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Yes, you can overwinter the DC in the greenhouse. It's just usually difficult to get decent fruit from a potted banana. They are easy to protect in ground, though.

Get a thorny key lime. I've done both and the thorned ones are more vigorous and less disease prone.

The Florida's Best book is awesome. That's how you figure out that something like barbados cherry or atemoya is totally possible and that something like durian or mangosteen probably isn't. I love that book.

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Brown turkey and the LSU varieties are larger, but the Celeste is sweater.

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Celeste is the parent of all LSU figs, so there are definitely better LSU cultivars. For example, "improved celeste" and "black celeste" came from the LSU breeding program and are significantly better than regular Celeste.

Very nice. For 14 bucks you can take a flyer on a guava. It might be fantastic. If not, replace with with something better. Just get it well staked and prune that thing so the branches are going where you want them. They grow like weeds and are tough as nails for everything but cold.

Nagami is also tough as nails and can take a bunch of sun. But I have yet to find the citrus that likes full Louisiana July/August sun. Even my key lime, the most tropical citrus on earth, starts to struggle in that intense heat. The ideal situation is to plant in full sun and cover with shade cloth for July and August but that's a pain in the arse. I'd rather just plant somewhere with 4-5hrs of sun.

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Why?

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If you really want the answer to this, it's because we American citizens cannot settle on what it even means to be an American. Issues with our culture need to be settled before we import more foreigners, thereby exacerbating the problem.

The people of Louisiana and Vermont are living in different realities and we need to come to some sort of consensus before we can take in more. It's the proverbial canary in the coal mine signaling that the culture is not stable.

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I only use injection molded black nursery pots with additional drainage holes drilled in the bottom and painted on the inside with microkote. I want them tough and rigid for when I'm lifting or dragging them. The blow molded ones break too easily and are ugly. The cloth ones dry out too fast. If your soil is right it will drain adequately on its own.

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You’ve definitely sent me down a rabbit hole of looking into more tropicals now. Almost as if my 50 or so other edible trees/bushes aren’t enough.

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The only reason people aren't doing it here is because they haven't seen someone else do it. Honestly this should have clicked with me 5 years ago when I started having such success with potted key lime. That was basically a crash course and proof of concept that you can pretty easily grow tropical fruit trees in large pots as long as you can keep them relatively warm and well lighted over the winter.