The Tropical Fruit Forum

Gary - my wife has planted two 15 foot rows of "grocery store" garlic cloves
for the past 4 years with good results.  She has not had good success
with the Elephant Garlic for some reason. (it may be a PH issue with the soil)
I finally replaced my 40 year old (and seldom used) PH meter for a higher quality
one and we will be paying more attention to soil quality now that we are in a new
location.  Our old place in Winter Garden had pretty rich sandy soil that
grew just about everything well.
so yes, your garlic should do very well if the PH is between 6.0 and 7.5 with good drainage.

Johnny in Kissimmee

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Soak your elephant garlic in water mixed with a capsule or two if vitamin c (ascorbic acid) for like 15 minutes. The difference it made was wild

I'm the end here's what I planted

[ ] Pomelo bien hoa
[ ] Mandarin Xie Shan
[ ] Pomelo Nam roi
[ ] Mandarin Shiranui (Sumo)
[ ] Improved meyer lemon (not grafted)
[ ] Satsuma miho
[ ] Satsuma owari
[ ] Satsuma brown select
[ ] Lemon new Zealand lemonade
[ ] Satsuma early St ann
[ ] Plum Methley
[ ] Plum Flavor Gernade
[ ] Apple Dorsett
[ ] Apple Ein Shemer
[ ] Apple anna
[ ] Grapefruit oro blanco
[ ] Plum satsuma
[ ] Lime Persian sweet
[ ] Lemon ujukitsu
[ ] Lemon variegated eureka
[ ] Lemon variegated eureka
[ ] Lemon improved meyer
[ ] Orange Cara cara

What a hilarious name for a caterpillar that looks like bird poop, not a dog, and furthermore is not orange.

I might be out. I got roots and a little leaf on one cutting, then it started to shrivel. As a last effort I planted it in a pot outside. The others still had green at the node on the bottom, but no roots. I'll know soon enough if all turned black and kicked it

You may be able to find refurbished ac units. I would check with several local companies and see what they say.

If you're willing to protect I bet you could do any of them. Incandescent c9 Christmas lights and create a greenhouse (this year I'm trying plastic panels on the windy side and frost cloth panels on the others).. Someone in here just told about an anecdote where a person puts a bucket of water with an aquarium heater in it inside the makeshift greenhouse and that worked. I haven't tried that, but it makes sense to me

Yes, the American Persimmon does well in the gulf coast area. The named varieties typically have larger fruit than wild trees but not quite as big as the Asian varieties. Most of the named American persimmon varieties are hexaploid (90 chromosomes) which is common in the north while tetraploid (60 chromosomes) are found in the south. This means that even if there are wild male trees around, the hexaploid named varieties should be seedless in the sourthern region since they are not compatible with the native tetraploid males.

I've got small trees of 100-46, H63a, and WS 8-10 growing at the moment but not bearing yet.

That's very exciting. I hope they fruit for you. The one I collected seeds from fruited mid summer. No idea when it flowers though.

Thanks for the info on the genome mismatch.

It's never worked after the migration or whatever. I've just dealt with it.

That's unfortunate. I hope it can be fixed

No way

What changes do you watch for before cutting?

can you buy the fruit from Florida kumquats inc.

I just checked and they don't ship to Texas

I'm dealing with this and it seems like citrus peels help.