The Tropical Fruit Forum

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lol......... Just started skimming through 1 st video and I gotta say:: I Love It  ... Someone who actually shows the tabulations of data .. Yea...
I checked out what he says about the 1930's being hotter in the summer than recent summers and sure enough NOAA has verified the data.
Look at the all Time Records tab.
If those temps had occurred last summer or this summer.... Current Gov't would have made us all get on our bikes or walk... lol...
https://www.weather.gov/arx/heat_jul36

Graphics / MapsTemperatures (July 5-18, 1936)All-Time Records
All-Time Records Set in July 1936

Location   Temperature   Date
Decorah, IA   111°F   July 14
Fayette, IA   110°F   July 14
New Hampton, IA   110°F   July 13
Mondovi, WI   110°F   July 14
Richland Center, WI   110°F   July 14
Rochester, MN   108°F   July 11 & 14
La Crosse, WI   108°F   July 14
Lancaster, WI   108°F   July 14
Viroqua, WI   108°F   July 13
Hatfield, WI   108°F   July 14
Osage, IA   107°F   July 14
Friendship, WI   106°F   July 14
Grand Meadow, MN   106°F   July 14
Mather, WI   106°F   July 14
Neillsville, WI   106°F   July 14
Sparta, WI   106°F   July 13
Medford, WI   104°F   July 13

Wash with soap & water to remove as much as possible as soon as possible.
My favorite home remedy is pulled from the medicine cabinet: hydrocortisone 1%  cream or ointment and applied on affected area if no medical contraindications with your health.

Benadryl taken at maximum recommended dosages (may cause drowsiness) if no medical contraindications.

Don't wait to treat it. Vesicles can form if a severe allergic reaction and go to physician for stronger prescription medication. Also, stop scratching/rubbing as you may start to believe your skin is being slowly eaten away, especially if vesicles rupture and raw skin is scratched/rubbed....

On prescription many steroid oral products in dospaks 5 to 12 days different paks and is good to stop local and systemic spread. On prescription many stronger topical steroid products to rub on affected areas if only a local topical reaction.

Mites... Sulfur... Spray...

Did your tree with the infected limb have 1/5 tree of fruit, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2,2/3, or a loaded tree of fruit? Just wanting to know what impact it had on the tree... Also is the 1 limb 1/10 of the tree, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, or 9/10 of the tree...

Some mangos have various disease spots etc. etc. etc. but if the trees give me fruit.... I won't throw in the towel. Same with any other fruit tree for me anyways... Just wondering percentage of tree infected and impact on fruit production while it is still living....

To me, it sounds like the state is also willing to live with it as I believe they think it will not go away and it will just be a constant battle with never destroying the mite...

I'll jump in here,  PPKs are sweet and citrusy. They kind of don't even taste like a mango, but I don't mean that in any negative way. My only criticism is that its production is quite variable for me. This year I got zero PPKs! That said, my tree is still pretty young. Still, I would never be without a PPK tree.

Interesting, as I also have a light harvest with less PPK's this year vs last year.

Almost all other varieties have more fruit this year vs. last year.

Poisoning Fear, panic, etc. etc. etc.   
Take it with a grain of Salt..

Google foods that contain Arsenic and decide if you really want to eliminate them all from your diet, also many nuts, etc. etc. etc.

You are unlikely to find anyone paid by government, universities, etc. to tell you anything other than it can or might accumulate with prolonged ingestion/contact/etc. and can eventually in High amounts in the body cause ... death.

But many other common minerals/metals in vitamins taken daily can also be toxic if in too high amounts in the body...
Googled:::

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What metals build up in the body?
Disease Overview

Many of the heavy metals, such as zinc, copper, chromium, iron and manganese, are essential to body function in very small amounts. But, if these metals accumulate in the body in concentrations sufficient to cause poisoning, then serious damage may occur.

Moderation in everything as too little or too much of many many things can kill these carbon based bodies... lol

The carbon atom is the essential building block of life. Every part of your body is made up of chains of carbon atoms, which is why we are known as "carbon-based life-forms." Chemically, we're just a bunch of inert compounds.Feb 6, 2015

Decrease the worrying... It'll come .... eventually...

Be thankful and enjoy each day as I'm sure most of us do...

My guess = Unripe Rapoza mangos.

Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance   

lol................   Yep...............  Feed the vermin some nice cornmeal patties:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBeySuYvdbY

empty cottage cheese containers work well to keep water away while placed in yard,sheds, etc.
50% peanut butter with baking soda 50% if they don't want cornmeal today...

Still reviewing pros vs. cons::: Haste makes Waste...

https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/lmkrla/chipdrop_screwed_me_40_yards_dropped/

https://www.bbb.org/us/or/portland/profile/wood-shavings/chip-drop-llc-1296-1000055218/complaints

So i stumped it and then left it alone....and it grew back.

10.8.22 has some suggestions to try for those wanting to try to help protect a avocado tree... Very interesting ideas. I might quote a few, but here is the link: 
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/2022/10/08/take-measures-prevent-laurel-wilt-avocado-trees/8175366001/

"There are things that can be done to help the tree grow healthy and therefore not be a susceptible host for the laurel wilt fungus.

The most important step to take is to get the mycorrhizae back into the soil to help support the tree. All trees are considered mycorrhizal dependent, so don’t grow your trees without them. Email me at sasc@ufl.edu if you don’t know how to get the biology established around the root systems of your trees, lawn, ornamental plants and everything else you want to grow in your yard.

Fertilizing correctly is also important, and that begins with a soil test. If you are interested in that I can also email you a copy of our soil testing form. It takes time for the soil food web to get established, so identifying low levels of any nutrients will be easy to correct.

To produce nutritious avocados, it is also beneficial to re-mineralize the soil with trace elements from a volcanic source, at least while the soil food web is getting established.

Another beneficial practice for the tree would be to spray the foliage with a liquid seaweed spray. This is a simple way to provide trace elements and growth hormones directly to the foliage of the tree, for translocation throughout the entire canopy. Spraying weekly will provide the most benefit.

One last thing you can do to help boost your tree’s defenses against the fungus would be to add aspirin to the liquid seaweed solution and spray them on the foliage together.  Research at the University of Rhode Island found that spraying a plant’s foliage with salicylic acid from aspirin results in a Systemic Acquired Resistance in the plant, which can help the plant protect itself from insects and diseases.

In the research, ¾ of an aspirin was dissolved in water and sprayed on the foliage of plants. It may be easier to dissolve 3 chewable baby aspirin, in a small amount of hot water, add that to enough cold water to make a gallon, and add the liquid seaweed to spray them together."

A few new ideas like the Aspirin addition, at least for me.

Interesting your wife adding boiled mangoes to yellow cake mix, might give that atry thanks Palmcity!

Update::: Original cake added 1 and 1/2 cup boiled green mangos but cake was too lemony and not fluffy enough.
2nd cake added only 1 cup boiled green mangos and skipped water and cake was better and fluffier.

The Rectangle cubes of boiled mango were frozen to be used later for many things needing a lemon taste or just add to water, stir, dissolve and add sweetener for lemonade.



I had a heavy limb of Young/Tebow mangos crack last week and was hoping they would ripen but no luck. I pulled down the limb and decided to bite into the wrinkled mangos and they were pretty good. Something between a Glen and Florigon mango (more like a Florigon). I enjoyed eating one outside this morning and took them inside and ate 2 more tonight. Here is a picture of the wrinkled underripe Young/Tebow mangos I ate today.


I'm willing to try most anything especially if I grew it.

Make sure you wash the skin of any drops as snails can carry some bad bad infecting organisms.





Oh, Forgot to mention.... Yes I like eating the skin on the Young/Tebow and also on the Florigon Mango (but I never eat the skin on a Glen as it tastes bad to me).  Very similar to eating a slightly greenish ripe Florigon, which I enjoy.

I have a E4 similar size but only 1 left after the wind, fungus, & normal drops. The 1 is about the size of yours.

However, 2  panicles bloomed and about 4 miniature bb size fruits are on it so maybe a late season possibility also on the reblooms.

Carrie trees have many many reblooms.

Couldn't bare to throw them away, I might make green mango salad

Wife has been using yellow cake mix and adding boiled mangos in directions instead of the water in the recipe on back of box.