Nicely done Brian. Always nice to see someone succeeding with a greenhouse in a crappy climate! The quail are a nice touch. I liked the ceiling fans you picked out. Are you having any issues with rust? What about water deposits building up on the blades? When mine got wet, the blades would throw that stuff onto the GH glass. I like how you are utilizing every bit of space that you can by hanging stuff on the walls and ceiling. I bet cleaning the poly panels is a lot of fun! LOL! I heard you mention scale. That stuff is a pain when the plants are as packed in there as you have. Greenhouses are fun, but a lot of work!
I spent a lot of time pruning my rollinia and cherimoya. Lots of flowers on the rollinia, but just could never get it to set fruit. Others told me that the trunk needed to be big around as a 2-liter pop bottle. Mine was but still no fruit set. It also had a lot of branches that just ended up dying off. If I had not moved to Thailand, I would have given the tree one more year to produce then I would have tore it out. Was just too big a pain. Cherimoya was not much better. Very huge and just grew uncontrollably. I did get a few fruit each year, but really wasn't worth the effort and space it took up.
I also had a Gold Nugget jack. Fruited once. Tasted great, but we were not a fan of the soft flesh. I cut it down and grafted a firmer fleshed variety onto it. Your Luc's looks nice and healthy. I think this is a very attractive garcinia. This was one of my largest trees in the GH. I'm convinced it was ready to start flowering the year after we moved. Hey...that marang is getting big! I love the shape and compactness. I just grafted a scion onto a big jackfruit here and still waiting to see how that works out.
Great job man! Keep up the fantastic work and make sure to give updates on that marang.
Topic: Brian's Pennsylvania Greenhouse and Tropical Fruit Trees (Read 391 times)