The Tropical Fruit Forum

Quote from: Orkine on April 16, 2024, 09:35:54 PM

Quote from: JR561 on March 20, 2024, 01:21:03 PM

I have one but its small so no flowers only growth this year.

A quick search will show many posts.  This 2017 post by Squam256 is not the oldest but is a great clue to where you could get the answer to your question.  I suggest you ask him, he is active on the forum and has been fruiting this variety for several years (since 2017).

Quote from: Squam256 on July 04, 2017, 12:01:23 AM

Julie seedling, produced poorly at Gary Zill's property. I have one that set very well for me this year; stripped most of the fruit offnit but left a couple. Sap Aroma is Gary-esque. Appears to be mid season.

Im guessing this means Im not going to keep this one since Gary is a few blocks from me.

Not necessarily. It may have not produced for Gary as a seedling but I would confirm the productivity with Alex now as a grafted tree. 40-26 and 40-17(great tasting mango but small also) are both at the USDA which probably save them from extinction since I believe Gary had gotten rid of them.

Anyone experience or know why new leaf growth on persimmon would wilt and die? It happened to part of the tree last year as well. Other sections of the tree look good and is flowering.

Cant remember if it's Prieto or Toledo mangos at Lara Farms are tiny. The ones I saw were smaller than chicken eggs.

My not so beautiful M4's.
They looked perfectly green 3 weeks ago and seem to hate excess rain when they start reaching maturity. My tree is in a very shady spot however it still produces well. Last year they looked better than this (I don't think we had as much rain) but two years ago they were full of skin cracks, splitting and scabbing as well. I've been picking 1 or 2 mangos a week for 3 weeks trying to see if they ripen properly before they start rotting on the tree.

Does anyone have an opinion about this?  If a mango is picked green and after one week it's still hard and green (well starting to show a little yellow), was it probably picked too green?  The mango in question is Karla, which is supposed to be a mid to late mango.  I'm thinking that Zill may still be picking their mangos too early, which has been a problem in the past with them.  You see 95% of the mangos in their office/shop being sold green with no color.  Also, I overheard another customer asking about a particular variety, and the lady in the office (who seemed uncomfortable talking to customers) said it wasn't grown by them.  Does anyone know who else they might get mangos from?

First year picking Karla from my tree and this appears to be another mango that needs to be picked green to avoid uneven ripening. All the ones picked when showing signs of tree-ripening all had the same issue. Once cut open, the bottom 1/3 of the mango was just mush. Curious to know if anyone else is experiencing this or not. I've been picking its "sibling" Fruit Punch, when the nose turns yellow and it has no ripening issues at all.

Never heard of Zebdid. Maybe it's the same as Zebda, but misspelled or pronounced differently? Which is a green Egyptian mango with good flavor.

Pretty much the only benefit of having rocky soil. Chops up weed-eater strings all day and blocks lawnmower banging.

They have both the dwarf fiji and dwarf Malayan at the F&S park. Julie is right, the dwarf fiji have a wider trunk and large fronds with minimal spacing in between. If you plant a small one it probably won't be and issue for several years but I guess it depends on how tall you are planning to let the trees in the back get.

Quote from: bulldawg305 on February 03, 2023, 11:03:07 AM

Quote from: Calusa on February 03, 2023, 09:34:44 AM

bulldawg305 - those trees do look pretty healthy. Have you eaten any fruit from them?

Yes, all the oranges I have tried have been sour and have used them as a marinade for cooking. However the grapefruit are the best I have had. They are full of seeds but very large, juicy with a pale flesh. They taste sweet and sour with minimal sulfur taste that most others have. The variety I found online that closest resembles these traits is Duncan.

OK so the Duncans are in good shape. But the oranges - do you think they are sour because they've come up from below the graft, or maybe planted from seed years ago?

No these are just sour-oranges seedlings in the wild, not an old citrus grove. It's impressive that when the rains come they survive several inches of standing water no problem.

Quote from: FloridaManDan on February 02, 2023, 12:46:14 PM

Quote from: roblack on February 02, 2023, 09:45:43 AM

Kumquats and fingerlimes do best from what I know.

My exact experience. May just be my luck, but my Japanese Yuzu (C. junos) is thriving; wont fruit for a year or two though.
Even though the variegated centennial kumquat had good bug resistance, I still replaced it with a container starfruit. Much easier to deal with.

As far as planting by oaks, supposedly best way to fight citrus greening. Has to be planted in the ground though, some sort of symbiosis in the soil or something idk. Likely will still require sprays.

I think the oak tree stuff turned out to be bunk but UF hasn't pulled their old news releases from the internet so the advice keeps getting circulated around. It's been years with no followup from them about it.

Not sure exactly how or why this works, but I have seen plenty of citrus growing in the understory of oak hammocks and swamps that are healthy. This is also within a mile of an old citrus grove where all the trees are dead or look like crap.






After seeing this, I finally got inspired to test it out and plant an orange tree under oaks. It's only been in ground for 1 year, and it actually looks healthy with dark green leaves. I have another planted in an open space and almost all the new growth gets destroyed by leaf minors. Also, for the one in the open, I tried putting a heavy oak-leaf mulch around it but seems to have no benefits.

I also have experienced essentially no mango production for the past two years with the 1 Carrie tree I have. Mine has flowered well and looks to be soon loaded with flowers again. I would wait to see how the fruit set is this year before top-working.

I've ordered 6 little plants from them and they looked healthy and arrived quickly.

Pineapple pleasure and Sugarloaf are shy bearers…period. Are they worth growing, absolutely. They’re a nice size fruit with amazing flavors. I am speaking from my personal experience in SoFla. I don’t have them in SoCal.

I harvested 19 mangos from my 3 yr old Sugar Loaf last year (planted from a small 7 gallon). I would say that was good production for a young tree. Also, no sprays were used.