I don’t know if i am welcome on this forum with this subject, it is save to say i am not welcome in several forums that i have tried over the years. I recognize several members here from way back when.
Anyway this is what i start with: Have many varieties of citrus, mostly self grafted, Jaboticaba, Atemoya, Mango. This mango tree is a seedling from store bought one, 3 years old grafted with 4 different varieties this spring.Doing great!!
Bob,
Are most brought inside during the Winter?
I have a few,but no fruit yet.White Sapote from a seed,Sapodilla,Cedar Bay Cherry,Chilean Guava,Lemon Guava and a Passiflora edulis. Brady
It appear to me that most of the subjects pertain to growers or members are in the northern parts,subtropicals might be a little far out here. I am not really that comfortable with it here, but maybe some of you guys might add to whatever you doing.
I am an old member of NAFEX going way back, so cut my teeth since the early eighties
Certain forums wants to figs only, others like to talk citrus only and so on.
Very excited to see you doing this. I hope you will keep posting about it.
I live in Zone 8 but grew up in the tropics in Zone 13. Tropical fruits like mangoes, jackfruit, breadfruit, Sapodilla, Cherimoya are very dear to me.
This time I even planted a few new Sapodilla, Guava and Mango trees when I visited my home. I dont have the ability to grow any of these trees here as they suffer even when temperatures drop below 50F.
I think zone pushers are welcome here. I’m pushing in the opposite direction, with intent to trial cool climate species in the tropics. Even if it goes against conventional wisdom, we can gain so much knowledge just by trying things out. We’ll either confirm conventional wisdom (and provide proper evidence for it) or we’ll falsify it, and open up a whole world of possibilities for growers in supposedly less-than-ideal climates. I can’t see how anyone would be against it, unless it’s the cranky “there’s no other way to do it” types.
I live in MI and have 40 fig trees, and have been here for years talking about it. I have orange trees and pomegranates too. Maybe you got us mixed up with another forum?
I tend to zone push less as time goes on as the fruits that work here have kept me fairly busy. So it’s hard to justify the time if I get little out of it. With figs, they do deliver. Everything else is on the chopping block if I can’t get a decent harvest.
Your trees are awesome looking and nice job of making those wheels to move the pots in and out of your workshop/sun room. This is a very friendly forum and please do share your tropical trees and persimmon trees experience with Us. I got about 60 potted fig trees, 3 potted Pakistan mulberry trees, 2 potted Che trees, and 5 potted Kaki and that was a lot of work to water them on a daily basis and over winter them but they rewarded me with some tasty sweet treats starting around late August.
My interest is citrus because for me it is the newest interest in fruit growing, am slowly going into more warmer climate type of tree’s. My tree’s are producing plenty of fruits for my efforts of taking care of them. So here i am, so far it seems a nice bunch of members, getting comfortable already!!!
The founder of this forum, @scottfsmith is very open-minded and reasonable.
Fruit growers are welcome. We have only the fruit growing and general gardening categories so any fruit (tropical, subtropical or temperate) are welcome. You won’t have any issue sharing your passion and knowledge here.
Yeah citrus does work in colder zones with care. Other fruit too. I bought some oranges in Sarasota Florida from an Amish market. the sweetest oranges I ever had. The fruits only had 3 seeds, only one germinated. it’s about 2 feet tall right now. Citrus can come true to seed, sometimes, so hoping for something similar. I also have some others from seed. If they don’t work out I may buy a known cultivar that works in containers. Or maybe you can send me some scion! Have you grafted any yet? I’m more into plums and nectarines myself. Also berries, any type. .But any fruit is a good thing!
No green house, and limited indoor lights, but I can handle a few inside. What’s cool is figs and pomegranates are fine with being stored in an attached garage. Once leaves fall, they do not need light. Works out great for me. harvests are good. Well the pomes are new, but the first winter all went well! I’m also into breeding my plants. been collecting blackberry and raspberry pollen today. I also like to breed stone fruits.
I grow a Page mandarin that is now about 10 years old and in the past i had this tree in the garage( insulated) it lost all its leaves, came spring it flushed and to make the long story short, it produced a huge amount of mandarins, so i have done it.
