The Tropical Fruit Forum

If you put the branches back together before the wound dried out, you can wrap it with plastic for a couple of months, to retain moisture and promote healing, and add some strap or duct tap over the plastic.  If the plastic won't be shaded well as is, cover it with paper or a leafy pruned  branch.

Possibly a deficiency in Sulfur or Calcium.

I suggest applying gypsum (calcium sulfate) and a full fruit-tree or palm fertilizer, high in micro-nutrients.

5. "Arkin" carambola (store bought greenish)
4. Kiwi fruit
2. Tangelo
3. "Tommy Atkins" Mango (imported, picked early, preferred)
1. Red Delicious Apple

Looks like dense soil with a high clay content and the tree is in a bit of a hole. If so did you loosen the area around it? When you plant trees flush or proud or with a shelter does the same the same thing happen? Most fruit trees are not fans of puddles/wells and if fertiliser is accumulating in a ring around the stem it isn't ideal also.

Fertilize the tree with a fertilizer formula higher in nitrogen and potassium and lower in phosphorous that also has all the trace minerals.  After planting a citrus tree, the only thing to refill the hole with, is the dirt taken out while digging  Do not add any other ingredients..  Actually looking at the picture it looks like the tree is planed in a hole.

I just got one variegated dekopon... i think i'm getting krazy!   

Quote from: quesofreshcoh on August 08, 2020, 07:19:01 PM

You can probably try a Jaboticaba or Sapodilla, I have not grown a Jabo yet but from what I hear they do excellent here in 9b, and can tolerate a little more. You will have to protect them most likely on those very cold nights. My Hasya sapodilla has proven to be excellent for cold tolerance, we had nights of 25F and it didn't seem affected at all. Maybe I am just lucky with cold tolerance, but it hasn't produced anything and I am probably gonna put something else in its place. I would probably go with Alano because a lot of other people have stated that Hasya just doesn't produce well sometimes. It can be hit or miss. Good luck though!

The problem is, zone 9b in Florida is very different than zone 9b in Europe. In Florida, you've got cold fronts that don't last very long and then you're back to +16C or much higher. In my zone 9b, we can have many consecutive days with temperatures close to freezing or slightly below, with daytime temperatures not exceeding 6 or 7C. Also, winters are wet in our Mediterranean climate so we have the problem of cold wet roots. Also, in my area, the north wind is a big problem.

All of my passion fruit vines completely die during winter. Avocados grown from store bought fruit also die to the ground and so do cherimoyas.

But I'm still experimenting. I've planted white sapote, Surinam cherry and strawberry guava this spring and I intend to try to get them through the first few winters by protecting them and then we'll see what happens after that. I will also try Mexican avocados when my seedlings grow big enough for planting.

Btw, all of the things listed survive with no issues on my large covered balcony in town, but planting them out in the open is a completely different story.

In our area, there's plenty of citrus, figs, pomegranates, loquats, persimmons and jujubes. They really thrive here so for us, other things are more interesting.

SeaWalnut - you grow pink guava outdoors in ground or in pot?
johnb51 - no I have never eaten white sapote, but I have read it's fantastic, don't know its fruiting time but will search for seeds