• Caribbean Red Papaya
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      • What a ripe Caribbean Red papaya looks like
    • Tips and ideas
      • Know ur papaya
      • EZ slicing
      • Lots of ways to slice and dice
    • Nutrition
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    • Growing papaya
      • Our papaya fields
      • Papaya plants grow fast…
      • Panorama of our Caribbean Red papaya fields
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      • Appetizers and side dishes
      • Breakfast
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      • Desserts
      • Drinks
      • Entrees
      • Lunch ideas
      • Salads
      • Soups
    • Merchandising
      • Merchandising tips
      • Displays
  • Solo papaya
    • All about
    • Is it ripe?
    • Tips and ideas
      • Know ur papaya
      • How to chop
      • Enjoy 3 ways
      • 30 ways to enjoy
    • Nutrition
    • Season
    • Growing Solos
    • Recipes
      • Appetizers and side dishes
      • Breakfast
      • Condiments, toppings and spreads
      • Desserts
      • Drinks
      • Entrees
      • Salads
      • Merchandising
  • SlimCado avocado
    • All about
    • Is it ripe?
      • Is your SlimCado turning red?
    • Tips and ideas
      • Selecting a SlimCado
      • Non GMO
      • Opening the tropical avocado, SlimCado
      • Ideas for enjoying this tropical avocado
      • Beyond guac and toast
    • Nutrition
    • Season
    • Growing the tropical avocado, SlimCado
      • Our avocado groves
      • From farm to table
      • How an avocado “begins”
    • Recipes
      • Appetizers and side dishes
      • Breakfast
      • Condiments, toppings and spreads
        • You’ve asked for our guacamole recipe
      • Entrees
      • Desserts
      • Drinks
      • Lunch ideas
      • Salads
      • Soups
    • Merchandising
  • Starfruit
    • All about
    • Is it ripe?
    • What does starfruit taste like?
    • Tips and ideas
      • Slicing starfruit
      • No-recipe ideas for starfruit
      • Starfruit’s starring roles
      • Garnishing with starfruit
    • Nutrition
    • Season
    • Growing starfruit
      • Early morning in a starfruit grove
      • How a starfruit grows
    • Recipes
      • Appetizers and side dishes
      • Breakfast
      • Condiments, toppings and spreads
      • Desserts
      • Drinks
      • Entrees
      • Lunch ideas
      • Salads
      • Soups
    • Merchandising
      • Point of Sale
      • Starfruit Social Media
  • Passionfruit
    • All about
    • Is it ripe?
    • Tips and ideas
      • Tips to enjoy the seeds
      • 7 no recipe ideas for passionfruit
      • Add, top, bake, sip and slurp
      • EZ ideas to enjoy
      • What happened to the passionfruit?
      • Freeze passionfruit?
    • Nutrition
    • Season
    • Growing passionfruit
      • How passionfruit’s grown
      • Watch passionfruit grow
      • Passionfruit tells you when its ready for harvesting
      • Just a bee doing her job
    • Recipes
      • Appetizers and side dishes
      • Breakfast
      • Condiments, toppings and spreads
      • Desserts
      • Drinks
      • Entrees
      • Lunch ideas
      • Salads
    • Merchandising
  • Groovy Coconut
    • All about
    • Is it ripe?
    • Tips and ideas
      • Know ur coconuts
      • All about water coconuts
      • 3 signs of a good coconut
      • Opening a Groovy Coconut
      • Shredded vs Fresh Coconut
    • Nutrition
    • Season
    • Recipes
      • Appetizers and side dishes
      • Breakfast
      • Condiments, toppings and spreads
      • Desserts
      • Drinks
      • Entrees
      • Lunch ideas
      • Salads
      • Soups
    • Merchandising
  • More…
    • Dragonfruit
      • All about
      • Is it ripe?
      • Tips and ideas
        • Red or white inside?
        • Ways to enjoy
        • Open dragonfruit
      • Nutrition
      • Season
      • How it’s grown
        • Growing Dragonfruit
        • From bud to fruit, dragonfruit
        • How it gets its shape
        • Field panoramas
        • Midnight at the “oasis”
      • Recipes
        • Appetizers and side dishes
        • Breaksfast
        • Condiments, toppings and spreads
        • Drinks
        • Desserts
        • Entrees
        • Lunch ideas
        • Salads
      • Merchandising
    • Ginger
      • All about ginger
      • Growing ginger
      • Recipes
        • Appetizers and side dishes
        • Breakfast
        • Condiments, toppings and spreads
        • Desserts
        • Drinks
        • Entrees
        • Lunch ideas
        • Salads
        • Soups
    • Jackfruit
      • Growing jackfruit
    • Limes
      • All about
      • Is it ripe?
      • Tips and ideas
        • How to pick a lime
        • Optimum slicing
        • Make it right with a lime
        • Lime versus Lemon
        • Put a lime in it
        • In the limelight – limes
      • Nutrition
      • Season
      • Growing limes
      • Recipes
        • Appetizers and side dishes
        • Breakfast
        • Condiments, toppings and spreads
        • Drinks
        • Desserts
        • Entrees
        • Lunch ideas
        • Salads
        • Soups
      • Merchandising
    • Lychee
    • Mamey Sapote
      • Growing mamey sapote
    • Uniq Fruit
      • All about
        • Uniq Fruit lives up to its name
        • 8 ways to enjoy Uniq Fruit
      • Recipes
    • Other
      • Aloe
      • Boniato
        • All about boniatos
        • Recipes
      • Calabaza
      • Eddos
        • About eddos
        • Recipes
      • Guava
        • Red guava
          • All about red guava
          • How to open
          • Guava’s seeds
          • Enjoying red guava
          • Recipes
            • Appetizers and side dishes
            • Condiments, toppings and spreads
            • Desserts
            • Drinks
            • Entrees
            • Lunch ideas
            • Salads
        • Thai guava
      • Kiwano
      • Habanero peppers
      • Key Limes
      • Kumquats
      • Malanga
        • All about malanga
        • Recipes
      • Pineapple
      • Plantains
      • Sugar Cane
      • Yams
      • Yuca
        • All about yuca
        • Recipes

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From bud to fruit, dragonfruit

From bud to fruit, dragonfruit

Dragonfruit starts as a tiny bud on a cactus-like plant. The bud...
Dragonfruit
She’s got dragonfruit eyes

She’s got dragonfruit eyes

She’s got dragonfruit eyes. You say don’t play with...
Dragonfruit
View from our window

View from our window

The avocado swaying in the breeze has Cici’s attention as...
SlimCado avocado
Dragonfruit’s flower

Dragonfruit’s flower

Those are some dragonfruit flowers just beginning their bloom. Our...
Dragonfruit
Flowers of the Florida starfruit

Flowers of the Florida starfruit

Our starfruit season has begun. These starfruit flowers tell us...
starfruit, Starfruit or carambola
See red

See red

The color red brings some healthy things into what you’re...
caribbean red papaya, Mamey sapote
Florida tropicals

Florida tropicals

You can’t grow any tropicals in the U.S. except for southern...
Tropical fruits, tropicals
Flowers of the stars

Flowers of the stars

Starfruit flowers. Florida’s starfruit season is coming up...
carambola, starfruit, Starfruit or carambola
Florida tropicals coming your way

Florida tropicals coming your way

Florida tropicals coming your way: SlimCado, lychees, mamey...
Aloe, Guava, Jackfruit, Lychee, Mamey sapote, Passionfruit, Red guava, slimcado, SlimCado avocado, starfruit, Starfruit or carambola, Tropical fruits, tropicals
Papaya all in a row

Papaya all in a row

Neat and tidy Not so fast, papaya may look eat and tidy now but it...
Caribbean Red papayas, Solo papaya
Avocado grove walk thru

Avocado grove walk thru

Join me in a walk in one of our avocado grove. We grow these...
slimcado, SlimCado avocado
The wild fruit…

The wild fruit…

It’s a hot, humid day in Southern Florida. High noon gives...
Dragonfruit
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