The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hey everyone just wanted to share a fun experience I had with flying fox fruits. He started a you pick type of live stream where you can see what's in season and he will build you a custom fruit box and send it your way. If you can catch the live stream it's really a lot of fun. He is selling fruits from his rare trees in these boxes so you can finally give them a try. In my box I got Sanford, white, scarlet and red jaboticabas, lemon drop mangosteen, echo sweet acerola cherries, jamaican cherry and miracle berries.

Does anyone have exp using cone-tainers? Seems like they could save me alot of space. Any pros or cons to these systems or advice on another brand would be great im on the fence right now. Looking at the 7" deep by 1.5" wide ones. Thanks in advance!

Grafted peluche loquat - $45 plus shipping [sold]




2 Eugenia multicostata -$35 each plus shipping sold

Looking to add a pineapple guava to the collection and not sure what variety (s) to grow. I have room for 1-2 trees hoping someone can chime in on what ones are worth growing and what ones are over hyped , due to my limited space id rather not find out on my own haha. Thanks!

First sabara flower!!!! Just noticed it today , tree stands about 4ft with the pot (5gal). So excited i had to share lol. Less than ideal spot kinda put in the corner but i guess its happy enough!

I hope everyone has a great holiday!!!! Its been a blizzard in buffalo the past few days so if everyone could just blow alittle warm air up here that would be great haha! Thanks to all the great people on the forum and i hope next year brings alot of new flowers to everyone!

Hey guys and gals! Headed to davenport fl beginning of dec wondering if any good farmers markets or fruit stands are near that area also nurseries or collections! (First time in a tropicalish place since catching the tropical fruit tree bug 6yrs ago) Not a great time for fruit but figure i can easily find something more odd than here in buffalo lol. Thanks in advance for any hotspots!

Hey guys got some rooted jolly tiger fig cuttings from a reverted branch (no varigation)  . $10 each (also open to offers). Below are a few pics of a couple plants

Hey everyone! Anybody know if pitomba could be grafted onto anything else but itself?

After months of fighting iv finally found a good way to get rid of thrips without any chemicals. Lady bugs and yellow sticky traps. I let loose 1500 lady bugs into my 5x5 grow room, i know it sounds like alot but they thin out quick after the big feast ,they dont eat any leafy material only thrips and other bad insects. The yellow sticky traps helped catch the thrips that started flying and didnt attract any lady bugs luckily. I run led lights with no problems of lady bugs grouping up around the light/heat. After a few days i noticed clean flushes and no more squiggles on new leaves. I will more than likely keep adding more lady bugs to keep all the insects in check! They will also eat scale bugs before they harden there is another lady beetle that will eat hard scale if anyone is interested its called Lindorus lophanthae. Iv tried green lacewings too for thrips with not great luck lady bugs are my goto! Hope this helps someone save some plants!

Hey guys i bought a 2 pack of honeyberries taka and willa. Not sure why they sold thoes 2 together as they wont pollinate eachother😑(take that me for not researching). Anyone have a tana and kawai layin around? Or any variety that would pollinate these? Thanks everyone!

Anyone have any grafted (maybe a decent age seedling) cherimoya and/or atemoya trees they are tired of looking at and want to sell?  something shippable and tasty hopefully! Not to picky about variety first ones ill be adding to my garden , will only have room for 1 tree of each.

Hey guys just looking at some of my red jabo seedlings and noticed one looking odd. Kinda looks like variegation but iv never been that lucky lol. If its a nutrient issue iv never seen it show like this. Its just on the new growth that i show in the pic theres light blotching on a 2 lower leaves.Any ideas?