The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hello, does anyone have experience with growing it in the 6-7 zone mark outdoors ?  I have two two year old seedlings and i'm wanting to plant them in the ground here ...

Hello and Happy New Year !!! Was wondering If the raw macadamia nuts that come in the stores are any good for starting plants ?? Anyone tried them before, talking about the ones with no shells , I dont think I can find ones with shells on. Any other tropical peeled nuts u have tried to germinate and u had luck ??

I picked up a bare root chocolate and coffee cake today.  55$ each !  Expensive.  But I do get a 20% discount there and they told me they cost more than peches for instance that were 35$ because they are harder to grow and graft.  These are dave wilson trees from walter andersens nursery.

thats very pricey , around here typical bare root plants cost around $ 5 , sometimes cheaper. I would any time go with a potted plant rather a bare root ,but when there are non im forced to by them.
I really think the biggest mistake nurseries make is to bare root the plants from the field and store them in sand or whatever . It would be way healthier for the plants if they were digged up from the field at the moment of the order...at least I would do this but I guess its way too much work for them that way ...

Since it is happening only this year I think its some kind of deficit or fungal problem, no need to trow away the tree u just have to find out what the problem is. I also have a potted nagami and it ripened its fruit fine, I have never encountered such problem before, but I only got interested in citrus this summer so dont have alot of experience.....
By the way I dont know if this Is relevant to citrus ,but with tomatoes fruit end blackening is caused  by calcium deficiency and too much watering.

 Hello, I have similar happenings on a few guavas and avocados right now . The plants are indoors due to winter, and I seem to keep them on the drier side considering watering. I started to water them more often this week and they seem to not be getting worse, so in my case I believe it was due to underwatering and possibly accumulating of salts or something, since I have not flushed their soil in 3 months.

The problem plants u have pictured seem to be small and lacking many healthy leaves, I would keep such plants on the drier side and  not fertilize them till strong new growth is visible. If the pots had literally been  flooded, then I believe this is your problem. Try to raise the pots above ground to have the drainage holes in contact with air to help the soil dry up.

Foggers work incredibly well for me.  However even with city water that is only moderately hard I still get scale buildup on the plants closest to the misters.  I tried with and without a phosphate filter, but I get scale either way.  The citrus plants seem to tolerate it okay, though, so I just ignore the scale. 

If you have hard water you will definitely get scale from sprinklers/misters/foggers.  However if you sprayed the water directly on the ground it should still have a cooling effect.

by scale u mean the mineral deposits by water, not the insects right ??. I measured my tap and well water's tds (total dissolved solids) and the tap water came at 005 , the well water was 040 , I found a chart for hardness of water according to which both are soft. I do not really understand what those numbers mean thought.
I also wonder if whatever things they use to clear tap water are present in it at all times , and do these chemicals leave a footprint in the tds measurement as a example.

Anyone knows if using misters on tap water is safe for plants. I know they put chemicals and chlorine . Anyone using their tap water for misting and overhead irrigation in their greenhouses?? I apologise to the OP if i'm hijacking the tread too much , thought to just ask here and not make a separate tread .....

I have eaten a fair amount of Chocolate and Coffee Cake Persimmons the last 2 years.
They are knock your socks of amazing.
Coffee cake tastes a bit like a good non gritty Sapodilla , maybe a hair less sweet.
Chocolate is melts in your mouth delicious perfection! What I imagined Black Sapote to taste like until I actually tried some.
I may be able to hook up some scion pretty soon.

that sounds amazing !!!  The lone chocolate plant I bought was bare root(all of the feeder roots were dead) hope it survives and sprouts in spring. Either way i'm years away from tasting a homegrown chocolate one....

The upcoming summer will be the first for my greenhouse. I will place a shade cloth of maybe 30-40%. I also have two top windows and two doors which will likely be opened at all times. The temp in the gh now in december when sunny gets to 30C/86 F, it will be insane in summer .

Why not simply a thermostat-controlled valve like a typical water baseboard heating system that homes use?

My zone6 greenhouse is also 6mm polycarbonate and the (air) heat cycles on 3-5 times per hour on cold nights.

If you are using a wood fired boiler it should be cheap.  You may want to use antifreeze in the pipes in case it runs out of fuel

so u mean to install a sensor for air temp that turns on at a certain temp ?? Ours is also a boiler type, with which u basically do not have any control over the temp it provides, I mean like u have with the systems on pellets .

Hello everyone, I have been brainstorming lately about the heating equipment I should do in my greenhouse. It is 3-4 m. with heigh of 2.60 m. The cover material off the greenhouse is 6mm policarbonate, and by my  two thermometers , one regular outside and one electronic  inside, the greenhouse is generally around 4 C warmer than outside. The lowest temps that I get in winter are around -20 C/ -4 F. yet that is in exceptionally cold winters , usually the lowest is around -15 C/5F . Now since our house is heated on radiators with warm water, fueled on wood I was wondering how many radiators I should place in my greenhouse??? I'm thinking 4 , my dad said they would be too many ...I will grow there tropicals like coffee, carambolla ,cherimoya ,avocado, guava ,dragonfruit and others. By my thinking its better to have 4 of them, and have them organized in a way I could stop each one of them with a shut off valve , to have them not working when its warm, but still have them available when in need. Often times in the morning I find the fire of the heating system almost extinguished , at this time the heat gained from the radiators in very low, and that's why I think I need more of them heating devices .
 One thing that got me wondering today is that after sunset /was dark already for around 1hour, I entered the greenhouse and the temp was 6.6, C . I stayed in for around half an hour and the temp in the gh had increased to 7.5 C. There was no sun since it was already dark, so the only thing that might increase the temp was my body temp, and I imagined what heat gain I would get from 4 hot radiators .
I am thinking of setting also a wood stove type heater for a quick response if temps get really low ...heating with electric devices is out of the question by now since the cost will be very high.
 Thanks u for your insights on the situation, I still have time to plan this till the next summer.

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