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Obsessed with Fruit

TLCShow
11 years ago

Hi Everybody,

I am casting a show for TLC about people with unique collections or obsessions. I found this forum and wanted to get in touch with anybody who might say they are obsessed with fruit, a specific fruit, or gardening in general to see if they'd be interested in sharing their story on our show. Hope to hear from you!

Thanks,

Colleen Goodhue

Sharp Entertainment

colleen@sharpentertainment.com

Comments (11)

  • mrsg47
    11 years ago

    Hi Colleen, I sent you an email, Its mrsg47, Yep passionate about fruit trees;'collecting' trees and plants! Other things too.

  • blueboy1977
    11 years ago

    That sounds like fun! I've got 7 varieties of rabbiteye blueberries and 16 varieties of Southern High Bush blueberries totaling 49 blueberry plants. Obsession is a under statement! Also several citrus, blackberry and lots of different veggies. This is all in my small suburban back yard in Houston Tx. Let's make a show!

  • trgi21
    11 years ago

    Fruitnut, konrad, harvestman are a few names that come to my mind. Fruitnut would be the best candidate to showcase in such a show as his name says it all. His passion for fruit trees is an understatement.

    Tj.

  • bamboo_rabbit
    11 years ago

    Here is my current fruit list..obsessed? Me? noway :)

    141 blueberries
    50 sweet Crisp
    5 Gulf Coast
    8 Windsor
    2 southern Belle
    4 millennium
    14 Jewel
    4 South Moon
    33 Emerald
    9 Sunshine Blue
    1 scintilla

    2 Windy (rabbiteye)
    2 Beckyblue (rabbiteye)
    2 Snowflake (rabbiteye)
    Brightwell (rabbiteye)
    Powder blue (rabbiteye)
    2 Tiff blue (rabbiteye)
    Austin (rabbiteye)

    1 Tropic Beauty peach
    1 UF Gold peach
    3 UF Beauty peach trees
    1 Florida Prince Peach tree
    1 UFO peach tree
    2 plum trees

    Gulf Beauty
    Gulf Rose

    18 citrus trees (17 varieties)
    Ambersweet orange
    Taracco Blood orange
    Orlando Tangelo
    Mineola Tangelo
    Murcott Tangerine
    Meyer lemon
    Ruby Red Grapefruit
    Velencia Orange
    Navel Orange
    Dancy Tangerine
    Sunburst Tangerine
    Ponkan
    Eustis Limequat
    Temple
    Dekopon
    Kishu
    Gold Nugget

    25+ pomegranates (15 varieties)(part of a University of Florida study)
    Afganski
    Azadi
    Desertnyi
    Gissarskii Rozovyi
    Grenada
    Nikitski ranni
    Parfyanka
    Sakerdze
    Salavatski
    Shirin Zigar
    Sin-Pepe
    Vkusnyi
    Wonderful
    Russian #8
    11 Vietnam (Big yellow)

    5 mulberry trees
    Red
    White
    Black


    3 Fuyu persimmon trees

    4 Bananas (2 types)
    Ice cream
    Dwarf Cavendish

    100 row feet of black berry bushes (3 types, 33 feet row feet of each)
    Kiowa
    Ouachita
    Natchez

    150 row feet of Mysore black raspberry bushes

    50 row feet of Kiwi (3 types)
    Arctic
    Issiah
    ?
    2 Dunstan chestnut trees
    2 Grumichama cherry trees
    3 Pineapple Guava
    Cherry of the Rio Grande

    11 pineapples 2 types
    started from grocery store pineapple tops plus
    Kona Sugarloaf

    5 figs
    Celeste
    Ischia

    10 20 foot rows of muscadine grapes
    Triumph
    nesbitt
    southern home
    florida fry
    Carlos
    Darlene
    Late Fry
    Blue seedless
    Early Fry
    Li Ci

    Jujube Tigerclaw

  • olga_6b
    11 years ago

    If you are looking for obsessed people check rose forum and dayliy forum, as well as fig forum. People get 500+ different rose varieties, thousands of different daylilies and hundreds of different fig trees.
    How I know? I share some of these obsessions :)
    I am obsessed with persimmons now.
    Olga

  • Kevin Reilly
    11 years ago

    I nominate Fruitnut as well. His name says it all. If there is a fruit forum on the internet he posts on it, constantly trying new varieties, measuring the brix of each fruit. Hopefully he contacts the OP, although Bamboo should as well that list looks like obsession too!

  • MrClint
    11 years ago

    Be cautious friends, you may not like the finished report. I had a newspaper reporter follow my family and I around for a day when we were looking for a new puppy at a local pet fair. Suffice to say, I wasn't too thrilled with what was and wasn't found in print. Fast forward a year later and a reporter approached me at a tomato festival - I sent them away instantly and spent the rest of the time looking over my shoulder.

    My unsolicited advice: If you want to put on a show, do it on youtube. Don't let someone else tell your story.

  • Bradybb WA-Zone8
    11 years ago

    Can I be put on the list?
    I have a Topsy Turvy Strawberry Planter.It has 15 plants in it. Brady

  • blueboy1977
    11 years ago

    LMAO, Brady, you da man!!!

  • rasputinj
    11 years ago

    You will find lots of obsessed people about fruits here. Bamboo_rabbit you don't have enough peaches and plums. I know it is hard to get enough chill hours there. I love the Kishu I am on my 4th tree.

    Blueberries are an obsession all their own, I started with two and now have around 14 plants and looking to add more. The same holds true for Blackberries and raspberries. At least Raspberries will multiple on their own.

    I started out with a few fruit trees and now am around 50-57. Fresh fruit is very addicting. The addiction them can move to grafting, replacing trees and trying to figure out what is the max number of trees you can fit in your yard.

  • Konrad___far_north
    11 years ago

    This link will show a little with my love in fruits and nature,.. helps driving my engine on a daily basis.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Orchard pictures...

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