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so the dark stuff is normal?
Spring just started a couple a few days ago.
High end bicycles are usually made in Europe or Japan. Like guitars as an example Chinese made are the worst even the same brand and model Korean maybe Japanese are the best quality while not being too expensive. Mexican is decent but not as high quality as Korean. American made is over priced but there for more expensive models.
It's rare for China to have good quality. Their focus is on quantity and cheap but that may be what you want sometimes and occasionally it lasts.
Practically nothing is made in USA because we have the world's most valuable currency. Without tariffs we can't compete. A Mexican making $8 an hour enjoys the same lifestyle as an American making $25 an hour. The corporations are too greedy to allow tariffs and they donate big money to politicians.
Probably in the minority here, but I like names like "M-4" and "E-4".
Hot, dry Springs in Florida are not uncommon. I investigated having an irrigation well installed in my back yard but the $3,500+ cost just to irrigate a few fruit trees nullified that option. So I setup a rain barrel next to my shed with a guttering system attached to the shed to catch the runoff from the roof and through the downspout into the barrel. I'll likely add an additional barrel later on.Very smart. We should be doing more of that.
Im actually doing the same.
Some of my plants cant handle the city water at all.
My city water has chloramine added to it which does not dissipate with time, so filling a barrel with the hose and letting it sit for a week to evaporate (like chlorine does) won't work. This stuff kills beneficial microbes in the soil in addition to the fact that it is just not good for the health of the plants. But yeah it's been dry lately - we need some rain!!!
Hot, dry Springs in Florida are not uncommon. I investigated having an irrigation well installed in my back yard but the $3,500+ cost just to irrigate a few fruit trees nullified that option. So I setup a rain barrel next to my shed with a guttering system attached to the shed to catch the runoff from the roof and through the downspout into the barrel. I'll likely add an additional barrel later on.Very smart. We should be doing more of that.
Climate wise yes they will fruit well in Melbourne Beach. Your main problem if you are right on A1A will be salt spray. I am four houses West of A1A in Mel Beach. Before my sapodilla and seagrape windbreak got big enough my mangos would suffer anytime we got hard onshore winds. I have friends who have given up trying to grow them beachfront, because even on the West side of their house they die after a few days of onshore wind. Hope it helps.
I'll be happy if i get to taste Cogs, M4, Pickering. Will be 1st time. I only know Kent & love it.
Within topic - does anyone have experience with ‘oo-la-la’ avo? Picked one up last week…the grower talked me out of a brogden … said this cultivar is new. Just curious. Thx.
The cultivar Pumpkin Pie does not exist... it is (Dwarf) Parrita. Hopefully people will stop adding to this confusion and causing people duplicates. It's another dumb marketing gimmick that who knows who came up with... maybe even Zill Plantas but if it was them they have now removed it from their website. Every Pouteria sapota I have ever tasted resembles pumpkin pie...
