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A number 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 consider we have solely had one quick bathe since mid-November.  The temps are fairly gentle proper now and humidity first rate.  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 toes.  I do know what yer pondering:  “however Jay…I haven’t got hair rising on the underside of my toes!”.  Yeah…and my durians aren’t rising both!

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

Sugarloaf mango.  Had a number of early blooms that are actually in full glory.  What I am loving is that just about each tip on the tree has a bloom popping.  Very enthusiastic about this.  And yeah…nonetheless begging for scions!  Now I’ve actually acquired to entice extra squirrels!  Simply relocated #8 final evening.  I am nonetheless questioning if it could be definitely worth the effort/value to construct a wire cage across the tree.  There is a large mango across the nook down the road with plenty of mangos creating.  Each 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 properly and these two lastly wanting like an precise tree.  The massive check shall be how properly they get via 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 wish to go straight-freaking up.

Branches are good and thick.

I filed this venture below “there’s all the time one thing”.  I began digging and eradicating the moist, heavy clay pondering that possibly a becoming was unhealthy.  Not that easy.  Roots from an enormous mango we took out a number of 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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