What Fruit Tree Is Best for Your Backyard?
Today I visited Julian Lara of Lara Farms. He takes us though everything a person should consider before planting a fruit tree. Our climate supports tropical fruit but most of what we discussed applies to any kind of fruit bearing tree.
Julian sells his trees and fruit at: larafarmsmiami.com
I also sell avocados and mangos at: www.guacfarm.com
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Nice video, if anyone hasn't ordered from Julian before let me tell you that he does a great job packing your trees, shipping them fast, communicating with you the tracking info. Would recommend to everyone! 👍
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Luis, I agree.
This is awesome 😎. Two of my favorite people I like to follow on KZread ❤. Love how these fruit growers make a video together!
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Vita, I'm very flattered by your compliment
Julian sells the best trees!! I bought a few and wasn’t disappointed!
@SleepyLizard
2 ай бұрын
what did you get?
Great video!! I bought most of my fruit trees from Lara farms from his dad and some from Julian as well. Julian is great and his nursery is first class. Love your channel !!!
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Hi Let's Grow, I agree with everything you just said.
A great pair of growers, classic 👍🏻
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
thank you
Past two weeks ive order mangoes from these two farms. Lara farms has the best mangoes on the planet. The terp profiles make the mangoes aphrodisiacs. I was amazed how the francis hargrave mango leaves us smelling like perfume. Gauc farm has decent mangoes for the price. Highly recommend sampling their mangoes, my family loves them.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
thanks Post, I appreciate the review.
Nice to see lighthearted conversation.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I try to avoid serious conversation when I can🤣
Two of my favorite people. Thanks for making the dream come true!
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
It was a great day and I left with my belly full
That was super helpful to go over the pot size.
@SleepyLizard
10 ай бұрын
thank you. I just put in 18 trees from his nursery. 9 mango and 9 avocado
Great info ..keep teaching
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Beats, I got a lot of wisdom from Juilan yesterday, probably two more vids worth once I chop it all up.
Bravo! Loved the joint video. Very fun!
@SleepyLizard
7 ай бұрын
Gavin, I love your enthusiasm
Great information great job well done Tom 👍👌✌️💪👏
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
thanks Heera, Julian knows his stuff
Thank you for mentioning hardiness zone, never thought about that important aspect
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
yeah you want to work with nature not against it.
As always super informative Tom thank you. Bill😊
@SleepyLizard
6 ай бұрын
Yep, Julian is the best in the business.
Love the videos.. the editing.. the changing of backdrops.. your sharp wittiness probably drove Julian crazy.. 😂
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Backyard, I gotta admit there were a few things that got past my internal filter that I had to edit out later. 😝
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
by the way, this morning I ate a few Zills from that batch I sent you and man they are just like candy. Have yours softened up yet? I'm glad I send them with the VP because where the Zill is sweet like candy the VP has that tangy citrus so you get a range of flavor.
@OrlandoBackyardGardening
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard mine still feel a bit firm…I might try one to see
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
@@OrlandoBackyardGardening not trying to rush you. I had a few soften up today but the rest are still hard. and the VP and Kent will probably soften slower. it's later in the season for the Zills
@OrlandoBackyardGardening
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard tried one but it was still like a store bought mango 🥭… they need a few more days
I just have to say wow Awesome show Love the contact. Keep up the great work.
@SleepyLizard
11 ай бұрын
I appreciate your comment, thank you
Thank you, that’s so true, he does
@SleepyLizard
8 ай бұрын
I know
Great video Tom.
@SleepyLizard
8 ай бұрын
Thx
Awesome set up! I have berries, figs and other cold hardy trees. Sending love out from Va!
@SleepyLizard
8 ай бұрын
Mu friend just brought us some fig blueberry jam from Massachusetts. So delicious
Thanks guys
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
you got it Charles.
God, I wanna be like you guys when I grow up!
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
You ain't so bad yourself Sue 😉
Thanks for the info SL. Just bought 4 mango trees from Dr J. 2 Edward x Kent's, 1 ice cream and 1 VP
@SleepyLizard
5 ай бұрын
excellent choices. wait till you see (or maybe you already know) how fast the VP grows. I LOVE them!
Just love it… new way to eat mango…🙏🏻🙏🏻
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
the banana cut
Thanks
@SleepyLizard
6 ай бұрын
You are welcome
Carambola aka Star Fruit! have a tree and give bags of it away at harvest time, saw 44 Grateful Dead Shows always bring a lighter!
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Hi Porter, my carambola fruits pretty much year round. My dad gets amused when he sees them for $4 a piece where he lives in PA and he knows I have a hundred of them rotting in the grass down here. Lara farms has their own variety carambola and it tastes amazing.
@porterhouse7260
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard Nice to know, I'm not too far away in Ft. Lauderdale, will have to check them out!
Jackfruit can easily be maintained at about 10-12 ft tall by 4-6 ft soread and still be productive
@SleepyLizard
2 ай бұрын
I'm not really a fan of the flavor of jackfruit
We use hardiness zones up here in Canada too! Loved the video; I just got my first tropical fruit tree, a 3 gal Persian/Bearss lime! It will stay in a container and live outside all summer, and overwinter indoors.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
So cool. will you be able to make it fruit up there?
@OliviaLovesPugs
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard As long as I can get it to survive indoors over the winter, I think it should be smooth sailing. The summers where I live are very good conditions for citrus, very hot and sunny, and it’s grafted onto dwarf rootstock so it’s meant for container growing. Here’s hoping it survives the winter and I get some fruit next year!
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
@@OliviaLovesPugs please keep us posted
@OliviaLovesPugs
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard Will do! If it survives I’m going to be adding to my little container citrus orchard, with at least lemons and oranges.
@JamesNot007
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard Greetings from Europe, Estonia. By USDA zones standards Estonia is in zone 6 to 5. So No year long growing tropical trees here. However, just recently I acquired a Satsuma mandarin, Sanguinelly blood orange and Osteen mango. Doing the same thing, @OliviaLovesPugs does. The trees stay outside from June to September. The Saunguinelly has been blooming for a month now and hopefully we get a first test of home grown blood orange in the beginning of winter. Btw, the smell of that blood orange blooming is probably the most intense smelling flower I have ever experienced. It smells like a perfume shop.
Nice video, the mulberry cuttings you gave me have tiny fruit and leaves.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
wow! they do? that's amazing. you definitely have a green thumb. By the way, Julian was very impressed with your fruit knowledge and passion.
@lukemitch1009
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard thanks 👍
I only grow fruit trees in pots because my garden got covered in cement to build a rain proof house for hydroponics. So i can only grow in pots now. I have about 40 trees currently but used to have over 100 trees in pots 2 years ago. I live in malaysia so theres many fruits we cant grow like you can in North America cause its hot the whole year with zero chill hours but I don’t follow the rules and grow blueberries, raspberry, blackberries, oranges, grapes, and alot of local tropical fruit. Somehow my blueberries bushes are fruiting with zero chill hours and the berries taste better than store bought ones. Want to get a russel avocado soon!
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
wow, you must put a lot of effort
We need a video where you talk best places in the world to grow tropical fruit without being in the tropics and which kind of environment, close to sea, hills, inland, elevation, humidity, sun, heat, etc
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Hi Nelson, great idea. I'd have to bring in some expertise on that for sure
Consider if ever spraying your fruit with something you don't want near you, that slightly modifying a full body umbrella might be a better option... Of course I'm trying to find more natural solutions than sprays.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
I'm not worried about the sprays. We use approved products and PPE.
people shouldnt really be decieved that they cant grow their favorite fruit in their hardiness zone. Hardiness zones were created for commercial farms and not for backyard growers. Ive seen people having date palms, avocados and bananas here in zone 6 and they produced good tasting fruit. They were usually covered in polystyrene boxes during winter because sometimes it can get really cold during the winter months. I myself might try putting citrus and banana into the ground here, altough i still have a lot of planning to do.
@SleepyLizard
8 ай бұрын
Why would the USDA say acodaos don’t grow in zone 6 if they do? 🤣
I see an arm wrestler’s handshake right there 🤔
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
I would lose to him for sure
Hi can I plant 4 grafted avocados in a half of barrel limited backyard coconut trees took the whole back yard has to cut 2 down still
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Hey Dev!
@ 1:39 that looked like a Penn & Teller trick.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
yes, the best way to make me shut up is to tie my hands behind my back 🤣. Second best way is to give me a peeled and cut mango.
Where's the Maha Chanook review? Did you eat it? I just bought two of those because I heard they are a must have. What was your impression?
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
it was delicious, this vid was more about the growing but I ate that one he cut for me and it was so sweet. you won't regret your purchase
Its minus 5 degrees.... my one little avocado tree is still going but there has been carnage for the rest. Black, dry and frozen are words that should never be used to describe an avocado fledgling. Tom... can you please re-do that zoning chart? It needs to have elements like humidity etc separate so people in other countries.. Australia perhaps lol can take elements and create a zoning profile for anywhere. Currently is not possible to translate US zones to anywhere else. Yes we have our own but cant compare to yours. If it was made up of pieces to put together it would be universal.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
that is an excellent suggestion. Maybe take the hardiness zones and list their min/max temps and other characteristics and distinguish one from the next. A little tip if you can do it...try running your sprinkler all night if it's dipping below freezing, the relatively warmer water will keep your tree above freezing...unless you have to pay a lot for water that is...around here we all have wells
@KerriEverlasting
Жыл бұрын
@SleepyLizard we pay through the proverbial nose for water here but I did take note of that tip from your other videos 💚
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
@@KerriEverlasting maybe string some xmas lights around the tree...not LEDs but regular bulbs that give off heat. it only takes a few degrees
@KerriEverlasting
Жыл бұрын
@SleepyLizard you are so beautiful Tom, your will to keep my tree alive is just beyond your duty yet you never give up. Much love to you and your clan 💚
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
@@KerriEverlasting 💪🥑
I am in California zone 8B can't plant those plant at all, would you have those plant that fit in zone 8b? CA not like FL state .
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Yeah all the fruit we talked about in this vid is zone 9b or above. You can do avocados in 8b
Hi ,some of my Avo trees have root rot. Been raining for weeks...they are in pots...any remedy? Andre.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Hi Avoman, if it's not too late you can try to remove the roots that have disease and leave the healthy roots then repot into a bigger pot with soil that offers better drainage so it doesn't happen again.
what did he do with the Gary mango leaf towards the end of the video ???
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
I smelled it. But that leaf was from the coconut cream mango tree behind the Gary.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
across varieties the leaves will often smell different. the Gary leave smells like orange. The coconut cream leaf smells like coconut
Love you channel, new subscriber here but you barely let Julian talk. He looks a little annoyed. 😅 Still entertaining though.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
thanks for the subscription. There are a lot more videos of Julian where he talks a lot more on the Fruitful Trees KZread channel.
Is nam dok mai mango a self pollinate?
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
all mangos self pollinate
@asondareyes5482
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizard thank you!!
@asondareyes5482
Жыл бұрын
@@SleepyLizardI bought it in a 3gal. Once it’s ready to be up pot, can I plant it in 15 pot gal?
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
@@asondareyes5482 yep
Can we get a GoFundMe started for Julian to get his ears waxed?
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
that's not a very nice thing to say
i been scammed today
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Oh no, what happened?
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
oh man I just saw your video. what a bummer.
In addition to people rethinking life and growing their own food, it would be nice if they would also rethink their political beliefs and quit voting for the bad politicians who are destroying this country and got us in this predicament.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
have you ever tried the mamey Americana?
@eyehatemyjob
11 ай бұрын
Hard to beat an indoctrinating education system and a media with an agenda.
Sorry, I can't stand the KZread hand flapping.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
it's cool. you don't have to apologize.
Let your guest talk more and NEVER eat in a video. Just my thoughts.
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
Why do you say that?
First
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
TaitLennox quick on the draw!
can anyone summarize this in the comments
@SleepyLizard
Жыл бұрын
You might try tiktok. They tend to summarize really good over there.