Top 10 Tropical Fruit Trees You Must Grow if You Live in the Tropics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ธ.ค. 2015
- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his top 10 favorite sweet fruit trees he would grow if he lived in the tropics, such as South Florida, Hawaii, the Caribbean, SE Asia, Thailand, South America or Central America, etc.
In this episode, John visits Excalibur Fruit Tree Nursery in Lake Worth, Florida to share with you the 10 staple fruit trees he would grow along with 3 bonus perennial vegetables that he would also grow.
You will discover why John chooses some of these unique kinds of fruits as well as the cultivars that John would grow based on his needs of growing the most nutritious food on the planet.
After watching this episode, you will have a good idea on what fruit trees you will want to plant if you are blessed to live in a tropical climate zone.
In this Episode, John will cover the following plants:
04:57 Katuk (Sauropus androgynus)
07:48 Malabar Spinach / Water Spinach
08:41 Sugar Cane
10:41 Papaya
11:32 Banana
12:42 Black Sapote
14:13 Mullberry
15:15 Jackfruit
16:22 Mamey Sapote
17:26 Sapodilla
19:02 Pinapple
20:01 Acai
20:47 Mango
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Hi John, every time I feel down and been working hard I stop get myself a juice and turn on your show as I am setting up community farms so I need to learn and my mind is only happy when I'm learning. So you cheer me up and ready for work after few hours away from stress. Thanks again John keep having fun
Wow, I never knew that acai berry was actually grow in palm tree. Thanks!
I agree with sugar cane, katuk, jackfruit, sapodilla, and papaya. I have them all in my backyard one time or another, and they never disappoints me. The jackfruit still bear the sweetest and delicious fruit after almost 30 years, and sapodilla for 25 years. I still have never-ending supply of bananas and papayas that I share with my neighbors.
A few years ago in my old house I have 3 mulberry trees, too. I don't like the taste (I have the red-purple ones), but they are very healthy and rich in antioxidant, so easy to grow, and could produce gallons of fresh fruits in rain season.
I would suggest longan, mangosteen, soursop, dragon fruit, and rambutan if you have these plants available there...they are easy to be taken care of (although with mangosteen you need lots of space and patience because they grow slowly) and so very delicious, too!
I love this video, I watch carefully from start to finish and didn't get bored (as I do with many other TH-camrs) loves the information and explanation you gave, Sir. Greetings from Indonesia. 👍😄
1. papaya, 2. banana, 3. sugar cane, black zapote 4. jackfruit, 5.chico,
6. pineapple, 7. mango, 8. mulberry 9. guava, 10. coconut, 11. sugar apple,
that wasnt a sugarapple that mas a pomelo(pummelo)
I planted pineapple but it died....😓😓😓😓 You know how sad I am
@@j_respect5948 what did u grow sucessfully?
I live nowhere near the tropics but I love your videos so much I didn't hesitate to click on the video
So full of great info. Thank you for taking the time to make all of these videos. Super helpful.
John love this video I live close in Lake Worth, FL and did not know this place excited. love your channel and knowledge that you share.
Great video John. from all the people here in south Florida we appreciate it. I am going to Excalibur next week!!!
Thank you for the video! This nursery is down the street and I had no idea it existed. So glad I found your TH-cam channel
Nice work thanks for all you do to make things easier for us in picking our plants :')
Awsome, thanks,,,, hopefully heading to the tropics and will use this
Awesome video John! We buy our trees at Excalibur. Very helpful staff. Thanks for all you do.
Hi John I am from Trinidad and Tobago and I like the video on tropical fruits most of what you have shown we have them here, but you missed the coconut it can be used in so many ways and all good for you nice vid
Ibigail George Hey fellow Trini!
Nice video thanks for your time in helping us beginners to start growing our on stuff
Hi, I watch all your videos,
The Moringa tree in Jack's garden, In India we make curry from moringa tender pods, and also we make curry using Moringa flowers(very good for vegeterian jack. Iam also avegeriation). It takes years to grow Moringa tree from seeds but if you cut branch and stick it in to ground it roots very quickley and you get another tree in about a year.
bobdev I live in California and I grow moringa trees from seeds. OMG they grow very fast! They grow about 10 feet after a year! We have to trim them every year because I grow them in my front yard!
1st time watching you. Awesome video. I live in Miami and definitely interested in growing fruits and vegetables. Thanks ❤️
Looks like a good idea, especially for me who lives in Brazil.
I'm 16 years old and living in the tropical part of the country (I live in Goiás state) is good bcs we have a cornucopia of those fruits in my city.
Wow, finally something right down the street from me.
Good list to make use of.
Ty Ty Nursery in Georgia also has a great list of trees to buy, many for tropical gardens.
Yes, pineapple! My all-time favorite fruit. Here in The Netherlands the fruits from the supermarkets taste like battery acid. I've had fresh pineapples in South America that were a million times sweeter than the canned stuff, and way more tasty. Also had the white variety there :-) So sad that we don't get the quality stuff here year round. P.S. I'd definitely also grow coconuts if I lived in the tropics.
Oo man , do not try a battery acid ... it's BAD for your health :))
I agree if I had land that suitable for coconut I would grow many kinds especially the dwarf ones that I could just go out and pick it every day, :)!
Noice! I like this format.
Thank you for mentioning Babana of the Philippines. Our bananas are really good and sweet.
Wow on Dec 27, 2014 John was in California and published an episode with Exotica Fruit Tree Nursery.
Hi John could you advice which type of tropical fruit tree that wouldn’t grow too large that I could grow in container to bring inside during winter. I live in GA. I love many tropical fruits since I eat them from childhood and really want to grow them. All different kinds like jackfruit, mangosteen, sugar Apple, soursop, mango, longan, papaya, avocado, .... is any of these would work in container? It’s ok if they bear less fruit in container, as long as there are some fruits so that I could enjoy and have some fun of growing. Thanks in advance and I really enjoy your video
That’s a great video John! I saw most of your videos in south Florida! Have you ever been in north or west florida? Like fort Myers! How is the soil there? What kind of fruits can be gown?
Plant rambutan John! Plant both yellow and red varieties, great contrast of color upon ripening!
Katuk is a lot in my country..Indonesia
We cook that as vegan soup. With sweet corn and budish melon.. its so refreshing.
Great video, John! I live In Bradenton, Fl, a long time viewer/subscriber. I have my own front yard garden in an art community "Village of the Arts". Trying to get a community garden started in my neighborhood, I am also part of sarasota's "Orange Blossom Community Garden". Even though you don't know me, you're like family. Kept up the awesome work and be well.
hey man, fist of all, congratulations for you videos, I m a subscriber to your 3 channels, and I love then all.
Do you think that I would find this trees here in Brazil? more specific that eatable leafy green .
thanks a lot and keep on growing!
Thank you. I live in Thailand and it's too hot for oranges here! (Limes and pomelo do OK though)
Thank you
excellent list.
#florida #edibles
John I love all yours shows but my most favorite is the exotic fruits 👍👍👍👍🥰😍❤️I would love it if you come to Tahoe & built us a green house 12x12x12👍👍🙏🙏🙏
I've learn to eat unique fruit some are very good and some not but the ones I do like I have taking the seeds and started growing my own some take time and some just don't make it and the ones that have are amazing I started with pineapples from seeds and some tops then came mango,avocados, and jack fruits and red dragon fruits and now my newest is the yellow dragon fruit seed and dates and I don't live in a high hot clement I live in Iowa but if I ever move to FL I know where I can go get some cool plants thanks
Pine Island Botanicals with Michael & The Sprout Queen with Christine in Bokeelia on Pine Island! This A Must see Farm while in South Florida!
Have you visited the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead? Great tour.
I live in Northeast Florida. It’s not as tropical and humid as it is in South Florida. I wonder how these tropical trees 🌴 will grow up here...
John, check out Pine Island Botanicals on the Gulf side!!!
My favorite fruits trees to plant would be durian, ambarella, mango, wax jambu, and crunchy sour green plums.
John, greetings from the Philippines, we grow all that and more. What we miss are cherries and good apples! Can't have everything I guess.
Roy Smith, I live in madagascar, growing a large collection of tropical fruit.. for the cherries, try the Brazilian cherry.. surely not the same.. but better than nothing
Roy Smith
Yeah, I live in Indonesia. Planting cherries, apricot, peach, plum, and lychee would only be a dream. Thank God we have rambutan and longan... There are local apples here, though.
And for @Nero Baobab I heard Barbados cherry is delicious, too...
tropical fruit is d best
i stay in india what is the best fruit tree should i plant ? i dont have much room . i can plant it into a pot
ccaqn i plant these in central florida i have a plantain and banana plant never in 6 yrs have anything produced. am i ddoing something wrong?
The very best mangoes are from Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, which is close to where I am based. I used seeds from the mangoes I ate and these have sprouted and doing very well, although they are very young, at the moment. Ditto for jackfruit, lemon, orange, carambola, pineapple (store bought, serrated leaves), mulberry and guava.
We have this katuk in Papua New Guinea. It's delicious stir fried with sardines.
What about soursop or annona , pomegranate, passion fruit, avocado , figs, jabuticaba , pecan , Brazilian nut, macadamia?
I’m surprised you didn’t pick any garcinia or Annona fruits! I know they are mostly strictly seasonal but man can they be good.
As much as I liked ur last video, this one lacks presentation of the fruits u discuss, even the trees are hard to see... i have most of the trees u present, still.. a jackfruit on a tree is interesting to see for people that are not familiar with them.. I lack the red one, didn't even know it existed.. would be nice to see u show more of what u talk about in ur future vid..
Peach be good also summer fruit right..
How is their pricing at Excalibur Nursery? Are they expensive or reasonably priced?
Hi awesome video I live In The Virgin Islands how would I be able to purchase plant or fruits seeds online?
Yes, Lakatan banana tastes great.
Can you grow these in Lakeland Florida
Definitely grow papayas they produce tons of fruit like you could start a farm easy
Still in area love to meet you!
I grow mango... a pain in the butt until you figure out all the things and attention you need. One person down the road does nothing, another a block away needs to baby it. But, still a great fruit to grow. It is cold sensitive, grows slow, sometimes takes a few years to get fruit, protect trunk, water to drip line, give it good air circulation, don't trim too many branches each year because it affects fruiting, sooty mold, etc, etc. Oranges and Limes can be rewarding but citrus has its problems.
Mulberry, Sapote, katuk, moringa, jack fruit (takes time), passion vine, dragon fruit cacti, banana, papaya, malabar spinach, lemon grass, cane and a few others work in S. Florida. Some of these are pretty easy to grow in S Florida.
I just got three banana plants, is it better to plant them together or separately?
+pj snedeker Plant them separately not so far apart , they will naturally spread, ( they are clump growers ) so give room for the new plants to come up.
Much appreciated :)
I would add passionfruit, guava, cashew apple to the list of tropical fruits, that are great for their juices (have to be sweetened), and so many others. Tomatoes (fruits?), bananas, coconut...
Have you ever been to a tropical plantation/farm, more south than Florida, outside of the US?
chisapic, cashew nut apples juice is a great taste, but really gets on my throat.. I tried cook it, but the aggressiveness stays
I'd add Moringa, prolific, delicious, nutritious, and can eat year round.
Fairchild Tropical Gardens has the mango festival in July 2017
In Miami fl
Do you have or would you do a vid on zone 7 gardening?
+aravista222 haha i live in zone 7b virginia and its hard to find videos :(
+oneyardrevolution is in the US zone 5.
+Albertaurbangarden is in the CAN zone 3.
Obviously these are colder than you requested, but I imagine if they can grow X, you certainly can :)
+aravista222 the back of most seed packets let you know what time of year is good for growing based on a little zone map of the USA. I remember Burpee having this.
same here man im in 7B lots of cold air and frosts and maybe 1 week right before spring it snows a bit.
+aravista222 exotic fruit trees/bushes for zone 7: pawpaw, blue bean, figs, Japanese raisin tree, maypop, cornelian cherry, jujube, loquat, persimmon, mulberry, hardy kiwi, hardy pomegranate, highbush cranberry, seabuckthorn, serviceberry, aronia, goumi, gooseberry, currant, mt. ash, che berry, flying dragon citrus
Can you grow the trees in Pensacola ?
What about citrus ; do'n-cha-think there might be a few varieties that most people don't even know about?
Can you grow jackfruit in North Florida?
John,
Don't mean to go off subject but you look alot like Michael Weston character on Burn Notice TV show.
barbados cherries and florida peach tree are killer?
I have a variegated katuk in my backyard in asia
Mulberries are not tropical! They grow in Michigan. I swear.
QLIQLIable, Very true, they even grow in holland
I live in Barbados in the Caribbean, and I have a Mulberry...guess it depends on the variety ;)
There are different varieties of mulberry. Some are NOT hardy in South Florida, but a few varieties are and grow quite well. I live in South Florida and have a very productive mulberry tree. It’s a dwarf everbearing.
They grow well in New York..long i
QLIQLIable actually mulberries grow in Hawaii Samoa Tonga and Tahiti and ancient Polynesian people used mulberries and the wood of mulberry trees to make tapa a type of fabric :))
I live in Michigan 😞 can’t grow anything good here maybe peach’s and cherries.
John, no avocados in your top 10 list? Too bad.
My top 3 trees would be avocados, mangoes, cherries.
Binkie Pinkie
Cherry can't be planted in tropical climate...I wish it could...My dream is to have a healthy cherry tree with thousands of fruits hanging in my backyard...next to a peach, plum, apricot, and lychee trees...I live in Indonesia, tho, so my dream would only be a dream... 😢😢😢
I planted like 10 peaches last year because I don't live in tropical climate and peaches remind me of tropical fruits by taste. I wish I lived in a tropical region because that's where the best fruits grow: mangoes, avocados, coconuts, bananas, you name it.
Mistress Voldemort well you can grow lychees in indonesia.it's just a matter of altitude.try moving to malang or bandung
*Lady Voldemort* Barbados Cherries and Can be grown in Florida. I grow them. Also another cherry is what I call the Florida cherry, though it has another name, grows very well here too.
WHat about Central FL?
I'm surprised being Florida no.1 for oranges not one in any yard is it too many orchards yeah but you want one yourself be the first tree I plant I love them that's like them more than mangoes more refreshing when thirsty one of favorites actually would have my own orchard sell them really cheap so can compete with price wars..
that driver looks Burt Reynoldsque !
Lakatan banana is one of the best
Mangosteen!
John, if you are ever in Hawaii, and you are on the island of Oahu, please give me a call, and if you have tiime, come over to our house and I'll give you the mini-tour of our fruit tree, garden.
Man: *Talks about Excalibur Fruit Trees in Florida*
Me, who lives on the other side of the world: *_Interesting_*
I looked at 40 videos... tired ..going to bed.. /hard find what I wanted watch = What type root stock/ small type for oranges/grapefruit?
21:56 What is the price of shipping to Indonesia?
Lol...you can find those fruit trees in local nurseries...try to find it in bogor, cianjur, and bandung barat
I am here in Miami, I would like to meet you
Some people do want to know the costs to buy, grow, and maintain these fruits.
I am 12 and garden for fun
Mulberries are tropical but they grow in Maine and Canada
please put subtitles to video, I do not know too much English, and learn
lakatan is the best taste banana so far
Katuk leaves is used to increase breast milk in Indonesia. We make it a soup.
katuk, sugarcane, papaya, banana, guava and others, they just not a special plant here in my country, they are a common plant, especially sugar cane, old time in my village black sugarcane was always grow near hause drainage.
Convinced you're bankrolled by Big Katuk :)
Do mangos tolerate frost?
Only to a small degree, -3C or 27F should be ok. Depending upon your location dwarf trees can be protected by covering or having Christmas tree lights (non-LED) around the tree in sever frost days.
VOTE4TAJ okay, i want to plant some here in germany, one day this year we had 16 °C in december and frost about - 1 Celsius
Will they tolerate more frost till they are bigger?
Do you know how much frost oranges can withstand? Maybe you can tell me a tropical fruit that tolerates frost good?
+Quantum
you cannot grow mangos in germany in the garden (only in a wintergarden or greenhouse).
you can try to grow other more or less frost-hardy exotic plants outdoors:
paw-paw, blue passion flower, yellow passionflower, maypop, kiwi, arctic kiwi, kaki, american persimmon, figs, jujube, pomegranate, sichuan pepper, japanese banana, darjeeling banana, trifoliate orange, ...
some might require winter protection. you might want to contact a local nursery, and ask for varieties suitable for your climate.
+Quantum If you do try to grow a mango tree, keep it small, and cover it when it frost. I live in zone 8 in California and I know some people who do this and have been successful.
^ I live in zone 8 also, do you recommend any specific varieties?
I live in West Palm Beach and my yard is cursed. Absolutely nothing will grow in my yard, with the exception of cassava. Every fruit tree I plant, fails to grow and then dies a slow death. I just can't figure it out.
U miss out the dream team of the tropical fruits:
1. Durian
2. Rambutan
3. Manggis
4. Breadfruit
Those are the champions. I know cos i live in Malaysia.
How do you spell lacatan banana?
Lakatan
careful with the sugar cane juice you miss the importent fibers if you just drink it also it absorbs a lot of heavy metals fro the ground
here in virginia mulberries are a nuisance to people because they just grow EVERYWHERE absolutely everywhere haha i love them but people here try to kill them ever year with no avail since thy just wont die!! powerful hardy tree with really nice tangy staining fruit!
There are lot more…Durian, manggis, langsat, dokong, ciku, rambutan, pulasan, dragon fruit and the list is long.
no durian in s florida ??
Yes, they do grow.
+VOTE4TAJ perfect
they're hard to grow though. you gotta be deep in south of florida. a good frost will kill them.
+Thomas Kent
mhm alright ..ty
U don't need frost to kill a durian.. too wet, too dry.. too windy and a low of 15* Celsius will just knock him out of his socks.. the best u get is a non fruiting tree
Carambolo - Starfruit. Prolific producers
I thought kiwi is a tree.. I did not expect it was a vine..
Btw I sent you a package so be on the look out! Sorry it's late :(
I live in south Florida, and about a year ago my home owners association made me cut down my mango tree. I have to hide my vegetable garden.
+ClineFamilyof5 Insane.
+ClineFamilyof5 how dod you hide the garden?
+ClineFamilyof5 That sucks.
+thewhitewolf It's a small garden…I bought these things called "jackpots" (fabric pots) that I can put anywhere, so, the anti-garden anti-food growing HOA police would have to be in my backyard to see it. The mango tree they obviously can see over the fence since it was about 15 feet tall… it was a Cogshall, I miss it :(
ClineFamilyof5 The world is becoming a very sick place, when a tree is considered an eye sore.
A tree is not a cell phone tower, or a satellite dish.
Anyone watching to fine out some small fruits to grow in a small green house