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Almost Harvest time!
Apr 14, 2009 | 5:02 PM PST

April marks the end of tomatoes and peppers here in South Florida, but also means it's almost time to pick mangos, Avocados, and other great fruits. Here are some pictures of my fruiting trees and some other trees that I recently acquired.

This is my 'manzano', or at least I think it's 'manzano', banana tree.

Recently purchased 'Alano' Sapodilla tree. As you can see, it's very young and I don't expect fruit until at the very least, next year. Well worth the wait!

Purchased bare root from Willis Orchards web site... 'Ice Cream' Banana Tree

I recently purchased a tree of one of my favorites fruits, the 'Jaboticaba'

This is what the fruit will look like growing on the tree. Weird huh?..but VERY tasty!!

My 'Celeste' Fig tree was completely devoid of leaves and/or growth. It came to life in early February. :o)

Now for the fruiting trees.. This is a young 'Nam Doc Mai' Mango Tree.

These are baby mangos on my 'Malika' mango tree. It is a dwarf mango tree that is giving me a little trouble, but is still loaded with fruit.

Flowers and developing fruit on my 'Red Lady' Papaya tree

My favorite mango tree, my 8 year old 'Carrie' Mango tree has a little under 50 fruits of different sizes. This is the first time it has produced since hurricanes damaged it in 2004.  :o)

A new addition...the only fruit I haven't tasted...the 'Lisa' Atemoya tree. Here are pics of the tree(very windy), and the flower and tiny developing fruits.

I hope you enjoyed the photos as much as I'm going to enjoy eating the fruit!        :oD

Oh, and the 'dwarf cavendish' banana tree I posted pics of in the fruit thread of the forum is still plumping up the fruit. I will post pics of them when I've finally harvested them.