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Kevin Jones

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Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« on: December 21, 2020, 12:41:39 PM »
What were your most successful fruit generating plants this year?
What surpassed your expectations?

For me:
Thai Dwarf Mulberries - Huge quantities - relentless production
Passiflora edulis - Red Rover - Really delicious- nice edible crunchy seeds too
Eugenia Calycina - "Nelita" - large and plentiful -  and "Garnet" - Large and tasty
Cedar Bay Cherries- Very prolific
Pitangatubas - Sour and plentiful
Owari Satsumas - Large, sweet and abundant - flourished in my front yard without protection
Japanese Persimmons - Sweet, plentiful and long lasting on the trees
Na Dai Sugar Apple - Loaded and tasty
Key Limes - Fruit to spare
Finger Limes - Pumping them out

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Re: Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2020, 01:07:16 PM »
Glenn put out around 200 nice mangoes in 2020.

Silas Woods is pumping em out.

Kari carambola is a constant work horse.

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Re: Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2020, 01:24:36 PM »
This year was my best year for fruit tree production.

My top 3 are:
Persimmons - 645 fruits - 207.52 lbs (1 Fuyu tree -  469 fruits - 122.79 lbs, 1 Hachiya tree - 211 fruits - 94.24 lbs)
Fig - 2021 fruits - 185.38 lbs
Guava - 273 fruits - 100.59 lbs
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Re: Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2020, 02:54:51 PM »
Taste wise these surpassed my expectations:
white jade pineapple
flavor delight aprium

Quantity wise, I had enough to freeze/can:
possum purple passionfruit
marionberry
butia palm fruit
lemon guava
nagami kumquat
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Re: Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2020, 04:43:23 PM »
How do the thai dwarf mulberries taste?

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Re: Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2020, 06:37:38 PM »
How do the thai dwarf mulberries taste?
They are good but not my favorite. They are almost a little crunchy until they are
fully ripe. They leave a small amount of stains. My favorite mulberries like the Shangri La
leave your hands covered in purple staining juices.
The best thing for me the past two years is that The Thai dwarf has fruit a month before the
others kick in around February when not much is ripe in my yard. Also the tree is very productive
considering it's size

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Re: Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2020, 08:43:44 PM »
Bell starfruit at 6 years of age has been fruiting more or less continuously the entire year.
Three main and several smaller crops this year. I gave it a lot more of iron and fertilizer this year. Seems like there are always at least a few blooms. It bore pretty heavy with multiple crops in previous years but this year was just too much.
 Self fruitful, no other starfruit trees around. Maybe 30 days without ripe fruit the whole year.
 Conservative estimate of 20 bushels of fruit this year on a 12 foot tall and wide tree. Main Summer crop alone was at least 10 bushels. Fruit quality and firmness actually seems better in the cooler months but fruit color is better during hot weather. I was taking 10 pounds of fruit a day to work every day during the main Summer crop to give away and had an equal amount drop and get devoured daily by my son and other animals... I surprised a coyote eating his fill the other night while taking my dog out.  If I let the tree get any bigger it might make a thousand pounds of fruit in a year.
 Needless to say I am sick of eating them this year and plan on pruning it way back for less fruit next year. I think it is the best starfruit variety and is a decent all around fruit.  It would probably be good to keep outdoors in a pot and move indoors in Winter in zones 7 and 8 and 9.
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Re: Most Successful Fruiting This Year?
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2020, 06:55:27 AM »
Kevin, I like this thread; so, I am going to bump it. My most successful "fruiting" at my place was sugarcane. We have had a lot of juice and I have even had enough to make some small batches of syrup. This was also the first year that we have gotten a significant number of Atemoya at my Dad's place. Definitely a top tier fruit in my opinion! And yes, starfruit was over the top (as always) on production.