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Winter/fall/spring time is the time to plant in San Diego county. Otherwise you will have to make sure your trees are irrigated nicely during the summer.

I would get animal like a cat or dog to start hunting gophers or even the gopher repellant frequency generators. Sometimes in extreme cases chicken wire fencing needs to be placed underneath roots/garden beds.

As far as drought goes, escondido is nearby the greatest spring mountain water in all of southern california, Mt. Palomar. Water will be your limiting factor, as I believe in escondido, you have to buy all your water (could be wrong, but I believe most properties in SD county are like this) Temecula has an advantage because its in riverside county and allows for wells

Not sure how many trees or what you intend on planting but if your property is hilly you will have very diff temps at diff elevations. The cold sinks into the valleys at night, which is why the avocados are planted on the hill sides and the tops of the hills stay warmer.

The heat can be brutal to trees and burn fruit. Depending on how big your trees are I would recommend building an understory with fast growing trees like Inga, Etc.

Do the property in phases. 60 acres is a lot. start with a small area

Enjoy and good luck

Most rural properties in san diego have wells.  Are your wells all up and running Ken?  You have a water tank or does the water come straight out of the ground into the irrigation lines? 

Personally I would put in a swimming pool first.  And then get a deer fence up if deer are around.  Then just get the main water line in and put drip tubing down in rows and go for it. 

This is a tool you will need, just order one its the best shovel over.
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looks great, its about to take off.  which type is yours? 

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today my yangmai was transplanted into the ground.  It didnt have a ton of roots yet but Im hopeful it will take in its new spot.  its fully exposed to all day sun no obstructions.  i put 90% aluminet cover on it for now.  70% would have been better but all I hd was 90 aluminum.  Ill switch to 70% in a few weeks if all is well then drop to 50% hopefully if the tree starts flushing well.










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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Nursery Pots San Diego area
« on: July 17, 2021, 10:41:07 AM »
The 8x15 tall pots are sold out.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit party
« on: July 16, 2021, 07:27:46 PM »
I need to push this into August, my fruit arent ready.  maybe 2 or 3 more weeks.  Stone fruits are mostly done but dragonfruit and watermwlons are coming in and plenty of avocados.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fire Ant Control?
« on: July 16, 2021, 04:21:41 PM »
Yeah in my garage

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Illama germination
« on: July 16, 2021, 02:02:51 PM »
my only experience is with seeds from Raul.  None sprouted when I first tried then I left them in a bag dry for over a year and then all sprouted within a few weeks of trying again.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Illama germination
« on: July 16, 2021, 01:09:25 PM »
Someone posted about their seeds not sprouting recently.  I tried to dig up the thread but couldnt find it.  Anyway I saw this on faceborg today.  It basically says the seeds take 6-9 months to form an embryo and fresh seeds are hollow. 




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I'm also sharing my experience and cost effectiveness. No need to argue or to prove who superior in arguments. In India, they don't have access to buddy tape/parafilm in the nursery trades but still they've over 90% of success. My parafilm cracks within 6-8 weeks. I don't need more time for my grafts to take. If your humidity doesn't support, you have the liberty to take other measures.

Sorry I wasnt trying to be argumentative at all.  Tone is lost over the internet.  The only point Im trying to get accross is that theres no issues with moisture loss with the flagging tape.   If there was I would have seen it by now.  But everytime I remove the stuff, the unions are wet just like with other grafting tapes. 

They also sell plain "grafting tapes" on amazon and ebay that doesnt stick like parafilm or buddy tape.  I havent used it but some friends use that instead of parafilm or buddy tape because it comes off easier as well.

Im a big fan of the buddy tape, but the stuff is a nightmare to remove.  Especially if you are doing a lot of grafting.  I spent way too much time doing tape removals this year and dont want to repeat next year.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fire Ant Control?
« on: July 16, 2021, 11:28:17 AM »
Its the last one I have seen


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fire Ant Control?
« on: July 16, 2021, 10:16:53 AM »
we had horned lizards here as well that I havent seen in 6 years.  Because agintine ants take over the space of the native ant that the horned lizards need to survive on.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Nursery Pots San Diego area
« on: July 15, 2021, 06:41:13 PM »
ill be here please just remind me on friday, Im often away from the phone and internet.

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parafilm dries out and cracks and causes graft failure in CA where humidity is in the single digits. 

Ive done hundreds of grafts with parafilm, buddy, tape, flagging tape and combos of the 3.

For stone fruit I use parafilm, for everything else the scion gets buddy tape.  And I have no use for either on the graft unions.  Flagging tape is much easier to remove and has the perfect amount of stretch to keep grafts tight.

I was putting grafting tape on unions and then flagging tape over to pull tight but lately just skip the gradting tape on the union and grafts are just as successful.

Of course everyone is free to do as they please Im just sharing my experience. 

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Nursery Pots San Diego area
« on: July 15, 2021, 03:57:05 PM »
I would have to count the pots etc but I have tons of pots, Im sure we can come to an amicable deal.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Nursery Pots San Diego area
« on: July 15, 2021, 03:46:59 PM »
I can ship the 5" and 6" tall pots but really was hoping to do local pickup on these. 


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Nursery Pots San Diego area
« on: July 15, 2021, 02:32:19 PM »
I have more tall pots, 5x9, 6x12, 8x15

Have stacks, done with them, pots are used in great condition.  1$, 1.5$, 2$ depending on size. 

Also have 1, 1.7 and 2.2 gal standard squat pots for 50 cents.




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I top worked this mango tree and only used flagging tape on the unions.  Works fine, comes off easier, costs less, and pulls tighter than grafting tapes.  For the scion part it gets 1 layer of buddy tape. 




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Sold
« on: July 14, 2021, 03:01:31 PM »
Sold

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fire Ant Control?
« on: July 14, 2021, 11:39:17 AM »
they eat dragonfruit plants, otherwise they dont bother me much.  except when wearing sandals and you step on them they chew your feet.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fire Ant Control?
« on: July 13, 2021, 10:56:17 PM »
Theres a product called "extinguish plus" if you want to use poison.   You sprinkle it near the entrance to their nest and they take it in and die.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Are these Ross sapote?
« on: July 11, 2021, 03:32:05 PM »
The Ross I tried taste just like canistel too.  Could barely tell any difference.

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This plant I have been giving a lot of sun the last week or so and it started growing pretty quickly.  I wanted to show this plant because you can see once the leaves harden off they turn a darker green.  The new flush is lime green and looks chlorotic but it clears up once they have a month or so to harden off. 



Here's the An Hai that made a miracle comeback out of nowhere




I have them out in the sun right now its 90F and 20%RH already at 10AM.




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Use T posts and a 100ft roll of welded wire.

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I left mine out under a 70% shade all day today it was over 90F and around 30%RH and windy.  Seems fine.  I may go ahead and plant it a d put a shade over it.  It will either take off or die. 

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Need a fast rootstock
« on: July 08, 2021, 11:22:04 PM »
I need some rootstock for a ccpp order and bought a cheap orange tree from lowes to graft onto.  It worked out well and I have a nice 2 variety tree in 5gal pot ready to plant a couple months later. 

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