The Tropical Fruit Forum

TDS is on the high side with a lot of calcium. Besides that looks good. Adding sulfur like cookie monster said seems to be the way to go.

I use to do groundwater testing, would use TDS, pH, D.O., and conductivity sensors testing many wells in SoCal. From what I recall not many had tds over 300 and most had pH around 6.5 to 7.5

What can I do about the TDS? Would it be mostly calcium carbonate coming from the aquifer? Calcium carbonate is limestone right? If I acidify it with sulfuric acid what does nutrients or off gasses would I create?

I normally just wiz on the coconut palms or the banana circle if I have to go when I am working. I am currently in the process of taking all of my trees out, ripping up the irragation, and using an auger to bust up the compressed drained swamp land while adding pelletized sulfur, perlite, and a ton of biochar as well as a 3' deep root barrier around my property. Basically building a large area of acidic potting mix. I have been recording the process so far so hopefully I will have some sort of youtube series that will show the progress. I will be replacing almost all of the trees with my own grafted trees that I have been growing with custom soil mixes and rootmaker root pruning pots from seed and planting them on giant mounds.

My theories on soil health and fertilization are that I want a pH of 5.5 - 6.2, good drainage with plenty of oxygen in the soil, high amount of diverse soil biology including inoculation of mycorrhizae on tree roots and what I think is most important is having a well developed root system that has never been rootbound. I am saving up for large rain barrel tanks and when those run dry I will pump well water in and acidify it with sulfuric acid. I will have plenty of chop and drop trees and shrubs around to have an ever expanding and contracting rootzone with fresh, orgainic, highly mineralized mulch being continuously added. I like to think of it as a breathing system of nutrient and organic matter decomposition and reabsorbtion.

I use a very wide range of organic fertilizers of all sorts. There is no way to tell what did what in my yard. Sul-po-mag, potassium sulfate, bone meal, Mighty Grow, greensand, azomite, crab meal, raw milk, aerated worm tea, mulch, cover crops, mycorrhizae inoculants, hugs and kisses, urine........

I didn't have any negative effects shortly after use. It seemed like a quality product. I think they use a better process than the cheaper fish I picked up from the wholesaler. I researched it a while back but I can't remember the specifics.

Woo hoo! PM sent.

Hey guys. Fruitscapes Nursery on Pine Island have been busy propagating this. They had a bunch of nice 3 gallons available when I was there on Saturday. Steve is now calling it Pine Island Gold. I will forever be calling it Red's Dumpster and will be adding to some multi graft star fruit trees.

Please ask about a junglesop taste report and see if they have anything to they would like to share about it. It is such an enigma from all of my internet research. I would also be very thankful for a video link of this.

Get them into potting mix. They grow fast. 

I don't know how far north you are going but Dave Wilson Nursery makes some incredible videos for growers. They do a lot of business with Zaiger Genetics which are responsible for most of the interspecific stone fruit crosses. They might be good to contact and explain your youtube channel. I'm not sure what would be in season right now but Dave Wilson might have some weird pomegranates or apples.

Tropic Fruit in San Jose had fresh unfrozen durian when I was there as well as a bunch of other stuff. Stay away from the mangosteen. No bueno.
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There was another Asian fruit store a few doors down that had some different dried stuff as well.

Love the series. I have watched at least 85% of them.

UC in Riverside did a bunch of genetic testing on dragon fruit and have a test planting. I'm not sure on the season out there but I have fruit on mine here.

Lots of backyard annonas, especially from people on this forum.

I feel like this happened to mine when it was over watered. That is just a guess though.

I only have experience with seed imports. Good luck guys. If it works out share the process. I would love to get some rare rhizomes.

I've been getting some really good shopping done and I just set up a huge real estate buy in Zimbabwe. It turns out I am getting a HUGE settlement from the prince. I'll see you suckers later.

Hey JF. I am really interested if you Maprang and odorata are still growing on your Ataulfo rootstock. All of my Maprang seedlings seem to have really weak root systems compared to mango. I would like to give them a boost.