The Tropical Fruit Forum

Millet----thank you for your advice.

Container Man----thank you too.
                                I'm still very impressed with your Little Cado growing technique in wine barrel for 6+ years without repotting it. 

Any idea what wrong with the 3 new leaves from this seedling?  They are cupping inward.  I sprayed Ag Micronutrients earlier today.

Most of my fruitlets are pinhead sizes.  I would guess they will not be ready until next fall.  This will be a weird harvest time for tangerines.  Will let you know. 

Millet you grow your citrus inside the greenhouse? 

Mango planting-
Is pine bark better then chips for soil mix and if so, why?
And is either dry or freshly chipped better?
I ask because i'm having another limb removed & chipped from tall pine to straighten it.
I'd have him blow chips in garbage pail.  I also have bark chips.
Pine needles i've been leaving as they fall around areca palms.

EddieF,  Hawkfish007 seems to have good hand with growing mangoes.  I would use his mixes: 50% construction sand from Lowes or HD store and 50% topsoil.

It will die if you transplant now.  It is too big to transplant because papaya's roots are small fibrous. 
Best solution is to cut 2/3 of the plant off to encourage new shoots.  Then just only keep 1 new shoot grown from a bunch.  New shoot will flower for you right away.

This papayatree looks like Hawaii papaya.  My Hawaii lower trunks  has black ripples(streaks) like yours.
It's hermaphrodite.

Thank you guys,  I will just let them be

At my local Home Depot they sell a bagged product labeled top soil... but the ingredients list claims timber and forest fines as the main constituents.
It appears to be mostly ground bark (By-product of the timber industry) and a small amount of sand.
This product is produced in Alabama... so it or an equivalent product may be available in CA.
Very economical too.

Kevin Jones

I believe products offer for sell by HD are different from State to State.  It only sells large and medium size barks here in CA unfortunately.  Thanks for your input.  Really appreciate that.

California Honey tangerine is in ground for 28 years. It's a semi dwarf with approximately 5 feet tall

The other is Thai kaffir lime tree in the ground for 28 years as well.  I cut it down to 3 feet high and grafted it with Maiwa kumquat, Clementine de nules,  Florida Honey tangerine , and Tango
Approximately 4years ago.

Their both have trunks' diameter of about 4 to 4 1/2 inches.  Seem small for 28 years old, but it's true. 

Should I take all newly set fruitlets off the trees?

Ps. I grew FL honey tangerine from seed 9 years ago and grafted a stick onto my keffir like tree

Millet,  your advice to fertilize or foliar feed citrus heavy with N in spring to induce flowers.  During that period, my tangerine fruits are not fully color, but juicy and sweet but not very sweet.   

I did not fertilize during those period  due to what I read on the net.  fertilizing citrus or certain fruit trees with heavy  N before harvest stage will turn fruits sour.  In July,  I fertilized the plants with heavy N and Fe  after picked the rest of the fruits to size up the few marble sizes fruits which bloomed in spring.  It could be the reason they start to flower heavy.

Can I foliar spray  manganese on the leaves, or only water in? 

I repotted it 6 months after I purchased it and it has been in that container ever since.

Thanks.  Did you used Al's 5-1-1 inorganic soil mixed as growing media or something else?  I like the idea of not up potting to a bigger  container every yearly.

I would be afraid to ask my wife to put special hair pins on hers.

Any other member advice will be greatly appreciated.

I saw the same symptoms (in picture) posted by Other member before