My Tropical Fruit Trees Update

I used to have a lot of tropical fruit trees but most die after I left them down the basement.  These are all I have left.  I still have a few sugar apple and cherimoya seedlings. Other than tropical fruit trees I also have 5 different epi flowers and 4 different hoya plants.  I really love to eat atemoya, so tempted to get more tree!!!  Maybe I need to visit Canada for some tropical fruits.  No place for me to order cherimoya fruit either. I'm just so sad now I'm focusing in grafting my atemoya tree.

7 yr old Soursop tree flowered this year but no fruit set. I just pruned it down to fit in the house.

Gefner atemoya with one fruit

Lisa atemoya with one fruit

 Plumeria. My sister gave me a cutting from Hawaii a few years ago.  But not sure why there's no flower yet.  I'll have to fertilize more.

7 yr old Santol tree no flower. Not sure will it ever going to flower 

 June Plum

Trying to graft the atemoya to cherimoya tree

My Christmas Present- Sugar Apple (Man Cau)

This year I got a yummy Christmas present, home grown sugar apple. I planted this sugar apple from seed 2-3 years ago and this year it fruited for me. The fruit ripen on Christmas day. This is a Vietnam variety. I was surprised by the size of the fruit. It was 10.7 oz and very tasty. This is the chewy type...which I love most. Mom and dad got a piece of it and they were like wow. :))

Ready to eat my dragon fruit!

So after many years of disappointment, my dragon fruit finally hold it's fruit. Yes, just one this year. I have three different variety, magenta, red, and yellow. Well, I thought this one is the magenta one....but I was wrong after cutting it in half. It's not pink or red...but white! Not sure what happened but the size of the fruit is small but inside is not pink. The fruit was ripe on the vine so it was very sweet. I wonder what variety is this. Small in size, pinkish skin, and white inside.

My dragon fruit finally fruited!!!

I am so shock as my dragon fruit finally fruited for me here in PA! I have this plant for 5 years and this year it fruited. It was funny because I told myself I will give it a severe pruning if it doesn't fruit this year since it was a pain to drag it in and out of the basement.

I hand pollinated the flowers every year at around 5 am but this year I pollinated them at 6 or 7 am. I guess I didn't do it right before with the time? I will from now on pollinated the flower at 7 am. I think this dragon fruit is the magenta color. I could not wait for it to mature so I can taste it. YAY!!!!!!!

My Potted Sugar Apple Trees (Man Cau)

I have a lot of tropical fruit trees and I have quite a few sugar apple trees (5 +) because the fruit is my family favorite. There are a few variety of sugar apple but the best one is the one that is chewy with more flesh than seed ratio. The green variety seems to be the best but the kampong mauve sugar apple looks very pretty. So I have both varieties and also planted a few green variety from seeds. They are pretty easy to grow and fruit in 2-3 years. I think I will get a lot of kampong mauve sugar apple this year. :)

Kampong Mauve Kampong Mauve

Thai Lessard

Seed from Vietnam

Fruiting at 2 years

More seedlings

My Potted Mango Trees

I'm so excited as my two potted mangoes are fruiting. I have the Carrie and Nam Doc Mai mango trees. Got the trees from Nipa Hut Garden last year (May 2010). Both tree flowered and fruiting. I think I will only leave one fruit on each tree if the fruits stay. But I think most of the fruits will drop by themselves since the tree can not support all of them. As you can see the flowers on each tree is different. The Carrie flowers are closer together in clusters compared to the Nam Doc Mai. The color of the flowers are also different.

Carrie

Nam Doc Mai

Jackfruit and Cherimoya

My recent craving is for jackfruit and cherimoya! This is a great time to order cherimoya and lots of jackfruit available at our local Asian stores. The cherimoya is so good and sweet! Same with the jackfruit. I've been eating them for a couple days....hehehe

Spring Cherimoya

I ordered cherimoya from Cherimoya.com to try their Spring cherimoya. I have to say I was disappointed because a few was not sweet and most of them were seedy. When I ordered in the summer or fall they were usually very very big and all were sweet. I will wait until summer to order from them again. Below is one I cut and you can see mostly seeds. I counted the seeds and it was 108! Not a lot of flesh compared to seeds and flavor was not sweet. I did not enjoy eating them this time. :(

Tropical fruits in Toronto

We went to Toronto for a 5 days vacation and it was a lot of fun. We bought a lot of tropical fruits, visited the Niagara Fall during the day and night, visited some relatives, and went to dinner in the CN Tower. The only sad thing was CAD money worth more than US dollar. The best rate we got was with TD bank because they didn't charge an exchange fee. I think it was 100 US dollars for 101 CAD. There were many fruit stores and some were cheaper than the other. The fruits were a little cheaper than in the US and a lot fresher!

Niagara Fall during day
Niagara Fall at night

Niagara Fall w/ lights
Free fireworks




Chinatown on Spadina Ave. More than 5 fruit stores.
Best sugar apples
Longkong and rambutan so sweet

Best mangosteen ever.
Didn't try the sapodilla since it was still green.
Atemoya- some were good and some just ok. I still think the one we got from Florida was better.
Mangoes were so good with salt and chillies.
Try not to buy the 10 for $20 sugar apple as they're not as good as the 7 for $20.
June plum was good and not too sour.

Sour sop may looks good but the ripe one is not good at all. We got one ripe and unripe. The hard one was better and sweeter than the ripe one.
First day there and we spent $95 on fruits. For the rest of the 3 days we spent $90 each day on fruits.
Sour but yummy
Ripe sour sop not so good
Baby jackfruit chempedak was very good. The flesh was soft and sweet.
CN Tower
CN Tower at night was so beautiful with the different light.







Dinner at CN Tower was very expensive after tax and tips. But the food was good. We also get to see the city from up high. It was a beautiful scene.