Tigerlaff

I gotta say man, those actually look better than most avocados I've seen in LA. Which isn't very good. You should watch the Gary Matsuoka avocado growing video from a month ago. Not a knock at all. Those look great. They have very specific needs and are an advanced level tree to grow.

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I'm still trying to get my ice cream banana tree.

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If you're in south LA I have a huge ice cream pup on my fruiting tree that I have no plans for. Can't cut it until I harvest the fruit so I'm probably anywhere from 30-60 days away from that. All you need is one. Then you cut pups and duplicate.

Also post pics of all that stuff.

Exactly, just let it settle in. Takes 2 weeks for roots to recover from a repot (especially if you blasted off all the garbage bark soil it likely came in). And mangos really aren't heavy feeders or drinkers despite what you would intuitively think. Compost, time release granules, the occasional fish emulsion, and bi-weekly watering are usually all you need from what I have been told. No need for heavy duty synthetic fertilizers or daily irrigation.

And concerning pot size, you'll eventually need to either root prune or move up in container size. I have no interest in 60 gallon container trees so I'll be root pruning and staying at 25gal max for all trees and 45gal max for the mango only if necessary.

Finally got my Oliver loquat repotted now that the fruit is all harvested. Rootball washed out and moved from a 7gal to 15gal.





My big emperor lychee started pushing new foliage today. Arrived from Florida and was repotted on 3/22/25. Unfortunately it carried the lychee erinose mite with it, which I have been monitoring closely and treating by removing all infested foliage and spraying with sulfur. I was not certain the tree would be healthy enough to push new growth. Now that it is, I'm hitting the whole tree with abamectin and spreader/sticker, the only thing proven effective against the LEM. Very toxic stuff with a dilution rate of 1ml/gal of water. I always knew that lychee would be the most challenging thing in my collection and so far it is living up to the reputation. But if I can at least get new growth to maturity I can start worrying about trying to induce and maintain fruit down the road. Thankfully my small emperor lychee shows no sign of infection and is quarantined on the other side of my property from the big tree. I never touch the healthy tree after touching the infected one. If there is anyone here from south Florida with experience treating the LEM, any tips would be appreciated.

Looking good! You can and should go heavier on the osmocote. Gary's is basically sterile. No nutrients at all in the mix. All your fertilizer is going to come from that surface layer and whatever you choose to water with. Follow what the label says. One spoonful is not enough for that soil volume. The garden tone is organic and it will take 2-3 weeks for those nutrients to break down and start becoming available to the tree. The fox farms is a great compost layer. I use it myself for the same purpose. Azomite too.

Lol so how heavy are those pots with the Gary's? Insane, right?

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12-14 hours of sun per day,

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Pride of barbados and bougainvillea. That's amazing.

I'm happy about this and thank you for the post, but I just can't really care anymore. I hate the new college football. Hope he signs after the bidding war.

Solid gold.

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Y’all need to chill shitting on players

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These are adults paid money to win baseball games. The players can suck it up like the rest of us if we perform poorly at our occupations.

OK man, how many (if any) mangos should I let this Pickering hold? I have already removed 75% of the fruit with only 5 remaining. But I need this tree strong for a zone 9a winter. My instinct is 0-1 but I want to hear your opinion. This is a 15gal recently uppotted to 25gal.

frick that ump.