SaveMeJebus Yard Tour 2019

[savemejebus]

Yard tour 2018: http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=27016.msg312020#msg312020 (too lazy to superimpose the updates on each other!).

General consensus is things are going well. Mangoes are in full bloom (except Cogshall). Lychees have disappointed for yet another year and are dangerously close to becoming wood for the smoker. Iguanas are still Enemy No. 1.

Cogshall - couple flowers but not doing much.



Pineapple alley - between these and others around the yard, we have about a dozen that are fruiting now.


Pineapples are a very photogenic fruit.


Alano sapodilla. Has at least a dozen fruit on it.


Pink lemon. Mostly a novelty. Was not looking good a week ago. Hit it with some kelp and nutritional spray and now looks rejuvenated.


Frankenstein mango (multi-graft of Edgar and Sweet Tart with a few branches of the seedling.


My wife's tower garden project. Right now lots of tomatoes. A couple weeks ago it was fully loaded with kale, lettuce, beans, etc.


Soursop. Took the place of a Mallika mango.


Old Faithful - my Glenn mango. First mango planted and fully loaded.


Grimal Jaboticaba. Just went in the ground. Wasn't looking great in the pot.


Kari starfruit.


Cannot give these 2 Hawaiian papayas a fighting chance. The iguanas continue to decimate them. I've reinforced the cages which hopefully will make a difference.


Fwang Tung starfruit. My wife's favorite. I became a believer this year after a lot of fertilization and care. It was actually excellent.


Useless lychee #1 (sweetheart).


Nam Doc Mai mango. Starting to flower.


Hasya sapodilla.


Useless lychee #2 (Mauritius)


Meyer lemon.


Veggies. Re-planted half of it. Mostly arugula, kale, beets, and various lettuces.


More veggies. Iguana-proof caging or none of this would exist. This one is longevity spinach and Georgia Collards.


Sweet Tart mango.


Barbados Cherry. Hasn't really done anything since the last hurricane. I think the iguanas eat all the flowers.


Lemon Zest mango. My pride and joy. I've been spraying the heck out of it and so far it's mostly clean of powdery mildew.


Large Kari starfruit. Gave it a haircut a couple weeks ago. Will be 18 feet tall again within a couple months.


Rosigold mango.


Tropic Beauty peach.


Monroe avocado.


Biew Kiew longan. Also mostly useless. No fruit this year.


Mix of dragonfruit. We got about 6 this year (some purple/pink variety). Also have yellow planted in the background.


Don't tell the iguanas. These Hawaiian papayas are thriving and have a few papayas on them. Also I can neither confirm nor deny how these seeds were removed from Hawaii.


Grumichama.


Yehuda loquat. Very delicious (when you beat the fruit flies to the fruit).


Red jaboticaba.


Up close of some red jabos growing. Great tree that basically produces all year.


Lacatan banana (some sort of Philippine variety). Large banana much like commercial variety.


Pickering mango.


Useless lychee #3. Another sweetheart. Only reason they're still here is lychee is a beautiful tree.


Monstera Deliciosa.


UF Sun peach.


Peach blossom.


Jujube.


Seacrest mango (or whatever the hell they're now calling it).


Fruit Punch mango.


Cherry of the Rio Grande.


First flowers on the Cherry of the Rio Grande. Hopefully it makes fruit.


Abiu. Seedling from Noel. Still hasn't made fruit. Hopefully this year as tree is back to looking very healthy (winning the fight with those little black scales).


Angie mango.


Another sapodilla. I want to say Makok. Not 100% sure.


Malay apple. No fruit yet. The sri lankan weevils love this almost as much as lychee.


Coconut Cream mango.


Sabara jaboticaba.

[Mugenia]

Very nice 👍

[mangokothiyan]

The yard and the trees l\ook great!!

My Biew Kiew Longan too hasn't flowered this year. Just wants to keep on growing.

Is your Hasya productive? I planted mine in 2012 as a 3 gallon. I got one fruit last year and it now has 4 fruits on it.

Does the red jabo do well in the ground?

 

[mangomongo]

What do you spray on your LZ for the powdery mildew?

[Alejandro45]

Great collection! Nice that you are close to the water table. I imagine you don't need to water very often.

[hawkfish007]

Beautiful Yard! Thanks for sharing. How old are the trees?

[spaugh]

Awesome!  Dont kill the lychees...

[savemejebus]

Is your Hasya productive? I planted mine in 2012 as a 3 gallon. I got one fruit last year and it now has 4 fruits on it.

Does the red jabo do well in the ground?

I have a whole thread on the Hasya being very unproductive. We're getting 'more' fruit over the last year - probably a dozen or so, but not nearly as productive as the Alano. I think my renewed aggressive spraying routine has helped.

Red jabo has done great in the ground. It also likes pampering and tends to respond well to spraying.

[savemejebus]

What do you spray on your LZ for the powdery mildew?

I've been spraying a combo of sulphur and MKP (monopotassium phosphate) which at least this year (anecdotally) seems to have made a big difference. I did not spray at all last year, and the lemon zest was overrun with powdery mildew. This year I haven't seen any yet.

[savemejebus]

Beautiful Yard! Thanks for sharing. How old are the trees?

We bought the property in 2010 and planted everything ourselves. The trees run the gamut from 8 years old (the Glenn mango) to planted within a couple months ago (grimal jaboticaba).

[skhan]

Nice work,
What's your secret for keeping away the raccoon from your pineapples?

[savemejebus]

Nice work,
What's your secret for keeping away the raccoon from your pineapples?

Knock on wood, but so far we haven't had a raccoon issue. It might be the neighborhood cats or the smell of our giant dogs, but that's one battle we haven't needed to fight. If they eat one of the Kauai sugarloaf pineapples that are now popping up, I will probably burn the neighborhood down to kill them.

The real issue for us is the iguanas (formerly canal rats but we seem to have eradicated them... for now). They multiply exponentially and they eat everything (trees included). I have personally found them destroying the papaya trees like Pac-Man chomping down from the top. I've seen them gulping barbados cherry flowers. Found them in the veggie garden tearing it apart. During mango season they each put on 20 lbs just eating mangoes from the tree. I need to find some time and sit outside with the air rifle to hopelessly try to get them under control.

[Cookie Monster]

Nice looking trees. You either have excellent soil or a great fertilization regimen (or both!). Congrats.

Lychees in our area are essentially shade trees that produce a sampling of fruit every once in a while. It wasn't like that before though. Previous to, say 2012, they were a lot more reliable from what I've been told. But like you, I will probably never pull the two I have, since they are such handsome shade trees.

The colder temps keep migrating further north. Might be time to start planting some breadfruit trees .

[ScottR]

Beautiful collection of fruiting trees how old of a collection is it getting to be?

[zands]

Frankenstein mango (multi-graft of Edgar and Sweet Tart with a few branches of the seedling.


Is this  grafted by  Guanabanus (total of 2 half feet high when I saw it) mango cut off then grafted onto by him I saw a few years ago?  Your whole yard is looking amazing. And you are on the water where moisture / fungus should be a problem.[/font]

[zands]

Nice looking trees. You either have excellent soil or a great fertilization regimen (or both!). Congrats.

Lychees in our area are essentially shade trees that produce a sampling of fruit every once in a while. It wasn't like that before though. Previous to, say 2012, they were a lot more reliable from what I've been told. But like you, I will probably never pull the two I have, since they are such handsome shade trees.

The colder temps keep migrating further north. Might be time to start planting some breadfruit trees .

It will be very cute when-if global warming temps flip very soon.

[Tony714]

very nice and healthy trees.   You're in Florida and still can't have Lynchee fruit?  Do you know why or any advice ?
i have a small one grafted on longan.  i am trying to shape it at this point.

[Cookie Monster]

Lack of chill. Areas north of me (colder) get decent crops.

very nice and healthy trees.   You're in Florida and still can't have Lynchee fruit?  Do you know why or any advice ?
i have a small one grafted on longan.  i am trying to shape it at this point.

[zands]

very nice and healthy trees.   You're in Florida and still can't have Lynchee fruit?  Do you know why or any advice ?
i have a small one grafted on longan.  i am trying to shape it at this point.

Lychee is cool winter temps productive. This guy is in Southern Florida where winter temps have not been getting cool enough for the last few years. Also a myth...that South Florida is good for citrus. Though I have a pot full of Meyer Lemons I am going to repot into neutral PH soil.   The less extravagant citrus AKA primitive will weather through greening etc I think.

[Tony714]

we re in 10B and there is 1 house close to my brother's house.  They have a good harvest tree full of fruits for last 2 years.  will see this year when i go to my brother's house.
will it work if i put ice around the root?

[savemejebus]

Frankenstein mango (multi-graft of Edgar and Sweet Tart with a few branches of the seedling.


Is this  grafted by  Guanabanus (total of 2 half feet high when I saw it) mango cut off then grafted onto by him I saw a few years ago?  Your whole yard is looking amazing. And you are on the water where moisture / fungus should be a problem.[/font]

Yes - that's the one that Har grafted. Hasn't held fruit yet so hopefully this year is the one.

[zands]

we re in 10B and there is 1 house close to my brother's house.  They have a good harvest tree full of fruits for last 2 years.  will see this year when i go to my brother's house.
will it work if i put ice around the root?

Ice will not make a dent unless you are in the ice business and can pour on ice every two days.  If you really like lychees then buy/plant different lychee varieties to spread your bet and longans too. Longans are almost lychees and make spectacular blossoms.

[zands]

Frankenstein mango (multi-graft of Edgar and Sweet Tart with a few branches of the seedling.


Is this  grafted by  Guanabanus (total of 2 half feet high when I saw it) mango cut off then grafted onto by him I saw a few years ago?  Your whole yard is looking amazing. And you are on the water where moisture / fungus should be a problem.[/font]

Yes - that's the one that Har grafted. Hasn't held fruit yet so hopefully this year is the one.

Then Har / aka  Guanabanas is a genius who really knows what he is doing. Because when I saw these grafts they did not look promising. Meaning what did Har do but run grafting ops at Zill (yes he did and is now at Truly Tropical in Delray) for 10-15 years or more?