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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Very compact mango varieties - any of the new Zill ones?
« on: April 12, 2020, 04:12:52 PM »
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I'm technically cheating because this is a vegetable rather than a tree, but 100% longevity spinach. Unlike every other vegetable or fruit tree, it grows year round in South Florida, it grows quickly, it spreads fast, and you can propagate just by throwing cuttings on the ground (as I've mistakenly learned thinking I was composting and instead was creating a new patch of the stuff). It's extremely healthy (probably more so than kale). We use it in salads, smoothies, and sauteed. In a world-ending apocalypse, this is the only crop I could consistently eat/subsist on year-round. I can't recommend enough that veggie growers in South Florida grow this - it's crazy that when you search for veggies for our climate, it rarely comes up.
Now if we're just talking about a hypothetical normal world and enough space to grow only one tree, no doubt it would be some variety of mango.
what is longevity spinach? Is that tree spinach? I thought tree spinach , it needs to be cooked.
What damage do they do?
Genuine question.
Do you think it doesn't fruit because lack of cold? Did you give it 1-2 months
dry in the Winter? My brother's wife came from China and her father has lychee
trees and every year they produce fruit. My brother said it gets 40F every night
for 30 days during the Winter, he also said it rarely frosts. Perfect cool dry month?
picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
Lucky, I guess you don't have blue jays problem.
picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.Two dozen??? What a catastrophe !
Nice trim.
What do you use to cut the branches? With the heat and humidity and the number of trees, I may have to invest in a rechargeable-battery pole saw. So far I have used pruners, loppers and a handsaw, but maybe it's time to stop risking heatstroke or a heart attack.
Not looking forward to trimming my mango trees - the MC and NDM have grown quite a bit in the past year.
Love the Pickering, which remains a midget (4 feet after 6 years, 30+ mangoes a year).