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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Weird nectarine growth
« on: May 20, 2025, 08:16:10 PM »
It should flush out soon. I would just leave it be.
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Picture from yesterday. It’s a low chill Snow Queen variety and we average high 30s to mid 40s for at least a month. I’m in south Sandy Eggo near the 54 and 805.
What do you do once you have seedlings sprout?? Do you leave them in that mix till they develop the true leaves?
Yes, as soon as they have a couple true leaves I move them to my normal soil. The only issue I've seen was a batch of capsicum pepper seeds stalled after sprouting and never got their true leaves, then eventually all yellowed and died. I wonder if this could be an issue with any tiny seeds because the coir has no nutrients. The tropical seeds have been fine in it. Could be a bad batch of pepper seeds too, they are ones I had in dried fruits from prior year.
Haha, no need to apologize. I do grow a lot of trees in container. I don’t have much luck with plums/pluots. 3 years ago I removed a 4x1 pluots, after 6 years in the ground, they produce zero fruit except the first year, that also gave me hope that they would eventually fruit for me. Maybe my soil is not good. The builder broughtthe soil from somewhere.Brad, they are in the ground.
Oh I appologize, my reading comprehension skills are lacking and my eye sight is failing me. I will go sit in the truck now.
Brad, they are in the ground.
Crazy, cherry trees are definitely difficult to grow. I’ve read that JamesN from GF killed all his cherry trees when he first started growing cherry, this is why I went out of my way and purchased some topsoil from Gary. I still have 5 cherry trees, but they might die in the future.
Mine weren't as extreme as LillyPilly describes, but basically it would just grow long windy limbs with no branching. I think I need to cut every branch once it reaches 2ft long to get a decent shape.
Did this avocado taste test today. Sharwil left, santa clara gold right. Made guacamole out of both and did a side by side test. I have to the say the santa clara gold was super good. Sharwil also super good. The sharwil may have needed more time on the tree. And this sharwil had some slight imperfections in the flesh. The santa clara gold was a lot more dense and wins based on looks. I like the texture better on the sc gold. Flavor wise I think sharwil has more nuttyness. It was a toss up between the family members here. Half of us preferred sharwil, half preferred sc gold.
I would take either of these over anything the UC system ever released.
Good looking Cados, How does the Sc Gold tree compare to the Sharwil?