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I liked your video and just subscribed to the channel :)

Best of luck with the ON. All my friends who grow it get frustrated as hell with its production. But after that first bite, they are reminded why they planted it. Definitely a Top 5 Florida Avocado. And hey, at least you'll be getting a plentiful harvest with the Day!

Does anyone know if they main issue with ON is initial fruit set or fruit drop as time goes on? Maybe both?

I don't know if this tree will flower the same time as my type A Day but hopefully there is some overlap since my Day is my only type A, the other trees are type B. As for holding the fruit, that seems like it would have to be a nutrient issue, which is a broad topic but one I have some study in so I look forward to experimenting to see if it can be overcome.

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You were not shy with that rootball.   :)

Indeed, hopefully nobody had a heart attack watching that.  We are a week later and tree is fine. Watered it three times this week. We'll see how long it takes to start pushing.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Our Avri loquat is doing great
« on: February 28, 2024, 05:28:55 PM »
Here is a link to a video Sulcata Grove did taste testing some Avri fruit I sent them last year:

https://youtu.be/w6KBMYy-rqo?si=a5D8wHC73X9p3DdH

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Our Avri loquat is doing great
« on: February 28, 2024, 05:04:02 PM »
 Here is an update video on our Avri loquat here in Lakeland FL.

https://youtu.be/Xflrl4RpNyU?si=ewmk-6eCzQPfWgDG

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I have no plans on growing those varieties, at least for now. We get freezes in our area so I can only protect so many sensitive trees. So I stick with Avocados that can handle the freezes. I responded to your video comment as well.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Just planted Oro Negro Avocado (Feb 25 2024)
« on: February 25, 2024, 01:22:56 PM »
 We decided to get an Oro Negro Avocado for our property here in Lakeland FL. Below is a video of us planting it with a short mention of our huge Day Avocado that we planted in 2018, 6 years ago. I have seen the reports that the Oro Negro has production issues. We will see how it does in our context as we have better soil than most people have to work with in Florida. I'll update this in the future.

https://youtu.be/euKkejSr3jE?si=3XN4Am1Wna7AiPU5

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sap Analysis?
« on: February 15, 2024, 05:49:37 PM »
I like watching John as well. I did do some sap analysis a couple of years ago on some tomatoes, and squash just to learn a little. We are just starting a small market farm and I might use SA occasionally in the future. I assume there isn't a lot of data on most of the tropical trees we all grow so it might be difficult to interpret if one does do a test. Im a geek though and love testing and trying to figure out things. I might do it on a tree here and there that is struggling as the test would likely reveal the issue.

Blessings
Corey

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GREAT!!!
How tall is the tree?
What did you do 2 years ago when we had back to back night freezes.

The tree is about 15', maybe a little taller. Last year I put a smudge pot next to it, and I believe those freezes got down to 27 if I recall. It did well in the freezes but if I remember there was almost 72 hours where we didn't get above 45 degrees and the refrigerator effect caused the tree to pull all the energy and life out of the leaves over a week or two and it aborted most of the leaves but it came right back. The tree has always seemed to handle the cold well down to 29 or so without help. I'll dig up the after effect videos from the last couple of years and post them.



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As the subject said we harvested our first Jackfruit here in Lakeland FL from our seed grown tree. Its about 5-6 years old. It has attempted to set fruit for the last 3-4 years but has always set fruit in the fall and failed to mature through winter for various reasons especially freezes the last few years. This year we haven't had any freezes and we finally got one to ripen.  Here is the video link below on this first fruit:

https://youtu.be/qTh9N89aEAo?si=eGZLMeJGK1mCW6Wx

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Late Season Cold Snap
« on: March 21, 2023, 05:47:26 PM »
Wow, 38 degrees for you, my low was 42 and I think the forecast was 48 if i recall.. you really are in a cold pocket..

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Im in Lakeland so we have certainly had our share of freezes the last three years often down to 27-28*, with total time under 32* 4-8 hours depending on the event. Avocados never have issue, Day, Bacon, winter Mexican. I cover small mango trees and sometimes have used a burn barrel or smudge pots on larger ones but many times i have done nothing such as the January 14 freeze down to 28 this year. My kent and Keitt did fine with minor leaf damage.  The Keitt was pushing blooms and has lots of fruit set as of right now. Below is a video on January 15 of that freeze event. Fast forward to the 4:50 mark to see mangoes and the bloom at that time. A second video was done a couple of days ago and shows the fruit set despite the freeze. This is pretty typical from my experience the last three years so i thought the videos would testify to what I have just said. On the second video fast forward to about 2:40 mark to see the mango fruit set. Obviously my experience isn't necessarily going to be the same for everyone else.

https://youtu.be/d3acdu08B6c

https://youtu.be/_g-JeqY3BQQ


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The forecasted low for the Lakeland area was 33-35. I live near the airport and it usually gets colder in our area. We hit 32* at 3:30 and had a low of 28. Good amount of frost on the ground and a light amount of frost on some of my fruit trees. I wasn't expecting things to be that cold so i didn't do anything significant for protection other than covering a few small things. The forecasts were going really well this year as far as accuracy until last night. Did really well in the Christmas freezes using a couple of smudge pots, but i don't think I needed them as we only went down to 29 in those events with no frost. I did lose some leaves on my Jackfruit from refrigerator effect seeing we were under 45* for more than 48 hrs straight. Hopefully this ends the freezes this year. I do have the stuff i need for overhead irrigation, i just haven't set it up yet.

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What color (size) wobbler did you use?

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That's great. I'm hoping for a rebloom.

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I almost setup overhead water this year but didn't get to it. After the three freeze nights we had this year I'm thinking I will get it setup next year. I did get a good pond pump installed this year and I have irrigation to my mangoes and lychee trees. I just need to do some plumbing with the right size wobblers. I have to to learn more about it.  Did your overhead frost protection pay off?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Our freeze event for Jan 30
« on: January 31, 2022, 05:26:05 AM »
No I have not put any heat to the green sapote. It does have some minor frost damage on some of the top leaves from the first freeze. It's almost 5:30am right now and we hit 32* just after midnight this night. We are currently at 30* and have been there since around 3am. Seems like the forecasts have been terrible this year. They called for 34. If you still need a green sapote you can have one of the seeds from these three fruits so long as they continue to hold on. Should be ready soon I think.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Our freeze event for Jan 30
« on: January 30, 2022, 02:39:22 PM »
  Last night was interesting for us here in Lakeland Florida. We hit 32* at 10pm which is the earliest I've seen freezing temps start for me since I've moved here 6 years ago. We hit 29* at midnight. We went out and lit the burn barrels at 1am to save the mango trees. At that time I was expecting a really cold night. Then between 1:30 and 2 we had a warm pocket come over our property. It spiked the temperature 4* to 33*. We didn't get to 32 until around 5am. At 7 am temps really dropped, going to 27 but was close to 32 by 8am. Many of the nearby areas on weather underground were much worse than I had it. Within 20 minutes of me I saw temps as low as 23-24. Many areas were 27-28 a good amount of the night while we had a mysterious warm pocket over us. I'll share the video of our night here: https://youtu.be/ck7BG9-vbV8

Last weekends freeze hit us worse though mostly just cosmetic leaf damage on some things. In that freeze we hit 32 at 1am and at 6am we hit 29 which lasted about 2 hours. We were back to 32 around 8:30. Lots of frost in this event, much more than last night.

Hope everyone did ok last night and hopefully tonight doesn't get to bad. Only calling for 34 for me yet we're under a freeze warning with possible lows of 30 says the forecast.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Green Sapote
« on: March 23, 2021, 06:09:57 AM »
I have one here in Lakeland Florida. It's about 9' tall right now and flowering like crazy. I've had root problems with the tree as the spot gets a wet in late summer but I've managed to keep it alive for 4 years now.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 9b lychee bloom
« on: March 20, 2021, 07:05:18 AM »
My sweetheart has 100% bloom but my mauritius started to get active during a short warm up and only has maybe 30-40% bloom, the rest being vegetative. Trying to get the timing right on this even up here in Lakeland during the coolest winter we have had since 2010 is hard. I thought I would get 100% bloom on both trees but one little warm up at the end of January messed it up.

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I'm going to be experimenting over the next couple of months using Torula yeast and spinosad. Mix them and spray on peach trees and loquats. The theory is the flies are attracted to the yeast and when they eat it the spinosad will kill them. I'll be spraying weekly until peaches are finished. We'll see if I have I get more peaches this year. I'll update here when it's done.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Extinct Florida Variety Peach Trees?
« on: March 15, 2021, 07:26:21 PM »
I have a Florida Grande. We'll see how it does this year as last year it didn't do much with the warm winter. If you need cuttings at some point for grafting let me know. I'm in Lakeland.

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Thanks Galatians, I'll remember a filter for the main line. Probably only going to build a irrigation setup for my mangoes. We'll see.

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Jagmanjoe, the pump I put in the pond is also in a bucket just as you mentioned but thanks for the idea of putting a filter screen on top as I had not done that.

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Our pond is just on our fenced in property. I don't use any chemicals to get in it. In fact I water my fruit trees with during the dry season from February to May. However the temperature of the pond water maybe colder than well water that time of year so I'd have to see how that might effect the situation. There is also a potential issue of clogging from dirty water which would be real bad. I might be able to use our well water. I'll have to see if it puts out enough gph. It's probably something like 300 gallons per hour but I would probably only setup overhead irrigation for the mangoes. The tougher trees Im not as worried about although you never know when we will get hit by a 25* night or lower. Things to ponder.

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