re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

Should see color break sometime in October but they are getting very little sun now. Will cut the rack as soon as the first one breaks yellow and ripen in a protected spot.

this lines up with the most recent several winters featuring the plunge of the jet stream down thru the eastern plains and MS river valley into Texas and the lower gulf coast and the corresponding arctic air behind it

cyclical most likely but that behavior of the jet stream is being caused by something, most climatologists believe it’s due to variability in arctic temperatures and wind speeds…aka the polar vortex

I don’t hate it…a winter freeze brings a lot of positive outcomes except for tropical plants LOL

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I don’t hate it…a winter freeze brings a lot of positive outcomes

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You take that back. Right now



frick the winter. Everyday of it. Now excuse me, I am about to head offshore for grouper and snapper. You know why Im doing that?






Because it not fricking freezing outside

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I know citrus don’t like bare rooting

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Myth actually. Citrus don't like bare rooting and then being put back into garbage soil. Citrus have a very tough fibrous root system that can take a lot of abuse.

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3 new figs and a new grafted guava. Figs are white Madeira #1 and Cavaliere. The guava is Chinese Carmine. Probably my last guava in my collection. Very sweet with a creamy white flesh and skin that turns red in hot weather.





Also found this super handy annona chart for anyone interested in them:

I don't count anymore but I have a master alphabetized list of everything I cultivate. Landscape plants that I don't do anything to are not included:

Abiu
Allamanda cathartica compacta
Biew Kiew Longan
Black Suriname Cherry var. smithii
Borneo giant alocasia
Borneo king alocasia
Bougainvillea
Bounty passionfruit
Cara cara navel orange
Carmine guava
Carolina jessamine
Cattley lemon guava
Cavaliere fig
Cecilove mango
Chamaedorea radicalis palm
Chang white sapote
Christmas palm
Chrysalidocarpus pembana palm
Chunhua loquat
Clerodendrum speciosum delectum
Collins select pawpaw seedling
Cordyline fruticosa
Cuphea micropetala
Daeng Ayothaya #3 guava
Dipladenia
Dwarf Cavendish banana
Dwarf namwah banana
Emperor lychee
Flamethrower palm var. hookeri
Frankie's dwarf jaboticaba
Geffner atemoya
Gold nugget loquat
Golden pothos
Hardy red oleander
Helen fredel crossvine
Hibiscus hamabo
Hibiscus rosa-sinesis
LSU Hollier fig
LSU Scott's black fig
Hoey's Taiwanese Purple passionfruit
Holy grail hibiscus
Improved Coolidge feijoa
Indonesian white seedless guava
Jalisco roja guava
Kari starfruit
Kentia palm
Key lime
KSU Benson pawpaw
KSU Atwood pawpaw
Lantana
Lara Honeyquat loquat
Lipstick palm
Livingstonia chinensis
Lord Baltimore hibiscus
Makok sapodilla
Mango pawpaw
Meiwa kumquat
Mexican cream guava
Meyer lemon
Miracle fruit
Musa Florida banana
Musa basjoo banana
Mule palm
Muntingia calabura
Na Dai sugar apple
Namwah banana
Neoregelia bromeliad
Oleander
Oliver loquat
Orange bird of paradise
Panama red passion fruit
Pawpaw seedlings
Pickering mango
Plumeria princess Marcella Maria
Pride of barbados
Prima pawpaw
Prosciutto unknown fig
Psidium guajava nana dwarf Hawaiian
Pygmy date palm
Qinmi #9 passionfruit
Queen's tears
Rajapuri banana
Red hybrid jaboticaba
Restinga jaboticaba
Rose of sharon / hibiscus syriacus
Ruby supreme 10-30 guava
Ruellia
Saba banana
Sabara jaboticaba
Scarlet morning glory
Spice zee nectaplum
Suebelle white sapote
Sunflower pawpaw
Susquehanna pawpaw
Texas Ba1 fig
Thai ruby seedless guava
Tropical treat pawpaw
Unique feijoa
Veinte cohol banana
Vista white loquat
White jade pineapple
White Madeira #1 fig
Yellow grumichama
Yuzu
Zill Dark Suriname cherry
Zill 40-26 mango

It's a lot for 3/4 of an acre. But it works so far.

PSA: Gary's Top Pot is back on amazon. Price increase but it's back.

cherry of the Rio grande, impressively healthy



lemon guava looking good
it might be trying to flower soon





Bananarama



They like the new fertilizer