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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Mango Baller" Problems
« on: May 17, 2017, 08:50:16 PM »
Just wanted to say congrats. I remember your posts when your orchard was younger and you were a little impatiently waiting for fruit to set. People gave you grief about it. Good to see you are harvesting the fruits of your labors. From your signature it seems you will be swimming in fruit for years to come!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Avocado police
« on: May 05, 2017, 12:19:43 AM »
CA has permits for everything. Why don't you ask these guys who do exactly what you are inquiring about?

https://twitter.com/Heritage_Avos

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Maha Chanok from Excalibur...14 months later
« on: April 17, 2017, 10:24:37 PM »
Bump...

How are both trees form OP doing?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Easy ways to dig holes
« on: April 02, 2017, 11:15:19 PM »
Here in CA the soil is heavy clay. I like to water it down the night before, some in the AM, and then a little later use a post hole digger I find it less work than a shovel (although I also use the shovel to shape the hole)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Issues/needs to grow tropicals/citrus in the far North
« on: March 30, 2017, 06:51:19 PM »
Nice bump. Curious to hear if the project has broke ground.

Another thing to consider to help regulate temperature is digging down into the ground. There is a greenhouse somewhere in Montana that uses no energy with the exception of low-grade geothermal. I believe it's dug 6-8 down. Actually just looked up a clip of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMJafO-yeKw

Then there is this guy growing bananas in Oklahoma with just digging down a few feet.

http://www.greenfingardens.com/p/semi-pit-tunnel-greenhouse.html

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Shade tolerant fruit trees?
« on: March 16, 2017, 10:57:57 PM »
Fig is a good pic. I have a White Genoa fig in on the north side of my garage and it only gets a couple hours of direct sun but ripens tasty fruit.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First fruit: Rollinia
« on: March 16, 2017, 10:54:13 PM »
Very cool. Never had Rollina but have had soursop and love that.

That is a cool looking duck too (muscovy?)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Crazy Stupid SF Bay Area Tropical Experiment
« on: March 14, 2017, 07:19:48 PM »
Why don't you build a greenhouse structure over the area for winter? It was a mild winter for sure. I think the Jabos would die in a once every 10/20 year cold front. It was 19 degrees in San Jose in 1990.

Thanks for sharing your results.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: I have a question about strawberrys
« on: March 10, 2017, 02:11:29 AM »
I can see the pennies rolling in from your youtube channel. You might end up with over 6$ by the end of the year!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ty Ty Nursery
« on: March 05, 2017, 08:36:41 PM »
Ty Ty had so many negative reviews on Garden Watchdog that they threatened some kind of legal action and got DG to remove them from the site. Only major nursery I know that has done this. Many alias, here are the reviews for one alias:

http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/6992/#b
https://www.yelp.com/biz/ty-ty-nursery-ty-ty

Ty Ty = run far far away!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bland taste on my Oro Negro cado. Is this a good fruit for ya'll or not?
« on: February 26, 2017, 08:45:23 PM »
Quote from: edzone9 on February 26, 2017, 06:46:59 PM
My Bad the 15 Gal Avocado tree I bought at Zills is the Day Not Holiday .
Sweet Creamy Tasting Fruit !..

Right now the tree if full of flowers !

Ed

I thought Day/Holiday were the same. Is this not true?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Need suggestions for new trees :)
« on: February 24, 2017, 01:19:12 AM »
Would be neat to see the pics. I saw a youtube video of a guy in Canada who had Sapodilla in his greenhouse and it had lots of fruit in it; container grown.

As to which kind of Sapodilla? There have been a couple threads on them you could check out and PIN has a nice chart on them:
http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/sapodilla/index.htm

Carambola I would leave it to the FL experts to recommend as they have all the good varieites there. Another neat chart: http://growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/carambolavarieties.htm

I said those types also because they are prolific and the goal is a lot of fruit right?

Citrus, Guava, & Fig are very prolific in containers as well.

Our forum avatars are very similar :)  Looking forward to your greenhouse pics and am curious as to what fruits best for you in your greenhouse...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Need suggestions for new trees :)
« on: February 23, 2017, 06:46:57 PM »
How big is your greenhouse? Would love to see pics.

I think pomegranates need some chill and if it's always above 60 degrees they may not fruit.

Sapodilla & Carambola as supposed to be good for container fruiting.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafting Citrus budwood with pushed buds (CCPP)
« on: February 08, 2017, 11:06:36 PM »
Lots of citrus grafters in the citrus forum on this site.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Greenhouse, RootMaker pots for tropicals and fruit "porn"
« on: January 28, 2017, 12:36:24 PM »
"Pickering in the foreground, Mallika in the background."

I see that in your OP you had these two mangos planted in Sept 2013. Did they ever fruit for you? Looking through the thread I see lots of citrus/avocado harvest but no mango. I'm curious because I would like to grow Mango in greenhouse one day as well.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Looking for Citrus Tree Advice & an Introduction!
« on: January 23, 2017, 08:59:53 PM »
Don't think you can judge their plants by the pics. Look at their citrus quartet:

https://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/citrus-trees/quartet-citrus-tree-collection

The lime/lemon are the exact same plant but the fruit color was changed and a mirror affect was applied to reverse the fruits on each photo to make it look different.

Not saying they aren't selling accurate varieties just that the pictures are for show/doctored/possibly not real plants?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Issues/needs to grow tropicals/citrus in the far North
« on: January 04, 2017, 11:31:51 PM »
You should contact this guy; he has done this in zone 5 and would have valuable advice for you...

http://www.tropicalfruithunters.com/galleries.html

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Maui in January
« on: January 03, 2017, 12:03:04 AM »
I'll be heading to Maui on Thursday, for a week. Any good places for buying fruit this time of year?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: new greenhouse planning
« on: December 29, 2016, 08:00:05 PM »
Zone 6 winters brrrrr.....

Well, you'll have all spring-fall to complete your project next year. Good luck on it. Looking forward to any updates...

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: new greenhouse planning
« on: December 26, 2016, 07:14:37 PM »
Bump.

Nice thread. Any update?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cara Cara Navel Orange
« on: December 26, 2016, 06:51:01 PM »
Quote from: Millet on October 08, 2016, 04:32:24 PM
My in ground Cara Cara Orange (11'H X 11' W) tree which is growing inside my greenhouse,

Millet is there a thread dedicated to your greenhouse set up? I'm trying to learn about growing subtropicals  in ground/greenhouse since I will be moving to 7a next year and having all my citrus from the yard here in CA I can't go back to store fruit!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 5 best true dwarf mango trees/fruit
« on: December 25, 2016, 12:34:00 AM »
http://tropicalfruitnursery.com/mango/condo.shtml

For avocado wurtz and day are supposedly manageable to fruit at 10/12 ft height.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Upgraded Greenhouse and 2016 Fruits
« on: December 14, 2016, 09:16:21 PM »
Great greenhouse! You've done a good job please keep updating this thread. I plan on doing something like this myself when I move to zone 7

With the sliding doors open does the greenhouse stay cool enough in the summer or is that why you are removing the roof?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cold Hardy Mangoes from Tim Thompson
« on: December 12, 2016, 01:19:38 PM »
Axel is growing his these trees (Cloudforest guy). Maybe he has more info for you...

http://www.cloudforest.com/cafe/gardening/new-mango-varieties-some-preliminary-observations-t6479.html#p46544

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Greenhouse replacement panels alternatives?
« on: December 12, 2016, 01:10:22 PM »
Solex seems a good product:

http://www.solexx.com/

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