I'm looking for any online stores who sell fruit (not plants) of tropical fruits like cherimoya, star apple, sopadilla, etc, things like that.
Where can I find sources?
Where to find tropical fruit sources?
There is a nursery down the road from me that sells tropical fruit, but I think they only sell plants online. It's called River's End Nursery and they have all the fruits that you mentioned. Here is the website http://www.riversendnursery.com/map.asp
Their prices for plants seem a little high but if it's just down the road from you, it's a steal when you don't have to pay those shipping rates.
I'm contacting them now to ask when fruits become available. Lucky you to live near a store like that!
Susie,what was that site that Shirley and those guys were getting tropical fruit baskets and stuff from?
CC, I can't remember. Maybe Shirley will come along and see this.
Captmicha, she is a super nice lady. They lost a lot of the fruiting growth on the mature fruit trees when we had the freeze at Christmas. My daughter went down and helped her wrap them with paper and insulation. I think the worst hit were Mamay trees and I know she lost several hundred pounds of sapodillas that weren't ripe when the freeze hit. I love to buy fresh starfruit from her in summer, it is so much better than the ones from the store. She also has the black sapote(tastes like chocolate pudding).
It's my dream to try one! I was trying to grow my own with a tree I found off ebay. I don't know what was wrong with it but the roots turned black and so did most of the tree. It's still alive but it's all going downhill.
Buuuut, I'm buying a new one and I'm starting seed too. I was afraid that if I only started seed, I would be impatient, this way I'll have the tree to look at.
Is there enough humidity in TX to grow those kind of tropical trees? I'd LOVE to hear what kind you grow.
We have less humidity than other areas of TX because of the wind, but in July and August we get plenty! Kathy grows acres of tropical fruits and I think the wind is her biggest problem. I only have guavas, citrus, bananas, figs, dragon fruits, mangoes and Barbados cherries. I killed my avacado tree, I watered it incorrectly and it died.
Every now and then our water gets salty because we are so close to the Laguna Madre and that can damage the leaves and we have to watch the pH and not let it get too high.
Ohh, but weather is okay for brugs?
The brugs bloom most of the year unless we have a weird winter and get a freeze. The worst thing is the wind. It never fails, if the brugs are full of buds, we will get strong winds and I get to watch the flowers fly across the yard. I've been planting wind breaks, mostly bananas right now, but DH wants to add a row of oleanders.
Mmm... any ice creams?
I have a large clump of Ice Cream bananas. It had bananas on it when we had the snow, I covered them but they didn't mature.
Awww! But those are the best! Was that their first batch of nanas? Do they really taste like they say they do?
I had an ice cream nana that got weedwacked one too many times. Oh well, I have another one on order. I just hope it won't pout in the cool weather we're having.
It was it's first bananas. It has three more large stems, I'm hoping one of those will have nanas. I know the Dwarf Cavendish nanas were delicious.
What do those taste like? I was thinking about getting a super dwarf.
They were sweet and had a strong banana flavor. The bunch had about a hundred bananas that ripened over a two week period. I made so much banana pudding and banana bread we were getting tired of it.
CM and Cala...have either of you tried the Dwarf Apple Banana? DEEEElicious - small. Easy. The nanas are only about 5" - 6" long...perfect nana snack. The trees get to be about 12'-15'. Not really tall.
I bought one from ebay, it hasn't flowered yet. Now if I can remember which nana it is out there in that line of trees!
Oooh, I wanna. I just found out about apple bananas today. I didn't even know there were dwarfs! I've gotta look into it!
I envy you guys so much, you can just use them as treescaping. Everything I plant out has to be brought back in and it will be because I'm insisting on taking full advantage of our growing season!
What kind of tropical fruit do you grow AlohaHoya?
Captmicha, you have a huge choice of trees you can grow up there and we are limited. Old, mature trees are precious comodities down here!
We have pawpaws... But yes, then there's apples, apricots, cherry, and other things,
My climate is very ideal for berries!~ That's good news.