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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is wrong with my mango grafts?
« on: July 12, 2022, 09:08:19 PM »
Looks to be fertilizer burn.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Creating a canopies for my trees
« on: July 11, 2022, 01:42:55 AM »
Those are small.
Leave them alone.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: grafting guava
« on: July 10, 2022, 01:55:42 AM »
Seanny
your approach graft looks to have 2 different diameter branches contacting each other??  am i seeing that right?
shouldn't they be the same size so the cambien matches up

Bob,

You can think of an approach graft as a bark graft, without cutting the scion off the donor.
Peel a strip of bark off the rootstock.
Slice a veneer of bark off the scion.
Wrap them.

Rootstock can be much bigger than scion.
No need to remove wood.
No need to line up.

If you do the textbook way, you need to remove wood.
So you have to line up the cambium.

I do approach a little differently.
I remove a ring of bark on the scion, right below the part for where I would graft.
I scrape off the cambium, like doing an air-layering.
I peel a strip of bark off each rootstock and each scion.
I wrap them.
Below the graft is the wood of the scion, without bark.
All the hormones from the scion goes into healing the graft instead of going down to the donor roots.




I forgot to remove ring of bark at graft time.
So I had to remove it later, lower than where I liked.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: grafting guava
« on: July 08, 2022, 08:44:18 PM »
Easiest is to dig up those 2 trees then put them in pots.
Move them next to tree you want to keep.
Do approach grafts.
Graft very early in the morning when wind is low and humidity is high.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherilata taste test.
« on: June 17, 2022, 05:34:08 AM »
I had 1 branch grafted that made the fruit then used it to make a new tree then the original branch died back after I cut the fruit.

Same thing happened to my 48-17 graft.
Could it be graft incompatibility of reticulata crosses?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: cherilata
« on: June 13, 2022, 06:52:02 PM »
I killed 5 pond apples that had very nice calipers already

Were they in original pots from nursery?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: sewer roots
« on: June 12, 2022, 06:04:44 AM »
Around here old houses have sewer pipes of clay, with rubber seal in between.
I avoid fig, jujube, mulberry, and ficus trees in ground.
Former 3 are in pots.

Best to pull the trouble maker and put it in pot.
Which trees arei causing you problem?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pearl vs Crystal Guava
« on: May 29, 2022, 02:53:30 PM »
My unknown seedless retains few fruits.
An article says Taiwan Crystal seedless retains 35% of fruits in India.
Sounds like a good variety to grow.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pearl vs Crystal Guava
« on: May 28, 2022, 11:06:04 AM »
Do you guys get a lot of fruits from your crystal trees?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Overhyped avocados
« on: May 26, 2022, 04:56:20 PM »
Home grown Hass has been top for me.
On some occasions dad bought a good bag of Hass.

1st 2 years of my Reed had off flavor near the skin.
No off flavor on 1st fruit off my tree this year.
Seems on par with home grown Hass.

  How long has Sharwil been hanging after mature for you guys?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pink crystal guava
« on: May 19, 2022, 12:24:08 AM »
You have a link?

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Thank you for bringing it up.
It may be useful when my Hak Ip holds a fruit or 2.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Grafting Help
« on: May 10, 2022, 03:21:43 PM »
Vash, how big is rootstock?

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I would remove it now.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Wax apple
« on: May 06, 2022, 10:44:17 AM »
I have a tree that have dieback every winter.
Others don’t.

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Grow a variety that doesn’t drop fruits.

Or thin 50% so tree drop less.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: annona flowers not setting fruit
« on: May 05, 2022, 10:59:13 AM »
It’s not you.
It’s the flower’s fault.
Few to no pollens when so cool overnight at this time.
Plenty of pollen by 4th week of May.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Heat mat experiences
« on: April 20, 2022, 10:34:27 AM »
I put all inside a picnic cooler.
Extremely low thermal loss.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Heat mat experiences
« on: April 17, 2022, 12:16:21 PM »
Use a layer sand below and above mat.

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Over watered.
Seedling died.
Graft died.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Keeping Citrus Seedless
« on: April 05, 2022, 06:40:55 PM »
pagnr & seanny, didn't mean to offend you guys trying to grow out Bearss lime seeds. It sounds interesting about the possible hybrid cross you might get.

I’m not offended.

I’m growing some Sumo seedlings for fun but something ate all tips last night.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Keeping Citrus Seedless
« on: April 05, 2022, 06:35:04 PM »
I think Ive heard bearss limes are mono-embryonic.  Anyone know if that's true? And are they pollen sterile




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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Rootstock and grafting question.
« on: April 05, 2022, 12:36:00 PM »
I graft on big tree to save scions then deal with rootstock later.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Keeping Citrus Seedless
« on: April 04, 2022, 11:24:37 PM »
Yes is was a rare seed from a seedless Bearss lime fruit.

The point is that it’s difficult to get a seedling from a rare seed from a seedless variety.

Try it and report back?

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Do you have a diagram of how to thin?

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