Any one here has a Sapodilla Prolific (brown sugar) fruit tree?
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Tony Doe(Miami, Florida 10b)
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Peach tree--fruit gets brown spots
Comments (7)Ironhorsedriver, You sound like you need a little fruit growing 101. First, peach trees should only grow about 10% of their blooms. To put it another way, after the shucks come off the fruitlets, about 90% of the fruitlets need to be removed by hand. This is called fruit thinning. I know it seems counter-intuitive to manually pull fruit off, but peach trees will set about 10 times the amount of fruit they can realistically carry. If you don't thin, you end up with very small fruit, broken branches, and stressed trees. If you don't thin, the tree will naturally abort some of it's fruit in June (called June drop) but it won't get rid of enough to eliminate the problems listed above. Plant spikes are a poor value for the money. Mostly they are a marketing gimmick. If you feel your trees are poorly growing, apply a small amount of a mild fertilizer (something like 10-10-10) under the canopy of the tree. Now more directly to your pest issues: Bacterial spot and scab can cause spotty fruit, but neither disease will cause abortions. The most common insects for peaches in the Midwest are Plum Curculio and Oriental Fruit Moth. Both will cause infected fruit to drop in my area. The best way to tell if this is your problem is to cut the fruit open and look for evidence of a worm or worm tunneling. An good insecticide starting at shuck split will generally control this problem. Triazicide Once and Done liquid concentrate is a good one. You'll probably need to spray it every couple weeks (maybe less). Make sure you follow the label directions. Olpea P.S. I've always wanted to blow one of those train whistles....See MoreMango, mandarin, sapodilla, lychee tree heights
Comments (9)Thanks for the advice, puglvr1. Do you have any of the other fruit trees I mentioned? Makok sapodilla, Clementine or Ponkan mandarin, Emperor lychee? My interest in Lancetilla or Neelum is mainly to extend the mango season by a month or two. But you and some others on this forum (in other discussion threads) have commented on Lancetilla's mediocre taste, and that has made me hesitate. No point in planting one, waiting years and then getting disappointed. The tendency to split could be due to our wet summers. The fruit probably get too much water just before they ripen, causing the split. Your idea of a Pickering is good, and I know you have some very nice Cogshalls. My hesitation is solely because they would put all the mangoes in a 2-month period. Fruit overload, though my neighbors and friends could be very happy indeed. My wife tells me there is no point in having a longer season with mangoes one doesn't enjoy, and I guess I will give in to her wisdom! That's a lovely Glenn in your photo, and so full of blooms. From the picture, I would have placed its height at 10 to 12 feet. And it makes me think I could grow one too. Wonder if Jene's Tropicals grows its Glenns on different root-stock, or whether that particular bit of info - that Glenns get to be 45 - 50 feet tall -- is even accurate. Something to ask them when I visit them next. They do have most of the trees I would like to get, and the idea of one-stop shopping, along with delivery for $25, has its appeal. Where we have lived in St. Petersburg these past 8 years, we haven't had a freeze. Couple of really chilly winters, including one when most of my hibiscuses dropped many leaves and some small branches died. But no tree or shrub has died due to the cold, and I hope it stays that way....See MoreHas any one tried 'Wild Cherry'?....
Comments (15)Just saw this question. I have grown the wild Mexican tomato for more than 15 years. Sold by Park Seed under the name of "Spoon". Never failed in NJ or PA. July seeding in 07 yielded heavy crop before frost. Always sweet and approximately the size of peas. Closeout this year's catalog at .75 **** if one were to look in the other species section of the SSE Yearbook you'd see that there isn't just one listing for a "wild cherry", there are many and they aren't all the same. Matt's Wild Cherry is what's called a cerasiforme, as noted at Johnny's, b'c that tells us it's a half domesticated cherry, still in the genus Solanum, aka Lycipersicon, but not a different species, as it Spoon. Spoon is a typical tiny red currant type in the genus and species Solanum, aka Lycopersicon, pimpinellifolium. And there are many red currants, Spoon being just one of them. My favorite red currant is Sara's Galapagos. Carolyn...See Morenon-gritty Sapodilla fruit varieties?
Comments (3)The Silas Woods fruit is smooth as silk. It taste like a pear with brown sugar on it. The tree is dwarf in size and a heavy producer. The link below shows the tree where the scion wood for my tree came from. It is located at the real treehouse nursery. Top buys the grafted trees from treehouse and jacks up the price. I paid $30 for mine at the treehouse. To view the picture change the zero to letter o in the link. http://t0ptr0picals.com/pics/garden/09/olymp/1/P4101955s.jpg...See Moregreenman62
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