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The actual fruit not a tree. Thank you

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 Looking for white marsh grapefruits. Any groves sale online?
 
Thanks, Rich

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The box smelled great!!!  ;D ;D

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Here’s what they sent me.



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If all else fails, I can send some
Thank you very much for the offer!! I did order from stanley's mangoes and recieved them day before yesterday. I got the Glen's, I loved my Glen's at home. The site said 4-5 mangoes but I got around 12. Some were just about ripe and some were getting ready to be ripe so perfect! I am very happy with what I recieved. I'll add a pic of them in a few  :)

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Thank you everybody for all the responses!! Will definitely be ordering some :-)

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You can probably get it from Alex when he opens up shipping.
Where are you at these days?
I'm not familiar with who Alex is, how would I get hold of him? Thanks

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You can probably get it from Alex when he opens up shipping.
Where are you at these days?

I am in Huntsville, Al. been here two months now.

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I moved and no more mango trees for me for the time being  :'(
 I know the season is apon us and starting to crave them. Where can I get decent mangoes delivered online? I would even love to have haydens  ;D
 Preciate any help  ;)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Stake this tree?
« on: December 10, 2020, 05:45:41 PM »
Is the root system compromised as to where its not stable?  If not, and its just growing sturdy at a slight angle, then do as in the mortal words of the Beatles ..Let It Be.
I agree with this^^^

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Glenn without a doubt. I love glenn though so may be a little biased toward it lol

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fertilizer/Soil Order for Mango Tree
« on: December 10, 2020, 05:32:45 PM »
Did the tree bloom and not produce? Sometimes they do that.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Mango Season (Florida)
« on: November 26, 2020, 06:30:58 PM »
Upper 40's Brevard county fl. next week. Looking forward to it... ;D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Stake Mango Tree Branches or No?
« on: November 14, 2020, 03:08:00 PM »
My approach to straightening/training branches is to use bamboo as a splint along the length, binding every 6-12" with cloth ties. It doesn't have to be the full length of the branch obviously, just the section that needs it. I'll then also do an in-ground stake like you did if I'm not just looking to straighten, but also grow in a certain direction.

Sometimes I'll use a length of bamboo longer than the branch and have it protrude beyond the trunk, then I use the trunk as a fulcrum and stake both ends of the bamboo, ala:


This seems easier than what I've been doing.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Stake Mango Tree Branches or No?
« on: November 13, 2020, 06:25:59 PM »
Here’s a Glenn and a Haden

First is the Haden



Here’s the Glenn



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Same Glenn this summer




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Stake Mango Tree Branches or No?
« on: November 13, 2020, 05:59:41 PM »
I do the same with my young trees. Interesting to see how others do it.

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Also I would add that I considered just driving to the beach with spade and a few 5 gallon buckets but decided against it as likely the sand at the beach probably has high salt content so if going that route I’d have to wash out the salt of the sand and just seemed like work so bought the play sand instead at HD.

-joe
Interesting beach sand is looked at like this here, in the reef/coral aquarium community we will use play sand also and cycle it to get the impurities out but beach sand is chock FULL of bad silicates and just plain too polluted to use in a reef tank. There is also a sand sold just for reef tanks called live sand which is full of good bacteria for the aquarium. Am I rambling? lol
Since you a reefer, ever heard of WWC?
Don't think so? Is that an acronym for a reef forum?
That must be the reef store in Orlando? I've been there once, Nice place for sure!!

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Also I would add that I considered just driving to the beach with spade and a few 5 gallon buckets but decided against it as likely the sand at the beach probably has high salt content so if going that route I’d have to wash out the salt of the sand and just seemed like work so bought the play sand instead at HD.

-joe
Interesting beach sand is looked at like this here, in the reef/coral aquarium community we will use play sand also and cycle it to get the impurities out but beach sand is chock FULL of bad silicates and just plain too polluted to use in a reef tank. There is also a sand sold just for reef tanks called live sand which is full of good bacteria for the aquarium. Am I rambling? lol
Since you a reefer, ever heard of WWC?
Don't think so? Is that an acronym for a reef forum?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Panama Red passion fruit question here.
« on: November 12, 2020, 06:48:13 PM »
My most productive self fertile passionfruit, 1 plant gives maybe 200 fruit per season.
I always see honey bees (amongst others) going from flower to flower but still not getting pollinated. It doesn't sound like your pollinating them yourself...getting that much fruit.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Panama Red passion fruit question here.
« on: November 12, 2020, 06:43:17 PM »

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Panama Red passion fruit question here.
« on: November 12, 2020, 06:42:53 PM »
Here’s the size of it. The Panama red growing from the left and the federicks growing from the right.



I have a couple passion fruit plants, and I would love to grow them in the same way over a trellis. Can you give a few pointers on how you trained them? The look beautiful.
It was very simple. I started with attaching twine horizontally about a foot apart then ended up using those bamboo stakes that are about 1/4"-3/8" in diameter, you get about 6 of them at hd or lowes for a couple bucks. As they grew I helped the tentacles ( or whatever they're called lol) attach to the bamboo stakes.
  It's very easy and they probably didn't need much of my help.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Panama Red passion fruit question here.
« on: November 11, 2020, 08:47:14 PM »


Earlier this year

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Panama Red passion fruit question here.
« on: November 11, 2020, 08:44:25 PM »
Here’s the size of it. The Panama red growing from the left and the federicks growing from the right.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Panama Red passion fruit question here.
« on: November 11, 2020, 08:07:17 PM »
Planted early this year, it's now a monster to where I'm pruning it. It's also been flowering like crazy, why is it not producing fruit? Is it not self fertile? There's a Frederick's passion fruit  entangling with it but not flowering yet. When the Frederick's blooms will it pollinate the panama red and vise versa?

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Also I would add that I considered just driving to the beach with spade and a few 5 gallon buckets but decided against it as likely the sand at the beach probably has high salt content so if going that route I’d have to wash out the salt of the sand and just seemed like work so bought the play sand instead at HD.

-joe
Interesting beach sand is looked at like this here, in the reef/coral aquarium community we will use play sand also and cycle it to get the impurities out but beach sand is chock FULL of bad silicates and just plain too polluted to use in a reef tank. There is also a sand sold just for reef tanks called live sand which is full of good bacteria for the aquarium. Am I rambling? lol

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