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Tropical Fruit Discussion / best setup for growing passion fruit

« on: April 01, 2018, 03:38:48 PM »

I picked up a small purple possum at Jene's yesterday. The spot I have in mind is adjacent to a 20' run of 6' picket fence. My neighbors previously had an ornamental red passion vine (several, actually) on this fence and eventually it became quite a mess... rather untrained and eventually developed lot of thatch underneath. One issue was that there really wasn't anything to support it except the top of the fence.

I'd like to do something to keep the new vine a little more organized this time. I was thinking about running some guide wire along the fence, maybe two or three horizontal runs stood off from the fence by a few inches. Or, I was considering creating some type of wire grid on maybe just one of the 6' wide fence panels. I have no problem spending time during throughout the week to train the vine but I'd (1) of course like it to do very well and (2) like to set up some sort of structure that is most conducive to managing it.

Comments or other ideas (or photos!) appreciated...

Tropical Fruit Discussion / Promising year for a St. Pete Carrie

« on: March 25, 2018, 01:24:58 PM »

I never had a good fruit yield from this tree until last year. I also never sprayed with copper until last year because I didn't think it needed it... so not sure if it is coincidence but I'll certainly be spraying every year from now on. This year looks to be the highest yield yet. Tons of fruit the size shown below and in my experience only a low percentage of fruit that make it this size will drop prematurely.

This is after a narrow brush with disaster this winter when it get down to 31 degrees one night. A few patches of leaves/terminal ends got burned but nothing major. Whew...

Tropical Fruit Discussion / please help ID this makok's ailment

« on: January 02, 2013, 06:01:52 PM »

Hello all,

My first guess would be cold damage or some sort of leaf burn? However, the tree has not encountered anything near dangerous temps... high 40's at the worst. I should mention that the tree has a heavy set of fruit that is rapidly maturing. Early on, I did thin some fruit, maybe from around 50 down to 30. I am wondering if that is still too much stress on a young tree? (It is 3-4 years old, about 6" tall or so.)

Many thanks,
Brian

Tropical Fruit Discussion / thinning a makok sapodilla?

« on: October 14, 2012, 12:02:56 PM »

Hello all,

My Makok has approximately 50 fruit. I think this may be too many for it, based on what I have read. While I am not interested in making the tree grow larger, I do want the fruit to be of decent size and I know Makok have small fruit to begin with.

What do you recommend? I was thinking of thinning the larger clusters down to one or two fruit. Perhaps, leaving a variety of sizes so that I'll have fruit for a longer part of the season? What is a good target number for a container tree of this size?

When I bought the tree last December it had a couple small fruit that eventually ripened in August. These fruit are already larger and it is only October so I'm guessing I might have fruit from early summer onward?

Thanks,
Brian

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