The Tropical Fruit Forum

Dream was best once.
Sweet and a little tart with firm texture.
The fruits tend split a few hours after winter rain so no good.
Difficult to get good fruits in my yard.

TS and prolific were best in my yard last year.
Had a sharp sweetness that I liked.

Gefner was sweet but bland sweetness.
My parents liked it.

Lisa tend to split 5 hours after winter rain.
AP2 was good the year before.
Ok last year.

I have HI PM.
It’s weakest on my multi grafted tree.
A fake.

I have a real PM that turns out to be fake.
Flowers and fruits look like AP

Both fake PM came from same seller.

Do you have a picture of HI PM fruit.

For summer grafting I use inlay side graft so the rootstock continue to grow while graft heal.
I trim the rs after the scion have leaves.

If graft fails I graft higher or lower.
No damage done.

I don’t use cleft in summer.
Is this an option for you?

I would keep the lowest branch to nurse the trunk, cut the rest any time.

I grafted bs to a small Alano.
This is 3rd year yet no flowering.
Alano flowers every year.

My yard had an infestation around May.
I waited out for the lady bugs and their kids to wipe out the aphids.
Clean now.

I bought a small Thai recently.
I’m thinking of grafting a bigger fruit but more vigorous variety to it.
Not sure if tree would stay dwarf.

In citrus, grafting a ring of bark from a dwarf variety to a vigorous seedling would dwarf the tree.
Try that.

Rain water is far better than tap water if you can collect it. Plants will grow better. There's chlorine, salts, all sorts of stuff in tap water.

I have 8 55 gallon drums of rain water.
Most go to lychee and jaboticaba.
Not enough for thirsty citrus.

Correction

pH of 8.1, not 8.7

@Peep

I have a lot of potted plants.
I have used vinegar.
It’s not a solution for me.

I’m looking into slow release sulfur and MicroMax.
For now I need to spray new leaves soon.

I do use fertilizer with micros.
My tap water has a pH 8.7, so micros availability is low.
My micros spray has Fe so can’t use on new growth.

You could use padded envelope for 1st class mail.
Fast and cheaper.

Good to hear all these seedling successes.

Thank you for doing the reviews.
I appreciate the pictures too.