FRUIT TREE PARADISE! Rare Tropical Fruit Tree Tour in Florida

This is actually a cinnamon apple. So how were you there in the freezer? Were you out here covering stuff? All my rare stuff went into the sheds. This is a dwarf Thai mulberry, which I recommend everybody get this one. This is actually Cuban mangosteen. It's endangered in Cuba. Sapodilla, this one's actually variety Excalibur. That's what they sold it as me. All right, I get to taste one of these sapodillas. This is Excalibur variety? Yeah, all my bananas, different varieties of bananas. This is the mother tree of the AXP. That's the one that we were talking about, the Chipotacaba. That one's flowering at that size. Hello everybody, welcome to Fruitful Trees. Here I am today with Chris and Sarah, and we are revisiting their house where we heard about two or three years ago. I'll put the link below. This place is amazing. And if you love fruit, especially rare fruit, I mean, super rare fruit, you're gonna love this video. I mean, they have the rarest stuff. And the great thing is it's a nursery also, and they sell many of the rare fruits that you can purchase. So we're gonna look at that. And I'm gonna put the link to their website below. They don't do a lot of advertising, so that's not why maybe a lot of people aren't here and you haven't seen them. But you are gonna wanna get out to this place, especially if you're into jabotacabas. He has over 100 varieties. They're not all for sale, but he has over 100 varieties. And if you wanna learn about them, this is the guy that's gonna tell you all about them. So come on out here. Here we go with the tour. Check it out. All right, everybody, so here we are. We're back in Loxahatchee, and we're at this amazing house. And introduce yourselves again. I'm Chris Evans, and this is my wife, Sarah. Hi, I'm Sarah. Okay, and how long have you been in this house here? Five, five years, five years. When you originally moved here, there was nothing in the ground? Nothing, just the native trees that you see around. Okay, I'm gonna put a link below to the last time we were here about two or three years ago. And I'm really excited to see what you've done. So where do you wanna start? I guess we can start right here. I mean, last time you were here, there was nothing here. You remember I told you- There was nothing here, and you and I were discussing what can be here. There was a huge Royal Poinciana tree there that we took out. So glad you took it out. Yeah, it was shade in a lot of the area, so we finally took it out, and we're able to get eight, 10 trees now, more. So don't- Yeah, sorry. You need to switch hands there. Sorry about that. Okay, so, all right, so tell us what you chose to put in here. Well, since the freeze, some of them were taken out recently. Yes, how'd you do with the freeze? Because we're in Loxahatchee, and it's been 50-50 from the people I know out here. How'd you do? We did pretty well. Some of the stuff that was kind of more on the tropical side took a crash, and some of the mangoes that were smaller took a crash, but most of all, the leaves are coming back on the trees, and it's starting to look like it was before it was- Now, you grew up in Florida. Oh, yes. Had you ever seen anything like this with the freeze? No, I grew up in old Florida neighborhoods that had huge mango trees, and never thought for a second I had to cover up a tree for a freeze in Florida, which makes no sense, but obviously, we had to, and I didn't do that. Now, there were previous freezes 10 to 15 years ago, but were you into growing back then? No. Okay, so for those people that aren't into growing, it meant nothing, but it was just cold, but for us, it was a big thing. All right, so show us what survived and what you put in here. Here's a Mahoshinook mango, and I know you're talking about there was two different kinds of Mahoshinooks. Well, this one actually is from Excalibur, so this is the sweet one. Oh, good. And this was covered with mangoes, maybe 100 or so on the tree before the freeze, and then all of them dropped, got to die back. As you can see, I cut where it was dying back, but now there's no mangoes on the tree whatsoever, so maybe it'll bloom again, I'm not sure, but probably not. I'll have to wait a whole nother year, but at least all the leaves are back, which looks good. And there was a Saliswood sapodilla here, but I didn't like the way it was growing, so I changed it to a seedling sapodilla that I grow out back, and I'll let you taste the one out back, it's amazing. That's why I changed it to this one. Exciting, and I see your trees aren't irrigation here. Yeah, I put irrigation all through all the property. So this was a Catalina avocado, which all the leaves left, so now all the leaves are coming back, so I was kind of surprised with this one. But it looks good now. There was actually a star apple right here. It was a green one, and I was thinking about taking it out, but this cold took it down, so I figured now's a good time to change it, so this is actually a cinnamon apple. I don't know if you know that one. I've heard of it. It's kind of rare. It's delicious, very good. Oh, nice. Very good. So I'm kind of happy about that one. Now, when you plant things, do you discuss these together, or do you just let him plant what he wants? We try to discuss them together. Cinnamon apple's one of my favorites, so I'm happy it's in the front yard. Okay, good. So I just put this in the ground like a week ago. This is a Brimachama, but it's a red fruit variety. It's different. It never turns black, so I'm kind of excited to see what it does. This is a sugarloaf mango, which died back, but obviously it's coming back, so I'm kind of excited to see what it does now, but it did do a big die back, so it's all right now. It looks good. I have two sugarloafs in the ground. Yeah, I'm excited to have that one growing, and this one's Choquette, which took a good hit, too. I was very surprised about this avocado, but this avocado actually came back, so I was thinking about taking it out, but now it looks 100% better than it did when it first, the first freeze, so. We decided if something survives the freeze, it gets to stay. Now, is that a tamarind? No, that's a powderpuff tree. It's actually an invasive, but it's shading out my coffee trees in the back, because coffee likes shades. Okay. And actually, it has small fruits on it, so it actually fruited during the freeze. I was very excited about those, too, because I made coffee with that before. Yeah. Well, they grow coffee up in the mountains, right? Yeah, so it's shaded. It needs shade, a lot of those coffee plants like that. The powderpuff's also a nitrogen fixer, so we like to leave it over here. Yeah. If you have a tamarind tree, we can show you on the other side. We do cut this one and drop it. Most of my trees, I drop right where they're at, and it's mulch, free mulch, so. This is blackberry jam fruit. They always look like they're in stress, but they always look like that. It makes tons of fruit. This is Catalina, lemon Catalina guava. Delicious, but it's hard to keep the maggots and stuff out of them, larvae. So this is Donnie. This is the one that took the biggest hit and came back, believe it or not. Well, you're a smart guy. Why do you have a Donnie? It makes a big fruit. I actually like it. I know you don't like it, but the last time we talked about it, but I actually really like it. Really? It's a big Florida. I mean, the advantage of having a Donnie is you get them early, but when you get them early, they're terrible. When you get them late, they're better, right? Yeah, I think when you let them sit for longer, if the squirrels don't get them, I think it's a good avocado, so I'm surprised that you didn't like it. So you cut this back? Yeah, this thing was six, you know, eight feet tall. I almost was just thinking about just moving a couple. A couple of them I changed out for cold hardy avocados. I was thinking, it makes you really think when you have a freeze like that, what you want to really put in the ground. Yeah, yeah. So this is papaya. These are like really tiny, small papayas that I got from sprouts and just grew them from seed, and they're really small and they're really sweet, and I like them. I don't really like the big ones. Some of the big ones I don't like. They taste kind of like garbage to me, some of them. Some of them are sweet. Some are sweet, some are... Yeah. I've been living on papaya and black supposedly this winter. Yeah, and there's a bunch of figs. I'm not gonna go into all the figs, but they're all over the place, and they say you can't grow figs in Florida from the nematodes, but prove me wrong, they're everywhere, there's one there. Do they fruit well? Yeah, they all fruit, which is good. This is actually a soursop, which did pretty well. I couldn't believe in Florida being such a not so cold party plant that it actually did pretty good, better than jackfruit and all that. So I cut some off. You can see some of the cuts that I did right here, but it's back. So how were you during the freeze? Were you out here covering stuff or did you just let what happens happen? A lot of my real, really, we'll get into the really, really rare stuff. This is all just common stuff, but all my rare stuff went into the sheds. Again, I couldn't take the risk because some of my plants you can't get. Sure. I have like one or two and that's it. Sure. This is a Kwai Muk. Oh wow, that's a big one. Yeah, it's got flowers all over it right now. It had some female flowers, but it never. Has it fruited yet? Not yet. Is it from a seed? Yes, most of the ones in Florida are from seeds. Wow, that's big, wow. But I'm looking forward to the fruit. I tasted it with Zane. Yeah. He's let me taste this sweet one. It's a beautiful fruit. I mean, ugly looking fruit, but great tasting. There's Moringa. Yes, Moringa. I'm trying something a little different. Those are white sapotes I put in the middle. Wow. To give them protection. So, but I planted three of them different from seeds. So I might even plant more in there. I wanna see what they're gonna do. I've grown some grafted ones in the yard and they didn't really do that so well. So now I'm putting them up on a higher level. I don't like to actually have water. Water could sit low in the ground. Water could sit high and I was having problems with the water table. So I stuck it up at the highest point and in protection between these Moringa trees. So if I have to cut a Moringa down, I'm not worried about it with the branches. So I'll let it be protected. Think about this is actually blue Java. I took out of a pot and I've been planting over here in this culvert area because we come out and some cars wanna miss the hole and not see it and come into the culvert. So I planted some so they could see the edge of the culvert. So they don't fall in. So I planted like, this is a Chaya, big leaf Chaya. There's some Yucca in there. This is all lemongrass, believe it or not. Lemongrass didn't do that well during the freeze but they're all coming back. See the Chaya, I mean the Yucca coming out of the top. So it's all planted around that area. What's really happening in the fruiting world this time of year with mine is the berries. This is a Cherry of the Rio Grande. There's actually some of them in on right now. You're welcome to try any of them. I have so many different ones. That one's ready. I don't know if I tasted this yet. You haven't? No, I will now. They're pretty good. I like them. Certain trees are a little different than others but this one, this one's just, it's a cherry. Not bad. It's a cherry. You can't grow normal cherries in Florida. That's why it's good to have a alternative. This is a Day Avocado. Okay. Did wonderful. Didn't even phase the freeze. The freeze did nothing to it, which is amazing. So that's a good avocado if you're looking for one that's for cold hardy. The one thing I've done recently too is mulberries. This is a Dwarf Thai Mulberry which I recommend everybody get this ones. It's like almost ever bearing mulberry, but it does. It's a bigger fruit and just loads up. You'll see a bigger tree. I'll show you later. It's amazing. I just got one and it's different than the Everbearing. The Everbearing stays small and the fruit's small. This is it. Look at, this is how, this is one I propagated and look at, look at cherries on how small it is. It's amazing. Wow. And most people don't even know with mulberries. I never heard many people talk about how nutritious the leaves are. It's got like 20% protein in actually the leaves. You have to cook them or can you eat them raw? You could eat them raw but most people make it into a powder and put it into smoothies or you cook them or you can make a tea out of it too. But it has like vitamin A, B, C. It's like, it's a super food. Tell you the truth, the leaves too. So you have berries and leaves. So that's why I started planting more in the yard. Yeah, I've gotten into the mulberries recently and looking to get more. I would recommend this one for sure. All the others, I have Tice. I have like six, seven different. So which one, just the one you'd recommend of all? Out of all of them, I would recommend this one. And this one is- And Pakistani is kind of- Which one is this one? This one's a dwarf Thai mulberry. Okay. It just produced, you'll see. We've been eating off this- I'm trying to get a Pakistani one. I'm trying to find it. Yeah, that's what this one is. That's a small one. I have a bigger one that's fruiting right now. You can taste that one too. Wonderful. I used to have one, but- Yeah, I have one in the, I have only two left. Yeah, well these mulberries grow in pots? Yeah, that was in a pot for about a year, so. Will they stay in a pot and fruit long-term or? Yeah, you could do it with any like fruit tree with this, but they get a big tree. And the trick with mulberries is like when they get to a, when they get high and they're done fruiting and everything, you want to cut them back. So for the next year, they grow off the new stalks and then it just fills up with fruit. I'll show you my other tree. Okay. So this is a- Did you want to say something? Oh, I'm sorry. This is the giant passion fruit. And actually the giant passion fruit did terribly. During the freeze. That's right, Granadilla. And you can actually see the old one down here. Actually, that's not the old one. We did cut it all the way out. We had two of them and they both died all the way down to the ground. So we had to buy new ones, but I just wanted everyone to know like, if there's another freeze coming, it's important to figure out a way to protect those if you want them to last. Okay. At least the bottom, you know, just keep the roots. This is extremely rare tree. And when I found it in a nursery a long time ago, they were selling it as a different Garcinia. Garcinia dulcis. But this is actually Cuban mangosteen. It's endangered in Cuba. Wow. And it makes like a little yellow fruit. That's really sweet. It's different than the other Garcinia's that you have. And this tree is probably 15 years old. Tell you true. Wow. But you can see flowers on it now. Like if you- Has it fruited? Oh, plenty of times. This covers with fruit. Can't eat them all. But it's a good fruit. I love eating this, the fruit from this tree. If you look closely, you can see more flowers and stuff on it. See it right here? Flowers here coming out. There's a fruit right here, actually. See it? That's a fruit. Wow. Beautiful. Beautiful tree. But the thing is you got to get away from it. They have a spike on the end. So you want to keep it away, like away from where you're walking and everything. This is a recent one I put in the ground too. This is a grafted Achatru. So this one will fruit probably next year or a year after. And that's how tall it is because it's grafted. Now you left it close to the mulberry. Yeah, they're going to have to play together. Is that a mulberry or that was another great idea? No, there's a mulberry there too. Oh, okay. See it? This is a Pakistani. So what's your goal? You're going to leave them both close? Oh yeah, for sure. I think they're in the freeze. Plants help. That's what I heard. People that do high density did better. Yes, for sure. This is another Garcinia. This is Garcinia Livistonii. It makes like a little orange fruit. It needs a male and female. This is a total male tree with the flowers. So my idea is I'm going to put another female by it, probably on this side. So it hangs out. What about mulberry? Is it any male and female? No. They self-propagate themselves. Okay. This is obviously a papaya. It was completely no leaves on it. Came back. Probably going to flower again. This is another one of the small varieties. This is a new avocado. We just got, I think it's Layla. It's cold hardy. So I'm just- No, I think it says Layla. Is it? Might could be Lula. Lila. Lila? It's a Lula. Oh no, it says Lila. Lila. Oh, interesting. So I looked it up and it says it's cold hardy. So I'm going to give it a chance. I mean, I got it when I get, at the store where I bought it from, it was in more shade. So I think all this tip action is from the soil, you know? But we'll see. We'll give it a chance. Now, what do you do with most of your fruit? Do you sell it, eat it? What do you do with it? A lot of our rare fruit, fruits that we have, I sell online. I have a website to sell all the seeds. Okay. I'm going to put your link below. But I don't usually sell avocado seeds and stuff like that. And this is Brogdon, which flowered, fruited during the freeze. I don't even know. I don't even think it knew it was cold outside, to tell you the truth. There's some fruit over here. So you know about Brogdon. It's really black and you can eat the skins. Where's the fruit at? I just saw it today. Oh, right here. Here's some here. So it didn't produce as much. I think some of the freeze messed with the, you know, the flowers and stuff. So, but good tree. This was a Zane's Red jackfruit. So I know his didn't do well. Jackfruit didn't do well. No, not at all. So this is sad. I was really excited to see how this was going to turn out. And then I had another jackfruit there that was a Excalibur. So I put another jackfruit there, which is a TMR. It's, I can't remember the guy's name. It's Tony. He brought in the seeds in from, I think Vietnam or something. And it's a red jackfruit. Actually, Zane has that, that jackfruit. Well, if you have a spot, I brought you a special seedling jackfruit. Oh, cool. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. The only jackfruit that did well is the one in the back that was covered by other trees. So these out in the open just took a hit, you know. This is Noni, which also took a hit, but it's coming back. Beautiful tree. I don't eat the fruit. She likes the fruit. This is a seedling Lume Sapote. These are the, that, I don't know, I told you last time I was growing the seeds out from Excalibur. Yeah. Because they can grow all the trees together. This is one of the trees I'm testing out to see what it's going to turn out to be. So it's in a spot where I don't really pay that much attention to it. It has water on it and everything. So, some Katook. These are Beautyberry, native Beautyberry bushes. So the birds love this. So I give the birds that. You can make a jam out of it and everything. It's actually pretty good. It's got its own flavor. This is Blimby, which produces tons of fruit every year and it got knocked down, but you can see it growing out again. I think it got protected by a lot of this too, but it was just too cold for these tropical trees. How cold did it get down to here? I think it was like 28. I had, I literally had frost on my windows. This is Cacao. They got knocked. I just cut half of it off and you can see the leaves coming out. So it'll just take another year to come back to the way it was. So, terrible. Katook. Everybody should grow Katook. Wonderful. It's a good food source. This is a new one I put in the ground. I had a Guava here, but every year it was just getting too many bugs in it and it wasn't worth the larvae to keep it. So I put, this is Charolata. Okay. Which is kind of similar to the Reticulata custard apple, but it makes a smaller red fruit. It's actually got flowers on it, like I said. It was grafted on Anona Montana, which is a great graft for Anonas. It just does well. Every graft that I've done on Montana Mountain Sop does well with Anonas. This is a new addition. Bacon. Avocado. Cold hardy. Donnie and bacon. I mean, they're not bad, but compared to like all the avocados out there. Yeah, but they're cold hardy. See? I mean, you don't have to worry about the cold here once every 20 years. Yeah, but I don't know, I was gonna try it out. Okay. Have you tasted them? I haven't tasted. No, I have tasted bacon a long time ago. Yes, I have. Okay. But I don't remember it. We eat so much avocado in our house. That's why you see a lot of avocados. This actually was the air layer I did from our fruiting lychee tree. So I kept it, put it in the ground. I mean, I know it gets all the mites and everything, but I've been picking them off, which has been pretty good, you know? But we'll see what happens. Once it gets too big, I can't pick them off. Sure. Well, I got some stuff that could spray on it, but I don't know how much I'm gonna spray. This is one I was surprised. This is a blue jobotacaba. The top got burnt off, died. But I have so many, I'm like, I put one in the ground. But it's alive that you're gonna cut it back and let it grow or? I don't know if I wanna take, this one was flowering. That's the only thing I was keeping in the ground, but I have so many bigger, I have big ones too that I could just stick in the ground and take this out of the pot and then it would do a lot better. I don't know, I haven't decided yet, you know? So this is an old variety, Dupree's avocado. I don't know if you know that one. Yeah, that's a good one. Early variety. Yeah, so it's coming back. Very nice. I grafted that one. This is a Simmons. Excellent, excellent. It did some dieback. You can see the top, it's still branching out. So maybe it's a good thing it branches out closer to the ground, you know? Yeah, absolutely. So these two mangoes, they both had dieback. I didn't cut that one yet. This is a lemon meringue and this is a seedling that produced hundreds, right? Hundreds of mangoes, like hundreds of mangoes in the seedling, first year. Delicious. The longer you let them go, then the less fibrous they are on that one. And it turns like a rainbow color when it's fully ripe. Do you know what they were a seedling of? I thought it was a Julie, but it's not a Julie. If it was, it really transformed into something else. I think it was maybe, what's it called? A common one that, late season. Dang it, can't think of the name. Did you name it? I was going to call it a rainbow, because it looks like a rainbow. Okay. But literally, like covered, covered with mangoes, like head to toe. Wow. And it has a little bit of fiber, you know, in it, but it does well with the freeze drying. It does well with like freezing it. It just produced so much. I would hate to cut it down, but it's very vigorous. I mean, it just grows. I could cut it like halfway and it'd still produce. Well, you're going to have to cut some. Yeah. So there's some fruits still on it, like on this side, a couple, like I saw some, but I didn't think any of them were going to stay on it, you know, but there's some little ones there. But I'm going to literally cut it back and shape it again, but it doesn't work with this mango. It just keeps going and going and going. It's one of those mangoes that would be a whole hundred foot tall, if you let it. Sure. So I don't know what I'm going to do later on, but it produces so much. I hate to cut it down, you know. Absolutely. Yeah. So this is allspice? Yep. So it's a flowering too. I saw it flowering, I think today. Yeah, there's one right here. Flowering, which is kind of cool. It makes a delicious tea. I drink this tea almost every day. That and you've been doing Moringa too, right? Yeah, and some curry leaves. Curry leaves, yeah. There's another fig in the middle of nowhere. You don't see it, but there's a rare passion fruit growing on this too. It's a Passiflora lorifolia. So it takes over, if you look in the trees, they're all in the trees. It makes like a yellow, orange fruit, small. It's supposed to be delicious. I haven't tried it yet. It makes a beautiful flower. All passion flowers are beautiful. But lemongrass seems to be doing fine now, actually. But there aren't flowers on here. There was flowers on the other side, but nothing happened. So we, over here, you didn't see these avocados? No, you got a whole row here. So, well, this is a peanut butter fruit. It's actually flowering right now. This thing lost all its leaves and it's already back. Already came back. It's flowering. Wow. See the flowers coming out? I mean, it's a good fruit. I mean, I wouldn't eat like a whole bowl of it. So in your nursery, what, I mean, do you sell everything? Anything? I know you specialize in certain things. Well, my nursery is a lot of my collection too. The bigger plants. Sorry. You'll see what I'm talking about. A lot of the trees are trees. You won't see it on their nurseries. Maybe Zane has them. Okay. A couple of other ones. But a lot of it's my collection too. But yes, he'll sell. Yes, I sell. If I have two of the same species, yes, I sell the third one. Yes. Yeah. So this is Super Hoss. Super Hoss. Okay. And this is, I'll just do the avocados real quick. Mexicola. Okay. Which is, I basically bought this tree actually for the smell. I mean, the leaves. The licorice smell, yeah. But it does well with fruiting. It's got fruit on it. Another tree that does well, Colehardy. Very Colehardy. And that's an old variety, Hall. I don't know if you know Hall. Yes, oh yeah. So that one produced last year too. That's small. I guess we can start with some of the cherries. You're going to be so full of cherries by the time we get around the whole house. This is Grimmachama. You can, if you want to taste them or whatever. They're all good. Do you get worms in yours? No. No, some do. Some do. Nope. They're actually really good. Cheers. All right. Good, right? Yeah. Awesome. So this is Cherry of the Rio Grande, but this is a different variety called Ben's Butte. It's, I guess, named after a guy in California. You can try this one. This one's a little bit different. It's like perfect. It just comes all the way down. Get the really dark one. Okay. Is that dark? Yeah. There you go. Interesting. This is a rare tree called Eugenia Florida. It's not from Florida, but that's the name for it. It makes a blackberry. It's kind of rare in Florida. It tastes like a cherry. Lemon Drop Mangosteen, fruiting one. Getting back its leaves from the cold. This is Living Stony Eye. These are male plants, but they have, some of them make female flowers, like four or five fruit on each tree. This is Stimson Stopper. It's a native to Florida, mostly for the birds. You could eat this. You could eat the fruit. This one's variegated. Rose Apple. Okay. Potoma. This is Atachuru. The great Garcinia fruit. Wonderful. There's two of them. That's another one next to it. You want to talk about the money fruit again? The money tree. So this makes a nut. Now I've had them, and it was really hard to get the nut out. Do you eat these regularly? Ours hasn't actually fruited yet, but we have purchased them before and enjoyed them. The Malabar Chestnut. So it's good to keep some nuts around. How do you know when they're ready? They fall? Yeah. They fall off the tree when they're ready. Okay. Yeah, I have one and two, actually, and I was debating on them, but they're one good nut that squirrels don't come after. Yeah. But they do turn into a huge tree. Yeah. If you got a space for them, like right here, I don't mind it shading out all the Garcinias, but you need room for that tree, for sure. Speaking of big, giant trees, do you have a gummy worm? I got rid of it. We got rid of it. Oh, really? Yeah. Why? We just weren't eating it, and it got cold, and I was finally just like, let's get rid of it. When it got cold, it didn't do well? It froze, died back a little bit. We had it actually right where the cinnamon apple was. Okay. So how big did it grow? Oh, it got all the way, but the only problem is we put it on the edge, and all the fruit was growing in the water. Were you able to keep it small, or no? No. You can. You could cut them back, but then you have to start all over for a whole year. You know? Okay. You can cut them back. Okay. Yeah. All right. We used to freeze dry them. Oh, and how do they do freeze dry? They're all right. They're not the best. I thought it would be better, but. All righty. All right. The cinnamon apple? Yeah. I think everybody should have a cinnamon apple tree. How's the fruit? Big? Big. Round. Yeah. It tastes like, what do you say it tastes like? I like it better than the mamey americana. I think it's like a, what? Like a- Caramel custard. Delicious. Yeah. Really? It's like a hard fruit to describe, tell you the truth. For those that didn't hear that, she said cameral custard. Wow. Yeah. They do have trees at Fruit and Spice Park. Do you sell the tree? I have small trees. They're all seedlings though. Cinnamon apple. Yes. Look it up. It's delicious. One of the best. I think one of the best. Really? Wow. Yeah. It's overlooked fruit tree that a lot of people should be growing. And you know what? It didn't lose leaves during the freeze. Just like that. How come it's not more well-known? I don't know. I really don't. Okay. Cinnamon apple. They're delicious. Yes. Okay. Another quai muck. It's full of flowers like the other one. This one produces more flowers actually than the bigger tree. So another quai muck tree. This is a cherry of the Rio Grande. Another one. I love the bark. Did you see the bark on them? They're like a rainbow bark. And again, like Joe Bowen comments, if it's peeling on these trees, it's growing. That's what you want to see. Do you know about Biden alba? Yes. This is actually a plant that you could eat. They were going to try to do it as a plant to sell, but it's everywhere in Florida. It's a native to Florida. But the good thing about them is that you could actually take these out like this. Check for bees first. Because this is one of the biggest pollinators in Florida. Is this plant. Watch the chickens. Now do you have to cook those to eat them? You could cook them. You can eat the leaves. Look, look at it. They attack it, right? So this is a good way to feed your chickens too, to give them something different than the regular grain. Look how they detect it, right? Yeah. Right away. Wampi. Wampi tree. I don't know. You know that one? Yeah. This is a kind of a big Luke's garcinia. This is a sweet dulcis. So I'm taking you back in the jungle again. This is a lemon drop. This is a small tree, but look, it's got fruit on it. See it? Yeah. This size, which is pretty good. You gotta try it right here, right? Yeah. These are all different. All around, that's a different variety. This is a different variety. So about the different varieties, what? Just the leaf. The leaf. Do they taste different? Different sizes too. Like this is like a medium one. The ones out front, I have the bigger leaves. And then that one's a small one, I believe. Do they all taste different? It's the same. But they all have the same. And you cook them? You steam them? You have to cook them for sure. How do you cook them? You steam them for like? No, I boil them for at least 15 minutes. Okay. It's got cyanide in them. That's a yellow Jamaican cherry tree, which is, I find them invasive in Florida. But we plant, I have it in a pot still. I put it over the chickens. I'm hoping the chickens will start eating them when they drop. This is a Biden Alba. And it's one of the biggest pollinators in Florida. Actually, you can see all the bees on it now. But it's edible. You can actually eat the leaves and everything. It's nutritious. What about the flowers? The flowers, you can eat the flowers too raw. Really? It's an amazing plant that not many people know that you could eat. How do you spell it? B-I-D-E-N-S Alba. A-L-B-A, right? Alrighty. Yep. Look at the bees on it. It's one of the highest pollinators in Florida. I mean, the bees love it. So I keep them around until the bees leave. And then I pull them out and I throw them in the chickens and eat it. Yeah, this is sapodilla. This one's actually variety Excalibur. That's what they sold it as me. But when you bite into this thing, it tastes like caramel. Like it's no grit, nothing on it. And it makes it- Wow. Beautiful, beautiful tree too. So the variety is called Excalibur. Which I think it's closer to the butterscotch because Excalibur bought Zill's stuff. So I think they hybridized the butterscotch. I don't think it's the butterscotch. No. The butterscotch- I'll let you taste this thing. It's amazing. The butterscotch is more oblong. Yeah. And also- More like a football. Also, it's not loaded. No? I mean, butterscotch doesn't do well. I would buy this. The more that I would buy the butterscotch, this thing is loaded. Yeah. Every year. And it's flowering. Look. It's flowering. Look, everywhere. It's flowering. Yeah. Flowering again. Wow. Everywhere. Amazing tree. How long have you had this one? Since we've been here, about five years. Now, what's the best way? To scratch it to tell if they're ripe or not? No, I would go by- Oh. Just like- They lose this point on the end like this. That's a good sign. And then when they get smooth. You know, like the- See how they have like a little fur on it? Yeah. When they lose the fur, that's a good sign. When they lose that sand one. Yeah. Another good sign is the squirrels will start taking them. What I do is I shake the tree. But this one lost its point. So this one might be almost ready. I could say you take this one off if you wanted to. I shake the tree and see if they fall. I usually come out and then the squirrel have two of them on the ground. And then I know I need to start picking them because I'm going to lose them all if I don't. So that you got. And so is that a fig? Yeah. This is a fig that actually stays green and it's a big fig and it tastes like honey. Oh wow. And the reason why I like it is that the birds, it's green. The birds think it's not ripe yet. Even the birds don't know. But it's a wonder. Look how tall it is. Yeah. It's all through the whole area. Wow. And they say you can't grow figs in Florida. Yeah. There goes that idea. Here's our jackfruit that took a hit right here. See, look how big this fig is. It's all the way over here like- Wow. In Florida. All right. I get to taste one of these sapodillas. This is Excalibur variety? Yeah. Look at the color. Isn't that great? Wow. It's really big. Wait till you taste this. This is amazing. Really big. It's, I don't even know how to explain. It's so good. One of the most delicious fruits. All righty. Oh, this one's cold. All righty. Let's see. Right? Wow. I'm telling you. It's like. Very nice. What does it taste like? Caramel kind of? I've had sweeter ones. Really? It's delicious. It's delicious, right? Do you think- Very cinnamony. Do you think they sold me their variety? Or have you tasted one that tastes similar? I don't find this one as sweet as others. No? No. But it's good. But it's delicious. Absolutely delicious. It's kind of better to be not too sweet, I think. Mm. I don't know. I just can't get enough of that one. It's beautiful. I- Another one. Have you had the Thomas yet? No. Mm-hmm. I had a couple at Excalibur that they sell on the stands. Yeah. But I don't remember what they were. Some of the varieties. Delicious. Thank you. Oh my gosh. This is a big soursop. It had like eight fruits on it before the cold and all the leaves dropped. They're all back now. All the fruit aborted. But it does. You can see a whole fruit up here. Look. There was a couple that were bigger than that. I left it up there. You see it up there hanging? Yeah. There were some bigger ones on it, but they all just took a, they all died. This is a, this is a Excalibur variety of mamey. It makes a small personal mamey. Like a little tiny one. Yeah. So you don't have to eat the whole huge mamey. Delicious. Dark flesh. It got some die back. But as long as you see some up top like that. Ah, they're growing back. Mine are growing back. Yeah. And over here is a red sugar apple. Okay. You can see all the flowers coming out. So hopefully we get a lot of fruit set. This one, nothing happened to it, which is great. Let's see. So this was a, my abbey you tree. One of them died off. This one's probably all. Oh, now it's no cold. Yes. And this, it was the other one that produced like a hundred fruit. At least the leaves are coming back. You can see. Yeah. So I'm not too worried about this one, but my prize ones over there took a hit too. But there's leaves growing up it. And I didn't think it was going to do that. Or I would have covered it a little bit better. This is the white flesh reticulata, the custard apple. This one? Yeah. I had one in the far corner over there. Do you have any red ones? That's a San Pablo. That one? Yeah. This is one of my favorite mangoes. I know, I don't know if you're, I'm Carrie. I love Carrie. Carrie? I'm sorry. I'm one of those, one of those guys. No, no, it's fine. But this is a special on a dwarf rootstock. So it stays really low, which is nice. But only problem is they get low to the ground like this. And the trick is you put a pot underneath it and put the mango inside and the squirrels don't go in there. That's a little trick. We learn something all the time here. Yeah. This one's flowering and everything. The San Pablo. San Pablo. I had to cut mine back a little. Yeah, they get big. This is a bell. No, because they die from the cold. Yeah, well, yeah, mine died a little bit, but they're still, they're pretty, that's a pretty hardy tree. That's a star, star fruit, bell. It's good. This is braining, brainington variety of the loquat. I mean, you could try it. It's pretty good. Get like the darkest one over there. Sorry, I'm still eating the San Pablo. See if the birds like it, then you'll like it. I got that one. Nice. Brainington. And this is Christmas, this one. This one, a little bit of sour. See, even the chickens will go around your plants if you don't put the metal. Over here, we don't have to go back there, but that's an ice cream bean. See it way up on top? Huge, and then I put a different variety of ice cream bean, the little one there. We'll start off. That one gets a big pod, different pod. These are the common. This is a Barbados cherry. All my bananas, different varieties of bananas. You got some dragon fruit back there. Yeah, they took a hit too. Now, what kind of post are you using? Is it wood? Is it treated wood? Yeah. Well, no, actually we didn't do treated wood. No, we didn't do treated wood because the chemicals on it. Yeah. Yeah, but they're hard to take care of because they're spiky. Let's go over here. I forgot to show you the peaches. This thing was loaded last year, but it did pretty good. This is the tropical beauty. Yeah. See the peaches here? Look at this. They're really small peaches, but they're just wonderful. And this is the Florida Grand up here. See? Beautiful, right? Those are some of the most delicious peaches I've ever eaten. I couldn't believe it when we started growing peaches. Whoa. This is the AXP. This is the mother tree of the AXP. That's the one that we were talking about, the jaboticaba. That one's flowering at that size. That's a sabra. This is a red. Here. So a sabra in the ground. Yeah, that's a sabra in the ground. These are the reds. Let me see if I can get you. You've had reds. Yeah, so I didn't know that about the chickens dig the bottom of the trees. Oh, for sure. And it's bad for it. Bad for the tree? Well, they dig out the roots and then they could die. These are all figs. These are all different varieties. That's a Paulista jaboticaba. This is a petrantha. This one hasn't flowered yet, which I'm surprised. See all the figs? So the pigs do well. Yeah, look at this. This one's covered with figs already. This one's pretty good. I don't even know what variety it is. I gave up trying to keep them all. This is another red. That's the red finger lime, the one from University. It's covered. You see them all? I have one that's not fruiting yet. They turn really red. Look at this. Oh, the whole tree. I have them. They're just not fruiting well. Wow. This one fruits good. Here's Otto Anderson. Actually, there's a fruit. I can't believe there's a fruit on it. I looked. That's where I looked today. That's too small. They're a lot bigger than that. But this one's a beautiful fruit to taste. This is my big sabra here. This is my prize sabra. I love this sabra. Really? So my name is maybe double the size and loaded. And I had one this size that I took out and put in a 45 gallon. Yeah. I mean, this is a great tree. I mean, I can never think about... I specialize in jabuticaba. That's a classic. And then actually this one's a little different because it does like come off the tree like a truck of flora, like some of the fruit. So maybe it's not a true sabra. Maybe. I don't know. It's been loaded with fruit. Yeah, just loaded. Yellow jabuticaba. This is a different... This is the one I call strawberry. This is a cherry or a hybrid. I don't know. It grows different than all the other ones. So try this one. Totally different than the other ones. Like it's a darker one. Yeah. You see how the color is like a... It's not fully... It has a different flesh. It's like sweeter. I don't know what it is. Definitely sweeter. This is a different variety, I swear. Definitely sweeter. Oh, here. Here's a gremel. I love... I picked this whole tree. This is a gremel jabuticaba. They get three times the size of that. Oh, do they? Different. Take the skin. Yeah, you don't eat the skin on those, but they're a bigger fruit. They're like huge. This year they didn't produce the huge fruit. Here's a yellow jabuticaba. Actually, you can see over here. You can see a bird's nest if you wanna look in there too. Are those edible or no? Yes. Do they say small? Let's get... Here's a darker one. But do they say that small? Yeah. Okay. But the only problem I told you is the... Oh, here's a bigger one. Is that they have really no pulp, but the taste is just outstanding. Amazing, right? Yeah. Like if that had pulp, everybody would have that tree. Let's see the... See, even... I let all the birds and the squirrels go after the mulberries. That's why they're out there. So which mulberry is this? This is the Thai Dwarf. I told you that everybody should have. Look at this thing. Wow. Getting dark. Gotta get them really... Wow. Like this one here. So how often does this fruit? How often does this fruit? Well, every year. And then if you... You could actually pull the leaves off and they'll come back to some of the fruit. But it's just amazing. They spend all day here. We eat this every day. Like tons of them. And they still... Is this a good size to leave in the tree? I would try to keep it as low as you can. So after they fruit, do you strip the leaves so it grows back when you cut them? You could try that. A lot of like Ananas would do that too. They'll actually throw out... They'll think they need to throw out some flowers before they're dormant. It's the same. It's kind of the same thing. But like... Or do you just cut every... Well, I cut it down. Like if you look, there's... Everywhere you cut it, they're going to throw out a branch and this is what they do. Uh-huh. So now you've tasted the others as well. This one's one you like? I would get the darkest on these. It's... I love this plant because look how much fruit it is. The birds were just here. You just saw the birds. They can have food all they want, but they're not going to eat all this. So it's one of those trees that like... Why wouldn't you grow it? And tell us about the leaves again. The leaves are high in protein. It's one of the highest leaves actually, believe it or not. I'm surprised no one really talks about this. It's like 25%, up to 25% protein. But you can't eat them raw. I think you have to cook them. You could keep... I heard you can eat the little ones, but people freeze dry them or dry them out and make it into powder. So I'm pretty sure you can eat it raw too. I mean, I haven't really done that yet. So I'm going to look it up a little bit more, but I looked... The value of the nutrition on this is amazing. Like, why wouldn't you grow something like this all over your yard? And you could probably grow them in a pot if you're keeping them this size, no? What do you think? You can keep them in a pot for a certain length, but these mulberries get huge. They'll get huge. They'll eventually get so big that you're like, whoa, why did I have this tree? But I mean, if you keep cutting it back. Yeah, you can keep cutting it back and it'll just be a bigger trunk on the bottom. Yeah. This one fell today, I noticed. Look at this. It had so much fruit, it fell down. Wow. All right, so that's the... This is the same tree. The name of that is a... Dwarf Thai Mulberry. Then that's different than the Thai Everbearing. Yes, different than the Everbearing one over there. That's the other one. So what about that one? Because this one has fruit and why doesn't that one have fruit? That one has fruit, but you can't see it. Look how small they are. Okay. And the tree's smaller. Are these trees different ages? No, they're about the same age. I should probably put some fertilizer because it looks like it's... But look, it's covered with fruit too, but not that big. They don't taste as good. They're sweet too, but they're not as big. Yeah. So that tree over this tree, 100%, right? Oh, for sure. I'm thinking about taking this one out and put another one of those. Yeah. For sure. Why would you want this one? Yeah, the fruit's much smaller. Now, you said you had the Pakistani one? No, it's right here. It tastes like coconut. That's the one I want. I used to have it. It tastes like coconut. Oh, here's one right here. Try that one. That one's probably really good. So, but this one doesn't fruit as much as the other. Look how long that is, everybody. It doesn't... Oh, look at... Wait, look at this, how long this one is. Yeah. Oh, that one tastes the best. You understand. Does it not fruit as much as the others? Uh, not as... Look, it's right next to it and it's fruiting. This one's fruiting. I mean, look, it still has a lot of fruit on them, but if you want something that's gonna just produce, like, why wouldn't you go for that, right? Is it the same season? Yeah. I mean, how often does this tree fruit? Once a year, mostly. Once. But it'll keep fruiting for a little bit. And what about that one? How often does that one fruit? Well, they're both all berry, but they have, they still go dormant, you know, for a couple months. That one goes dormant as well? Yeah, they go dormant too. Yeah. Have you had the Chamorla? No, I haven't. I've had, I used to, I have the White Mulberry, the Tice Mulberry, this one. How's the Tice? Tice is delicious too, but it doesn't do... We forgot to go buy that tree. What is it? It's a big tree too. It's up on there now? We could go look. It was yesterday. So the Tice one... You want more? Yeah, yeah. These are good, right? These are like coconut. So the Tice one, how would you compare them to these two? They're wider fruit. They taste sweet, but it's also a huge tree and they don't produce as much as that. We could go look at it. It's fruiting right now. So this would be the winner right now. I would say this one's better fruit. Wow. Yeah, we do it every day. Every day this thing's fruiting, we do it. Come out and eat. Wow. All right, so this is the Tice. Yeah, this is the Tice Mulberry. It makes... Super tall. It makes a good size berry, but not loaded like... Did I get black? Yeah, let me see if I can find one. So, age-wise, are these the same age as the one in the front? No, this one's five years. The other one's probably two, three years. Will the other ones get this big if you let them? If you let them. Look at the size of the... Yeah. The trunk of the tree. I see a couple of dark ones. But in all honesty, you should never let a mulberry get this tall, right? It's a waste. If you could keep it low, I would keep it low. But this one I don't really worry about because it tastes really good. But, I don't know, it's just a different variety of mulberry. I let the squirrels have at it with this one. You know? And because why? It just doesn't produce as much. By the time the squirrels get it, they look, they crawl in this fence and they look up and they get all the good ones before. Over there with the dwarf, you have so many that they can't eat them all. So that one produces better? Yes, for sure. I mean, look at the branch on this. It's loaded. This is loaded for... Yeah. But not loaded like the dwarf. Gotcha. All righty. Well, thank you. So, this is a pumpkin, Marcus, avocado. Have you heard of the Skinner mulberry? Which one? Skinner? Yeah, I heard that one. What do you think? I haven't tried that one yet. This is the true dark. Yeah. Cernium cherry. And I believe this one tastes like peach. If you get a good one, like a dark one here, let me get you a dark one. That one's really dark. Look at this one. Try that one too. I mean, it is amazing. Babe, you want one? Yes, babe. Wow. I can get it. Did you try it? It tastes like peach, right? Amazing. Have as many as you want. Look at this tree. It's loaded. Yeah. Wow. You got one? All right. Let's finish up here. So, you said, what tree is that? That mango? That's a seedling, Julie. Julie, okay. And tell me again what this was? A Marcus pumpkin. Marcus pumpkin, okay. Cotton candy mango. Okay. That makes a huge, huge fruit. Here's your tamarind. How do they do? They're sweet. And they're all loaded. It's loaded with fruit right now. See them all? You can see a little die-dash, but that's it. It doesn't affect the fruit. See all the fruits on there? How do you know when a fruit's ready? Most of the time, we pick them off the ground. But if they crack, like in the finger, like if you go like that, then you know it's ready if it cracks. Okay. That's the only way to really tell? And if they're on the ground. If you can pick them off the ground. But we come out here every day, and then... All right, what's this one? This is a fruit punch. Fruit punch. This thing was loaded with fruit before the freeze, and then dropped every bit of it. It's still dying back a little bit. But it lives. All right. Wow. Amazing. This was a pickering. Okay. I'm gonna... This is a sweet tart. Okay. What's that? Super husk? Hey, thank you so much, Chris and Sarah, for having us come on out again. And tell us your website. It's loxahatchetree.com. Loxahatchree. Oh, loxahatchree.com. I'm gonna put that link below, and also the video that we did last time when we were here. And if people want to come visit out, or if they have questions about job boats, can they just contact you through the website? Yeah, you can actually make a reservation to come to the nursery on the website. Now, on social media, you have a Facebook group, or no? I have a couple of different ones, yeah. Okay. I don't do much on it. On your website, can people connect to your social media through your website? Yes. Okay. Very good. That was just amazing. One of the rarest fruit trees I've seen in this collection. And I look forward to continuing to come back here and give you updates on these amazing things, and tasting things for the first time. So thank you both for having me come on out. Yeah, thanks for coming. Appreciate it. Besides this amazing garden and amazing fruit trees, Chris and Sarah also have an amazing nursery with many exotic plants that are hard to find at other nurseries. Be sure to stay tuned for part two of this video, where we look at their nursery and what they have available. You can also go to their website and see that now. That website is listed below in the description. Once the new video of their nursery is available, I will also add that to the description of this video. Thank you for watching and keep growing.