Full tour food forest (November, zone 9b)

[@craidynr]

Might just let my sweet potato spread out like this. Excellent ground cover! Looking good!

[@CorJenFarm]

Yes it is a good ground cover

[@aidaachi1459]

So beautiful I love this video

[@CorJenFarm]

Ty, we should be doing a full tour very soon..

[@louchris196]

Doing great there down in Lakeland man...im up here in west Pasco on an acre..your banana are MONSTERS!..getting loads of trees now! My mango had 180 fruits this year...very good Lychee crop and i am collecting anything that may do ok here...keep it UP,,love the pond too..

[@CorJenFarm]

Ty.. do you have any videos?

[@louchris196]

@@CorJenFarm no sir not that i would show sorry...

[@melanielinkous8746]

The sweet potatoes are out this world! How many sleeps did you start with? 🌴🌿🌵🌷🍄🌸🌺🌹🌻

[@islandbotanysoapco]

Hey, Just found your channel and I subbed! I used to live in Lakeland years ago. I didn’t know you could plant so many tropical fruit trees there. I thought they would die during the winter. Awesome to see yours are doing so well.

[@CorJenFarm]

Thanks! We have had to take some protection measures from the cold, especially when the trees were much youger. We did lose a tree or two along the way, but things are really doing well now.

[@Danfoodforest]

You have some amazing fruit trees on the property ... Great tour .. So many bananas I'm also in zone 9B just started my food forest in Riverview area ...growing similar fruit trees ... ... Have a wonderful evening

[@CorJenFarm]

Hello Dan, I have seen some of your videos in the past. I insulate houses for work and I'm often in the Riverview area. Your probably a tick warmer than me in winter. Hope we Dodge the freezes this year.

[@Danfoodforest]

@@CorJenFarm Hoping the freeze stays up north 😀.. I know you're busy with all the new developments in and around the Riverview area ... You have an amazing Food Forest ..

[@CorJenFarm]

@@Danfoodforest thanks, the project is almost 4 years old.

[@Danfoodforest]

@@CorJenFarmGreat ... I'm going into my 18th month ... got my first load of woodchips 3 weeks ago ...

[@CorJenFarm]

@@Danfoodforest I have moved a lot of wood chips in these years. Topsoil as well because everything had to be on mounds.

[@thewildingslanding]

I love the ground cover the sweet potatoes are providing. That looks great.

[@CorJenFarm]

The sweet potatoes are very thick right now. I should have a new update on the food forest around the beginning of November.

[@thewildingslanding]

@@CorJenFarm, I look forward to the update.

[@eljardinperdido]

Quite the collection of fruit trees! Awesome!

[@CorJenFarm]

Thanks

[@yo876]

Good job looks good been waiting for a update video 👌

[@MsFishingdog]

Thanks for the update on all your tropical trees. Looking good. How did your coconut cream mango tree do on fruit production this year. Thanks.

[@CorJenFarm]

It did ok for it's first time. The fruit was great.

[@tropical-fruit-Florida]

I'm glad you are back and look forward to watching the update. I am southwest of you in east Manatee County and our climates are probably very similar, so if your plants survive there is hope for my mine. I am also planning on doing some similar videos on tropical fruit growing in this region. Ian.

[@CorJenFarm]

That is great. I will certainly check those videos out

[@nikkimeredith2521]

Where did you get your trees or where would you recommend getting trees? We live about an hour and 15 minutes south of you guys.

[@CorJenFarm]

We have bought trees from many places. Can't say I recommend one above another. I have bought from at least ten different nurseries. Just depends on what I'm looking for and who has it. However if you're south of me I would certainly check out echo and fruit scapes in fort Myers. I have bought trees from both .

[@namastejulie]

This is exciting to see. I live in a town next to yours.

[@CorJenFarm]

Sorry I missed your comment... You in Plant City?

[@thewildingslanding]

Gorgeous bananas! I'm jealous! I know when we dig our pond where I'm planting my bananas!

[@CorJenFarm]

I had cut down two of the big namwah bunches but I didn't maintain keeping them cut so the stalks are back. They love access to pond water.

[@espartaco2028]

My notes as I watch: You gave your location straight off. Excellent. You listed the plantings by common names. Excellent. You have the same noisy Mocking Bird I have. He must make trips through Central Florida to Altamonte Springs. I get the vibe that you're a "What's Growin' On" Pete fan. Love to meet that guy, too. Not too many know about "Kattuk". The Barbados Crabapple LOVES to be heavily pruned during dormancy. I found that LIME will help sweeten the fruit slightly. Great video, Cor. Question: Have you heard that RED passion vine actually produces fruit? I have the blue and the purple and get tons of flowers. I also have tons of Squirrels but, I've never seen ONE fruit. Trying the red this year. Persimmon. YUCK! Dude, non-astringent? I bought one from the store and it was super nasty and filmy. Guess what is fruiting for real at my house this year? From worst to best, my pomegranates! Yea. Do you have those? Recommend. Hey, let's meet up for coffee. Wanna talk about the winter of 2020 and how you over-winter.

[@CorJenFarm]

Thanks for the comments, yes I'm aware the red flowered passion vines will fruit, my red one died this winter. Astringent persimmon have to get super soft like jello and that filmy nastiness will go away. My wife and I don't drink coffee but we surely love to meet up with other gardeners. We welcome people over often. We can travel as well. Sunday works best for us because we have church functions all day Saturday so we are not available. I(Corey) work during the week. My wife Jen takes care of a million other things during the week. If you have any ideas let me know. Thanks.

[@CorJenFarm]

Yes I have met Pete a couple of times and bought my jaboticaba from him. I do not have pomegranate at this time.

[@CorJenFarm]

I briefly saw you made another post but it disappeared so I didn't read it. KZbin often messes posts up. Often they will show up on youtube studio but not youtube. In this case it showed up then disappeared..

[@CorJenFarm]

I emailed you and deleted post as you requested.

[@melanielinkous8746]

How old are your Barbados Cherries?!! Planted mine this yr.

[@CorJenFarm]

Mine was planted four and a half years ago. I'm going to trim in back in the spring as it has gotten huge.

[@yo876]

Great job I’m in Orlando I have a quick question my property isn’t sloping or leveled this summer many areas had standing water from all the rain, killed many fruit trees what should I do should I just keep adding wood chips or go the expensive route 😩 and add swells and bring dirt in please when you get a chance let me know what worked best for you thanks

[@CorJenFarm]

Yes bring in dirt and raise the areas up then add wood chips. I moved many loads of dirt by wheelbarrow a few years ago. You can check some of my early videos to see what I did.

[@yo876]

Great thank you

[@shelleycottrell7596]

Hi I live nearby. I'm just starting out. If you had it all to over. Which fruit would you recommend most. As far as taste and hardiness. I want mango, avacado, guava, sugar apple. Any advice? Do you like passion fruit? Now I want macadamias🌱

[@CorJenFarm]

It's hard to say, I love all those fruits. As far as best fruit that is also cold hardy and disease resistant I would say jaboticaba. It's the cold hardiest of all those tropicals and never have disease issues and the fruit is great. Get the red jabo and it fruits most of the year. I like mango better but it's not as hardy. I'm considering putting in a large area of jaboticaba..

[@tinrathso3997]

The squirrel 🐿 don’t eat your fruits?

[@CorJenFarm]

Yes we have problems with 🐿️.

[@bobc.8224]

How well did your fruit trees did.

[@bobc.8224]

Can you grow longan in Lakeland Florida, do you have them growing.?

[@CorJenFarm]

Hello, I'll have a new full tour update out within a couple of weeks. Longan will grow here. Mine died in the big freeze three winter's ago. I haven't decided to grow another at this point as I prefer lychee.

[@friendlyfoodforest8033]

Beautiful start, we have goals of owning a food forest down where you are at! The Friendly Food Forest channel is currently in central Michigan, but we would love to own two. We would practically grow everything between the two and have some great content year round!

[@CorJenFarm]

I'll check it out. I've been down here for four years but I used to live in Cadillac Michigan.

[@friendlyfoodforest8033]

@@CorJenFarm ... that is cool...we have family in Cadillac

[@wallacetorin5678]

instablaster

[@NoComment-oc6di]

why not insulate the jackfruit trunk in colder weather ?

[@CorJenFarm]

I could but that doesn't protect a good portion of the tree... I insulate houses for a living so getting the material would be easy...

[@thegorillagardener7359]

What is the variety of loquat trees that you grow?

[@CorJenFarm]

I have Avri, bradenton, and Yehuda

[@vincenttsang4640]

Can sweat potato be a very ground cover?

[@CorJenFarm]

It certainly works as a ground cover... Grows fast and thick.. over time I've seen some tall grass able to compete with it. Most everything else is controlled well.

[@espartaco2028]

Something I just learned about the Sajo Persimmon. I ALMOST bought one, and this includes ALL "Asian" cultivars. "Requires 200 chill hours to produce fruit". That's one way to put it. Another way is, "It will DIE in less than 200 chill hours because it can't go into deep rest". I wrote that last one myself so, that's not really a quote. Also, I have only substantiated this from owners, no science resources. But, it makes sense.

[@kayakman9845]

White Sapote is a great fruit put Epson salt it helps I have I don't even remember how many I have get you Abiu tree

[@jclermond]

Hi, I'm in the Wimauma area south of Riverview, FL. I would like to obtain some tall banana trees like the ones you have. I only have the dwarf variety.

[@CorJenFarm]

Your welcome to come by our place on Sunday to get some pups we can dig up. We are usually working on the property on Sunday. You should be able to find this variety at nurseries as well that are closer to you. Let me know if you want to come get some. Free..

[@s.fla.beekeepingmangoesand1517]

Thanks for posting. If you add free range chickens, they will know down the mulch for you.

[@CorJenFarm]

We originally had chickens and I got rid of them. I didn't like them scratching up the mulch and damaging surface level feeder roots in the trees.

[@s.fla.beekeepingmangoesand1517]

@@CorJenFarm I told you so. LOL. Your farm looks great.

[@ingarrajoey]

Everything is looking good ! Bananas on roids. Someone told me if you plant figs in the ground with the rootball still inside the pot it keeps out the nematodes. Btw if I email you my address could you send me some green sapote scions? Let me know. Also I can't believe the size of the jackfruit! I have mine planted up against the south side of my house and it's getting huge. There's also another house next to mine which should help protect it

[@CorJenFarm]

Yes I can send you some but you probably want to wait till spring?

[@ingarrajoey]

@@CorJenFarm now is ok if the buds haven't pushed through

[@CorJenFarm]

@@ingarrajoey is it ok that the recent flush is not yet completely hardened off? It's very close. Not sure if that matters. Let me know.

[@CorJenFarm]

@@ingarrajoey I don't recall seeing a jackfruit tree in any of your videos. Hope we Dodge the freezes.

[@DL-tp2nr]

Try casimiroa edulus will take our cold temperatures

[@CorJenFarm]

Yes I have a white sapote.. my notifications say you also mentioned about a graft that won't take because of different species. The comment is not showing up for some reason. I assume you're referring to green Sapote on mamey root stock. My current green sapote is grafted on mamey. I've seen that this is very common.

[@DL-tp2nr]

CorJen Farm I thought Mamet is too cold sensitive to be good rootstock

[@CorJenFarm]

@@DL-tp2nr if I ever leave the tree exposed to cold under 30 I would probably at least pile mulch around the rootstock. For now the tree is still small enough to cover.

[@gopherbobz]

Did the low lying area kill the dream annona?

[@CorJenFarm]

No I put down to much micronutrient fertilizer (it was a potent blend) and fried the roots. The same thing happened to my Valencia pride mango and almost to my jaboticaba. I realized I used to much after I killed a few trees.

[@bmag4368]

Thanks for the info. My little food forest is near county line in Plant City so your experiences are valuable. I have a lot of fun stuff already but need to add a Grimel jabo, lychees, Barbados cherry, yellow jaimacan cherry and some star fruit in 2020.

[@bmag4368]

In regards to the fertilizer I've had good luck with minimal fertilization. I use mostly fish emulsion and primary on smaller potted plants before planting out. This year I started some Tithonia Diversifolia as a chop and drop mulch fertilizer.

[@CorJenFarm]

@@bmag4368 I rarely fertilize and only micronutrients. Your very close by then since I'm by the airport. I'm traveling on county line almost daily for work. May have seen your place in the past and didn't know.

[@CorJenFarm]

@@bmag4368 you can get cuttings for free from my Barbados cherry and seeds from my Kari starfruit if you want. I've read starfruit fruit fast from seed and sweet varieties will usually have offspring that are good and sweet.

[@yanostropicalparadise755]

jackfruit is to tall, i wont let mine get bigger tan 10 foot.

[@SueLall1008]

I don't know why you would want to remove those majestic bananas...

[@CorJenFarm]

I understand they look nice but they shade an important area a lot. The dwarf nawah will still look good just not crazy big. Still I understand your point.

[@CorJenFarm]

I didn't keep up with cutting them down when they resprouted as I was to busy this summer. They are now great big plants again. Video update soon

[@DL-tp2nr]

Brassinolide treats greening

[@CorJenFarm]

I just read something on that a couple days ago..

[@CorJenFarm]

If I had this info a month ago I probably would have tried it.

[@DL-tp2nr]

patents.google.com/patent/US20140171326A1/en

[@CorJenFarm]

@@DL-tp2nr the stuff I read was on the tropical fruit forum. You may be the person posting the information. Thanks.

[@DL-tp2nr]

CorJen Farm that was me trying to spread the word