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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is anyone growing the Thomas variety of Sapodilla?
« on: October 28, 2024, 01:29:54 AM »
Johnny, I can see lots of flowers on your tree. Is it first year to flower? Any fruit set?
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Just grabbed a 30 meter roll from Ebay and it was around $24. Shipping from Britain expected to arrive by the end of October. Plenty of time for spring and my first attempts at grafting!
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I have a small tree in 15g pot, 5’ tall including pot.
1/2 is Butterscotch, 1/2 is Alano.
Butterscotch has few flowers and few fruits.
Alano has more flowers and more fruits.
This is 1st year with fruits.
It gets fertilizer on occasions.
I’m trying to give it 1/4 cup Citrus-tone monthly.
It gets 1/2 gallon fertigation with 30 ppm N from MG water soluble fertilizer daily.
I haven’t hand pollinate it.
There is a method that pump pollens out onto your fingers.
You squeeze flowers with multiple fingers and transfer pollens to other flowers.
There is another method that use a #2 or #4 horse hair brush.
You poke every open flowers with the same brush.
I found the tiger 90 from somewhere online for around 37$ 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Probably left on the tree too long? Satsumas get puffy the longer they hang as well.
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.
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.
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
QuoteWhat 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.
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