The Tropical Fruit Forum

So I'm pretty much too busy to experiment with all the pollen and if anyone can throw a cultivar name out there to cross pollinate for consistent bigger fruit from s8 I would be eternally grateful. It's a good flavor fruit if it's bigger than a gum ball. The size of s8 makes it very unattractive to me considering you could grow bigger/better fruits. I'm just shocked why it's so highly recommended to grow with such pathetic little fruits. Do you want to be the guy known for having little fruits? 😆 thanks

Just wondering if anyone is growing this one or been able to try the fruit? Looks good 😆

Figured I would start another thread welcoming people to add the link to your fruit tree videos for all of our entertainment.
I created a few shorts of some random plants so far. The grand tour would be quite lengthy so I'm trying to keep them fairly quick.
Here is the link to my jungle https://youtube.com/@Room_for_1_more_fruit_tree?si=ZqlNouSEocbEyEeJ
Anyone can post their link to their videos weather it be a farm in subtropics, gree house in northern USA or even a greenhouse in syberia. No need to worry about stealing a thread or whatever. I'm sure we all would enjoy seeing everyone's efforts and passions.
-happy growing everyone!

Just wondering if anyone in my area is successful in fruiting mamey sapote. Anyone have a cultivar to suggest? I'm in zone 10b just a couple miles from the border of zone 10a. Thanks for any info you have.

On my walk this morning I found this Rouge papaya tree that the animals planted but havnt looked at it in a while. It's growing in the shade of several pine and Sable palms behind the hedge row of clusias. Upon cutti g it open there weren't any seeds and never knew they could be Seedless. It's actually got less of a dumpster taste than the ones I planted. Small sized fruit though, maybe because it's in shade.

Just wondering if anyone has tried the fruits? Plant care recomendations? Supposed to be a native from Florida to Texas. Sounded fun so I ordered a cutting of some orange fruited kind.

Reason I ask is I'm going to make a trailer for a 50 or so gallon tank I can tow behind the lawnmower and use to do soil drenches of liquid fertilizer. I was thinking a gallon/tree would be ok for now. After testing the 15gallon spray trailer im sure this will save me time and effort. I was contemplating getting the 4 gal battery powered backpack sprayer and it was the same price (100$) as a 15gal tank with pump and 15' sprayer hose and wand so I went with the larger. Had an extra car battery to run the pump so I got a battery box from wallmart for 12$. The 4gal sprayer isnt large enough for my property without filling it several times and backpacking it around in the dark. Here's the spray trailer, worked super good! Added a hole in the lid, a small section of garden hose, pre-filter, and a quick connect so I don't have to stand holding the hose.

This was a 1/20 tree I had ordered the seeds in August of 2021. It did flower at about a foot tall last year so I kept it separated and a few others. 1 other is flowering but not setting fruit. I've not tried hand pollination either, shocked it's holding 2 fruit. Just more waiting and observing until judgment day comes.

Seems like it was labeled properly from the nursery since its flowering so much later than any other tree I have. I'm doubtful it will hold fruit since it's only pushing 5'. Still an exciting sight to see.

Good morning all. I made some of these racks to keep the rats from eating the emerging seedling. They work great! I'm just to the point where I'm done collecting the seeds and moving onto larger pots. I'm not looking to profit off them and willing to trade for some cool plant(s). I have 3 available now and 1 in use for the next year. They are made for tree pots and 3.5" pot grow trays. Thanks for looking. Have a nice day!

Just wondering what the water requirements are for flowering dragonfruit to set fruit? I have them on a drip line controlled by a manual valve. Typically 2 days a week is what I do, leaving it on for several hours after forgetting then turning it off. I will be adding a controller and some solenoids for the different zones soon. Thanks for any tips anyone has.

First off there have only been great people offering products and everything on the forum has been amazing and consistently easy/friendly. Ebay has been good to me, not 1 bad experience over years and years. But there really is a bad egg out there and it stinks of bad ethics. Let me introduce to you my worst purchase ever. (Let me know if I'm wrong, that plant doesn't have the opposit leaf growth as a maprang should have)
 Persea Americana Puerto Rico-etsy
Sells mango trees labeled as "gandaria" mango.
The definition of gandaria is a bouea macrophylla. I tried using translate from Spanish but it kept telling me the bouea macrophylla was gandaria. I tried giving the benefit of the doubt but now the small price for me will hopefully make everyone aware of the scam. The seller responds to my accusation of the plant not being a "gandaria" by saying "what did you expect, its a small mango".......it's not very funny but for f-s sake I expected a gandaria lol not a small mango. Grrrrrrr, this shop has to be the most despicable place to purchase a plant. That was my rookie mistake about 8 months ago.
Got any plant purchasing mistakes?? Go ahead and spill the beans........
Have a great day everyone and don't make these mistakes.

Good morning all, I am wondering if anyone has made a multi rootstock tree they could share some of the experience. Observed it growing much quicker? Do the  differing genetics in the rootstock help with nutrient uptake? I have lots of seedlings I've been collecting of mango, longan, sapodilla, garcinias, eugenias, and loquats for some experimenting.
If anyone has a picture of a mature multigrafted rootstock tree I'd really appreciate seeing its splendor. I suppose if nobody does I will keep a log and some pictures when the time comes to share the experience amongst the community. Thank you!