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Sulfur- i toasted a few 2nd chance panicles applying it & knowing we were going above 85F. My fault.And because some folks have had issues with this it's kind of brought it to the Forefront of my attention and I'm coming to understand that in Florida the humidity is always there but it's kind of the night time temperatures that is maybe the biggest Factor. Since in my area tonight time temperatures have been in the lower 50s I think powdery mildew has been more dormant then down in South Florida where the night time temperatures have probably been in the 60s.So I'm surmising that you don't want to temperatures below 40 because it produces too many male flowers so they say or 60 plus range because of powdery mildew. So next season I will pay more attention to night time temperatures
Next year i will certainly be spraying way before panicle season starts.
Last year i didn't spray sulfur & had zero problems. Even old Kent had almost zero bad fruit.
Rain- i'm glad, sulfur will wash off, treat ground, get absorbed in trees. If i reapply it'll be weaker mix but powdery mildew season's just about over...?
Very good ideas one of my issues is the window to spray where there's not much wind is either at Sunrise or sunset. A short duration of time. Spray the side of the tree that is downwind it is a little challenging. Would be nice just to be able to flip a switch on a pump walk away for a duration of time come back flip it off. Well at least throwing some mud on the wall and some wacky nunu ideas got some dialogue going. Just seems when you're scheduled to rotate and spray it's always windy. Then when it's not you have no motivation. I'm about 2 weeks behind schedule for a second spraying of frac 11 before rotating to something else. Actually didn't spray any sulfur this seasonIf you have a riding mower then I highly suggest it. I just drive around the trees and spray at the same time. I'll have to time the process next go around. Also a friend of mine did the same thing but he got the 250gal ibc tote and a gas powered pump in the back of his older truck. He has a long garden hose attached to it and says it's been helping a lot with fruit setting on lemon zest. Not sure the size of your property but I'm sure one of those ways would help.I used my 15 gal tank setup I got from hobo freight and sprayed everything with sulfur last week. I think the set up would improve with another pump to agitate the solution amd keep it mixed but even with the one pump I was impressed with the coverage it made on the trees. You could always filter the big chunks of sulfur out before adding to the holding chamber. Let us know how it works with fixed plumbing, sounds like a game changer.Your ideal starting to grow on me I may have been too ambitious thinking I could irrigate 10 trees at a time but I could add a threaded pvc attachment above the cut off valve to be able to couple a hose and spray sulfur for about 3 minutes which would be a gallon as an experiment then potentially more trees
I used my 15 gal tank setup I got from hobo freight and sprayed everything with sulfur last week. I think the set up would improve with another pump to agitate the solution amd keep it mixed but even with the one pump I was impressed with the coverage it made on the trees. You could always filter the big chunks of sulfur out before adding to the holding chamber. Let us know how it works with fixed plumbing, sounds like a game changer.Your ideal starting to grow on me I may have been too ambitious thinking I could irrigate 10 trees at a time but I could add a threaded pvc attachment above the cut off valve to be able to couple a hose and spray sulfur for about 3 minutes which would be a gallon as an experiment then potentially more trees
Funny I posted a pic on the big mango on an old thread but was talking about KPs.Always enjoyed your Aussie humor I can honestly say that Australia has the biggest mango by far🤣
That should work real well if you have a large enough pump and/or if the pvc is a small enough diameter. That would really cut down on effort. I hope it works really well!I may have my pumps mixed up could be a diaphragm pump I'm thinking of. But with a quick search I see there's something called an injection pump. I guess one issue would be when to know to turn the water off so you don't end up washing off the sulfur. Just a matter of how expensive they are LOL I'll study it over the weekend. Maybe I could put dye in the sulfur solution and turn my trees orange or red or blue. Take a packet of Kool-Aid so I'll know when to turn it off LOL
I used my 15 gal tank setup I got from hobo freight and sprayed everything with sulfur last week. I think the set up would improve with another pump to agitate the solution amd keep it mixed but even with the one pump I was impressed with the coverage it made on the trees. You could always filter the big chunks of sulfur out before adding to the holding chamber. Let us know how it works with fixed plumbing, sounds like a game changer.I have cut off valves on each individual riser to switch out sprinkler heads if necessary so I could see how many risers it would be able to handle by turning them on one at a time. Until it's Peter's out.
Bowens I have heard of occasional outsized ones but they average smaller. 2kg might be a stretch still. There is also a late hong kong one and the real name escapes me but golden queen is sometimes applied.Seriously Mike I don't think there's one bigger than the one in Queensland.
A few can crack the 2kg mark like Keitt, R2E2 and rabaul but these are very occasional fruit.Bowen Mango in Queensland
I still haven't sprayed my Powdery Mildew blooms with water, but we did get a couple intense rains recently. The PM remains, though. Hoping the newer blooms on the Pickering Seedling are able to fruit. The actual Pickerings in the yard are holding fruit in spite of PM. Ice Cream had full bloom and looks like it will hold onto nothing. Hopefully it will hold onto whatever grafts I put on it this upcoming summer to make that thing productive. Sugarloaf is hanging onto fruit in spite of PM, though not many fruitlets look clean.Well that's exciting!!!🙂👍 Will have to make a road trip and come take a look at this seedling of coconut cream. Will try to pirate some budwood if you allowed me LOL🤣
The star of the show here is my Coconut Cream Seedling. No PM, some staggered blooms (some might say multiple crops?), and excellent fruit set.
Make that 3 after dark gardener/farmer/fruitaholics lol. Get a hoverboard and attach the pot to it so you can see as you do your work. Heck take it for walks around the neighborhood and give it a name to really get heads turning. Baaahahaha
What are the small green fruits pictured with the starfruit?June plum or Jamaican plum it makes great juice also when it turns yellow called Golden Apple even better juice.
I am interested in winter time fruits.