The Tropical Fruit Forum

Oranges are toast- rootstock is taking over already on those.
Grapefruit- they're still alive- but nursing them back to health probably won't be an option
i have a key Lime- that is doing ok- hasn't fruited in a while.

Meyer lemon is growing protected from psyllids.

Tango Tangerine has also resisted HLB.
All plants were acquired in 2022.

I've seen far fewer psyllids recently for whatever reason. I even used to see them on non citrus in really bad infestations. Citrus leaf miner picks up the slack- another awful pest. Key Lime seems to resist it best.

I notice Citrus is like apples up north- seems to attract every known insect pest to man.

Agree, if they yellow now, they are pretty much gone within a few days. You can remove them usually they will fall off at the slightest touch. The tree wasn't able to support them anyway

Pineflatwoods,

Is there anything you have been doing to encourage second bloom? The fruit set on my Carrie has been abysmal. I’ll be lucky if I get 4-5 mature fruit on it, at least on the first bloom. Heavy heavy male blooms, plus very strange weather (back again into the low 40s earlier this week)! Hoping it will put out a second bloom but would certainly try to encourage that process if possible.

The only thing I can think of is physically removing the bloom during an earlier part of the year say Dec-Jan. I have had deer browse terminal panicles- only for panicles to emerge from the axillaries a few weeks later. Since my trees are still young, I did not try to encourage a second bloom. Withholding water during a dry period will encourage bloom. I suspect day length also plays a part.

Your Carrie will most likely flower again from this weeks past cold front. My Dwarf Hawaiian trees set nothing in Dec-Jan, and now I'm pulling off 2-4 marble size fruit on each panicle.
I'm wondering if this is the play with varieties like Sugarloaf or Pineapple Pleasure that have flowers come out all male early, though PP usually sets pretty good for me.

About two weeks ago I planted  a 2’ tall Angie. Now I see weird panicles with rudimentary leaves and what looks like flower buds. That stupid girl has no idea what she is doing.
Do I need to just cut them off now?

what I do especially on a little tree is let it flower, remove any fruit set, then remove the whole panicle- by that time it will be plenty warm, and the next time it will probably flush regular leaves. The long winter wants to encourage a lot of trees to keep flowering.

I'm looking at about quarter to golf ball size fruits here, a lot of trees want to flush, but cold temps are holding things back- 50 tonight and 46 tomorrow

I had 3-4 trees small trees that already flowered and did not fruit, that I went ahead and tipped.

Sometimes it's a gamble , there's other trees that need to be tipped that are currently carrying fruit. I'll just wait until their gone to tip. Some trees, I went ahead and tipped late last summer anyway- and they ended up flowering on the axillaries.

This has my experience with this fruit as well- flavor is ok, texture and eating around the seeds is a huge mess and hassle. Definitely a good cash crop.

coming along nicely, GG. Getting a tree to fruit a year after grafting is satisfying. I planted a Tommy Atkins to practice with before I move to grafting seedlings.

GG, not sure in the case of this Angie, but I have several "undersize" trees holding a fruit or two- knowing full well they will flush growth on every other branch that isn't fruiting- just a thought. If it isn't meant to be - the tree will abort or shrivel up the majority of the time anyway

First picture is powdery mildew, second picture could be mites- I see a ton of small insects on the panicles always. Usually spiders will hang out and pick off a lot of what shows up.
Most of the products that take care of powdery mildew will also kill mites

that is anthracnose, you can try removing those panicles and see if you get a rebloom. If it bloomed during that wet January, there was little chance anyway with all the cold and wet.

I'd only speculate that the other pollinating parent was either a Gary or Keitt- probably the latter since, it's sweet and no hint of citrus. The tree is way more vigorous than Julie.

The super Julie mangoes I've had were basically much sweeter Julies, you get that same resinous spice flavor. If I get a fruit this year I can get a picture if I get one this year- but it's a very similar shape to Julie- color is red and not green. Somebody here said a while ago that if you are tasting more than one mango at a time- save this one for last- it's a stronger profile than many.

I think I'm going to use this thread as inspiration to re-plant a couple of the plants I put into pots, I just need to figure out the secret sauce in getting them to thrive.