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WaterFowler

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Are these cherimoya seedlings salvageable?
« on: June 19, 2015, 04:10:16 PM »
Some dry brush on the neighbor's property caught fire yesterday and the smoke along with the heat and wind, blew right onto my plants. So far everything looks good except for my tomato plants and one of the cartons full of cherimoya seedlings that I had sitting on a rack (luckily I had placed the rest somewhere else). The smoke didn't kill them but it did kill all the top growth. My question is, will this damage affect their growth and possibly stunt them as they grow?

I have 4 cartons of these seedlings I grew and was curious to see which ones, if any, would thrive in our 110-120 degree summers. I grew extras for little tragedies such as this. So I will be putting a lot more effort into growing them in the next few months/years, but if some are going to be stunted perhaps it would be better to cut my losses now and start a new batch? Or I suppose use them as rootstock to graft onto?

What would you do with them?


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Re: Are these cherimoya seedlings salvageable?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 04:26:59 PM »
firstly I would feed some sea weed extract fertilizer, water them well, and let them grow in full sun. eventually when the trunk is 1/4" or thicker, I would graft onto them some top varieties :-)

its getting harder and harder to get seedlings, specially here in So Cal.

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Re: Are these cherimoya seedlings salvageable?
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2015, 05:11:48 PM »
firstly I would feed some sea weed extract fertilizer, water them well, and let them grow in full sun. eventually when the trunk is 1/4" or thicker, I would graft onto them some top varieties :-)

its getting harder and harder to get seedlings, specially here in So Cal.

They would fry in full sun here. I have them under 60 percent shade. How about fish emulsion? I don't have any sea weed extract.

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Re: Are these cherimoya seedlings salvageable?
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2015, 05:32:38 PM »
yes, fish emulsion is good too.

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Re: Are these cherimoya seedlings salvageable?
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2015, 02:47:20 AM »
They have to survive and probably will branch.
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