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Tigerlaff
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re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 3/3/26 at 7:16 pm to TeddyPadillac
Alright I'm here to spam carambola/starfruit again. I've had starfruit in the past before growing it. It was always green and sour (unripe) and the ones that were ripe were pretty bland. I knew that when I started growing them I would get something at least marginally better.
I was not ready for how good the Kari variety has been. They just keep improving, regardless of fruit size. The ones we are eating this week are about the same level of sweetness as a mid-level satsuma. That's much sweeter than I expected. I'm going to let a couple hit complete ripeness over the next few days and measure the brix with the refractometer and update this post.
Even these tiny ones are great.
I was not ready for how good the Kari variety has been. They just keep improving, regardless of fruit size. The ones we are eating this week are about the same level of sweetness as a mid-level satsuma. That's much sweeter than I expected. I'm going to let a couple hit complete ripeness over the next few days and measure the brix with the refractometer and update this post.
Even these tiny ones are great.
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re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 3/3/26 at 10:50 am to TeddyPadillac
Nice! The mamey looks like it is trying to flush new leaves. Have you done a scratch test on the bark to see if it's green underneath?
The damage on that Pickering is nothing. It will be totally fine as the weather warms. For mangos that small, you will want a regular fertilizer with regular nitrogen levels like Osmocote. All you're trying to do now is put size on the tree. I say this because if you google "mango fertilizer" you will see a bunch of stuff about 0-0-22 and 0-10-10 because those are exactly what you want for large established in-ground trees and for container trees that are large and fruiting. These guys aren't going to be holding fruit anytime soon, so use the time to get vegetative growth and prune into a strong scaffolding structure.
Sounds like the rest of the collection is doing great and ready for spring.
The damage on that Pickering is nothing. It will be totally fine as the weather warms. For mangos that small, you will want a regular fertilizer with regular nitrogen levels like Osmocote. All you're trying to do now is put size on the tree. I say this because if you google "mango fertilizer" you will see a bunch of stuff about 0-0-22 and 0-10-10 because those are exactly what you want for large established in-ground trees and for container trees that are large and fruiting. These guys aren't going to be holding fruit anytime soon, so use the time to get vegetative growth and prune into a strong scaffolding structure.
Sounds like the rest of the collection is doing great and ready for spring.
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I was just thinking about that. There's a spot on the side of my house where the st aug never went dormant. It gets about 6 hours of sun per day.
Good, will get some radiative heat from the house overnight. These things are tough and I suspect we will never have a winter cold enough to kill kill them, just restart them from the roots. Even tropical guava comes back and these are 10 degrees tougher.
Nice guava. Already has some lignification on it. Let me see if I can find mine on the day I planted it for size comparison.
ETA here it is on 03/07/2025 when I planted it. Really not much bigger than yours if at all.
It will be at least 6 feet tall by next spring and you may even get a fruit or two this year. If you plant in full sun it will be faster but more exposed to freezes. Planted mine under protective tree canopies and gets about half day sun.
The one in my 20g pot is enormous and has to be pruned like 6 times per year to control.
Yeah the yellow dragon fruits are a different species and significantly sweeter IMO. If I was going to do one it would be a yellow.
ETA here it is on 03/07/2025 when I planted it. Really not much bigger than yours if at all.
It will be at least 6 feet tall by next spring and you may even get a fruit or two this year. If you plant in full sun it will be faster but more exposed to freezes. Planted mine under protective tree canopies and gets about half day sun.
The one in my 20g pot is enormous and has to be pruned like 6 times per year to control.
Yeah the yellow dragon fruits are a different species and significantly sweeter IMO. If I was going to do one it would be a yellow.
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Guessing normal stress response?
Keep it in shade ?
Yes. No worries citrus roots are tough. It will recover. Shade is just what it needs for a couple of weeks.
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Thinking forward to new avocados, not sure how Everglades pots, if it’s bark based, will be doing the same with it, but maybe don’t go full bare root before planting in mineral? I don’t want to stress it so much it dies ?
Everglades uses bark soil. Almost everyone does, too expensive to do it right and even if they did 95% of their customers would be angry that their tree shipped in a bunch of sand and rocks. I'm not giving you any legit advice about how to do an avocado. I don't grow them. But if I decided to, I would plant it just like I do everything else in mineral soil with no bark. If it was small, I would not spend an hour blasting the roots perfectly clean. I would get off as much as I could while being very gentle with the roots until maybe only 10% of the bark remained. I would also wait at least 1 week to repot after arrival (I only do this with the most sensitive of plants, like avocado).
re: Why did moscona get rid of condons show?
Posted by Tigerlaff on 3/1/26 at 8:55 am to nicholastiger
Probably because he sucks.
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This is so upsetting.
I wish I knew someone I trusted to prune my trees. I would pay them to do it. :lol: It's like cutting off your own limbs after all the work you put into it. I'm still anxious about it even after all these years and I almost never regret a prune after the fact. I have to shape prune a grafted loquat in a 15g today and I'm dreading it. Central leader is getting passed by laterals. It's an obvious prune situation and I've put it off for over a week.
ETA: done. And now that it's over it clearly has a better long term shape.
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Rather give illegals sex changes huh?
I'd rather deport every single one of them with zero due process. No hearing no, no lawyers, nothing. Cargo ships.
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Removing communist influence from our near-shores would have several impacts on our economy.
Are you also a commerce clause enjoyer? I love remote speculative benefits that may or may not result from heavy handed action.
Yeah I can't wait to spend my tax dollars to bring an entire nation into the 21st century. That's why I lace em up everyday.
Tucker just remembers the last few times we did this.
re: Is it just me or are the WW3/war people trying too hard
Posted by Tigerlaff on 2/28/26 at 5:29 pm to ReauxlTide222
The latter.
re: Now that Maduro and Khamenei have been taken care of, it’s time for Trump to go after DPRK
Posted by Tigerlaff on 2/28/26 at 5:06 pm to JasonDBlaha
I mean why not? According to this board we should go to war against violent regimes that don't adhere to our particular vision for government.
Hello? Wait... is that you Saudi Arabia? Be quiet until this is over we are trying to get some shite done for freedom and justice and the American Way.
Hello? Wait... is that you Saudi Arabia? Be quiet until this is over we are trying to get some shite done for freedom and justice and the American Way.
The difference is that if Trump said "we don't give a shite about Iran," we would be satisfied. I have zero desire to use our power to attempt to shape global geopolitics on the other side of the world because it almost always fails (because the people we intervene upon are not like us).
Seriously, just ask yourself, when Obama wanted to do this to Syria did you support it?
Seriously, just ask yourself, when Obama wanted to do this to Syria did you support it?
re: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan discredited interventionism to American public
Posted by Tigerlaff on 2/28/26 at 4:59 pm to hawgfaninc
Insanity.
No. The Iraq War eclipses anything that Trump has done 100 fold.
re: Do you actually care about Iranians and their polity?
Posted by Tigerlaff on 2/28/26 at 4:56 pm to thetempleowl
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All the countries will join the right side of history and will prosper.
Peace will be present in the middle east finally.
This is the most retarded shite I have ever seen on this site. It actually makes sense considering that you used to be a lib.
I remember a lot of these same arguments about Iraq in 2003. I hope they enjoy their ©Freedom!
If Iran ends up under another despot in 20 years, are we doing it again? Why not North Korea?
If Iran ends up under another despot in 20 years, are we doing it again? Why not North Korea?
Do you actually care about Iranians and their polity?
Posted by Tigerlaff on 2/28/26 at 4:25 pm
I don't. I don't care what kind of government they live under and I don't care about their freedom/human rights/etc. I'm angry that my money is paying for this.
This is not our job. One year ago we were told that the limited air strikes had ended Iran's nuclear program. So what are we doing now?
This is not our job. One year ago we were told that the limited air strikes had ended Iran's nuclear program. So what are we doing now?
If you're filtering water then at least we know it isn't metals/etc. in your tap water. Test the pH of your water and soil. Filter is not going to fix the pH. If you can't test your water and soil pH then I'm afraid avocados are going to be a big challenge. Most soil pH meters are terrible and wildly inaccurate. You get what you pay for on these. If you want a recommendation it would be Hanna Instruments, but they are not cheap like what you will see on Amazon. Water pH is much easier to test. You can start with pool test strips but a liquid reagent pool test kit would be much more accurate.
My tap water in Mandeville is an 8.8 pH. No bueno. If you've got one third peat in the mix then you should be in the right neighborhood. May need a little soil sulfur if it's too high. Soil pH is more important than water pH but alkaline water will eventually neutralize the acidic peat in the mix. It takes a long time.
Also if you just potted it you should expect some shock. Avocados man. Just keep tinkering. Gary Matsuoka has an entire YouTube video on container avocados that he released about a month ago. I would watch that and do literally whatever he tells you.
Blood meal is basically just nitrogen. Osmocote has plenty of nitrogen. If you want to use an organic with the osmocote, use compost or worm castings or something. I wouldn't use blood meal unless I had some kind of nitrogen deficiency.
My tap water in Mandeville is an 8.8 pH. No bueno. If you've got one third peat in the mix then you should be in the right neighborhood. May need a little soil sulfur if it's too high. Soil pH is more important than water pH but alkaline water will eventually neutralize the acidic peat in the mix. It takes a long time.
Also if you just potted it you should expect some shock. Avocados man. Just keep tinkering. Gary Matsuoka has an entire YouTube video on container avocados that he released about a month ago. I would watch that and do literally whatever he tells you.
Blood meal is basically just nitrogen. Osmocote has plenty of nitrogen. If you want to use an organic with the osmocote, use compost or worm castings or something. I wouldn't use blood meal unless I had some kind of nitrogen deficiency.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 2/28/26 at 3:34 pm to Koolazzkat
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My Celeste fig is budding.
Same. Got all the figs waking up. Stone fruit are on a hair trigger with buds ready to break. Won't see pawpaws waking up for a little while more.
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