Backyard Aquaponics
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I have them growing in blue metal in the grey water creek.
They are very happy and yes they have good drainage.
They don't need too much except water.

Anyone tried mangoes in AP? After reading this I reckon I'll throw a possibly sterile supermarket seed in the system - nothing to lose but a bit of space! (Would've put a link on but I'm not up with all of that techo stuff yet... )

"Mango trees require regular applications of nitrogen fertilizer to promote healthy growth flushes and flower production. Chelated micronutrients, especially iron, are also often necessary. A feeding program similar to one used for citrus is satisfactory, but do not fertilize after midsummer. Organic fertilizers perform best, since the trees are subject to fertilizer burn. Young trees are particularly sensitive to over-fertilizing, but respond well to fish emulsion.

Propagation

Seedlings are a gamble. Supermarket fruits may have been treated to sterilize, or chilled too long to remain viable. These seeds are normally discolored gray. To grow mangos from seed, remove the husk and plant the seed (before it dries out) with the hump at soil level. The seeds normally germinate in two to four weeks, and do best with bottom heat. Multiple polyembryonic seedlings should be carefully separated as soon as they have sprouted so not to loose the cotyledons. Seedling mangos will bloom and bear in three to six years. "

Heather, you've still got your warning on after all your recent efforts (shame on you Mon and Steve )

Maybe talk to Axl about mangos, he's the son of a farmer...

Hi,

I've got an avocado that sprouted and has shot up since to be about 40 cm high now.

Will have to get it out of the growbed some time though before it grows too big. And then what to do with it? Put it in the dirt garden I suppose?

Karel

Hethbo my darling, you better ask me if you can borrow some space in my grow beds

ME! i diddin't do nuthin to hethbo, reets deserved hers!

Monya, how did she pry your arse from the computer seat? you let the team down buddy

Yeah seedlings will take longer to fruit than a grafted tree! by years! and you won't know how it fruits and what it will be like beacuse it could be crossed with a different strain of mango. Some are better than others and Kensington Pride(Bowen Specials) are better than the lot!!!!! The thing about mangoes tho, and this is true of many fruit trees is that to get a better crop, or any at all, you need to stress the tree. no water for a bit during winter will strtess them enough to encourage them to flower and therefore, fruit. But they are greedy beggars, if you put a mango in a AP set up with all that lovely water and nutrients at its beck and call then I reckon that you would have the loveliest, greenest, bushyist, tallest, leafiest mango in the world! dunno if you would get much fruit tho!
May be better to plant them in the ground and help them along with any water change water from time to time!
but that is just my $.02
Axl

back at work from today, so I can no longer control her fully

You mean to say you did have full control!!!
LOL

hey, we all have a dream like that

I'm pretty sure that avocado grown from seed does not fruit???

I just had a look for avocados, they sometimes fruit from seedling trees but the quality is normally poorer and it takes longer, all/most commercial orchards use grafted trees.
Alx

Yeah,

I never said I actually wanted the avocado tree to happen, did I now?

The boss stuck a pip in the first growbed, unbeknownst to me. Next thing I know there is this red thing sticking up out of the gravel. That's when confession time came around.

Might end up growing somewhere in the garden to see whether it survives, and will post in ten years time when we get the first fruit from it.

Meanwhile got the 2nd growbed up and running last night, and bought two passionfruits for it. Planted them last night, see what happens.

Karel

Cool, I plan to have passionfruit in my/her system as well. We got a grape vine from"b" the other day so we shall see how it likes it!

I have 2 growing in my system (in the continious flow beds,) and they are doing well... so far anyways...