HARVEST 9/2021

TOP: DRAGON FRUIT

2ND: SUGAR APPLES

3HD CARAMBOLES

 

 FIGS

 When I was a kid in Chicago, the only figs we saw were either dried or in a cookie called Fig Newtons. I had never seen or tasted a fresh fig. Twenty years ago I walked into a small fruit market in Tampa and there in a fruit bin were these Beautiful little fruit, figs. Tried one, returned for another and another and another, they tasted so great. It took me over twenty years to grow my first fig tree from cuttings. Of the many, my favorite variety are Brown Turkey. 

 

 

JACKFRUIT

Artocarpus heterpphyllus 

Jackfruit,  also called Jakfruit, Jaca, Nangka.

An amazing fruit, taste like Juicy Fruit gum and is the largest fruit in the world.The fruit is unusual in that it grows on the side of the trunk. The male fruit will  fall off and all the tree energy will be diverted to the female fruit which will begin to mature, which will grow to maturity in approximately 3 to 4 months in approximately 3 to 4 months. In its native land in Asia the jackfruit can reach a weight of over 100 pounds here in the United States it does not reach that way it normally reaches somewhere between 30 and maybe 50 pounds.a weight of over 100 pounds here in the United States it does not reach that weight normally it will grow to  somewhere between 30 and 50 pounds.

Adult Jackfruit

Male Fruit

Female Fruit

LYCHEE

The start of a wonderful taste and a very healthy fruit originally from China. This is a sweet fruit that can be grown as far north as central Florida. 

There is a Chinese saying, "The cicadas sing. Time to enjoy Lychees." It means the lychees are ripe when you hear the cicadas chirping.

Persimmon Trees

 

Winter Set Persimmon Seedling

American persimmon fruit are very small, so most persimmon trees are grafted using American root stock and a graft of a Japanese verity.

It's that time of the year, all my Loquat trees are flushing out with flowers  and fruit.

Loquats (Japanese Plums)

The best flavored Loquats are usually grafted, tho those that are not grafted are still very tasty.

Years ago ingrafted Loquats were used as landscape trees in Tampa.    

 

PASSION FRUIT

November 2018

My flowers are changing to fruit, so far I have found seven fruit on one vine with still many more flowers yet to change. I believe these are a red variety.