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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Squirrels eat unripe mangoes
« on: June 04, 2022, 04:29:13 PM »
The squirrels are running wild, eating 50% of my green Maha Chanok, few Lemon Zest, and they could start chewing on the Sweet tart soon.

Need some suggestions to preserve the mangoes (beside killing or having a dog/cat).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Young guava tree not set fruit
« on: May 08, 2022, 01:35:17 PM »
I have a young Thai seedless guava tree (3-4ft). It's blooming profusely, however the flowers only half open and none had set fruit so far.

What can be done to get at least couple fruits this year? Anyone growing this varieties? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_3DOVTRIj8

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Thinning Mahachanok mango
« on: May 05, 2022, 07:23:53 AM »
My Maha 2nd bloom causes some concern due to heavy fruiting ;D (see pic). Should I thin out some?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Persimmon dormancy
« on: May 01, 2022, 11:13:25 AM »
How long a dormant bareroot persimmon usually break dormancy? It's appears my coffee cake and chocolate not showing any sign yet.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Question: when to graft rootstock?
« on: April 30, 2022, 07:55:37 AM »
Hello fruit tree experts  ;D,

I just got some Spice Zee scions and some Myrobalan 29C root stocks (with some leaves). My question is: should I want couple weeks for the rootstock to get established? or should I do the graft now (right after planting)?

Always appreciate your inputs.

JD 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Planting new persimmon tree advise
« on: April 20, 2022, 08:07:20 AM »
I just got a coffee cake and a chocolate persimmon trees. The trees are still dormant, thin trunk about 5ft with some branches on the top. The roots are not established.

My question is: should I top the trees? OR leave as they are maybe topping later when it got leaves and healthy root system?

Appreciate any advise.

-JD

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / What do you do to get high yield on your mango?
« on: January 28, 2022, 06:19:04 AM »
My LZ mango has prolific amount of flowers every season. However, it only yield few fruits. There are plenty of bees and flies for pollination. The tree is in it's 3rd season of fruiting.

My Maha mango has plenty of leaves but only few flowers. Is this something normal for a Maha? It's also a 5 yr old mango.

Thanks for any recommendation. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / What do you use to protect your lychee fruits?
« on: July 17, 2021, 12:31:18 PM »
I have nice lychee tree in my front yard that have plenty of fruits yearly. However, the squirrels and birds get to them before harvest. I wonder what tips/tricks that you guys use to protect the fruits?

Thanks,
Joe

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Leaves started to fall off new jackfruit tree.
« on: July 17, 2021, 08:06:30 AM »
A month ago, I just plant a new Borneo Red JF tree about 8-foot tall. First 2 weeks it look fine. However couple weeks ago, I'm afraid Elsa storm will break it so I cut about one and a half foot of the top. Also, I put a .5"x2" stake about half a foot from the trunk.

Couple weeks later, some leaves started to get yellow and fall off. I'm not sure because of the stake disturb the root or the top pruning that cause it. Since then, I had taken out the stake, also put some graft tape over the cut. Hopefully, I didn't kill it.

Any suggestions welcome?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / No mango in Florida this year. bummer.
« on: March 17, 2021, 03:25:50 PM »
It seems this year Florida mango flowers taking a serious hit of powdery mildew or some kind of fungus. We are living in the Tampa Bay area, and none of our mango are setting fruits. The flowers started to get darker, some look like powdery mildew. I tried sprayed tea tree oil, not much help.

Anyone in Florida has this problem?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Pruning young mango
« on: September 05, 2017, 01:34:44 AM »
I have a 3 year old Mahachanok 8ft tall tree planted this year. It keeps flushing constantly. I tip pruned couple months back the tree still in good shape. However the new growths spurt out fast and most of them (new growth) fell-over (sagging) horizontally. The tree shape is look ugly now. How far back should I prune this time? Should I trim it back all the new growth to build up the old branch strength? or just do what the book say (20-inches branch).

Thanks,
Joe

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