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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: foliar spray
« on: September 22, 2017, 11:29:06 PM »
Those look good but too expensive.  Any citrus/avocado/fruit/nut tree food will work in place of the first one.  Try a 20lb bag of gro power avo/citrus from walter andersons in san diego.  You will be getting 10X more plant food for less than 2X the cost.

 The nutricote is good but unless you are buying a 50lb bag you are paying too much for it. Get an 8lb bag of osmocote plus on amazon or walmart for 15-20$ instead of 2lb of nutricote for the same price.

Also you dont really need to fertilize when its cold and the plants are slowed down or dormant.  I wont be fertilizing again until trees start flushing in spring. Maybe some osmocote for my potted plants but in ground trees dont need anything for a while it will just get washed out and wasted over the wet cold season.

Are your trees in the ground or in pots?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Surinam Cherry
« on: September 22, 2017, 06:30:34 PM »
Kevin, nice looking fruits.  Post some photos of the plants if you can.  Are they all in full sun?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: White Jade Pineapple
« on: September 21, 2017, 02:04:47 PM »
I'm still looking for a place i can get  Polyon  from i need to be able to have it shipped to me still no luck

As good if not better regarding the NPK and micros package.  Cheap too!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GTDGMHC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They raised the price.  It was under 15$ a few weeks ago.  Walmart has it for 15$ also.  That stuff is excellent for potted plants.  Probably in ground as well.  Good ratios.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Red Jaboticaba Hydroponic Project
« on: September 19, 2017, 05:26:21 PM »
You will have a much better chance of ever transplanting it in ground with your roots in perlite as opposed to dangling in air or water.   Especially if they can get root bound a bit and the entire mass can be pulled out neatly.

You should probably keep using the vegetative nutrients for quite some time before switching to flower solution.  It's going to take a lot longer to get to that point than a cannabis or tomato plant.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: foliar spray
« on: September 19, 2017, 03:40:49 PM »
It seems like 10 52 10 is opposite of what you would want to be feeding fruit trees on regular basis.  I was under the impression this kind of fertilizer was for stimulating blooms.  Is someone promoting it somewhere online?  There are a few other guys tht mentioned using it also recently.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 17, 2017, 11:46:39 AM »
Coco coir on the DF posts.  I used redwood 4x4s on some and T post on a couple that get the cage setup.  Im trying a few different things to see which lasts longer.  The phone booth cage deal is more complicated but will probably last a lot longer.  The T post is steel and I put some wood around it and coco around that but none of the wood is going to rot hopefully.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 17, 2017, 11:41:54 AM »
My dog is 13 years old and still plays fetch everyday as long as you are willing to throw it.  And still can run down a coyote amazingly.  Good dogs.

Copy that on thewater setup.  I inherited the bladders and all when we moved in.  No need for a variable speed setup in ground since we have the tank but many of the neighbors use a variable speed boost pump setup.  I do like them and when the time comes to replace the pressure pump may go that route.  My neighbor has a goulds 1.5 horse booster with the little 2 gallon blue job on top. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 16, 2017, 05:32:37 PM »
3 months of growth









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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 16, 2017, 04:40:20 PM »
Sounds like our old farm. We had 10 80gal bladders, 2 5 HP booster pumps and 30,000gal holding tanks with 3 wells. All kind of filters up to your ying yang.  You are not living off your land and yet you're running as much power or complicated system as some of the farmers in the deep south.  Might be those California's craziness.


Here's my old crib. Cattle ranch. Nearly 100 acres of peace and freedom. Obviously, I can't plant any tropical gardens there.

Below is our current crib, replacing all the Caballo with tropical fruit tree.









Looks nice.  Theres 400 acres for sale down the way from here.  If I ever win the lottery Im going to buy it and open a monster nursery and a motocross park on it.  They are asking $4,000,000 last time I checked.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 16, 2017, 04:12:04 PM »
The ribbon is flagging tape its very thin and stretchable.  Its got tanglefoot to keep the ants off the trees.  Those ants were really interested in the new mango flush.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 16, 2017, 10:07:00 AM »
Amazing collection and the trees look great!

As an aside, I put in 2 miles of irrigation pipe and tweeked and re-tweeked the system a dozen or so times with the final tweek taking out all solenoid valves and electronics and going strictly to manual valves. My choice for very low maintenance filters is Amiad brand with S/S screen.  You don't have to change out some pricey cellulose filter either.  I also installed an Amiad that collects sand which is right off the well head.  Not only can it be taken apart and cleaned but by opening the valve you can blow collected sand out while the system is running.  The other filter is installed after a Mazzei injector and before the emitters in line.  The Mazzei is used to inject plant food and when needed 78% sulfuric acid to clean the emitters of bicarbs.

Mark

Mark, I will have to google those things.  Our setup here is a bit different, the well fills a 10,000 holding tank to use in case of fire.  There is a 4" pipe to a hydrant for the fire dept.  Everything else is fed off a 2" pipe from the tank.  A 2HP booster pump and three 80 gallon bladder pressure tanks are there to keep the pressure up.  I put one of those stainless filters on the well head.  That takes care of the big dirt.  We have an issue of iron bacteria growing inside the tank.  So there has to be a 2nd and even 3rd set of filters to remove the stuff.  Its extremely small and can build up inside the pipes.  That is a whole challenge on its own delivering clean water to the sprinklers.  Ive got cheapo 5 micron 20" sediment cartridges setup to remove the small junk.  They are setup to where I can back flow and puke them out so Im not constantly replacing them.  Yeah good times digging, trenching, laying pipe, gluing, fixing, adjusting, monitoring, filtering...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 15, 2017, 04:28:59 PM »
Cherimoyas I have are:
Bumpo,
Knight,
Dr white and vietnamese,
Fino de jete,
Chaffey,
Honeyhart.

For sprinklers I use orbit part 54040d (1/4 circle shrub head) on the cherimoyas, avocados, and mangos. I get them from lowes for around 1$ per head.  I use a 5/8 tubing to 1/2" slip pvc fitting to connect drip tubing to my pvc riser with 1/2" male threaded tip that the sprinkler goes on.  And I strap each head to a stake so I can move it as the tree grows.  There is a photo of one on a stake in a previous post in this thread.  Here is the sprinkler tip link:

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Orbit-1-2-in-Brass-Plastic-Shrub-Head-Sprinkler/3425358




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help mature lemon tree has never fruit
« on: September 15, 2017, 03:59:47 PM »
The second photo shows those nasty spikes on the branches, and this tells the tree is either a root stock took over the graft or it was from seed. I see all citrus grafted trees have suckers with long spikes as in the photo. I have not seen a citrus rootstock sucker that has fruit yet.

This is most likely the issue.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help mature lemon tree has never fruit
« on: September 15, 2017, 03:57:23 PM »
Urban legend maybe but some people say tap a nail in the trunk to stress the tree into trying to reproduce itself.  Never tried, have no idea if it works.  After 7 years I might give it a shot if it was my tree. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: San Diego garden photos
« on: September 15, 2017, 01:34:23 PM »
Snapped a few photos of my mango trees, the heat wave we had kicked them into a good flush.  Will have to take some more photos of all the other plants, they have all grown a ton in since I created this thread a few months ago. 

I'm going to start building some frost protection on the mango trees.  Maybe just use my big 24" tomato cages for that.





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Whats the water situation there?  Looks like its going to be a thirsty yard. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tree for shallow soil?
« on: September 13, 2017, 11:31:23 AM »
I was thinking the same thing as Mark.  12" raised bed.  I would go at least 1 meter square, 1.5 meter square would be better.  Use a jackhammer to bust up the bed rock a little before piling in the dirt.  Avocados like well draining soil like decomposed granite if you can get some DG mixed with a small amount of compost to fill the bed.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passifloras suited for a drier climate?
« on: September 12, 2017, 04:54:27 PM »
Purple possum and fredrick edulus are also what they sell here.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passifloras suited for a drier climate?
« on: September 12, 2017, 01:33:25 PM »
Yes they thrive in hot dry weather.  Member GregA here has a bunch going in his yard which is in a dry inland area near my place.  I put a few in a month or two ago and they took the recent 108F dry week long heat wave no problem and are blooming and growing fast already.

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Bonita creek nursery also has a huge selection. Plus he's always experimenting and has interesting/unusual crosses on the side that he sometimes will part with. I like exotica and champa and mimosa as well but Bonita creek always has interesting things and great variety, for all your various tree needs

What type of mangos does bonita creek carry?  Do they graft them here or import from florida?

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We have been getting these mangos I assume are Kiett from a coworkers parents who live in palm springs. They are really delicious, no fiber, big juicy and citrusy flavor, brix 18.  A few of them were a lot darker orange but starting getting mushy.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My first avocado harvest - New variety
« on: September 11, 2017, 12:46:37 AM »
Lory, how many months was your fruit on the tree?

Tree flowered approximately first week of March. I harvested at the end of august so it's 6 months

Thats quite fast.  If there are more fruits, you should let some go longer and see if it improves.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My first avocado harvest - New variety
« on: September 10, 2017, 11:16:19 PM »
Lory, how many months was your fruit on the tree?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Staking Trees for Wind?
« on: September 08, 2017, 02:43:07 PM »

I went ahead and removed most of the stakes throughout the farm in hopes that the trees get pushed over rather than snap at the tie point.  I do however have 200 stakes on hand for the aftermath if there's anything left.  Wife and kids are in GA with inlaws.  I'm going to weather the storm with my dad at the farm.  Hopefully the house will hold up.  It is new block/stemwall/tiebeam, 4/12 hip roof, impact windows and doors, truss straps so we'll see.  We do have a portable generator.  You guys?

Smart! 

Just a thought.  A Generac brand whole house auto-start generator tied into the main circuit box (200 amp) is really a nice way to go if you have the bucks and feel it's worth the aggravation.  During devastating hurricane Celia we had no electricity for 2 weeks, no telephones for 6.

How many watts is your generator mark?  Can you pump water too?  How horse is the water pump?  Im asking because the electric company wants to cut power here during a fire storm.  Of course thats when I need my water flowing the most.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My first avocado harvest - New variety
« on: September 08, 2017, 11:56:36 AM »
You can tell it has high oil content by that yellowish color.

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