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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is the best tasting avocado variety?
« on: October 01, 2023, 06:10:28 PM »
Regarding Florida avocados, a lot has been said in the past year about Dupuis, Kampong, Oro Negro, and Lara's Improved Pollock.  Mainly by Paul N. on his YT channel!  :)  The dude loves avocados.  My neighbor has an excellent seedling avocado, which probably came from Lula in my estimation.  (If I were to give it a name, I might call it Super-Lula.  It's larger than Lula with a higher flesh-to-seed ratio and less of the sweet flavor that a lot of people don't like.)  We stripped his tree about 2 weeks ago because the squirrels were damaging all the fruit.  If they had hung on the tree another month, I think they would have been unbelievably good (for a FL avocado).  I sure would like to see it grafted onto rootstock and evaluated further.  His tree is growing under less-than-ideal conditions.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can a Pickering of this size produce?
« on: September 27, 2023, 08:52:19 PM »
Quote from: DocTropical on September 27, 2023, 01:26:46 PM
One other question - I’ve noticed that the leaves on my Pickering are a much lighter green (almost lime green) compared to the leaves of most of my other mango trees. Is this normal or does it indicate an issue?

I planted it in ground from a pot about a month or two ago. It did put on a few healthy looking growth flushes while in the pot…
My Pickering tree always had very dark green leaves.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: HELP: Topworking 5-ft. Mango Seedling
« on: September 25, 2023, 11:18:27 AM »
Thanks for the advice, guys.  Do you think I should wait until spring?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Topworking 5-ft. Mango Seedling
« on: September 24, 2023, 05:52:09 PM »



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / HELP: Topworking 5-ft. Mango Seedling
« on: September 24, 2023, 05:50:42 PM »
If I wanted to topwork this 5-ft. mango seedling to a named variety (probably PPK/LM), what would be the best way to do it?  Where to cut it?  Wait for new growth?  How to graft?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is your favourite tropical fruit?
« on: September 23, 2023, 01:59:56 PM »
Quote from: Ognin525 on September 23, 2023, 12:32:02 PM
Torn between mango or cherimoya if u threatened my life right now I still couldnt choose lol.
Yes, that is a tough choice!  As far as range of flavors and growability, mango is the obvious winner.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Goldfinger banana question
« on: September 23, 2023, 09:42:18 AM »
My Raja Puri plant (very similar, I think) blossomed at the first of the year, and the fruit was ripe at the beginning of June, so that's five months.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can a Pickering of this size produce?
« on: September 21, 2023, 02:22:54 PM »
I say yes, too.  One thing you should know about Pickering is that it can set hundreds of fruit, but 90% of them will fall off, still leaving you with plenty of fruit.  Whatever your tree holds until maturity next season will be the proper number for a tree of that size.  I'd say you might get a dozen.  Exciting, isn't it?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this Atemoya or cherimoya?
« on: September 21, 2023, 11:30:00 AM »
Quote from: Mugenia on September 21, 2023, 05:26:48 AM
It's a cherimoya, Playa. Atemoya has mutant looking skin especially the African pride. Cherimoya has flat and symmetrical skin and bumps.
I didn't know that was an easy way to tell them apart.  What do you mean by "mutant looking?"  Rough, as opposed to smooth?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Just wanted to show my new setup
« on: September 15, 2023, 04:48:54 PM »
Quote from: edzone9 on August 13, 2023, 05:04:47 PM
Quote from: Stinkfist on August 13, 2023, 05:01:53 PM
Quote from: spaugh on August 12, 2023, 10:08:19 PM
Good setup for Marijuana

Haha yeah most of the stuff came with guides on growing marijuana lol

If the new cannabis law passes in 2024 Floridians will be able to grow up to 9 plants 👍🏼
For personal consumption only, I would imagine.  Sounds like fun.  VA has that law already.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Need a Few Members for New Fig Trial --- CLOSED
« on: September 15, 2023, 10:19:03 AM »
I grew up eating Black Mission figs.  They say there are better figs, but these were always amazing to me, eating them at various stages of ripeness.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One of my avocado selection
« on: September 11, 2023, 09:30:00 AM »
Quote from: Elijah on September 10, 2023, 09:21:16 PM
I have a real bad experience regarding avocado trees from FL and PR. They all died. I can give it a try one more time if it is worth to try though. I will buy it only during the winter season.
If I were in CA, I don't think I'd mess with avocado trees from FL or PR.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can you ID this avocado?
« on: September 11, 2023, 09:17:21 AM »
Quote from: Elijah on September 10, 2023, 09:08:12 PM
Quote from: johnb51 on September 10, 2023, 04:59:33 PM
Quote from: Elijah on September 10, 2023, 04:08:04 PM
It seems much bigger than Hass so it may not be Lamb Hass. Could it be some kind of Pinkerton's off spring?
Does Pinkerton ever get that fat?

I don't know but when it grows out from a seedling it can be something very different and wild.
Right, you did say "offspring."

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Varieties : Dwarf / Smaller Footprint / High Density Planting ?
« on: September 10, 2023, 05:00:45 PM »
Quote from: JR561 on September 10, 2023, 12:02:12 PM
I have Wurtz, Maria Black, and Day.

So far all are staying compact.
But I don't think they're for NorthCal.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can you ID this avocado?
« on: September 10, 2023, 04:59:33 PM »
Quote from: Elijah on September 10, 2023, 04:08:04 PM
It seems much bigger than Hass so it may not be Lamb Hass. Could it be some kind of Pinkerton's off spring?
Does Pinkerton ever get that fat?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One of my avocado selection
« on: September 10, 2023, 04:57:46 PM »
Quote from: Elijah on September 10, 2023, 04:09:36 PM
Quote from: canito 17 on November 22, 2021, 05:27:21 PM



It looks very productive. I love it. What kind of variety is it?
He's developed his own varieties in PR.  One is called Lolo.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Can you ID this avocado?
« on: September 10, 2023, 08:47:44 AM »
(I know this was posted a while back, but I see Ado still checks in.)  It could be a Hass seedling.  How was the quality of the fruit?  How big was the seed?  Is it worth propagating?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One of my avocado selection
« on: September 10, 2023, 08:44:23 AM »
Nice.  Which one?  How big is the seed?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado Varieties : Dwarf / Smaller Footprint / High Density Planting ?
« on: September 10, 2023, 08:32:14 AM »
Gwen?  (If it likes your climate.)  I know we have CA avocado people.  I hope they weigh in.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango Thief Caught
« on: September 09, 2023, 10:11:30 AM »
Quote from: brian on September 08, 2023, 11:52:22 PM
I am not excusing shitty behavior at all, and in most cases I am sure people know they are stealing and don't care, but I wonder if this is partly because people don't value things they don't understand.
No, people don't value things they don't understand. I've been fighting my HOA board who want to destroy my garden.  Not one gardener on that board, and their houses look like shit landscape-wise.  They don't even appreciate beauty/aesthetics.  They're perfectly happy to turn the community into a barren wasteland as long as no one is violating the rules they arbitrarily created.

I think people rationalize stealing fruit because their idea is you won't miss whatever fruit they choose to steal.  Other people like the thrill, as well.  Yes, I guess a gun pointed at them wouid make them re-evaluate unless they come back with their own guns and shoot your place up.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Sleepy Lizard Avocado Farm
« on: September 05, 2023, 07:09:06 PM »
Quote from: johnb51 on August 24, 2023, 06:22:17 PM


I followed the instructions here about keeping them in the fridge so they wouldn't ripen.  BIG MISTAKE!  The last three avocados subsequently ripened unevenly with interior gray spots and a texture in places that resembled cooked potato.  This is something I never experienced when I had my Simmonds tree.  I think that most likely they would have been alright if I hadn't refrigerated them, so keep this in mind if you order these avocados.  I'm not slamming the grower, but I thought this was important information.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tomatoes in FL
« on: September 05, 2023, 11:45:34 AM »
Last year I planted both Better Boy and Beefmaster.  Better Boy was a dud (in SoCal it was wildly successful), but Beefmaster worked out well.  I think most cherry-type tomatoes do well here.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Kent mango with green skin . . . .
« on: September 05, 2023, 10:07:40 AM »
Quote from: SHV on September 04, 2023, 11:44:50 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, we are at peak Mexican Kent season. I picked up a dozen Kents at Aldi last week and they were absolute perfection.  Deep orange flesh, smooth as butter, and sweet like Sunny D. Relatively undersized as Kents go, but packed a flavor punch in a small package. 
Now I know that store bought mangos have a poor reputation, but these Kents were better than most of the FL grown mangos I had shipped to me this year.  At $.59 each, it was a steal. Get ‘‘em before they’re gone.
When I lived in L.A. (prior to 1989), I ate a lot of great Kent mangos from Mexico.  They've got the science down when it comes to growing Kent, or Kent really loves the terroir!  All the other varieties coming out of Mexico were always so-so.  I'm glad to know I'm not just imagining this.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rosigold v. Dwarf Hawaiian?
« on: September 05, 2023, 10:01:42 AM »
Personally, I would prefer waiting a few weeks for a better tasting mango.  By all accounts Dwarf Hawaiian is the better tasting mango unless you don't like its flavor profile.  (Disclosure: I've never tasted either one.)

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Dwarf Namwah trees - free
« on: September 04, 2023, 11:11:54 AM »
Quote from: ben mango on September 04, 2023, 09:10:40 AM
Bananas are technically plants, not trees. Trees make bark
And wood!  But still very nice of this member to give away these banana plants.  :)

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