The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thanks, Laaz. It was a lot of new tender growth.

Ok. I’m just assuming it’s Botrytis and I trimmed off the affected growth and sprayed with copper. Tree is protected from daily rains now on the covered front porch.

I just noticed that the affected new growth has small spots on branches oozing a drop of sap. Could this be a canker or boring insect damage?

Just to clarify, the pic of the holes in bottom of pot is before I made them bigger. I wonder if the burnt tips on new growth could be sun scald or burnt from a spray of insecticide/ fungicide I have been spraying on other fruit trees.

Ok, Millet. I’ll unpot it tomorrow. Thanks.

Thanks, Daintree.

I hope to have some fruit available from my tree this December. They are full of seeds.

Neat. Just as hardy as poncirus? Fruit quality?

You can see my little lasco heater on the ground, it’s white and black, in my new Meiwa frame. These small heaters come in different colors, even purple and teal.

I use small desk-top heaters with fans in them. The brand names I’ve bought from Walmart and Amazon are Lasco and Soleil. They usually cost around 9-12 dollars, and some have a safety switch to turn off if they tip over. They are electric and not meant to be outside. Mine are inside the “greenhouses” so they don’t get rained on and I avoid hosing them or pick them up when watering my trees in winter. I set heater on a brick/flat rock to keep it off the bare ground. I’m posting a pic of one of my “big” heaters that I put in my big grapefruit enclosure and my Kimbrough satsuma enclosure. The other smaller enclosures get the smaller heater.

I’ve never tried making anything with the few fruit I get off the mume trees. They bloom from December through March and most years I get no fruit since each wave of bloom gets frozen off. I’ve tried eating a few yellow ripe fruit but too sour. I don’t get enough to make the pickled fruit. Just pretty trees.

I have a thick Creeping Charlie (glechoma) infestation in my apple orchard and I think it’s alleopathy is killing my trees. Does anyone know if this weed can poison apples like black walnut does?