The Tropical Fruit Forum

Reason I ask is I'm going to make a trailer for a 50 or so gallon tank I can tow behind the lawnmower and use to do soil drenches of liquid fertilizer. I was thinking a gallon/tree would be ok for now. After testing the 15gallon spray trailer im sure this will save me time and effort. I was contemplating getting the 4 gal battery powered backpack sprayer and it was the same price (100$) as a 15gal tank with pump and 15' sprayer hose and wand so I went with the larger. Had an extra car battery to run the pump so I got a battery box from wallmart for 12$. The 4gal sprayer isnt large enough for my property without filling it several times and backpacking it around in the dark. Here's the spray trailer, worked super good! Added a hole in the lid, a small section of garden hose, pre-filter, and a quick connect so I don't have to stand holding the hose.

This was a 1/20 tree I had ordered the seeds in August of 2021. It did flower at about a foot tall last year so I kept it separated and a few others. 1 other is flowering but not setting fruit. I've not tried hand pollination either, shocked it's holding 2 fruit. Just more waiting and observing until judgment day comes.

Seems like it was labeled properly from the nursery since its flowering so much later than any other tree I have. I'm doubtful it will hold fruit since it's only pushing 5'. Still an exciting sight to see.

Good morning all. I made some of these racks to keep the rats from eating the emerging seedling. They work great! I'm just to the point where I'm done collecting the seeds and moving onto larger pots. I'm not looking to profit off them and willing to trade for some cool plant(s). I have 3 available now and 1 in use for the next year. They are made for tree pots and 3.5" pot grow trays. Thanks for looking. Have a nice day!

Just wondering what the water requirements are for flowering dragonfruit to set fruit? I have them on a drip line controlled by a manual valve. Typically 2 days a week is what I do, leaving it on for several hours after forgetting then turning it off. I will be adding a controller and some solenoids for the different zones soon. Thanks for any tips anyone has.

First off there have only been great people offering products and everything on the forum has been amazing and consistently easy/friendly. Ebay has been good to me, not 1 bad experience over years and years. But there really is a bad egg out there and it stinks of bad ethics. Let me introduce to you my worst purchase ever. (Let me know if I'm wrong, that plant doesn't have the opposit leaf growth as a maprang should have)
 Persea Americana Puerto Rico-etsy
Sells mango trees labeled as "gandaria" mango.
The definition of gandaria is a bouea macrophylla. I tried using translate from Spanish but it kept telling me the bouea macrophylla was gandaria. I tried giving the benefit of the doubt but now the small price for me will hopefully make everyone aware of the scam. The seller responds to my accusation of the plant not being a "gandaria" by saying "what did you expect, its a small mango".......it's not very funny but for f-s sake I expected a gandaria lol not a small mango. Grrrrrrr, this shop has to be the most despicable place to purchase a plant. That was my rookie mistake about 8 months ago.
Got any plant purchasing mistakes?? Go ahead and spill the beans........
Have a great day everyone and don't make these mistakes.

Good morning all, I am wondering if anyone has made a multi rootstock tree they could share some of the experience. Observed it growing much quicker? Do the  differing genetics in the rootstock help with nutrient uptake? I have lots of seedlings I've been collecting of mango, longan, sapodilla, garcinias, eugenias, and loquats for some experimenting.
If anyone has a picture of a mature multigrafted rootstock tree I'd really appreciate seeing its splendor. I suppose if nobody does I will keep a log and some pictures when the time comes to share the experience amongst the community. Thank you!

I got seeds for garcinia intermedia a while back and it's definitely not intermedia. Thanks fellas.

I planted these about a year ago and the Vietnamese white has some flower buds forming. Is there a way to tell when the flower will open so I don't miss my chance to pollinate the open flower? I see some ants on there and going to do a spray of neem oil, soap and seaweed extract to help fight any aphids plus give some nutrients. Thanks for any tips to help increase chances of fruit set and plant health.

I have a small lancitilla mango tree not producing yet. My buddy says his tree gets splitting every year from the heavy rains and seems it's common with this mango. I'm wondering if anyone has tried tarpping the ground around the tree to try to block the water from soaking the root system or tried any other measures to get around this problem. Worst case I just top work the tree into another variety. Thanks fellas!

I've tried to find some pictures to help me identify what it's deficient of and could find anything. It's been about a month since I gave it 3 tablespoons of vigo citrus avocado fertilizer. There's a bit of grass close to it so maybe I just didn't give it enough. It says on florida growing site November and December to not fertilize so I'm hesitant on giving it more food. Any help getting it back on track would be appreciated. Thanks all

I included a picture of my redlands white sapote. It's really the only plant that has chlorosis. The drip line hasn't been used for a couple months. Using the well water here in southwest florida has a ph of 8 here. I do have a drip line installed and would like to find a solution to the bicarbonate buildup. So far doing research I've found gypsum and elemental sulfur can be used to buffer the ph by amending the soil on a regular basis. Does anyone use a water de scaler like the limetron so that the bicarbonate can leach out easier? Install a water treatment acid injector? Both descaler and acid injector? Maybe it's best I just convert the driplines to rainwater and plumb in my gutters to multiple collection tanks and re-plumb the irrigation main? Would be nice if there was a method involving less work and more effectiveness. Just trying to find a solution before rainy season ends and I start using it again. Thank for your help in this topic.