Hi Nancy

It sounds like a very nice place to get fruit trees, I wish that I known it sooner. Have plans for tonight and tomorrow.:) But I sure hope to make it for next year, I can never have enough fruit trees, lol.

Silvia

Hi Silvia, I wish I could go too...but its quite a ways for me.

Silvia, its not tomorrow...its next Sunday (May 15th)...so maybe you can make it? I would love to get a few more fruit trees myself if I didn't have 10-12 I already have to protect and cover in winter! Let me know if you end up going.

I have a couple more spots to fill in my row of little trees - I think I am going to make the trip. I was reading the latest newsletter ont the website and this line caught my eye "Also, you should not throw out those mango seeds. Plant them and we'll graft them and sell them." I told my FIL, who has a mango started from seed, that mango seeds don't always grow into trees that produce mangos tasting like the seed donor and it was better to buy a grafted tree. Was I wrong?

Oh Nancy sorry for my error, I don't know why I thought the sale it was Mother's Day,lol
I will let you know if I can make it, the other half has to agree.:)

Tina, when planting fruit trees in my yard I would rather plant varieties that I know they will produce well and I like the taste, since they take a long time to grow especially when started from seeds.

Silvia

I have to arrive exactly when the gates open at 10 and I have to leave by 1pm because after that I have to take a few kids to MOSI for Nick's birthday. He was 10 years old on Sunday!

I am going to look for a Kiowa blackberry, I think they have the lowest chill requirements. Maybe a pear and a lychee too. I have gone fruit crazy! :) What will you get Silvia?

Tina, first of all Happy Birthday to Nick!!!
About the sale, I don't think that I can make it, Willy is going to be traveling for business next week.
On the blackberry, if I was you I would look for thornless, a lot of varieties do well, I had them in Arizona zone 10. I have 1 now and is good , don't remember the name. Anything with thorns or spines in a small garden or around children or pets is not a good idea. You already have the bougainvillea.:)
And remember my small yard I am trying to fit 1 or 2 of each fruit trees like Noah's Ark,lol.

Silvia

LOL...yes maybe it would be a little crowded to add more fruit trees to your orchard! Pinellas has only between 210 and 310 chill hours, and for Pinellas I am on the warmer end of that being close to the water. Kiowa has the lowest chill hours...but you're right...thorns in the backside while I water my garden put me right off the bougainvillea so I should see if there is a thornless variety that can fruit well under 300 chill hours. My whole life I've picked wild blackberries...it's weird to have to plant them because I live in such an urban area. I have to drive for almost an hour in any direction to see grass.

Once we went to a horse track near plant city where they have the state cross country races to watch my older son run. It was dark when we dropped him off. Nick saw black spaces where the fields were...and he asked "Mom is that water?" He had never seen unlit land before. Is that sad or what?!

Tina, if you don't find the thornless varieties, I can send you cuttings of mine, it is spreading everywhere but where I put it is okay, I only have mints in pots there. The berries are very good!

And I can relate to your thinking because where I grew up everything was growing wild, volcanic land on the bottom of the mountain was rich! And I remember my nephew asking questions when he came to visit, he also turn 10 this week,lol

Silvia

Oh Siliva you are such a sweetie!! I bet your childhood home was just amazing! It such a shame we didn't have digital cameras back then...we have to rely on our memories. Do I remember correctly that the volcanoes in Ecuador sometimes make the news due to activity?

Tina , I thought that you were my friend, lol, you make me sound like a dinosaur! but you are right I don't even have digital pictures from Arizona one of my last gardens.
I lived about 15 minutes from the half of the world line on the bottom of a not active volcano but we have few and sometimes they make noise, at least not when I lived there. I also lived in Oregon across Mount St Helens and I just moved out when went active. Used to pick the best wild berries there.

Silvia

OMG I am rolling in the floor laughing! Now that I re-read my post it really does make us sound old - doesn't it. Oh well....it is what it is. You sure have lived a lot of places. You've been with us 3 years? Are you going to stick around?

A friend at work would like to buy a breadfruit tree; does anyone know if breadfruit trees will be offered for sale at the Manatee Rare Fruit Council Tree Sale? If so, let me know and I'll pass it on to him.

Something to do with a fascination with the movie Mutiny on the Bounty, I guess.

Bligh: What demands my immediate attention?
Christian: Well it could wait until tomorrow, sir.
Bligh: [quietly] What is it, damn you?
Christian: The ship is sinking, sir.
Bligh: Good.

The website doesn't list breadfruit

Apples (Low Chill varieties) Dwarf Mangoes
Atemoya Macadamia Nut
Avocado Malay Apple
Banana Miracle fruit
Barbados Cherry Mulberry
Bay Leaf Monstera
Blackberry Papaya
Black Sapote Passion fruit
Blueberry Pineapple
Carambola Plantain
Caimito Peaches (Low Chill)
Canistel Pears (Low Chill)
Cashew Persimmon
Cherimoya Plum
Coconut Pomegranate
Figs Pummelo
Grapes Raspberry
Grumichama Rio Grande Cherry
Guava Rollina
Jaboticaba Sapodilla
Jackfruit Soursop
Jujube Star Fruit
Kumquat Strawberry
Longan Sugar Apple
Loquat Surinam Cherry
Lychee Wax Jambu
Mangoes White Sapote

Sale is today! I'm on my way.

I got the Golden Dorset, Lou. Silvia I also got the Kiowa as everything else needed 350 chill hours. It bit Nick enough that he's sure to give it plenty of respect now just by carrying it to the car for me. I didn't want to pay so much for the olive or the lychee. I have the lychee that Sally gave me anyway, and a loquat or two as well from people. We'll see how they do.

Wow, I went and it was wild. There were so many people there and they were really spending the money. I picked up some grumichama (Brazillian cherry), black sapote, jabotica, and longan. I like to get things small and less expensive so I can have more things even if I have to wait longer for them to grow.

I mean "Brazil cherry" not "Brazilian cherry"

Tina,
Very good on getting the Golden Dorset, I'm glad you saw my post. This will insure both your apple trees will fruit as they are pollinators for each other. I had to laugh at the Kiowa biting Nick, my wild blackberry plants also are vicious as I pick blackberries for my morning cereal.

Lou