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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Question on Santa Rosa Plums.
« on: July 06, 2016, 01:20:31 PM »
Best of luck! Let us know how it turns out. This year was my first large crop of Santa Rosa Plums and they were awesome!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Banana tree question
« on: June 15, 2016, 05:58:33 PM »
Another good source of banana varieties is the Encanto Farms web page:
http://webebananas.com/bvar-A-B.html
Lots of information on sizes, taste, hardiness. Not always well organized, but there is a lot of info.
Best of luck!
http://webebananas.com/bvar-A-B.html
Lots of information on sizes, taste, hardiness. Not always well organized, but there is a lot of info.
Best of luck!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Caught a fruit thief
« on: May 03, 2016, 01:24:23 PM »
Well, there's an entire country that thinks it's ok to steal food if you are truly needy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3571395/Stealing-small-amounts-food-desperate-NOT-crime-rules-Italy-s-highest-court.html
Sorry for the DailyMail link.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3571395/Stealing-small-amounts-food-desperate-NOT-crime-rules-Italy-s-highest-court.html
Sorry for the DailyMail link.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Drip irrigation/fertigation
« on: April 25, 2016, 12:49:21 AM »
Drip irrigation systems are nice, but they tend to be more fragile, at least the stuff I get from Home Depot. I do not have anything else to compare it with, but they are relatively inexpensive but do require regular maintenace.
Around the periphery of the yard I had a standard irrigation system that I've slowly converted to drip. With all the water restrictions here in Cali, we're severely restricted in how long we can run standard irrigation systems. The restrictions are loosened when it come to drip systems, so I can run them longer to better irrigate by fruit and vegetables, but still save water over a traditional system. But the dogs running around the fence line will often step on the drip irrigation lines and every so often will pull one out. Over time they tend to work themselves loose. The HD brand is easy to work with and set up to my needs.
Around the periphery of the yard I had a standard irrigation system that I've slowly converted to drip. With all the water restrictions here in Cali, we're severely restricted in how long we can run standard irrigation systems. The restrictions are loosened when it come to drip systems, so I can run them longer to better irrigate by fruit and vegetables, but still save water over a traditional system. But the dogs running around the fence line will often step on the drip irrigation lines and every so often will pull one out. Over time they tend to work themselves loose. The HD brand is easy to work with and set up to my needs.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: April 21, 2016, 05:50:52 PM »The seedlings in this picture are 7 months old.Whew! Just finished reading all 64 pages!
About 8 weeks ago, I planted some seeds that I removed from a DF that I bought at my local grocery store, nothing special, just a bland white-fleshed variety. Several have sprouted and are coming up nicely. My question is, when do they lose the two initial leaves that first sprout? The two biggest seedlings that I have are about an inch tall. Thanks!
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Worth growing Santa Rosa Plum if pruned back?
« on: April 15, 2016, 12:41:48 PM »
I have a dwarf Santa Rosa Plum, it's only supposed to get 8-10' tall. I've had it about four years, two in the ground and its about 7' tall. It did bear a couple of fruit after the first year, but production has been very meager until this year. I have over a dozen fruit and I'm hoping the majority of them stick around to ripen.
Good luck with yours!
Good luck with yours!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is flowering/fruiting in your yard? Spring 2016
« on: April 11, 2016, 12:56:38 PM »
All of these are flowering and look like they've set fruit:
Apples:
Gala
Pixie Crunch
Citrus:
Meyers Lemon
Washington Valencia Orange
Santa Rosa Plum
My mango was just planted this winter and has not produced any flowers yet. I will most likely pinch off the apples and oranges as the trees are still too young/small. The plum tree is nicely matured and I may get up to a dozen or more plums this year.
Apples:
Gala
Pixie Crunch
Citrus:
Meyers Lemon
Washington Valencia Orange
Santa Rosa Plum
My mango was just planted this winter and has not produced any flowers yet. I will most likely pinch off the apples and oranges as the trees are still too young/small. The plum tree is nicely matured and I may get up to a dozen or more plums this year.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: High-Chill Apples in Low-Chill Orange County
« on: February 21, 2016, 12:29:05 PM »
I planted a Honeycrisp about a year ago over here in San Diego. In a year or so I might be able to pass on any lessons learned!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego Area Wind Storms
« on: February 08, 2016, 01:34:22 PM »Anyone else suffer excessive wind damage out here in Calif.?I was lucky and didn't suffer any major wind damage. The day before the big wind storm, I planted a mango seedling, didn't stake it down very well, and it ended up leaning over a bit. In my defense, I hadn't been paying too much attention to the weather forecast, wind storms tend to be unusual here, and the corner where the tree is planted is pretty protected, but not against that storm! I've since righted it and staked it better.
A few trees in my neighborhood were blown over, but nothing that affected me.
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Temperate Fruit Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: Fig Trees or cuttings.
« on: February 06, 2016, 01:12:31 AM »*Wish list.... Looking for the infamous Smith, Cul De Dame Blanc. and Black Madiera.Have you tried the Figs4Fun forum? http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/
There are a couple of threads advertising various cuttings for sale, they seem inexpensive. I didn't notice the varieties that you are looking for, but if you ask someone may have some.
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing apples in warmer climates. Has anyone tried this?
« on: December 28, 2015, 05:11:10 PM »i read an article about growing apples in the tropics, what they did was take an apple tree from a northern country and when the apple trees went dormant in the winter the trees were sent to a tropical location that never got cold, when the apple trees were planted they grew just like they would in spring and started producing like normal but since there never was a temperature change the apples never went back dormant after fruiting and ended up producing 3-4 crops of apples a year growing great. so almost any apple tree could be grown in warm climates.
We had a bit of a funny summer this year and June/July seemed cooler than normal. My Gala tree set out a few small bunches of flowers, but for whatever reason, they dried up and dropped. August/September/October made up for it heat-wise and another set of flowers bloomed and they actually set some fruit. Weird weather this year!
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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing apples in warmer climates. Has anyone tried this?
« on: December 21, 2015, 06:09:41 PM »
I have three apple trees, a Honeycrisp, Gala, and Pixie Crunch, that I planted this last spring and I'm in San Diego. The Gala produced 6 apples this year, admittedly they were all very small, but they ripened nicely and were very tasty. We had a very hot Sept/Oct, but the Gala and Pixie Crunch grew quickly. The Honeycrisp is growing, but not at the rate that the other two trees are, but I believe the M111 rootstock is a slow grower (someone correct me if I'm wrong.) Hopefully next year I'll have more fruit.
As a note, my local Home Depot is selling bare root Honeycrisp trees for $17, that's half what I paid this spring to ship one out!
As a note, my local Home Depot is selling bare root Honeycrisp trees for $17, that's half what I paid this spring to ship one out!
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:11:37 PM »
HI all,
I'm Jason from San Diego. I do not have any tropical fruit trees (yet) but hope to start with a mango a little later this year. I do have 3 varieties of apple trees that I just planted this year, Gala, Honey Crisp, and a Pixie Crunch. All are doing well, the Gala actually had 6 apples in it. The Honey Crisp is struggling a bit in the super hot Fall we've been having but it's growing. I also have a plum, lemon, and orange tree.
This forum looks super cool and I hope to be active!
Jason
I'm Jason from San Diego. I do not have any tropical fruit trees (yet) but hope to start with a mango a little later this year. I do have 3 varieties of apple trees that I just planted this year, Gala, Honey Crisp, and a Pixie Crunch. All are doing well, the Gala actually had 6 apples in it. The Honey Crisp is struggling a bit in the super hot Fall we've been having but it's growing. I also have a plum, lemon, and orange tree.
This forum looks super cool and I hope to be active!
Jason
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