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This is one of my ponderosa lemon trees.
It's 4 years old from a small cutting and now planted in "soil" and producing  plenty of juicy lemons all year round.
This variety seems perfectly adapted to the hot tropical climate of the philippines unlike other varieties i've here.





Apart from an evident zinc deficiency (that I'm trying to correct with Zinc sulphate solution spraying) this tree has never given any problem.
Nevertheless, lately i noticed that somethig strange is happening.
Some branches have weird "leaning" leaves with a wilted appearence.
I looked out for worms/borers, parasites but i couldn't spot anything.
In some pictures it's evident the difference between the upright normal leaves and the  sick ones.
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance!

My 2 grafted pomelos are both about 3 years old.
In general they look quite healthy but i'm a bit worried because the branches are spreading and have a "dropping"  ruffled look as if the top the new growth were too heavy
Should i prune them? And if yes, severely? Or this is the normal shape of their canopy?
To be noticed that (unfortunately)  they never flowered/fruited  yet.... 
Thanks for any advice!

I am willing to re-pot my feminello zagara bianca lemon and i've a question.
Since I am planning to keep it in a pot for life (not transferring it into the open soil) is it a good idea to drop it straight into its final destination (a 25 gallons pot) or better to gradually step-up with pot sizes until i will reach the final one?
If this is the case, what is the best  size increase every step? 
The current pot is  2 gallons sized 

Hello everybody this is my 5 y.o. grafted Keitt mango.
It looks a bit ruffled (i've read it's quite common for this variety) but overall healthy.





Nevertheless there are several leaves showing a strange form of yellowing.
First some dark brown spots appear then the leaves start yellowing and eventually fall down.
I couldn't spot any scritters/mites/aphids/insects inspecting both leaf sides with a 20x magnifying lens.
Any idea?
I attach pictures of both sides of the leaves in three different stages as disease is progressing....

I am just back fro ma trip to Davao Mindanao.
Davao is considered the fruit capital of the Philippines and worlwide known for red sweet  pomelo, durian and other fruits.
Just sharing my wonderful experience 

Durian and Marang seem to grow everywhere  from the simple gardens to the wild forest.
Thy evidently like the fertile loamy deep soil and the copious evenly ditributed rainfall.
Here some wind marang teees, they can really get wnormous mst of them with an upright growing habit:
now it's NOT marang season nevertheless, some trees are bearing small fruits


 






Here a marang and a durian are growing wild close to each other





Mangosteen is uncomon in the wild but there are some very nice plantations in the higher hills (cooler, heavier yearly rainfall)
Trees look so green and healthy!
All these are seedlings of about 10 years old. Notice the bushy pyramidal growing habit.
According to the owner seedlings are preferred because grafted trees bear a couple of years earlier (6 years instead of but their production declines faster during time and trees are more subjects to die,





Here a detail of the leaves so green, glossy and gorgeous





Some durian trees are also bearing small fruits now.
As i said no it's NOT  season for marang/durian/mangosteen.
Best time is august/september






Here some pictures of the several fruit markets.
Pomelos are SOOOOOOOO amazingly sweet.
Marang so creamy and delicious.





I couldn't resist to temptation and i devoured a whole marang right at the market






Durian .....well....the king of fruits has a category itself!
There are several varieties available.
This one is locally called ARANCILLO. Fruit are small with a yellow pulp.
Smell is very very light.  taste. is super good...impossible to describe, i would say ADDICTIVE!







This is one of my favourite variety locally called  PUYAT.
Fruits can vary in size flesh is thick, orange color.
Seeds are small, flat, i doubt they can be viable. being so flat the amount of edible flesh is really great.
Very little if any smell (pleasant NOT stinky!) super creamy texture, exceedingly sweet with so complex taste and many overtones similar i'd say to a great whisky cream.
I could eat them non-stop 












NOTE: for anybody asking....... I didn't bring any seeds home!
Now is NOT season and i want only fresh seeds from the best varieties harvested  during the top of season.
Im planning another trip in august 2018 

Well after 4 and a half year i got to know that my grafted mango tree is NOT the typical philippines mang oi was expecting but a totaly DIFFERENT Keitt Mango !!!

This is what i expected
https://www.tagaloglang.com/mangoes-of-the-philippines/

This is what i should get
http://tropicalfruitnursery.com/mango/keitt-mango.shtml

It's my fault since the little tree was bought by my wife and i never investigated until its "brother" another mango of the same bunch in my friend's garden bore unexpectedly huge and green fruits.
I suspected that something was wrong because of the strange growing habit of my tree very open with spreading, leaning slender branches giving it a quite ruffled appearance.

Has anyone experience with this KEITT variety?
Is it a KEEP or TRASH??
I'm puzzled 

I've some scions of a good pumelo but no available rootstock at time.
Is it possible to grafto onto a ponderosa lemon?
The lemon is in full growing stage, is cleft graft a good choice?

Mexico has just been rocked by a devastating 8.1 magnitude earthquake.
I hope all mexican members of the forum and their familes  are safe and i wish to express all my solidarity to them

Here come the sweetest and most awaited moment for every fruit lover 
After 4 years my guyabano seedling fruited!
Last year the tree had about 30 flowers but didn't set any fruit.
This year just 20 flowers but is bearing 6 fruits already.











This is the fruit i harvested today as it ripened getting  yellowish with thorns far apart from each other and soft to the touch















The fruit was a bit over 1.2 kg (2.6 pounds) Flesh was not fibrous but more on the crisp-creamy side.
Taste was really superb, very sweet (compared to the other many guyabano i tried) with a hint of sour to create a nice balanced flavour.
I just wanted to share my happiness with the members of this forum, thanks everybody for the many ideas/advices/help you give me everyday! 

P.S.
For my (very) limited experience annona muricata comes true from seeds since i got the same kind of fruit as the one I got my seeds from

Hello! I'm looking for VIABLE seeds and/or cuttings of sweet tamarind (tamrindus indica).
I tried several times to germinate seeds from the pods i bought in supermarket (a very sweet variety from Thailand) but all my attempts have been unsuccessful

Among the fruit trees i've in my garden this one is really surprising me.
Peanut butter fruit tree Bunchosia xxxx I don't want to enter the dispute about the taxonomy (argentea, armeniaca, glandulifera....)
No need to wait for YEARS to get a reward to your effort.
I planted a small seedling ( about 20cm or 3/4 ft ) last september 2016.
In beginning of april 2017 i had already harvested a couple of fruits.
Now, the tree is full blooming and at the same has plenty of ripening fruits.
The taste is  really unique, not very sweet but pleasantly sweet and with a dense, buttery texture and a peanut aftertaste.
By the way, according to the scientific research it's also healthy being very antioxidant rich (thus the intense red colour).
I love it 

Among my citrus trees there is one that i love particularly.
It's a nearly 3 years old pomelo SEEDLING.
It's growing steadily with a graceful shape (uncommonly not straight upright) a strong thorny trunk and a dense, thornless canopee.



I've the feeling that it might start to flower in just a couple of years.
Unfortunately the last months I didn't notice any new growth, it's like the plant stopped despite watering and fertilizing.
This is how they look some of the leaves now.
Are these the early symptoms of citrus greening?

I finally found a great quality jackfruit in my place and i'd like to try to reproduce it by marcotting / air layering.
Since i've no experience with jackfruit  but just with fig tree and mulberry (very easy) I'm asking for help.
Any advice/suggestion is well appreciated.
Thanks!