Tigerlaff
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | FIGHTING out of the Carencro Sonic |
| Biography: | Things got weird... |
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| Registered on: | 1/22/2010 |
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Looky here with the admission
No matter how long I lawyer, I'm always amazed at how terrible average reading comprehension is.
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Picked the first sugar apple today. Needs a few days on the counter to soften up. You can tell when annonas like sugar apple and atemoya are ready when those scales start to spread out and you see a color change. Then you let it soften indoors.
Began thinning the Makok sapodillas to one fruit per panicle. Extremely sticky work.
Began thinning the Makok sapodillas to one fruit per panicle. Extremely sticky work.
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Here’s mine
A week in and nothing yet, but figure it’ll take 3-4 weeks maybe longer to push from below that bark!
I did a very heavy prune to balance out my tree last month and I didn't start to see buds on the thick lignified wood for 2 or 3 weeks. Keep the faith!
Don't overwater and keep the new shoots out of direct sun and rain. Shady spot under a covered patio would be ideal. Biggest risks are sunburn and fungus.
That avocado looks awesome.
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I’m very impressed with the vigor of the lemon guava seedling tigerlaff gave me. It has almost gone 5x in size since I planted it.
I have some sunny spots that can handle a naturalized stand of trees if I like the fruit I think I’m going to stick a few more in the ground
The same qualities that make them an environmental cancer in Hawaii make them great for us. They grow fast, tolerate any soil, return easily from the roots, and are incredibly easy to germinate from seed. They also exhibit allelopathy: they excrete metabolites that inhibit the growth of other plants in their root zone, like weeds. It's also just a pretty tree with nice glossy dark evergreen leaves that pests don't bother with. I'm going to protect mine this winter and maybe next winter but after that it should be well-established enough to return from any freeze we will ever see.
A perfectly ripe guava is probably my favorite fruit even over mango. It's the whole reason I started all this. Ruby supreme was my first tropical unless you count key lime.
I also like them creamy but for the first time I'm growing the Asian varieties that are super sweet and usually eaten crunchy. Will be fun to report.
I also like them creamy but for the first time I'm growing the Asian varieties that are super sweet and usually eaten crunchy. Will be fun to report.
Nice! Yeah hard decision to make but probably the right one. Gotta build these things right from the start to hold fruit and not drag it on the ground. DickTater came to the same conclusion and also hat racked. I have a theory that sellers like to ship their poorly pruned trees because they don't get returned and buyers outside of south Florida don't know any better.
Make sure you keep it in the shade and dry. The delicate new growth will burn up in the sun and get fungus in the rain. Warm, shady, and dry is the key. Also give it a dose of fish emulsion. This is the perfect time for a good nitrogen dose.
They grow fast, you'll be rolling by next summer. At least 60 days of recovery time left on the calendar and probably more like 90 before we get cold.
Just pay very close attention to branch selection going forward. You want all resources used on the right things. First priority is 2-4 upward growing scaffolding branches that will be relatively short and strong. Ideally they will all point away from each other.
Make sure you keep it in the shade and dry. The delicate new growth will burn up in the sun and get fungus in the rain. Warm, shady, and dry is the key. Also give it a dose of fish emulsion. This is the perfect time for a good nitrogen dose.
They grow fast, you'll be rolling by next summer. At least 60 days of recovery time left on the calendar and probably more like 90 before we get cold.
Just pay very close attention to branch selection going forward. You want all resources used on the right things. First priority is 2-4 upward growing scaffolding branches that will be relatively short and strong. Ideally they will all point away from each other.
Bunch of updates today. Was gifted air layers from a friend's black diamond guava (daeng ayothaya #3) tree and his abiu tree. Got all 3 repotted and recovering in the shade.
The gorgeous mother abiu tree:
Another friend gave me a 7ft 15g Na Dai sugar apple. This is a Vietnamese cultivar that has more chewy flesh instead of pudding-like flesh. Sugar apple is significantly more cold sensitive than atemoya, but nowhere close to soursop. They are also compact growers and do great in pots. Got it repotted to a 25g. Already has a few fruit hanging.
Various fruits coming ripe at my house:
Texas BA-1 figs
All my loquats are flowering early.
The gorgeous mother abiu tree:
Another friend gave me a 7ft 15g Na Dai sugar apple. This is a Vietnamese cultivar that has more chewy flesh instead of pudding-like flesh. Sugar apple is significantly more cold sensitive than atemoya, but nowhere close to soursop. They are also compact growers and do great in pots. Got it repotted to a 25g. Already has a few fruit hanging.
Various fruits coming ripe at my house:
Texas BA-1 figs
All my loquats are flowering early.
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Hey man can you post a photo of your cherry of the Rio Grande? Mine is kind of stalling out but I wiggled the base today and it was rock solid rooted into the ground. Looks firmly established but top growth I'm not sure what to think.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 8/29/26 at 10:13 pm to sledgehammer
What wiltz said. Buy grafted from a legit vendor.
re: Here’s what LSU fans aren’t considering
Posted by Tigerlaff on 8/29/26 at 12:55 pm to Projectpat
I love this retarded take.
The reason we are so gung ho about all of this is because for the first time since Nick Saban was here we are doing literally EVERYTHING possible to win.
No more kicking Tyrann Mathieu off the team for weed.
No more Joe Alleva compliance department that existed to narc on our own team.
No more Brian Kelly going to dinner and a wine flight at 4pm while the rest of the staff stayed.
No more promoting Joe Sloan to OC because he happened to be in the building and recruiting the #1 qb.
We have some absolute studs on the interior DL this year, but they are true freshmen. BK would have been fine with that. Lane goes and gets a 6'8" 330lb all conference nose tackle who started 15 games last year.
We have the most athletic freak in college football at TE, but he's really a wide receiver. BK tried to turn him into a hand in the dirt true TE. Lane goes out and gets Dae'Quan Wright to fill that role so Tredez Green can be moved around freely.
I don't give a shite if we go 7-5 this year. At least now we are ACTUALLY trying.
The reason we are so gung ho about all of this is because for the first time since Nick Saban was here we are doing literally EVERYTHING possible to win.
No more kicking Tyrann Mathieu off the team for weed.
No more Joe Alleva compliance department that existed to narc on our own team.
No more Brian Kelly going to dinner and a wine flight at 4pm while the rest of the staff stayed.
No more promoting Joe Sloan to OC because he happened to be in the building and recruiting the #1 qb.
We have some absolute studs on the interior DL this year, but they are true freshmen. BK would have been fine with that. Lane goes and gets a 6'8" 330lb all conference nose tackle who started 15 games last year.
We have the most athletic freak in college football at TE, but he's really a wide receiver. BK tried to turn him into a hand in the dirt true TE. Lane goes out and gets Dae'Quan Wright to fill that role so Tredez Green can be moved around freely.
I don't give a shite if we go 7-5 this year. At least now we are ACTUALLY trying.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 8/29/26 at 12:26 pm to sledgehammer
Nice! How was it?
Got an air layer started on the Jalisco Roja guava tree today. I've seen enough and am not waiting until next season to propagate. Easily the best guava I've ever grown. In a year or so I should be able to sell clones.
Man that 6'8" pro nose tackle is probabaly going to frick the rebels OL up, huh?
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 8/28/26 at 7:04 pm to LanierSpots
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Hard to believe one damn little teaspoon per gallon is enough to do anything
Foliage pro is an immediately available strong liquid fert. It absolutely needs dilution. I give my lychee tree a gallon of water with half a teaspoon of foliage pro twice per year.
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I’m 65. It shudders me to think this country is in your hands now. But your mentality is how Donald Trump got elected.
This makes a ton of sense, grandad.
Lol yeah those might be the worst photos I've ever seen. Sorry man can't help with that.
re: What is your favorite tree?
Posted by Tigerlaff on 8/27/26 at 11:45 pm to crap4brain
Mango
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I agree with this.
I dont think she ever leaves the mental facility though. That is a life sentence.
Her brain was fried.
She knew it was coming.
And tried to get help.
"She shouldn't have been left alone with the children" is the definition of she's crazy and needs to be institutionalized.
I dont think she faked the suicide attempt either. She was that crazy.
"Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" is the duty of the prosecution and they are far short of that.
This is the kind of bullshite we have reasoned ourselves into. We have constructed such an elaborate legal artifice that we suffer mothers who murder their own children to live. I agree with you that the law and procedure was followed here. But the law and procedure is contemptible and meant to govern a society of effete cowards.
One day Americans won't live in the kind of comfort they do now and real justice (and injustice) will return.
I just helped DickTater with this. Had really bad structure on his Pickering and the man had the stones to hat rack it and start over with new scaffolding. It's what I would have done too but I would have got drunk first.
Gonna need to see more photos of the branch structure, etc. Need photos from all angles and top down. Just really hard to see exactly what is going on there. Also need to know the exact distance from the ground (not the soil in the pot, the actual ground) to the first branching point on the trunk.
If you are going to cut, yes, it needs to be done very soon. Like within the next 5 days soon if you want to give it the best chance of holding fruit next summer.
Gonna need to see more photos of the branch structure, etc. Need photos from all angles and top down. Just really hard to see exactly what is going on there. Also need to know the exact distance from the ground (not the soil in the pot, the actual ground) to the first branching point on the trunk.
If you are going to cut, yes, it needs to be done very soon. Like within the next 5 days soon if you want to give it the best chance of holding fruit next summer.
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