The Tropical Fruit Forum

Great pics and updates everyone! Still looking like a nice season.

Planted our 3 gal Sugar Loaf 4/2019. It held a few fruit last year, but critters beat me to them.

She's holding more this year:

I just shove several fresh cut sticks into dirt filled pots and water like crazy, dappled sunlight. Great takes. Wait till they grow a bit, lots of roots, then pull them up and separate the roots and repot. Can't recall ever losing one when repotting.

Thank you for all the info and the inputs. Just to clear up, i am not sure if there is a different name or kind of mangosteens but I have attached a pic of the mangosteen I have asked 2 farmers. Your inputs are very value and welcome. thanks

That is garcinia mangostana (mangosteen)

Getting some cool colors on new growth:

Adding kelp to livestock feed reduces flatulence. Seaweed good for many things.

Lots of stuff from Lance growing around here, lol!

Nice eugenia selection. E. caipora is a really beautiful plant, love it! 

Here's an update on my mangosteen project:

It's been a few years, and I've largely neglected this project. Occasional watering, and some experimentation with fert, but not much. Dry winter has wreaked havoc, and tree was looking like crap.

So I started watering and hit it with some good ole Oscmocote.

She's bouncing back!



Lots of new growth



Very motivated to start babying it.  New growth has triggered hope.

Amazing pics of paradise Janet! You have a great eye.

Gotta post some anole pics too. We have several kinds here, including the bright green natives.

Awesome photos! I need to get a macro lens, and I need to actually start using my digital camera. The cellphone is just too convenient though, when out working in the yard:







roblack, when I sent my friend pics of my first Passionflowers, he asked if they were real. After confirming they were, he dubbed them the Drag Queens of Flowers. I thought it a fitting epithet.

LOL! Hey flip!!

They are over the top =)

You can get a really cool macro for iPhone and Galaxy here, this is what I'm using (w/ iPhone 11 Pro Max):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A6D2JVI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

...super cool pics, really like the frogs. So glad we have better doors and windows now, they used to keep me up when it rained at night.

And what's going on there!? Bug Battle Royale?

Good to get detailed info like that sumognat. You should have a nice summer.

Happy to have found some guava and at least 1 m4 still holding. Trees are young and plenty to back them up, but really want these to start pumping out primo mangoes.

Anyone seeing flowers/frutis on m. casturi? Mine has been just sitting there for 2 years now. Not even the extended dry period (drought?) here in South Florida has triggered flowering this year. Gonna put a tv near it playing The Bachelor nonstop to see if that stresses it into flowering. Something has to work, or the axe. 

What's up All!

Having fun with macro shots of fruit trees and stuff, and wanted to share:

Clicking on pics and zooming in you can see more detail.

Gulf fritillary munching on p. nitida; I can't go for that, no can do!


Moved to monster passion vine, have at it.


Prickly pear flowers




Maprang leaf


Some pineapple



Share your macro shots of what you're growing =)

Nice fruit set Bov!

My Lil Gem cracks me up; tree is only 13.5 inches, and the inflorescence alone is 14.5 inches. Lil mangoes on it too. LOL!