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Thank you for your video I am now but planting my Brazil atemoya seedlings, and learning more about the fruit Would you please give some updates about your atemoya growing from seedlings, if the fruits come out true to its fruit Thank you
Im originally from Ohio and gardening was a breeze and could grow damn near anything esp when most of what you learned was from your great grandfather ( whos gardens were epic when i was a kid ) and when he passed the rest you learned from your mother which was his grand daughter. And her green thumb was house plants. So yeah living in Arizona for almost 20 years now ive only done one small garden ( had great yield) but i miss it bigtime. Nothing better than a homegrown tomatoe you can eat like an apple. Along with so many other fresh veggies. So im here looking for tips on watermelon and also in search of tips for corn. We had a saying back in the midwest corn knee high by forth of july your gunna be happy with your supply. So yeah im subscribing. Thanks youve already helped me with this info.
I'm in Mesa 9b, Phoenix area. I've had trouble getting fruit set. My 12 foot tree has several varieties grafted on. The first and only fruit an Alano is currently on the tree. Lots of bloosoms, no problem with heat or cold, trying different things to get fruit but nothing seems to help. Keeping well watered during set time and extra P and K is on the list. Lowering pH is going on as well as foliar blooming help. Going to try blossom set again. Some blossoming is during various times besides early June main timing. No insects seem to care but honey, sugar, soda pop is supposed to attract pollinators. Rolling the blossoms with fingers hasn't seemed to help. I've heard a very large 30ft tree in town fruits heavily but no confirmation. I might try ripping up some blossoms and brushing some pollen on. Early morning should help.
So, I'm in SE Georgia, near Savannah, and am in a borderline hardiness zone 9A / 8b climate. I get about 500 or slightly more chilling hours most years. I have about 15 mature plum strains. One of which is Sprite. As with you my Spright is getting more shade than it should. Still, it should be more productive than it is. Even with 500 chilling hours, it acts like it's not quite getting enough. No matter what, it seems to bloom in spits and spats, and while it makes fruit, I wouldn't call it productive here. Some of my other trees its size produces a hundred pounds of fruit or more per year. I would be interested if your tree ever really became productive in your situation and if it ever exploded into bloom the way a plum tree should. Since you're in a Zone 9b climate, you should consider trying to grow Gulf series plums developed by the University of Florida. Those are Gulf Beauty, Gulf Blaze, Gulf Rose and Gulf Gold. Those require virtually no chilling hours. I don't grow them because these would probably bloom too early and get yacked by frost every year in Georgia, but in a Zone 9b climate, they are probably the way to go. Another one with a similar chilling requirement is one called Scarlet Beauty plum. Most of my plums have about a 300 to 400 chilling hour requirement, so I don't even know that I can recommend any of my varieties for a 9b climate. I would love to hear an update on your trees and be proven wrong on the chilling hour thing. Thanks.
You mention Citation rootstock her. Of course, my soil is super different from yours, but what I found works best as a rootstock here for plums are the root suckers of Chickasaw plum cultivars. Toole's Heirloom and N.C. McKibben are fantastic as rootstock for most Asian type plums. The provide the super disease resistance of Prunus agustifolia, but unlike wild-type chickasaw plums, the trunks and roots get big enough to support a big Asian plum tree. My guess is that they would do fine in your area because P. angustifolia is native to most of Texas and Northern Mexico.
How are your anonas doing now, a few years after this video as they've gotten some more age? I live in your same general area and I love cherimoyas, but I haven't seen a lot of good examples of them actually fruiting.
Nothing can cure cancer I don’t recommend people believe in soursop leave cure cancer that was not truth the science didn’t have any evidence in it. It is just the fruit will have antioxidant that it. If you consume too much the leaves can be toxic.
My 8 ft Trompo, wirh Fairchild II and another variety grafted in Mesa AZ, are blossoming aggressively with blossoms starting to open in mid June. My other one in more shade is about a week ahead in opening. I'm thinking to 50% shade after the hand pollenization or even before. No fruit yet but I did get Lucuma grafts to take on the Canistel. ripping the side out on the blossoms to get at pollen better.
Figs are considered one of the easiest plants that you can get them rooted from cuttings. Yet I saw a YTer said he rooted some fig cuttings and got 30 % success, and he was already pleased with the results . So the success rate doesn't sound very high to me. Fig cuttings are selling on Ebay for $3 for the cheapest varieties like brown turkey or black mission to $50 or more/ each for the better, rarer ones. What was your success rate when you rooted your fig cuttings?
No bugs or rot, but my pomegranate avrils are very pale, with very little sweetness. I would chalk it up to inexperience, but my neighbor down the street with 12" of mulch a decade ago, and scads of earthworms, has the exact same problem. Beautiful big red fruits, cut them open and pale pink (or white) avrils. Not much sweetness. We're both in Mesa, Arizona. Is it the heat??
So I'm in Yuma az I have palmer mango manilla mango pickning mango fruit punch mango thinking to add phoneix mango and ice cream mango and my project is to see witch one well do best in Yuma soon il start my video on you tube
Thank you for this posting- it was just the help I needed. I used the parts you identified, figured out how to connect everything. I am not especially handy so when I first turned on the water pressure, I was expecting this to look like a Charlie Chaplin movie with little geysers and leaks everywhere. I was delightfully astonished that it was watertight, every bubbler doing its thing, and it was done with no need for troubleshooting. This was great.
Give it some clear ht...and a 50% shade cloth should suffice...as long as you have good airflow (the latter 2 suggestions would "help" ) & full protection. It may burn ever so slightly...but you want that eventual acclimation. Thx for the share !
Mine is still small, would it handle full sun exposure at Texas’s nonstop 100/plus degree? I have it in the 40% shade but I hope I’m not holding it back from full growth.
