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Spring garden pics
« on: November 18, 2013, 06:45:06 AM »
Thought I'd take a quick zoom around my garden after a storm passed by early this afternoon. We had a dry late winter and early spring and now we have had a week of heavy storms which has made everything explode with flowers and fruit. Even winter fruits like loquat are all flowering again. I'll spare you the stone fruit, figs, berries and more common stuff.

Paxton's prolific atemoya









Sugar apple




pitomba finally setting lots of flowers


Panama berries ripening after suffering through the dry


Two transplanted jakfruit - Brinsmead special and picone's crisp


pink star apple and underside of leaves




Black sapote pretending to be a tomato




guava going bonkers


Jaboticaba - duo planted, grimal on left (fruiting)? and sahara on right.








Finger limes - various cultivars - some in fruit, some in flower, some both










Rollinia






Guanabana






ARKP - unfortunately the mangoes haven't fared well in the storms




King Thai (Maha)




Kasturi in pot




grape that I forgot to prune over winter


Peanut butter fruit flowering well




thats it for now.
« Last Edit: November 18, 2013, 07:02:40 AM by BMc »

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2013, 07:37:10 AM »
WOW!!! Great trees you have, congratulations!  ;)

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2013, 08:33:11 AM »
It looks really cool, specialy the guavas and jaboticabas.
By the way aren't the black sapotes like a low maintenance tree?
And what kind of varieties do you have for finger limes?
Thanks in advance.
« Last Edit: November 18, 2013, 11:35:25 AM by rovha »
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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2013, 11:30:43 AM »
Very nice pic's of your plants going into spring BMc, looks like you'll have plenty of fruit to keep your little helper happy! ;) 8) What is Panama berries?

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2013, 12:00:41 PM »
Very nice collection! Unfortunatelly you uploaded very small pictures...

Didn't you plant those jacks too close to each other?!

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2013, 04:52:01 PM »
Wow BMc, what a yard!!! Is the potted kasturi grafted?  Looks like a happy little helper you have there.

ScottR, I believe Panama berry is muntingia calabura.

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2013, 10:59:03 PM »
It looks really cool, specialy the guavas and jaboticabas.
By the way aren't the black sapotes like a low maintenance tree?
And what kind of varieties do you have for finger limes?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks.
The black sapote is super low maintenance here. Just a bit of manure based fertilizer every few months and it does it's thing. Crops twice a year when little else is around.
Finger limes - ricks red, tasty green, Wauchope, Colette are fruiting - Mia rose, crystal, red champagne, yellow are flowering - still waiting on flowers from purple and another good green type.

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2013, 11:08:56 PM »
Very nice collection! Unfortunatelly you uploaded very small pictures...

Didn't you plant those jacks too close to each other?!

The original pics are large and I didn't want to upload too many big pics which would take me about an hour. I can post larger versions of any if you are interested in a particular image. The jaks are close planted as I wanted to try planting them like avocados, to see if I can train one trunk left and the other right and have a productive duo jackfruit planting. I think it will work, but I'll let you know if it doesn't...

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2013, 11:14:39 PM »
Nice updates, all your annonas look very healthy. Let us know how the Maha Chanok tastes, I like how you bagged the fruit.
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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2013, 11:47:31 PM »
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Everything looks green and happy, enjoy keep us updated!

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Re: Spring garden pics
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2013, 06:07:55 AM »
Amazing what some conssant moisture can do for growth. Congrats. Looks like you are in for a good crop.  Dave

 

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