The Tropical Fruit Forum

The old green leaves look good
when did you receive the tree and what fertilizer and water schedule have you done?
I would gently remove from pot and look at the roots.

I have fresh pitangatuba seeds available.
I was suppose to contact someone and can't remember who wanted seeds

Supposedly if you grow a citrus under an oak canopy with oak leaf mulch you are more likely to have less problems. I am experimenting with this currently in a neighboring wooded lot. I know I see a lot of citrus in pine farms under the canopy and they appear from the road to be doing quite well.

I don't see how the Oak would keep the psyllid from laying it's eggs on the citrus?
I have heard if you plant a guava tree close by the citrus the psyllid that spreads the greening
prefers the guava leaves?

Yesterday I went up 27 from 29 to Avon Park.
I was amazed to see acres and acres of restarts in one area and
right next to it the next grove had nets around their restarts throughout
the mature trees? For a dead industry the big companies are still planting
for the future? In my area Duda was planting thousands of acres the past few
years as well. I know an ex grove manager and he said if greening would not
have happened orange juice would have been 10 cents a gallon with the supply
from the US and Brazil and Mexico. I think we are being played?

Personally I have one Kishu tree and it produces about 250 small
seedless tangerines a year. It has greening and looks a little rough
but it's more than enough for me. Like most tangerines it ripens in
the Fall before we have any cool weather and the tangerines are not sweet.
They are tangy and decent but no where close to CA tangerines.
One good tangerine for Florida is the Murcott. It ripens around March
and has the benefit of cool weather. It is a seedy tangerine but I saw there
was a seedless murcott now available but I didn't pursue it.
Citrus is a labor intensive tree but not impossible to grow in
Florida. With the greening it is recommended to fertilize monthly
including the Winter. I have access to free cricket frass and the first
of every month a put a scoop or two around all my trees. For the leaf
minor I hit the tree with imidacloprid every 90 days which is not hard
to mix and drench the roots. After the tree becomes large the leaf minor
only attacks the new flushes. I don't hit them when the tree is flowering
I wait until April and then July and that takes care of most of the leaf minor
The past couple seasons I have skipped the imidacloprid. It doesn't hurt
the fruit production

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I didn't think any of them are seedless if there is a male?
How big are the seeds? Were the fruit enjoyable with the seeds?

3 of my mango trees have the majority of their’ canopy pushing buds in my Biscayne Park yard. Hopefully most mango growers in south Florida have blooms starting too.

Please share your spray regiments and experience with spraying emerging panicles vs. not spraying.

One of the many mango things that confounds me is WHEN to spray.
I’ve heard you can sterilize flowers if you spray while open?

I’ve also heard some mango growers never spray during bloom at all, if you are one of these people please share your experience.

Would love to hear all failures and successes.

Weiss from this forum has given me some advice and I’d love to hear some more.

Thank you kindly

-Abe

Have you had problems with your blooms previously?

where do you get the cricket frass?

or do you have crickets in a box?

I owned a cricket farm, Acheta domestica is the genus and species of the grey cricket.
I sold 89,000,000 crickets one year
Anyway I am getting the frass from my old farm.

cricket frass
I usually mix a cup in a gallon of water and let simmer for 2-4 hours in the sun.
Also on the first of every month I have been giving my potted plants
fish emulsion. I have 4 jabos in pots and they really seem to be responding

My friends Lula tree was loaded this year. What a fantastic avocado.
The last ones got picked  a week ago
Is there a better tasting late season avocado?

I had a couple and those were very juicy and to me mild flavored
No tartness which I like. They definitely didn't remind me of peach flavor

You want to graft around mid February to beginning of March in Florida.
The best time is before the annonas push their Spring growth.
This is tricky because the two cold days Dec 24th and Dec 25th caused
some of my annonas to push after the 80F days. Then we had 2 nights with frost
and Winter isn't over. If you do graft and a cold front comes through I would
protect the grafts and bring them in.
As Galatians522 stated cherimoya is the preferred rootstock or maybe even better would
be to graft onto African Pride seedlings. Sometimes you have to use what you have this season
and prepare better for next season