What Fruit Can You Harvest in the Winter?
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- There is a surprisingly large variety of fruits that we harvest in wintertime here in South Florida. Join me on a walk around our farm and I'll show you what things look like on a tropical fruit farm in January...Spoiler alert, I still end up sweating.
Get your Sleepy Lizard tropical fruit at: www.guacfarm.com
Tom it is a joy for me watching your reaction to your tropical fruit. Thanks
thank you Bob
I love your enthusiasm about all the fruits you grow. I feel the same way in my garden.
it's the best
Great fruits❤it ,🇹🇹👋from trinidad got a ton of those fruits over in🇹🇹 sweet tasting stuff man
so good.
All I can say is I’m drooling from your video, I love how you take pride in your work and farm. I also am happy that your wife is on the mend and healing.. praise God!!, now I’m off to your side👍🏻
Thank you Mark, I appreciate it.
My favourite fruit delicious 😋
I just had some sapodilla jam for breakfast.
@@SleepyLizard you make me sooo hungry! I had some of those at my sister’s house in Florida last summer so delicious. I need to go back to Florida for Sapodilla 😁😋. Thank you for sharing!
I can tell you really put a lot of time and effort into your videos! Especially at the of the video, you mentioned your legs were exhausted! For someone like you getting exhausted and eating healthy food (unlike me), it means you spent a lot of time on the video., besides work of course.
yeah winter we put in long days..summer I can't work as many hours because of the heat
His presentations are sooooo entertaining!
thank you
Your garden is a true testament to your hard work and dedication
thank you. it's hard to keep up
Awesome buddy you have so many different fruits plant's which is inspire me to do the same as your garden or field 👍👍👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️✌️👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
turns an evening walk into a treasure hunt.
I love nisperos! they are so sweet and fleshy, like a brown sugar dessert.
so true
LOVE your videos, thank you for what you do. I've learned quite a bit from your videos.
thank you Doug. I appreciate the comment.
Thanks for the video, as always a lot energy and great information. I hope you wife keeps doing better. Cuídese mucho y ojala la veamos en alguno de los próximos videos.
thank you Cristina
Tom I just spoke with you from Kerala. I love your farm and you approach towards fruits. - Sanish
very nice to meet you. thanks for the call
I love your energy bro,bless you
thank you!
Im Filipino, you're right, we call it "chico"...and its so good
yum
I love your enthusiasm about all the fruits you grow
thank you Sarah
Wonderful information...well presented....thank you
I appreciate that Spencer
TommyBoy love this fruit i bought them last years love it and you grow it awesome my friend .. much love and fun Family
It's sooo sweet
bon appétit @@SleepyLizard
👍🏻 yup -I grew up calling them chills 😊
I haven't heard that one
Do you ever grow granadilla we used to grow them in Honduras, a hard skin full of a jelly like seed? Also nance a little yellow fruit grows in bunches. Thx for this btw, you brought me back to my childhood ❤❤❤
I've not grown either of those fruit but I've heard people talk about granadilla. It's amazing how the flavor of certain foods can bring us back to our early day. thanks for your comment.
Great work
thx
Where i live, seed grown avocadoes are usually a win win. 😂 Guess that's not the case for you guys
I'm gonna guess Jamaica?
Keep going, you’re doing great
thank you
I’d love to see some grafting being done on that tree
Here you go: ruclips.net/video/FqhnyUMsU7s/видео.htmlsi=LzNy2I5zLTMFGC-F
There are two types of mamei. Mamei sapota (pouteria sapote) which is the one you got and it's really tasty, and there is the mamei americana, the most aromatic fruit on the planet :)
I love mamey Americana...the smell!
I remember when Steve Jobs was alive. He would send Pixar board members every Christmas a very large real pretty box of Tropical fruit for Christmas from a Company in Beverly Hill. And every years the box ended up in the garbage. Because the box of Tropical fruit from Beverly Hill Company always shipped uneatable tropical fruits. 90% of the fruits picked way too early. Steve Jobs was unaware what that Company did. Thank You for shipping me those wonderful mature avocados.
thank you for the compliment
We have a Peach Truck that drives up here every few weeks from GA in late spring/summer, maybe we could start a Mango / Star Fruit truck!
my dad will back the loan 🤣
Excellent video Tom. I love seeing the different varieties of fruit trees that you have and the tips that you suggest. I’m considering adding a Mamey tree to my collection. I know this a loaded question and I know everyone has their favorite variety. I’m looking for a good recommendation to grow up her in Port St. Lucie, Florida zone 10A. Thank you
I love both the Magana and the Key West. The nice thing about the Magana is you get fruit when a lot of our other classic fruits are off-season. The Key West ripen at the same time as mango lychee, etc.
Tom will the Magana variety do well up here in Port St. Lucie
@@davidlatif7829 I'm not sure about mamey up there. what hardiness zone are you in?
Tom I’m in 10A
@@davidlatif7829 10a you should be good. we are 10b...but I know you guys get some chilly evenings up there. the best person to ask would be the folks at Lara Farms. they know mamey.
I don't know about everyone else, but bananas are one of my favorite (store bought) fruits. I wouldn't mind having those you have on your property
If the store bought is your favorite, you'll love the tree ripened fruit even more.
I agree there are so many good varieties. And then if you let it ripen on the tree, it is so much sweeter. I understand that that's not possible for everyone to experience but oh my God what a difference
If you're ever in a tropical climate, you are going to have a blast
@@SleepyLizard unfortunately I live in New York, which is a temperate climate. supermarkets or even online purchases are the only ways I can get tropical fruits
Can you PLEASE do a video on your shadehouse and/or its build? thanks
that's already in process...stay tuned.
I want some, I used to eat that fruit when I was young. Boston is cold right now, can't plant those kind of tropical trees.
I love them
Your enthusiasm for your Mamey makes me want to try it again. Your Sapodillas are huge! Never seen them that size. Is the red one any different in flavor to this one? Oh, I miss Wegman’s my parents used to live in Doylestown and if we did not stay with them we stayed not far from a huge Wegman’s. Wish they would come down this way to South Florida.
I want to work like that avocado, but would probably be replaced. Thank you for explaining top working. This was all great! TY It looked like an Apple Banana. Yummy!
oh man I love Wegmans!
thanks for the comments.
@@SleepyLizard 😂
Do you sell fruit sampler boxes? After watching this video i want to try them all!
If you don't, you should consider it :)
Avocado variety sampler box would be cool too. I watched another video of yours where you showed multiple varieties of avocado and I was dying to try them.
the problem is not everything ripens at the same time so it's difficult to do samplers.
@@SleepyLizard I'd be happy with the fruits you showed on the video. I'm assuming they were all ripening at the same time?
There are so many of these fruits in my country that sometimes we even have to give them away to feed the animals
what country is that?
Do you know the Banaga country in Africa?@@SleepyLizard
INDIA
@@TSP.Pulse23 It's the same with INDIA. I heard that your country eats with their hands instead of bowls and chopsticks, right?
@AP_farm_agriculture Yes. We are Indian's ? Aren't you?
Thank you Sleepy lizard. Can you tell how to grow from the seed please.
which fruit?
In interesting to hear what you wife calls them, here in Madeira, we call a Loquat a nêspera, sounds very similar, but very different!
funny because she also calls loquat nispero. I find fruit names to be very colloquial
Thanks for asking. I never heard of Mame. I love sapodilla. Yes in India they are called chickoos. I love to grow sapodilla. We don’t get sapodilla here in Australia. Do you grow custard apples? Blessings to your excitement.
I don't grow custard apples but they grow here in my town. delicious fruit.
We eat avocado 🥑 fall and winter waiting for mango 🥭 season to resume. Banana, Starfruit and Jaboticaba during winter
our startfruit just started again...so sweet
OMG Tom! So many fruit trees! This is great!
I made some more space this year.
@@SleepyLizard That’s great!
Tom do you have any videos that explain how to grow Mamey from seed for those of us that have ordered this tropical fruit from you and would like to try to grow it?
excellent idea. Keep in mind mamey does not grow "true to seed" so the mamey you get from the seed grown tree may not taste identical to the one you got the seed from.
For now I suggest you put it in a 1 gallon pot with regular potting soil and some 8-3-9 fertilizer mixed in. lay the seed on it's side about just under the surface
The flower of the banana tree can be eaten. In Malaysia, we called it jantung pisang or banana heart.
is that so?
I love Chickoo & Mango..!!!
the best!
I LOVE CHICO, WAY BACK HOME PHILIPPINE, we do have a lot . I missed it .
yeah
Níspero in Spanish. How old or big does the HASYA need to grow for a decent crop? Nice video boss 😊👍👍👍
for the past two seasons I've had a handful of fruit off my trees that were about 5'. Now they're all 7' x 5' and producing pretty well. My Makok tree produces the best.
Hi Tom,
Most impressive Grove you got bro.
I have two huge sapodilla trees for more than 20 years. Initial years I got very big sweet fruites.
In the recent years, I am getting flowers but those flowers falling before turning into fruits.
Any suggestions /advise you have me to get this issue of flowers falling off.
Do you know in earlier days, the Gum/Chewing gum used to get it made from the sap of the sapodilla trunk/leaves and from its /branches?
Thanks
Syed
Try hitting each tree with 5lbs of 8-3-9 fertilizer twice per year. September and February.
I'm not surprised about the chewing gum, that sap is like rubber.
Love Manzano bananas
now I see where you got your guess from 🤣. the bunch I harvest later in the vid is what we used in the banana bread!
I feel the same way in my garden
it's the best
can’t wait for the mango season in flordia
my favorite time of year!
I have a soursop tree that produces a lot of blooms but not many fruits . I see your video about hand pollination. How do you go about it? Right now the tree is blooming a lot. I am in Florida USA. Thanks
I apologize but I don't know a thing about soursop
What do you Fertilise with?
mostly 8-3-9
@@SleepyLizard organic or mineral salts?
@@dudeleboski2692 sorry, I don't know what that means. I go to the farm supply store and buy a pallet of 8-3-9. it's in pellet form.
@@SleepyLizard chemical then ,not Organic. Be careful of salt build-up in your soil
No I wanna grow it myself. 😀 (mamay)
Since I happen to *live* in Chio, Cali....guess I know what I'll call *that one.*
yep, the name practically writes itself! 🤣
😮 you are the only one that knows how to eat banana when rip and thank you
yes, people tend to eat their fruits too early
Hopefully you can help! I'm wondering how soon I can transplant an indoor Avacado tree into a new pot after I've pruned it? Thanks!
Hi Celeste, you don't want to put a tree through more than one stressful event in any 30 day period. I suggest you wait a month or two before you repot the tree.
Thank you for your advice!! I appreciate it
I never try Mamey!! I want one!! 😊
it's the best.
I could have sworn you were in Hawaii... The past few years we've been to the Big Island and there are a ton of farms like yours. The farmers markets were awesome. Uou should try growing Pineapples and especially Papaya! Macadamias!
I did the Iron Man out there in 2005 but I didn't get a chance to see much because I was so focused on the Iron Man. I do remember being very green.
I'm told they have a variety of avocado out there called Sharwil that is absolutely delicious and I want to try it.
@@SleepyLizard Our favorite is the strawberry papaya! Huge company owns massive tract of land south of Kona and they lease out 5 acre parcels iirc. Some people let it go to nature, others highly groom and plant it, a lot of coffee plots, you can sell Kona cherry (coffee beans when red) to roasters and some have tourist attractions with various fruits and specimen plants. All overlooking the ocean from a height, and in a lush rainy area. Pretty pricey real estate if you want to own! The IronMan is now in St. George UT, maybe you can make that or the Senior Games? haha It's awesome out here. Just no avocados etc!
@@BootsEditor11 my running days are over. I won't even run to make it to the bathroom these days 😁
@@SleepyLizard Same here, tho I did ski yesterday and the last run, my legs were really burning!
@@BootsEditor11 my son would be jealous, he loves skiing.
How does star fruit taste, i saw some at a stall i might buy some
There's different varieties with slightly different flavors, but think of a very nice citrus juicy flavor with the crunchy texture of an apple
What do you do with so much fruit? Do you sell them? new follower🙂🙂
yes we sell fruit. we sell it at guacfarm dot com
Where do you live and how do you protect your fruit trees in the winter ?????????????????????
excellent question. We are in Homestead FL which is zone 10b and I made a whole vid on this topic: ruclips.net/video/Sa7xbWpoL5E/видео.htmlsi=eP4qydy5N85HC_Ch
We call it nesberry in Jamaica
yes I have many Jamaican customers and they have a different name for every fruit I sell 😁
How does that purple like end of banana stalks look like if you cut them up?
not sure.
I’ve got a few banana trees that have been in the ground for about 7 years. They used to fruit several times a year, but I have not had fruit in quite a few years. Any thoughts on what I should do to encourage them to fruit?
do you fertilize them?
@@SleepyLizard I realized that they had not been fertilized for quite some time and did so yesterday. How many times a year do you fertilize yours?
Also, can you grow mame and sopidillia in Port St Lucie (just north of palm beach county)?
@@stuartfact8361 I'm not sure. sorry about that.
@@stuartfact8361 with bananas if I have a few bunches going I let them sit. if they slow down I'll fertilize them every 60 days. thing is the fertilizer makes them fruit so I don't fertilize all my clumps at the same time or I'll end up with way more than we can eat.
i actually like my store cavandish banana to be yellow with a bit of green still and dont care for them when they are too ripe.
yes everyone has their preference
Awesome! Just curious, how old is the Pace mamey tree that you showed in this video?
it's been in the ground 5 years and it was probably around 2 in the pot before that. Mamey is not a fast growing tree.
Hello Tom great video.
What's your favorite time of year over there in South Florida ?
Is summer really extremely hot to the point of being very uncomfortable, assome says even in Nature ? :-)
It's beastly hot in the summer but that's also when we get all our mangoes lychee and other delicious tropical fruit. Plus, I don't really mind the heat too much. This time of year, the winter is also very comfortable and it's nice to sit at a campfire. I like it here pretty much here around.
Thanks for your answer Tom! :-)@@SleepyLizard
Yhe brown sugar looklike of the first fruit name SAWO in Indonesia.
Thats why sawo matang ( ripe chikos) is the colour of our skin, tropical colour skin...brown like the skin of chikos fruit.
yum
When about are you guys
homestead fl
Do you sell any of the seeds or trees for that fruit
We don't sell any trees or seeds. We only sell the fruit. Of course there's seeds in the fruit so if you get fruit you get the seeds too. Keep in mind these types of fruit don't grow true to seed so when a seed grown tree gives fruit it could taste different from the fruit you got the seed from. that's how we get new varieties.
In Cuba we call it Níspero! (The zapotilla i mean)
Yes. So many names for this fruit
But sapodila is very sweet. It Might actually elevate the blood sugar level for people having diabetes
yes, very high in sugar content. that's what makes it so delicious
How you grow them in the winter
you have to live in the climate where they grow. we are USDA hardiness zone 10a
Can you grow this from seed an get fruit???
you will get fruit but I might not taste the same as the fruit you got the seed from.
@@SleepyLizard do you know how long it take from seed to fruit?
@@bobbyphaypaseuth9704 which fruit do you mean, I showed a lot of different ones
We call it honey banana in Jamaica
yum
We call those small fruit, figs. They are slightly acid in flavour.
interesting
In malawi we call those banana SUKALI
oh yeah?
All Asain fruit I'M love jumjum
yes we have a lot of asian customers.
Why do you pick it when it is rock hard and not let it fully ripen on the tree!
I'm guessing you mean the mamey. Mamey has very good shelf life. Letting them go all the way on the tree would be a waste because we could never get the fruit to market. Fruit needs time to get to market. We scratch the skin and if it's rust color underneath then the fruit is ready to pick and it will finish ripening in 7-10 days.
Or maybe you meant the sapodilla but the same reasons apply
@SleepyLizard Both mamey and sapodilla but for personal consumption. I would love to grow them, but I don't they'd survive in Houston, Texas, area. Great video. I ordered some from you, I'm hoping!
@@SoulSeeker770 thanks. I see an oder from yesterday for your part of the world so I'm guessing that's you. thanks for your business. we are picking tomorrow.
@SleepyLizard Can't wait to try it.
Isn't it a bigger Spodilla(chicku)?
they are in the same family
What latitude are you cultivating at?
25.4
Can you try fruits you've never tried before?
Go to the Fruitful Trees channel and you'll find a vid that was uploaded today where I eat Durian for the first time. 🤣
Here in the Philippines they call it SENORITA..
I've heard them call it Chico
Wanted to make a video and ended stuffed with good stuff
I couldn't eat dinner that night 😝
Here in Philippines it's called balimbing your starfruit
oh yeah?
Do you have a Butterscotch Sapodilla? Those are really hot right now. By the way, the flower you like that smells good is a Aloysia virgata. I have one of them in my yard and I know what you mean. It's an Sweet Almond Bush.
yes sweet almond, that's what the pot said. and no I haven't tried butterscotch.
Butterscotch variety appears to be over hyped by RUclipsrs/tropical fruit nursery business. Some people report theirs take very long to start fruiting
@@mayi757 Have you tasted one?
In jamaica we call it honey Banana
which fruit?
Clearly he's in a more temperate zone or tropical climate state to have fruit trees at this time of the year.
Yes we are in Homestead Florida.
How cold is a Florida winter, when you can wear a t-shirt?
it's pretty warm.
they don't taste good ... grew up with them, you have to acquire the taste ... some people say they taste like there's sand in them ... I just don't like the taste even if no sand texture
are you referring to the sapodilla? yes their texture is like a pear
@@SleepyLizard yes...my sister likes it bit fhe general population dont. Just like statfruit. No one likes it. Nice to look at
@@UFCtrumpsboxing gosh I guess your friends and neighbors wouldn't enjoy it very much here in the winter then.
None, the winters are unbearably frigid and any attempt of me growing fruit are totally meaningless and inapplicable, though there's a handful of tropical fruits like durian and pineapple just to have a glimpse of what the tropics feel like
Asain Fruit ( trái sapochê ) ( trái khế )người Việt Nam người lao người thai land
How much for lb
I didn't sell sapodilla this year so I don't have a price for you
Where do you live
Homestead fl
I'm 66 and I remember that bananas had seeds but not anymore.
yep, I grow the Gros Michele which was the main commercial banana prior to the Cavendish which you find in stores now. the Gros Michele has such a banana flavor. they are amazing! Not sure if they have the seeds in the middle though. I'll need to pay more attention next time.
Wonderful
Finding that banana is like stumbling upon treasure...
I knew the tree had fallen over and I propped it up about six weeks ago. Then when I was walking back over that way, I saw it was knocked down again, and I thought the worst but it must've only been knocked down the night before, so I got very lucky.
Saba banana?
I'm not sure, I have like 20 banana varieties but I didn't label them
not really a good idea to flat cut a large tree stump like that,water doesn't run off and mould and fungi can take hold always slope your cuts!
What about the safety of the guy cutting the tree?
@@SleepyLizard lol if he doesn't know how to use a chain saw maybe they should employ a guy
@@dawienatral7083 how many degrees angle?
@@SleepyLizard 45 degree angle would be best.
@@dawienatral7083 where have you learned this?
Honey banana
I thought you called them naseberries over there
Sell me one of your banana sucker
do you live in south florida?
No, what you’re showing is not winter !!!
🥶
you dont have a clue what winter is
I try to limit my exposure winter by watching the Olympics on TV
Jealous 😂
@@SeraphimCherubim
I live in Scotland. I am 100% JEALOUS!!!
Iceland, I don't know what summer feels like 😢😂 trying to grow fruit in the Arctic 🥶
@@theodorhertervig9510 brrrr.
I had this round maaame as a child in rural Jamaica, but the flesh wasn't that soft; more a brownish orange flesh with a harder texture!?
could it have been mamey apple?
@SleepyLizard Don't know. It was the shape of a grapefruit, and about 1-1/2, the size with crusty brown skin.
Dude why you're talking about winter fruit but you're in Philippines right?crazy thing.....😅😅😅
I'm in South Florida. It's winter here in the northern hemisphere. These are the fruit that are available in winter.