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Posted on 3/6/25 at 12:53 pm to Tigerlaff
quote:what about non-citrus? Like mango?
lorida is totally infested and I would not buy any citrus tree from Florida.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 1:29 pm to Tigerlaff
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If anyone wants to see ornamentals let me know but I figured the fruit would be more interesting.
I am interested.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 2:06 pm to TimeOutdoors
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Dwarf Hawaiian
I absolutely love this one. It’s extremely sensitive to temperature changes and will typically be your first to flower. This year, the first flowering was early and almost entirely male flowers, which sucks; but, if you trim off the panicles you will often get a new group immediately after. My second flowering is underway right now.
Under ordinary circumstances, you will to be able to get one if not two crops per season with a outside chance of a third. The mangoes are small, which makes them convenient to eat by yourself. It does have a little bit of fiber near the seed which some people find objectionable; but, the tropical and coconut flavors are fantastic.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 4:55 pm to Neauxla
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what about non-citrus? Like mango?
Mango is fine. The only war you'll probably be fighting is powdery mildew and anthracnose.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 4:56 pm to wiltznucs
Dwarf Hawaiian was my runner up. I just need the reliability of the Pickering. One year I'll make it to the palm beach mango fest and sample all that crazy stuff from Alex Salazar.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 4:58 pm to TimeOutdoors
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I am interested
I'll update this post with some pics from last summer.
Fiesta hibiscus. Easily my most impressive hibiscus.
Hibiscus hamabo. The only winter hardy yellow hibiscus in the world as far as I know. It is deciduous and turns beautiful red and orange colors in the fall before dropping the leaves. Hardy to zone 8!
Hibiscus syriacus / rose of sharon Paraplu Violet
Basic bitch red and orange hibiscus from home depot
Orange bird of paradise
Bougainvillea
Plumeria, variety is Princess Marcella Maria
Esperanza jubilee orange
Dipladenia
Cordyline
Pride of Barbados
This post was edited on 3/6/25 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:43 am to Tigerlaff
Damn this thread. Now I ordered a Nam Doc Mai #4. 
Posted on 3/7/25 at 1:51 pm to Neauxla
I have the new honeyquat loquat cultivar arriving from Lara Farms today. Also got my Rajapuri banana, Oliver loquat and small lemon guava in the ground. I dug up a huge grand nain banana from this spot because it just didn't deal with the cold well enough.
The big lemon guava is flowering.
Plumeria waking up.
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 7:38 am
Posted on 3/7/25 at 3:38 pm to Neauxla
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Damn this thread. Now I ordered a Nam Doc Mai #4
It’s easy to go full on Pokémon with mango trees. Gotta catch em all! LOL. I went from having just one to 15 in only about two years.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:26 pm to wiltznucs
I have about 5 namwah / ice cream bananas, but I grew one in a pot just for the hell of it and it flowered in January just in time for freezing weather. Luckily my wife is cool and the ceilings are high so it stayed in our living room for 2 months. Here it is back outside for the first time today.
Here's the Lara Farms honeyquat that arrived today. Needs a year or two in a pot before it's ready for planting.
Here's the Lara Farms honeyquat that arrived today. Needs a year or two in a pot before it's ready for planting.
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 7:39 am
Posted on 3/9/25 at 8:15 am to Tigerlaff
Ruby supreme guava reporting for duty today
Posted on 3/9/25 at 1:51 pm to Tigerlaff
What is the best fertilizer for a majestic palm and a birds of paradise? (live in Zone 9A on the Alabama Gulf Coast.)
Posted on 3/9/25 at 2:51 pm to Tigerlaff
Local hardware store had a bird of paradise so I picked one up. Hoping to get a dwarf banana tree and I think that will take care of me for this year.
Posted on 3/9/25 at 2:59 pm to Fishwater
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What is the best fertilizer for a majestic palm and a birds of paradise? (live in Zone 9A on the Alabama Gulf Coast.)
There are a thousand different philosophies on this. Some people only use organic. Some only synthetic. I prefer a mix for everything. But if you want the best bang for the buck, ease of use, and what the pros use for tropical plants, I'd say it's Harrell's time release. These are the green pellets that all the good nursuries use.
LINK
The main thing is you want to ensure you are getting all your micros. I use a layer of compost and osmocote time release. If you want a synthetic all in one the very best on the market is foliage pro. It's fantastic and I use it on my citrus and my most sensitive trees like lychee (at half strength).
This post was edited on 3/9/25 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 3/9/25 at 3:17 pm to Tigerlaff
Mexican cream guava pushing new growth after a bare root and repot process.
Jamaican cherry flowering and setting fruit.
Kari starfruit / carambola recovered from shipping, bare root, and repot. Starfruit are huge drama queens and there were like 5 leaves on this 3 weeks ago. Also needs significantly acidic soil and foliar nutrients.
Lara Farms honeyquat bare rooted and repotted. I will say that Julian Lara mails his plants with probably the best soil mix I've ever seen from a vendor. He clearly knows that the wood chips are not good.
Jamaican cherry flowering and setting fruit.
Kari starfruit / carambola recovered from shipping, bare root, and repot. Starfruit are huge drama queens and there were like 5 leaves on this 3 weeks ago. Also needs significantly acidic soil and foliar nutrients.
Lara Farms honeyquat bare rooted and repotted. I will say that Julian Lara mails his plants with probably the best soil mix I've ever seen from a vendor. He clearly knows that the wood chips are not good.
This post was edited on 3/9/25 at 5:56 pm
Posted on 3/9/25 at 3:29 pm to TimeOutdoors
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Local hardware store had a bird of paradise so I picked one up.
Orange or white? (Strelitzia reginae or Strelitzia niccolai)?
The orange BOP is one of the very few plants that will tolerate anoxic sludge soil. Pot it in whatever you want. It doesn't care. It's also hardy in 9a. Comes back from the roots every year. Also flowers a lot better in the ground or in a very constricted pot.
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Hoping to get a dwarf banana tree and I think that will take care of me for this year.
How dwarf are we talking? Like small enough for a container or small enough to easily harvest fruit?
Regardless, you need to be looking at dwarf namwah. The cold tolerance, dwarf habit, disease resistance, and high quality fruit have to be considered.
If looking for something very very small that will also fruit, look at Musa Truly Tiny.
And if there are any northerners who happen to be reading this thread and just want nice banana foliage, Musa basjoo is your answer. Will survive as far north as Cincinnati.
This post was edited on 3/9/25 at 3:37 pm
Posted on 3/9/25 at 5:42 pm to Tigerlaff
The white bird of paradise. I’m not sure about the banana yet. I am planning on going to the plant festival in Forest Hill in a few weeks and hoped I’d have a few options there.
Posted on 3/9/25 at 5:50 pm to TimeOutdoors
The white one is enormous but won't get that big or flower outside of zones 10-11. Great foliage plant. Just don't fret about it not flowering. It wants to be 40 feet tall.
That festival is awesome. So many great things at ridiculous prices.
That festival is awesome. So many great things at ridiculous prices.
This post was edited on 3/9/25 at 5:53 pm
Posted on 3/10/25 at 11:29 am to Tigerlaff
We have several citrus in pots… what is your advice for best fertilizer for pots and how frequent do you fertilize them?
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