I was just wondering what types of tropical fruit/plants you all have been able to grow. Especially fruits like jackfruit and breadfruit (not sure if it's an actual fruit, but it goes great with butter!). I've seen Jackfruit mentioned before, but nothing saying wether or not you've actually grown them and gotten them to fruit. If so, could you share some pics? I just miss the sweet, candy taste of jackfruit and it's stickiness and breadfruits taste.

So where do you live? Can you kindly update your user profile and update at least general information like USDA Zone equivalent, city and state or country.

I have grown more than 500 fruiting cultivars in my yard and can guarantee you that it will bring down this server if I post the pics of them, so I only place links time to time.

Anyway, I am currently maintaining only about 355 cultivars right now and I try new ones and cut away the poor performers at a rate of about 2 dozen cultivars per year.

And I only have 725 square feet of land dedicated to fruit production. My lawn is bigger, occupying 1,375 square feet, and there are no trees in my lawn.

short list: grapes, berries, vegies, herbs, citrus, bananas, white sapote, guavas, lychee, cherimoyas, passionfruit, eugenias, mangos, sapodillas, paw paws, plus other weird stuff. Most of my stuff is young so only a few have fruited, some are in the ground many in pots. I had apricots, unfortunately had termites also. Will replant a multi-stonefruit tree and after seeing the beautiful cherry pics here, might need a cherry tree too. Also, someday just for frustration, I'm going to get an abiu (pouteria caimito).

what are you growing?
-Ethan

Since I'm several zones removed from good growing areas, I resorted to building a greenhouse. I have couple varieties of bananas, miracle fruit, rambutan, pineapple, mango, navel orange, key lime, persian lime, meyer lemon, tamarind, longan, garcinia livingstonei(imbe), cherimoya, mutingia, mangosteen, garcinia madrono, garcinia brasiliensis, sugar apple, grumichama, guava, pomegranit, starfruit, lychee, wax jambu, dragon fruit, sapodilla, jakfruit, mayong chid, some non-fruiting specimens as well.

Wow, I'm impressed. You people must put alot of time into your trees! Umm Im feeling too lazy to update my profile ATM but I live in hudson, Wisconsin. Its right across the border from st. paul, Minnesota.

I feel pathetic, but I have only just started getting into citrus for a couple weeks now, lol. I would never be able to take care of NEARLY as many plants as you guys do.

I have a meyer lemon and a washington navel.....

Well now another northerner, welcome Trunkmonkey! I have been at this for about 2 yrs and heed the warning given earlier, you start with one and that's it you are hooked. I have limequat, Trovita orange, Bearss Lime, Eureka Lemon, Varigated pink lemon, White sapote, Bay Laurel (bay leaf) seedlings of Key lime, Ponderosa Lemon, Calamondin, Honey Bell tangerine, Dancy, Pon kan Mandarin, Flying Dragon and I recently added a Super Dwarf Banana that is growing extremely well in all this heat. All this in Minnesota on the deck of a townhouse! I relly enjoy the challenge of growing from seed and from this group you will learn much and get all the help you could possibly use.

Down here in sunny NW Florida we can't grow most of the stone fruits, and we are too cold to grow real tropicals, but I have 6 citrus trees, many with multiple varieties -- about 20 varieties in all, apples, figs, blueberries, bannanas, pineapple, persimmon, pecan and a veggie garden year round. I also have a couple avocados inground and will try grafting them this fall.

Hey TM...Joe hit the nail on the head when he said you still have a shot of leading a normal life! He's not kidding one little bit. I started out about 5 years ago thinking that a couple of citrus plants would look good on my deck. Shouldn't be too difficult to bring them in for the winter. Next thing I new, seeds were being planted and grafted plants started arriving thru the mail. Now I have a greenhouse! I would never have looked at those two little citrus trees and envisioned a greenhouse in my near future! So don't feel pathetic. Rest assured you still have some sanity left!

It's true that once you get the fruit growers bug it can get bad especially if you have a greenhouse. Here's some pics of a few things I've got growing up here.

Wampee:


Suriname Cherry:


Olive:


Cranberry:


Currants:


Mango:


Naranjilla:


Hardy Kiwi:


Quince:


Natal Plum:


Lemon Guava:


Curry:


Chilean Guava:


Chestnut:


Had to add a citrus pic

Citrus Tiawanica:

nice pics Eyeckr,
which mango are you growing? Is your hardy kiwi Ken's red? Currants look yummy. I love the look of naranjilla, I've got 3 but they are younger than yours, lots of purple color, not spikes yet. Have you tasted any?

sorry for all the ?s

-Ethan

I'm growing Carrie & Cogshall both of which have excellent performers in their containers. I opted for the standard Ananasnaja variety because of their productivity and less bird pressure since the fruit don't turn eye catching red. I haven't tried the fruit of the Naranjilla yet but have heard that it tastes good. Thanks to Cactusrequiem this year I may be able to sample it.

I forgot to add the pic of my Jackfruit plant (courtesy of Citrus Joe -thanks!):


Rollinia Deliciosa:


Star Apple:


Cacao:


Pineapple:


Guamachil:


Jujube:

Nice pics! Everything is looking good. Is your jakfruit a seedling? I can see the leaves are already lobed. I recently received a gold nugget jakfruit. Nice looking plant. One of the plants that I put directly into the ground in my greenhouse. Thanks for sharing.

Great pics there! From now on, I'm gonna stop looking at any pictures anyone posts here, I'm getting the temptation to look into buying some more trees. Good thing I don't have any money right now.

EDIT: woa, did a moderator fill in my location in my profile status?!?! Thanks to whoever did that for me. This is by far the frendliest forum I have ever been to. Most of the forums I am a part of people hate me, but try not to say anything to me and ignore me.- not sure if that made too much sense, couldn't figure out how to put it.