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Madridje, as mentioned above by Whitehorn, you can get the finger lime from CCPP. First you need to register with the UCR Citrus Clonal Protection Program (CCPP) free and then order the budwoods. One cutting with 6 buds will cost as shown below. They have over 370 citrus varieties to chose from.
Hit this link to start registration: For CA residence only.
https://ccpp.ucr.edu/
Looking at your weather and looks to be the same as mine. You could also put it in the ground mine has been very cold tolerant.
Looking at your weather and looks to be the same as mine. You could also put it in the ground mine has been very cold tolerant.
The 5 gallon should be perfect. You might have to re pot in a month or two but it will grow better than growing directly in a giant pot. The worm casting tea will be great. Wait until you see the roots before using the Dyna Gro.
You can pot your tree and if the roots are fine and you don’t see any wilting about a week or two after potting, it should be safe to use fertilizer. If your tree is showing any signs of wilting, do not fertilize.
Since you just received your tree, you should gradually acclimate it to full sun.
Simon
You’ve got the right idea. Give it a fast draining soil mix with slow release fertilizer. Potted Mangos will perform much better if given occasional applications of minors and trace, especially Iron, Zinc, Magnesium and Manganese.
Don’t over pot it, put it in a container that is slightly larger than its root mass. Once it fills in that pot with roots, up pot again with a slightly larger pot again.
In SoCal, mangos do most their growing in the the heat of the summer so you need to maximize growth between June-September by ensuring they are properly fertilized.
Right now is prime vegetative growing season for Mangos but since you just received your tree, you have to be very careful with over fertilizing. If you don’t disturb the roots much, you can use a mild fertilizer but if the plant was rootbound and you have to trim the roots, don’t fertilize it until it settles in.
This time of year, Mangos are very resilient with very little signs of diseases because the heat pushes growth and the growth out competes the fungal diseases and die back.
Now is also a great time to graft.
Unlike growing Mangos in Florida and other prime mango growing areas, you want your branches as vertical as possible.
One of the big mistakes SoCal mango growers do is to bend their branches horizontally. Horizontal growth will tend to flower and we don’t want that for young non established trees. Vertical growth has a slight less tendency to flower but only slightly. Everything you can do to tilt the growth towards vegetative growth instead of blooms will be that much better for your tree.
Simon
You don’t need to damage the husks by using a knife to pry them open. Just find the “fibery” part that runs along the length of the husk, is you use your fingernails (or butter knife) and scrape along that fiber, you can usually find a small opening in the husk. Once I find that small opening/hole, I can usually jut pull the husk apart and open with my fingers without ever having to insert a knife into the husk.
I’ve sprouted plenty of damaged seeds. I’d just plant them and see what happens.
Simon
The purple possum is very similar to red rover. Once you get it going and have some decent size branches I can send large cuttings to graft if you want to try that.
Wait...you can graft passionfruit?
I havent done it but yes you should be able to graft it pretty easily. Most plants can be grafted.
The purple possum is very similar to red rover. Once you get it going and have some decent size branches I can send large cuttings to graft if you want to try that.
