New growth dieback can be a lack of calcium or boron.

Quote from: Doglips on July 22, 2013, 01:30:15 AM

Actually I did take a picture of a melon I've never seen before.  I assume it was a melon possibly a squash.  It was about the size of a softball oblong yellow and white stripes.  I can't upload at the moment, I will post it later.

Does the melon look like the one in the link, if so it's called a Korean /oriental melon.  Haven't had one before, but everything I've read or heard about it are good.

https://www.google.com/search?q=korean+melon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wcjsUfH0LcS8iwLorYHQBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=925

That is the one.

One nice thing I can say - NO FREEZE PROTECTION!  Yay!  And taste - OMFG - a truly tree-ripened one is unbelievable. Seriously.  You can't pick it even a day early, it has to be fully tree ripened. When it's right, I could collapse in the yard right there and die happy. I've never tasted something so good.

I got two this year off of a first year tree, right there with you man!  You get pissed off when juice runs down your chin because you are wasting it.

The store is Viet Hoa.  Houston has a sizable Viet population, but the store encompasses all of Asia; Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Phillipino, Indonesian, Thai, plus???.  I don't know what half of the stuff is (at least how it is used), and I've traveled quite a bit throughout Asia.

I've heard of 99 Ranch and H-mart, didn't realize that they were the equivalent.

Actually I did take a picture of a melon I've never seen before.  I assume it was a melon possibly a squash.  It was about the size of a softball oblong yellow and white stripes.  I can't upload at the moment, I will post it later.

I want another 2-3 boxes of these things but it is about a 50 minute drive from me (traffic willing).
The produce department is terrific, Jackfruit, tons of great greens, I'd probably shop there almost exclusively if I lived close by.
No mangosteens, I keep watch everytime I go (got strung out on those last fall in Hanoi).

I did pickup some Lychee, sorry, don't know the variety, they are good, not great, but good.
The Kents, not just good, but fantastic.

Don't think these Kents are curing me, quite the opposite, I may be at stage 3, it is spreading to my lymph nodes.
 

So I took a trip to the asian mega-mart.  They must have had 6-7 different varieties of mango.  I've never had a Kent, so I picked up a box, and at 1$ apiece, not a bad price and they were big.
Friggin delcious and creamy!!!!
Just wonderful.

So what?
Now I have to go and buy a Kent?
I already have 5 different varieties of mango, with a 6th inbound and now I have to get another one?  I already have 50 plus fruit tree.

Can anyone recommend a good therapist?

Guess I should know better than to hang out at the crack house.

Time for another Kent.

At double the price that would need to be quite a bit of stress to not happen.
Mangos are pretty resilient.

PIN not an option?

There was a guy on GW that had a citrus tree that odd shaped burns on the tree, he finally went outside at night and the burn marks exactly matched the outdoor light on his house, about 5-6 feet away.  Light energy dissipates quickly the further away from the source (unless highly focused).   

So if you know that you are going to get hit hard, would you strip fruit and defoliate a tree?

If possible. you may want to quarrantine the plant.

Quote from: Doglips on July 04, 2013, 06:58:23 AM

Bare rooting,... absolutely.

Unless you can control the above ground environment, .... wait, bare rooting and moving can do that too.

I have to disagree that bare rooting is a good way to save a plant. Unless you are certain there is a problem with the soil or some bug in the soil. Bare rooting a plant causes a whole lot of stress to the plant because it disturbs the root system and its ability to take up water. If you already have a sick plant and then you stress it even more then what you most probably will end up with is a dead plant.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that this was a first line of defense. Like Jay said, a last ditch effort.  Deficency issues can be corrected without bare rooting. Flushing with water can correct some toxicity issues, some not, bare rooting may be the only option if the plant is getting too much.

I got mine from PIN a few months ago.

Bare rooting,... absolutely.

Unless you can control the above ground environment, .... wait, bare rooting and moving can do that too.

If you have a good draining medium (like gritty mix) I would argue that bigger upsizing is better due to less plant stress less and chance of of root wrap.  It can be easier to establish more consistent moisture levels in big pots too.