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The advertising looks very confuse to me, showing photos of different species of Inga.Really? Well for me any one is good, because i don't have none!
you don't have cold winters? Maby to trying more mild temp var....We've got people experimenting with olives in central FL also since citrus has become increasingly difficult to grow. I'd love to see acres and acres of olive trees on the hills of central FL where citrus used to grow!why citrus are difficult to grow? Olive trees are so beautifull, in my region we are sorrownded of them!
Olive trees grow most anywhere. Getting them to fruit is the key....they need some chill hours every winter.
The fruits are still hanging in the tree, I will try to protect it all the winter, we are 2 months from spring...Well tamarillos suffer a lot with cold below 0C... it will be a tuff strugle!
photos:
http://www.huertasurbanas.com/2013/07/23/tomate-de-arbol-todas-las-hojas-quemadas-por-helada-de-4o-c/
what do u think? will it survive?
We've got people experimenting with olives in central FL also since citrus has become increasingly difficult to grow. I'd love to see acres and acres of olive trees on the hills of central FL where citrus used to grow!why citrus are difficult to grow? Olive trees are so beautifull, in my region we are sorrownded of them!
Amazing trees!! Imagine if the owner is able to thin out some of those clusters...I bet the sizes will be bigger. There's SO many in one cluster they look like grapes. I imagine it would be very difficult to reach them to thin them out.Yes i agree! My trees are all medium size!
I lived in orange county for a year and Ventura county for four years and I've never seen mangoes trees growing in people's yards before...I just don't think they were that popular then?
Luis, I bet they have a very long fruit picking poles to reach them...that's why its important to keep the the trees on the shorter side
Thanks for the photos Joe...I really enjoyed them...
I have 27 olive trees to make olive oil of lentrisca var.
Dr. Sauls was a little pithy but brilliant. Same with Jim Kamas from that article. He is assigned to my county, is also brilliant, does incredible fast moving workshops and was the Pierce's Disease head honcho hear the research station before the State pulled the funds. Here we are one the fastest growing, biggest grape and winery industries in the country, and the frickin' State pulls the funds! Another one of those "go figure".
The publication I referenced is "Fruit Quality Evaluations of Avocado Cultivars for Subtropical Texas", Weslaco, 1991. I gave The Avocado Man (Bill Schneider of Devine) a copy of it.
Mark
A lot of hard work falls on the way side due to lack of funding. It's a shame.
Yeah I've been reading all about the Wines from central Texas. Olive trees/oil is another one that shows great promise for the state of Texas.
Great publication Mark. It has some great information. Thanks.
I was investigating and the two jabuticabas are great! what fruit trees do you have?WOW!!! A lot of them i never heard about... how stand your jaboticabas? It's ones i want more!
Olá Luis,
It's clear that the "rare fruit fever" caught you bad... but we really need more sic people here in Portugal so I'm happy to contribute to your disease... consider yourself the lucky owner of a regular Jaboticaba and a jaboticaba-de-cabinho... it's a welcome gift for you... please PM me your email address so we can discuss how these will arrive to Fátima .
Um abraço
Miguel
Muito muito obrigado!!! Mail: luiseilda@sapo.pt Thank you so much everyone, i'm learning a lot!WOW!!! A lot of them i never heard about... how stand your jaboticabas? It's ones i want more!
Olá Luis,
It's clear that the "rare fruit fever" caught you bad... but we really need more sic people here in Portugal so I'm happy to contribute to your disease... consider yourself the lucky owner of a regular Jaboticaba and a jaboticaba-de-cabinho... it's a welcome gift for you... please PM me your email address so we can discuss how these will arrive to Fátima .
Um abraço
Miguel
This is Helton's site in Sao Paolo, right?i don't know...
I am doomed! a mile or so away in one direction is a very large Asian market, and a mile or so in the opposite direction is another one along with an equally large Hispanic market. Down the block from where I work is medium sized Indian/Pakistani market. All of them have cheap produce. All of them carry new and exiting stuff. I have no control over my spending habits.I just love to have it here too... but infortunately i don't!
What trop fruit trees do you have?You can add acid soil to the plant... my seeds just arrive! This tree has a lot of exelent medicinal properties... i still think it's a good try! What trees do you have in Algarve?
Olá Luís,
My experience is similar to what's already been said.
It's just a curiosity and not worth the space if you have little to spare.
I have very shallow, heavy alkaline soil and Glycosmis pentaphylla is not too thrilled about it;
it shows some mineral deficiencies and grows slowly.
In the winter, after a bad cold spell, the leaves turn rather ugly.
It does recover when the weather warms up, but due to the inadequate soil I have,
long term survivability is not assured.
I could, but I won't. Not worth it. That's really the point.
If the best that can be raved about a fruit is its medicinal properties, then just recall how good medicine usually tastes...
I can tell I have too many medicinal trees and fewer proper fruits than I would like ;-)
Has anyone ever seen a variegated white sapote? I have one and was recently told by someone in the know that they have never seen one before.WOW how lucky you are!!!
Hi Luis,Gezzzz and it's a big tree... well when i plant my tropical trees, it was supposed to be as an experiment, so if anyone will be killed, it's a try.
White sapote handles cold and freezing much better than B. sapote, but -4C is already a stretch...
Unless you protect it well, black sapote will surely be killed by below freezing temperatures.
I'm pretty sure -3ºC will be fatal. The leaves will show some damage even before freezing.
The photo below was taken January 2009, when these black sapotes turned chocolate for the last time...
You can add acid soil to the plant... my seeds just arrive! This tree has a lot of exelent medicinal properties... i still think it's a good try! What trees do you have in Algarve?
Olá Luís,
My experience is similar to what's already been said.
It's just a curiosity and not worth the space if you have little to spare.
I have very shallow, heavy alkaline soil and Glycosmis pentaphylla is not too thrilled about it;
it shows some mineral deficiencies and grows slowly.
In the winter, after a bad cold spell, the leaves turn rather ugly.
It does recover when the weather warms up, but due to the inadequate soil I have,
long term survivability is not assured.
Actually, your weather is very much like ours. We get winter rains (about 16 inches) , none in the summer. Deeply rooted white sapotes require little water in the summer. Regularly we are 25-28 F in the winter, 75-80 F in the summer, fog in mornings and evenings. My oldest white sapote is 38 years old (Pike, Vernon) and has taken 19-20 F with very little damage. I am currently growing Pike, Vernon, Walton, Nies, McDill, Malibu #1, Malibu #3, Selck, Edgehill, ROA, Fourney, Chestnut, Cate, Bravo, Cuccio, Rainbow, Ortega, Snyder, Nettie, Clytia, and probably a few I forgot. Many are full trees, some only grafted limbs on larger trees. Flavors of the fruit vary from very sweet like vanilla custard to a caramel flavor. Here in California, the white sapote was carried up north from Mexico and planted in the mission gardens as it does so well. Wild trees can be encountered growing with no water or care on vacant properties. Pretty tough tree with a great abundance of fruit (don't plant it where you regularly walk)WOW great informations! Yes our weather is great to white sapote, but to mango, black sapote and lychees i don't know, but is good to try! Thank you so much!
Hi Luis, and welcome to the forum. I see your locale has really wet winters and dry warm summers. How cold do your winters get? Do you have a greenhouse? White Sapotes and Black Sapotes both have fairly good cold tolerance. However, here in Florida, they do seem to enjoy wet summers and dry winters. Here n the forum we encourage pictures of your growing exploits. Don't be shy....post a few pictures....you'll get more response form the rest of the memebership.Hi! Yes we have wet winters... minimum temp is in very bad years -3 to -4C. Summer time is allmost without rain with usual temps between 30 to 38C. I don't have any greenhouse. My trees are on the grownd. But i know i have to protect them in cold winters.
The fruit is sweet and creamy. Are your plants named vairties or grafted . They do not come true to seed you can grow a plant for years and get a bad tasting fruit if they are not.All my fruit trees are grafted...
Such vibrant blue fruits... Looks amazing.Yes, they look really great! I love to get them!
