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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ideas that work to keep deer away from my trees??

« on: March 23, 2018, 07:00:37 PM »

Brad, Thanks for the link. I was also looking at the 10' version. Tractor supply co has them too. My soil is softer than yours and subject to flooding every few years. I'm considering sinking 3' on a 7' fence rather than 2' on a 6' fence.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ideas that work to keep deer away from my trees??

« on: March 22, 2018, 09:52:51 PM »

Currently clearing for a fence myself. Was thinking 6' but maybe I'll go 7' after reading this. I plan to put individual protection around some trees in the form of wire or old stove pipes. Toying with installing a couple cheap small greenhouses or pvc structures around some too.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dovyalis kaffra

« on: February 23, 2018, 04:23:58 PM »

yes

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit or nut tree to line a driveway

« on: January 18, 2018, 01:17:55 PM »

Will be repairing the fence to 5.5' mesh and a couple strands of barbed wire but the allee trees will likely be outside the fence. Yes on neighbors but not enough to keep deer away, which I've seen on the property. So maybe not fruit then, at least not dwarf.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Fruit or nut tree to line a driveway

« on: January 18, 2018, 12:53:58 PM »

Got a new place to plant! Among other things, looking for ideas on trees to line a long and wide driveway in zone 9a. Fruit, nut or other useful. Neighbor says the coldest she's ever seen is 25F. Things I'm considering: chestnut, pistachio, cork oak, cherry, crabapple, carob, jacaranda, sapodilla, cornus kousa...

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Anyone in San Diego county growing pistachio?

« on: January 16, 2018, 11:52:24 AM »

I need some budwood and wisdom

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Mulberry Thread.

« on: December 25, 2017, 04:36:01 PM »

desertdreamer, when you say you have a male black beauty, do you mean a male progeny of a black beauty?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: New pummelo species discovered in Thailand

« on: December 18, 2017, 07:33:42 PM »

Right after the finger limes

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Tree Blueberry?

« on: December 18, 2017, 02:24:53 PM »

I rewatched that piece and he doesn't mention the flowers, which are quite different in blueberry.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Recommendation on Australian brush cherry

« on: December 10, 2017, 06:13:32 PM »

Mealy and pleasant at best.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Tree Blueberry?

« on: November 24, 2017, 03:36:20 PM »

Check out this video around 22:30. Shows a 20' tall tree blueberry. Is it really a blueberry? Viking guy posted about something similar ages ago but I didn't imagine the trunk being so robust.

https://youtu.be/n7WhO11QHJo

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Exotica has hundreds of mango trees in San Diego

« on: November 22, 2017, 12:07:27 PM »

Southern California folks interested in mangoes might want to check out Exotica in Vista. Looked to me like he has over 1000 plants now. He's expanding into the back lot and has a couple greenhouses full of mango too. I didn't even try to read all the tags but it has to be many tens of different varieties. Id guess mostly from Florida but a few from california. Very expensive.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Florida Mango trees planted in California

« on: October 17, 2017, 06:31:08 PM »

You can get locally grown on probably better rootstocks. Exotica had 40+ last few times I visited. Not yet the best varieties though. And yes they are expensive. Comparable with Florida.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Excellent write up on the myth of adding mychorzzial products and discussions

« on: October 06, 2017, 12:01:47 PM »

Consistent with what I've read about nitogen fixing bacteria. Species are found in soil samples in areas where their presumed host species (even genuses) have never grown. The bugs are probably there already.

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