You can always gently tap the pot while holding below the graft and check whats in that pot when shopping.

You could use glyphosate once then mulch.  I would not want glyphosate on my food plants roots personally.  But I do use a lot of it around the property.  Give it a week to work then mulch over it.

Exactly Fun Project! ....

Ed

Best of luck with your project Ed.  Keep us posted. 

Dis you ask where his farm is?  I want to know if anyone is growing them way inland like near the wild animal park or in ramona. 

In post #20 it looks like the weeds need to be cleared and the trees planted in a mound and mulched.  It also looks shaded, too much shade could cause them to grow poorly and rot. 

Here is a photo of some of my trees.  The large ones are the oldest at about 1.5 years old. They were 5 gallon 2 to 3 ft tall trees when planted.  They are 10ft tall 10ft wide after one summer now.

Ive done a lot of hydroponic vegetables and "herbs".  I have used the 5 gallon deep water setups like that and also dutch buckets that all drained into a 1.5" pipe and fed back into a 50 gallon reservoir.  What I have found is that you will be doing daily PH adjustments and water refilling which can become very time consuming.  For a 5 gallon DWC system, you will be ok with a mango tree until it gets larger.  The tree will require a much larger water and root zone once it gets to be 5 or 6 feet tall and starts flushing lots of leaves. 

If hou plan on keeping it going for the long term, I would suggest using a pot about 10 times that size.  A 55 gallon trash can full of hydroton with drippers on top and a drain a few inches above the bottom back to another reservoir would work well for a tree.  The bottom few inches will always have water like a dutch bucket and you could use a pump on a timer to drip from the top every few hours while the lights are on or the sun is shining. 

The clean up any scraps you leave around.  If you wear sandals in your garden they will bite your feet really bad if they are the small red agintine ants. 

If the hill is right there, pouring gas down it is a quick way to kill them.  If you don't want gas near your tree, you can pour water with borax or boric acid in it and they will die when they walk in it.  Sprinkle the boric acid around the hill and down the hole.  Diamacias earth sprinkled around the mound will kill them also. 

Honestly though, gas gets it done fast.

I let them know I live close to the nursery in Poway.  He said lapins will be no problem so I guess I will put one in and see what happens.  They had the royal pair there too but I had read a lot of mixed reviews on those and decided a self pollinating tree would be better.

  I have 9.6 acres to work with so if my one tree fails its not the end of the world.

Quote from: spaugh on January 31, 2017, 05:21:35 PM

You AZ guys can probably pull off some hass trees if they have some surrounding shade for afternoon sun.  And plenty of water.  It get extremely hot where Im at.  110 during a heateave and the trees don't seem to mind much if they are watered.   They are getting full exposure on a south hill.

That's just a few heatwave. Try averaging 107F for 3-4 straight  months ,.....there are not too many Hass in Palm Springs and there is a reason for that.

I would just suck it up and move somewhere less like hell.  My wifes side of the family lives in Phoenix.  Of course they love to rag on California.  But they are always happy to visit in summer and complain about their 1000$ cooling bill.   

At least citrus grow well there...

You AZ guys can probably pull off some hass trees if they have some surrounding shade for afternoon sun.  And plenty of water.  It get extremely hot where Im at.  110 during a heateave and the trees don't seem to mind much if they are watered.   They are getting full exposure on a south hill. 

Ive got over 60 trees and hundreds of gopher holes everywhere.  They dont seem to do much damage if any to my trees?  Ive tried traps and poison but with acres of land its futile.  I just leave them be...

We got 1" here last night and weather man says 6 more inches over the next 4 days with inch per hour downpours here tomorrow.  I have several acres of water that collects into one channel and washes down to a stream at the bottom of a hill.  If I had a way to store it I could probably catch 500,000 gallons this week.