The Tropical Fruit Forum

It's been close to 90 days since my banana tree flowered. This is my first exp with a fruiting banana tree. This is what they look like today.

6 yrs ago I planted 2 Lapins cherry trees. I have taken very good care of them. They have not produced any fruit buds. On March 1 I planted a bare-root Montmorency Pie Cherry Tree I ordered online from Home Depot. To my surprise it produced 2 flowers. The flowers did not produce fruit.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Online-Orchards-3-ft-4-ft-Tall-Bare-Root-Montmorency-Pie-Cherry-Tree-FTCH008/310612751#overlay

Looking for nice landscape Crabapple to plant in my front yard.

I purchased a 9 x 4 portable greenhouse for cold protection around 2 goldfinger bananas, also wrapped with burlap and added a small space heater.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CRQZJNB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Barbados cherry- Frost blanket with 4 poles. Xmas lights inside.
Sweet almond- Blankets and hay
Cold sensitive citrus - Burlap wraps around trunk. Frost blankets with 4 poles
Cherry of Rio Grande. Frost blanket, xmas lights

I put cold sensitive plants in shed

My older citrus I only put hay around trunk and watered all cold sensitive trees well. Not much else I can do.

I have one Ivy Gourd plant in a pot. I bought it off ebay out of curiosity. Do I need to bring the plant indoors when the temp is 32 and under. I live a few miles west of Gainesville Fl. zone 8b

Some wild plant growing in the wood line on my property.

1 cup rice
2 cups cooked turkey
1/2 cup tangelo juice
1/2 cup butter
1 cup chopped yellow onion
2 cups mushrooms, chopped
1 cup thinly sliced tangelo peel
 1/2 tsp Paprika
salt and pepper to taste

Combine stock, 1 cup tangelo juice, bring to a boil. Add rice, simmer until tender. Melt butter in a skillet brown, saute onions, tangelo peel, mushrooms, paprika until lightly browned, salt and pepper. Add turkey and tangelo juice. Cover and cook 10 minutes. Serve with vegetables.

This is a random picture of a similar growth on my CM trees. Hopefully it will not infect my fruit trees.

Is there a specific variety of Texas naval orange or just a naval orange grown in Texas

My Choquette avocado tree was a picture of perfect health up until we had temps in the lower 30's on one occasion and a few days when the temp dipped to almost 40. Almost all the leaves are dead now that you can see in the picture but the rest of the tree looks fine. Hopefully the tree will fully recover.

I'm just west of Gainesville and it looks like the drought is finally over. Plants and trees loving the rain.

Bought this from Lowes this past Monday.  Anyone familiar with this variety.