The Tropical Fruit Forum

I planted two varieties right on top of each other just in case. It's only been a few months but the trees did flower without any fruit set.

Where do you guys buy the seeds of this escalibur and so varieties? What place would you trust? Or someone willing to sell some seeds of cold hardy strains? I would love to get some inside the sintropic food forest

Your best bet is to just buy the fruit and then you get the seeds. I'm not sure you could get seeds to Spain from Florida in time for them to still be viable. You might have better luck getting a smaller unripe jackfruit shipped to you? Excalibur fruit trees usually has jackfruit for sale in season.

I've had this happen to a few mango trees. When the leaf edges start getting wavy/crispy and the branches stop thriving and start dying back, it's trouble. The tree may not recover, or it may survive but grow at a much lower vigor. In my case I think the cause was root rot from overwatering and overtreating the tree. Once that happened, then ants/aphids/thrips started to attack.

It's variable. I don't think the sever drought stress is helping either.

The police should have checked out the Sleepy Lizard site to price those avocados per pound. 2 bucks per pound is well below retail, although maybe that's all you can get on the black market for stolen fruit?

I wonder who the big gangster is that you contact when you need to move a lot of avocados quickly.

Some good stuff not yet listed:

Tier 1: Coconut, Pineapple, Mulberry
Tier 2: Canistel, Black Sapote, Rose Apple, Mammea Americana
Tier 3: June Plum, Hog Plum, Wax Jambu

The pot looks a bit small for the height of the tree. Pouteria crave full sun (even as juveniles) so I would acclimate it back to full sun and get it out in the open. Those steps should help with the vigor. Put it in the ground if you can.

When I blow up your photos, I see tiny white insects on the bottom of the leaves, and a couple leaves that have little cocoons of insect activity. Spray the leaves with some Spinosad and dish soap, top and bottom. Gently scrub off the insects. That should help with the leaf damage. Make sure you don't have ants taking over the pot.

I wouldn't begrudge anyone their preference, and Choquette is a solid choice with flavor superior to the pure West Indies avocados that arrive earlier in the season. It's a heavy producer and the tree gets big with a nice overhead canopy, so be prepared for that.

After tasting many of the other varieties available around the same time, I prefer Ronnie, Nishikawa, Kampong and even Monroe. I have eaten Choquette all my life but these options are all more flavorful and creamier. Eventually I will replace my Choquette tree with production from Ronnie and Nishikawa.

I don’t understand a lot of the hate Choquette receive. I also grew up eating them. My parents have a 36 year old choquette avocado tree that produces some big, delicious avocados.

The earliest off the tree could be a bit washed out (still good), but at peak production it makes some awesome fruit. They get several hundred pounds of fruit off their tree, every other year.

I've got flowers on my Denzler and Younghan's. Campbell hasn't flowered and Fruit Hunter's hasn't even grown since I bought it a year ago.

I thought TR Hovey was a myth / scam because I only have seen them on Ebay listed outside the US. :-)

Definitely not a scam. TR Hovey is a distinct variety that makes huge fruit. Flavor is decent without the funk of Red Lady. Not very sweet. The plant is very beautiful. I bought mine at Incredible Edible Landscapes and Sandra at Fig Casa also has them. The flesh has a slightly mucilaginous quality that works well for making fruit based ice cream. I mostly put it in the Ninja Creami for dessert.

You should be able to find a decent size Lorito tree at Excalibur Fruit Trees. Only Xain is propagating Pumpkin Pie right now but he seems to be concentrating on other varieties the last few times I've been there.

Is a disease-resistant mango an insurance mango, and is an insurance mango a disease-resistant mango?  I did a search on this forum on "insurance" and the term 'insurance mango' is relatively recent terminology.  Who coined the term... was it Fruitful Trees guy?  I know Alex has been more consistent with using 'disease-resistant' instead of 'insurance' when referring to specific cultivars.

Alex Salazar developed a short list of mango varieties that everyone should consider as a backbone for home production. There is literally a slide in his lecture titled "Insurance Mangoes". It looks like a universal recommendation for people that want the most fruit for the least worry, and probably not spraying. I think the criteria is ease of flowering, and the variety's ability to mature from flower to fruit despite disease exposure and adverse conditions.