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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Jambu wax apple in trouble?

« on: January 04, 2018, 07:46:23 PM »

I planted a little wax apple tree last summer. I live in SoCal zone 10a and it’s been a little cold here lately. Sometimes to 40s at night so I covered it with a frost blanket just in case but I just discovered that the leaves look strangely spotted...anyone have an idea what this is due to?! It was having really nice growth this past fall. I hope it’s not dying!

Tropical Fruit Discussion / Jujube splitting

« on: July 18, 2017, 05:07:34 PM »

So most of my jujubes are growing ok and are still green at this stage but some of them have started splitting. Is this an over or underwatering issue?

Tropical Fruit Discussion / jujube fruit shriveling prematurely

« on: June 29, 2017, 12:55:26 PM »

I got a jujube tree (Li variety) from a nursery and planted into the ground in May. It's not very bushy yet and about 7 feet tall. I gave it a good prune and tried really hard to pick off most of the fruit in the beginning so I wouldn't stress out the tree in its first year but that thing just kept putting out more and more flowers and it became hard to keep up with it. My question is, it's got a mix of a bunch of bigger size fruit that's green and growing well but also a whole bunch of tiny fruits that dried out and became red. Is this perhaps a sign of underwatering the tree? Underfertilizing? The leaves all look beautiful and green...

sabrina

Tropical Fruit Discussion / GEM avocados

« on: June 28, 2017, 12:01:05 AM »

Hey everyone! I live in SoCal and want to grow a dwarf
Avocado tree. I've been doing some
Searching and supposedly the GEM avocado
Seems like a great one, especially because it bears fruit every year as opposed to the Hass. Does anyone know where I can buy that tree? Dwarf avos seem to be really hard to find right now for whatever reason. Is it too late in the season maybe?
Any other dwarf you recommend for zone 10a?

Tropical Fruit Discussion / soil analysis

« on: June 16, 2017, 08:21:42 PM »

How accurate are the home kits for soil analysis? I recently tested both my veggie bed which was a potting soil/compost/touch of peat moss mix (supplied by my landscaper...who knows what quality he got) and also my native soil where all my fruit trees are sitting in. My native soil is a total clay soil. Veggie bed came back totally nitrogen and phosphorous depleted whereas my clay soil seemed fine in everything except for of course that it's unfortunately not draining very well. Do you guys trust the home kits or send out for professional analysis?

Tropical Fruit Discussion / your favorite research sites?

« on: June 02, 2017, 01:59:11 PM »

Hi everyone,
I'm totally enjoying reading about the trees that I just planted. Besides just googling fairly superficial information, do you guys have favorite research sites to go on that will tell you more detail about each tree? Like when exactly it would like to get fertilized? What kind of micronutrients it needs etc?
Thanks!
Sabrina

Tropical Fruit Discussion / Dying Wax Jambu Apple Tree

« on: May 27, 2017, 11:09:29 PM »

Hi everyone! I live in SoCal and have heard of people here successfully growing wax apple trees. I planted one 10 days ago but now the leaves are turning a weird brown red color from the middle of the leaves first. I know these trees aren't supposed to get a ton of water. We unfortunately have clay type soil but our gardener told us to water it everyday for the first week. I now backed off to watering every 3 days. The leaves don't feel dry... you guys think this is an overwatering issue?? I'm so sad! I was so so excited about the possibility of growing wax apples. I haven't had them in years!'