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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: weiss613 on February 13, 2019, 01:20:15 PM
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Stage fright
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Nice, I like how neatly you planted them. It appears they have been in ground for a while. I will be looking for scions come May if you are willing to sell ;)
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Thanks for the compliment.
Scions can be obtained from the USDA at Chapman Field for free but not the newest Zill varieties. The newest varieties of mango scions can be bought from
Truly Tropical.
They specialize in cutting packing and shipping mango scions. Beautiful scions from a beautiful lady!
This You Tube video tells how to order.
https://youtu.be/keQFymDLMTA
Best of luck
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Interesting and inspiring for people with site restrictions.
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She doesn’t ship to CA or AZ, otherowse would love to buy from her. If someone would be kind enough to ship?
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Very cool, I like how its laid out.
I've been complaining about buying nice edgers from my few trees in the front, after watching this I hold my tongue :-X
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Nice looking trees. Looks pretty awesome.
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Holy cow that's a lot of trees. Curious to see how that looks in 5 years. Looks like mango trees in your area are slow growers.
Where do you get your tree edgers? Are those custom?
Squam256 also sells scions in late summer: https://tropicalacresfarms.com/
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The external edges are poured concrete 6 inches high and wide. The internal circles are plastic and are sold at Home Depot. They serve a few purposes. First is to keep the gardeners edger from hitting the trunk and 2nd is to keep the grass from growing up to the tree. The internal circle is so that when I fertilize whether I use liquid or granules the product stays where it’s supposed to stay. Each plastic piece is about 15 inches and the fit together with other same pieces so you can make any size circle. Each piece is only $1.59.
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Who poured the concrete?
The external edges are poured concrete 6 inches high and wide. The internal circles are plastic and are sold at Home Depot. They serve a few purposes. First is to keep the gardeners edger from hitting the trunk and 2nd is to keep the grass from growing up to the tree. The internal circle is so that when I fertilize whether I use liquid or granules the product stays where it’s supposed to stay. Each plastic piece is about 15 inches and the fit together with other same pieces so you can make any size circle. Each piece is only $1.59.
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Great look, it is kind of bizarre to me when you claim a lot of your trees are unhealthy and you replace them, they also don’t seem to flower very much.
It’s ironic to me when you say your doing this to stay healthy. The systemic fungicides your using are pretty scary stuff. You might want to get that persistent cough checked out. I would also be concerned with swimming in your pool. I would have to move if I lived next door to you. Nothing like killing off the planet while growing a piece of fruit.
It also looks like you are breaking federal law by spraying this in a residential neighborhood.
http://pesticides.news/2017-11-30-azoxystrobin-toxicity-side-effects-diseases-and-environmental-impacts.html (http://pesticides.news/2017-11-30-azoxystrobin-toxicity-side-effects-diseases-and-environmental-impacts.html)
Valley Boy
Why do you feel it’s OK to harass another member and tell him how to live his life when you neither are aware of all the facts and can’t even spell? I’ll address all of your depressing negativity one issue at a time starting with your assumption that I spray all my trees all the time with chemicals prohibited by law in a residential area. I found that accusation very insulting. I took the pesticide course given by the Florida Department of Agriculture and consumer services. I passed the exams that followd the course and my certificate says, “you have met the requirements for a Private Pestacide Applicator License” in the following catagory:
PRIVATE APPLICATOR AGRICULTURAL PEST CONTROL
Valley Boy have you taken the course and passed it?
Next you assume I spray all my trees with the 2 I mentioned. This is incorrect. That Lemon Zest was sprayed with a 1 quart hand sprayer. That big sprayer is used for liquid fertilizers and micronutrients as well as occasional copper sprays. Even after spraying with the above, my pool is safe to swim in as is my air and my neighbors air. You have a disgustingly know it all attitude that has no regard for other people.
I think Ill stop there because upon reviewing what you wrote I see that your observations are so untrue as to what was in the video and what I said, it doesn’t pay to even answer you.
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I clicked on the link, and it said:
Video unavailable
This video has been removed by the user
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I clicked on the link, and it said:
Video unavailable
This video has been removed by the user
That's too bad I was looking forward to seeing it.
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Saw the vid thismorning. Pretty packed but surprisingly neat! I am curious to see how it goes in the next few years, you obviously put a lot of time into it all :)
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I am truly sorry and regretful for my poor choice of words. I know from experience that being harassed online is hurtful.
Since our farms biggest concern is from our neighbors chemical usage leaching into our ground water and from spray drifts. My only concern is with the power and influence your video will have in creation of pop up industrial micro farms in residential neighborhoods and the effects that could have on so many things. I guess I should not worry about it but for some reason I do.
I wish you well and am truly sorry for any pain I have caused do to my misinterpretation of your farm system.
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I clicked on the link, and it said:
Video unavailable
This video has been removed by the user
That's too bad I was looking forward to seeing it.
I was looking forward to seeing it too,
I can see why the OP would take it down, no need for the hassle.
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Please bring the video back! That was an ultra unique planting.
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aww man. missed the video.
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Really impressed by your home orchard. Used to think I had a lot of fruit trees, lol!
Should've seen the look in my wife's eyes as she viewed your operation; awe and fear as she imagined what I might be planning now. =)
Everything is neat and orderly, and great varieties of fruit. You are blazing a trail. A true plant pioneer! Worthy of a magazine spread in Better Homes and Gardens, or something of the like.
I salute you.
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Double set citrus, plants twice the trees for the property
Citrus will produce as a small tree and double the crop
Then when they are crowding each other you pull every other one and regain normal spacing