🛍 March 1, 2025 - SATURDAY - Spring Plant Market

🟢 Spring into Green at Our Spring Plant Market! Join us today, March 1, for a vibrant celebration of nature!

Bring your friends and family to explore a tropical oasis where our friendly #PeopleCats are ready to help you find the perfect plants to brighten your space.

🗓 Highlights of the event include:

- 30% OFF online prices (*excluding 15 gallon material and rare plants)
- Exciting raffle prizes
- Special discounts on selected plants
- Complimentary gift bags for the first 25 ccustomers with an order $50+
- Life Music: the Famous Hand Pan Lady! (see her previous performance at Top Tropicals)

🆓 Free plant with any purchase as a token of our appreciation

📍 Event discounts and specials valid at both locations:

Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
Sebring Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL

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🔥 When does Sapodilla start fruiting and what is the best variety

• Sapodilla or Brown Sugar fruit, is one of the most favorite tropical fruit trees. It produces juicy, brown-sugar-sweet fruit. The tree is compact, easy in cultivation and starts producing in small size.
Grafted and air-layered trees start fruiting right away.
• Hasya - extra large, football-shaped fruit native to Mexico where it is the number one commercial cultivar grown. The fruit has a reddish hue throughout the pulp. The tree is a large upright grower, and it is a prolific producer.
Ripens from November to June.
• Makok - the best producer, the fruit is long, pointed, and one of the best tasting in the world. It is native to Thailand. The tree is a small compact grower, perfect for limited spaces.
Ripens from May to November.
• Molix is a football shaped large fruit native to Mexico. Similar to Hasya, darker brown, the tree has curly leaves. The pulp is exceptionally sweet with a fine pear texture.
Ripens from February to May.
• Oxkutzcab (or Ox) - "gigantic sapodilla" - is originally from Oxkutzcab (Yucatan). Extremely large (up to 28 oz), roundish fruit with speckled, light-colored skin. Heavily productive tree.
Ripens from May to September.
• Silas Woods is an outstanding variety with dwarf growth habit and adapts well to a container. Highly productive, producing year round, providing bright light and warmth. The branches often require support as they get very heavy loaded with fruits. The best variety for small yards and container culture.
• Thai Browny that we mentioned in earlier post, was brought by TopTropicals from Thailand in 2005. Fruit is oval, medium size, and very sweet. The tree is a heavy producer.

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🍈 Jackfruit & Avocado Toast recipe

✅ Ingredients (2 servings):

• · 2 slices of bread, toasted
• · 1 ripe avocado, mashed
• · 1 cup jackfruit, shredded
• · Salt, pepper, and optional chili flakes

👍 Instructions:

• · Saute shredded jackfruit in a little oil with salt and pepper until warmed.
• · Mash avocado with a pinch of salt and pepper (add chili flakes if you like spice).
• · Spread avocado on toasted bread.
• · Top with warm jackfruit.
• · Enjoy immediately!

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🍲 What Fertilizer to Use Now and How?
Part 1. What are important keys to healthy plants

❓ Q: It's early Spring this year. Should I start fertilizing my plants sooner than usual?

• ✔️ A: Most fertilizer instructions recommend fertilizing tropical plants from March to November. This is because plants don't need as much food during the cooler months when many go dormant, and excess nutrients can burn the roots if not absorbed. However, for the most effective fertilizer program and healthy plants, consider these points:

✔️ Sunshine Boosters Year-Round



Liquid amino-acid-based fertilizers like Sunshine Boosters are safe to use year-round. Since watering is reduced in cooler weather, the intake of water-soluble fertilizer is also lower, providing plants with just the essential nutrients for their minimal needs.

✔️ Dry Fertilizer Schedule



Be cautious with dry fertilizers. Apply them only during active growth in the hot season.

✔️ Temperature Is Key



If March is still cold, delay dry fertilizer use. However, if nighttime temperatures in February stay above 65F, you can start a dry fertilizer program using slow-release, granulated plant food.

✔️ What Fertilizers to Use and How



Check out our Sunshine Boosters selection for different types of plants and choose the right type for your needs. These can be applied as often as with every watering. We will explain in details about every type of fertilizer in our next post🔽

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