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Yes it did get a little dry when I was out of town unfortunately someone forgot to water for me.
I water with well water. I am working on putting in a rainwater system solely for the jaboticabas, particularly when the smaller ones are large enough to plant.
Re:pruning, I was looking at the very unpruned jaboticaba outside of ECHO earlier today, and I was wondering if leaving one more bushy might help to keep bird predation down. Thoughts?
None. They like occasional temporary flooding but die from root rot if kept in standing water all the time.
If your tree is not too big, maybe put like a chicken wire cage around it on all sides, maybe cylindrical with a top to prevent birds from getting at it?
Quote from: TheDom on March 14, 2015, 09:38:20 PMRe:pruning, I was looking at the very unpruned jaboticaba outside of ECHO earlier today, and I was wondering if leaving one more bushy might help to keep bird predation down. Thoughts?definitely.we've touched on this subject before...it will make your fruit vulnerable, by virtue of them being exposed more, and also the tree will have much more fruit to be seen, and stolen, because it's so much more productive!
Quote from: ASaffron on March 14, 2015, 10:47:21 PMQuote from: TheDom on March 14, 2015, 09:38:20 PMRe:pruning, I was looking at the very unpruned jaboticaba outside of ECHO earlier today, and I was wondering if leaving one more bushy might help to keep bird predation down. Thoughts?definitely.we've touched on this subject before...it will make your fruit vulnerable, by virtue of them being exposed more, and also the tree will have much more fruit to be seen, and stolen, because it's so much more productive!When jaboticabas are happy they produce incredibly so much fruit that everyone has more than enough, both people and animals. Birds will tend to eat the ones at the top and people the ones at the bottom. And even so the ground will still be carpeted in fruits. What is the good of birds not stealing anything if the tree also hardly produces anything? I'd rather go with plan B: Bountiful.