Squirrels eating my mango!
tropicalgrower89
14 years ago
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Comments (13)I suppose every place has some type of animal that makes gardening a challenge. There are biting and stinging ants, deer, gophers, squirrels, rabbits, kangaroos, moles, and there will always be some that can't be stopped and so must be tolerated. Here in Tasmania we have brush-tail possums. They are an arboreal marsupial that can climb anything and will eat one bite out of every flower and piece of fruit in the garden. I once asked a horticulturist if there was anything that possums didn't eat and he said, "Garden gnomes, but only the concrete type because they will rip right through those plaster ones." He wasn't joking either....See MoreSowing Mango Seeds
Comments (18)did somebody ask for pics of mangos? this is a Jamaican favorite named Julie after St. Julian, its a natural dwarf growing to about 8 feet Ice Cream mango, introduced by Maurice Kong from Tobago, also Dwarf Alampur Baneshan from Andrah Pradesh, North India, Alphonso most popular market variety in India Nam Doc Mai from Thailand introduced 1973 by the USDA Tong Dam - (black gold) Thailand in 1973 by Dr. Robert J. Knight RFC Miami Po Pyu Kalay - Myanmar (Burma) Chouanon - Thailand Rosigold, Florida cultuivar, Dwarf Carrie, Florida cultivar St Maui, dont know too much about it recently picked it up i have a few more too i cant find pictures of at the moment, my complete grow list is on my page if you click on my screenname not sure if you are aware or not, but the mango seed you planted WILL NOT fruit t to type, meaning its fruit will probably be less desirable, stringy, turpentine flavor, or may not fruit at all all my trees are grafted, meaning a scion branch of a known variety was fused to an already existing rooted tree. this is the only way to guarantee a known variety from mangos that are monoembryonic. mangos that are monoembryonic are indian types, round, red, orange. Asian mangos like the phillipine in my picture are polyembryonic meaning they will have multiple sprouts, the survivng one is usually true to type. they are usually green or yellow and long, kidney shaped. sounds like you are just trying to grow a tree though and dont really anticipate fruit. if you go into the tropical fruit forum you will find people like ch3rri growing potted dwarf mango trees and winterizing them indoors without a greenhouse. the mango you buy in your store is a Tommy Atkins and is not worth the $1 you pay for them here, they really have no flavor Champagne mango, (these are the type you want to plant the seed from) Glenn and Phillipine mangos...See Moresquirrel eating my bird feeder plastic poles
Comments (1)Well he is certainly very well fed. Good picture....See MoreWho is taking my tomatoes - Do squirrels eat raw tomatoes not riped?
Comments (8)I know a crazy person who puts peds (those nylon footies they give you at the shoe store when you don't have socks on) on her tomatoes when they start getting big. Obviously, she's not growing a ton of plants or anything. She says it works, but the thing with squirrels is that they all have their own personalities, and there's no one tactic that works on all of them. Sey: "Possibly squirrels. They usually haul away the things . Rats, mice eat at the location. Rabbits cannot reach too high." Yes, if it's still left on the plant, it's usually a rat, mouse, vole, etc. If there's no sign of gnawing, it could be a raccoon, which don't gnaw them off but pick them. Then you're really in trouble....See Moremango_kush
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