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Tropical Fruit Discussion / New guanabana disease?
« on: May 18, 2019, 11:26:36 PM »
About 18 months ago, my guanabana tree started getting infected with the disease shown in the pictures below. At present, I lose almost 100% of my crops to it. Any ideas what it is?









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It seems like this has been a low disease pressure year for mangoes here in FL. So far, no MBBS on any of my trees. Crops seem like they're be a little early this year compared to last, which could help in mitigating disease.

Anybody with MBBS yet?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Jackfruit Brix
« on: May 08, 2019, 11:27:51 PM »
I got a reading of 38.2 on my NS1. Seems high. What's a normal brix read on a jack?



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Site Outage
« on: July 16, 2018, 04:39:32 PM »
A quick heads-up on the recent outage:

GoDaddy shut us down when our database surpassed 1GB, and it took several calls to support to get it restored. For the meantime, I've disabled the built-in full-text engine (which is used to make searches run more quickly), since it used nearly 600MB worth of DB space. Removing that got us back under the magical 1GB threshold. Because of this, searches will run a little more slowly than usual, and we encourage you to use the google search over the forum search.

Moving forward, we will need to eventually upgrade our hosting plan to a VPS (virtual private server), which is more expensive. But disabling the search indexing buys us time.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Florida Mangoes for Sale
« on: June 21, 2018, 09:27:57 PM »
We have about 30 different cultivars. We're located in Tamarac near Commercial and University. Message me for address. Price is $2 / pound.

Also, we can ship within the continental US (just not to CA). Large USPS priority boxes are $50, which includes the shipping fee.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / High rainfall == Low brix?
« on: May 29, 2018, 07:21:26 PM »
Most of my mangoes to date have been low in brix. Is anybody else noticing this? Is it due to the rain?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Rain = Washed Out Mango Flavor?
« on: June 20, 2017, 05:25:50 PM »
Has anybody been having issues with washed out mango flavor due to the rain? The first crop (in May) was good, but the mangoes that have been ripening over the past few days have been watery / lacked brix from my trees.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / A 3rd mango bloom?
« on: April 03, 2017, 11:46:08 AM »
I have a third mango bloom, presumably induced by that chill we had here in South FL a couple of weeks ago. Right now, I have large mangoes from the first bloom (Nov of last year), tiny mangolettes from the bloom of about a month ago, and newly emerging blooms -- all on the same trees! This is going to be a very long mango season :-).

In 12 years of mango growing, I don't ever remember having mango blooms emerging in April. And I certainly don't recall having blooms spanning a 5 - 6 month period (Nov - Apr).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Time to spray sulfur
« on: March 17, 2017, 01:17:34 PM »
I started noticing powdery mildew on a couple of my mango trees, so this note may be a little late. Some trees are very sensitive to sulfur -- lemon zest is the worst in my yard -- so try not to spray tender foliage with sulfur. Also, try to spay at dusk.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Bloom Fairy Coming to South Florida
« on: December 28, 2016, 11:15:17 AM »
We're supposed to hit lows in the low 50's this week! This should be sufficient to induce bloom on the holdouts.

https://weather.com/weather/5day/l/33321:4:US

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / 7HotDates.com -- The Finest Dates in the US
« on: November 29, 2016, 09:47:12 PM »
For those of you with a sweet tooth or anybody looking for a nice holiday gift, I'd like to recommend 7hotdates.com. Their dates are absolutely spectacular -- light years better than anything you can find in the store and organic to boot.

My 2 favorites are Khadrawy and Medjool (wet pack!). I just finished off 11 pounds worth :-).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / 7springsfarm Cyber Monday 10% Off
« on: November 23, 2016, 07:31:31 PM »
7Springs already has the best prices. An extra 10% off is a great deal.

http://www.7springsfarm.com/

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Hartilizer is here !
« on: October 02, 2016, 12:01:30 AM »
I was just informed that the Hartilizer is now available for sale! It's Har's (Guanabanus) new formulation (probably a replacement for the old 8-3-9, which I think he also formulated?) -- a 0-3-16 with slow release potassium (very hard to find) and an awesome mix of micros containing Mn, Mg, Zn, B, Cu, Fe, Mo, S, and Ca. I ordered 10 bags! Get it while it lasts!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Cac / Coc (aka Cát) == Sand
« on: July 11, 2016, 02:42:27 PM »
A Vietnamese couple stopped by today and demystified the name of the Cac / Coc mango for me. It's actually spelled Cát, and the meaning of the word is "sand." The mango is named "sand" because of the prominent black lenticels that the mangoes develop. The more lenticels, the sweeter the mango according to this couple.

The pronunciation sounds like "gack," which is probably why the mango was named "cac."

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Calcium Deficiency on Calcareous Soil?
« on: May 31, 2016, 03:33:32 PM »
Earlier this year, I laid down potassium sulfate to correct a potassium deficiency (per soil test). The soil was already really high in both Mg and Ca, so I figured K-sulfate would be the best. Shortly after I did that, my NS-1 jackfruit (which was covered with fruit) stressed and started showing what look to be signs of Ca deficiency.

Thoughts? Did all that water soluble potassium compete with Ca?




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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Tehuacan / Victoria Orange?
« on: April 29, 2016, 09:47:45 PM »
Does anybody know of a budwood source of the Tehuacan / Victoria orange in the US? It's a mutation / budsport of a valencia that has absolutely zero acidity. I find it insipid, but my wife loves it. It's very popular in El Salvador, but I haven't seen it yet in the U.S., and I'm afraid to bring back budwood due to the potential for disease transmission.

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My wife really wants one of these. They taste like sugar (a lot of sugar) mixed with water. Probably a little simple for my taste, but my wife will not stop talking about it until I can find her one. There is a tree at the spice park, but they don't root (easily) from cuttings, and I don't have rootsock right now for grafting. Anybody know where I can find one here in Broward or Palm Beach? Does excalibur propagate them?

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Now that our mango trees are in bloom, it's time to start thinking about fungus abatement. For those of us with larger collections, it doesn't make financial sense to purchase fungicides in small quantities (via Home Depot, Amazon, etc).

I found a place that sells a wide array OMRI listed products in bulk sizes at very reasonable prices. The place is called Seven Springs Farm (http://www.7springsfarm.com/).

I've ordered from them in the past and had a really good experience. This year I ordered a flowable sulfur product called THAT (http://www.7springsfarm.com/that-flowable-sulfur-2-5-gallon-on-sale/). It's not (yet) OMRI listed, but uses the same micronized sulfur that is found in powder OMRI listed products. Even with shipping, the overall price is really good. I could probably find a comparable product at a slightly better price by driving to AFEC or Helena Chemical, but the convenience of home delivery is awesome.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Flower or Foliage / Friend or Foe
« on: January 26, 2016, 03:35:54 PM »
My mauritius has lots of these right now. Any of the lychee experts know what it could be? Tree is over 9 years old and has produced fruit only once in 2010.

(I removed the leaves :-)





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Is it just me, or does anyone else remember that there used to be an off topic section? All in the sudden, it vanished. Poof... :-)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / A New Maha Chanok Convert
« on: June 07, 2015, 08:18:30 PM »
I finally got to try the Harry Chanok at its perfect state of ripeness, and I have to say that Hausman was right -- it's a stellar mango. It's a bit like a cross between nam doc and sweet tart mango: super sweet with a subtle sub acid and the "coca cola" flavor near the rind. Yummy.

My tree, which I grafted from a Harry Chanok 3 or 4 years ago is in a 15 gal pot and rooted into the ground. This year it produced around a dozen mangoes. Looks like I'm finally going to plant her out in the yard :-).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / I heard that Lemon Zest is a shy producer
« on: April 25, 2015, 03:32:01 PM »
The rumor mill must have been right. I only count about 100 on my 4 year old tree. Darnit, I should have listened to the generalizations / anecdotes about Dr Campbell's trees being unthrifty. Who's this crazy Gary Zill anyhow?? Ugg why didn't I listen to the pros!









My golden queens are sizing up nicely. I think these babies are going to be over 5 pounds when they ripen. Flesh on the drops has a deep golden yellow (hence the name?).



Hard to see, but the Dot is also a shy producer. Darn, I should have listened to the xperts at blind island nursery. This tree sucks.



Finally got around to snapping a shot of my larger vexator.


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www.7springsfarm.com

I had a great experience with them. Great prices and the convenience of shipping.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Emperor Lychee Preferred Soil?
« on: September 18, 2014, 07:27:37 PM »
Anybody know what's lacking in Broward / Dade soils that leads to poor condition of emperor lychee trees? I've seen the same thing in many different soils -- all in-ground emperor lychee trees do horribly.

Mine was growing exceptionally well and beautifully for many years in a 15 gal pot (mixture of black kow, peat, perlite, sand). As soon as I dropped it into the ground, the decline started.

Do they need acid soil? Anybody know?

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