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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2021 Lychee Season
« on: January 12, 2021, 09:47:24 AM »
Yah, boron does make a big diff. The lychee is one of the few trees that I don't spray with boron, but perhaps I should change that. Thanks.
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I'd say anything that conserves soil and soil health, forests, aquifers, and ocean health is good even though it's not a perfect world. I hope you guys, Jeff and Mark, don't consider that a radical idea. (Or call me a freakin' radical, whatever.) Hey, how about Har's List of Essential Oddities?
We are a country of fearful neurotics and hypochondriacs. Here's a quote from a SoCal avocado growing group I belong to:
"I've heard a few people mention white washing the bark of your tree and I don't understand why one would need to paint a tree with a chemical based paint? I want all the trees in my yard to be 100% organic. so tell me what white washing is and why it's important? Is it important? I live in Claremont California."
My response:
$%*(@#@$$, so you've run a lab analysis on such painted tissue and found levels of "chemicals" exceed EPA standards, what exactly are those chemicals? 95% of the organic/natural movement is a joke based on fear and ignorance. Having said that I have been pushing a spray of kaolin clay wettable powder not because I'm a fearful neurotic but because it's cheap and a helluva lot easier to mix and apply. https://www.groworganic.com/products/surround-25-lb...
Don't know if Captan would help but it has no REI interval posted on our Aggie vineyard pesticide list.
Who needs to worry about coronavirus when you can eat some fruit, that recently received a 12 or 24 hour REI pesticide spray.
That's what I do.I'd LOVE to plant both... as well as about 30 other varieties!!!![]()
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But I was hoping to pare that 30 down to less than a dozen.
You could always multi-graft and then prune off the limbs of the less desired ones.
Jeff, how productive is your OS? I am thinking of topworking part of my LM into OS. Compatible in terms of vigor and productivity?
I'd LOVE to plant both... as well as about 30 other varieties!!!![]()
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But I was hoping to pare that 30 down to less than a dozen.
You could always multi-graft and then prune off the limbs of the less desired ones.
Jeff,When you say you're bagging them are you using plastic bags of some sort to encase them, or are you using the fine screen type bagsyep !! I've had to start spraying my jacks and soursops with fungicide. Jury still out on what's up with the annonas. I feel like it could have to do with the seed borer, which opens a pathway for disease. We've been bagging the annonas. Rollinia has also had a terrible problem with fungus / bacterial infection, likely due to seed borers. Growing in FL can be a pain in the neck!Seems this disease doesn't only affect mangos
This appears to be the same thing on jackfruit and also on soursop, perhaps anonas
I'm going to have to start spraying my jackfruit
I've lost three of them this season.
Seems this disease doesn't only affect mangos
This appears to be the same thing on jackfruit and also on soursop, perhaps anonas
I'm going to have to start spraying my jackfruit
I've lost three of them this season.
Getting me a stihl 450 duster / mistblower for the inaccessible spots.What do you think?mist blowers are very efficient!I have an older mistblower the weight of that tank especially up high is a real backbreaker. I have to ease into mine by backing into it while it is on a table. They do lift leaves up well into a large tree. I see the stihl 450 is 28 pounds without 14 liter tank and water weighs 2 pounds/liter, woops 28+28= 56 pounds! Pretty much the same as my Solo 423 better eat planty of oatmeal for breakfast, it will eat your lunch for you.
A properly ripened Mallika is very similar in flavor to Lemon Zest.Agreed, although I find it even more comparable to Orange Sherbet, in fact almost identical