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A couple of updates from Thailand


We appear to have began our drought season a bit early right here.  Little or no rain main into November and I imagine we have solely had one brief bathe since mid-November.  The temps are fairly gentle proper now and humidity respectable.  It will not be lengthy earlier than the temps climb and humidity plumets.  Watering retains me busy.  No pics of the durians.  They’ve been rising about as quick because the hair on the underside of your ft.  I do know what yer considering:  “however Jay…I haven’t got hair rising on the underside of my ft!”.  Yeah…and my durians aren’t rising both!

Banganapalli mango lastly beginning to get away.  A really gradual begin.  The brand new development remains to be very tiny and branches very skinny.  I am hoping with some pinching of latest development, perhaps the decrease branches will begin placing on some girth.
A couple of updates from Thailand

Sugarloaf mango.  Had just a few early blooms that at the moment are in full glory.  What I am loving is that almost each tip on the tree has a bloom popping.  Very enthusiastic about this.  And yeah…nonetheless begging for scions!  Now I’ve actually obtained to entice extra squirrels!  Simply relocated #8 final evening.  I am nonetheless questioning if it could be well worth the effort/price to construct a wire cage across the tree.  There is a massive mango across the nook down the road with plenty of mangos growing.  Day-after-day I stroll previous it, there are squirrel-ravaged fruit mendacity on the sidewalk and road.  So there are nonetheless some shut by and lively.

New blooms popping

Older bloom with little fruitlets

My pulasans have actually been doing effectively and these two lastly trying like an precise tree.  The massive take a look at can be how effectively they get through the excessive warmth and really low humidity coming quickly.

one other pulasan

My marang grafted onto the older, mature jackfruit.  The graft is now one 12 months previous.  Nonetheless going robust.  I have to unfold the branches and/or tip them to encourage extra lateral development trigger proper now they need to go straight-freaking up.

Branches are good and thick.

I filed this undertaking beneath “there’s at all times one thing”.  I began digging and eradicating the moist, heavy clay considering that perhaps a becoming was dangerous.  Not that easy.  Roots from a large mango we took out just a few years in the past pushed up a water line to the sprinkler system.  Cracked the rattling factor.  Needed to dig far more and expose the entire roots in order that I might get my pruning noticed in there with out damaging the chain.


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