The Tropical Fruit Forum

Julie, i made these for all my young trees.  Besides protecting from weed whacker, protects from bumping it.  Ive had one almost knocked over, another gouged from mower.
2x6x12 cut into 4.  Long screws hold them together.  Pre drill board its not screwing in.
Carpet has no backing.  This one was around Avocado that doesn't need it.
I tied low fruit up since photo.

Nice little set up Eddie, I assume the carpet also keeps the weeds out plus a nice cushion for the mango should they fall.

Good Luck Julie, hope your fruits and trees recover but I think it will, I had something similar happen to my Cogshall mango tree, it wasn't a weed whacker or animal, just something like a wound appeared out of nowhere a little larger than yours but the tree healed over several months and the tree shows no issues from it many years later...keep fingers crossed it will fully recover.

Had around 25 or so dropped mangoes from that very gusty day  on the ground so far...very heart breaking. I can't or won't be able to use most of them so I will leave those for the critters, a few of them have chew marks or claw marks on them so they are already "tasting" them. Its going to be a battle again this year!

Interesting your wife adding boiled mangoes to yellow cake mix, might give that atry thanks Palmcity!

We're VERY windy today...30 plus mph! While taking pictures of my Maha, 3 small Mahas fell to the ground one by one due to the branches hitting each other. I had to come inside I am afraid to look tonight to see how many mangoes are going to be on the ground 



Couldn't bare to throw them away, I might make green mango salad

Thanks John!! I will remove it now  ...not a fan of beer either but love Okra and many different types of fruits...

Great news and great looking Persimmon trees Sc400!

I prefer Fuyu I'm not a huge fan of the super soft persimmons (astringent) type. I like to eat them more like an apple, sweet and crunchy. Actually my Chocolate was missing a lable and was told it was likely a Fuyu (not!!) but shortly after I planted it one of the flowers formed a fruit and it was cone like shape so I knew right away it wasn't a Fuyu. At the time he was selling only 2 different varieties. That one fruit fell off shortly after so I was never able to taste it. If my Chocolate fruits in a year or two I'm probably going to use them for baking Persimmon bread 

Thanks Palmcity and Galatians for the great advise on leaving the Lychee leaves as mulch! As it so happens, I raked the first batch of dead/yellow leaves several weeks ago thinking I needed to remove them  . I'm sure this made it even worse by drying out even more without any protection on the top soil from the sun ...it has since another batch have fallen so I will leave those under the tree (plus it saves me time and energy raking) so that's even better! I definitely have enough lychee leaves on the top to make a nice mulch...thanks again!

I have 10 year old Lychee that had a decent amount of baby fruits this year, last year the freeze damaged all the blooms... but apparently due to the very, very dry and super windy days we have been having lately caused all my baby fruits to fall and now a ton of leaves are shedding also. I didn't give it any supplemental water because I thought since it was an established tree it didn't need it but obviously I am wrong! Even though the birds and the squirrels eat 90% of them and they eat them before they are ripe so basically they don't leave me any anyways, it  is still sad to see them all fall off  ...and now I have all the leaf drop issues from this drought!

Anyone else having this issue? Maybe it is just me... Next year I will water the tree more regularly if it is another very, very dry winter...

Thanks for the info Fruitnoob and TNTrobbie!

Thanks everyone for all your help and advise, appreciate the tip about the bark scratch test. I did take a small paring knife and lightly peeled a very small piece of the bark and it was green so fingers crossed it's still alive...I will give it to the end of April and see what happens. I did give it some water and light liquid fertilizer too so hopefully it will wake up soon 

Tntrobbie, yours flushed fairly early
Jordan, good luck with yours...I'm sure it will fine if you are seeing 2 little buds 
Fliptop your Suruga tree is looking great!
Fruitnoob, glad to hear your tree is waking up also.
Flgarden, it's weird your Fuyu is the last to wake up, just shows us how the different varieties react to our growing area.

RS Congrats that your Fuyu is flowering! Great picture! I hope I see some on my tree. Thanks also for letting me know the flowers come after the leaf flush. I'll post a picture when my Fuyu has more leaves and hopefully a few flowers! I'll update "if" the Chocolate leafs out...Thanks again!

Congrats Yoski! I live in the area but have no early variety mango tree. Enjoy them!
They look delicious!

I have a Glenn in a pot that eventually and now permanently live in a 40 plus gallon nursery pot that produced fruits every year...here's a few pictures of fruits many years ago. About 5 years ago I placed it underneath two inground mango trees near my Oak trees and it has permanently rooted itself to the ground now so it is very dwarf for being in the pot for almost 16 years! I will leave it there till it dies Lol...can't move it even if I wanted to at this point. It gives me 5-10 fruits every years except when we have a killing freeze 
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Good Luck with your potted mango trees Paul!

My Lemon Zest at dusk glowing with powdery mildew

Lol  ...that is a great looking Lemon Zest and look at all those blooms, just beautiful! Hopefully, you will still tons of mango 

Awesome everyone! Fingers crossed this is going to be a great mango season for us all 

My Cogshall is loaded with blooms, I actually have Maha on the left and a 45 gallon potted Glenn underneath and Cogshall all growing together Lol... on that Oak island. The Maha (far left) is just starting to bloom so it's hard to see blooms on the picture.

Maha, black potted Glenn and Cogshall growing together



My Glenn taken at dusk as the sun was setting, making the leaves and blooms orangy bronzy color...