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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First mango blooms of the 2016 season
« on: March 11, 2016, 09:50:55 AM »
Quote from: SWRancher on March 10, 2016, 09:28:28 PM
Quote from: BahamaDan on March 09, 2016, 07:50:36 AM
I had been checking out mango tree for weeks, as most of the others locally are now in full bloom, but mine hadn't grown in any way since last year. I got home from work last evening and was giving it another look over when I noticed what looked like a leaf flush on one of the branches. Resigning myself to having missed out on mangoes for the year I went in for a closer look.....and it was a bloom! It had leaves at the top oddly enough, I guess because of the mild winter. I noticed some others as well, I'll post a picture below. Interestingly enough its only blooming on one side so far, although it started out the same way last year and the other side bloomed about a month later.

(Excuse the anthracnose)




Many of my mango trees are putting out leafy bloom this year as well. Very likely as you said due to a very mild winter.   


Yea, if you're in Southwest Ranches then we're only about 95 miles from each other so we probably had similar temperatures and amounts of rainfall.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafted Guanabana "Miami" variety
« on: March 09, 2016, 12:42:59 PM »
Did anyone see my post asking how long they take to flower from seed?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First mango blooms of the 2016 season
« on: March 09, 2016, 07:50:36 AM »
I had been checking out mango tree for weeks, as most of the others locally are now in full bloom, but mine hadn't grown in any way since last year. I got home from work last evening and was giving it another look over when I noticed what looked like a leaf flush on one of the branches. Resigning myself to having missed out on mangoes for the year I went in for a closer look.....and it was a bloom! It had leaves at the top oddly enough, I guess because of the mild winter. I noticed some others as well, I'll post a picture below. Interestingly enough its only blooming on one side so far, although it started out the same way last year and the other side bloomed about a month later.

(Excuse the anthracnose)


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit flies and Guava
« on: March 04, 2016, 04:57:04 PM »
Interesting, I was just reading a post on another site where someone had issues with fruit fly in their strawberry guava, maybe they just prefer the other types?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: fertilizer difference?
« on: March 03, 2016, 03:31:29 PM »
Speaking of PPM, how high a PPM is too high for normal irrigation water for container citrus? That is, the water without fertilizer.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Black nursery pots - how to protecting trees from overheat?
« on: February 26, 2016, 12:33:44 PM »
Is there a special paint one has to use when painting the containers?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Some photos of my mountain jungle.
« on: February 22, 2016, 03:31:01 PM »
Quote from: PR-Giants on February 21, 2016, 08:14:22 PM
Quote from: Kona fruit farm on February 21, 2016, 01:23:27 PM
Hi PR Giants.   That last picture on your post... Is that Ilama?  Or some kind of red Annona?  Looks interesting.  How do they taste and and what is it?    Great pics btw


Thanks Kona fruit farm. it's a Red Corazon, Annona reticulate, and they taste OK.




                               


Do you like them better than sugar apple/sweetsop (annona squamosa)? My uncle has a red Bull's Heart (reticulata) that I was thinking of propagating, but I read online that they are the ugly child in the Annona family and most stuff (soursop - annona muricata etc) taste better?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Any experience fertilizing or mulching with seaweed ?
« on: February 22, 2016, 03:23:43 PM »
I'm honestly not sure where all the bemoaning about it being too salty to use as a mulch comes from, doesn't seem to be from people who have actually tried it in their gardens as the accounts of From the Sea and Saltcayman match that of my own which is it works great used straight. A particularly effective combo I found for bananas (I have super sandy low organic matter soil too) is too heavily mulch with horse manure and then layer a thick mulch of seaweed on top of that, the bananas went gangbusters and sent roots upwards against gravity into the mulch.

I've used it for various other fruit trees too (tamarinds etc) with no ill effects, besides it having a whole host of trace minerals it also contains beneficial plant growth hormones (some seaweed can grow 3 feet in a day). If you are still somehow concerned about salt, just give it a quick hose over before laying it down. You're sandy soil is a pro in that too much of anything can easily be washed out of the upper profile of it if you water enough. The nice soils Ireland built up to grow their potatoes was from soil, manure and seaweed over generations.

A nifty trick is also that you can make your own liquid seaweed fertilizer (which can be terribly expensive in stores). Fill a bucket 1/2 to 3/4 with seaweed, add water to full, cover and store downwind from the house (can smell a bit while breaking down). After a couple weeks to months the seaweed will have dissolved completely, and you can dilute 1:10 or 1:20 with water and fertilize or spray foliarly!

Hope I've convinced you :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pruning advice for "leggy trees"
« on: February 22, 2016, 03:09:25 PM »
For those who needs to be convinced that hard pruning mangoes is fine, please read through this thread:

Mango pruning thread clearly showing pruning low works

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First mango blooms of the 2016 season
« on: February 17, 2016, 03:33:44 PM »
This unfortunately seems to be a flush of leaves and not blooms, anyone know why the tips seem to be dying back?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One time use Chelated Iron EDDHA
« on: February 16, 2016, 03:13:12 PM »
Quote from: Saltcayman on February 16, 2016, 02:44:45 PM
Quote from: BahamaDan on February 16, 2016, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Saltcayman on February 15, 2016, 04:10:35 PM
Quote from: BahamaDan on February 15, 2016, 02:50:42 PM
Quote from: Saltcayman on February 15, 2016, 01:16:27 PM
Quote from: Cookie Monster on February 14, 2016, 03:02:19 PM
You might want to try sulfur. Given your location, Sheehan, you should be able to easily acidify your soil to the point where good old granular fertilizer supplies sufficient iron. The soil I had imported from delray beach responds very favorably to sulfur application. All of my ph sensitive trees that are in that soil are doing phenomenally.

Yes, Sulfur and copious amounts of organic mulch can really help eliminate the need for chelated iron drenches...

Even when growing upon limestone/in sandy alkaline soil? My interest is certainly piqued.

Yes, I am on limestone, but with more of a red laterite dust mixed with sand. 8.2 ph. After laying down casaurina straw mulch and wood chips and spreading sulfur and dry humates over the past four years, I no longer see iron deficiency issues.

I'm really glad to hear that, if we have lots of anything it's casuarinas LOL. I've seen some Tiger 90 bags of sulfur at one of the hardware stores too so might incorporate that, how heavy/how far out do you apply the c. straw mulch?

You can add the straw mulch up to a foot thick. Certainly beyond the dripline of each tree but I just cover large areas of the yard where I have plantings.  Good luck!! It will break down pretty quickly and the fines will really improve the soil and water holding capacity.  Then keep adding as needed.  Yes, that Tiger 90 is what I use. Scatter on top of the mulch.

Ok thanks, I have some (copious amount) newspaper on hand too so I was thinking I could lay a couple sheets of it down for weeds then the c. straw over it, sounds good? Also if I want to put some, say, manure as part of the mulch, should it be over or under the c. straw? And how much Tiger 90 sulfur to apply? Thanks again.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Preventing Leafminers and Citrus greening
« on: February 16, 2016, 02:01:47 PM »
Quote from: bsbullie on February 16, 2016, 07:16:00 AM
Here in Florida leaf miner can be a big problem, assuming you want your tree to produce fruit.  The only true effective control is imidacloprid.

At what frequency?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One time use Chelated Iron EDDHA
« on: February 16, 2016, 01:51:07 PM »
Quote from: JF on February 16, 2016, 01:12:53 AM
I use Grow More 6546 EDDHA Iron Chelate it comes in 1lb it last me over a year. I tried sprint330 for a while but I went back to Grow More EDDHA Iron Chelate it does wonder for my high alkaline soil

http://www.amazon.com/Grow-More-6546-Chelate-1-Pound/dp/B00BWE2CUE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455602485&sr=8-1&keywords=eddha+iron+chelate


I just bought this, how do you apply it and at what rate?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One time use Chelated Iron EDDHA
« on: February 16, 2016, 01:48:38 PM »
Quote from: Saltcayman on February 15, 2016, 04:10:35 PM
Quote from: BahamaDan on February 15, 2016, 02:50:42 PM
Quote from: Saltcayman on February 15, 2016, 01:16:27 PM
Quote from: Cookie Monster on February 14, 2016, 03:02:19 PM
You might want to try sulfur. Given your location, Sheehan, you should be able to easily acidify your soil to the point where good old granular fertilizer supplies sufficient iron. The soil I had imported from delray beach responds very favorably to sulfur application. All of my ph sensitive trees that are in that soil are doing phenomenally.

Yes, Sulfur and copious amounts of organic mulch can really help eliminate the need for chelated iron drenches...

Even when growing upon limestone/in sandy alkaline soil? My interest is certainly piqued.

Yes, I am on limestone, but with more of a red laterite dust mixed with sand. 8.2 ph. After laying down casaurina straw mulch and wood chips and spreading sulfur and dry humates over the past four years, I no longer see iron deficiency issues.

I'm really glad to hear that, if we have lots of anything it's casuarinas LOL. I've seen some Tiger 90 bags of sulfur at one of the hardware stores too so might incorporate that, how heavy/how far out do you apply the c. straw mulch?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One time use Chelated Iron EDDHA
« on: February 15, 2016, 02:50:42 PM »
Quote from: Saltcayman on February 15, 2016, 01:16:27 PM
Quote from: Cookie Monster on February 14, 2016, 03:02:19 PM
You might want to try sulfur. Given your location, Sheehan, you should be able to easily acidify your soil to the point where good old granular fertilizer supplies sufficient iron. The soil I had imported from delray beach responds very favorably to sulfur application. All of my ph sensitive trees that are in that soil are doing phenomenally.

Yes, Sulfur and copious amounts of organic mulch can really help eliminate the need for chelated iron drenches...

Even when growing upon limestone/in sandy alkaline soil? My interest is certainly piqued.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One time use Chelated Iron EDDHA
« on: February 15, 2016, 10:56:59 AM »
Raimei what rate do you use this at, and how long does it take to be effective? I just bought some of this for my more chlorotic looking plants, sandy soil on limestone bedrock.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Limes for this winter...
« on: February 13, 2016, 12:33:33 PM »
Good for you! My Persian Lime is setting fruit too, what kind of lime do you have?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: rooted Meyer lemon cuttings - now what?
« on: February 11, 2016, 01:40:50 PM »
Well noted Mr. Millet, what about the common recommendations to grow pomelos in pH 5.5?

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Sats are still solid green.
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:39:30 PM »
How were the Owari? I just bought one a few weeks ago and it has some recently set fruit on it.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: rooted Meyer lemon cuttings - now what?
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:36:05 PM »
Thanks for the feedback, do you know which pH probe it is? I bought packeted pH solution too and the strips read all three correctly. And its not that the strips are giving me a false reading in my water, its that they get wet but don't register a pH I guess so they don't react to the liquid and change color. I've been thinking about using red cabbage juice to make some pH paper, I've used it as a liquid pH indicator before and it worked on reacting to my water and whatever else I tested it with. My tap was is 8.2+ so they definitely wouldn't like it (lots of dissolved calcium), and it does drop when I add fertilizer to it, or a surfactant. Is 6.7 low enough or should I shoot for closer to 6?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: do you bare root when potting up ?
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:24:30 PM »
So if a mix is too light in terms of drying out too fast it should be bare rooted? I bought a fig from a nursery and can NOT keep the media moist, it dries out stupidly fast. It looks almost like light composted sawdust, and isn't something I can imagine a grower using as part of a real growing mix and is also annoyingly lightweight. I just added some soil around the rootball when I up potted but based on this thread I think I'll have to take it out and bare root to remove the nursery mix as I still can't keep the container from drying out too fast. This is with mulch on the media surface.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Branch Damage
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:17:30 PM »
That's a very nice barrier, how did you remove the grass to make that circle?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Florida mango flowers?
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:15:08 PM »
I do remember last year mine bloomed around this time but only on one side. The other side didn't bloom until a month or two later, so hopefully both sides are just late this year.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: rooted Meyer lemon cuttings - now what?
« on: February 06, 2016, 12:32:46 PM »
Zafra and Josh what have you been using to test your water's pH? I bought some pH strips to test mine, and they work on the buffer calibration solutions of pH 4, 7 and 10 respectively but don't seem to work on my water. I read online that they may not work on water if there aren't enough dissolved solids/ionic strength is too low? My tap water tests around 350 ppm using my Bluelab Truncheon Commercial Nutrient Meter.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Grapefruit Season
« on: February 06, 2016, 12:28:11 PM »
If it doesn't get sweeter as it hangs on the tree what aspect of flavor are you looking to increase by leaving it on that long, tang?

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