re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

you have namwah pups? Could you pot one up for me?

I have maypop sprouts ready to plant if anyone wants one. Butterfly magnets

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you have namwah pups? Could you pot one up for me?

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I've got a bunch that I need to dig too. If Loup can't help hit me up. They are tall namwah though. I will have dwarf namwah pups later this summer.

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Tigerlaff had said that most blue java that you buy at nurseries are actually namwah.

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Yep. What is sold as ice cream/blue java at nurseries is almost always tall namwah. You have to go to a specialist for true blue java. Namwah is a better banana so I don't know why anyone would.

Hoping to dig them this weekend. Will let you know once I've got them out and potted.

Tall namwah is great for landscaping purposes, etc. Huge plants with very long thick leaves. But dwarf namwah is far superior if you're hoping to harvest fruit.

For plantains, I highly recommend dwarf Orinoco. Very, very cold hardy.

thanks brother man

La goyave de la maison Tigerlaff, cranking



Barbados cherry



Rio grande is supposed to be delivered tomorrow

If you get even a couple of roots it'll take.

Alright baws it's time for a hard learned lesson. I allowed my 25g Pickering mango to hold as much fruit as it wanted. This morning before leaving for work the tree looked totally fine with about 8 large mangos and 20 medium to small ones on one side of the tree. I figured it would shed some of those eventually, which it probably would have. When I got home from work I found this:





The weight of the fruit was too much and bent half the tree down to the ground, overcoming the strength of the main scaffold branch. I am extremely lucky the branch did not split. This was pure hubris on my part. I knew better than to allow that many fruit on half of a 25g tree. It serves me right.

I had to cut off a ton of fruit and some branches to reduce the weight and then tied it up to keep the fruit high. Only the 5 largest fruit remain on that side of the tree. I pruned all panicles so that they now have only one fruit each. Many had two this morning.









I'm just grateful that the wood didn't split. After harvest I will need to do some extremely thoughtful pruning to get the structure right. Learn from my hubris and don't make the same mistake!

Glad it didn’t break. Looks extremely healthy otherwise.

That's your graft.

And that is one of the best mail order trees you will ever see. Great size and quality for shipping.

I think you have time. Definitely looks great; but, I’ve seen some healthy Pickering trees still in 25 gallon that are approaching 6-7 feet tall and 4-5 years old. That transplant shock always worries me. I’d let it fill out for another year or more.