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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Will this work? Container growing
« on: September 06, 2014, 02:18:35 PM »
I want to utilize the 2nd floor patio space to grow container mangos and just put up a free sunscreen to keep it a little cooler and build som self watering air pruning pots like this guy
http://youtu.be/VPxj8e2r7H0
I have a dwarf Hawaiian, Pickering and ice cream ready to go. One concern is can I up pot to half barrels with these small mangos? Do you think the water in the bottom of the barrels will alleviate some heat exchange to the barrels?  I figure after water reservoir the pots will be around 25 gal
 



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / FAA micro grove
« on: September 02, 2014, 10:07:55 AM »
I know I don't post much here and reason being I'm not half as intelligible about fruit trees as most all of you are but maybe I can contribute in another way

Motivation
About 1 1/2 years ago I started a process to petition and gain permission to grow fruit trees at work. I am an air traffic controller and there is so much open land at the facility so I thought its worth a try and after soil samples, clearing it with all the correct people I finally was granted permission to plant 12 fruit trees!
I gained funding from my local union NACTA for 1200.00, 'no tax dollars' and I started right away.
2 rows of 6 trees 19' x 23' spacing





There are a couple of palms kinda close but I used the space as best as I could










My plan was for some variety that all employees could enjoy
Row 1 nort to south

1 Brogdon avocado
2 pineapple pleasure mango
3 lemon zest ( not planted yet)
4 Hamlin orange
5 dancy tangerine
6 Mauritius lychee

Row 2 north to south

7 fl hass avocado
8 valcarie mango
9 coconut cream (not planted yet
10 Honeybell minneola tangelo
11 ray ruby grapefruit
12 Mauritius lychee










I still have to get my 15 gal lemon zest and coco cream
My goal besides having delicious fruit to share and enjoy is to get people who may have never tried anything but a crappy publix mango to realize we live in a special place that can grow amazing stuff
Get out there n grow!
A special thanks to Excalibur for the 25 gal pineapple pleasure that was difficult to find for some reason
The FAA, NACTA, the coworkers who helped me dig holes, and all of you in this forum for the great wealth of knowledge, what a great community!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Good or bad sign graft
« on: September 01, 2014, 04:43:04 PM »








So a couple of weeks ago I snipped off all the leaves on the soon to be lemon zest bud wood waited till they looked a little bulgy but not budded just round balls and then tried my first grafts. Some onto my Glenn tree and some onto seedlings. Only a week has gone by and almost all of them have pushed. Should I be happy yeah they took or did the scion just use up it's stored energy and now are gonna die? I thought they would take a lot longer to push oh and on my lemon zest tree at the same time pushed new growth on all the stuff I didn't cut. Oh and thank you davidgarcia899 for the parafilm

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Citrus General Discussion / Where in Australia are lemonade trees
« on: August 30, 2014, 04:24:28 PM »
I have a friend traveling to Australia on Monday he's not a fruit nut like me but I asked him if he could get me some lemonade seeds while he's there

Also is there anything else there worth getting "seed wise"

Third what restrictions are there with customs in bringing back seeds

Thanks

He's stopping in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne  thanks

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Lookin for a pugged or topped from the start lemon meringue, po pu kalay 15 or even 25 gal if it looks nice n bushy, no tall lanky tree please. I live in homestead and willing to drive as far as west palm if the price is right.  Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Which one is true to fruit?
« on: September 09, 2013, 06:51:54 PM »




Ok I've read a lot on here but still not sure is it the strong biggest one of the poly embryonic that I should keep?
The middle tree is a Hawaiian dwarf seed from truely tropical fruit the other 2 are a super awesome mango my wife came home with from a friend of a friends tree who knows but I really want to keep the right seedling and cull out the "other" can't remember correct terms used for it. I guess the nurserys supposedly keep the larger stronger seedling but somewhere I thought maybe the little guys were the keepers.

Please comment
Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Red pineapples
« on: July 11, 2013, 04:49:43 PM »
Do these red pineapples ever get big enough to eat?
I've had this plant for 2 years and it always gives me these baby pineapples
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This is my 1st post trying to add pict so if it doesn't work ill try again



http://s1038.photobucket.com/user/dymcmullin/media/image.jpg.html
I can't get the image here is the link

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