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How the heck do you keep the deer from eating everything??
Cool pic's Kevin, looks like your putting plants in the ground now very nice. Is your PH low because of Oaks that grew all in that area? Plants are looking great!
Your home seems like a very special place surrounded by nature. You've done a great job incorporating your plants, they all look healthy and like they're meant to be there. Thank you for sharing, I always love seeing other people's gardens. Hope you have an abundant harvest soon.
Janet
Hi Kevin, should have asked before does Nelita prefer slightly acidic soil like the jabos? Haven't been able to find much info. Thanks in advance!
If you want to go effortless route, take a look at ez-flo mainline injection system or dosatron injector. With ez-flo add liquid or water soluble fertilizer in the tank and be done with entire season, or feed on demand with dosatron. I have both and they are working flawlessly since 2018.
https://ezfloinjection.com/product/ez-flo-main-line-1-5-gallon/
https://www.qcsupply.com/120603-dosatron-d14mz2-injector.html
The scions from the China plants that I grafted onto Myrica californica have officially surpassed the plants we imported from China. They are much more vigorous, and appear to be healthier. I'm thinking that I have gotten about a 60% take rate on scions but still gonna hold out. Some of them have a good couple inches of growth so I'd Imagine those are takes. Others flushed, died back and are flushing again, making me think they were growing on stored energy but have now officially taken.
Note to future purchasers. Graft immediately onto new rootstocks.
This is what 8-3-9 does when you spread it a couple of times a year.
This is the third time I had to heavily prune the guava. It's already about to hit the ceiling.
Get a 12x12x48 box. Bring some tape so it move around, cover top of pot with paper and tape so not to lose soil. Gently drop into box without breaking branches. Reinforce corners so not to crushbox. Check in with luggage. Consult with wonderfruit on how tall plant with pot, just in case it needs to be bigger that 48 inches. Luck.
Visit wonderfruit with a sized box and send yourself a Luc’s Garcinia.
Our mulberries seem to be behind others in California. Got to taste a few side by side this week of the fruit grown at our farm in Fallbrook. Red Himalyan DMOR9 was probably the sweetest, flavor seemed similar to Black Pakistan but fruit was skinnier, less juicy. Dwarf everbearing was very bland with small fruits, I'm going to remove the plant. Thai dwarf was my husband's favorite, and we all thought it was good. Earlier fruit was not as sweet, but this current crop is sweet and acid and tastes the most like a blackberry and the fruits are firm. I love this plant. Planted as a small 1 gallon rooted cutting last year and already about 8 feet tall and producing an abundant crop. Looks like buds are forming already for another round. Not sure why others in SoCal think it is bland, I'm going to start a lot more plants at the farm so there's plenty for the birds and us. The Thai Dwarf at my home garden in Laguna Beach also gets sweet even without the warm temps, our highs have only been in the 60's most of the spring. Only got a couple Sahararanpur that were ripe, most are still green, it was very sweet with different flavor than the DMOR9. I have read that Saharanpur, White Pakistan, and Australian green are the same, but the leaves on my White Pakistan are definitely different than the Sahararanpur. It hasn't fruited yet to compare the fruits. Still have several more varieties I'm trialing. Noir de Spain has only started to leaf out a couple of weeks ago. Buds on the Noir de Spain are noticeably different looking than all the other mulberries I grow. Didn't take any pics.
Janet
I just had my first surinam cherry. Does anyone prefer the red variety over the darker hue varieties? Seems like everyone likes the darks more
I am looking to buy No Mai Tsze, Sweetheart and Emperor lychee tree in southern California area if anyone has them. Please shoot me a PM.
I might in search for some as well. Received this as lamb Hass but doesn't look like it to me. Anyone tell what kind of avocado this is?
Not sure if all the same tree, but the lowest photo looks like my lamb hass I bought. The wiggly leaf edge is what I am noting is the same.
K-Rimes: is your Lamb Hass has red fleckles on stems?
Yes I am looking for cuttings to root. They seem to root fairly easy and fruit fast from cuttings or seed. Yes they are a different genus.
I am in 8b/9a and some will do great outside here from what I read. However I do research on Musa and have a lot of greenhouse space for the more tropical types.
I would love buy some of your large sweet cream guava cuttings! Any growing or rooting advice would be amazing also. I’m totally new to guava and most other tropical fruit trees. However I’m already quite addicted lol.
