OK thanks to you!!

Hi Onur,
I've 5 big trees of Muntingia calabura in my land and some other HUNDREDS small ones growing wild.
Here bats and birds eat the sweet fruits and spread the seeds everywhere.
I usually remove them like weeds.
Even the roots residues left in the soil will eventually sprout and originate a new tree.
I'ts one of the fastest growing trees i've seen in my whole life. It can manage to grow even in rocky soil and it's extremely drought resistant.
Here it's fruiting abundantly from february to october.
fruits are small and very sweet. Seeds extremely tiny.
If you want i will add some ripe fruits in marang seeds shipping. When they will arrive they'll be probably rotten. No problem, plant them in some soil and the seeds they will surely sprout.
In a couple of years you will have plenty of fruits!

Hello everybody!
For Marang lovers  have some seeds available.
They are from the same fruits, same tree as last year.
For more information you can check my previous post:

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=17393.0

Just PM if interested.

Thanks! 

Thanks for the very interesting link.
I started to think it might be a nitrogen deficiency.
I haven't fertilized my plants for a very long time due to the extremely hot and prolonged dry season.

Hi !
I'm very sorry all the seeds are sold out already.
Hopefully next season I'll have a good harvest and many seeds available!
Thanks!

Thanks everybody for the useful information i feel comforted now 

@ Rob....YES I definitely need to water more, as for now I'm stuck at 8 liters (2 gallons) twice a week i can't do more because of the tawful lack of water here!

@Erica,,,,,,That white stones are  LIMESTONE! Here there  actually no soil, it's just a rocky land that was leveled with limestone. I dug a big hole and i filled it with garden soil upon planting my mango three years ago. Mulching is a GREAT HELP in this conditions!

@Richard..... I decided to leave the guava but i completely removed the banana. I even didn't trensplant them since i've plenty of bananas here and especially i've no water to irrigate it

@William....... You are definitely right. I am planning to resume some fertilizing as soon as the rain season will start (hopefully soon).
I suspended any fertilization since january because i'm afraid the tree will get more stressed by the lack of water and accumulation of nutrient. What fertilizer would you advice me?

This is how the tree looked this morning before i started removing the banana.
I added a thick mulch of avocado-mango leaves all around the tree to keep the soil moist even in this extremely hot weather.
I'm undecided wether removing or not the guava tree that is at a 8 feet distance, its visible in the right back of the picture.....

I agree that the tree looks healthy and I would certainly get rid of the banana plants next to it. They spread and will be a problem in the future.

I will for sure remove the banana.
there is also a guava tree at about 2.5 meters (8 feet) distance do you think it might bother?

Quote from: cbss_daviefl on April 28, 2016, 05:50:20 PM

The leaf on the right shows the reverse pattern of magnesium deficiency.  With magnesium deficiency, the center stays green with a distinct arrow shape.

To me, it looks like the tree pulled the nutrients from these leaves because it was ready to drop them due to the normal recycling process.

That seems to make sense, Lory mentions the tree in picture is when it was healthy before the drought problem.  you might want to mulch around the tree also, as the heat may be cooking them roots.

Lory did you water your tree during the drought?  you might want to mulch around the tree also, as the heat may be cooking them roots. if your getting hardpan, water may not be reaching all the roots well even if you water, and nutrient uptake may be poor.

I mulched about one month ago with abundant mango and avocado leaves to prevent water evaporation.
I water twice a week with about 15 liters of water each time but the sun here is merciless and the temperatures are ranging in the 27-35 °C everyday (80-95 °F)

Magnesium deficiency

But the pattern shouldn't be reversed? I mean yellowing sides and central portion still green?

My mango tree is tree years old and it looked quite healthy even though the canopy shape is a bit weird.
This picture was taken last february before the log period of drought we're experiencing here in the Philippines. The tree was pushing new leaves.




During the last month something changed and some leaves turned yellow and fell down.
The yellowing leaves are both new and old ones in an apparently random path.
This occurs in a "inverse-chlorosis-pattern" since it's first the leaf base near central vein to turn yellow  then gradually affecting the whole leaf that will eventually  fall.
I couldn't find any bug or small scritters under the laves and i water the three once a week since we never had rain for the last 60 days.



Any idea of what is the problem?
Thanks in advance!

Lory,

Can you get Syzygium polycephalum (Lipote) seeds ?.

Hello!
I'm sorry but i've ever seen that!

Great story and pictures! Thanks for sharing!

Do you have an idea what variety your avocado is?

Did you water it regularly, or mostly leave it to its own devices? Did you fertilize it or give it any other supplementation?


This gives me hope that I can get one to fruit in the harsh conditions here. You have better consistent rainfall, but it looks like similar soil. Maybe if I just throw a bag of good soil in with it, that will be enough to get it started and sturdy...

Thanks 
I've no idea of the variety of this avocado.
Unfortunately here in the Philippines avocado they are grown just from seed and noone has an idea of the variety! What i know is that the fruit it's coming from was average size, pear shaped dark red skin when ripe and yellow-green buttery flesh.
It tasted amazing that's why i decide to plany the seed 
Here the land is completely rocky and it was levelled using a kind of limestone called guizo.
I dug a hole and i filled it with soil upon planting the seed.
I fertilize seldom and YES i do water regularly because here in our place (Moalboal - Cebu island) rainfall is very irregular and sometimes we experience severe drought like in the last 10-14 months because of El Nino