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:abajo: Today I harvested papaya, passion fruit, and miracle fruit.

Soon it will be time to harvest two stalks of bananas that made it through the freezes! Ice creams and Cavendish!:2239:

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:2200:Today I harvested more passion fruit and more papaya!! :-)

I have another banana, that is about to set its first hands!! It is not the type I was told it was, and now I will have evidence to figure out what it is!! :2239:

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My papayas are not ripe yet but I did pick up almost 5 gallons of purple-skinned passion fruit!

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:scroll:Miracle fruit, papaya and passion fruit.

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Caloosa, I'm so jealous I could cry :(
Happy for you!! :)

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:abajo:Thank you Patty, It was frustrating growing pineapples and other things that would sometimes freeze, where I once lived further north. Now that I'm down here my green thumb is really beginning to produce. Our family and friends eat alot of the fruit.:2200:

Thank you and best wishes:2239:

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:2200:On Friday the 27th I harvested 6 papaya, 2 quarts of Jaboticabas, passion fruit, a stalk of dwarf cavendish bananas, and a pineapple. I split the harvest between my mother and in-laws. They were greatly appreciated, as they cannot produce these in zone 9 and 8b.:2239:

Best wishes to all and good growing!!:bananaflipflop:

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:scroll:Ice Cream bananas, and large sweet peppers! :2200:

I had hand pollinated these but the "father" plant was an AAA. The Blue Java(Ice Cream) is a female fertile banana, when they ripen sufficiently I'll search for a seed. I don't expect much but we'll see.:2239:

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One big black tomato from a mixed heirloom seed pack and two golden girls from the same.

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Green, soft seed mangos!!! :2239:

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Barbados Cherries, only a few. The local critters like my place! :2239:

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Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)! I purchased the tree at Fairchild Gardens plant sale. It is a Kampong Sweet. It is the best cultivar for South Florida I have seen grown and tasted. It is very sweet. :2239:

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A long sweet pepper, and a few mulberries. :2239:

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Strawberries for breakfast!

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Today I harvested green soft seed mangos. The tree is a seedling from a known cultivar, but the fruit is small as not as good as other cultivars. Last year I attempted to graft it but local vandals tore off my grafts. I have now put up a fence.

This mango, when soft seed, is very sour making it great for a pepper mix. Good growing! :2239:

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Today I harvested Gandules, Mulberries, and Papaya. :2239:

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Mulberries and Barbados Cherries! See pictures in photo gallery other plants :2239:

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More Green soft seed mangos!! :2239:

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The cashew apples have really grown and ripened



They are very juicy, fairly sweet and with a delicate flavour. I have frozen them for processing later into desserts or ice cream



I haven't decided how to process the nuts - atm I favour cracking them under water using latex gloves and eye protection as I can't find anyone who has processed them on an amateur basis

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Today I harvested a very large peached colored passion fruit. It was excellent! :2239:

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Today I harvested a very nice Large papaya! :2239:

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Im sad to admitt that I didnt even see most of these fruit here:(.
:woohoonaner:

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Ante,

Check out my photogallery! I also just harvested some Miracle fruit! :2239:

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Im going nuts whan I peek in your gallery. And Im just hopeing that one day I might have something like that!
:woohoonaner:

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Blueberries are just ripening...just enough for breakfast!

Margie:waving:

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Picked my 1st tomato today
Of course it was a cocktail tomato - no bigger then a dime
I've picked maybe 4 cukes, 2 summer squash, 2 pts peas
Did I mention the miserable wet Spring into summer?
Hard for things to grow without sun - only 4 days without rain in June

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Passion fruit Frederick's

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Vitus rotundifolia, Wild Grapes, They tasted Good! I have been snacking on them for over a week when I'm out on my Farm site! :2239:

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This morning I harvested more Simpson Stopper, Myrcianthes fragrans. This plant is Native to South Florida and is an edible fruit. It grows as far north as South Carolina. My personal experience is that it can take 22F wintertime weather. :2239:

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Swiss chard, and roma tomatos for salsa.:ha:

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Eggplant and peppers.

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Long Red Papaya! It tasted very sweet! :2239:

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A quart each of Cayenne, Chile De Arbol, and Ring Of Fire peppers; plus a pint of Pasilla Bajio peppers.

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a couple quarts of green beans, some tomatoes, and some sweet corn

aaron

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Yum!

After I was done picking peppers (without Peter Pipers help), my wife came in from the orchard with 3 gallons of blackberries and 7 gallons of passion fruit.

:woohoonaner:

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I am jealous... I love berries.. Can't wait until next spring, when I will be getting a bunch of blackberry plants. (Not sure which variety they are..thornless, huge berries, and wonderfully sweet... getting starts from friend's)

aaron

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Today I went crawling around under the other side of my passion vine and brought in 5 gallons of fruit.

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Sweet...have to get some cuttings from that plant...:woohoonaner::woohoonaner:

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Miracle Fruit!! :2239:

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More Passion fruit. Blooming for the second time this summer.

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WOW, all that passion fruit? I couldn't get one bloom this year from store bought fruit planted last year!
I did pick all my concord grapes today. I only have one vine growing along fence but I got 7 lbs of grapes. I did not fert them this year & only watered them once, but I did spray 2 -3 times with Joe Real's AZ41 so I'm happy w/ what I got. Tomorrow I'll get the rest as it was getting dark out & I couldn't see. Here comes grape jelly & juice!

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Mangos! Totally awesome flavor from small ones that are falling off the tree. The larger ones are still hanging on.

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I'm not certain what forum I'm in. If it's bamboo, I found that the Heights, a good-size area a couple miles from downtown Houston, is loaded with it - skinny to very tall. I'd always considered bamboo fairly rare in Houston, but not in that area. Some bananas, a fig now and then, and almost nothing from the peach-plum-pear-apple line. Just not enough chill anymore, nothing like 20 years ago, a sign of the times. And the forest around Houston has both wild pears and wild plums - a couple varieties. Bradfords are cute, but wild pears are so much earlier and beautiful while flowering.
If the topic is Praying Hands, then let me say it is the grandest of all my pads, simply towering over all others, a breed apart here in Houston, and with fruit too.
As for flowering, that's it, I don't know how they figure out when fall is - they grow very well, but generally do not flower after August. The grove will be noticeably higher end October than it is right now. When you have a number of pads, it's true that you can tell when a stalk is going to flower - it simply reaches a certain girth. Right now is the drolls - nothing to fertilize, nothing to cut, no new pods. We get to eat a few now and then. The action has really gone to the figs - waking up, new leaves, fruit is starting to appear. These things get loaded with a fall crop, their second in a year, but the cold usually keeps us from eating many. You can grow an easy 10 varieties in Houston, that's ten distinguishable by their fruit, but just for summer eating, and oddly, they grow very slowly, inches a year, except for Celeste (I believe) which accounts for all the giant plants you see around Houston - can be as big as a small two-story house.
For the moment, the bananas just stand there being pretty; actually, probably sweating a bit over this record cold winter we're supposed to have. But, just like low-chill peaches, just give them an excuse, two warm days, Dec-Jan., and they spike green. Very nice.


Cheers, SB

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5 gallons "Frederick" passion fruit
3 gallons "Pettingill" apples
3 gallons "MidKnight" seedless valencia orange
2 gallons "Eureka" lemon

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About 10 large pineapple guavas from "Nazemetz" cultivar.

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Eggplant--Ichban and Green


Jalapeno peppers

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Love those passion fruits. I was able to harvest only a few grape tomatoes. All of my cherry tomatoes and big tomatoes were eaten by my deer friends. I wonder whether passion fruit trees are deer resistent. But the deer in my neighborhood are so hungry that they will even eat my canna flowers.:0517:

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2.5 gallons of "Black Satin" Blackberries! :woohoonaner: