The nutricote is good but unless you are buying a 50lb bag you are paying too much for it. Get an 8lb bag of osmocote plus on amazon or walmart for 15-20$ instead of 2lb of nutricote for the same price.

Also you dont really need to fertilize when its cold and the plants are slowed down or dormant.  I wont be fertilizing again until trees start flushing in spring. Maybe some osmocote for my potted plants but in ground trees dont need anything for a while it will just get washed out and wasted over the wet cold season.

Are your trees in the ground or in pots?

Quote from: FruitFreak on September 08, 2017, 12:11:07 AM

Quote from: edzone9 on September 07, 2017, 10:24:32 AM

Good Luck Marley !
Are you staying in Naples ?

Ed

I got mine staked !

I went ahead and removed most of the stakes throughout the farm in hopes that the trees get pushed over rather than snap at the tie point.  I do however have 200 stakes on hand for the aftermath if there's anything left.  Wife and kids are in GA with inlaws.  I'm going to weather the storm with my dad at the farm.  Hopefully the house will hold up.  It is new block/stemwall/tiebeam, 4/12 hip roof, impact windows and doors, truss straps so we'll see.  We do have a portable generator.  You guys?

Marley, stay safe.  Looks like you guys on the west coast (of FL) are getting the worst of this.
Take care of yourself.

Well, the center of current track is right over my grove. I know avocado trees will probably get destroyed at anything over 140 mph and this Irma has even more.  I don't know.......Like to get it done and over with. Too much information..... too many days before.

Quote from: FruitFreak on September 06, 2017, 10:28:03 AM

Hi Mark.  Typical farming, you know how it is.  I prayed for rain before I planted my first tree and we get record rainfall with lots of flooding, now we get a hurricane to go with it   I will be praying now for minimal damage and for Carlos/other forum members along the Eastern seaboard. Will not be staking until after the storm - THANKS!

Yep, am hoping for the best amigo!

Like I said, been there done that.  No sooner had I hand planted 1,750 trees and a destructive hail storm with perhaps an embedded tornado, at least a foot of rain and straight line winds, laid them over.  One by one you upright, pound down the soil with your foot, stake and go onto the next one.   We also lost our roof and north windows, etc. on our new custom built house.

Mother nature is a cruel mistress

Can you severely trim back the canopy leaving only scaffold branches and leaving only very few or no leaves? I would think the tree would grow back fast although you will probably loose several years of fruit.

Simon

"No amount of staking will help - just hope that the roots haven't grown so much that the trees break. Hopefully they will just fall over and then you can stand them upright again." (if you can find them!) Words from nursery owner on the island. Good luck

Quote from: johnb51 on September 01, 2017, 09:57:33 AM

Quote from: TREESNMORE on September 01, 2017, 09:27:01 AM

Yes , but atemoya takes the cold better than guanabana. So grafting it would make it less cold hardy.

But the (guanabana) roots would be underground and shouldn't be affected by air temperature, I would think.  Unless it were well below freezing.

with guanabana u are also prone to root rot....

Isn't it a little bit late in the growing season? (i don't know, may be where you are there is yet enough time in the season to allow good flushes), but in my case,  i pugged mine in the beginning of the growing season to give the tree a whole growing season to recover from the pugging and to send a decent number of shoots and to benefit from the energy acumulated during winter to flush good scaffold branches, if it was my tree under my climate conditions i would wait till spring and pug it. But it is your call depending on your local conditions.

Not much left mango-wise in Florida.   Many people/places in Florida wont ship to California.

I don't really know, but it looks like a mushroom I knew in Australia called 'golden top'.  Golden top is a magic mushroom.  Don't try it without a more knowledgeable response.
Peter

Some pics from around Bokeelia:





My place, new beds planted last week L to R Guavas, Cassava, Jackfruit. Glad I used mounds  :