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Benson starts with ... Pls. help: Recently planted (1 mth) Cherimoya seedling seems to be suffering in new environment. Full sun, well drained, drip irrigation, but not well protected and semi-exposed recently to very powerful southerly. Any help much appreciated. Thanks, Ben
| About the Author Benson Bondi 24th October 2012 8:57am #UserID: 2072 Posts: 5 View All Benson's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jantina says... They do look a bit tatty Benson. I'm no expert but have several cherimoya growing and their leaves look a bit tatty now too. Jason, our resident cherimoya expert tells me that the new leaves push off the old ones at this time of the year. If these are already the new seasons leaves then perhaps some shadecloth positioned to strategically shelter it from the worst winds might help until it aclimatizes. Some plants go backwards a bit with transplant shock and then come good, some seasol is helpful for this. It certainly has nice big leaves for a 1 month old seedling. | About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 24th October 2012 9:09am #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author J upwey VIC 24th October 2012 12:08pm #UserID: 2954 Posts: 397 View All J's Edible Fruit Trees |
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John Mc says... All mine are/were looking like that around this time of the year. I've since pruned them back to within 200/250mm from the main branches. I do this to promote a very strong backbone and scaffold branches to carry the weight of the fruit and leaves as they develop. There is one variety called a Forbidden fruits variety that is still growing very strongly so I'm a bit perplexed as to when I should be pruning it.
| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 24th October 2012 3:16pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Db Brisbane 24th October 2012 3:28pm #UserID: 6427 Posts: 470 View All Db's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jason says... I finally grew a few !!~Awesome~!! tasting fruits on my Fino De Jete this season... I'm not sure why the sudden improvement in flavour, it hasn't been abnormally warm, colder if anything. The only thing I may have done to the tree is tip a few kilos of magnesium (the cheap stuff cows eat) on it, not 100% sure I did that but fairly sure I did!:) because I was going a bit wild with magnesium last Spring. So I figure like I suspected that Magnesium for my dirt is a very good thing. BTW Jantina.. June 25/26 ish 2013 might be a good day, lets see | About the Author Jason Portland 24th October 2012 5:05pm #UserID: 637 Posts: 1217 View All Jason's Edible Fruit Trees |
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John Mc says... They are reasonably fast growers, the above tree is 3 years old. I have some Fina, White and Sofia's comming on this year, can't wait. Yeah, talking about ferts, I saw an interesting homebrew on the net. It's just 2 parts B&B, 1 part Mag sulf (epsom Salts) and one part Potassium Sulphate. Seeing that I have over 100kg's of mag sulf and potassium sulf, I thought I'd give it a go. You can't beat mulch though. EDIT: I should clarify "three years old', The tree has been in it's current location for three years, it was probably two years old before I bought it. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 24th October 2012 6:23pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jantina says... Jason, if you're saying what I think you're saying WOOOHOOO !!! Fantastic, sounds like fertilizing was a great idea! Give Annie a hug for me please. John, pleased to report that those cherimoya seedlings you sent me are sprouting again, we may be lucky and get a great tasting fruit from one or more of them. | About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 24th October 2012 8:34pm #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author VF Wongawallan 24th October 2012 8:52pm #UserID: 6795 Posts: 736 View All VF's Edible Fruit Trees |
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John Mc says... Yes Jantina, I've been cutting the tops off some of my 1 yo's and grafting other Atemoyas/Cherimoyas onto them. I may be going past that large cherimoya tree tomorrow, I read that you're chasing more seed? Peter from Adelaide is looking for more as well, It will probably be too late now, but if there is any ripe fruit, I'll send one to you to try. Hopefully there will at least be seeds inside the empty shells of the fallen fruit. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 24th October 2012 9:43pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 25th October 2012 7:26am #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Jason Portland 26th October 2012 11:29am #UserID: 637 Posts: 1217 View All Jason's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jason says... P.S if anyone knows the proper amount of Magnesium Chloride I should be using per tree let me know :! because last year I just threw a couple kgs around each one... nothing died and it seemed to help everything but the amount did seem rather a lot when you most people talk in grams with magnesium :D? | About the Author Jason Portland 26th October 2012 11:38am #UserID: 637 Posts: 1217 View All Jason's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 26th October 2012 5:04pm #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Ivan 5th November 2012 6:32pm #UserID: 7378 Posts: 15 View All Ivan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jantina says... If you mean me Ivan I don't have any custard apples. I do however have cherimoya Fino De Jete, Sofia and a large un-named variety as well as 4 seedlings John Mc sent me and they are all making lovely new growth. My biggest one , the un-named flowered last year but I stuffed up the pollinating because it was so busy around here so hopefully it will flower again and I get the pollinating done. | About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 5th November 2012 10:44pm #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
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