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Originally Posted by Darkman
Welcome to the forum. There are several fruit growers near you.
Use the "Find me on the map!" so we can see where you live. Living in Northern Escambia Co you have colder winters than me but you still have many fruits you can grow.
Orinoco will fruit in Pensacola. I know I fruited and ate them in the summer of 2011. I have several P-stems I expect to fruit this summer and due to our lack of winter I have one fruiting right now however the mat may not make enough leaves to support the stalk. I did not offer my bananas any protection this year but we had an unusally mild winter. I had planned a substantial protection but a family situation stopped me. I only lost my leaves when we had a frost in January. There are citrus that will grow here. I have about thirtry trees that are young but I expect all of them to produce and live IF I can get them to year five which shouldn't be too hard. Blueberrys do exceptionally well here. I will be able to give you some Orinoco and blueberries if you want. I am trialing some other bananas that may work here. I'll know more in a few years. Either way I'll have pups. We have a banana friend that lives near us and he will certainly have pups from various bananas that he will give you. Figs also do well here. To get rid of Coyote find something that eats them. A 30-06 should do the trick!
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I tried to enter coordinates but apparently something is not right. I live in Santa Rosa county 1.5 miles from Pace Highschool. i am colder than you in part because I live in the bottom of valley where cold air accumulates. I am also just a little bit north of you that makes a difference.
Thanks for all of the information on bananas and we will have to talk more about them. I protected my citrus this year, but it was not necessary. We only got down to 25 F for a short time.
At least two kinds of blueberrys grow wild on my place as do wild persimmons.
Relative to coyotes I have a 30-06 some where in my vault and a lot other smoke poles, but coyotes tend to come out late at night (These were around about 1-2 AM). Hard to shoot what you cannot see. Since I am planning on free ranging chickens I will be looking into the for eating coyotes thing. I have my eye on some old time farm bulldogs (really should be called Shepherd's mastiffs) that are being rescued from extinction in Mississippi from the few remaining non-cross bred traditional Carr White English stock that came from Georgia. They are stealthy and attack silently and have longer jaws that open very wide with long front teeth. They arrived in the americas during early colonial times. May have arrived here first with the spanish and latter the french and english. They have not existed in England probably since the 18th century. No need for them there with the extinction of the wolf. I may also get night vision goggles, but that is an investment as would be a suppressor.