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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help with sapodilla
« on: September 14, 2024, 07:43:15 PM »
Quote from: Seanny on September 14, 2024, 02:36:22 PM
I have a small tree in 15g pot, 5’ tall including pot.
1/2 is Butterscotch, 1/2 is Alano.
Butterscotch has few flowers and few fruits.
Alano has more flowers and more fruits.
This is 1st year with fruits.

It gets fertilizer on occasions.
I’m trying to give it 1/4 cup Citrus-tone monthly.
It gets 1/2 gallon fertigation with 30 ppm N from MG water soluble fertilizer daily.

I haven’t hand pollinate it.
There is a method that pump pollens out onto your fingers.
You squeeze flowers with multiple fingers and transfer pollens to other flowers.
There is another method that use a #2 or #4 horse hair brush.
You poke every open flowers with the same brush.

How long you have your tree in the pot?  A picture or 2 of the plant would be nice.  Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Elemental sulfer
« on: August 03, 2024, 06:56:04 PM »
Quote from: spaugh on August 03, 2024, 12:31:08 PM
Quote from: Lovetoplant on August 03, 2024, 03:38:28 AM
Quote from: spaugh on August 03, 2024, 12:41:37 AM
Quote from: Lovetoplant on August 02, 2024, 11:14:35 PM
Quote from: spaugh on August 02, 2024, 06:53:28 PM
I found the tiger 90 from somewhere online for around 37$ a bag shipped so I got a couple of those and will give it a try.  Couldn't find it anywhere cheaper.

Brad, is your soil alkaline?

yes the soil is slightly alkaline and the water is PH 8.

Ok thanks.  Have you ever thought about adding sulfuric acid to your irrigation system?   I read online that commercial blueberry growers are using it.

The thought has crossed my mind but I am not sure about the cost or where to get it.  I know you can buy battery acid thats the same stuff pure from Autozone but that could get expensive fast.

I bought sulfuric drain opener from Walmart.  A quart cost like $5.  I use very little of it at a time added to  a 5gal water.  But I have a small yard

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Elemental sulfer
« on: August 03, 2024, 03:38:28 AM »
Quote from: spaugh on August 03, 2024, 12:41:37 AM
Quote from: Lovetoplant on August 02, 2024, 11:14:35 PM
Quote from: spaugh on August 02, 2024, 06:53:28 PM
I found the tiger 90 from somewhere online for around 37$ a bag shipped so I got a couple of those and will give it a try.  Couldn't find it anywhere cheaper.

Brad, is your soil alkaline?

yes the soil is slightly alkaline and the water is PH 8.

Ok thanks.  Have you ever thought about adding sulfuric acid to your irrigation system?   I read online that commercial blueberry growers are using it. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Elemental sulfer
« on: August 02, 2024, 11:14:35 PM »
Quote from: spaugh on August 02, 2024, 06:53:28 PM
I found the tiger 90 from somewhere online for around 37$ a bag shipped so I got a couple of those and will give it a try.  Couldn't find it anywhere cheaper.

Brad, is your soil alkaline?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Why Fruits Sold on Etsy Taste so Bad?!
« on: May 13, 2024, 03:27:52 AM »
Quote from: Sir Graftalot on May 10, 2024, 03:26:13 PM
Quote from: SDPirate on May 10, 2024, 03:16:24 PM
That guy sells to Specialty Produce sometimes.  Yet people were giving flak for the prices there that I posted like ugh...there's no other source for maprang in all of California?  Or abiu...or sugar apple... Of course it is going to have a high price tag, its an exotic fruit with no one having a fruiting tree probably within 2000 miles of here.

I bought abiu from a TFF member before; cherimoya and custard apple are rather easy to find as well, but for some reason, no one sells sugar apple.

Are not custard apple and sugar apple the same fruit, just different name?  I brought back Thai sugar apple seeds from Thailand last year and they are growing inside my greenhouse.  Is the sugar apple different to grow without putting it inside the greenhouse?  Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: White spots on young mango stems and leaves , please help!
« on: April 10, 2024, 11:40:21 PM »
I believe it’s too humid environment inside your greenhouse.  I had the same issues.   Install a portable dehumidifier should help.  I turn it on at dusk up until 5 am, in the winter. I set it at 55%

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Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles / Re: Sweet Potato
« on: April 09, 2024, 02:49:51 AM »
Quote from: JCorte on November 20, 2021, 03:05:06 PM
I’ve been growing sweet potatoes in raised bed under other fruit trees and plants for years.



Janet

Janet, you mentioned that you harvested Okinawa tubers near the surface of the soil.  Tubers I found were all deeper than a foot deep.  Any idea of how to have it grow the tubers near surface? Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: grafting guava
« on: February 21, 2024, 01:41:39 AM »
Quote from: Seanny on July 10, 2022, 01:55:42 AM
Quote from: BobHawks on July 09, 2022, 09:40:43 PM
Seanny
your approach graft looks to have 2 different diameter branches contacting each other??  am i seeing that right?
shouldn't they be the same size so the cambien matches up

Bob,

You can think of an approach graft as a bark graft, without cutting the scion off the donor.
Peel a strip of bark off the rootstock.

Seanny what is your success rate with this method?
Slice a veneer of bark off the scion.
Wrap them.

Rootstock can be much bigger than scion.
No need to remove wood.
No need to line up.

If you do the textbook way, you need to remove wood.
So you have to line up the cambium.

I do approach a little differently.
I remove a ring of bark on the scion, right below the part for where I would graft.
I scrape off the cambium, like doing an air-layering.
I peel a strip of bark off each rootstock and each scion.
I wrap them.
Below the graft is the wood of the scion, without bark.
All the hormones from the scion goes into healing the graft instead of going down to the donor roots.




I forgot to remove ring of bark at graft time.
So I had to remove it later, lower than where I liked.

Seanny what is your success rate with this method?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: CO2 Generator
« on: February 21, 2024, 01:23:43 AM »
Thank you to all you guys for all of the inputs and advice.  I really appreciate it.  Looks like it will not be worth to have it inside my greenhouse. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / CO2 Generator
« on: February 19, 2024, 05:15:49 PM »
Just bought a CO2 Generator and intend to install it inside my greenhouse.  Has anyone experienced using it?  If so, do you notice any difference in plants growth?  It's supposed to generate heat inside the greenhouse.  So I wonder if it can be used only in the winter?  Thanks

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Chlorosis or something else?
« on: January 27, 2024, 01:36:30 AM »
Thanks.  What types/brands of soil are you using for the citrus in pots?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Very puffy Kishu mandarins
« on: January 23, 2024, 11:30:10 PM »
Quote from: vnomonee on December 29, 2023, 04:35:41 PM
Probably left on the tree too long? Satsumas get puffy the longer they hang as well.

Will satsuma still taste good if left on the tree for long time?  My satsuma just starting to produce last season

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Chlorosis or something else?
« on: January 23, 2024, 11:25:44 PM »
Quote from: sc4001992 on November 08, 2023, 11:24:18 PM
I grow a lot of citrus varieties, and if that was my tree, I would be nervous. Is the fruit showing the same pattern as the leaf, can't tell from your photos but it kinda looks like it.

Kaz, are you doing anything to deter Asian citrus psyllid?  Or any preventative measures?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Let's close this issue once and for all
« on: January 22, 2024, 09:29:10 PM »
Tomato 😂

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Do you guys propagate during the winter? If so, how?
« on: December 16, 2023, 12:28:00 AM »
Quote from: nullzero on November 28, 2023, 12:01:13 PM
Humidity Dome, LED grow lights, temp controlled heatmat. That is usually the standard setup. I set my heatmat at 75f to 78f.

Run grow lights half the day. I do seeds and cuttings.

Any good particular brand of the heating pad you use?
Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mangos in san diego
« on: November 07, 2023, 09:43:37 PM »
Quote from: Johnny Eat Fruit on November 03, 2023, 06:08:00 PM
Hi Simon,

Interesting you had no issues with Pineapple Pleasure at your house. At my location it is a poor performer but it could have been a rootstock issuue as well as the bark was pealing and it appeared to have disease issues.

My Pina Colada mango tree inside my greenhouse is doing very well and I finally did get my Coconut cream to fruit. Hopefully next year I will get more.

Good Luck

John can you post  the picture of you pina colada tree inside your greenhouse?

Johnny

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Free Yangmei Giveaway
« on: November 06, 2023, 09:57:56 PM »
11 or 14

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: TAF Mango Scions Now Available! (not an April Fool's joke)
« on: November 05, 2023, 12:38:44 AM »
Quote from: fliptop on November 04, 2023, 04:54:05 PM
Was unable to make the drive to WPB, so had the Tong Dam shipped. Very pleased with the tree I received -- thank you, Alex and Becky!



Very top ripen eating Thai variety. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: California FALL MEET UP: NOVEMBER (Guava convention)
« on: October 28, 2023, 05:26:47 PM »
Quote from: K-Rimes on October 28, 2023, 11:57:05 AM
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What variety is this guava?

It's an SP, but the few collectors who have it call it "Skittles". It really does remind me of Skittles  candy. I have two of them, one produces prolifically as shown and is very squat and small, another I have is really big but for whatever reason doesn't set any fruits even though it has flowered two years in a row.

Thank you. Leaves look nice and elongated.  I have a very old variety, Xali.  It is 30years old and I am thinking to top work some on its branches to different varieties

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: California FALL MEET UP: NOVEMBER (Guava convention)
« on: October 28, 2023, 12:12:36 AM »
Quote from: K-Rimes on September 11, 2023, 03:54:34 PM
I'm hoping to modify the date into November, my guavas are progressing faster than expected and looks like early - mid November will be peak.

Anyone else have guavas lined up for then?






What variety is this guava?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Latest flush on mango has weird leaves
« on: October 17, 2023, 12:16:47 AM »
Following.  Sometimes my newly flush get that too

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What do you think of my Dragon Fruit Trellis?
« on: October 16, 2023, 01:12:23 AM »
I use 2x4 redwood

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: How to soil drench potted citrus to combat Asian Citrus Psyllids?
« on: October 05, 2023, 01:38:08 AM »
Quote from: Daintree on September 02, 2023, 09:20:14 AM
Yes, all my citrus are in pots. For a 25 gallon pot I use 2ml of the concentrate in a few cups of water. I water normally first, wait a few days then dose with the drench. Now, we don't have ACPs here, but do have other psyllids, plus various other pests. I have also had good luck with a spray of LUCID in addition to the LADA. Both are made my Rotam. The LUCID has the advantage of being a good miticide too, and I have problems with spider mites sometimes.

Carolyn

Isn't imidacloprid a systematic pesticide?  Can you eat the fruits after?

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Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles / Re: Garlic
« on: September 24, 2023, 09:14:33 PM »
Quote from: Galatians522 on September 21, 2023, 11:15:03 PM
Quote from: Lovetoplant on September 21, 2023, 10:25:22 PM
My only garlic plant flowered and turn to black seeds.  What you guys think of growing them from seeds?

Go for it. Garlic greens can be eaten lile chives, so you will get something to eat out of it for sure.

Thank you

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Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles / Re: Garlic
« on: September 21, 2023, 10:25:22 PM »
My only garlic plant flowered and turn to black seeds.  What you guys think of growing them from seeds?

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