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10-24-2013, 09:13 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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New member from West Central FL
Hi everyone,
I am new to the site and live in the northern Tampa Bay area. I think I am in zone 9b and I also have a lake in my backyard so I am testing my limits to see what I can grow. I currently have three peach cultivars growing in my backyard (uf sun, uf one, and tropic snow) along with ponkan tangerine, Valencia orange, kumquat, hass avocado, pickering mango, guanabana (potted), sapote, guava, blueberries, dragon fruit (physical graffiti, natural mystic, bloody mary, and Haley's comet), papaya and a some others I know I am missing. As far as bananas go, I have a few different varieties and I'm not really sure how well they are going to do in my area. Currently, I have ice cream, African rhino horn, praying hands, grand nain, and I have an fhia-23 and a tc gros Michel on the way. Looking forward to learning from this site and sharing pups. hopefully I can find someone in my area. Cheers, George
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Welcome to bananas.org!
Sounds that you have a very nice collection of fruit trees there. |
10-24-2013, 09:41 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Welcome! I'm in the Clearwater area if you ever want to trade some plants!
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10-24-2013, 09:55 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Hello, Welcome & Happy Growing.. :^)
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10-25-2013, 07:47 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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Welcome aboard,
Have a good time. And you should try the UF gulf rose plums so sweet as if some1 put sugar in them.. |
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Thank you all for the warm introductions!
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Thanks! I need to look into how to get one of those as I would really love to grow one! I had a tropic beauty that died a while back and I really wanted to get another one, but now you have me thinking in another direction.
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Re: New member from West Central FL
Hey Merce3. IT's been a few years since you made your initial post on this thread and I was wondering What survived for you and what did not do so well? I have been wanting to get Gros Michel and am in Lutz.
Looking forward to hearing about your successes.
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Have: Mysore, Pisang Klotek, Rajapuri, a Pineapple flavored type (Pisang Raja?), Manzano, Veinte Cohol, Gros Michel, Gran Nain, Double Mahoi, Enano Gigante, Dwarf Cavendish, SDC, TT, SH3640, FHIA-18, a NOT FHIA-18 (?), FHIA 01, Pitogo, Blue Java, Dwarf Red, Dwarf Namwah, Tall Namwah, Orinoco (from 3 locations), Dwarf Orinoco, Cali Gold, Hua Moa, (Red?) Iholena, Dwarf Iholene, Dwarf Puerto Rican, Velutina and growing |
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I am curious if you, Paulzie, have fruited that dwarf red, yet? I ended up with one, and hear they are difficult to fruit and take a long time as well. The novelty of red bananas isn't worth it if those things are true, they aren't that much better than Cavendish.
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If you lose your head and give up, you neither live nor win. https://sputinc7.wixsite.com/covwc Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel. What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more. |
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my citrus is doing okay... my ponkan is declining mostly due to neglect, but my valencia is doing great. i also grafted a bunch of lemons that i got from italy including a red finger lime and a eureka lemon. hass avocado is doing great, but hasn't fruited yet. pickering is about 5' and held 15 mangoes this year. also planted a mallika, lemon zest, venus, maha chanok, and nam doc mai mango. dragon fruit and papaya are all doing great yielding prolific amounts of fruit. bananas - lost everything except praying hands and ice cream, but i have added so much more. i'll update my thread when i can: Merce's Garden Oasis
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