The Tropical Fruit Forum

when i was growing up in winter haven in the '50s and early '60s, there was a mature mango tree near the intersection of 4th st. and avenue a s.e. i remember it dropped fruit into the street and was a nuisance to kids riding bicycles west on avenue a.  it had been there for years.  for all i know, it still is.  it was near the top of a hill, and had good cold air drainage.
i still remember hitting a mango with my bicycle tire and busting my a$$.

blossoms all over my maha chanok (spelling may vary).  others pushing buds, some too early to see if they are blossoms or vegetative

rabbit works well in almost any recipe for chicken.

Thank you Har and everyone for the input.

I have some triple phosphate to use for the 0-0-16, and a magnesium soil additive and a calcium soil additive (these are all solids) which would cover the macros.

Where do people get micronutrients? Searches on google and amazon seem to have only liquid products for hydroponics or are from India and I'd rather get something local (south Florida). Also preferably online because I do not live near any town or even stores like Home Depot, etc.

Thank you,
Erica

most micronutrients are easy to find.
calcium and magnesium?  dolomite lime is a mix of about 50% calcium carbonate and 40% magnesium carbonate, the rest being other minerals.  likewise seashells, though proportions may vary.
boron?  a pinch of borax
manganese?  alkaline batteries are manganese dioxide and carbon crunch up a "c" cell and you'll have more than you need.
iron?  zinc?  drop some galvanized nails in a liter of club soda, screw the top back on tight, and overnight, you have a solution of ferrous carbonate and zinc carbonate
copper?  most garden stores sell copper sulfate.
organic micronutrients?  everything that has leached out of the land for the last brazillion years is in the sea.  after a storm, go to the beach and pick up a few bushels of seaweed, bring it back, rinse it well to get rid of surface salt, and put it in your compost pile - or use it for mulch.
more sulfur and magnesium?  epsom salt is magnesium sulfate

for nests away from valuable plants:

wait for sunset, when all the little buggers are home for the night.  pour 1/2 cup regular unleaded gasoline slowly into the nest opening.  cover the opening with an inverted bucket.

that's it.

gasoline vapors are heavier than air.  as the gasoline evaporates, it will flow down into the tunnels, displacing the air, suffocating the ants.  even the queens.  expect to have a "dead zone" of soil about a yard in diameter for a couple months.

bamboo is botanically classified as a grass.  i would bet its mulching and composting qualities would be very similar to grass clippings, allowing for the difference in particle size.

living paradise,

you have mail.

beautiful!  if i were twenty years younger, i would be very interested.   but then, twenty years ago, $180k would have been out of my reach.

i just had a mango from whole foods that i think may have been a lemon zest  it was light yellow with an undertint of green.  black freckles like coarse ground black pepper.  plump sigmoid in shape, perhaps twelve ounces
the first taste tone was a pronounced "lemon."  not the lemon of a fresh lemon, but the lemon of a lemon flavored hard candy.  sweet and pleasant flesh, almost totally fiber-free except right next the the seed.
there was a label with the words:

ORGANIC
Francique
Haiti
followed by the number:
694314

a very nice mango.  sorry, no pic, i ate it.

does this sound like a haitian - raised lemon zest?

EDIT:
i just found the answer.  i googled mango francique haiti  and found that francique is a variety unique to haiti.  it's a very good (not quite great) mango, worth the two bucks each that they cost.  the article i read said that whole foods usually only had them for a short time each year.  they're there now if you want to try one.

dubai's a port.   that means there's some shoreline somewhere near.  gotta be seaweed, some driftwood or other flotsam.  pick out the plastic bits, wash off the surface salt, and bury the rest in trenches or pits and plant around them.  bucky fuller used to say "pollution" is just a word for resources nobody's found a way to harness.  is there a starbucks?  other coffee shops?  coffea arabica is the hometown crop.  there's  gotta be a lot of coffee grounds.  cut a deal with whoever cleans up at starbucks etc.  a couple bucks (a couple dirham?) for a five gallon bucket of grounds.  if it comes with paper filters, that's o.k.  paper filters break down into humus too.  i'll bet there are barber shops in dubai.  human hair is high in protein and  slowly breaks down  into nitrates.  adds texture to the soil too - think coir with nitrates.  cut a deal with whoever sweeps up at the barber shop.  check to see what people are throwing away.  dryer lint?  how much dryer lint does a big laundry operation generate per day?  i bet their clean up foreman would love to pocket a few bucks for a couple garbage bags full.  a trench full of dryer lint would act like a giant sponge, and slowly break down into a strip of improved soil.

interesting question about in-ground plants.  digging them up would be necessary.  this would unavoidably stress the plant

...however, this whole exercise is presumably to stress the plant and kick it into reproductive behavior "survival mode" as a response to stress.   i don't have a lot of in-ground pineapples.  (zone 8b with finite greenhouse space).  if someone else tries it,please let us know what happens.

possibly salt injury.  not necessarily sodium chloride type salt, but potassium chloride.  check your fertilizer to see if it uses "muriate of potash" to supply potassium.  muriate of potash is another name for potassium chloride.  mangos don't like chloride.  see if you can find a fert with putassium sulfate instead.  mangos like supfur.