I have an old Fuerte, like 60 feet tall, taken down and resprouted like crazy. Love the flavor but it's not a good producer. Now I know what to do. I've been spraying my GEM with a low concentration of urea - about a teaspoon in a two quart sprayer bottle - on the new flush. The GEM loves it, with good vegetative growth (with prolonged flushing), good fruiting, and what looks to be good fruit retention. This is my "top down" approach to fertilization and I know the urea gets in due to experiments on the Fuerte, which showed leaf distortion and leaf toughening. Similar urea spraying on apples had bizarre and negative effects. I'm babying a Pinkerton and a Lamb in fabric pots over the summer for planting in the fall. Thanks for your service!
Hey Gray, I've been spraying flush with a teaspoon of urea in a two quart spray bottle. I spray all new growth every evening. I've been doing it on a Hass, a Fuerte that came back from being stumped, and a GEM. They all love it and are continuing flush. I did a stronger formulation on the Fuerte and got distorted, super thick leaves with yellow veins but they lived and the tree has flourished. But urea is toxic to most plants. Apple trees got weird. This year June 2024 getting good fruit hang on the GEM. Lots of extra flushing. My theory: Urea on the flush sends a message to the tree. "We've got nitrogen. Use N coming in from the roots elsewhere as needed. Fruits are getting sugar from local sugar production." No tree has died from spraying with diluted urea.
Impressive farm. Interesting to see how you grow your plants. Sad to see the Citrus industry fading away. Here in Florida it is Citrus greening that is causing so many problems but yet, water is another biggie affecting so many farmers. Not easy for farmers either way. Hope you had a bountiful harvest.
What is the tar you put down? A rooting hormone? Also what are you wrapping the top of the scion you grafted onto the bigger tree with… looks like paper or something lol but I have a 20 year old Avocado that’s never flowered even… never given fruits and I really want to make it a good tree. HELP!
Wanted to say thank you for your informative videos and if I haven't said it before you're doing the right thing setting a good example for everyone don't stop keep charging Full Speed Ahead my motto and all this may not apply to you surfing commercial fishing fishing and farming is the way you're definitely part of Team SoCal
Could you please do a video showing how to make a simple structure for dragonfruit in a home backyard? I am using a tomato cage now but it doesn’t hold well. Thanks!
I was going to mention something regarding your maturity and dates and all that when avocados are grown at the coast comparatively to inland there is a definite time difference on maturity if you're growing in Cambria versus North County there's definitely a difference just thought I would mention that but what do I know anyways keep up the good work
I'm pleasantly surprised I was involved in avocados before NAFTA and I learned quite a bit I meant that chap Ruben from Israel when he was doing his little field classes many years ago regarding the Reed avocados he was getting some wild number per acre I like your videos they're Direct and to the point informative there's not a lot of Young Blood in the agriculture business and certain areas way2go helping people out it's amazing how everybody to share information now from the doctor's office to right here on RU-vid would be nice to have the stuff back in the 70s have a good one buddy
When it gets cold like it has been parafilm seems to get hard and can actually restrict buds tryingvto push through. Just watch for this. The parafilm does preserve the scion, but if restrictive should be opened.
Hi Gray. I know hardly anything about dragon fruit as I've still got my hand's full learning mostly about avocados up here in Anaheim. Those fields look very impressive. How many dragon fruit plants do you have? I've only tasted a handful of dragon fruit and the ones I tasted were pretty bland from the stores. Which varieties do you like or could recommend a novice try to find and taste?
Sorry to disappoint you but most dragon fruits are bland. They look tasty exotic and desirable because of their color. But most taste the same. Yellow pallora is probably the sweetest dragon fruit I've had.
Hi Greg, thank you very much for sharing your videos. Question, do you apply foliar to your avocados? This year I started to apply boron and zinc when the flowers stated to come out, and calcium when the fruit started to set. Can share your take on applying these products to help set and hold the fruit. Thank you
The bloom spray topic is new to me. I know some Growers are using gibberellic acid. Unlike you I hear favorable response from minor elements like seaweed Solutions are extracts. I say this is where everybody becomes a researcher
@@graymartin2275 Although the avocado leaf develops a thick cuticle, and previous studies on foliar feeding showed little effect, the flush vegetation is different. I have been spraying dilute urea - a teaspoon per two quarts- on flush leaves. They respond well and grow big and fat.
Nice looking tree Gray. I have a tree that is growing foliage on one side, if I pinch off terminal buds would the tree start to push leaves on the other side?
Is Marvel available to the general public if so where can I get some? Thanks for the info home grower here that shapes heavily by pinching, and bending my young trees. I know one day I will have to hard prune so this is really valuable thanks for sharing.🥑
