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I bought a 20 gal from Excalibur 3 years ago and this is the first year it set fruit. this is one of my favorite varieties even if it's not a every year fruiting tree

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Lemon Zest Skin Coloration
« on: June 29, 2015, 11:25:32 PM »


My one and only lemon zest mango off a graft I did onto a Glenn tree cool dragon birth mark
I had to share mmj so delishous

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: March 09, 2015, 10:29:32 AM »
Yeah I was wondering if I should make a splint or something the relieve pressure around the graft union
I would like to leave the fruits alone n see how many ripen since my lemon zest mom isn't flowering this year

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: March 08, 2015, 05:07:56 PM »
That's exactly what I was thinking about but rather a late mango like keitt or kent tree top worked with lemon zest or early variety if the hormones would flower the grafts later in the season to have awesome mangos in sept or oct would be my goal.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: March 08, 2015, 02:44:16 PM »






Update on last sept grafts 3/5 took ad 1/5 is producing lemon zest mangos on my Glenn tree! The last pict is my lemon zest tree which didn't flower at all just started pushing new growth, does anyone think this is unusual to have fruit off a graft less than one year old? Also the graft flowered the same time my Glenn flowered but the lemon zest was dormant

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: September 15, 2014, 02:26:25 PM »
Hooray for long scion wood grafts :) thanks guys, just one more question
How long before I unwrap the black rubber holding the union?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: September 14, 2014, 10:52:57 PM »
Thanks cookie, I tried to cut the scion right before the push and Ill watch for the self prune cause the tree has new growth all around. Can I mitigate the self prune if I cut the new little sprouts before the graft section if it happens? Next time I'll try side grafts.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: September 14, 2014, 07:31:09 PM »














We'll it's been about 2 weeks since my original post and one of my scion to seedlings looks really good and one of my scion to glen looks dead, all the rest look healthy but slow to grow but not dead. Surprisingly the smallest piece of scion to glen tree is the one which looks dead, all the other long scions look healthy.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking to buy Maha chanock scions.
« on: September 14, 2014, 03:10:35 PM »
Hey David I have
Lemon zest, Carrie, PPK, Glen available probable this month
I have a small Ice Cream, Dwarf Hawaiian, Pickering available to you later
And when established in my FAA micro grove I can get you Pineapple Pleasure, Val Carrie, CocoCream prolly next year
Thanks again for the jack fruit n sugar apples

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: SorryI have not beeen on lately
« on: September 14, 2014, 12:14:17 AM »
Wow ! Hope you heal up fast and everything goes ok for you

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will this work? Container growing
« on: September 09, 2014, 07:46:20 PM »
+80% coco coir is good for this.

And will break the bank.


Ok so 10 bucks for 2 c yards 50 lb bags of coco coir at bwi in homestead fl and also got orchid mix fine bark what else do you recommend for the soil? I also found my roll of 1/2" sprinkler system hose so no self watering pot I'm gonna irrigate them with my lawn sprinkler system 2wice a week 20 min or so. I was thinking fertilize with local diamond r brand but the coco coir bag says liquid fert so what do you recommend? also Should I still go with home made air prune pots or just drill holes in my barrels n go regular?

Thanks lumpy

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will this work? Container growing
« on: September 07, 2014, 06:28:58 PM »
If you want selfwatering then buy a timervalve. They also sell sensors with them so the soil will always be perfect humid.

To me this system looks a bit overdone but it will probably work. Growing a tree is not rocketscience.

The problem with growing in a pot is circling roots, then you can use airpruning pots or normal pot with microkote. Or get the tree out of the pot every 2 years and prune the roots.

I see many mangotree's in very small pots on this forum, then you will get a few mango's a season. I would go for a bigger pot but then make sure the soil doesn't stay to humid so use a good soilmixture. Or upgrade the pot every time.
I could tap into my sprinkler system and run a Line up to the trees, I guess that would be better I already thought about it. I have other mango trees in my yard so production isn't a priority I just want to use the space for something good cause we haven't done anything with it in over 3 years. One year I tried to grow tomatoes up there but the tile floor is just to hot that's why I thought self watering pots to kinda buffer the floor from the roots
I just wanna build the pots for a cool project, something to do instead of just buying remade super pots

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will this work? Container growing
« on: September 07, 2014, 06:22:46 PM »
25 gals. makes for one heavy pot come moving time.

I'd go with RootMaker pots myself and plan on buying a house with a yard soon.
It's on my 2 nd floor balcony I need it heavy so they don't fall over I plan on leaving them up there for a long time, I want to make Al's gritty mix for them

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Will this work? Container growing
« on: September 06, 2014, 02:18:35 PM »
I want to utilize the 2nd floor patio space to grow container mangos and just put up a free sunscreen to keep it a little cooler and build som self watering air pruning pots like this guy
http://youtu.be/VPxj8e2r7H0
I have a dwarf Hawaiian, Pickering and ice cream ready to go. One concern is can I up pot to half barrels with these small mangos? Do you think the water in the bottom of the barrels will alleviate some heat exchange to the barrels?  I figure after water reservoir the pots will be around 25 gal
 



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: The Cookie Monster Orchard Project
« on: September 06, 2014, 10:17:50 AM »
Awesome! Now you'll get some real use out of your new wood chipper, can't wait to see your tree selection

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: FAA micro grove
« on: September 02, 2014, 08:47:18 PM »
I was just curious as to what type of soil you planted the trees on there at the airport.

If it's typical miami / homestead soil, some of those babies are going to require some care. Citrus and lychee will probably be the 2 that require the most care on that soil. Avocado and mango tend to do swell though.

Thanks guys
The grove is off 826 and 58 st if your heading north look to the right before the exit. It's a federal facility with armed guards so sorry no entry

Cookie are you asking if I'm growing m lychee in homestead? Didn't understand the question
If any one is looking for 25 gal m lychee  85.00 in homestead pm me and I'll give you the grove name
It's a couple of miles from the airport the en route facility and they must have spend some money on fill cause the soil was rocky and black but not coral crappy like in homestead where I live anyways I threw in so some black cow with every tree and I will be looking for future advice on how to take care of the lychee and citrus

Here is a pict of the soil on the right side that's what it looks like, I planted the avacados on the higher side so they won't stay wet hopefully. There is built in drainage in the middle of the run with grate covers so It does have good drainage I'll try to take more Picts when I get the last 2 mango trees planted

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: FAA micro grove
« on: September 02, 2014, 02:00:04 PM »
I planted the citrus because I miss my old Valencia orange, ruby red and tangerine that I used to have over in ft Myers before moved over here. Over in ft Myers the soil was pure sand and I just fertilized regularly with nothing else. Over here I will have to learn a lot from the citrus forum and millet on how to take care of citrus on this side, any ways I am at work 5 days a week and have plenty of time to mess around with the trees. Another factor is trying to please the many at work and to get a variety of fruits that people will enjoy. I still have another spot to plant and I want to plant sugar apple, just not sure what variety or where to buy good established sugar apples. I have about 10 small ones growing out in separate pots but are nothing like the monsters that I've see  posted here.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: FAA micro grove
« on: September 02, 2014, 11:03:20 AM »
Thanks guys
The grove is off 826 and 58 st if your heading north look to the right before the exit. It's a federal facility with armed guards so sorry no entry

Cookie are you asking if I'm growing m lychee in homestead? Didn't understand the question
If any one is looking for 25 gal m lychee  85.00 in homestead pm me and I'll give you the grove name

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / FAA micro grove
« on: September 02, 2014, 10:07:55 AM »
I know I don't post much here and reason being I'm not half as intelligible about fruit trees as most all of you are but maybe I can contribute in another way

Motivation
About 1 1/2 years ago I started a process to petition and gain permission to grow fruit trees at work. I am an air traffic controller and there is so much open land at the facility so I thought its worth a try and after soil samples, clearing it with all the correct people I finally was granted permission to plant 12 fruit trees!
I gained funding from my local union NACTA for 1200.00, 'no tax dollars' and I started right away.
2 rows of 6 trees 19' x 23' spacing





There are a couple of palms kinda close but I used the space as best as I could










My plan was for some variety that all employees could enjoy
Row 1 nort to south

1 Brogdon avocado
2 pineapple pleasure mango
3 lemon zest ( not planted yet)
4 Hamlin orange
5 dancy tangerine
6 Mauritius lychee

Row 2 north to south

7 fl hass avocado
8 valcarie mango
9 coconut cream (not planted yet
10 Honeybell minneola tangelo
11 ray ruby grapefruit
12 Mauritius lychee










I still have to get my 15 gal lemon zest and coco cream
My goal besides having delicious fruit to share and enjoy is to get people who may have never tried anything but a crappy publix mango to realize we live in a special place that can grow amazing stuff
Get out there n grow!
A special thanks to Excalibur for the 25 gal pineapple pleasure that was difficult to find for some reason
The FAA, NACTA, the coworkers who helped me dig holes, and all of you in this forum for the great wealth of knowledge, what a great community!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: September 02, 2014, 09:15:03 AM »
It was a overcast day and I'm guessing the whole process for 7 grafts took me about a hour from cutting them off the LZ tree to securing them in place. I guess I was just so focused on getting a good cut, alignment ect. that I didn't pay attention to the length of the scions. I just measured all of them the couple on seedlings are 7" roughly and on the Glenn tree 2 long daddy's come in at 12", one 6 1/2, and the rest between 8 and 9". I'm wondering if because I cut and grafted quickly that may have helped, they were still gushing juice out where I cut them when I grafted.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Good or bad sign graft
« on: September 01, 2014, 08:50:46 PM »
Hmm I didn't even think about the size of bud wood.. What is acceptable or rather what is average size bud wood that you use to graft? Those pieces were probably 12 inches  I'll measure tomorrow

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Good or bad sign graft
« on: September 01, 2014, 04:43:04 PM »








So a couple of weeks ago I snipped off all the leaves on the soon to be lemon zest bud wood waited till they looked a little bulgy but not budded just round balls and then tried my first grafts. Some onto my Glenn tree and some onto seedlings. Only a week has gone by and almost all of them have pushed. Should I be happy yeah they took or did the scion just use up it's stored energy and now are gonna die? I thought they would take a lot longer to push oh and on my lemon zest tree at the same time pushed new growth on all the stuff I didn't cut. Oh and thank you davidgarcia899 for the parafilm

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Where in Australia are lemonade trees
« on: September 01, 2014, 07:15:16 AM »
Thanks for the offer and we'll see what happens when season comes around

I wonder how well they will do here in s Florida I have crushed coral type soil, and not the best drainage

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Where in Australia are lemonade trees
« on: August 31, 2014, 10:25:26 PM »
Thanks guys
I was trying to figure out if he could even bring the seeds in the country it looks like you need to apply for some kind of permit then maybe quarantine so forget it but thanks for the replies
It looks like my hopes for a lemonade tree are in the hands of millet :) " hint hint "

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Where in Australia are lemonade trees
« on: August 30, 2014, 09:39:19 PM »
Thanks for the advice I'm on the list hopefully with millet I was just thinking I could have a back up plan but my friend isn't going to have a car or go out of his way for me unfortunately. I'll keep my fingers crossed

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