re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

Pickering set a ton of fruit ..let it keep some, will see what else it drops on its own. Dwarf Hawaiian is in full bloom. Second time this year, it didn’t set any fruit first bloom.


Planted my 3 new avocado trees in Cajun top pot. Added pumice this round feels much more like Gary’s mix than my previous mix’s.
Completely bare rooted these trees full water blast, recovering in the shade.



I asked chat gpt and it said Gary’s mix was bad for avocados lol. Said peat percentage was too high and I should have used pine bark fines!
Then I remembered it’s AI and can’t actually grow anything

It said the peat was going to get sludgy and compact and not breath well ..ha.

Lastly checked on my grafted avocados and it seems to be pushing buds!

Also did a few other fruit tree grafts bc I have a pluerry from Dave Wilson that apparently needs a pollinator of which I did not have one. So went by Chappel farms and picked up a Flavor king pluot and a Santa Rosa plum to graft into my pluerry! Hope it works…since both scion and my pluerry already leafed out. Sap should be flowing …did bark grafts.


Guava looks great after prune

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You are good at this baw.

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probably autism

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Hell even the yard looks good.

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Thanks. It's come a long way since I bought the house. The backyard was almost entirely dirt. I've been stealing bermuda and zoysia plugs from my dad and the local sports park for 5 years. It still needs a lot of work. My wife's dog won't stop pissing right off the patio and killing the grass. I water it in but it's been hard to train my wife to do the same. He kills the hell out of it when it's dormant and I end up with big bare spots every spring. Usually fills in by May.


This was year 2 of the project. Have grass covering almost everything now.

I know you’re right!

First time trying grafting, may fail may not, we shall see. I feel that nature can be pretty resilient! Fingers crossed they take. Just did a bunch of reading and watching, much as you do.

I ordered those 50 gal drum dollies lol.
Wow those are big …guava good on it, will
Be nice when I go up to 30’gal eventually


Reed avocado tree is about to bloom and is currently recycling leaves, it looks sad, but I know it’ll be flush soon.
Think I may spray the flowers with honey water and see if that helps fruit set. They’re nearby citrus and other fruit trees which I know are more preferred.

I actually found a new 22 inch caddy that I prefer for 25g. It is smaller and does not have the lip that the drum caddies do. The drum caddies are still great and I'm not ditching the ones I have. I prefer the smaller ones though because although the drum caddies can easily fit a 25g, they will not fit a 45g. These new ones also have locking casters. Link to my new ones:

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The ones with the least rust problems are the 20in plastic caddies. The most rust is the drum caddies but it's only the bolts.

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That pineapple is like four times bigger than mine. I've got a long way to go.

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This was it 10 months ago when I got it. Came in a 2-3 G pot and I put it in a 5 G pot.



Now it’s in a 20G pot and looks like it needs a bigger pot.

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The ones with the least rust problems are the 20in plastic caddies.

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Do you have a link for me. I would appreciate it.

You have stuff in 45g?

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As far as I know, there is only one manufacturer of injection molded 45g pots in America. I had a California vendor ship them to me on a pallet via LTL freight. shite ain't cheap.

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Have you ever tried using the cattle protein tubs? The ones I have look pretty close to those in your pics. They're solid and folks will give them away or sell dirt cheap on the marketplace

It would be great to have the caddy link on the first page. I think I am up to 8 caddys now so I am slowly adding to my collection.