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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #325 on: August 29, 2020, 10:10:04 AM »
Looks like a winner.  Wishing a delicious treat with that one.

Thanks!   VERY nice fruit, tastes just like a peach.

Just popped out a couple of plants.  The one above was in a conventional 3 gal. molded black pot.  One below came out of a 3 gal. injection molded black RootMaker pot.   Rootmaker root mass was a good 30% more with very little root spin out which is teminated at the slits.  Down side is a very high watering routine.  Damn thing dries out fast.



Friend likes my Orange Sherbet branch, recently topped and pushing nicely.  After losing a branch of 17 OS fruit because of a stupid topping cut I'm a bit more careful now.  This cocktail tree has been pruned with the cut just above  alternate branching whorls only.



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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #326 on: August 29, 2020, 01:10:09 PM »
Mark, thanks for sharing the root-balls.  How did the two plants perform in comparison?  Or what were they?  Peachy mangos.  What combination from the gods is this?

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #327 on: August 30, 2020, 08:24:39 AM »
Mark, thanks for sharing the root-balls.  How did the two plants perform in comparison?  Or what were they?  Peachy mangos.  What combination from the gods is this?

Houseplants.  One in the RootMaker was bigger.

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« Reply #328 on: August 30, 2020, 10:28:21 PM »
Ah, gotcha. 

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #329 on: September 27, 2020, 09:37:19 AM »
Some of the Reeds are big.  Meat is always perfect creamy and rich.  Great with only S/P and a squeeze of fresh key lime juice. Drizzle of Italian salad dressing really kicks it up a notch.  Been eating them since June.







Have one more Orange Sherbet to pick.  Mangos have been over the top this year.   Bad ass Canadian cold front comes in tonight which should about wrap up our growing season in a week or two. 

Just did 3 t bud grafts of Persian lime to my key lime tree which is holding about 10 varieties of you name it.  Bark slipped great. 

3000 gals. of rainwater storage tanks has been great.  Rig and plumbing I did is incredible coming off those tanks and feeds an AquaFogger GT500. I run a pump which is so powerful I can dump about 200 gals. on my trees and potted stock in 10 minutes where it used to take me 40 with the old Wayne pump.  Can deliver a stinging BLAST to the upper leaves of 12' tall trees and nail spider mites too.
 


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Cut off a big branch of limequat I grafted to the key lime in 2018.  Produces 100+ every year.  Great tasting fruit but small and VERY seedy.  Best lime flavor I have is Persian lime.  We quaff fine anejo tequila like Casa Noble Anejo along with key limes and coarse black sea salt. I used to think this over priced salt was stupid, a fave of my wife, but it really does have its place.


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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #330 on: September 27, 2020, 12:18:58 PM »
Anyone else Saw that
In A good way that last Green House Picture is pretty Funny.
didn't want to ruin it.

your Welcome.

about that salt
 Funny How food can be people give a sample,
 and before you know it your buying it for the rest of your life.
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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #331 on: September 27, 2020, 05:05:56 PM »
Looks good. When the tree goes in the ground will it stimulate new growth in the terminated root endings?

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #332 on: September 27, 2020, 05:52:09 PM »
Looks good. When the tree goes in the ground will it stimulate new growth in the terminated root endings?

It's in the ground, rooted in big time.  I start with bottomless RootBuilder "pots" aka beds.  See the first couple of pages.

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #333 on: September 27, 2020, 06:18:54 PM »
Reeds are looking real nice mark.
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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #334 on: September 28, 2020, 07:57:07 AM »
Reeds are looking real nice mark.

Thanks.  I popped a seed last night that had four 1/2" long tops wrapped around the seed and a 1/2" root coming out.  Weird.....

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #335 on: October 04, 2020, 08:04:34 PM »
Mark, enviable production as usual.  I might have the first of three Mexicola avocados to survive on my ~8-year old tree to try soon.  I'm can only image how delicious those fresh salads must be in your house.

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #336 on: October 05, 2020, 08:57:47 AM »
Mark, enviable production as usual.  I might have the first of three Mexicola avocados to survive on my ~8-year old tree to try soon.  I'm can only image how delicious those fresh salads must be in your house.

You'll get there, keep the faith and remember it's all about the roots.  Rest will follow.

Nice thing is being able to share.  I've been giving away a lot of Reeds and key limes to go with them. 

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #337 on: October 24, 2020, 09:12:18 AM »
After all the tweeks it am loving it. The utility of this 2,800 gallon rainwater system is amazing. I plumbed it such that I can blast rainwater from a hose in a stream or stinging coarse spray that can strip the chrome off a doorknob! 🤪 I use a blast to knock off mites from tall citrus branches. Can fast water trees with 300 gallons in 10 minutes. Blast the greenhouse walls, pull up the car to the wall vent and give it a final spot free rinse. 😍 Switch off the pump and do a gravity feed, pull off a garbage can full of whatever by dropping a garden hose into the can of liquid. And of course it feeds my cooling fogger. Little self contained Italian built pump is awesome - Leader Ecomatic 110.



Tied a 300 and a 2,500 gal. tank together, each with it's own valve.



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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #338 on: February 07, 2021, 04:01:39 PM »
My proactive (big surprise!) winter/spring prep work is done in the greenhouse.  So far I've pruned the leggy key lime, sprayed all stock with 6 gals. of Bonide All Seasons Hort. oil mix for mites, scale and mealbug control, fertilized heavily with Osmocote and yesterday applied a soil drench of Solubor (B) and a 3-9-6 "blossom booster" food by Dyna-Gro and Peters 10-30-20 and then washed it in with a heavy drench of rainwater.  The boron and high P food should help with flower/fruit set.  Things are beginning to pop, earlier than usual.  Old browning avocado leaves will be dropping soon, mango and citrus flower buds are pushing, avocado buds are pushing.  Moro blood orange will have a dark burgundy meat and be ready soon.  Oranges have been rich and sweet.  Picked the last of the big, red Cara cara yesterday.  Avocados are filling out nicely with increased watering lately.

Ardith fruit sizing up.





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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #339 on: November 13, 2021, 10:26:16 AM »
Here's "Sugar" pitaya that made it thru a low of 23F during the devastating Texas Uri ice storm last February.  Pic of the fruit is pretty lame as I had eaten most of it and it was a bit smashed after peeling it. 






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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #340 on: November 13, 2021, 12:42:39 PM »
Wow!

impressive plant there mark, how was the fruit?

brix?

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Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« Reply #341 on: December 17, 2021, 12:15:05 PM »
Wow!

impressive plant there mark, how was the fruit?

brix?

Fruit was delicious.  Didn't check the brix.