Lots of gardening to be seen here friends as i grow year round......;)
Let me get a few pics of what i do in the yard,let me also say it is hard!
Hard work in the very hot and humid climate makes it very very hard....
The deep south where i am from,has the opposite time to grow,winter!
Well our winters are not really a cold type,or very long but i do ok id say,
you will see many types of vegitables and trees that will grow great here.
Tropical fruits are doing good the last few years,as the climates getting,
much hotter in the last 20 years.......unbelievably HOT and HUMID summers.
Thats usually my rest time,just keeping things watered is a must in beach sand.
Their is no real soils here,i do most my growing in small pots for vegtables.....
or you will just see the soils being lost in the heavy sand,insects are very bad!
Probably the worst state for them,and they do lots of harm to plants and ME...
1 of the worst insects that never gets talked about,is the "No See'em" fly.....
These tiny microscopic flies bite very bad and cause big welts all over ME,
i am what they call here,"the unlucky type" that those insects bother mostly!
i litterally have thousands of scares all over my body from those dang pests.
Florida,is a hellish jungle thats very hard to live in,never mind working in this?
So,with all i go threw gardening here,i can still be happy about my harvests!!!
:)
However,even if a tree looks this healthy here 1 year,you could see it die........
Here besides all the insects we have the viruses and molds that harm plants.
That was a tree i lost to the mealy bugs,and molds,after having it 3 years???
Kept the seeds and made free trees this time!
Tropical Beauty Peach Trees are very sweet,very juicy and taste the very best!!
Since we now have the BOX FLY from Asia that has devistated the citrus crops.
Now that new strains of peaches have been developed,i went with these fruits!
She did fruit 3 years,cost about 40 bucks for the tree,so hurt i was to lose that.
They do grow here,and now i have several trees going and a different type!
Florida King,she put out good fruits this spring,and at the last few days fruits,
rotted from black rot...gotta spray the fruits next time with a fungus killer..
Other stuff that realy is easy like Pineapples do very good here,my poolside!
Extra sweet and very low acid fruits,they are like a cacti very good here....;)
if you can leave them on the plant until they are yellow they are very sweet!!!!
More tropical stuff like Papaya's next!!!
These are RED PAPAYA,,,many plants from seed i grow,they do great here!!!
OK GARDENING FRIENDS,,,,my Mango Tree Seedling,,is confirmed to be GREAT!!!!!
The fruits from my seedling took the tree as said,,10 years to fruit from seed,,long time..
Would rather have this tree than any other Mango Tree,,because the fruits are HUGE!!!
SEE FOLKS,,,no joking at all the fruits are 2 pounds for the big ones,,and a pound for smaller!
The tree did put out 100 fruits in it's very first year,,,a winner to say the very least gardeners...
SO MUCH SO,,that i may try and patent my variety for a new MANGO TYPE!!.......
(Lou's premo pic)-mango,,or (Lou's robust)....something like that for a name?
All tree seedlings will be a bit different from the parent trees,,i am so happy it is a winner!!!!!
Very sweet with no fibers,,,extra juicy,,with no jungle funk,,2 people can eat from 1 fruit....
;)
Flavor is a perfect mango with no adic,,melt in your mouth tender,,,well worth the wait friends!
Most mango fruits you get in stores are only a pound or less,,and most trees do not hold a 100,
in their first year fruiting and having from 2 to 6 fruits on each branch tips is a prolific specimen.
1 day i may try to name my own Mango Tree type for this area,,never seen one so heavy fruiting!
Big yielding mango trees are a good thing as many only hold 1 fruit on each branch tip folks....
:)Plus the fruits are better than any and all mango's you get in stores.
Can take it to the local University as a new genetic,,selected from my yard,,also a late fruiter!
Later fruiters are very important here,,because we can have freezes right when they flower...
Killing any chance of a tree holding the fruits,,and most mango trees frower at around first of,
January right when those hard freezes come i know because i have had dozens of trees killed.
Mango Trees freeze very easily,,my last one was a 20 footer that got frozen to ground level.....
(dead over night)....and have had many many smaller trees freeze around here,every year........?
HOPE IT DOES NOT FREEZE THIS WINTER,,,this place gets the hardest freezes anywhere.
This tree sits in the very same spot,,and i have learned to rap the trunck up good next freeze!
Will also be making grafted young trees in order to preserve this prolific specimen,,fruit tree..
pics of that later on,,will show how the grafting is done!
Wish me luck in the grafting friends,,,see you soon,,OP