Yard update May 2012

[Felipe]

Dear friends,

since I made too many pictures to upload the here, you can see them here:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100361925414382384869/albums/5747299379624345505

I think I focussed two much in the young and new plants, so I forgot to take pictures of others 

I hope you enjoy 

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Hey Felipe,

Your tropical fruit orchard looks fantastic...I really enjoyed seeing all them pics

What happened to the Patin?  Hope the young tree didn't die.

Thank you for sharing

[HMHausman]

Great shots......thanks Felipe.  Now get working on the larger tree update!

Harry

[Felipe]

Thanks guys!

Harry, unfortunatelly I left CI again, meaning that it will take a few month for another update   

Steven, mamey does sometimes die back on our islands, nobody knows the reason. In this case, this damn Pantin didn't barely grow in two years in ground, and finally the graft did dry out..  This plant will be replaced 

[nullzero]

Felipe,

Beautiful pictures, the 'Gomera' Mango looks nice and healthy (looks like it should produce a nice crop of mangoes). Also love all the Opuntia , are all the Opuntia locally selected ones? (I see the difference between the plants, just did not see unique IDs for them).

I just found another Opuntia sp. which had huge +4oz fruits (about the mass of a medium apple). I recently found it overhanging pads into the sidewalk, recently got a pad of it .

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Thanks guys!

Harry, unfortunatelly I left CI again, meaning that it will take a few month for another update   

Steven, mamey does sometimes die back on our islands, nobody knows the reason. In this case, this damn Pantin didn't barely grow in two years in ground, and finally the graft did dry out..  This plant will be replaced 

Sorry to hear about that Hope you get a replacement A.S.A.P

[Felipe]

Thanks Nullzy  The opuntias were just collectes locally and a few were presents, I think one from Israel, others from Mexico.

I know if you give opuntias fertlizer and water, they produce bigger fruits. Could this be the case with the one you found?! In any case, if the fruit quality is good, I would be interested

Steven, next time I'm on the Islands I will do it, and also add Magana and Viejo 

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Thanks Nullzy  The opuntias were just collectes locally and a few were presents, I think one from Israel, others from Mexico.

I know if you give opuntias fertlizer and water, they produce bigger fruits. Could this be the case with the one you found?! In any case, if the fruit quality is good, I would be interested

Steven, next time I'm on the Islands I will do it, and also add Magana and Viejo 

Hi Felipe,

That's awesome...hopefully these two cv. will do much better than the Patin. Good Luck

[adiel]

Felipe, thanks for sharing, beautiful pictures.

[Felipe]

Steven, Pantin does perform pretty good, but then it suddenly suffers from dieback, nobody knows exactly why. The hypothesis is that the high production causes severe stress, leading to the loss of branches, or even the whole plant. But this would not be my case, because mine never fruited. Maybe mine had some desease or fungus issue.. Take a look at the pictures of Pantin trees:

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Steven, Pantin does perform pretty good, but then it suddenly suffers from dieback, nobody knows exactly why. The hypothesis is that the high production causes severe stress, leading to the loss of branches, or even the whole plant. But this would not be my case, because mine never fruited. Maybe mine had some desease or fungus issue.. Take a look at the pictures of Pantin trees:

Hi Felipe,

The Patin mamey trees are so gorgeous and very productive  I think the high productivity of this plants will cause stress as you said...even death YIKES Fruit pruning could help solve this issue.

Thanks for the pics they are awesome as always

[MangoFang]

Felipe - the Gomera Mango looks LOADED...are the smallish fruits or are they still maturing
and will get bigger?

Thanks for all the PICTURES....


Fang

[Tropicdude]

Wow very nice, I can just imagine that place in 10 years, it will look like the Amazon forest.  beautiful.

[bsbullie]

Steven, Pantin does perform pretty good, but then it suddenly suffers from dieback, nobody knows exactly why. The hypothesis is that the high production causes severe stress, leading to the loss of branches, or even the whole plant. But this would not be my case, because mine never fruited. Maybe mine had some desease or fungus issue.. Take a look at the pictures of Pantin trees:

Why do all the trees look girdled on the lower part of the trunk ?

[Felipe]

Fang, they still grow, but doesn't get too big. I'm not keeping this tree for the fruit, which is average, but for the look of this majestic tree

Thanks Tropic, that is my plan, to have a little fruit forest

Rob, the dark mark at the bottom of the stem is a glue against ants and rats. But they are using it no more, because they suspect phyto-toxity.