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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado tree...should I give up?
« on: October 23, 2017, 02:37:19 PM »
Great, thanks so much for the feedback.  Fingers crossed and will add mulch.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado tree...should I give up?
« on: October 21, 2017, 02:52:08 PM »
OK, 5 weeks has gone by since the hurricane and this is what is looks like now.  It's coming along.  I sure hope the break was above the graft.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado tree...should I give up?
« on: September 30, 2017, 10:23:42 PM »
OK thanks guys.  I'll trim the break back somewhat and see what happens.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocado tree...should I give up?
« on: September 30, 2017, 01:29:07 PM »
We planted a 7 gal Florida Hass last February along with a number of other fruit trees.  Unfortunately the avocado didn't fare well in Hurricane Irma and snapped in half, literally.  I noticed that just below the break it's starting to push up new growth.  Is it even worth it to let it try to re-grow?  Am I just going to get root stock, whatever that was?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Gotta love all the Florida pests :(
« on: August 20, 2017, 10:06:10 PM »
There must be some thing that eats them wherever they came from. Wondering if there are any lizard or frog species that eat them..
Even if there is a predator that eats them, there are so many burrowing owls in my neighborhood that they have decimated all the treefrogs and lizards that might help. Literally a half dozen owl nests within a few blocks of me.

We only wish.  Been dealing with them here for years.  There are also other simar weevils in Florida.

I have anoles all over the place in my yard.  Wish they would eat them. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Gotta love all the Florida pests :(
« on: August 20, 2017, 04:55:33 PM »
Depressing..do I just let things run their course and hope the tree is strong enough?  I'm not sure I've learned of any silver bullet thus far. I'm OK spraying them every weekend with something FWIW if that will help.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Gotta love all the Florida pests :(
« on: August 20, 2017, 04:11:39 PM »
Sorry, what's ISD?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Gotta love all the Florida pests :(
« on: August 20, 2017, 10:28:29 AM »
So first it was the citrus greening literally destroying my newly planted Persian lime right before my eyes.  Now it's the little leaf notcher weevil chewing away at my mangos planted this past Feb.  I read something on this board about a product called Tanglefoot that you can buy on Amazon but other than that one mention I haven't really seen anything related to its effectiveness with these beetles.  Do they ONLY climb up the trunk?  I know they can fly but apparently not very well (?).  If they can fly up to the leaves I can't imagine that Tanglefoot will keep them off of the tree.  If they can't really fly how did they get here in the first place?  Any thoughts/suggestions?  Other than the chewed leaves the trees look healthy. They seem to like my Sweet Tart more than my Pickering for some reason.





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help! Citrus greening, now what?
« on: June 26, 2017, 09:35:40 AM »
Another option is to grow a tree that doesn't require all of those insecticides. I think it's better to work with the environment and to plant a tree that can survive in an area without a constant schedule of poisons.

That's true.  Not sure what else to plant....I need to give that some thought.  Already have several mangos, an avocado, a banana, and a papaya.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help! Citrus greening, now what?
« on: June 25, 2017, 03:15:03 PM »
Thanks for the replies everyone!  If you get a chance to take a look at the link I posted I'm 99% sure those are citrus psyllid.  But like Greenman62 said I guess it's not for sure I have greening.  As suggested I will do a more aggressive fertilization...along with more aggressive root drenches and topical insecticides and see what happens.  I'll also call my dept of AG as suggested.  Still debating on tenting but maybe I'll wait to hear what AG says.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Help! Citrus greening, now what?
« on: June 25, 2017, 09:57:31 AM »
On Feb 1 of this year we planted 2 new 15 gallon trees that we acquired from Fruitscapes in Pine Island FL.  The trees were very healthy looking.  1 Persian lime and 1 Meyers lemon.  Applied a root drench containing immidicloprid  about a month and a half after planting (the grower said do this once every 3 months).  I while ago now I started to notice the lime trees leaves were turning yellow and dropping.  It has now lost most of its leaves.  The lemon looks much better but we're also seeing some yellowing there as well as leaf curling and spots.  Upon closer examination I noticed a strange looking beetle under the leaves, as well as aphids and scales.  I researched the issue a bit more and soon discovered that it appears that my young trees are affected by citrus greening.  I have a gallery of photos here:

http://www.focusingonnature.com/Secondary-Galleries/Miscellaneous/Citrus-issues/

So my question is now what?  I understand that when a tree gets this disease it can never get rid of it.  But it also sounds like regular use of topical and root drench insecticides as well as tenting might keep the problem in check.  They are small trees so it wouldn't be a big deal to build tents for them and give that a try.  Has anybody on this forum successfully reversed a citrus greening infection?

I don't really want to rip them out and buy new trees because I'm afraid the same thing will happen to them.

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Your house is in a beautiful location, i wouldn't worry about an avocado tree.😀

Thank you.   :)

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Hope that tree is on W. Indies rootstock like Waldin.   However most of the avocado tree roots are shallow and it looks like you're a good 3' above the water line.  Where's the water table?  One way to find out is with a post hole digger.

Do you have a water analysis for the water source you're using? 

It's my understanding that Hass is not a good match for Florida.

My understanding is the FL Hass uses a different root stock, that's how it was explained to me.  Good question on the water table...I'm not sure  I'm guessing it's a ways down there because when my royal palms were planted down by the seawall they dug deep holes and didn't hit water.  The tree is set back a ways from the seawall so it's at a higher elevation than the palms.

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Shoot.  Do you think this tree is salvageable?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / What's going on with my avocado tree
« on: May 08, 2017, 04:32:54 PM »
Hi all, i planted a Florida Hass a little over 3 months ago.  Per instructions I watered daily for the first month, every other day for the 2nd month and every 3rd day for the 3rd month.   In addition, the tree has been getting some daily water from rotors since we had sod installed a few months ago.  I've also been giving it fertilizer once a month for the past few months also per instruction (this was from Fruit Scapes on Pine Island and per Jess' instructions for those of you that know Jess). About a month ago or so we started noticing the plant dropping a lot of leaves...the remaining leaves have a lot of brown spots.  There are what look like buds at the ends of the branches but so far no new growth.

Interestingly we also had a Sweet Tart mango that was planted about a month after this tree.  It too lost most of its leaves but they were all replaced by new leaves.

Any idea what might be going on here?  Pests?  Too much water?  Not the right kind of water?  (this is well water which in these parts isn't the best quality water)

For some reason I can't get images to work on this forum, here's a link:

http://imgur.com/a/p0bre


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picking Pickering mango question
« on: May 06, 2017, 04:50:49 PM »
Nice!  Thank you.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picking Pickering mango question
« on: May 05, 2017, 11:08:14 AM »
Thanks for the helpful feedback everyone!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Picking Pickering mango question
« on: May 04, 2017, 10:08:12 PM »
From a previous thread, seems like the color should be golden yellow before picking?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Picking Pickering mango question
« on: May 04, 2017, 05:29:12 PM »
How do I know when a Pickering is ready for picking?  I can't seem to embed a picture for some reason but here's a link to a picture...

https://ibb.co/esgQGQ


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Perfect...that was great advice thank you!  I would have been tempted to just cut off the panicles fruit and all.

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This 7 gal Pickering was planted about 5 weeks ago.  It already had some fruit on it when it was planted.  Since then it has exploded with new blossoms.   I know I should be cutting all of these off but should I do that now or wait a bit longer?  And where is the proper place to make the cut?

https://ibb.co/nJF4Qa

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What to do with cocoplums
« on: February 08, 2017, 06:30:44 AM »
the seeds are the best part very tasty nut

What's the best way to get at the seeds, let them dry?  I found that the fibrous outer husk makes it hard to get the seeds out whole unless I'm doing it wrong.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What to do with cocoplums
« on: February 07, 2017, 03:35:03 PM »
Good ideas, thanks! 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / What to do with cocoplums
« on: February 07, 2017, 10:58:28 AM »
My cocoplum privacy hedge has a whole bunch of ripe fruit on it now.  Aside from just eating them raw, is there anything else I can do with the ripe fruit?  They have a very mild semi sweet taste and the nuts are tasty as well. 

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Fruitscapes has cotton candy and it's late.
So many truly great mangos that ripen after Pickering and Edward!

When does Sweet Tart and Lemon Zest produce where I live?

Mid-season mangos.  I'd say July to August.
Always wanted a Sweet Tart.  So maybe a month overlap with my Pickering?  Seems like the consensus is to get a slightly overlapping mango vs a so so really early or really late.

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