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Thank you so much! When you say, "do not let it hold fruit," can you elaborate? I.e. with cannabis which is phototropic, it will stay vegetative until you go move the light schedule from 18/6 to 12/12. Or are you saying that flowers are to be pruned to force the tree to focus on leaves and general health?
Yes, my small tree set around 50 - 75 fruit over the summer and although it thinned out most of them itself I still had to remove about ~15 or so larger fruit that set because there's no way the branches could have supported that.
That is a parallel to cannabis - just because you can flower it, doesn't mean you should.
Am I inducing fruit with the light schedule of 18/6? I am completely amenable to building the tree's happiness and health before fruiting. She has recovered very well from the dunking and I am impressed. Your tree looks amazing! Some of the mites are at the very top of the tree which is thick stem, where it was beheaded, so I can't really prune that without shocking the tree. I will approach the situation with the Safer insect killing soap - thank you very much for your input!I only prune mine because of the close proximity of all the other plants I have but you should be good just to spray. Make sure to get the undersides of the leaves well and hopefully they'll be gone within the next 1-2 weeks. Best of luck.
General question for everyone here. My garcinias in the past usually grow to a crisp no matter what i have done. Ive tried everything but I chalk it up to our dryness here and intense sunlight.
Out of curiosity do you grow your garcinias differently than your other tropicals? I know most need to be in shade in the first few years but even with misters and a recent greenhouse I still dont see those pretty green leaves
One thing you may be able to do to set yourself apart is proper (zero) sales tax for states where food/seeds/fruit-trees are exempt. My state Pennsylvania they are exempt yet Ebay, Etsy, and maybe others still charge me sales tax to buy. Likely other states have similar rules but this is such a small market that the big marketplaces don't bother to handle it
Congrats on even finding seedsI realize that the chance of me ever being able to get this to fruit is next to impossible, but I’ve been looking for seeds for about 4 years. All the online sellers seem to be sold out. Would u be willing to tell us where did u get the seeds?
How many seedlings are you planning on growing? Are you looking for male and female
Plants?
What is the botanical name of the fruit you are talking about?
It looks like zinc deficiency.
Garcinias can take acid pretty well. The mix I normally use is largely peat, some perlite, topsoil, and some sand and maybe compost. I think the soil is ok. you could always try to redo it, but I'd just hit with some fertilizer and wait till spring. No need to stress out the plant now.
Realistically it could be sooo many things, but here's how to diagnose:
slurry your soil and pH it. Use water that you'd normally give your plants to get the most accurate reading.
Reference this chart here https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-effect-of-soil-pH-on-nutrient-availability_fig2_277669269 and report back. Note that anything under 5 drops off drastically
I'm guessing your soil is just too acidic because peat moss has a pH of 3.5 and pine bark 4.5, but maybe the perlite is enough to swing the pH back up. I'm not sure, just my gut reaction. I'm thinking that since osmocote is supplying nutrients but your plant isn't receiving them, it's experiencing lockout
Container looks too big and soil looks too wet.
What soil are you using?
Looks like some kind of root stress going on. Possible overwatering would be my guess, i would check out the roots and go from there.
they have cuban mangosteen (garcinia aristata) on tradewinds! best of luck on your search, maybe snag me a few if you run into some rare species