re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

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I would do the same. Pumice is lighter than the granite. Didn't know you were planning on DG.

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I was planning on

1/3 Coco
1/3 Pumice

1/3 split between sand and perlite

I also found the charcoal....

Had a tragedy with my super Hass, it got hit by a small incidental
Brush fire then, burning half the tree up. It never really recovered well, then the cold came ! I covered and heated as normal but maybe too much stress. It’s a loss.
I ended up stumping it and have some suckers popping up, but it’s below the graft union I’m guessing.
Guessing I should just pull it up :/

I need toFind a new tree. I called Saxon Becnel, they won’t be getting any SH this year bc their supplier wasn’t shipping.

TigerLaff, would it be possible to add a list of nursery’s to call on in your first post?

Hate to ask where I should start looking for someone who will ship a larger tree, prefer at least a 3-7gal. ?

I’ve learned a lot growing avocados, and will keep trying lol. The year I got fruit from my SH was unbelievable and the fruit was amazing.

Lara Farms ships all kinds of 3 gal avocados. Do your research first and make sure it's a Mexican race cultivar.

LINK

If you find one, please share. I may replace one of my Joeys with a Super Haas. My first Joey is a bush. It wont grow upright. I tried topping it last year to get it to grow up, no dice.

New soldiers going in…

Super Hass aka Oh La La…

Need a Type A avocado to help cross pollinate by Type B Brogdon which is about to pop.

Got down to 38 last night. Calling for similar tonight. Hopefully this is the last of it.

Decent looking 15 gallon tree found locally for $130…

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Decent looking 15 gallon tree found locally for $130…

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jealous!

Do you think it is OK for us to put things in the ground right now in our area? I have some stuff I want to plant tomorrow. Ground temps should be OK right?

I took all my protective shite down today. Not including greenhouses. I'm not doing it again. If we have another freeze yard plants are on their own. 18 days of sub freezing temps thus far. Low of 18F.

Jaboticaba flowering.


Passionfruit all good after 27F with covering. Lychee is also going nuts. Problem is that it's almost all male flowers. Hoping to see some female or hermaphrodite flowers soon.


Update: female flowers started this morning!

I sell tropical fruit trees and fruit at Chapple Farms 225-828-7160
I have starfruit available for picking and lots of different trees

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Lychee looks great. I’m impressed. Mine hasn’t done anything in nearly two years except sit there.

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Thanks man. Lychee is a Goldilocks container tree and only the dwarf emperor variety is really feasible in a pot. It needs a good bit of cold to flower, but not anything below 32F. It needs nearly daily water while flowering and fruiting, but effectively zero water from October - January. Did I mention that water needs to be perfectly pure with a pH of 7 or lower? Rain water is ideal but charcoal filtered tap is what you usually have to settle for. Also needs a soil pH of around 5.5 and very little to zero fertilizer and definitely no urea nitrogen fertilizer. And that soil better have impeccable drainage. Oh, and if the tree comes from Florida it already has possibly the most ineradicable eukaryotic pest on earth, the lychee erinose mite. I was able to defeat them permanently but only because there isn't another lychee within 400 miles of me.

So now that I have satisfied every single one of these conditions, I get to see if it will produce the right kind of flower to actually set fruit.