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Sorry, digging up an old post.

I'm liking your idea for AP fruit trees along the driveway.

How's it working now 6 months on?

Never feel bad for digging up an old post! If you are curious others are too!

Has anyone tried fruit trees with constant flood? Bought a dwarf orange and a mango tree today. Keen to try it out in the AP system.

My miniature nectarine tree is in a CF bed, its grown really well over the 10 odd months Ive had it. Its bearing its first crop of fruit now so will see how they taste soon I hope.

These pics arent recent so Ill take a better one tomorrow for you.

There is a lime, a fig and a mandarin tree in CF GBs at the Puddle. I wouldn't say that they are doing brilliantly but they are at least doing better than some of the vegies in that system.

JaMa88, make sure you clean all of the dirt off of the rootball. I did a sorry job of it, and my trees went from fantastic to sorry rapidly. I have since gone in and cleaned them up, and they are recovering. They were a stinking festering mess. Right now all of my trees are eclipsed by eggplants though. For something that is supposed to be a summer crop, they sure are doing well this winter...

I think most things will grow well in CF provided their getting plenty of oxygen


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Happened to see dwarf lemon trees at the market today.

So wiking, CF or FnD?

It is my understanding that citrus trees need dry spells to sweeten the fruit.

So i am considering adding some dwarf trees. Been thinking of the best way to add, and was originally considering having individually siphoned pots with them in. Instead, I am thinking of adding another siphoned IBC GB with the dwarf fruit trees in pots inside the GB. I will add some holes or slits in the pots at varying levels to ensure water can get in and out with the flood and drain cycle.

For most of the GB i will use hydroton, but will look to using some heavier media in the pots.

Should this work? What sort of media would go well in the pots?

Scoria is popular, along with any gravel without limestone.

I am finally giving up on my trees. I think I killed them all now. I might as well take them out. I did not get enough flow to keep the nuits up and could not keep the damn spiders out either. Spiders killed all the leaves. I was using drip irrigation and it is way too slow for the trees I think. I am going to do something different when the weather gets better.

whys that?

i like this idea did they not succeed due to not enough neuts? can you bump the flow rates up to cf?

Not without a lot of work and redoing the whole supply system which I may still do later.

A few months ago on Shark Tank there was a "Tree T Pee", which was a bucket wrapped around the tree base which helped focus and reduce water used to irrigate the trees. Perhaps using this design on top of your GB and having it drain back through the GB media would work? Just a suggestion, here is their website:

Tree T Pee
http://treetpee.com/

It should work for all trees, however it looks like at the moment they are marketing towards traditional citrus growers.