Doan's nursery in Belt line road in Irving has many cocktail fruit trees. I would suggest to check this nursery for fruit trees, flowering plants and tropical plants. Be prepared to wait to get help and also make sure that you are getting the right plants because many of the plants don't have labels/pricing. I also noticed that many fruit trees are from California growers, so not sure how they would grow in DFW. Moreover, they do not give any kind of warranty to the trees.

Brandon, I think you know that it is not about life but about work, and there is only so much work a person can do. Trees can cause a LOT of work. If I had back all the time I'd spent pruning my oversize willows, pulling seedlings from the one neighbour's norway maple, pruning and cleaning and clearing debris and trying to keep other plants alive under the other neighbour's giant lawson cypress that ate my yard and house, and let's not start with the street tree and water shoots on the apple tree, I'd have a lot more accomplished and also not be as decrepit - I trace the degenerative disk problems in my neck partly to all the tree work I've had to do (bicycle riding didn't help), and most of it was/is not of my choice. It is a really difficult problem and it is hard to draw the line. The problem is when the wrong tree is put into an urban environment and causes work for people. People can only do so much work. A tree that makes a mess is particularly difficult to assess from outside the situation. How cleanable is the mess? Is it dangerous? (my neighbour's other tree is an Albizia whose little leaflets cover my back stairs and turn into a slimy death trap). Is it causing hard feelings? I used to have overflowing eaves constantly due to the lawson, and I was mad about it. Is it the one job an elderly home owner can no longer take care of? For example, pulling those 400 + Norway seedlings is something I can only do for another few years at most. Should I have to move out of my house into an apartment because of the neighbour's tree? Yes, people have to live their lives. Bernd, if the fruit falls over a short period of time, I wonder if you can capture it somehow - put down a tarp for a week or two? I realize the birds will still make a mess of patios etc, but maybe that can be dealt with with one big clean-up once it's all over. With my maple seedlings, I have decided that I can probably reduce the scale of the problem if I do a serious fall clean-up once all the seeds are down. If you study the pattern of the problem you may be able to figure out an efficient way of minimizing the effect. And also, plant some new trees now so that the birds do not starve once you cut this tree down. Perhaps there is another spot in your yard where such a tree could be grown with less problem - if fruits fall on grass vs on patio, they may be easier to deal with. Karin L

Different varities have different amounts of bananas. My Fhia 17 just finished blooming (the female portion of the flowers) and has 19 hands. Kru only has 4 or 5. Monthan has about 12, but one of mine that lost its roots over our wet winter fell over, and I stood it back up in a hole and staked it, and 3 months later it has 4 pups (part of the never give up approach) and has bloomed but only has 4 hands, because of all the stress it had been through.

While citrus is young count the leave and divide it on 20. that is how many fruits you may leave on them to bear. On adult trees 10 leave is enough for photosintesing for one fruit. The better plant is doing with foliage - more fruits you will collect. So pay attention on a mineral fertilising of your trees and they will pay you back with the fruits!! That lemon of mine lost all leave in december and fruits never turn yellow - I had to collect them in april, so it could grow new leaves. This Meyer got 7 lemons This wild citrus is 5 years old, does not grow at all, but give me 2 fruits every year!! And it is very rare that you will collect more fruits than volume of your pot every year