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Good volume with tropical and exotic crops from Florida are being predicted with shipments getting started later this month.
Exotic Growers Inc. of Homestead, FL notes loadings were delayed this season. Normally longan picking would begin in early June but this year, it won’t start until the end of July. While the season on exotic tropicals will finish in September, shipping beyond that will be guavas, avocados, mangoes, sugarcane, coconuts and other conventional tropical items.
This follows the difficult winter the state saw with two back to back freezes earlier this year that were about 10 days apart. A freeze results in the trees having more flowers with items such as longans, lychees, sapodillo, star fruit but also more conventional tropicals such as avocados and mangoes. However, the company lost its passion fruit crop, which it has since replanted.
Florida tropical fruit shipments are expected to remain good this fall, despite extreme weather of combined heat, humidity and storms earlier in the year.
Brooks Tropicals Inc. of Homestead FL reports its passion fruit and other items are looking great. The company will be have peak loadings of avocados during the fall and early winter.
J& C Tropicals of Miami notes between January and May both Florida and Central America experienced a major drought, and the summer brought heavy rains and high temperatures. This adversely affected dragon fruit and yucca. The company also ships malanga blanca, star fruit and calabaza.