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The peal if very difficult to peal off. It keeps breaking off instead of peeling off. Once I do manage to peel the banana strings from the peel are all over the fruit. Once I peel these off, the fruit is just OK. It does have a lighter more creamy texture but not in a good way. Mushy might be a better way to describe it instead of creamy. And to add to all this the core of the fruit is firm. It is the only banana I have ever had that I eat around the core and throw it out when done.
I ate an Ischia or brown turkey today and it was delicious. My two figs are planted close together and I lost track of which is which.
What kind of help do you need? I would start by picking a type(s) that do well in humid
Florida. The LSU figs were developed for humid areas. I personally add mulch 3-4 times a year
and coffee grounds every month and manures for fertilizer. I have had problems with a
couple figs early on which was probably nematodes, but once they get going I haven't had
issues. My experience has been when the figs ripen during wet periods their flavor is washed out.
I have 9 different fig types and every year I have had different results. It seems like each year
a different fig tastes better, I think it has to do with timing and rainfall mostly. Most experienced
fig growers agree fig trees improve with age and some take 5 or more years to produce good figs.
One example about fig ripening is I have a White Texas everbearing fig and it is loaded with immature
figs right now. The first one ripened this week and I have never had this tree have figs after July.
It has always been early right when rainy season gets going. We are fairly dry right now and these figs
will probably ripen into September and who knows the taste this year,
At least for me the nematodes were a huge problem for my figs so when I bought new ones I cut out a hole in the bottom of a five gallon bucket. The nematodes are mostly in the top 18 inches of the soil so if you have a barrier it helps the trees planted like these are doing much better than those not
From bottom: IngaInga cinnamomea, Inga spectabilis, Inga fastuosa:
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I have alternating rows about 12ft apart with trees spaced every 10 ft. of Sugar Apple and attemoya. The Attemoya 3 types were planted this year. There are also some Custard Apple and Illama interspersed thru ought the attemoya. All organically grown of course.
Any of the professional supply houses that sell to golf courses should have pelletized gypsum (Calcium Sulfate).
Yes, it is applied on top of the soil in orchards. Don't expect a quick response. Doing per the following instructions will probably show a visible improvement in plant health and fruit quality, within 1 1/2 years.
Apply it each each time you apply a mixed fertilizer. Since I tend to apply no Nitrogen to established mangos, I calibrate Calcium applications to the amount of Potassium being applied, so that, AT A MINIMUM, there will be slightly more Calcium than Potassium. (Many consultants recommend around ten times more.) Mr. Cookie Monster, on this forum, did a one-time application of a huge amount of gypsum, and got a rapid positive response.
When I put out one 50-lb. bag of mixed fertilizer which contains 16% Potassium (K), I put out at least 1/4 bag of pelletized gypsum.
When I put out one 50-lb. bag of mixed fertilizer containing 12% Potassium, I put out at least 1/5 bag of pelletized gypsum.
Remember to fertilize the entire area of the circle that is 1 1/2 times the diameter of the canopy (=twice the radius of the canopy).
For large bags of gypsum, dont know for sure if they do but check with Winfield Solutions and/or Howards Fertilizer, both in Boynton Beach.
Palm City, if your Sweet Tart is growing in sandy soil, you need to add Calcium to the soil, preferably as Calcium Sulfate (Gypsum). At flowering time you can drench or spray with Calcium Chelate and Boron, or sprayed with Calcium Nitrate.
You need at least twice as much Calcium as Nitrogen, so Calcium Nitrate alone will never get you to the correct ratio, and will easily get you too much Nitrogen.
I bought this banana plant last year which I was told was a "ice cream" but the pics of "blue Java" fruit don't match the fruit on my plant. Thoughts? The fruit is about 4 months old...
This is the first picture I've been able to get of a "Tim" atemoya. It is rumored to have been from budwood brought over from Australia years ago, but nobody is sure what name it originally had over there. Besides the picture all I've heard about it is that it sets about as well as Gefner without hand pollination and the guy who first started growing it loved the flavor so much he replaced all of his Gefner with Tim. I'll do my best to get more pics through season, and hope to have fruits of my own either late this season or next year.
The only downside to this: the fine people at Zill's high performance are gonna be pissed when they discover that Har has been the one "grating" all the damned trees.
Keith
Thanks to all for the updates/suggestions. I didn't say Har was the ONLY person grafting trees, but that Har has extensive experience grafting fruit trees.
I notice a lot of black ants underneath the leaves on my Fairchild and Honey Kiss trees, and it looks like they're nesting. The Fairchild looks a lot worse, and I just started noticing them on the Honey Kiss. I was doing some Googling, and read that the ants could be a sign of mango scale? I've been rubbing off small white patches when I see them on leaves, but haven't been spraying Neem or anything. Are the pics a symptom of the mango scale and this is what happens when it progresses?
FAIRCHILD
HONEYKISS
Btw this is an example of the white patches I keep rubbing off:
[Anything taken in large amounts is harmful whether it be sugar, salt or sex.
Is Diamond a mid season mango?
Yes.
I'm bummed reading this about diamond. I was sold a diamond tree not knowing it was a crap mango. And it appears to be the best growing tree I've got.
I have the following trees from Florida
Diamond
Sweet Tart
20222 Winters
Edward
Ugly Betty
Just pulled, or should I say it fell off with the lightest touch. New Cotton Candy graft next to it is pushing, in fact they are all.
ST is my first Zill and am damn proud the grafts are taking!!!!!!!!
