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How are your trees growing right now?
« on: June 25, 2019, 06:33:31 PM »
After making a list of my trees (so I don't forget what I have) it made me wonder how stuff does in other people's yards



avocado:
catalina 2 months in ground, naturally starting to branch out 4 inches from the base
oro negro 2 years in ground, no flowers yet

canistel:
bruce 5 years in ground, never flowered. Very slow growing.

dragonfruit:
david bowie 5 years in ground, flowers but never sets
physical graffiti never gotten a flower
vietnamese jaina grows fast, every year it puts out some big fruits that don't have much flavor

guanabana:
Miami 5 years in ground, minor scale problem
2 seedlings that are 2 years old, minor scale problem

jackfruit:
r55-22 2 years in ground, 14 feet tall with a trunk as big as a street lamp post, lots of vegetative growth but it's only put out one flower
too many seedlings

mango:
honey kiss 1 year in ground set 1 fruit this year after half-flowering. The lowest maintenance tree in my yard
orange essence 2 years in ground no flowers. Not a very vigorous or pretty or disease resistant tree
sugar loaf 2 months in a flooded area. Very clean and moderately vigorous tree

passionfruit:
purple possum decent fruit, not as good as panama red but more productive. Too vigorous, but makes good mulch

sapodilla:
alano 1 year in ground. It was 8 feet long but about as thick as a pencil when I got it so I pugged it after it gave me 4 fruit that I picked too early but were still amazing. It fruits more than it grows.
molix 2 months in ground, has fruit on it now. This thing is more vigorous than my passion fruit. The leaves make it very ornamental.

white sapote:
younghans always chlorotic

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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2019, 08:18:28 PM »
Is your canistel from seed?  I just ordered a grafted one at at 2ft tall it came with a couple immature fruits already on it

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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2019, 10:27:36 PM »
"How are your trees growing right now?"

Mainly via photosynthesis. ;-)
 
My sapotes  are struggling with these $%%^& small white weevils eating the hell out of them, including my canistel.

Jackfruit is similar, growing well, never set a fruit.  I think they may have to have some serious time and size to fruit, at least in these parts.  Just a few miles from here there are some huge JF trees that fruit well, they are basically ignored by the owner.

Surprisingly, my citrus is doing well for the most part, some older trees were dying back so I pruned the hell out of them.

Bananas are doing well, except for the damned fungus issues we all deal with. 
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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2019, 12:39:08 AM »
Is your canistel from seed?  I just ordered a grafted one at at 2ft tall it came with a couple immature fruits already on it

It's a Bruce.

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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2019, 07:21:26 AM »
> Mainly via photosynthesis. ;-)

What? mine are sucking my money for vegetable pizzas all the time. *&*%$ green liars...

Microcitrus flowers had been lazy this year and Asimina weren't in the mood. I will enjoy a Plumavalanche this year and an Oranggedon is coming in 2020 , that's for sure.
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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2019, 10:51:58 AM »
Avocados are rocking in southern CA.  Lots of rain and mild weather = epic fruit set.

The other stuff that needs more sun and heat is lagging.
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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2019, 01:54:24 PM »
Is your canistel from seed?  I just ordered a grafted one at at 2ft tall it came with a couple immature fruits already on it

It's a Bruce.

Sometimes seedlings are listed as the parent variety even if they don't come true to seed.  I am growing a few sapote from seed solely to see how they handle my greenhouse environment.  If they thrive I'll ditch them for grafted varieties.

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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2019, 02:09:40 PM »
if it wasn't for the graft line I would agree but unfortunately it's just a bad tree, I should probably pull it out now that I think about it.

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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2019, 02:30:30 PM »
If it were me I'd keep waiting.  Think about how much fruit you will get when it finally flowers :)

I have a "dwarf" in-ground japanese plum that grows and grows and grows, setting thousands of flowers but the fruit always drops before it is pea sized.  The trunk is at least 6in diameter.  I call it the selfish tree.

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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2019, 02:36:14 PM »
If it were me I'd keep waiting.  Think about how much fruit you will get when it finally flowers :)

I have a "dwarf" in-ground japanese plum that grows and grows and grows, setting thousands of flowers but the fruit always drops before it is pea sized.  The trunk is at least 6in diameter.  I call it the selfish tree.

So I can wait a few  years and potentially have a selfish tree, or I could get a mulberry tree this week

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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2019, 04:41:00 PM »
They all seem to be doing excellent in my 9b zone, even with tons of fog hanging over everything and little sun. At least I don't need to water... The sun seems it will finally arrive this week in CA!

Passionfruit has about 15 flowers open right now.
Black sapote is sending out new growth since I repotted from 5 gal to 15 gal (into Foxfarm soil)
White sapote is sending out TONS of new growth every 3 days when the water comes on, but it's so top heavy I may need to top it.
Mamey sapote is suffering a bit. Rain pierced the leaves.
Jaboticaba seems to have a few flowers, but nothing opening
Cherry of rio grande is sending out LOTS of new green growth
Black star pitanga has lots of fruit on the tree, looks like another 20 this year, all the other red varieties I have (vermillion) are just pushing vegetative growth
Finally found the right spot for my granadilla, now getting barely any sun at all and shooting new leaves



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Re: How are your trees growing right now?
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2019, 06:35:45 PM »
David Bowie dragonfruit has a flower on it.

Honey Kiss mango is getting big, but no color or smell yet. Maha Chanok has 15 fruit on it and my neighbor's abandoned 30 year old tree has a bunch of half bright red/half yellow Bailey's Marvel shaped fruit

Molix and Alano both have a few fruit/flowers forming

Guanabana flowers on my seedling trees seem to have been sunburnt to death

everything is throwing out growth flushes after being heavily pruned. Orange Essence is the only tree that wants to grow straight upwards in spite of pruning. Every other plant sends out at least 3 new branches but the orange essence is vertically sending out 1-2

I've also noticed orange essence's leaves are more than twice the size of the Honey Kiss. Sugar Loaf is medium. Sugar Loaf seems to be the middle ground mango.

HK: red mango, small leaves, slow growth, compact spreading habit, great disease resistance, late season PRECOCIOUS
SL: yellow-green mango, medium leaves, moderate growth, upright but responds well to pruning, good disease resistance, mid season, maybe precocious
OE: yellow mango, big leaves, vigorous growth, upright, poor disease resistance, mid season, not precocious I remember Mike Bender saying they take a while to bear fruit when I bought it
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