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Onur, I would leave the Parafilm alone for now because if you remove it, you will probably knock the buds off. I would also leave some of the leaves from the Cerifera to support the grafts. When grafting trees, you want to leave some leaves from the rootstock so that the tree can continue photosynthesis.
Simon
I bought a poly kit that had steel posts, then added on with a wooden framed poly addition. Then my hubby built a porch and pergola for the front of it. My STRONG recommendation is to figure out big you need it, then DOUBLE it!
I use regular shop lights on adjustable ropes, so I can raise and lower them according to who needs how much light, which seems to be fine for supplemental light in the winter. Grow lights, to me, aren't really worth the money.
Because my greenhouse(es) have a door between the old and new portions, airflow is slightly restricted, so I have two cheap wall mounted gas furnaces - one at either end. This picture is looking from the "orangerie", which I built out of 2x4's, into the "tropical house" which was the original kit.
The heaters do put out a lot of water vapor, but I still have two foggers, one in each area. They are made out of 5-head floating ultrasonic mist makers in 15 gallon toy tubs, with a little fan. They work really well. In the summer, I also have patio misters strung throughout, that come on a couple times a day. We have very low humidity here, and the exhaust fans just suck the moisture right out during the summer.
Great fun!
Thank you all! I may have to move to New York or New Jersey. These states have different growing zones ranging from 3 to 7. I have bananas, mangos, jabuticabas, guavas, dragon fruits, surinam cherries, CORGs, pitombas, white sapotes, ross sapote, red mombin, achacha, abiu, and feijoas. I know feijoas are the only ones that will do fine outside.
Do you think my trees will do fine in a simple green house in zone 6 or 7 ? Or should I just take some of my trees and try to keep the rest in FL?
It would definitely need to be a heated greenhouse
HiThe tips of the branches of my mango tree (pina colada) are getting dark and the panicles are drying. What does it stem from?ThanksLooks like Powdery Mildew (PM), definitely some sort of mold or fungus. Not sure how susceptible PC is to PM, some varieties fight it off and hold onto their flowers/fruit better than others. It can lay waste to an entire tree's flowers/tiny fruit, but it seems like most the time some amount of fruit hangs on. You can spray sulfur/potassium carbonate as a preventative/treatment or try trimming it out. I've been trimming this year, it's definitely working in controlling spread, but it's time consuming (I'll probably spray next season).
I tasted a hint of lemon when my Youghan's Gold fruited two years ago.
Last year it was damaged from the wind and I cut it way back and didn't fruit.
This year it has some small fruit already and I am hoping to try it again.
So far I have had supersweet and YG and it was better in my opinion
I have only tasted 2 types, both at the Fruit & Spice Park, and I personally could not tell them apart:
Redlands
Bonita Springs
Both had a slight lemony flavor to me.
Spraying the foliage is enough and definitely use a spreader/sticker/extender. I use Nufilm. Also, using a Fogger will create a must that penetrates the foliage better and it’s faster and is more efficient with the reagents.
Simon
QuoteNo. I am just afraid of letting solid fertilizer touch the base of the DFs and causing them to rot, or disturbing the root system while mixing the fertilizer into the soil because they have little space in pots.
Ok maybe I shouldn't admit this but sometimes I put on so much slow release vigoro that I can barely see the soil anymore. There seems to be no limit to how much fertilizer they can take. I've never even seen young shoots burn from it. This said, I only apply when it is warm enough for them to grow.
An expensive solution. Dragonfruits for me are some of my lowest effort plants and get the least expensive and least time intensive solutions - just gobs of slow release fertilizer and chicken manure.
If you're really set on liquid, you can use pretty much any of them, but I would choose the cheapest possible like General Hydroponics. I have tried tons of fertilizers for indoor plants of uh, various types, and there is very little difference in the end product.
The issue with liquid fertilizer is in fact you're just paying for water and the shipping thereof.
Old trick for most Cacti if you can stomach it-
Urine
An expensive solution. Dragonfruits for me are some of my lowest effort plants and get the least expensive and least time intensive solutions - just gobs of slow release fertilizer and chicken manure.
If you're really set on liquid, you can use pretty much any of them, but I would choose the cheapest possible like General Hydroponics. I have tried tons of fertilizers for indoor plants of uh, various types, and there is very little difference in the end product.
The issue with liquid fertilizer is in fact you're just paying for water and the shipping thereof.
Yes, I agree. Can always use a fish/kelp emulsion for vegetative growth which is water soluble.
OP, what are you trying to accomplish? Something to run through a drip line?
