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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: less frequent watering means deeper roots?
« on: April 07, 2024, 08:53:35 AM »Thanks for sharing the soil details! I hadn't looked this up before and didn't realize the diversity of soil types. According to FL soil survey map, https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?layers=3995a23b3e4541deb336bc1bf9b076d1, I've got the ridge "Tavares sand" which is considered "farmland of unique importance" and a small section of "Arents" soil. No irrigation here but I've always mulched and tried to increase organic matter.
Tavares is one of the best soils in the center part of the state. It is one of the few we have that falls in Category 3. Category 1 is basically perfect soil, followed by, Category 2 which has some limiting factor. Category 3 has significant limitations (sandy in this case). Most central Florida soils are Category 4 or below. Arents are soils out of place (aka fill dirt).