Quote from: xmario on June 18, 2019, 04:21:33 PM

You also must break all that cement at least 3ft wide when ready, hopefully its not too thick of a rock layer and you hit dirt down under again

I imagine electric jackhammers are available in Singapore. If roots get below the concrete there may be little competition down there.

My thought exactly. I believe UFL recommends keeping them 10 - 15 feet in height.

Thanks.  I grafted lemon Zest at the same time.  It is one of the cases of faded label on my grafts.  I thought all but one of my LZ grafts failed.  Perhaps I have a spare after all.

I will label this branch "Maybe Lemon Zest", thanks.

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These will never fade!

don't know about ripeness but I know putting hot sauce on your mangos is a good way to deter animals

An electric fence is better, it doesn’t have to be that high.

Also, this year I bought a bunch of fruit bags off of amazon. Hopefully those will help also.

Had the same thing happen depends on how bad it is. What I did was basically turn the entire tree into an air graft. I scraped back the bark a bit to expose the cambium. Then I rubbed rooting hormone into it, then piled up dirt an inch above the cut.

That was last year and it now looks quite healthy.

That, or you could bridge graft across the damage.

Oh the glorious Pickering mango!  It's hard to believe it was just a random seedling.  Thank you, Walter Zill.  Mine are very sweet, very juicy, and very coconutty this year.  Disease-free and the perfect little tree.  For ALL of its qualities, it must rank near the top.

Had my first Pickering today. I may take some heat, but I think it’s my favorite ever. Wow, was it good.

Good looking tree

Quote from: Pan Dulce on May 26, 2019, 12:19:32 AM

I have been eating the non-acidic for months. Picked up some nice 2 lb fruit today.

Where were you able to find the fruit? I live in central Florida too, and the only place I can find it is at MD Oriental Market for $9 a pound. I'd love another option.

Occasionally you can find it at Whole Foods, but keep the receipt as most are picked too early and don’t ripen.   At least 3/5 of the rarer fruits I buy there do not ripen.

Quote from: lebmung on June 06, 2019, 05:52:25 PM

you would get better replies from qualified people in the citrus section

Thanks! I’m new to the forum and didn’t realize there was a citrus section.

True - but - I saw it and I'm fast becoming educated on this.  I tried the 3X fertilizer, it made it far worse.  Imidacloprid helps - a lot and can get your trees thru a tough spell if attacked from leaf miners, etc. 

I had a few trees hit - very hard - and found pruning back hard really, really helps a ton.

Bottom line is - I have found that as long as you take care of your trees, fertilize very well (as opposed to very heavy), foliar sprays, etc.  My trees are doing just fine now. 

6 months ago I was really concerned and thinking I was going have to give up on citrus.  I no longer think that.  I'm pretty optimistic that my trees, and fruit, will be just fine.  My trees are producing just fine, except for 2 which I don't think will make it, but that is 2 out of a couple dozen citrus trees. 

Correct. That's what I was told by BCPA. I decided that it wasn't worth the effort and just annexed the lot and homesteaded it .

Quote from: fisherking73 on June 06, 2019, 09:21:14 PM

So I would have to sell the fruit in order to qualify or have a chance of qualifying.  Just a hypothetical cuz pretty sure they will never consider anything in the area I live "agricultural"

I have the same understanding, but I was wondering if there might be a way around that?  I have a substantial investment in my 110 pr so trees. I PLAN to sell some day, but my trees are still very young and aren’t established enough to produce a saleable crop yet.  Once I figure out which trees do best here I plan on expanding even more.

It can take years for a citrus grove to produce, I assume they’re allowed the AG designation for example.

Plant it and let those roots develop.

My jaboticaba has been surprisingly cold hardy, with only minor leaf burn at around 23 F.

The University of Florida has bred some quite good low-chill peaches, plums, & nectarines. Grapes, both muscadine & bunch should do well too.

Blueberries, blackberries & raspberries also.

I’ll second the UF peaches. They are excellent. I have UF Best and they are great trees and EXCELLENT fruit.

You can sometimes find it frozen at the grocery

You can often find smaller packages frozen at Asian groceries.

I want to love it, but I can’t get past the funk.

Obviously good rootstock. Cut it back and graft some good varieties onto it.