The Tropical Fruit Forum

It is super good.  I need to plant more canes, my little cane patch is kind of sad. 

Cool, I got your black pink juice canes going in pots, I just need to pop them in the ground now. 

I have the small 5 x 9.5" pots shown for avocado seedlings.  And also slightly larger 6x12"

I have a few of thr bigger ones but someone else is getting the few of those that are left.

I still have many nursery pots for sale I just want to get rid of them cheap if anyone wants them.  I have tall pots as well as the short ones shown. 

By the way, Leo number 1 is a cherimoya I believe.  I do have a tree of this one but it is cherimoya and not anything special. 

The exposure on the hill and wind are not a problem.  Any fruit tree will be fine.  The main issue is the north facing side may get a lot of shade.

You could go for cherry trees, or avocado, or citrus or cherimoya.....   Whatever you want to grow.  Just plant the new tree a bit away from the old stumps, that will not be a problem.  The DG is heavy and trees should not be falling over in it. 

Too much rain and cold weather and not enough sunshine.  Thats just my guess.  Hopefully it will flush out and recover when the warm weather comes.  I dont thinkntheres much you can do except wait and dont water it if the soil has moisture in it. 

Yes more potassium once its flowering.  I just put a shot of fertilizer in my watering can and add water, dont measure it.  It doesnt need to be super precise.  Just go easy on the fertilizer, it is not a marijuana plant.  Pineapple plants grow pretty slow compared to a tomato plant or something and dont need loads of fertilizer.

You can use 20-20-20 with micros if you are not organic, it works fine too. 

that is true for large mature trees.  For the small trees like these, I just lop them off and bark graft them in December.

Here's some pics of the 3 year old trees that are blooming.  They were kind of slow growing and the better looking trees got topped at 2 years.  The brown looking one is almost a reject tree but I guess I will let it keep going for now.  These trees both had weak growth and salt intolerance compared other trees planted at the same time. 

Brad, I had my Hawaiian seedling tree (grew out 2 seeds), one fruited in 7 years, tasted good. The other seedling took 18 years and only had 2 fruits so that is my multi-grafted tree now. It is very vigorous so anything I graft on it grows fast. This rootstock will grow at least 10 in height every year. so I can it back to 12 feet.

Kaz, the lineage of the Hawaiian avocado may have been the reason it took 18 years.  If it had west Indian genetics, sometimes they don't flower or produce well here.  I had a few Hawaiian avocado trees of known grafted origin that would never flower here even though they were grafted and trees got very large, they refused to flower here. 

I have the "Pura Vida" trees grafted on a few trees here also and they have gotten pretty large but still not flowered yet.

Why not grow some stone fruits that will actually make a good load of fruit for you?  I am not trying to pee in your cheerios but even here in a hot area of San Diego mangos are a stretch. 

The rootstocks I have that are flowering now are only 3 or 4 ft tall.  The fuerte seedling was around 10ft tall.