The Tropical Fruit Forum

I have not found much about Bordeaux mix in this forum and was wondering if it is not effective as a fungicide? The internet claims that Bordeaux mix is a good organic fungicide that has been used since the 19th century.
Has anyone used Bordeaux mix as a fungicide for their trees?

This season will it be possible to patronize some of the forum members who have fruit stands and businesses on Pine Island.

I’d also like to know. I am oddly drawn to PI and would support members businesses there.

Around Christmas, I spoke to the owner of a mango farm on stringfellow road (not Fruitscapes) and he did not think he’d have any mango for this year. His farm was impassable from all the fallen trees, he told me.

Bought this Carrie mango tree in April/May. Got knocked down pretty hard by Ian. Still loaded with flowers. Waiting for the fruits to form to nip off .

@palmcity: Interesting to know about other brands of copper vs Bonide, which get pretty good reviews on Amazon. I was going to go with Southern Ag brand, as it is available at local ACE hardware.
I did not do any spraying last year - I was clueless about growing fruit trees besides buying and putting them in ground, and i had quite a bad case of anthracnose and powdery mildew on my fruiting Kiew Yai. At that time i thought the anthracnose was from the freeze, and powdery mildew was from the spiders. lol

As mentioned in here before, be very careful about the time of day and amount of Neem oil you apply to your tree, lest you burn the hell out of your leaves.  Been there, done that.

Acknowledged. Thanks.

Thank you all.

@EddieF: The stuff that I bought - pics below, did not have dosage for mango trees. I recall reading somewhere and people used 2-6 ounces of this stuff, so i went with 4 ounces/gallon. To play safe, I used a garden hose to blast off the residue from the trees that I sprayed.

@mangomongo: so i only spray if I expect my mango trees to fruit? Even if my young trees show sign of anthracnose, and they are not expected to fruit, do I wait to spray until they are expected to fruit?
Edit: the answer appears to be yes, if I understand correctly your response in another thread about spraying vs. not spraying.

Thanks again, everyone.

I've been eating Noble Juicy Crunch Tangerines, bought at Detwiler's Farmers market, for a while without even realizing it. My last tangerine gave me 2 seeds that I will try to germinate. Will go to Detwiler tomorrow for some more.

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My loquat tree is slated to go to make room for my jujube. I bought the loquat tree because I heard it was one of “preppers” fruit trees. when the tree fruited last year, the fruits tasted so sour it was disappointing.

Picture below is my Carrie mango tree. I bought it @ 7 Gallon in April of last year. It stands @ around > 5 feet tall, and every terminal of the tree is blooming.
I am leaning towards removing the panicles/fruits and waiting until next year. I am curious what others have done with their mango trees in a similar situation. Did you let it fruit and how did it turn out? etc. Did you decide when to let the mango tree fruit based on the time in ground or height, trunk's diameter?
Thanks.

Thanks all.

@johnb51, I believe so.
A southwestern Vietnamese has just told me that they had heard coc mango in Vietnam, but the term coc implies to anything that is small or tiny.
So, a coc mango implies a small mango of any variety.