The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hey brad

Top pot gets an A in my book.

His store is nearby and I've bought from him before. I like it for potted plants because it drains quickly and allows me to water regularly without worrying too much about root rot. This is especially helpful for rooting cuttings.

I believe there is charcoal of some sort in the soil mix. It's lighter than dg but it doesn't hold onto water very well (will definitely dry out in a day on a hot day). It's hard to overwater it . I'm not sure it's as rich as promix but promix definitely retains too much water and can't be watered as regularly. Worst mistake I ever made was taking cuttings started in promix and transferring to top pot. The top pot drained water directly to the promix which held onto the water and wouldn't let go. More than 100 rotted cuttings.

Looks like a lot of flowers are starting to form on my oro negro for the first time. The tree is 5 years old, 8 feet wide 5 feet tall so I hope a lot of fruit holds

My oro negro set several fruit, first time it's done that.

My Jan Boyce is holding lots of fruit but she'd all leaves and doesn't look like it's in any rush to releaf and protect itself. It's been a couple of months now and the tree is so darn leggy.

I've got one growing in ground for a few months now. Doing fine

I bought a bunch of no name ones that aren't really propagated

One called 'tal', reportedly excellent flavor but every few years some avos will have fiber . Jf said it was her sons favorite and is in her yard. Research name is TX something.

I bought malama to replace my dead and one.

Bob avocado and Schindler avocado. Dont know mich about
Them.

Marshalline avocado also.

These are the ones they usually propagate just 1 of (except malama) and so the budwood doesnt really get passed around. I was trying to find a sally avocado but it wasn't grafted this year. I bought the only tree last year as it came really highly recommended but it fried. I did manage to get some budwood though and it's still green.

Quote from: CA Hockey on April 26, 2019, 12:46:36 PM

Looking good there. Hope those avos sprout up. I acquired a few new varieties from green scene recently. Hopefully they will grow well this year.

Mark, yes you can hand pollinate. You can use a q tip or or something soft or a dead bug trapped in a spider web. You can then light brush against s male flower then come back to pollinate female flowers

You can also just pull off a Male flower and walk around and pollinate female ones later on

Out of curiosity...Which varieties did you get from green scene? I missed it this year...I have attended the two previous years before.

Bonita creek has it, I think they buy from eli/subtropica

[Not discounting rootstock or other factors but sir prize is a beast. One prominent member here grafted sir prize onto an established tree and now the sir prize size is bigger than the original. My sir prize is also growing phenomenally well growth rate similar to Pinkerton but more bushy and less droopy


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This is a side by side comparison of the two trees  I have.  I planted the Sir Prize 6 weeks earlier so it has a head start.  It grow by 8 inches so far.  The Reed has shed all the leaves and doesn't look that good right now.

H Barath, good tips.  I'll consider those.  jtnguyen333- do you have any pics of your trees?  I assume you gave both the same soil mix treatment and exposure.  I pretty much used a similar mix to what you did, but I did mix-in the compost and wormcastings, etc. in the top 6-9".  I haven't yet setup the sprinkler subsystem for these trees.  I'm trying to decide between soaker hoses beneath the mulch vs. over head sprinklers, or slow drip.

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First year in ground
Bought from Atkins nursery. Dont know cultivar name

Nice looking tree! Can't wait to see how it grows

Not when I touched it. But it seems like it fell off between taking the picture and putting the phone down and I didnt want to go digging in the soil. 

At first I thought it was a massive Japanese beetle grub 🤮

Quote from: ManVFruit on April 11, 2019, 02:13:18 AM

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

Let it fruit till its a size of a pea. Then u remove the pea-sized mango.


If u take out flower now. Chances are it will try to re-flower...

I know simon talked about this. Use the search button for a more descriptive post.

Usually removing the flowers this early would result in new flowers, but it's been so hit that my trees are mainly pushing out all leaves. It may be worth a shot if you are impatient

I personally would wait... but I have a large orchard to obsess over and can find lots of other plants to distract me.

If I had to stare at that set of flowers every day I probably would pinch some off and see how it goes.

eli has a neat collection. Did any of you also pick up rio hass? Am I the only one who bought one?

foliar feeding should be safe. Have you had any flushes since buying it? I would just make sure you have the concentrations right so you don't burn the leaves. If you do get leaf burn, then your concentrations were too high.

Fruit punch on Florida rootstock has done well x 2 years

Venus on Florida rootstock has done well x 1 year

Ambrosia on Florida rootstock has grown vigorously x 2 years

Keitt on Florida rootstock has done well x 2 years

Lemon zest on Florida rootstock has grown well x 1 year

Lemon zest and CAC on seedling rootstock has done well x 1/2 year

Fruit punch and lz on Manila is ok

Pina colada on seedling - nada. Maybe 1 inch of growth in 1.5 years and that growth was  2 flower panicles in january.

Pineapple pleasure by contrast is growing well x 1.5 years

Nam doc mai on Brokaw rootstock is vigorous x 6 months

Maha xhanook on seedling rootstock good x 6 months

Ppk from exotica -looks like Florida rootstock woth yellow tag but not sure how exotica propagates their trees. Only 1 flush first year. Did better second year.

Orange sherbet Florida rootstock -solid growth with minimal flowering last year.

M4 on Florida rootstock -stable x 1 year.