Post Outline:  updated 2/13/25

• __ total different fruiting trees/plants
• 21 fruit plants I currently am growing: not counting the duplicates
• 6 fruit trees other people are growing for me to taste
• 39 fruit trees rehomed or sold
• 13 fruit trees/plants that died

The trees marked with an asterisk are my long term commitment. I had originally posted this list to share on Facebook but encountered too many idiots who do not read before asking and assuming I am selling or rehoming all my fruit trees and so now it’s just here for me to keep track.

Fruit Trees I Currently Grow:

1. Miracle Berry Fruit tree
2. June plum tree
3. Barbados Cherry tree – tart taste, no one likes it in my family unless we eat a Miracle Berry fruit first and then this tart cherry becomes super sweet juicy cherries ever! I now love it.
4. “Cherry of the Rio Grande” – purchased from David Scanlon of Practical Plants in Clermont, Florida. I have not yet tasted this cherry but the taste is supposed to be closest to the Bing cherry. I am still waiting for this tree to fruit for me.
5. Citrus:  Kaffir Lime Tree: I must grow it for my Thai/Lao/Vietnamese recipes. Documentary: https://mamasnowcooks.com/gardening/growing-my-kaffir-lime-tree/
6. Citrus: Calomondin: I must grow it for meat marinades and calomondinade for my kids. Calomondin tree is native to Vietnam, a national fruit tree used to display or showcase during Vietnamese new year (Tết).
7. Mango: Siatong – My first tree was rehomed to Andy Baylis because I never tasted the fruit and ran out of patience with the tree. Shuja Haque let me try this mango variety and I love it so I bought again from Leaph Leaph.  It’s a keeper now.
8. Mango: Mahachanok (one of my most favorite mango variety, this mango variety has a beautiful mango fruit color of hues of peachy orange when ripen, and the tree has a beautiful shape and growth habit.)
9. Mango: Venus – purchased from Leaph in West Palm Beach
10. Mango: Keo Savoy – purchased from Nick’s Edibles in St. Cloud, FL
11. Peanut Butter Fruit Tree, air-layered from Luke
12. Guava: Leaph’s Seedless Guava Tree – purchased from Leaph Leaph on Facebook
13. Guava: Lemon Cattley
14. Sri Kembangan starfruit – purchased from Lukas Nursery in Oviedo, FL
15. Sugar Apple: Vietnamese Green Apple (sweet, chewy, non-gritty) – grown from seed
16. Sugar Apple: Purple from Priyam Prekesh on Facebook.
17. Atemoya: Lisa from Leaph
18. Atemoya:  Priestley from Leaph
19. Atemoya: African Pride 2 from Khang Nguyen in CA
20. Fig: LSU Golden from Nick’s Edibles
21. Pakistani Green Mulberry

Fruit Trees I have Other People Growing for Me

…because I ran out of space. 😆

1.  Trompo Canistel – Hưng Nguyen in Orlando is growing this for me.

2.  Scarlett Beauty Plum – Hưng Nguyen is growing this for me.

3.  Kaffir Lime tree – Dani Nguyen in Melbourne is growing this for me.

4. Viente Cohol Banana – rehomed to Kristina Toffelson, Oviedo

5. Pakistani Red Mulberry – I planted my Pakistani Mulberry tree to Mike Elson of Terrapy Farms in Ruskin, Florida. If you book your next camping trip there, you will see my Pakistani Mulberry tree.

6. Mango: Choc A Non – Mike Elson of Terrapy Farms in Ruskin, FL is growing my tree.

Fruit Trees I Rehomed

1.  I once planted a Thai White guava tree as a gift to my husband, but he pist me off one day and I sold the tree. 😂 Lesson: Don’t mess with your wife if she is the only person taking care of the garden, cooking, and cleaning.

2.  Fuyu Persimmon tree – rehomed to neighbor across the street.

3.  Honey Jar jujube – rehomed to Andrew Birkett of Froot Farm in Christmas, FL

4.  Unknown Sweet jujube variety – rehomed to Andrew Birkett of Froot Farm in Christmas, FL

5.  Black Jamberry Fruit tree – rehomed to Nick Finan of Nick’s Edibles in St. Cloud after getting to taste this fruit. No one liked it in my family. I wouldn’t waste money on this fruit. Hundreds of hard little seeds packed into one tiny fruit the size of a pistachio. No thank you. I will pass.

6. Seedless green skin tangerine from Van’s nursery – rehomed

7. Day avocado – rehomed to Walter, fruited nicely after a year in the ground,  grew at least 8 feet a year,  disliked the bland dull taste.

8.  Thornless Blackberry – rehomed – purchased from Nick’s Edibles. This didn’t last more than six months in my garden. Its growth habit clashes with my personality. We are just not meant to be. 😂 The fruits only grow on mature woody stems but I kept pruning it to control the growth which didn’t really help with fruit production.

9.  Black Suriname Cherry (rehomed – my kids and I spit this nasty tasting cherry out faster than lightning speed). I sold it to a couple whose wife likes to eat it.

10.  Jaboticaba: Sabara – rehomed (sold) to Brian Borger because I ran out of patience with this tree)

11.  Mulberry: Dwarf Ever bearing (rehomed)

12.  Citrus: Meiwa Kumquat tree – rehomed to Victor, Oviedo.  No one in my family likes eating this fruit.   The tree is currently about three foot tall with a one-inch thick diameter trunk and in the ground fruiting. I think it will be happier in a 10-gallon pot with a bag of potting mix made for citrus trees. It needs full sun and well draining soil. Citrus trees are drought tolerant. It doesn’t like to be over watered. Meiwa kumquat is not the sweetest kumquat. My friends and I have tasted the sweetest kumquat and that is the Honey Crisp kumquats imported from China.

13.  Mango: Coconut Cream – rehomed (sold) to Andy Baylis, Orlando.

14.  I rehomed my Sweetheart lychee tree and forever gave up on growing lychee.

15. Kari Kari starfruit: rehomed (sold) to Andy Trần in Orlando because I didn’t like the taste as much as the current Sri Kembangan starfruit tree I have.

16.  Lemon tree – rehomed – This tree didn’t even last four weeks in my backyard – the thorns poked me badly that’s when I learned lemon trees have thorns. I didn’t paid attention or noticed the thorn when I bought and planted the tree. LOL!

17. Sapodilla: Makok – I love eating this variety but the tree doesn’t seem to like me. I rehomed (sold) this tree to Tanya Hunt in Oviedo on 2/21/24.

18. Yehuda Loquat tree – rehomed on 5/26/24 to Stephan Rattan and pictured is where it is in his backyard now.

19. Rehomed Pisang Raja banana plant to Stephan Rattan on 5/26/24.

20. Longan: Dragon’s Eye – I rehomed this longan tree to Tej. This tree originated from Leaph’s mom’s longan tree in Viet Nam. It’s grafted and at fruiting age. The fruit has a thick flesh and small seed with a super juicy sweet taste.

21. Mango: Chocanon from Love Plant Nursery – rehomed to Mike Elson of Terrapy Farms in July 2024.

22. Mango: Pram Kai Mea – (sold) I purchased from Leaph in West Palm Beach.

22. Thai Mulberry – My son said I may get rid of this fruit tree after we tasted Pakistani Green Mulberry for the first time.

23. Blueberry: Kestrel Blueberry (my favorite blueberry variety) – I have up the fantasy of harvesting a bountiful harvest from one blueberry plant. I need to grow at least 10 15-potted Kestrel to satisfy my kids and my cravings for it. I was sad to let it go but life moves on with new growing experiences.

24. Goji Berry – shrubby and thorny fruiting plant, grows well in a container with fast draining soil. I need to harvest a lot and one 15-gallon potted Goji Berry is not enough.

25. Sweet Tamarind tree:  rehomed to Haydee Kirwan, Oviedo.   The sweet variety is rare compared to the sour variety. Native of Thailand. It needs to be planted in the ground in full sun in a non-flooding zone. This is a shade fruiting perennial tree. It will get big. Plant it forty feet away from concrete structure unless you train it to be dwarf. Native of Thailand, Phillipine, Vietnam

26. Atemoya:  Dream (Rehomed to Priyam Prakesh in Orlando, FL.)

27. Citrus: Sugar Belle Mandarin Tree – from Xain’s World Nursery in West Palm Beach, Florida. This citrus variety is known to have high resistance to Citrus Greening disease. Added 2/3/24, but rehomed in 10/2024 to Hoa Nguyen of Hoa’s Nursery in Apopka, FL.

28. Citrus: Cara Cara / Red Navel Orange Tree – Added from Hoa’s Nursery, Apopka on 1/3/23 but rehomed in 10/2024 to Hoa Nguyen.

29. Mango: Orange Sherbet – Sold and rehomed to Tej Carbone in Oviedo, Florida. I have been looking and hoping to find someone to grow this tree in Oviedo so I can trade mangos with them.

30. Mango: *Pickering – Rehomed to Tej Carbone in Oviedo, Florida. She dug the tree out from the backyard. If this tree survives by Spring Day in 2025, I will collect payment from her. Documentary: https://mamasnowcooks.com/gardening/my-pickering-mango-tree-in-zone-9b-fl (To be rehomed)

Mango: Kiew Yai / Golden Queen – (sold to Francis Calderon in Facebook) I purchased from Leaph in West Palm Beach.

31. Banana: Variegated from Leaph in Spring 2024 but sold and rehomed to Nick Finan of Nick’s Edibles in St. Cloud for $100.

32. Citrus: Nules Clementine, purchase in February 2024 as a single grafted branch. It fruited and I tasted the fruits in December 2024. Peel is loose and very easy to peel, seedless, but not juicy or sweet at all. The fruit was somewhat dry. I rehomed this tree to Allison Andrews.

33. Fig: Little Miss Figgy

34. Pitomba Cherry tree – (sold) I purchased from Nick’s Edibles in St. Cloud. My first time tasting this fruit was at Harry Leus Botanical Gardens in Orlando. They garden has an area with fruit trees.  I liked the semi tart taste of this fruit. It’s rather more of a fruiting bush than a “tree” and doesn’t take up much space. Pruning is necessary to make it bushy.

35. Savannah Cherry – (sold) I purchased from Nick Finan of Nick’s Edibles in St. Cloud, Florida.  It’s low maintenance and drought tolerant and pest free.

36. Avocado: Maria Black (grafted) – sold to Priyam Prekesh on Facebook. 2/12/25: I purchased from Leaph’s Fruit Trees

37. Atemoya: Geffner from Nick’s Edibles and I sold it to Priyam Prekesh on 2/12/25

38. Jamaican Strawberry tree: (sold) I have a love and hate relationship with this tree.  I have to find someone to swap this out every three years to start over with a small tree. https://mamasnowcooks.com/gardening/growing-jamaican-strawberry-tree

39. Banana: Dwarf Thai Namwah – rehomed to (?). Documentary: https://mamasnowcooks.com/gardening/growing-dwarf-banana-varieties/

Fruit Trees/Plants I Took Out or Died

1. Died: Green Caimito – This was a beautiful perennial fruit tree with a fast growing rate, but OCD me decided to dig it out of the ground after four months to remove it one foot over because my spacing was off. It died. This tree doesn’t like to be relocated once planted in the ground. Oh well, now I just get to harvest the fruit at my friend Leaph in WPB.

2. Died: Grumichama Cherry

Papaya trees: I only reserve one space for one papaya tree at a time in my small urban yard. I grow my papaya tree variety for 1.5 to 2 years before I chop the tree down and take it out to make room for the next variety. I just wanted to taste the different varieties there are out there.

3. Papaya: Golden (done)

4.  Papaya: T.R. Hovey (done)

5. Died: Emperor Lychee tree – grafted and purchased from Lukas Nursery in Oviedo. The tree was not healthy to begin with and so it never grew, just got sick and sicker. I bought it for $75, such a rip off.

6.Died: Starfruit Bell – died 2/21/24. I purchased it from Xain’s World Nursery from the clearance rack.

7. Aborted: Australian Beach Cherry – purchased seedling on Etsy in 2020 and now it’s about 2-ft tall. It flowered and attempted to fruit for the first time in Spring 2024 but the plant continuously got plagued by some kind of rust fungal problem. I seek advice from Florida Tropical Fruit Tree Growers group on Facebook to find out this specific cherry tree is commonly and easily plagued by fungal disease. The taste of the fruit is described is not that impressive either. So into the dumpster it goes.

8. Died: Buttercream Mango tree – I bought this tree grafted in a 3-gallon pot. The tip of the main branch kept rotting. I cut off the tip and the next one or two inches started to rot continuously. So into the dumpster it goes.

9. Died: Pineapple Guava tree – purchased as seedling on Etsy in spring 2024

10. Died: Mango: Vinh Long – native of Vietnam, purchased from Leaph’s Fruit Trees

11. Citrus: Honey Crisp Kumquat (added 2/2024) Died September 2024.

12. PPC Atemoya (died fall 2024)

13. Citrus: Vietnamese Pink Lime tree – Native of Vietnam (Added 2/1/2024) died December 2024

14. Fig: LSU Purple – (aborted) It got root knot nematode.

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Note:  My plant documentaries are created mainly to help me learn and remember how to take care of my fruit trees since I can’t remember anything if I do not take notes and pictures from my own experiences. I learn best from my own mistakes. If you find it helpful, good for you. If not, move on. 😂