The Tropical Fruit Forum

Mangosteen is back at Foodtown FoodTown at Davie Ext and Sterling in Broward County! 
I just got 2 bags (2.2 lbs each $21 per bag.  These are the freshest ones I got since I started buying last year.  Skin is softer.  They are better inside too.   They have about a dozen bags left.

Foodtown brought in more Purple Mangosteen.  This time, just $15.00 for a 2.2lb bag!   I got there late...only 2 bags left as of 8:00am this morning. 

B2B;

It may interest you to know that the latest batch do not carry the Farmony lable.  I noticed they are much easier to cut into.  As I noted earlier they tasted much better than the Farmony set from a month ago.

UPDATE:

Ok, I just ate one.  As suspected it was previously frozen.  I could tell only because I had eaten fresh purple mangosteen as a child and even now at 47 I still remember the unforgettable rich taste.  This was much, much better than the canned mangosteen (poor comparison, really).  But...its only 20% at best the taste of the real fresh thing IMHO.  Still, it was worth the indulgence.  Even for 20% taste.

The outer purple "shell" is very hard.  I had to saw my way in the tender middle with a serrated edge knife.

The food tag says "Farmony.net" on one side and "Distributed by D.P. Trading Inc. Pn: 213-747-1679" on the other.

Yes, I.m noticing that as my cherry tomatoes are now in full fruit mode, the mocking birds are pecking off the ones they can easily reach.  I am considering netting.

Hi Rodney,

A local guy raises worms and claims that if you purchase his "worm castings/manure", it contains worm eggs.  He says if you put a small amount of this in the ground, the eggs will hatch and you will then have lots of worms in the soil. 

This sounds too good to be true.  Any idea if there is truth to these claims?

Brad

In your case, most likely...no truth whatsoever.  Compost worms don't survive is natural soils.  They need very high concentrations of organic matter ie: compost.  They will eventually die in natural soil.  Especially our crappy Florida "soils".  Unless your topsoil has a thick layer  of decayed compost, they won't survive.

 It is possible (though unlikely) you might get some Alabama jumpers in that casting mix.  These worms will invade a mature compost pile if exposed to the soil but prefer deeper topsoil.  They are soil earthworms that will tolerate certain composing situations.

I got some Jujube fruit an hr ago at FoodTown in Davie, FL.  It's the green variety.  I'm told its not as tasty as the red one but since I have a couple years to wait for my red tree to fruit, its close enough to hold me till then.



I don't know how often this is available in South Florida.

Anyone??

Anyone have an idea what this plant/fruit tree is:



Bears a little black berry in bunches.  Found growing in neighbor's yard after he bought the house.  Birds ate it so I gave it a try.  Pretty good!

Some pics of one of the air layers that took:




My neighbor's huge Sapodilla tree with fruit:

I have regular firm ackee seedlings along with the soft ackee seedlings tor trade also if interested.

I have a few extra seedlings of Jamaican Soft Ackee to trade 8-10".   Typically, the cooked Ackee fruit has a firm texture.  This Soft Ackee is a distinct variety of the Blighia sapida that when the fruit is cooked it is soft in eating texture. Below are the plants I want.  However, I will take other things not listed that are tropical...except Durian!

Here is my list of plants I'm looking for:
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Abiu Pouteria Caimito
Eugenia dombeyi (Brazilian Cherry)
Fagonia cretica
Tylophora hirsuta
Litchi chinensis (Lichi) - air layer or Graft
1000 Finger Bannana
Syzygium cumini - Java Plumb
Stelechocarpus burahol - kepel fruit
Theobroma grandiflorum - Cupuaçu fruit
Mountain Soursop (Annona montana) Annonaceae
Annona muricata - tree
Pedalai (Actocarpus Sericicarpus)
Allspice Tree (Pimenta dioica)