim Seng Mun - PM remnant still visible


Fruit Punch

I've been dealing with bad scale and powdery mildew problems on my mango trees. My Pim Seng Mun is pretty much wiped out by PM.  Fruit Punch also got hit by PM but there are a few small fruits that seem to survive the attacks. Pickering, Valencia Pride, Cac also had PM all over them.  After a couple of sulfur sprays that did not seem to remediate the problem, i turned to the water hose method and so far the trees look clean.
My Cat Saigon started to have panicles and this got me excited.