Thanks to all for the kind remarks. I forgot one update photo. Here is the first fruit on my Petch Pakchong sugarapple, that I think is really an atemoya. Its a tiny tree and very recent planting, but I have had the fruit from a friend's tree and I thought it compared favorably with Gefner.....so I planted out two. @Stephen: I ran out and hand pollinated the first Physical Graffiti bloom. Noticed a bunch of new buds popping out. Whiole these do set fruit without hand polination, there is no doubt that hand pollination increases yield by many times. @Ethan: The Rollinia seedling was given to me after it was already a couple feet tall....so I am not sure how big the fruit was. I was thinking that the seedling came from my friend Noel, pictured below but in checking my records, another of my friends picked it up for me....so I am going to have to wait until the size of the fruit will be revealed. Stay tuned. @Amr: I have only done business with Pine......so you know where my loyalties and reccomendations would lie. @JF: I have had Neelum and Keitt into October....however, once the main crop of mangoes is over, the local critters descend on the latter maturing culitvars and it is a race in time to see who is going to get the last of the mango crop....them or me. Unfortuantely, they get many more than me. So, the realistic final dates is usually no later than early September and sometimes, late August depending on the year. @Gary: According to the literature and my own experience, mangoes take between 100 and 160 from flower to fruit depending on the cultivar and ambient weather conditions. The warmer the temps, the faster the mangoes mature. @Jacob: Many of my jakfruit trees have fruit on them now. The greatest fruit set is on Black Gold, Dang Rasimi, Black Gold x Tabouey, and a seedling I call Orange Crisp. The fruits range in size from mere ounces to probably 10 pounds. The fruits will be ripening between June or so and September.

I like the twins, they have upbeat attitudes when they aren't bickering with each other and since they were split up, they couldn't hardly do that. I didn't agree with her comments to/about the gay guy, but he should have told her that it wasn't right instead of just letting it slide. Educate the ignorant, how else will they learn? And remember that one gay guy, the racist one? He called himself a girl all the time, and acted even more girly than the real women did. Colton, that was his name. So it's easier to see why some people could think that way. Anyway, I'm sorry Nadiya got voted off. I didn't want any of them to go, though. And so much for the all-girl alliance, that won't be happening now. Good for "old" Dale for nabbing that emblem/HII off the water well lid! And for making fire. I hope that he realizes it's a HII before it's too late.

Dee chose Mama J over Austin by not going with his plan. I wonder how that sits with him now. I don't like Drew or Mama J so I hope Drew's big blow-up next week means one is leaving. Or they could stick together and just pick off Jake and Katurah......yawn. I'm tired of alliances where it's the only thing that gets some of them to the final three, and then the well-liked one wins. It's really turned me off the winners the last few seasons.

Oh, wow. Too bad. It will be interesting to see how things go from here.