The Great South Florida Food Forest Project now has one more productive tree – the chocolate pudding fruit tree has borne for the first time!
Check out this photo Mom just sent me:
Woo-hoo! I’m psyched.
Trees that are now bearing:
Chocolate Pudding Fruit (barely)
Coconut (profusely)
Mango (profusely)
Key Lime (decently)
Star Fruit (profusely)
Grumichama (lightly)
Mulberry (lightly)
Acerola Cherry (profusely)
Tropical Almond (decently)
Papaya (lightly)
Bananas (lightly)
Still waiting:
Cashew
Avocado
Tamarind
Canistel
Surinam Cherries
Cherry of the Rio Grande
Passionfruit
Dwarf Mulberry
Why plant grass and boring ornamentals when you can eat delicious and exotic fruits from your backyard?
Come on, Floridians, plant some fruit trees!
You can have greener thumbs by this weekend!
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Wow, what a treat!
Would you sell some seeds later on?
Thanks!
My parents might be able to mail you some. No $ required. Just pass on a few of my links to the rest of the internet over Facebook, or write a nice review or something. :)
I did what I could, as English is not my mother tongue.
Let me know: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005847876870&fref=nf&pnref=story .
That was really nice of you – I didn’t expect such a marvelous write-up. Your jokes are great.
“David is a breath of fresh air (except when he smokes his huge cigars).” LOL
I sent you an email a while ago. If you didn’t get it, let me know. I need your address.
I got this tree from Benders Grove in Davie South Florida, grafted. It grows well I hope next year we get some fruits too they taste great.
Good luck!
uuuhhhh, climate envy…..
On a scale of 1-10, ten being chocolate heaven, how do they taste? This may be something to add to my list.
Your web page is known by all my friends at church who I know to be growers. It also gets linked a time or two in a couple boards where I post. One of the boards has added a garden/homesteading thread because I kept mentioning my winter garden while they are mostly stuck up in the snow.
The fruit I had was like eating chocolate pudding. Incredible, with sweet persimmon undertones. The chocolate flavor doesn’t have quite the full bitter undertone of true chocolate, but it’s definitely there. I’d plant one ASAP if I had the right climate (which you do)!
Thank you for the links – I appreciate it. My garden writing is now my full-time income and growing my readership provides for my family.
What do they think of the acerola cherries? I’ve never tried those and the fruit has mixed reviews.
They’re good. Refreshingly sweet-tart, like an acerola vitamin C.
You may be confusing them with Surinam cherries, however, which are often rough on the tastebuds. Different species.
I finally found a chocolate pudding fruit to try ! Pretty cool ! http://earthlychow.com/eureka-tasting-chocolate-pudding-fruit-black-sapote-taste-chocolate-without-sugar
It’s an excellent fruit.
Wow, never heard of this! Growing zone? I’m in North Georgia.
Zone 10, unfortunately; maybe zone 9 if you had a sheltered location.
Hi. I hope you are well. I totally agree, plant edibles as they are just as beautiful as other plants and flowers and serve an amazing purpose. I just purchased a house in Royal Palm Beach and am looking for a consultant to come over and:
1) Tell me about the trees/plants on the property and how to take care of them properly
2) My whole family wants to start a food forest…so need support on best place on the property and getting started and keeping it going.
Would you know someone who does that kind of thing please?
Thank you,
Andrea
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