Just bought the property next to ours and inherited 2 mature mango trees in full flower! I'd like to experiment with gypsum but have no idea what would be the minimum amount to apply that could possibly be effective (gypsum is not cheap here like in the US so we can't just go willy-nilly), or how to apply it. Did a search but haven't found the info yet. Can someone point me in the right direction please? Thanks!

He/She/They had like 97% positive feedback and tons of listings and then - gone.

miracle fruit on sale for $119.80. 
sorry, this is apropos of nothing just couldn't believe my eyes!

Hi all, I have a young (flowered this year for the first time) seedling cherimoya that grew straight up like a stick with all its leaves at the top. It can't stand up on its own it's so long and spindly, but I'm afraid to cut it back making it a leafless stick. Should I cut it? Will it survive? And if so, to what height? It's over 4 feet tall now, maybe close to 5. Thanks!

I've got a cherimoya carrying it's first fruit, and its nursery bag is disintegrating. Oops. I wonder if planting it out at this point will be any more traumatic than giving it a new bag? Is there any way I could expect to save the fruit, or will I lose it because of the transplant? I was so looking forward to trying this fruit!
Second question, will cherimoya do ok on a mountainside where it gets morning sun but will have to get a bit taller to reach the afternoon sun? Or does it really need all day full sun to grow well?
Thanks for any input!

I'm clearly missing a basic concept here. Can someone please explain - how can a vigorous tree also be a small tree? Seems like a vigorous tree would automatically be a large tree and a low-vigor tree would be a small tree, but that's not the case. So what does vigor refer to?

Friend's mother in law has mango tree with these growths - look like something parasitic to me. He calls it a disease and says it also causes black spots on the fruit but that seems like it's probably anthracnose and not related? Anyone recognize these "nudos"? He says he's seen them on other mango trees.

Hi all. The leaves of my little meyer lemon are notably curled under from the tips. Any ideas of the cause of this?

Thinking about tree placement in terms of street visibility. I'm wondering about the color of the following varieties at picking time:
Venus
Pickering
Maha
Sweet tart
Kesar
Phoenix
Honey kiss

Also, do these varieties ripen on the tree or off or some combination of the two? TIA

Hi all. I'm super-tempted by the tt description of the Honeymoon variegated guava. But I know they're selling plants and don't always have the most accurate descriptions. Does anyone have any first hand experience with this variety? I'm looking for a great tasting fruit on the less mealy (for a guava) side. Does this one qualify?

Hi all,
All of my in ground surinam cherries are growing well except for pretty much constant tip dieback - what gives? The new growth dries out, turns brown and shrivels up. It's not all the tips so the plants keep growing, but the dieback is frustrating and I can't figure out why it's happening. Has anyone else experienced this, or have an idea of the cause/a solution? Thanks!
Sorry for the awful photo - the sun was going down and there wasn't enough light to focus where I wanted. The two blurry brown blobs in the foreground are good examples of the dieback I'm talking about  , and in the center top background there's actually one in focus if you look closely.

Hi all! I have 2 seedling El Bumpos, one is in-ground since July of last year and the other (which germinated around the same time but has always lagged behind the other in size) is still in a medium nursery bag on the patio - I was going to plant it out at the start of the rainy season this year. It recently lost all its leaves, and now is budding out including what I'm almost sure are 4 flower buds! I'm in a marginal climate for cherimoya and was doubting they would ever fruit, but this one looks like at least it wants to try! Anyway, questions are,
why is the one in the bag flowering and not the one in the ground?
does it have a chance to hold fruit being in a relatively small bag?
is there anything in particular I should do for the flowering plant to encourage it to hold a fruit?
Thanks!

I've planted like a million Honeymoon guava seeds. Germination is like 99%, but they all die before a set of true leaves can form - cotyledons turn brown from the tips and that's all she wrote. I've read this is common, but knowing that doesn't help much. Has anyone successfully gotten a plant from one of these seeds? Any suggestions on how to do it?