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Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
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Eight best fruit trees that produce right away
Grow Your Own Food
In the photo: Malpighia glabra - Barbados Cherry, Acerola
What fruit trees start fruiting right away?
Q: What fruit trees do you recommend that will start fruiting right away? I am 84 and I would really love to see the fruit sooner than later!
A: Most of grafted fruit trees will start producing the same year - such as Mango, Avocado, Peaches and other grafted trees. Besides, these are several garden favorites that start fruiting right in 1-3 gal container.
1. Eriobotrya japonica - Loquat
2. Spondias cytherea - June Plum
3. Psidium guajava - Tropical Guava
4. Musa sp. - Banana
5. Annona squamosa - Sugar Apple
6. Morus sp. - Mulberry tree
7. Eugenia uniflora - Surinam Cherry
8. Malpighia glabra - Barbados Cherry, Acerola
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This Friday: Green Friday...
and every Friday and Saturday!
Welcome to TopTropicals B-Farm in Sebring FL
Starting this coming Friday, November 25, our farm in Sebring (B-Farm)
will be open to the public every Friday and Saturday.
B-Farm is a 10-acre growing facility with hundreds of varieties of rare and
much wanted tropical plants. Fruit trees, flowering trees, shrubs, vines,
fragrant plants and rare collectibles - we grow the biggest selection of
tropical plants known in cultivation.
Come over to select the best Mango, Avocado, any other fruit tree or rare
spice for your edible landscape. Shop our biggest in the world variety of
flowering and fragrant tropical plants - directly from our growing farm!
Conveniently located right in the heart of Florida, Highlands County, Top Tropicals B-Farm is within about an hour from most Florida destinations.
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What is the best Avocado variety?
Grow Your Own Food
Q: Most trees in my yard were destroyed by hurricane Ian and now I have to start my landscape from scratch. So I decided to plant something useful. Avocado is my favorite. In the stores I see two kinds, large green or small black, but I was told there are many varieties. When I googled the best variety of avocado I found your website. You have quite a selection! Now I don't know which variety to chose. Can you please help? I have room for several trees.
A: Indeed there are many varieties of Avocado (we grow over 50 kinds). Some avocado lovers try
to get as many varieties as they can fit in their yards because every variety
has its unique flavor and texture.
2 main Avocado kinds that we usually see in grocery stores are -
1) smaller black fruit with rich, buttery texture - Mexican and Guatemalan
hybrids
2) green avocado, some can be as large as a small melon, but they have
light texture - West Indian types
There are many hybrids. How to pick the right variety for your yard?
Check out our Avocado variety page and scroll down to see a chart that shows characteristics of fruit, tree size, cold hardiness, and chose the right variety that fits your needs.
Below are just a few picks from our horticulturist - our favorite varieties that we enjoy and highly recommend to others.
Best tasting large green Avocado hybrids:
Bernecker, Beta, Doni, Catalina, Pollock.
Best tasting black or dark green, buttery Avocado hybrids:
Winter Mexican, Brogdon, Black Prince, Day, Fantastic, Florida Hass, Marcus Pumpkin, Mexicola Grande, Nishikawa, Waldin
Dwarf trees (black fruit):
For local customers: see large 15-gal size Avocado trees, delivery and installation available!
Today all avocados are 13% off instantly with no min. order, take advantage of this quick sale and get all varieties you want!
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This Fall Special:
Avocados and Champakas in large containers
The clean-up and restoration after Hurricane Ian continues for many of us across Florida and the Southeast. Some people In SW Florida lost their homes, and almost every home owner lost a tree or even the whole garden. TopTropicals is here to help. We started introducing special Re-Leaf offers to help local gardeners replace broken trees. When it's time to restore your garden, we have 15-25 gallon Avocado trees in many varieties and oversized Magnolia Champaca trees available for pick up at our Fort Myers Garden Center or B-Farm in Sebring.
These trees are 6-8 feet tall (some larger) and ready to bear fruit!
Please call or visit our Garden Center to select your own tree.
Delivery and installation available
Limited time offer!
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Avocado Black Prince
Grow Your Own Food
Avocado variety - what's the taste?
We obtained Black
Prince Avocado variety this year and at first didn't know much about it.
Until we tried the first fruit! The fruit was large, oval, green and
slightly pebbly. We were not sure if it would taste like some green avocados -
watery and less buttery? The fruit turned black couple days after it was picked,
ripened and softened. We were pleasantly surprised, Black Prince deserves its
title! The fruit pulp is thick, and has a rich, nutty flavor. The little
trees grew this year vigorously and didn't show any bug or deficiency problems.
Superior variety for a backyard grower! Giving it 5 stars! *****
We have Black Prince
Avocado in 3 gal pots, as well as in XX-Large size for local pick up - for those who want a large fruiting
size tree, please contact our Garden Center to pre-order from our Growing Farm (B-Farm).
It can be delivered and installed for you!
Why grow your own Avocado tree?
Why grow your own Avocado tree? This is why. Now we import 89% of the U.S. avocado from Mexico. How much of a difference we could make if we were all growing our own avocados? Support our own horticulture, help Avocado to become grown in the USA!
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What tree will fruit indoors?
Q: I love your tropical fruit selection and I wish I lived in a warmer climate. Is there any fruit tree that can be happy indoors during winter and have fruit? I am not expecting a big crop but it would be fun to have a small piece of tropics at home. I don't have much gardening experience, can you suggest something easy for a start?
A: Several tropical fruit trees can be grown indoors, in pots,
providing bright light that is necessary for flowering and setting fruit. Among
them are many varieties of Bananas,
Guavas,
Annonas and tropical Cherries - these can be easily maintained in containers. Even dwarf
varieties of
Avocado and Mango
are good candidates for indoor culture. You can bring containers indoors for
winter and take outside into full sun during warm months so your plants can
store lots of energy in Summer.
The easiest fruit tree for indoor culture that doesn't require bright light
and can be grown indoors year around is a Coffee tree. Start with it, it is on sale today! Once you gain some experience, you can upgrade to
a Chocolate tree!
Remember, all container grown plants need balanced nutrition program. It
can be easily provided with Sunshine Boosters your around. For fruit trees, just add some Sunshine C-Cibus Crop Booster to your cart.
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Grow your own food:
Avocado Q & A
from Ed Jones, the Avocado Guy
Q: Do I need to have more than one avocado tree in order to produce fruit?
A: While a single avocado tree will normally produce enough fruit for most people, it never hurts to have more than one tree and even more than one variety to increase the chances for good pollination. Be sure to look at our catalog for the many different varieties available from our store.
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Callisia fragrans, Golden
Tendril:
Holistic Medicinal Plant
by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats
...This beautiful, low-maintenance plant has been living in our homes
for over two hundred years. The name of Callisia speaks for itself - Callisia
from the Greek is kallos meaning beauty and fragans means
fragrant. It is not only an easy ornamental plant for both garden and indoor
collection, it has wide medicinal use in Europe. Its active biological substances
that can fight infections, stimulate metabolism, strengthen immunity and
circulatory system...
...Moreover, the leaves and flowers of Callisia fragrans are edible, the
plant has been used as a food source in tropical countries. The rhizomes are
also edible and can be boiled or roasted... Every garden or indoor plant
collection should have this easy and useful plant!..
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Lots of new arrivals!
See all new arrivals
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| 1015 Annona reticulata - Red Custard Apple var. Tobago Pink |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $84.95  |
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| 6231 Annona sp var. White Giant - Large White Sugar Apple |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $149.95 |
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| 3707 Avocado tree Fuerte (Dwarf), Grafted (Persea americana) |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $89.95 |
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| 3916 Avocado tree Nishikawa, Grafted (Persea americana) |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $89.95 |
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| 3529 Avocado tree Wurtz, Grafted (Persea americana) |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $89.95 |
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| 3917 Avocado tree Yamagata, Grafted (Persea americana) |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $89.95 |
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| 1073 Black Sapote tree Black Beauty, Diospyros digyna, Grafted |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot, grafted $74.95 |
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| 5831 Calliandra selloi (brevipes) Pink Lilian |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $32.95
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| 2003 Calliandra tweedii With Love - Red Tassel Flower |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $32.95 |
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| 3047 Dichrostachys cinerea - Princess Earrings, Sickle bush |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $37.95 |
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| 1079 Eugenia braziliensis Erythrocarpa - Red Grumichama |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $52.95 |
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| 4339 Guava tree Indonesian White, Psidium guajava |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $62.95 |
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| 1193 Hog Plum tree, Red Hog Plum, Spondias purpurea |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $67.95 Sale $42.95 |
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| 2812 Jaboticaba tree var. Sabara, Myrciaria cauliflora |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot
$72.95 |
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| 3689 Longan tree Biew Kiew, Euphoria longana, Air-layered |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $74.95 |
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| 3639 Longan tree Sri Champoo, Euphoria longana, Air-layered |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $74.95 |
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| 5026 Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata - Variegated Yuca Root |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $37.95 |
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| 1377 Megaskepasma erythrochlamys - Brazilian plume |
Grown in 6-10"/1-3 gal pot $37.95 |
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| 5251 Polianthes tuberosa (Agave amica) - Tuberose Shringar |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $27.95 |
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| 6790 Pseudorhipsalis (Wittia) amazonica - Blue Flame |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $37.95 |
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| 2753 Rollinia deliciosa - Biriba |
Grown in
10"/3 gal pot $89.95 |
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| 5393 Stephanotis floribunda - Bridal Bouquet, 1 gal pot |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $32.95 |
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| 2073 Stictocardia beraviensis - Hawaiian Sunset Bell |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $37.95 |
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| 1202 Syzygium samarangense Stinark - Wax Jamboo, pink/red fruit |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot $72.95 |
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| 2345 Tacca chantrieri - Bat Head Lily, Black Tacca |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $52.95 |
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| 3552 Vitis rotundifolia - Muscadine Grape Isons Black |
Grown in 10"/3 gal pot, large plant $42.95 |
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| 5894 Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (campanulatus) - Voodoo lily |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot $32.95 |
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| 5561 Arundina graminifolia - Bamboo Orchid, Bird Ground Orchid |
Grown in 6"/1 gal pot
$37.00 |
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The Magic of the Avocado
The Magic of the Avocado... Is it a super-food? A super fruit? The
perfect side dish for any meal? Or does the avocado just taste great? If you need
a proof of the Avocado's status as a super-food, here are some of the benefits.
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At TopTropicals, healthy and tasty avocados are available in a number of varieties, over 30 choices right now! We also have prices as low as $59 and you can always use our newsletter coupons to save even more. Try all the varieties and start or expand your Avocado Super Garden today!
Cat Philimon (a.k.a. Philly Cheesesteak) eating Avocado
Avocado makes everyone happy! It is Cat Philimon's favorite food. We always have to share with him. Otherwise he just helps himself. He knows it's good for you!