As promised 😀



Brad LZ 8 months



Brad sweet tart 8 months


Florida orange sherbet with 3 seedlings planted around it (don't be fooled by how bushy it looks. Those are actually 4 plants, 3 of them are seedlings)


Florida tara lay 8 months


Florida Peach cobbler bought as 15 gallon, in ground for 8 months


Florida sweet tart, I've had this for 2 years (1 in pot and 1 year in ground)


Brad sweet tart and cac in ground for 8 months but I believe tree is 1.5 years old. Compare to the Florida 15 gallon (much bushier and compact) and 2 year old Florida sweet tart (spindly )

I'm still a big fan of Daisy. Last year I described it as complex. Having tried many figs this year and getting a sampling of what complex flavors can really taste like (and thereby force myself to refine my palate), I would have to update my description of Daisy

Full robust taste with some rich-citrus/berry overtones. Kind of like a mandarin fruit punch aftertaste. I picked 7 yesterday even though they're not fully ripe and my kids kept asking for more.

Favorite for me in my yard.

No pictures tonight due to rain.

Sorry.

I had about 10 mangoes die spontaneously last year probably from gummosis. They were all in pots. It happened after the cold front late last February and March.

Death occured over the next 3-6 weeks with most trees showing droopy leaves that would slowly wrinkle followed by wrinkling and shriveling of the small branches. This shriveling worked its way towards the main branches and down the tree. I don't know if there was root damage and it caused the tree to die from the farthest reaches first or if the disease really did  start with the outside and progressed downwards... but I was able to get some growth by cutting way down on main trunk above graft union. The only tree to survive this way was kathy which is only now putting out little shoots. I have some kathy seedlings that I planted nearby that are outgrowing the original Florida tree.

So in summary it seems that when the California decline happens it is first noticed on the outer branches. It seems to follow prolonged periods of cold and/or wetness. Tree may be salvageable with extreme measures but with a low chance of success in my experience.

I did cut into the bark and the affected branches had lots of internal browning even in the bark that looked like it was unaffected. So if you cut back do so to clean green healthy wood and give yourself and the tree a good margin of healthy green tissue.

Khaled

For all interested I've bought 4 grafted trees from brad past year and all 4 are growing much better than my Florida trees.they actually have dense growth and look like they're in their natural habitat. They easily made it though several rounds of Santa ana winds and more recently 5 days of morning frost.

Brad -thats a great looking tree and I'd buy it from you except I've already got a brad LZ creation! How is that ardith doing by the way?

Yup. Had a good layer of frost on the car. 32 at my place. Dodmt get a chance to see the mangoes. I saw seedling mamey with graft pushing that looks ok. I'm hoping that the collective goodness of the yard helped ward off some of the cold.

 Behl any damage? My climate is probably closest to yours?

I think I saw a poster on Oscars site but didnt see anything that looked like that.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/01/26/its-size-baby-one-kona-farmer-is-selling-pound-avocados/


Never heard of this variety. The reports of it being watery in November are off-putting as I wonder how much it can really improve afterwards.

As an aside, I've had trouble with other large avos (queen) ripening evenly. Is that a common problem with large avos?


The real kicker is that my wife is the one who spotted this article and sent it to me 😀. She is slowly turning to the fruit side.

Khaled

Hey all

Sorry I've been out of touch lately. I've been dedicating a lot of time to figs lately. .. which are related to mulberry. You can get cuttings now and root them indoors to give them a headstart.  Or graft .

K

A couple of weeks ago I had one of Behl’s sweet tart mangoes. Phenomenal! Not a single black spot on it (sorry Florida folks but every st I had from Florida had some large soft black spots in them), perfectly ripe, and a brix of >32 . It basically maxxed the meter. Now I’ve got 3 sweet tarts going in my yard, 2 from Brad and one I grafted from Behl. Sadly the seed from this amazing mango didn’t make it. When I cracked open the seed huskier just didn’t look right and never germinated.

If my mango trees can get through the winter then I think I’m looking at a good summer of growth next year. Fingers crossed.

Pc really is a slow grower. I had a multigraft with honey kiss and pineapple pleasure and hineykiss. Hk suffered random dieback of entire graft before putting out any new growth in early spring. Pc didn’t grow AT ALL and pp nearly took over the whole tree. I grafted ndm and mc Tobit. Pc graft stayed green from last season but no growth until last month when it put out 2 new shoots. It skipped the entire growing season and decided to show some life just as it’s dipping into the 40s at night.

Btw I’m in Detroit for the weekend. It’s 30 degrees here right now and I swear my yard feels like this at night during some winter nights. May explain why I get flowers in my 800 chill hour stone fruit trees that aren’t supposed to flower in my area. May also explain why I lost so many mangoes last year 🤦🏽‍♂️

Quote from: edzone9 on November 16, 2018, 07:23:52 PM

Will OS and  piña colada be good candidates for the one whole method ?
Running out of space .

Thanks Ed

I don't think so OS is more on the vigorous side.
Pina is not vigorous at all

Are you guys hand pollinating to get those yields or letting entropy do its thing?