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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: March 27, 2024, 05:25:25 AM »



Just when I had started to lose interest. My pineapple cage is not big enough for all these🙂
Funny enough Amazon just delivered some Dig microjet sprinklers with the strip and 90° deflectors. I ordered to make watering and fertilizing pineapples easier




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mango season 2023 versus 2024
« on: March 26, 2024, 06:23:18 AM »
So far I'm extremely happy with 2024 the season of 2023 was extremely tough in my yard well I got to watch and cheer on the south Floridians for their bumper crop. My blooms had issues Christmas Day I had 10 hours of  near freezing temperatures then two weeks a week later it was touch 90°. So trees I thought certainly we're going to have strong bloom had more vegetative flush than bloom I only got a half dozen orange sherbert. 2 weeks after the Christmas freeze coconut cream appeared to be pushing Bloom I thought but no it was vegetating flush. So looking at the glass being half full it did about five flushes That season and got some massive size to it. This season it is fully loaded. So from season to season it's a roller coaster ride I understand a lot of people are having issues with powdery mildew but you shall persevere. On the bright side of the 2023 season I got a lot of growth and because of the friends I've established through this forum and other social media I was well covered in mangoes. So I would just like to hear other people's perspective of how this season is stacking up compared to last? I know it's a little early to make any final judgments because Mother Nature has the final say.🙂

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What time of year to plant trees 9B
« on: March 25, 2024, 12:54:12 PM »
For the planter I would say December January February with a daytime High of no more than 60 degrees. For the trees June the beginning of rain unless you like the water.🙂

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 25, 2024, 08:23:47 AM »
Sorry Roblack! Kind of got off tangent went off the tracks on this thread. I Against my own better judgment  and followings Squam disease resistant guidance. I have avoided Planting Lemon Zest. I have succumb and bent to my wifes will. I like lemon zest ahrowle rowle rrr ! I want lemon zest ah rowle rowle rrr!! Why Don't we have the Lemon zest.  Rowle grrrr!!!!!🤣





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Recently visited a fellow forum member over in an area I like to call Area 51. Made Mr Toad's Wild Ride to sample mulberries and dig u p some Rogue mango root stock. Of course Palm City Elite showed the utmost  southern hospitality. Myself and another grower from here in the Osceola triangle had the Good Fortune to sample Frozen Okrung Kesar and supremely delicious coining the
Phrase of Hars. Super Julie. A whole Frozen Okrung was sugarcane sweet but in my opinion I prefer Kesar. My expectations weren't very high because everyone always disses Frozen mangoes but I was extremely pleasantly surprised how good they were. But was overwhelmingly delighted with how extremely delightfully delicious Super Julie was. It retained its deep rich flavor that I love. I recommend freezing your favorite top tier mangoes for a pleasant treat preseason. I believe it would be a fun event to have such tasting when everyone's not over inundated with mangoes during Prime season. Here's a couple of rogue mangoes we dug up right next to a mulberry tree


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 22, 2024, 10:19:08 PM »
Sulfur- i toasted a few 2nd chance panicles applying it & knowing we were going above 85F.  My fault.
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...?
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

Can definitely work with 23 psi micro jet sprinklers. Could use it on a timer for drip irrigation too which usually requires 20 psi

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 22, 2024, 07:56:53 PM »
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
If 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.
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 season

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 22, 2024, 04:44:24 PM »
Now I'm not distracted by work taking a look at a 15 gallon diaphragm pump some put out 3 gallons per minute since the micro jet sprinklers use a half gallon per minute could potentially do six trees at a time but I think I would be satisfied with just doing three. By going above the cutoff valves I don't have to contend with draining the existing water in the system. My friend pointed out that fungicide is best sprayed underneath the leaves but my theory is if it's easier you're more likely to do it and it's better to do some than none. Now for anthracnose and the commercial fungicides I would definitely use hand sprayer. But for a once a week on the bloom sulfur bath don't think this is a bad idea. So there's the whole debate of spray on open bloom. Well dagnabbit they all don't open at the same time. If you get powdery mildew and it kills the bloom what good is that. I think a mild sulfur bath to reduce the Spore count might be a Worthy Endeavor. Only had a few trees show signs of powdery mildew because I have a pretty good fungicide regimen so I will consider experimenting on these trees next season with a weekly sulfur bath. Since I only need enough mangoes for me and my wife and I have approximately 19 trees we should be fine.🙂

M-4

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 22, 2024, 01:30:15 PM »
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

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Whats the "biggest" mango
« on: March 22, 2024, 08:41:29 AM »
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🤣

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 22, 2024, 08:37:52 AM »
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

Interesting hook into existing pressurized system and use the suction created

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 22, 2024, 08:10:50 AM »
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.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 22, 2024, 06:29:53 AM »
I think there's a couple threads where this is discussed on this forum I'll go back and take a look this weekend. But since it's early morning and I've had coffee kind of gave me an epiphany. If I get a tank with a flange pump and mix sulfur I could spray the whole Grove easy peasy like the nursery folks. I've got a gravity flow system setup for gardening and was wanting to get a tank with a flange pump so I don't have to tie into the house water. The way the micro jet sprinklers with a deflector Cascade the water in an umbrella fashion to cover the whole tree surface it only makes sense to spread the fungicide the same way. What's the worse that could happen  clogged Jets. They can be easily cleaned. Thank you for responding as forum is kind of getting dry and dull not much Chit chat.As Har has said this is not an academic paid forum and use of Latin is not necessary especially for folks like me who has been working on English for 60 years and still ain't got it right . Would still like to know the mechanics why I can spray fungicides below 50°, but there I go opining again.

Cotton candy

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Whats the "biggest" mango
« on: March 21, 2024, 01:17:03 PM »
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.
Of the big mango varieties I like Valencia Pride ripens evenly disease resistant a heavy producer

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Whats the "biggest" mango
« on: March 21, 2024, 09:14:30 AM »
A few can crack the 2kg mark like Keitt, R2E2 and rabaul but these are very occasional fruit.
Bowen Mango in Queensland

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 20, 2024, 06:51:50 PM »
Well with all this powdery mildew discussion I feel guilty to give a glowing report but everything going spectacular. Just inspected Dot with the step ladder and she is spic and span no signs of anthracnose. Dwarf Hawaiian holding on to early fruit set and no surprise mid March bloom. Cotton candy and coconut cream excellent fruit set. Ice cream steadily blooming. Going to be a banner season for orange sherbet and PPK
M4 and Juliet no complaints. But all this powdery mildew discussion I'm intrigued by this heavy rain and garden hose rinse. Watch Hars video on YouTube and learned that the Asian mangoes or more susceptible to powdery mildew I thought because they were in the jungle with humidity and rain they would be more resistance but it could be there is higher temperatures. The Indian mangoes that are in a dryer cooler location more resistant. So after taking a look I noticed there was some powdery mildew on PPK and White piri. Next season they will get more attention. But back to what intrigued me with the heavy rain and the washing and rinsing with garden hose proposition. I have overhead irrigation for frost protection. I could change out microjet sprinkler heads to a higher gallons per hour head andcould possibly run it once a week for a duration to wash rinse off some powdery mildew. Is this Ludacris or plausible?
Was going to start a thread asking this question but since it was mentioned in this thread I'll see if someone will speculate the possibility


Dot

VP



Sugar cube cantaloupe melon

Tropical F1


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Coconut cream

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: March 11, 2024, 12:14:54 PM »
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.

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.






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🤣
I know you're probably hoping it's a clone but would be more interesting if not. Then it would be incredible if it was pollinated by LZ. Then you would have the lemon lime in the coconut. Always looking for anything new that's different🙂


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Zhpp Glo Mango
« on: February 15, 2024, 07:51:14 AM »
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


https://environment.co/glow-in-the-dark-trees/

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Got my gravity flow zero pressure mechanical battery operated timer. Think I have the melons hardened off but added some shade cloth on West Side as a precaution. So far so good wish me luck.
Sugar Cube Green Machine and Snow leopard



Garden Party celebration
Guava from the freezer five finger and June plum recently harvested.
Just call me the juice baby LOL





June Plum juice

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Zhpp Glo Mango
« on: February 13, 2024, 07:10:25 PM »
Now that seems pretty cool. I wish someone would chime in also.
If that one  ever gets released Galatians and I will be gardening after Dark🤣


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2024 FL Mango Season
« on: February 13, 2024, 02:14:05 PM »
Bombay Marc Anthony Buxton spice starting to bloom. Very excited and feel blessed started this journey 6 years ago with the only information I had to work with came from this forum. Used the shotgun approach planted many 7 and 15 gallon tree back when they were large. At the time i knew I was planting them too close but I knew I would eventually cull the herd. Dug those up traded and gave away. Finally got it fine tuned the way I want and now looks to be a bountiful season. My latest addition will be Pere Louis also called AKA mango Pal-Wee

Marc Anthony


Buxton spice
Also I have to give credit to Tropical acre Farms

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: February fruit
« on: February 13, 2024, 01:59:24 PM »
What are the small green fruits pictured with the starfruit?

I am interested in winter time fruits.
June plum or Jamaican plum it makes great juice also when it turns yellow called Golden Apple even better juice.
There's a dwarf variety that doesn't take up much space

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Zhpp Glo Mango
« on: February 13, 2024, 08:53:28 AM »
Has anyone started or heard the rumor of a potential new release from Zill? A prominent YouTuber from  Palm Beach County insinuated there's another potential release coming soon. Prophetically speaking could it be the Glo mango tree with
bioluminescent  bloom that attract pollinators after Dark They found that mushroom DNA is very compatible with plant DNA and used that to transfer the bioluminescent traits

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / February fruit
« on: February 11, 2024, 03:53:01 PM »



Well since I see how well strawberries can do in a raised bed garden going to expand. Got these at the beginning of Last Summer

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Copied and pasted this off another forum but I think this would work on tomatoes seedlings
I have seen lots of people use these lights and love them, but they are only supplemental, 10min at a time 3 times a day. They protect itself from UV. This is the first time ive seen somebody say they did not work.
Sprayed Frac 11 on a few trees just for general purpose and plant doctor organicide of the rest. Looking to be a bountiful mango season. At this point there's only a few things that could pee on my parade



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