The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yes I do cross pollinate them. There is a couple that are blooming like crazy and won't hold fruit but cosmic charley, haleys comet and the one that had 18fruits on it are holding fruit. Just noticed pink panther has some flower buds popping out.

My in ground 5' butterscotch has got some fruit holding. I think it's important for the sapodilla to have consistent watering. This one gets irrigation by dripline every other day. There are other flowering sapodillas also.

My biggest inga spectabalis tree burst out with flowers again. I noticed this morning. Bees were all over it so hopefully they did some good. Mine is nearing about 17-18ft tall and 20'wide and almost 3years old.

I ate about 6 mahas with my retriever today and she nabbed one while we were gone and it was sitting on the couch about to get murdered lol. It is an excellent fruit well worth growing.
 The flavors from the drought here on the west coast  have been phenomenal but just not a great season for newer trees to get that rainwater they like.

I have direct injection for the whole grove but i don't use it for nitrogen fertilizer as my mixed grove would be huge mistake for some fruit bearing trees even to much phosphorus and potassium fertilizer would be a no no.I have injected nematodes sf through the whole grove but your  orifice diameter should be close to 45 thousands or better.

I was wondering how bad some of these fertilizers clog the emitters. I've been running straight well water through mine and they still work all the way up to when I enlarge the rings from the growth they put on. I'm sure if I run fish emulsion through there they might get fouled up with gunk. Maybe I'll stick to what I've been doing. The trees look happy with what they get, it just becomes obsessive pleasing them 😆.

That is real slick, I like that. If I just extend my dripline zones from the hose end over to the well point I could have 1 injector. Then there's just the few plants converted from pop up sprinklers to figure out. I'll just draw it out from my property survey to come up with a good plan.

I'm going to have to re-plumb everything but in the end it will be easier to maintain. I have zones all over the place throughout the 3 acres. Some are on the sprinkler system converted to drip and some are on just drip. I just need to plumb all the zones from 1 spot so I can use 1 injector for all the zones and buy some 1" mainline and plumb out from my well point.

It depends how strong you are mixing it.  But if it is at the suggested rate you probably want at least 5 gallons.

If you want to do it the easy way, you can set up a mazzei injector on your sprinkler system.  Thats what I do.  Put a few pounds of dry water soluable fertilizer in a 5 gallon bucket, add water, and feed it to hundreds of trees at once while I stand around and have a beer.

That's sounds better than driving around with a trailer! Thanks Spaugh!

I do this with sf nematodes.In the evening with enough H2O to get them on damp soil surface they even kill fire ants!

Wow, impressive little buggers!

First of all, nifty and resourceful contraption!
As far as quantities, I would hope that whatever product you are using, be it fertilizer, insect control, etc gives you some sort of guidelines.

Carolyn

Thank you! Yea the neem, micros and foliar sprays give a ratio and that's probably impossible to mess up applying......I suppose what I'm trying to ask is if a gallon or 2 per fruit tree planted in the ground sufficient? I may need to upside the tank to 100gal and get pneumatic trailer tires and a small axle. So I don't sink in the sandy soil.

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.

I noticed that side of Florida has been getting a lot more rain than normal. It keeps saying rain possible afternoon and then nothing happens......any day now it should start coming down. At least the plants are getting well water being on a drip line.