Orlando, fl - which fruit trees grow there sucessfully?
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Which minor/unusual fruits/berries are worth growing?
Comments (49)I have and tasted the following fruits from the list: Aronia: Productive, bit too tart to eat fresh. wonderful to add it into juice. Plant is easy to grow. Chinese Haw: Sweet ,but not too sweet. little tart and sour. The source tasted like cranberry source we use in the Christman dinner. Very popular in China, although the fruit size is a lot bigger. Street vendors string a dozens of them on a long wooden or bamboo stick and coat them with sugar to sale to the kids as snack. Goumi: sweet-tart. My has small fruit, about pea size. Can be eaten fresh. The flower is sweet, pleasant. The plants is easy to grow. Japanese Raisin Tree: Tree itself can grow very tallll. The fruit is very sweet, but not pure sweet like sugar. Its sweetness has some other taste in it. I can't descrip the undertone taste . When we talk about the sweetness of the plants, for example, Stevia's leaves is very sweet but many people do not like the undertone taste. I vote mulberry the #1 favorite minor berry. The tree is easy to grow, the fruit is abundant, and fruit is sweet and juicy. It tastes better than raspberry, backberry or, other commercially grow berries. For people who are lucky in the south, Loquat is a good choice too. The tree is about 10-15' tall, the fruit is a bit smaller in a size of pingpong ball. When it is ripe, it is sweet and juicy. I have current grow in my yard. balck, red, and white. They can be eaten fresh but not particular good taste. It is better to juice them and mix them with other sweeter fruit juice. Another minor berry I like to grow is gooseberry. Pick Poorman. The fruit is balanced sweet and tart, very flavorful. It definately can be eaten fresh....See Moreneed help! container marsh grapefruit/ orlando tangelo tree??
Comments (1)I think you'll be fine there, Crazy01. You have several years to go, yet, to worry about trees getting too tall. I would suggest purchasing semi-dwarf or dwarf cultivars, so that will help to remove the height issue. Drop-crotch pruning would be the technique you're after to keep the height down if necessary. Three feet is close, but again, if you purchase semi-dwarf or dwarf cultivars, that, plus being in a container will keep size down. You should be fine. I have two container citrus that are about 3' apart right now, and they aren't close to each other, yet, and if I keep the container size limited, they will stay that way (may need root pruning several years down the road to keep size down.) My only concern is the lack of sunshine. 4 hours is almost not enough. 6 hours would be the minimum for good quality fruit. Use a very well draining potting mix - we have a couple of great recipes on our forum, just search for "gritty mix" or "511 mix" for the ingredients. Also, Farfard makes some excellent professional mixes you can purchase as a pre-bagged product, if you can purchase Farfard in your area. Lastly, remember to fertilize properly. Most of our container citrus folks as well as myself like to use Dyna Gro's Foliage Pro with each watering, and I also use a time release higher nitrogen fertilizer as well, since my container citrus are out all year 'round like yours will be. Container citrus need more fertilizing due to their more artificial environment being in pots. I do a water flush about every two months to flush out any built up salts from the fertilizers as well. Good luck and please share your photos with us when you have your trees planted. Patty S....See Morehelp with chill hours! (for growing fruit trees)
Comments (6)Ocala is in the 310 to 420 range of chill hours by the map you refer to on just fruits & exotics. Many chill hour maps differ so I averaged a few of them for you and come up with 365 to 485 as the average chill hours for Ocala. Keep in mind the actual location will make a big difference (like proximity to a lake, or elevation, open pastures, heavily wooded, in the city or out in the country, etc.) I hope this helps, Lou This post was edited by loufloralcityz9 on Sat, Jan 4, 14 at 21:19...See Morefruit trees and berries for FL
Comments (12)I think no one has yet mentioned Loquat and Carambolas. The Loquat is amazingly care and is heavily recommended for enviroscaping. It typically bears lots of fruits. The starfruit trees are usually very productive and produce miraculously fruits twice a year. There are many varieties from the very tart to the very sweet. Something I would definitely add to my garden if I had the space is a strawberry tree or Muntingia calabura. It tastes like cotton candy. Really. and looks like a berry. It goes by many names. Jujube is amazing of you can get it to grow. Canistel or egg fruit. Sapote, Sapodilla, Persimons.. Yum Yum Best, Here is a link that might be useful: Strawberry tree...See Moreswrancher
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