Quote from: fruitlovers on July 19, 2017, 08:25:35 PM

I am growing the following species of inga, which i think are all correctly labeled:
edulis, vulpina, gauchil, fastuosa, cinnamomea, feuillei, spectabilis. Hope to get a few more to grow and compare. But too soon to tell you which is the "best" tasting. Hope to have a taste report in time to come. Right now i'm kind of especially fond of spectabilis, mostly because it is very large and has lots of good pulp. I just planted a windbreak row with all these different species, 4 of each species.

Great to hear.  I planted one Inga spectabilis I grew from seed from you -- it survived the winter here with some damage (in a spot that probably hit 30F or so this winter) but is growing well again.

Here's an update of my White Jade Pineapples I got from Adam. The leaves get frozen back a bit every winter but I just cut off the dead parts and it grows fine.

One of my plants that I overfed with fertilizer in the middle of its crown of leaves had severe fertilizer burn and the original plant died back only to give me about 10 suckers, slips or ratoons. Maybe the way to induce suckering is by harming the plant?


Here are the pictures. The picture with multiple plants in one pot is the one I killed back and multiple suckers replaced the original plant that eventually died. I already removed 4 suckers from that pot.











Simon

Perhaps you had excessive rains that caused the mango to split. I've had the same experience with 'Young' mangos, but nothing excessive.

Here at my location in Miami, FL, it's been raining almost everyday for the past 2 weeks. Since I love the rain, I don't mind all these excessive downpours. Now I've gotten a taste of what it feels like from some articles I've read, where some Americans go to live in tropical S. America, but then just get the hell out of there after 2 straight months of nonstop rain.

looks to be  fertilizer burn on the leaves. I don't think its fungus pineapple plants on the leaves have a  powder or white dust on them
that helps with protection from insects and other pathogens from sticking to it or infecting it. But to be sure spray them anyways with something like Horticultural Oil works great on pineapple plants and wont harm the plant only spray in the morning or late afternoon when the sun is going down

I'm not sure what could have caused that. Do you have snails and slugs in your area? I'm asking because you mentioned you notice them when it rains. Also, are you putting fertilizer in between the leaves? I burned some of my pineapple plants leaves by putting fertilizer directly in the middle of the crown where new leaves emerge, now I keep fertilizer away from the center.

Simon

Make sure you pineapples, and other bromeliads, are not sprayed with copper fungucide.