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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Most Beautiful Tropical Fruit Trees (Small to Medium Size)
« on: February 28, 2012, 02:46:05 AM »
Guinep makes a great shade tree with beautiful grey bark.
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Yah, I highly doubt he grafted it :-). Pine Island did have grafted male trees for a time. They had been selling them at one of the fruit council meetings up north. My guess is that they originated at Pine Island. Where PI got them is anybody's guess. Pretty mysterious little tree... But now I can finally have a mate for my female :-).
Makes sense. Do you know if PI still has grafted male trees? I may need to buy some.
A problem about the male and female that I was told is that sometimes the different males don't bloom the same times as some of the grafted females.
Are you going to approach graft a branch of your male onto your female tree?
Great topic! I just finished a book that explores this subject and our passion for fruit in a pretty funny way. "the fruit hunters". By Adam leith gollner. Anybody else read it? Dave
The author of that book, Adam Gollner, came and visitied me before writing that book, and there is a little section in there about me. He is a funny guy, a great writer, but not very good with recording his facts. But all is forgiven as he makes you laugh!
Oscar
The turf pro sounds like a great suggestion. Thanks. Does anyone think their is a downside to using a hose end sprayer?
Too much water ....you need one of these. I would go with a window cleaner spray bottle until I got one....which actually works great but you cannot reach higher leaves with one. But maybe you can get enough of the good stuff on lower leaves to keep the tree happy
Hi everyone, I have been lurking on the other forum for a long time and decided to join this new one. I don't know much but I have been working on a tropical fruit orchard on a small dry island in the Turks & Caicos islands. Combatting drought, poor soil, hurricanes and my own ignorance, I have finally started to get some trees growing but not really fruiting yet. Really working on the soil by heavily mulching with ironwood needles, seagrass and wood chips and starting to add micros and sulpher. It is a red laterite soil as in parts of the Bahamas and lacks just about everything... Also started spraying with foliar micros but am only there two or three times a year. Just wanted to say thanks for all the vicarious advice and I look forward to getting to know you all. Dave
Welcome, Dave. Glad you decided to join the fun here on the new Forum. Do you have much of an issue with salt intrusion? You guys have been in the cross hairs of a bunch of Hurricanes that were near misses for us in recent years. How long has it been since you began your planting there? And, more importantly, what are you growing?
Harry