Maybe it's just me, but don't the trees look as if they are on their sides and the trunk is buried? In the lower left hand corner of the pic it appears as if a trunk is partially exposed. All the trees in the pic are curving up to the right out of the soil. Maybe it's just the way the photo is taken. Could papayas be manipulated in such a way?

A couple of years back a friend sent me a link to a youtube video (no I dont have it any more), but it showed how somebody air layered the side branches on papaya trees. Since the side branches would start fruiting on the tree when they were about 3' long. After it had rooted and was cut off and planted you would have a short, fruit bearing papaya tree. The picture looks to me like that is what they did, judging by all the trees curving out of the ground instead of going straight up.

Basically they would make a cut from the bottom side of the branch towards the top until they where about 3/4 of the way thru, then lift the branch slightly to open the cut a bit and insert a piece of plastic (not rigid but flexible like a heavy gauge zip-loc bag) into the cut to keep it from healing over. They they would wrap damp sphagnum moss all the way around the branch and then cover it with saran wrap and then covered that with something to keep it dark. When roots had formed, cut the entire branch off and plant.

I actually messed around with it on two branches to see if it worked, using damp sphagnum & rooting hormone wrapped in saran wrap, then covered with aluminum foil. And it did form nice roots. I never bothered to cut them off and plant. So I know at least the first part works.

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Sometimes the nursery will write the initials for the variety on the outside of the plastic pot (NDM, LZ, PPK, CC, MALIK, etc).
Also look around in the dirt at the top of the pot, fallen off tags sometime fall in your favor. I got a unknown carambola from a neighbor who got it from another neighbor, when I was re-potting it I found a Kari tag buried under the leaf matter.

Go luck with your sleuthing.

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My NDM is in the lead, followed by one of the Coconut Creams, Kent, Pickering, and the PPK just started today. Cant tell yet if the Peach Cobbler and Southern Blush are going for flowers or growth yet with their flush. Lemon Zest, Mallika and Irwin are not showing anything yet.

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#1 appears to be  early stage nymphs of the leaf footed stink bug (bad bug), but could also be nymphs of a wheel bug (good bug). But betting on LFSB since they tend to linger in groups longer than the wheel bug nymphs.
#2 looks like the twice-stabbed lady beetle.

#4 sooty mold

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If you make up a really cool name and say you are selling seeds, I bet it would show up on Dorgon's site.

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Close to 3 years now and none of the burlap I wrapped around any of my trellis  poles is falling apart or even looking like it wants to. All the branches draping over the top supports proved alot of shade so no worries about direct UV exposure breaking it down.
And all of my DF except the yellow have had no problem attaching roots to pressure treated pine. My yellow doesn't seem to put out alot of aerial roots in general, a few that have attached to the burlap, but no where close to the amount of roots compared to all the others.

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Quote from: gunnar429 on November 06, 2014, 10:33:55 AM

I saw a guy on the internet who built stands out of pvc pipe.  He used 2 pipes as "stilts" and had a u-shaped connect on top to support the stalk high up near the bunch.  You could probably find it on the web, and make them yourself.

Maybe next time I see impending doom for a banana bunch. Good idea

Thats what I use.

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Only 49 days until Winter.

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He is a forum member as MassSpectrum, I am sure he will chime in.

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My mom and two of my sisters do worm composting. They all keep their worm bins inside their houses.
Most people just think they are large rubbermaid style storage bins and don't give them a second glance.

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I also planted some cuttings of the HC that were loose or broken due to transport.

Could be my bad eyes, but the one in the center appears to be planted upside down. The one on the left is a tip so easy to tell which end should be up, the center one looks backwards to the one on the left.

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Search the site for "ultimate mango list".
Last time I looked seems like it required to join Google group (or whatever) to view it, used to be able to just view it.

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The last paragraph here, suggests that you can as long as you do it properly.

http://www.broward.org/PermittingAndLicensing/Licensing/Engineering/Pages/ProperTreeCare.aspx

Maybe code enforcement thought you were a un-licensed tree trimming service.
Or they cannot tell the difference between a mango tree and a mangrove tree (which usually requires licensed pro to trim).

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