Hello from Duval county as well👋. Beautiful trees! I grow a lot here on my property. A couple of citrus trees here: Meyer lemon, tangelo, and Persian lime. I’ve got loquat, mulberry, goji berry, blueberry, papaya, avocado, black olive, pear, and elderberry. We can grow so much here! I grow my trees mainly in containers except for the natives. It helps to control the soil requirements for each one. I can also move them around to work with the different weather variations we get here. So sorry for your loss, I too grew a few things in my garden for a few of my losses over the years and it’s nice to watch them grow in a loving memory. Happy growing!
You have a great selection of fruit trees. Your trees may bear well one year and not so well the next. Also usually the bigger the trunk the more fruit you'll get. I've just subscribed to your channel and I'll see you in the garden🤗
Hello, Blessings from Jacksonville, FL. You can make a liquid fertilizer for all citrus trees with 1 gallon of rainwater, 1/4 cup of molasses, 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon, mix well and pour the mixture around the tree. Prune the branches so that they can concentrate their strength on rehabilitating their roots. You can also mix untreated wood ash, untreated charcoal, chicken manure, compost soil in equal parts and make an organic fertilizer for all your fruit trees.
Good collections, grow some more diversity. Strawberry guavas pineapple guavas do good up that far north Figs as well. But Maybe try out grumichama, cherry of the Rio and Jaboticabas they are frost tolerant when mature but are excellent container plants.
Hi Duval Gardner, I am late to this post. I am in zone 9A, Alachua FL. I have several citrus, loquat, avocado, peach, persimmon, mango, apple, and cherry trees that are either in pots or in the ground, and I haven't lost any of them. One of the tricks that I use when a tree isn't doing well in the ground is to place it in a pot (if it isn't too big) for at least a season or two to nurse it back to health. This will help you pay close attention to it in all kinds of weather conditions. You definitely don't want a sick plant in the ground struggling in our brutal Florida sun when you are trying to figure out what is wrong with it. That is why being in a pot with the proper soil, water, pest control, and (liquid) fertilizer, if needed is the best condition to save a plant while it is trying to recovery. I wish you the best on growing your food forest.
Hi, my neighbor told me to use vinegar and water. They disappeared once I put the mixture around the trees and on the ground. Didn't necessarily kill them, but they did move away from the trees.
That Key Lime won’t make it that far north. If your looking for something cold hardy, look into the Red Lime. That one is money and great for North Florida. Hooah
I know this was 3 months ago but one way to tell if a tree is still alive is by doing the scratch test. Just scratch an area of the trunk and if it’s green underneath it’s still alive. Brown means dead. And loquat trees are evergreens. Unfortunately I think your loquat tree didn’t make it but glad you had a backup one.
Great collection of trees. If you're looking for fruiting size fruit trees, I highly recommend Willis Orchard Online. I built my orchard with their trees and each one performed exactly as it was supposed to. I also suggest an ounce of mycorrhiza in the planting hole will see your trees really take off.
Thank you for your service man from one vet to another! be sure to check out Gore`s nursery on the northside I get a lot of my fruit trees from them and they have better prices than the big box stores.
Make sure that the meyer lemon isn't growing shoots back out of the rootstock. You could end up with some low quality fruit if that's the case. Edit: Looks like quite a few people pointed this out already. What was the result when you checked it?
if you had less oranges last season that might be the reason they were bigger...more fruits sometimes equals smaller fruits as the tree is fighting to hold and maintain all those 'extra' fruit..search how to 'thin fruits'
Yes, if you are going to keep them in the ground in the brutal Florida sun. In pots you can create your own microclimate to protect them. You can also use 40% shade cloth, but that does require a little work.
DUVAL!!! Im in arlington now officially zone 9b and have 9 avacado trees in ground as well as 3 pears and a pecan all in ground. And my favorite red hybrid jaboticabas in pots. I like your layout!
Wanna know if a tree is still alive scratch the bark just a tad bit if u see green it’s alive if it’s brown it’s all dead if u scratched from the bottom of the trunk
Just found your channel. good lick in all your planting. I don’t know where you’re from. Im about 40 to 50 miles west from you so my number one tip is remember you are not in South Florida we are more like S. GA. Zone 8 and even 9 are tough on citrus. Florida has 4 zones because of how large the state is. Good luck. Cover your citrus when below 40. Your lucky that you are near the coast your temps and humidity is better for them than even 45 mins west. And florida has ALL the bugs lol. Even N.FLA
I have 2 Kishu that have taken 2 years to flower but it's rootstock is 2" and I knew I would have to wait. Just got the first flower bud! I soak the citrus stake fertlizer in a 2 gallon jug then use that water as a boost. 8b in Vancouver we get freeze they come in still but insulating solar greenhouse soon.
First of all, sorry for your loss. Can't wait to see your peach tree doing now. It's on my list to get next. Second, I felt a connection as a first time gardener, going on 3 years in FL. and learning as I go. I started with some similar trees and now my big project is challenging those darn bugs!! How are you handling that?
hey, i love the tour, great citrus tour. Hey, just be careful about that citrus tree that got killed from the frost and then three branches grew back, just make sure that those branches are growing above the rootstock. cuz then the tree will remain true to type.
