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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: gnappi on November 01, 2022, 01:24:47 PM

Title: Your worst trees that give volunteer seedlings
Post by: gnappi on November 01, 2022, 01:24:47 PM

A few trees became a nuisance with volunteers growing in huge amounts under them. I may  not have planted them if I had known this.

Fairchild #2 canistel... I miss a lot of drops and the seeds quickly establish themselves in the mulched understory. The fruit is worth keeping the tree as is my Julie seedling "Juicy Lucy" whose seeds erupt into seedlings easily in mulch.

I've pulled Coffee due to the hundreds of seedlings it produced, and my lemon drop mangosteen is on the list to go.

Any other noteworthy trees which need a lot of seedling removal work? 


 

Title: Re: Your worst trees that give volunteer seedlings
Post by: Amy K on November 01, 2022, 01:54:41 PM

Ice cream beans (from what I heard)

 strawberry tree (from experience, this grow like weeds and impossible to pick all the fruits off the tree)

Title: Re: Your worst trees that give volunteer seedlings
Post by: roblack on November 01, 2022, 04:39:22 PM

Not fruit trees, but pongam, bischofia, and areca palm.

Title: Re: Your worst trees that give volunteer seedlings
Post by: tedburn on November 01, 2022, 05:17:03 PM

I have albizia julibrissum, which got one self seedling I disn' t expect. Once I sawed seedlings and all died and now in the garden they made self sawing.

Title: Re: Your worst trees that give volunteer seedlings
Post by: Galatians522 on November 01, 2022, 09:19:03 PM

Jambolan--the things pop up everywhere. Wet soil or dry, it doesn't care. It seems like nothing kills them.