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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Anyone use mason bees for pollinators?
« on: February 13, 2015, 09:24:01 PM »
We have issues with some trees at bloom hogging up the pollinators. Apricot and cherry like to bloom together but the honey bees prefer the apricot, so we get little fruit with the cherries. This year we are working with Crown Bees to see if thier mason bees might be a better solution. We have 4 bee houses spread around the property around our problem trees. The bees come dormant in cocoons and we are just now warming them up and getting ready to release them as our apricot and cherry bloom come on. ANyone out there working with mason bees?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Garden Web's popular fruits and orchards forum is imploding.
« on: February 12, 2015, 10:35:23 AM »
A new site operator has taken over and changed the entire site and tried to meld it with a home decor site. Plainly it just sucks. I love this forum, how about making a deciduous fruit section over here? We could likely catch most of the big named posters from the Garden web site. What do you guys think? Its a hugely popular forum over on garden web.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Phoenix mango harvest
« on: July 17, 2013, 12:05:41 AM »
Growing mangoes in Phoenix aint easy. After about 3 years of work into it im starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. These are a mexican type called Corriente. Harvested 26 of these today off one tree. We run a small farmers market here and these will be used in jams and jellies for the market.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Jackfruit issues
« on: March 15, 2013, 11:18:03 AM »
Can you experienced Jackfruit growers out there take a look at this pic and give some ideas of whats going on with this tree? It was put in the ground about a month ago, very well draining amended soil. Ground temp around 55-60 degrees. Watered every 3-4 days. Would water more often but the orange/yellow leaves have me second guessing. Sprayed every two weeks with light does of Southern Ag/PhytoPhos/Millers/Sequesterene. About 5 hours indirect sun under 30% shade cloth. Highs in the 60/70/80's lows in the 40's.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Roundup around mangoes
« on: February 22, 2013, 09:51:50 AM »
Who out there is has experience with using roundup or the equivalent around the base of mango trees? Out here in the desert southwest we have Bermuda Grass and trying to keep it from invading the root zone of newly planted mangoes is next to impossible without roundup. Im only talking about a controlled spray around the base without any contacting the leaves, safe or not? Not looking for hysterics, just practical experience.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Planning Hawaiian fruit tour-summer 2013
« on: December 04, 2012, 09:03:49 AM »
Making my first trek to the Hawaii this summer and could use some of your expertise in what to see and when to go. My thoughts are to be on the ground there around late July??? We have a free condo on the big island but can travel where ever....any suggestions??

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