The Tropical Fruit Forum

How fast do these canes grow?  Do they send rhizomes everywhere just like running bamboos?

I love sugar cane juice.  I always bought it fresh squeeze from street vendor when I was in Thailand.

Perhaps a systemic disease, coming up from soggy soil?

This is happening to most of my 20 inch tall, 50+ seedlings inside the greenhouse. So you do not think it is powdery mildew, correct?

Any systematic fungicide/bacteriacide do you recommend?
 

Brad, so you only peeled off the bark? There is no need to cut into the flesh? 

What I did was cut into the flesh at maybe 1/3 of the trunk thickness and slipped the scion in.  It only work 30% of the time. 

From now on I will follow your method.  Will this method work on citrus too?

Thanks

Har, what disease/nutrient deficiencies on the mango leaves? Pictures show top of the canopy and bottom of the leaves.  Thank you

84...wow
It's like mid 60s here.
Thank you for looking my place up and the advice.  Will graft a couple more avos tomorrow since the scion buds I have are really plump and swollen.

i started top working the rootstock trees this week.  Ive decided to do mostly hass, reed, and sharwil trees.  Also a few nabals and a couple other odd ball trees but those 3 are the main ones Im propogating. 

I took some pics, the bud wood on some varieties is super swollen right now.  looks awesome.  Im super stoked, the trees were just fruits hanging on the tree one year ago and now after 6 months in ground I am already top working! yay

Brad, “super swollen buds” make great candidate for grafting?
 Would they not be more likely flower buds(swollen)at this time of the year? 
If they make a great candidate for grafting and the grafts took, should all pushing flowers be trimmed off?  Thank you for helping out with the clarifications.

Tomorrow is December 15, which is two and a half months before citrus flowering.  Therefore, tomorrow is the day to spay the foliage with the first urea spray to induce a better bloom, thus a better crop.  I did not spray last year and the crop was less than usual.

Millet, most of my tangerines, and navel are still hanging on the trees.  Could I spray the trees with LB urea? 
From what I read on the net, spraying the trees with nitrogen with turn the fruits more acidic.

Taste bland not so sweet...

Gerrberaric Acid does increase internode on mango. I used it on my seedlings and the internodes between leaves are very long.  The stems are quite thin from stretching.

whats the marvel avocado?  is that the south african one?  is that a patent protected one or something that is available to grow?

I've got a few mature size trees but most of my stuff is small seedlings I planted in the ground that need to be grafted.  Ive got around 125 new trees to top work in January.  Im doing things a little different and growing zutano and bacon seeds in ground then top working.  I'm only going to end up with around 200 avocado trees total.  Maybe 250.  So its not a big planting.  Just something to make a little side money from.  We don't have water service.  Its all coming from a 4in well.  So I can't get too crazy with the plantings.  we have around 3 acres of different trees.  About half is going to be avocados. 

I've got a grafted experimental tree Im trialing here that may be a winner.  The fruits are super good and no one else has them.  Its a seedling tree from a friend.  Ill have to get permission to propogate or sell it but it seems like it may be a real winner.  It will be several years before I can really pass judgement on it though.



I'm growing pretty much every kind of avocado I can get my hands on here.  I've found most of them to be not worth growing for various reasons.  Same with dragonfruit.  Tried them all, most are not worth growing.

Brad, the fruit looks very beautiful. The skin turns dark when ripe just like haas?

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Kocide (Copper Hydroxide) fungicide/bactericide works mainly as a preventive, when sprayed before symptoms appear.  It has been used on mango trees
in conventional agriculture since at least the 1970's, usually tank-mixed with mancozeb/Manzate.  Mancozeb now gets a lot of bad press from California.

Thank you Har.  So can I spray my tree as often as I want to, regarding diseases prevention?
If diseases start to appear, what products would you recommend? I am new to mango.