Hi guys, i noticed that on my kent mango, there are buds breaking since 2 or three weeks ago, but still nothing coming out.
How long does it take for you guys generally to see flushes out of the buds after the buds break? is 3 weeks normal?

Did you try to pick the fruit at different ripening stages to be sure that you aren't tasing an overripe fruit?
For my first papaya fruits, i let them turn completely yellow on the tree and they had a bad taste, but last time i tried to pick them 1/4 or half yellow and the bad taste was gone, especially when you squeeze citrus over the fruit.

Thank you guys, interesting.
The old wood remain producing flowers each year or the spot which produced a flower does not produce another flower anymore? (the info may have been given in the videos but i don't understand spanich nor portuguese)

it has something to do with PH and iron absorption in the cold weather i had read.
mine do it too.
mine loose leaves every year.
in mild years they just re-leaf in spring, no problem.
in hard years, under 30F, they might lose twigs etc.
danger under 25F large branches or young plants not rooted well.

it hit 20F this year, and a lot of my small container plants are coming back.
i had them just under the porch, but unprotected besides.

the branches that emerge from the defoliated axils are the ones that will bear flowers and fruits in that season?

I like this info. I have been reading a lot about guava leaves tea, but passionfruit leave is a new discovery to me, good to know, since i have a lot of leaves which i have been giving to the chicken
I am wondering if it is possible to mix different leaves in one tea to make a super tea which combines different medicinal properties (guava - passion fruit for example, + green tea to bring the good taste to the mixture).
I considered doing it with guava leaves and green tea, but i was afraid that the two types of leaves will activiate "dangerous" compounds when boiled together, or at least they activate some compounds that neutralize each other's effect. I guess there are no scientific evidence to deny or confirm such fears, so what do you think about this? is it probably safe to mix different plant leaves in one super tea?

Guys, do we now have firm consensus over what is true clone in poly-embryonic mango seedlings?  My LZ is into its 4th year now and looking very healthy. Although leaves are not like Lemon Zest (wavy), the smell of leaf sap is very strong and citrusy more than LZ.

Has anyone successfully fruited LZ seedling yet? what is the verdict? Mine might fruit next year or who knows when. Usually in CA we get trees to bloom from 2 years on.

I remember once i read a scientific research about identifiying nucellar and zygotic seedlings from poly seeds, and the experiences showed that for some cases the zygotic was the tallest seedling while in oher cases it was the smallest seedling and for other cases it was the middle one. I can't find this study, but since then i stopped believing that there is an absolute truth about the size of the zygotic seedling and started thinking as simon-grow does : leaving all the seedlings grow and figure out later

Nice guava trees, are the pots bottomless? because the guava tree is pretty big, besides a cherimoya and dragonfruit in the same pot!

I have a few but mine are in full sun.  We have been eating guava since October.  The trees are very productive at a young age.  We got about 100 larget fruits off of each of our 1 year old trees and we had thinned the fruit set.   You can probably get better production in your shade area if you do heavy thinning.

Nice crop. Could you post a pic of this 1 year old tree.
When you say you have been eating guava since october, does the tree ripen fruits all over that period (3 months) or all the fruits ripen at the same time andd you harvest all the crop at once and you freeze it?

This is one from my front yard surrounded by cement, that is the reason it has gotten so big here in southern California. I can't reach the fruit anymore on a six foot ladder. It came from Pine Island as a "dwarf red lady" It is mostly seedless. It will be getting the axe soon. The fruit is not that sweet either.

Nice looking tree. Did you top it before? or the tree grew multiple branches by itself?

Interesting to see that a papaya tree can be refurbished many times in a backyard context, the majority of the info in the web says that for commercial context the trees are replaced each 3 or 4 years because too tall (harvesting costs), but for us backyard growers it is interesting to see that there is an alternative option to expand the period of productivity of the tree cutting it back each time 

Quote from: Guayaba on November 18, 2017, 10:33:28 AM

that is strange, one side is pink, the other white
(Kidding LOL)

You may be not kidding as well greenman62, look at this bicolor guava i found in my country :

 By planting seeds at the proper time of year and gradually stepping up the size of the pot and fertilizing properly, there is an additive effect I can compound with the multiple rootstock technique and greatly accelerate growth in my marginal climate.

Simon

Hey Simon, when is the most appropriate time in the year to up pot a seedling (i am speaking about soursop), now in the fall when it is going to go dormant or in the beginning of spring ?