re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

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It can be mixed both times of day. In the Gary YouTube video he gave a more accurate percentage, but I can’t recall it.

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I think I picked Wurtz bc some nurseries argue they are AB and can self polinate. But I looked all over this tree and couldn't find a single female flower this morning. And supposedly Wurtz is more A than B and A types are female in the morning. So I'm wondering what exactly they sent me.

Loving the avocado knowledge being dropped in here.

Harvested the first jaboticaba of the season. Excellent flavor, no bitterness even in the skin. Many more on the way.

My pawpaws haven’t leafed out yet either and still scratch green.

I also have a navel orange and a Meyer lemon that haven’t done anything yet. They had been struggling in the ground so I put them in pots this fall to make it easier to protect. They dropped most of their leaves, but still no signs of life yet.

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I also have a navel orange and a Meyer lemon that haven’t done anything yet. They had been struggling in the ground so I put them in pots this fall to make it easier to protect. They dropped most of their leaves, but still no signs of life yet.

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Lol, boy have I been through that. Hear me when I say this: just wait. Wait and wait and wait. Probably wait until late summer. Citrus, despite having extremely resilient roots, love to act like they are dying after container to ground or ground to container transplants. I have had them drop every single leaf and stress bloom before turning into green twigs. Then, months later, they shoot out new leaves like nothing ever happened. In fact, they almost always recover the very second that I give up and spend money on a replacement. That's why I have two meiwa kumquats and two cara cara oranges. Don't believe their bullshite. It's fake news.

Also maybe it's just me but I've noticed that navel oranges, especially cara cara, tend to take longer to establish themselves than any other citrus. I have grown 3 of them and each one spent the first year barely growing at all and not even greening up despite applications of chelated iron, etc. Then, in year two, it does normal citrus things and gets its deep green leaves. Every other citrus I've ever planted at least showed signs that it was anything other than stagnate in year 1.

I find Meyer to be the opposite. Extremely vigorous grower.

PSA: Melissa Pierce on FB just got in new inventory. She ships 7g trees.

I am always looking at dwarf mangos that will handle container growing. Of interest here are the 7g Honey Kiss, Nam Doc Mai #4, and Pickering. 3g ice cream and Julie are also dwarf but more challenging to grow.

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How do I use this? I don’t see anything that says paint the planter?

Yeah. Just paint it. Two coats is best if it's gonna be 2+ years. It lasts a LONG time. Let it dry completely for at least 24 hours before potting.

I have moved the new lipstick palm from the house out on my lanai. Not in direct sun at all. Just indirect. Doing OK. We have been fairly dry here the past few weeks so I have been giving it some water every few days. I also filled a spray bottle with water and have been spraying it down every so often when I walk by. It has not changed a lot. But its not quite as pretty as it was when I took it out of the box.


I am about to start transitioning my Flame thrower out of the shade and into the sun a little each day. It is inside my pool cage so I assume the netting is filtering the light a little. I know that we never get sun burned inside the cage.
The flame thrower is doing great so far but I need that spot it is in for another plant. I seem to be getting a lot of plants lately that do not like the sun.
I plan on repotting the flame thrower soon. It is in a 7g and I may do what you recommended and move it to a 15 right away. I do however think who ever potted it did it correctly. It is very heavy and there seems to be a lot of sand in the container.

I also bought a small alocisia (elephant ear) and have it under the shad. Always wanted one of those but my buddy said they do not like to live and have a death wish. LOL. Said he kills every one of them he buys so I am testing my skills with it. So far so good except there is a very faint yellow line on the outside of the leaves so I may be overwatering it. I backed off a little to see if it will go away.

Will add some pics when the sun comes up.

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Flamethrower is a significantly easier palm, I agree. Remember that palms do uncommonly well in small pots. 15g would be very close to a final container size for any palm I was growing.

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I bought some of the injected 10gal and 15 gal pots you recommended off Amazon. Would you suggest moving it to the 10 gallon first? I will send a picture of it later. I can do either or I can leave it alone for a while. Let me know what you think when I send the pics. I have a new spike that is about 2 feet long now. Wasnt even there when I got it 6 weeks ago. The entire tree is very dark green too and the leaves are looking pretty good if you ask me. Im happy that Ive done so well with it so far. LOL.

Cant wait to see if the first new frond is red.

Yea, I have the small elephant ear under the shade. It seems to be doing well and has popped out a few new leaves since I had it. I have just always loved them. I want a big one but I also wanted to see if I could grow one so I bought a small one from Lowes. I tell you that our Lowes garden center is the shite. The plants there always look amazing and they will refund them for a year. Its hard to beat that deal when they do such a good job on the plants.



I was in there two nights ago and they had some beautiful mango trees for sale. All your damn talk about them had me wanting to get one. I just dont think any fruit tree is going to be easy for me inside my pool cage

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Would you suggest moving it to the 10 gallon first? I will send a picture of it later. I can do either or I can leave it alone for a while. Let me know what you think when I send the pics.

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Need pics of whole palm, trunk, and the 10/15g next to the existing pot for scale.

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they had some beautiful mango trees for sale. All your damn talk about them had me wanting to get one. I just dont think any fruit tree is going to be easy for me inside my pool cage

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Pollination would likely be a problem but there are fruit trees that will appreciate container growing and less than full sun like jaboticaba and Suriname cherry.