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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Neglected Cavendish Bananas
« on: July 31, 2012, 09:35:00 PM »
Spin off from my last post.  Bought a house late last year, previous owner neglected all the trees.  Got some good advice on the citrus trees, and that's in work.

Tonight I dug my way back towards the woods near the creek and found what I believe to be the Cavendish Bananas that are supposed to be on the property.  Going by the date written in the shed, these were planted in 2008.



No fruit at all.  Some signs of old flowers (lack of the proper term, I'm sure).  Looks like they need to be cleaned up, and FED.  Should these be thinned out some too?

Sorry for the newbie questions.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / New house - neglected citrus trees (pics)
« on: July 25, 2012, 08:52:01 PM »
Late last year we bought a house on N. Merritt Island, FL.  Nice place, and the previous owner planted a number of citrus trees.  Some apparently already died.  The remaining ones need to be pruned and fed.  I put fertilizer spikes around the base of each tree, but it's obviously not enough.

Here's what I'm working with.

Key Lime:


Lemon:


Marsh Grapefruit:


Mineola Tangelo:


Navel Orange:


Ruby Red Grapefruit:


Most are showing some signs of improvement.  The navel has some partial new growth.  The tangelo and marsh look terrible.

Anyone have a good game plan to start with?  We've had plenty of rain, and I plan on fertilzing the lawn and trees this weekend.  Been busy working on the house, now ready to tackle the lawn.  I'm thinking of plucking the fruit, trimming out any dead branches, and low branches...

Thanks for any feedback.

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