Planting Fruit Trees (Sarasota, Bradenton, Venice: sale, house, buying)

[dard28w]

Any advice and nursery recommendations for buying and planting fruit trees? Coming in January and can't wait to get started with a few trees.

[MikMal]

We bought our Florida Hass avocado tree from ECHO's Tropical Fruit Nursery in North Ft. Myers. We just planted it last spring so we don't have any fruit yet but at least it's growing good.

We've also bought plants at Powell's Nursery in Punta Gorda but only the flowering type; no fruit bearing plants. Great place! No BS, they tell it like it is.

I have two papaya trees that I started from seed. They're really easy to grow and will bear fruit in a year.

[Macgregorsailor]

We have a Cuban Mango Tree now and are giving thought to either a Key or a Tahiti Persian Lime tree. My concern with past knowledge and experience is. When the fruit really begins to come in , falling fruit can become a lot of extra work and attract a lot of undesireables.. We had a wonderful Miniture Sweet Papaya in front of our house on Cozumel it was a wonderful fruit not much bigger than an orange and as the name implies it was sweet. At that point in our lives , we were like year round snow birds what with our all year long constant in and out and in and out, On no less than a few occasions the fruit caused a mess and attracted LARGE Iguanas and all sorts of bugs. We also had 3 coconut trees ( the yellow variety) and as you all know the nuts never really cause an issue. We had a gardener that came by twice a month, year round but it wasnt always enough. In Short, Fruit trees can be messy and rotting fruit WILL attract animals and bugs and when your fruit is in, so is everyone elses and few will want any of it..

[pcozad1]

We have a quat key lime that bears fruit all year. Purchased it on pine island. Also have a everbearing calamundin orange tree from home depot it's a great changup on a key lime pie.

[wpc691]

Keep the fruit picked up or it's only a matter of time before you have rats. Plant citrus trees where they will be sheltered from the wind to reduce the chance of canker - grapefruit are very susceptible.

[SoFLGal]

I have quite a few fruit trees most of them I purchased off two different ladies. One lives in south Venice and the other lives in South Sarasota. I can give you their numbers if you are interested. Both of them have the more unusual type of fruit trees. Here's my current list:

Soupsop
Cherry of the Rio Grande
Coconut Cream Mango
Carrie Mango
Strawberry Tree
Moringa Tree
Tobago Pink Custard Apple
Fig
Blue Passion Vine
Hawaiian Papaya
Macadamia
Jakfruit
Miracle Fruit
Star Fruit
Red Wax Jambu
Longan Berry
Black Sapote
Orange
Key Lime
Lemon
Grapefruit
Peach
Haas Avacado
Pomegrante
Persimmon
Pear
Sour Apple
Grape
Everbearing Mulberry
Blackberry
Raspberry
Lychee
Dragon Fruit
Ice Cream Banana
Pink Guava
Sapodilla
Peanut Butter Tree
Green Sapote
Egg Fruit
Swiss Cheese Plant
Malabar Nut
Blue Butterfly Pea
Jabuticaba Tree
Kiwi Vine

[Rogerluli]

I've heard the same comment about the problems of not being around to keep fruit picked up you'll attract fruit rats...Even so I planted a blood orange, red navel, key and Tahitian limes, Meyer and Eureka lemon, calamondin, longan,
and papayas...We have a huge annual fruit tree sale in Bradenton where you can buy about any kind of fruit tree you can imagine...


Manatee Rare Fruit Council > Plant Sale

[Salty Dave]

Wow must be a big yard, any pictures?

Originally Posted by SoFLGal

I have quite a few fruit trees most of them I purchased off two different ladies. One lives in south Venice and the other lives in South Sarasota. I can give you their numbers if you are interested. Both of them have the more unusual type of fruit trees. Here's my current list:

Soupsop
Cherry of the Rio Grande
Coconut Cream Mango
Carrie Mango
Strawberry Tree
Moringa Tree
Tobago Pink Custard Apple
Fig
Blue Passion Vine
Hawaiian Papaya
Macadamia
Jakfruit
Miracle Fruit
Star Fruit
Red Wax Jambu
Longan Berry
Black Sapote
Orange
Key Lime
Lemon
Grapefruit
Peach
Haas Avacado
Pomegrante
Persimmon
Pear
Sour Apple
Grape
Everbearing Mulberry
Blackberry
Raspberry
Lychee
Dragon Fruit
Ice Cream Banana
Pink Guava
Sapodilla
Peanut Butter Tree
Green Sapote
Egg Fruit
Swiss Cheese Plant
Malabar Nut
Blue Butterfly Pea
Jabuticaba Tree
Kiwi Vine

[SoFLGal]

Originally Posted by Salty Dave

Wow must be a big yard, any pictures?

Here are a few pics of some of the plants. This is the front yard and a little of the side yard. The front yard has the Avocado, Grapefruit, peach, Orange, Lemon, Key Lime, Guava, mulberry and a few others, as well as my vegetables in the pots-Tomatoes, corn, okra, beans, radishes, etc.

The side yard has the star fruit, longanberry, macadamia, jackfruit, passion vine, pear, butterfly pea, persimmon, pomegranate and a few other things.

My lot is about a half acre and I probably well over did it for the space I have

[coastal chic]

Looks great Shannon!