The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hello everyone. Is there is a nearby place where I can take a sample of my sprinkler well water to be tested? I would like to know if I'm watering my trees with poor quality water or not. My location is pembroke pines, fl 33024.

I have some pics. I'll begin with the one that is all or mostly yellow. The other ones are beginning to yellow-up.

Fairchild #2 Canistel and fruits:


























Fairchild #2 Canistel Air layer with first new growth and bloom!












Mysore Banana:









Idunno Banana  (Tastes just like manzano). The fence is 6ft tall, so you can use it as a guide.









Tikal Sapodilla:






Carrie Mango with some chlorosis (Thinking about relocating it in the spring since the guanabana didn't do so well in that same spot either):






Coconut Cream Mango:






Two mamey seedlings:





Pantin Mamey and Sugar Cane:














Glenn Mango:





Carrie Mango seedling grafted onto Glenn Mango branch:








Oro Negro avocado (dwarf-like growth habit):






Guanbana/soursop (lots of blooming, but no fruit set):





Nam Doc Mai #4 (I thought it would be more dwarfish than this. lol I'm not complaining )






Lemon Zest Mango:






Pace Mamey:





Extra:

I have a row of large over grown Eugenia trees that are blooming. I've been reading that they produce edible fruit. I'm going to be tearing them down in the future to install a wood fence since the roots of the Eugenia hedge are growing into the root zones of other fruit trees that I have which are a bit close to these hedges. Here is one that is identical the Eugenia species that I have.





Is it worth saving one or can I just get rid of them all?

Here is the top hand of the banana clump I've harvested from my unknown banana tree. Looks like Manzano to me  :













Here's an older picture:

I just bought these two young coconut palms from a private seller on craigslist. He had a bunch of mature coconut palms in his yard in which he sprouted five seedlings from. I bought two of them.

Here is one of them:













The stems of the fronds are a bronze color which get a bit green near the trunk.

Here's the second one:









That one seems to have more of a dwarf stature. The mother palm looks like a green malayan dwarf, but the trunk is more swollen and has a small bowl at the bottom. The green coconuts also seem to have a rounder shape.

I'm looking for a coconut palm cultivar. I remember my grandparents had a pretty large coconut palm with a bowl shape at the bottom of the trunk, fronds with yellow/orange stem, and nice orange coconuts. The water from those coconuts tasted like some sugar was added to it. It was delicious. I think it was a red or golden malayan coconut. Not sure.  Are there other coconut varieties that produce sweet coconut water? I had a green malayan dwarf at my old house and the water from those coconuts had no sweetness whatsoever.


Thanks for your help,

This plant or weed is growing right-up against the window and it looks to be in the nightshade family, which includes tomatoes and peppers. Does anybody what plant this is or if it's edible and not poisonous. I wouldn't eat it anyways if it was deemed edible, just in case. 

I went by Jeff and Elsy's place today and bought a Pantin mamey sapote and a Tikal sapodilla. 


The pantin mamey is located where my brogdon used to be located at. It is actually flowering for the first 4 inches above the graft line. They are still very small, so you won't be able to see them in the picture.






Here's the Tikal Sapodilla. This is located where my older pace mamey used to be. I've read that the flesh is smooth and has good flavor. The wood of this sapodilla is also strong.

After scratching my head for so long about why my older pace mamey struggled and is now mostly dead, I finally have a good idea of what lead to it's demise.  While it began to recover and was actually growing lots of new healthy branches, it suddenly yellowed-up and began to die back. While the growth was new, I've noticed lots of young leaves mysteriously closed up in a webbing like material. When the leaves were opened, there were orange larvae (thought it was baby caterpillars) falling off and landing on the soil. Here is a quote of this article based on the sugar cane root stock borer.

"Egg. The eggs are deposited in clusters between leaves. An adhesive secreted by the female causes the leaves to stick together and glues the eggs to the leaves. " 

I've looked-up images of the adults and I've recognized them. I've seen an adult twice and I've killed them. It's been a while though since I've seen the last one. The adults also eat the leaves like the leaf notcher.

http://www.simplykitchengarden.com/vegetablepests/49.html

Lemon Zest mango:





Manzano Banana:





Brogdon Avocado:





Coconut Cream Mango:  I had to do a major pug cause the trunk was too tall and the tree was crooked and top heavy. Didn't want this one to snap off the graft during a wind storm like what happened to one of the members of this forum. If you look closely, it is already developing new growth near the tip of the cut.




Thai Lessard Sugar Apple seedling:




Glenn Mango:






Viejo Mamey Sapote:






Passion Fruit: (This fruit turns purple before falling off the vine.)







Guanabana (soursop):






Younger Pace Mamey Sapote:







Fairchild #2 Canistel:








Nam Doc Mai #4 mango:





Unknown banana variety: I think it is identical to the chiquita "baby"  bananas.





Carrie Mango:





Older pace mamey: This one has been struggling. I've added epsom salt and azomite powder two months ago and vigoro avocado and citrus fertilizer recently. It looks like it is beginning to recover.







10-30 Ruby Supreme Guava: This one has been attacked by every bug except for weevils. I been spraying malathion on the tree recently and I don't see anymore bugs on the tree. The scales look dead also. It still has some black sooty mold on it, so i might look into buying copper to spray the tree with. It looks a little better now without all those bugs covering it.




Carrie seedling mango:





I will post a picture of the valencia pride later.

I took a scion from a seedling carrie that I was growing and grafted it onto one of the branches of the glenn mango. The reason behind this is to know the quality of this mango sooner than if I were to wait for the seedling to produce fruit. By grafting this seedling scion onto a mature tree, the hormones from the mature tree transfers to the seedling scion making it bloom and fruit. In other words, the immature scion becomes a mature scion. I performed the graft 3 weeks ago and it took. This was my first successful graft!  Here are some pics:














A little info about this tree:

Like I've mentioned it's a carrie seedling. Other things I've noticed was when my grafted carrie develops new growth, the seedling begins to develop new growth or vice versa. They both seem to copy each other's growth pattern. The seedling leaves also look kinda like the Carrie and Dot leaves. Another thing I've noticed was it's slow dwarf growth habit, which is kinda like Julie. Unlike Carrie, the new immature leaves are dark purple. Over the course of it's 2.5-3 year life, it has been pugged a few times, but even before I pugged it, I've noticed that it has a shorter thicker stature than the haden seedling. Here are some pics of this seedling:

I've always heard that fruit trees like volcanic soil, so I'm thinking about adding this around my trees. Any thoughts on this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lava-Sand-Organic-soil-conditioner-amendment-40-lbs-/320777658815?pt=Fertilizer_Soil_Amendments&hash=item4aafd6a1bf


Thank you,