The Tropical Fruit Forum

Oh that's interesting, I'll have to remember this for next year and give it a try.

When evening temperatures drop below 60 degrees F, I bring my miracle berry bush inside.  It does not like anything colder.

Figs do well in a pot, I have a couple in the ground, one took about 3 years to fruit heavily while the other hasn't done anything.  I rooted a couple of varieties this winter and one is producing figs already!  Pretty excited about it, but I did prune away most of the figlets, but am keeping 3 on one branch. THe pots constrain root growth, so energy is pushed into reproduction instead of growth. Like achetadomestica mentioned, you may have better luck keeping them in pots.  IN addition, you can more easily control their size, which is my plan.  My available yard space is pretty much full, so anything new has to be in pots. You can cover the top of the pot when rain threatens to control how much water they receive.  For my inground figs, they get drip irrigation 3x week and while I provide supplemental water to all my other trees and veggies, the fig gets nothing.

Best of luck!

From Dennis...private grower in North San Diego. Do you want his info?

Thank you, but I'd hate to bug him for a request like this.

That sounds very interesting!  Did you get it from a nursery or other commercial grower?

Why are they naming a Dragon fruit over terrorist name? Now we got government watching this discussion......

And that's probably a picture of the infernal leader right there!  I bet he ends up on every facial recognition hot list....

 

Brad, thanks!  I'll have to look.  Home Depot only has the one variety. Maybe this weekend I'll pop over to Anderson's and see what they have.  It'd be nice to have a low-acidic variety of passion fruit.

I've seen posts where small twigs and leaves were left on the citrus. This was carefully removed and grafted onto a mother plant.  The graft took, but I'm not sure if it produced anything after that.

I've always been a fan of companion planting, although there are a lot of sceptics.  I plant cilantro around the edge of my garden and where it is present, I see fewer aphids.  Now this is all anecdotal, but I'm a believer in it.  I have a huge tomato plant that has pretty much taken over two raised veggie beds.  On one end I have some chives planted and that section of the tomato plant is aphid free.  The cilantro has since died and there are some areas of the tomato plant that are heavily infested.  Just a thought.

I couldn't say for sure, but how close is the lake to your fruit trees?

I've used cut-off 2 liter soda bottles (available after a party) to create a humidity dome.  I ended up having a hard time aclimatizing the seedlings once they began to outgrow the dome.  About half survived.

I agree with Fig-Doctor. Most fig trees will outgrow FMV.  It is hard to get a fig tree that does not have FMV.

good grief is this some form of HYDROPONICS ?                                                                                                 

And that is why a lot of avocado farmers in Fallbrook, CA are going out of business. That part of the county requested an agricultural exemption from the water regulations that went into effect due to the drought. It was denied, probably due to too high of a population density.  So their water costs went way up a couple of years ago at the height of the drought.  Last year wasn't bad, this year may get bad again.