The Tropical Fruit Forum

Quote from: bovine421 on March 22, 2024, 01:30:15 PM

Quote from: Timbogrow on March 22, 2024, 07:59:56 AM

I used my 15 gal tank setup I got from hobo freight and sprayed everything with sulfur last week. I think the set up would improve with another pump to agitate the solution amd keep it mixed but even with the one pump I was impressed with the coverage it made on the trees. You could always filter the big chunks of sulfur out before adding to the holding chamber. Let us know how it works with fixed plumbing, sounds like a game changer.

Your ideal starting to grow on me I may have been too ambitious thinking I could irrigate 10 trees at a time but I could add a threaded pvc attachment above the cut off valve to be able to couple a hose and spray sulfur for about 3 minutes which would be a gallon as an experiment then potentially more trees

If you have a riding mower then I highly suggest it. I just drive around the trees and spray at the same time. I'll have to time the process next go around. Also a friend of mine did the same thing but he got the 250gal ibc tote and a gas powered pump in the back of his older truck. He has a long garden hose attached to it and says it's been helping a lot with fruit setting on lemon zest.  Not sure the size of your property but I'm sure one of those ways would help.

I used my 15 gal tank setup I got from hobo freight and sprayed everything with sulfur last week. I think the set up would improve with another pump to agitate the solution amd keep it mixed but even with the one pump I was impressed with the coverage it made on the trees. You could always filter the big chunks of sulfur out before adding to the holding chamber. Let us know how it works with fixed plumbing, sounds like a game changer.

That should work real well if you have a large enough pump and/or if the pvc is a small enough diameter. That would really cut down on effort. I hope it works really well!

A few can crack the 2kg mark like Keitt, R2E2 and rabaul but these are very occasional fruit.

I still haven't sprayed my Powdery Mildew blooms with water, but we did get a couple intense rains recently. The PM remains, though. Hoping the newer blooms on the Pickering Seedling are able to fruit. The actual Pickerings in the yard are holding fruit in spite of PM. Ice Cream had full bloom and looks like it will hold onto nothing. Hopefully it will hold onto whatever grafts I put on it this upcoming summer to make that thing productive. Sugarloaf is hanging onto fruit in spite of PM, though not many fruitlets look clean.

The star of the show here is my Coconut Cream Seedling. No PM, some staggered blooms (some might say multiple crops?), and excellent fruit set.

Bolt mango I was very disappointed in last year tasting!Maybe to ripe.