Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

🍭 Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy

• 🍓The Strawberry Tree, also known as Cotton Candy (Muntingia calabura), is a fruit lover's dream!
• 🍓 Its pretty white flowers resemble those of a strawberry plant, giving it its name. The fruits are super sweet, with no acidity, earning it the "Cotton Candy" nickname.
• 🍓 This fast-growing tree is incredibly rewarding, producing two crops a day from spring to fall!
• 🍓 It’s easy to grow, drought-tolerant, and fruits right away even in containers - just watch out for frost if you're outside the tropics.

📚 Lean more from previous post:
What fruit tree will produce right away?

🛒 Get your own Strawberry Tree

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#10. Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor. Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces. Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.

📚 Learn more from previous post:

• 💋Delectable Peanut Butter Tree
• 💋The best small fruit trees that will produce right away
• 💋How soon will Peanut Butter Tree fruit?
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Peanut Butter Tree

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#9. Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

🖤 Blackberry Jam Fruit, Jasmin de Rosa is a curious small evergreen tree or bush that combines features of a fragrant flower and delicious dessert fruit which tastes like fresh Blackberry jam. Fragrant white flowers are similar to Gardenia.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:

• 💋The best small fruit trees that will produce right away
• 💋Truth about Blackberry Jam: it comes from Gardenia
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Blackberry Jam Fruit

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

⭐️ Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#8. Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

💛 Growing Carambola tree is a fun and rewarding way to enjoy this unique star-shaped delicious fruit right at home. It fruits on the 3d year from seed. The tree is easy to grow and reliable producer, providing wind protection.

📚 Learn more from previous post:

• 💋How to grow your own Carambola
• 💋Carambola Banana Whip
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Carambola varieties

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍇 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#7. Mulberry (Morus hybrids)

💜 Mulberry is very cold hardy and can grow in wide range of climate zones, from USDA 5 to 10. Everyone knows this sweet, tasty, juicy fruit. The tree will produce right away, you will see fruit the next season after planting, and the tree grows fast.

📚 Learn more from previous post:

• 💋 How Mulberry fruit helps with diabetes
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Mulberry varieties

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍊 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#6. Papaya (Carica papaya)

Papaya is probably the fastest fruiting tree that can start production the same year from planting a seed. Many dwarf varieties available in selection, reaching only 6-8 ft tall, but producing large crops of full size fruit - they are easy to harvest. Plant 2-3 Papaya trees of different cultivars that fruit at different times of the year and enjoy heavy crops of healthy fruit year around! Another benefit - this tree doesn't take much space in the garden, you can plant as many as you want.

📚 Learn more from previous post:

• 💋 How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
• 💋Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
• 💋The secret facts of Papaya's private life
• 💋Papaya-Citrus Marinade
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Papaya varieties

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

When you are in the mood for something special - you need a Loquat Liquor. This is what you do with so many loquat fruit.

🍑 Loquat tree is an excellent choice for any garden, as it is quite cold hardy, drought-, poor soil- and salt tolerant. The delicious fruit look and taste similar to apricots, but there is only one problem: there are too many of them! Make Loquat the perfect fruit for an easy home winery...

🍹 Loquat Liquor recipe

Wash loquat fruit and slit in 4-5 places. You may leave seeds in for Apricot-nutty flavor similar to Amaretto. Combine fruit with vodka and sugar in a wide mouth jar and cover. Stir fruit once a day until sugar is dissolved. Then stir once a week for 4 weeks. Drain liquid and strain through fine cheesecloth. Enjoy!

You can dispose the used fruit but we usually give it a second life: add water, bring to boil, let sit, chill, and it will make another (almost non-alcoholic) drink!

• 
  ✔️ 3 quarts of loquat fruit
• ✔️ 1 quart vodka
• ✔️ 3 cups sugar
• ✔️ vanilla to taste (optional)

📚 From previous posts:

• • Golden Loquat – the Symbol of Prosperity
• • Learn more about Loquats

🎥 YouTube video about Loquat
📁 Overlooked fruit: tasty Loquat recipes (PDF)

🛒 Shop Loquat varieties

#Recipes #Food_Forest #Loquat

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍑 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#5. Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)

💛 Loquat tree is fast-growing, drought-tolerant, cold-tolerant, compact tropical fruit tree. It is a heavy producer. Fruits are juicy, aromatic, and resemble apricots. Ripen from early Spring to early Summer. Ideal for small gardens, beginner fruit tree growers.

📚 Learn more from previous post:

• 💋💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Loquat varieties

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍒 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#4. Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra)

♥️ Another exceptional tropical cherry is Barbados Cherry. It is super popular as a heavy producer. The plant can start fruiting when it's only a few inches tall! If you are looking for a compact, but fast growing tree with colorful fruit that starts fruiting right away - plant Barbados Cherry. It will also happily fruit in containers.

📚 Learn more from previous post:

• 💋💋💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Barbados Cherry

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍒 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#3. Eugenias - Tropical Cherries

💙 Eugenias are favorites of Southern gardens. They are relatively cold hardy and start producing right away. Black Surinam Cherry Lolita and Grumichama are our favorites!

📚 Learn more from previous posts:

• 💋How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

🛒 Shop Eugenia Cherries

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals