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When the soil gets too dry, even for just one day, the hair roots die--- so very little of any of the micro-nutrients get absorbed--- until new hair roots grow.

Avoid any fertilizers that just have NPK.

I see severe Iron deficiency, Manganese and Zinc deficiencies, and probably Copper and Boron deficiencies.
Thank you, any product recommendations?

-Allan

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Lemon zest


Maha Chanok









Pictured are 2 of my mangoes: Lemon zest in the ground and Maha in a 20g pot.
LZ didn’t fruit this year and half of the new flushes don’t look healthy. The MC fruited but looks like it’s deficient on something. You guys have any ideas on what’s going on? Thanks.

-Allan

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Suggestions on splitting issues
« on: November 15, 2017, 11:32:30 PM »
yes, i noticed that irregular watering seems to be causing mine to split too. not just NDM, but in general, other mangos as well.
So, did you change how you water and did you see any difference?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Suggestions on splitting issues
« on: November 15, 2017, 11:30:21 PM »
I suggest you start a water schedule and stick to it. NDM is one of the sweetest mango you will ever have.
Thanks JF, do you know if it will continue to have the tendency to split if I use its scions and graft them unto another variety or does the rootstock makes a difference?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Suggestions on splitting issues
« on: November 15, 2017, 08:33:37 PM »


This is the third year that my Nam Doc Mai have produced fruits, but 9 out of 10; they split when they get to be around 3 inches. Would you suggest a). I graft other varieties unto it, b). Top work it, or c). Get scions from it and graft it into say - my Manila mango?
Does the splitting characteristic come from the rootstock or the scions? I don’t want to give this tree the Ax, but I’ve had it. Thanks in advance.

-Allan

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Please help Identify mango disease
« on: October 12, 2017, 04:17:07 PM »





Hello, can you guys tell what nutrient is lacking for this tree based on the affected leaves?
Any recommendations? Thanks.

-Allan

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Sulfate of potash for mangoes?
« on: July 21, 2017, 10:59:15 PM »
Does anybody use Sulfate of potash for their mangoes, if so when and how much to apply? And, can I use it on other tropicals?

-Allan

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: July 21, 2017, 10:52:05 PM »
My first harvest of an unknown purple variety. Can anyone id? Thanks.

-Allan


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I'm sorry, I'm not trying to hi-jack this thread; i just wanted to share the experience I had when buying a section of jackfruit last week. It was sweet, aromatic and crunchy and of course; they don't know the variety besides that it came from Florida. It was one of the best I had and check out the rags to flesh ratio! It also had very little latex. I was so impressed that I planted the seeds, something I never do.

-Allan


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2017 Cherimoyas
« on: July 19, 2017, 10:02:43 PM »
All the plants pictured looks healthy. My soursop was not much bigger than yours when I got it. Since yours is in the ground; make sure that you protect it in the winter time. When did you plant it? It should have enough time to get established before it gets cold. Don't over do the fertilizer, specially, the small seedlings. You can do more harm than good.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Have you heard of Daiso?
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:48:38 PM »
If you're not familiar with Daiso; it's a Japanese chain of retail stores selling miscellaneous stuff. It's similar to a 99 cent store. We have one here in San Diego. I have bought various gardening supplies here before and today I found these 6 ft stakes for only $1.50 each.

-Allan


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2017 Cherimoyas
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:38:24 PM »
How did you get such a beautiful soursop tree?
thanks, I got this guy about 3 years ago in a 3 gallon from Seafood City. The tag says Champa nursery in El Monte. I have been babying this guy since (putting it in the garage when temp. drops
below 50 degrees). I consider soursop as the most challenging tropical plant that I have to get to fruit. We'll see, hopefully, in a couple more years.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New member again
« on: July 19, 2017, 06:23:24 PM »
Looks awesome.  I can see you are up above the neighors.  Is the yard facing south too?

Thanks, most of my plants faces East. But they don't seemed to mind.

-Allan

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New member again
« on: July 19, 2017, 02:14:48 PM »
Sorry, it wouldn't allow me to upload all the pictures at the same time, so I had to do a couple of separate uploads...

-Allan












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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New member again
« on: July 19, 2017, 01:55:37 PM »
Oops, what happened to the pictures. Let me try again.

-Allan












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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New member again
« on: July 19, 2017, 01:51:22 PM »
Welcome back! Beautiful trees, they look well cared for. More pics please, especially the chico!
Thanks, here's some photos of my mini orchard 🙂 Besides the mangoes:

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: July 19, 2017, 01:34:44 PM »
Here's what's blooming/fruiting so far - Sugar dragon (first blooms) and an unknown red variety I got from sister with blooms and fruits almost ready. Most of my vines are only 1-2 years old, so I'll probably will not get fruits from most of them until next year.

-Allan






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2017 Cherimoyas
« on: July 19, 2017, 01:21:05 PM »
Here's pictures of my cherimoya collection and a couple other annonas: El bumpo, Pierce, Fino de jete, Chaffey, Honey heart, Geffner atemoya with African pride and Lisa grafts and a soursop.  I apologize for the bad pictures.

-Allan






















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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2017 Cherimoyas
« on: July 18, 2017, 10:39:29 PM »
Nice looking fruits Simon, what varieties do you have? I need to thin out mine as well. I'll try to post pictures tomorrow.

-Allan

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I haven't tasted a Manila mango before, not that I don't believe it when people say they're not that good, I just want to see it for myself. So, this year looks like the year that I finally get to taste one. Maybe it's for sentimental reasons. I grew up in the Philippines and part of me is hoping that it tastes similar to the Carabao variety (the most common variety) and in my opinion, one of the best. Either way, I planned on grafting other varieties unto it in spring. I have access to a lot of the desired varieties mentioned in this forum.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New member again
« on: July 18, 2017, 12:46:16 AM »
This is the first time that the Manila is holding fruits to a decent size without dropping them, so I'll finally get to try and decide if I want to top work it next year. Should I thin out the fruits or let them drop naturally? And, yes thanks for noticing my DF set up 😊 I'm a little OCD, if you haven't noticed, lol!

-Allan

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: July 18, 2017, 12:35:20 AM »
Hey SoCal,

Is that a 4x4 for center post, and Haworth do you have the center post anchored in the pot?

-joep450
Yes, it's a 4x4 and I used a cement post similar to the picture below. There 2 sizes commercially available that I know of. I got the smaller one at Dixieline.

-Allan


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How big is your tree? Can you upload a picture? Of course, when the fruit is yellow, I'm assuming it's ripe, it will fall off the tree. But, sometimes when undersized fruit turn yellow and falls off the tree, it's just being aborted for different reasons. My Manila did the same thing the first couple of years it started fruiting, but is now holding fruit which are a lot bigger than before.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: July 17, 2017, 10:25:29 PM »
Here's what my set up looks like. I have a total of 15 varieties varying in age from rooted cuttings this year to fruit bearing ones that's a couple of years old.






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New member again
« on: July 17, 2017, 10:13:03 PM »
That's a nice spread of fruit trees you have already. I'm especially interested in what varieties of Mango you are growing. I'm very interested in hearing everyone's successes and failures with the different varieties of mangos grown in San Diego.

Simon
I hope the pictures uploaded. I have Nam doc mai, Lemon zest and Manila in the ground. And, Maha Chanok and Sweet tart in pots. All from Florida except the Manila from Laverne.











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