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Can The Dom graft loquat onto quince? hahaha

What is the name of the pictures that have the fruit and leaves on a grid or some other type of measurement system? I think there are color spots as well. I would like to start taking fruit pictures of cultivars and would like to know if there are certain steps or features to make the photo legitimate for scientific research or cataloging.

But it is fun Dom. 

He is feeling all of the feels on this one.

Bahahahhahahahhahaa. Well that clears everything up.

Thanks guys. Simple misunderstanding. I'm on here enough that I should know how to embed a video into the post.

What are the rules for the forum? Are they listed somewhere? I couldn't find them in my searches. I posted a link to a youtube video about planting avocados on mounds last night and it got removed by a moderator. Links to websites seem ok. I have seen people share videos of yard tours. I have seen people share other peoples videos. Pictures are definitely allowed. I'm confused. Help me help myself follow the rules of the forum.

This is a lot of help. Thanks guys.

@Mark in Texas The website is great. Do you use a sulfuric acid injector to lower pH as well or just run some though for cleaning? Thanks for the tips.

@Cookie Monster I wish I could. Most of my yard is planted out already. There are a few open spots I can really dig into and some trees I planted early on that I will try to transplant to more ideal spots. I don't have much room here. I ended up digging out about 40% under my jackfruit that was showing signs of what I thought was root rot or phytophtora. It was crazy. I had two big holes dug out and then used the auger sideways in the hole and was scraping away by hand. I felt like I was escaping from Alcatraz. I had a tunnel that connected the two holes below the roots and that muck held in place like a rock. I ended up filling it all in with pine fines, perlite, peat, the busted up stuff from the hole, and some biohar then I blasted through the rootzone above the fresh fill with a water hose attachment I built out of a 5 foot piece of 1/2 inch PVC to loosen up the root zone and blend it in. So far it looks ok and it is still holding it's fruit. Hopefully it takes off after it recovers. It was a test to see how far I could go. The last stuff I planted that I dug obscenely large holes for are looking great.

@Mr. Clean Those spray stakes look dummy proof. I will definitely be trialing some of those.

@goosteen That hose just has small holes in it right? Like drip tape that you lay it out and you don't have to add any emitters?

@Tropheus76 I am on a well. I would only run the lawn sprinklers out front on their own zone one day a week per regulation. Everything else I could customize to the needs of each tree with this new system. If you bought a tree from a nursery the taproot is worthless. You are better off chopping it out when you get the plant home in my opinion. I guarantee if you bring home any fruit tree from a nursery and you bare root it there will be a contorted root system in the shape of a 1 gal pot inside a contorted root system of a 3 gallon pot. You could dig a deep hole with a post hole digger or auger by your tree and fill it in making sure there aren't and obstructions and plant a seed. Make sure the seed was planted before it was oriented or the tap root will shoot out a different way other then down. Inarch graft that root system to the existing tree if you really want a taproot. Or you could just prep your planting mounds and plant seeds, wait for them to grow, then find budwood.

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Quote from: cmichael258 on April 25, 2016, 07:21:32 PM

Very nice Raul. I just purchased some maprang and mayang chid seeds and they arrived today.

Where did you order from?

Genesis

Awesome! Mine were all rotten when I got them. They were from a different seller. These will fruit in Florida. I haven't given up the search yet. I think I am done ordering seeds from SE Asia and Indonesia for a while. I would probably be better off setting up seed trays and flying over there myself to send them back.
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CONGRATS!

I am ripping out my current sprinkler system that was set up for grass and replacing it with micro sprinklers or drip or both. Where is the best place to purchase? Are there certain brands that you guys and gals like prefer? I was thinking a few adjustable microsprinklers on each tree so get a good deep soak. I am probably going to get some sort of fertigation hooked up as well at some point. This is my first go with the stuff so any info or first hand experience is appreciated. This is for a "normal" sized subdivision lot.

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Quote from: Tropicalgrower89 on April 22, 2016, 02:02:56 PM

Is perennial peanut a nitrogen fixating plant like sunshine mimosa? I'm thinking on replacing the grass and weeds I have in my back yard with perennial peanut or sunshine mimosa. Having to rip out the st. augustine grass away from my mango trees is getting old.

Speaking of perennial peanut, I bought a tray of it today from Nu Turf, Pompano, for $25.  40 plants.  To cover an area of about 8 feet by 18 feet alongside my driveway.  I wanted to plant pineapple and banana plants there, but my wife said she would divorce me if I did.  I did manage to sneak in one cactus for the fruit.

hahahaha. I keep sneaking in more and more plants all over. I'm at my Mom's house. I think the poor woman has been planted into submission and is finally starting to embrace it. It seems like I'm always the asshole until the fruit starts coming in or they read about chemical intensive farming.

That is really cheap for that try of perennial peanut. There are some different named and unnamed types with different growth habits. The "Ecoturf" spreads underground and the other trays I bought from the native nursery run above the soil line.

Both the Sunshine Mimosa and Perennial Peanut are nitrogen fixing. The reason Florida made that Florida Friendly law about turf replacement is because they require much less fertilizer and are very drought tolerant.

I agree that mulch is supreme if you are living on sand. I found out that I have a deep "sawgrass muck" layer because my house was built on drained swamp that was later used to grow celery in the 1930s and 1940s. I have been busting up this impermeable 2-3 foot layer so I can fix my drainage and get back to heavy mulching. The peanut does well with mulch. Weeding can be a pain but I am trying to get both growth habits of peanut and mimosa spread around together and hopefully that will create a nice nitrogen fixing/weed choking mat. It looks really cool too.

I just realized this thread got hijacked but my beyond organic extremist two cents on the persimmon tree would be stop using toxic chemicals altogether because I see this persimmon tree as the canary in the coal mine for the entire ecosystem and feed the soil, not the tree.

Isn't XMAS a popular cultivar mainly for the extra early ripening?