The Tropical Fruit Forum

Unpruned, Carambolas get over 50 feet tall and plaster the ground with fallen fruits.  Trying to prune them at that point doesn't accomplish much, as they regrow like rockets.

Keep them small from the start, by bending branches into arches, all within easy bare-handed reach.

Amy K,
Spray with Copper.

Spaugh's recommendation on that other thread sounds reasonable.

probably aphids or scales.

Whitewashing tree trunks with lime is a traditional esthetic practice.  Doesn't hurt.  Helps?

Fruit Grower,
Trunk sunburn or freeze damage,
Weed whacker or wheelbarrow damage.

Cut whole tree off below the damage to re-grow from there,
or leave as is, and
keep tree very short, until wound heals over.  It will become hollow there.

I don't know anything about how far seepage will go.  I imagine that that will vary per soil, etc.

High nitrogen will degrade the quality of most mangos, perhaps India-type especially.

Nam Doc Mai is tolerant of high-Nitrogen.

Copper, Calcium, and Silicon are important to strengthen wood.

Normal bark aging, probably.

Looks as though a large insect or snail scraped the surface of the leaf.

I prefer to pollinate female-stage flowers on a tree when that tree's male-stage flowers are shedding pollen, or within the next couple of hours, or at the latest, when the male-stage flowers are dropping petals, which is when it would be natural for freshly exposed beetles covered with pollen to go seek out a female-stage flower to shelter in.

If you pollinate apparently female-stage flowers later than that, there may not be any remaining receptivity, especially in dry weather.

Good to know.

Dead tissue, from previous infections or spray burns.