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Tropical Fruit Discussion / ZDSC and dasyblasta
« on: April 18, 2025, 12:00:17 PM »
This year the ZDSC and Dasybalsta are incredible tasting! Sweeter than ever
I wish I knew what I did?
I wish I knew what I did?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lychee Season 2025
« on: April 18, 2025, 11:57:48 AM »
Bifenthrin is the only thing that kills the Sri Lankan Weevil. I tried the nemotode and it
didn't work for me. I did have less fire ants for a year. The weevils really like lychee leaves
The problem is after you kill the weevil than they have another cycle. If you spray the bifenthrin
for several months it would work except the weevil is on other trees including oaks. Even if you
wipe out the weevil in your yard then eventually the weevil will come back from your neighbor's
yard. The bifenthrin does knock them out for a couple months. I never spray if the tree is about
to flower. The Winter knocks them down also
didn't work for me. I did have less fire ants for a year. The weevils really like lychee leaves
The problem is after you kill the weevil than they have another cycle. If you spray the bifenthrin
for several months it would work except the weevil is on other trees including oaks. Even if you
wipe out the weevil in your yard then eventually the weevil will come back from your neighbor's
yard. The bifenthrin does knock them out for a couple months. I never spray if the tree is about
to flower. The Winter knocks them down also
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: April 17, 2025, 07:07:45 PM »
These taste amazing this year
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: April 15, 2025, 04:49:15 PM »Yes I’m back for more . Would like to get 4 red corg 4 orange corg 2 Che Norris , 3 am persimmons
Thanks Achetadomestica
PM sent
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: April 08, 2025, 10:34:51 PM »
add Dasyblasta 1.00 each unique flavor
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: April 08, 2025, 10:46:38 AM »
Fresh new seeds available
Orange COR $2.00 very sweet fruit
Red COR $1.50 large sweet fruit and very heavy producing tree
Loquat .75 good root stock fruit usually has only one seed
Orange COR $2.00 very sweet fruit
Red COR $1.50 large sweet fruit and very heavy producing tree
Loquat .75 good root stock fruit usually has only one seed
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: April 03, 2025, 06:19:26 PM »PM SentHello. Are the mulberry and white sapote cuttings still available? Also, have you successfully rooted white sapote? An internet search suggests it can be done and I'd like to try it if it really works.Yes the mulberry cuttings are available
I also have the white sapote available and I have never tried to root them.
Okay, thanks. I am interested in the mulberry cuttings and annona seeds below:
Na Dai sugar apple 1.00 Easy Peal 2024 seeds
sugarlata 2.00 my favorite, fresh seeds
Thai lessard 1.00 2024 seeds
cherilata 2.00 fresh seeds available
Red custard apple 1.00 fresh seeds
Mulberry cuttings $4 each
Shangri La
Tice
Dwarf everbearing
Black Pakistan
contorted
maui
When will you have Isan Indigo sugar apple, red wax jambu, and canistel seeds back in stock? Should I message you to order?
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: March 24, 2025, 02:56:59 PM »Hello. Are the mulberry and white sapote cuttings still available? Also, have you successfully rooted white sapote? An internet search suggests it can be done and I'd like to try it if it really works.Yes the mulberry cuttings are available
I also have the white sapote available and I have never tried to root them.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fertilization - Young Flowering Mango Trees
« on: March 16, 2025, 10:47:38 AM »
This year I went with slow release for my younger trees. I used Multicote 8
The NPK ratio is 18-5-12
I applied it a week ago. I was planning on hitting them again in May with the
same fertilizer. I also foliar spray with Kelp frequently sometimes once a week
or every other week. And last I also foliar spray Bio Wash 25 once a month.
Pinewoodflats your trees are very yellow
The Seaweed helped my trees darken up when I started using it last year and
also stimulated growth
I cut 3/4 of the panicle off of each individual panicle this year and only
left a small amount. I will cut the remaining 1/4 of panicle off April 1st
Hopefully the plants spent less energy on the flowers and are ready to
bust out with growth?
The NPK ratio is 18-5-12
I applied it a week ago. I was planning on hitting them again in May with the
same fertilizer. I also foliar spray with Kelp frequently sometimes once a week
or every other week. And last I also foliar spray Bio Wash 25 once a month.
Pinewoodflats your trees are very yellow
The Seaweed helped my trees darken up when I started using it last year and
also stimulated growth
I cut 3/4 of the panicle off of each individual panicle this year and only
left a small amount. I will cut the remaining 1/4 of panicle off April 1st
Hopefully the plants spent less energy on the flowers and are ready to
bust out with growth?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Eugenia sp "CDQ"
« on: March 14, 2025, 05:49:50 PM »
The two trees I put in the ground didn't do well in the Summer Florida sun.
I dug them up and put them back in pots in the shade and lost the big tree.
The smaller tree just started putting out new growth and looks like it will survive.
It sucks because the description said they love sun? I have had similar experiences
with other trees from Argentina and Brazil. June and July sun is intense.
I dug them up and put them back in pots in the shade and lost the big tree.
The smaller tree just started putting out new growth and looks like it will survive.
It sucks because the description said they love sun? I have had similar experiences
with other trees from Argentina and Brazil. June and July sun is intense.
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: March 10, 2025, 01:53:03 PM »Amazing selection! When do your different white sapote varieties fruit usually? Do they have different seasons? Thanks in advance!The white sapote have small fruit on them now.
Should be ripe around May-June if all goes well
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: February 25, 2025, 10:46:41 AM »
Fresh canistel seeds available
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: February 12, 2025, 08:52:36 PM »
I am starting to get fresh seeds now
I have fresh restinga and sabara jabo seeds,
The cedar bay cherries are starting to ripen if I can beat the birds to the fruit.
I also have some Florida pistachio seeds available. The tree has several different
common names. The genus is Jatropha and the species is curcas
It is listed as toxic but my tree is a 3rd generation seedling and is the non toxic type.
It tastes like a large sunflower seed. The seeds are limited this year and are $2 each
I have fresh restinga and sabara jabo seeds,
The cedar bay cherries are starting to ripen if I can beat the birds to the fruit.
I also have some Florida pistachio seeds available. The tree has several different
common names. The genus is Jatropha and the species is curcas
It is listed as toxic but my tree is a 3rd generation seedling and is the non toxic type.
It tastes like a large sunflower seed. The seeds are limited this year and are $2 each
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / seeds
« on: February 12, 2025, 08:51:39 PM »
SEEDS
escarlate 1.50 seeds available
red jabo 1.00 seeds available
sabara .50 fresh seeds
grimal jaboticaba 1.50 fresh seeds
white jaboticaba 1.50 fresh seeds
Restinga jabo 2.00 fresh seeds
Yellow jabo 2.00 SOLD
ZDSC 1.00 Zill's dark suriname cherry Seeds available
Dasyblasta 1.00 unique fruit seeds available
Pitangatuba 1.00 fresh seeds Seeds available
pitomba 1.00 SOLD SOON
rainforest plum 1.00 SOLD
Red grumichama 1.50 20 SOLD
Dwarf grumichama 2.00 10 SOLD flowering
Yellow Grumichama 1.50 tasty SOLD flowering
starfruit .75 from my grafted mystery tree Very sweet fruit
Sapodilla 1.00 Morena and Silas Woods available
American persimmon 1.00 from very sweet fruit
Blackberry Jam fruit .50 fresh seeds available
Avri Loquat 1.50 seeds available
Loquat .75 good rootstock fruit mostly has one seed maybe I should name it and market it? Not
sweet tamarind 1.00 sweet fruit
cedar bay cherry 1.00 sweet fruit, few seeds available
orange COR 2.00 Seeds available
COR 1.50 cherry of the rio grande large red fruit heavy producing tree
Nelita 1.50 E calycina similar to COR
Guapinhem 4.00 Eugenia zuccarinii flowering
White Sapote 2.50 Youghan's gold and Super sweet available SOLD
Black Sapote 1.00 self fertile SOLD
Red wax jambu 1.00 Juicy fruit SOLD flowering
red or yellow Jamaican cherry 2.50 per fruit
Canistel 1.50 SOLD
Ackee 1.50 SOLD
Cinnamon Apple 2.00 SOLD
peanut butter seeds 1.00 each SOLD
Brazilian Milkfruit 2.00 tasty fruit
Florida pistachio 2.00 SOLD
Na Dai sugar apple 1.00 Easy Peal 2024 seeds
sugarlata 2.00 my favorite, SOLD
Thai lessard 1.00 2024 seeds
cherilata 2.00 fresh seeds available
Red custard apple 1.00 fresh seeds
Isan Indigo 2.00 SOLD
red Thai sugar apple 1.50 seeds available
Tim atemoya 1.00 SOLD
Mulberry cuttings $4 each
Thai Dwarf
Shangri La
Tice
White Shatoot
Dwarf everbearing
Black Pakistan
contorted
maui
longan scions $4each
kohala
White sapote $4 each
Sue Belle
Super Sweet
youghan's gold
assorted cuttings/scions $4 each
Zill's dark suriname cherry
Red hogg plum
dasyblasta
Che "Norris
escarlate 1.50 seeds available
red jabo 1.00 seeds available
sabara .50 fresh seeds
grimal jaboticaba 1.50 fresh seeds
white jaboticaba 1.50 fresh seeds
Restinga jabo 2.00 fresh seeds
Yellow jabo 2.00 SOLD
ZDSC 1.00 Zill's dark suriname cherry Seeds available
Dasyblasta 1.00 unique fruit seeds available
Pitangatuba 1.00 fresh seeds Seeds available
pitomba 1.00 SOLD SOON
rainforest plum 1.00 SOLD
Red grumichama 1.50 20 SOLD
Dwarf grumichama 2.00 10 SOLD flowering
Yellow Grumichama 1.50 tasty SOLD flowering
starfruit .75 from my grafted mystery tree Very sweet fruit
Sapodilla 1.00 Morena and Silas Woods available
American persimmon 1.00 from very sweet fruit
Blackberry Jam fruit .50 fresh seeds available
Avri Loquat 1.50 seeds available
Loquat .75 good rootstock fruit mostly has one seed maybe I should name it and market it? Not
sweet tamarind 1.00 sweet fruit
cedar bay cherry 1.00 sweet fruit, few seeds available
orange COR 2.00 Seeds available
COR 1.50 cherry of the rio grande large red fruit heavy producing tree
Nelita 1.50 E calycina similar to COR
Guapinhem 4.00 Eugenia zuccarinii flowering
White Sapote 2.50 Youghan's gold and Super sweet available SOLD
Black Sapote 1.00 self fertile SOLD
Red wax jambu 1.00 Juicy fruit SOLD flowering
red or yellow Jamaican cherry 2.50 per fruit
Canistel 1.50 SOLD
Ackee 1.50 SOLD
Cinnamon Apple 2.00 SOLD
peanut butter seeds 1.00 each SOLD
Brazilian Milkfruit 2.00 tasty fruit
Florida pistachio 2.00 SOLD
Na Dai sugar apple 1.00 Easy Peal 2024 seeds
sugarlata 2.00 my favorite, SOLD
Thai lessard 1.00 2024 seeds
cherilata 2.00 fresh seeds available
Red custard apple 1.00 fresh seeds
Isan Indigo 2.00 SOLD
red Thai sugar apple 1.50 seeds available
Tim atemoya 1.00 SOLD
Mulberry cuttings $4 each
Thai Dwarf
Shangri La
Tice
White Shatoot
Dwarf everbearing
Black Pakistan
contorted
maui
longan scions $4each
kohala
White sapote $4 each
Sue Belle
Super Sweet
youghan's gold
assorted cuttings/scions $4 each
Zill's dark suriname cherry
Red hogg plum
dasyblasta
Che "Norris
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: seeds
« on: February 12, 2025, 08:45:31 PM »
I am starting to get fresh seeds now
I have fresh restinga and sabara jabo seeds,
The cedar bay cherries are starting to ripen if I can beat the birds to the fruit.
I also have some Florida pistachio seeds available. The tree has several different
common names. The genus is Jatropha and the species is curcas
It is listed as toxic but my tree is a 3rd generation seedling and is the non toxic type.
It tastes like a large sunflower seed. The seeds are limited this year and are $2 each
I have fresh restinga and sabara jabo seeds,
The cedar bay cherries are starting to ripen if I can beat the birds to the fruit.
I also have some Florida pistachio seeds available. The tree has several different
common names. The genus is Jatropha and the species is curcas
It is listed as toxic but my tree is a 3rd generation seedling and is the non toxic type.
It tastes like a large sunflower seed. The seeds are limited this year and are $2 each
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Low latex Jackfruit Seeds source
« on: February 12, 2025, 08:25:28 PM »
My trees are flowering now. Last year I had a couple fruit on one of my trees
that had 0 latex. Hopefully this Summer I will have fruit/seeds?
that had 0 latex. Hopefully this Summer I will have fruit/seeds?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone getting in the gardening frame of mind! What shall you grow?
« on: January 27, 2025, 11:32:28 AM »
I try to grow cherry tomatoes every year. I have 5-6 different kinds.
I start seeds in August and usually have tomatoes by Thanksgiving and I usually start
more around October to have fresh plants that get me through April.
I usually can give a baggie or two away everyday. I give them to people like the
coffee shop that gives me their grounds and the cricket farm that gives me their
frass and the post office people who lose my shipments. I probably give them to
50 different people and usually puts a smile on their face when they get a baggie
full of different cherries.
I also try to grow hot peppers year round. My goal is to have fresh peppers every day
of the year. Usually I end up with too many or none on the bushes. I have a friend who has
a pepper plant that is 4 years old that I call Fat tabasco. It is not a super hot but it
almost always has a handful of peppers I can snatch. She doesn't like the peppers.
Usually my pepper plants burn out after a season and I get more if I keep starting fresh
plants.
And last I grow a couple types of yard long beans. One is green and the other is purple.
It's nice because you can grow them all Summer here in Florida. I like to eat the younger beans
raw more than anything. I have 20 gal squat pots and I put a trellis in the pot that is 5'.
I put around a dozen plants per pot and it works out
I start seeds in August and usually have tomatoes by Thanksgiving and I usually start
more around October to have fresh plants that get me through April.
I usually can give a baggie or two away everyday. I give them to people like the
coffee shop that gives me their grounds and the cricket farm that gives me their
frass and the post office people who lose my shipments. I probably give them to
50 different people and usually puts a smile on their face when they get a baggie
full of different cherries.
I also try to grow hot peppers year round. My goal is to have fresh peppers every day
of the year. Usually I end up with too many or none on the bushes. I have a friend who has
a pepper plant that is 4 years old that I call Fat tabasco. It is not a super hot but it
almost always has a handful of peppers I can snatch. She doesn't like the peppers.
Usually my pepper plants burn out after a season and I get more if I keep starting fresh
plants.
And last I grow a couple types of yard long beans. One is green and the other is purple.
It's nice because you can grow them all Summer here in Florida. I like to eat the younger beans
raw more than anything. I have 20 gal squat pots and I put a trellis in the pot that is 5'.
I put around a dozen plants per pot and it works out
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What effect does prolong cool weather have on Mango bloom?
« on: January 25, 2025, 11:22:32 AM »
Unfortunately there is going to be allot of information this season to learn from.
I hope last night was the worst night?
My trees have been stuck in mid bloom for going on a month now if not longer,
In the past it seems worse when we are warm and then get hit with a nasty couple
nights. I am glad my trees were in mid bloom and not full bloom but we shall see
I hope last night was the worst night?
My trees have been stuck in mid bloom for going on a month now if not longer,
In the past it seems worse when we are warm and then get hit with a nasty couple
nights. I am glad my trees were in mid bloom and not full bloom but we shall see
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Need advice on mango tree/varietal selection
« on: January 23, 2025, 12:06:32 PM »
I don't like coconut and I like the coconut flavored mangos. They remind me
more of pina colada than coconut
The most important thing is that you like the flavor. I would consider
eating the mangos first before you decide which one to plant. Allot of people
rave about Lemon zest and I don't care for it. The Angie is also similar to Carrie which you already have.
I have over 20 different types and still feel like I could add a couple more.
It never ends
more of pina colada than coconut
The most important thing is that you like the flavor. I would consider
eating the mangos first before you decide which one to plant. Allot of people
rave about Lemon zest and I don't care for it. The Angie is also similar to Carrie which you already have.
I have over 20 different types and still feel like I could add a couple more.
It never ends
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: WTB annona squamosa sugar apple
« on: January 18, 2025, 08:42:05 AM »
pm sent
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wanted: Red flesh custard apple plant (Big Red, Fernandez, San Pablo etc)
« on: January 17, 2025, 08:28:57 PM »Hi,
Looking for red flesh custard apple plant. I grew up eating the green ones and didn't know there were red flesh varieties. Now that i know, i want to have/grow one.
I came across Big Red, Fernandez, San Pablo varieties when searching across the forum. There may be others and i'm open about trying any of them. Out of stock in LaraFarms.
Thanks
I have seeds available from this type of fruit. The tree came from Hopkins
They called it Red Bullock
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cordia taguahyensis - Brazilian Milk Fruit
« on: January 17, 2025, 08:01:24 PM »Nice, achetadomestica! I believe where you're at gets colder than my location -- have you done anything for winter protection? One of the seeds I got from you already sprouted.
I was 39F one night this year so far
I think we are close to the same temps?
I haven't had to protect anything so far this Winter
I see bees on the flowers
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