This plant or weed is growing right-up against the window and it looks to be in the nightshade family, which includes tomatoes and peppers. Does anybody what plant this is or if it's edible and not poisonous. I wouldn't eat it anyways if it was deemed edible, just in case. 

I went by Jeff and Elsy's place today and bought a Pantin mamey sapote and a Tikal sapodilla. 


The pantin mamey is located where my brogdon used to be located at. It is actually flowering for the first 4 inches above the graft line. They are still very small, so you won't be able to see them in the picture.






Here's the Tikal Sapodilla. This is located where my older pace mamey used to be. I've read that the flesh is smooth and has good flavor. The wood of this sapodilla is also strong.

After scratching my head for so long about why my older pace mamey struggled and is now mostly dead, I finally have a good idea of what lead to it's demise.  While it began to recover and was actually growing lots of new healthy branches, it suddenly yellowed-up and began to die back. While the growth was new, I've noticed lots of young leaves mysteriously closed up in a webbing like material. When the leaves were opened, there were orange larvae (thought it was baby caterpillars) falling off and landing on the soil. Here is a quote of this article based on the sugar cane root stock borer.

"Egg. The eggs are deposited in clusters between leaves. An adhesive secreted by the female causes the leaves to stick together and glues the eggs to the leaves. " 

I've looked-up images of the adults and I've recognized them. I've seen an adult twice and I've killed them. It's been a while though since I've seen the last one. The adults also eat the leaves like the leaf notcher.

http://www.simplykitchengarden.com/vegetablepests/49.html

Lemon Zest mango:





Manzano Banana:





Brogdon Avocado:





Coconut Cream Mango:  I had to do a major pug cause the trunk was too tall and the tree was crooked and top heavy. Didn't want this one to snap off the graft during a wind storm like what happened to one of the members of this forum. If you look closely, it is already developing new growth near the tip of the cut.




Thai Lessard Sugar Apple seedling:




Glenn Mango:






Viejo Mamey Sapote:






Passion Fruit: (This fruit turns purple before falling off the vine.)







Guanabana (soursop):






Younger Pace Mamey Sapote:







Fairchild #2 Canistel:








Nam Doc Mai #4 mango:





Unknown banana variety: I think it is identical to the chiquita "baby"  bananas.





Carrie Mango:





Older pace mamey: This one has been struggling. I've added epsom salt and azomite powder two months ago and vigoro avocado and citrus fertilizer recently. It looks like it is beginning to recover.







10-30 Ruby Supreme Guava: This one has been attacked by every bug except for weevils. I been spraying malathion on the tree recently and I don't see anymore bugs on the tree. The scales look dead also. It still has some black sooty mold on it, so i might look into buying copper to spray the tree with. It looks a little better now without all those bugs covering it.




Carrie seedling mango:





I will post a picture of the valencia pride later.

I took a scion from a seedling carrie that I was growing and grafted it onto one of the branches of the glenn mango. The reason behind this is to know the quality of this mango sooner than if I were to wait for the seedling to produce fruit. By grafting this seedling scion onto a mature tree, the hormones from the mature tree transfers to the seedling scion making it bloom and fruit. In other words, the immature scion becomes a mature scion. I performed the graft 3 weeks ago and it took. This was my first successful graft!  Here are some pics:














A little info about this tree:

Like I've mentioned it's a carrie seedling. Other things I've noticed was when my grafted carrie develops new growth, the seedling begins to develop new growth or vice versa. They both seem to copy each other's growth pattern. The seedling leaves also look kinda like the Carrie and Dot leaves. Another thing I've noticed was it's slow dwarf growth habit, which is kinda like Julie. Unlike Carrie, the new immature leaves are dark purple. Over the course of it's 2.5-3 year life, it has been pugged a few times, but even before I pugged it, I've noticed that it has a shorter thicker stature than the haden seedling. Here are some pics of this seedling:

I've always heard that fruit trees like volcanic soil, so I'm thinking about adding this around my trees. Any thoughts on this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lava-Sand-Organic-soil-conditioner-amendment-40-lbs-/320777658815?pt=Fertilizer_Soil_Amendments&hash=item4aafd6a1bf


Thank you,

My Viejo mamey. Some leaves are burned from the cold. Not a big deal. 




Passion Fruit vines.





Manzano Banana.





Glenn Mango.









Brogdon Avocado.








Nam Doc mai #4 mango.







Lemon Zest mango.







Pace mamey (younger one).














Fairchild #2 Canistel.











Thai Lessard Sugar apple seedling coming out of dormancy.




Carrie Mango.



Coconut Cream Mango




Pace Mamey (older one) Not sure if it's deficient of any type of metal. Magnesium deficient? 













10-30 Ruby Supreme guava








Valencia Pride Mango

I'm thinking about replacing the soursop with a gefner atemoya tree.  Do I basically treat the atemoya the same way as the sugar apple/sweetsop/anon ?
For example, when the sugar apple drops it's leaves during the winter, I completely cut down on the watering until the buds begin to break out. Then I begin to water it about once every two-three weeks when the buds are growing and once the buds are larger and the tree is growing vigorously during the spring and summer months, I begin to water it regularly unless it's raining often like during the rainy season.

Also, if there's a better variety out there that doesn't need to be hand pollinated like gefner, I would greatly appreciate it if you let me know.

Thank you,

Like the title says, my soil has a pH in the 7 to almost 8 range. In the high 6 range in the top layer of the soil to mid 7 range deeper into the soil around my younger pace mamey ( tree growing vigorously). High 7 range all the way through around my older pace mamey (growing very slowly). It's in the high 6's around the avocado. Low 7's around my mangoes.

My well water has a pH of 6.1 .

What should I use to help my fruit trees by lowering the pH of the soil?

138 Chelated iron?



Thank you,

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Beta Avocado HD in Homestead Florida Sony HDR-CX700 .mp4

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Lamb Hass Avocado Tree, wth Hass & Reed demo mov

A06 Simmonds avocado watering in late winter-early spring

A10 Simmonds avocado insect-disease control in winter

A03 Simmonds avocado practices in mid-summer

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Grafting Avocados - Injertar aguacates

How does the taste of green sapote compare to mamey sapote?

Also, is there more info about the whitman variety out there?




Thank you,

Does anybody know the specs about the Mamey Sapote cultivars Lorito and Excalibur?

For example, precocity, tree growth habit (tall, upright, low, spreading, growth rate etc..), fruit quality.


Thank you,