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I do. I talk a little bit about them on my field test of a Z-Wave switch.

My pleasure.

It depends on your tree, but most probably yes. Annnonas have fibrous root systems.

I'd say it depends on how well you know your plant and what you want to achieve with it.

It's like with an hairdresser. Most use hair clippers, but the best cut I had was from an old Italian guy with scissors.

@cooltherapy ok thanks 😊.

Thank you!

And winter is coming.

Glad you liked!

At the asian grocery store, there are a couple of them in my area.

@@cooltherapy witch area you live

Where do you live?

@@jeremypinto3274 Long Beach Ca

The great white North.

Not yet. It produced 1 flower last winter, but the flower died before maturing.

Thanks. You must be in the tropics to get that many flowers. If so, you don't have to hand pollinate if it's flowering outside, it does help increase the yield. The only flowers I hand pollinate are my butternut squashes because of the short growing season.

Thanks!

Thanks!

@HolisticHealthHub-hi4xl, my tree only produced 1 flower last time. And it never reached maturity stage, I believe it was because of the scales, but I may be wrong.

@@cooltherapy My understanding is that fruit will not develop from the flower if it is not pollinated. I hang a small plastic container under mine to catch the pollen and use a brush to pollinate it. There are several YT videos explaining how to do it. You have to watch the flowers to pollinate at the right time and when there is only 1 flower it would be difficult as the female part (stigma) of that flower might no longer be receptive at the time the pollen is shed. If you have other flowers open and ready you can use it to pollinate them.

@HolisticHealthHub-hi4xl Thanks! I'm crossing my fingers to get more than 1 flower next time and hopefully they will not die before opening.

@@cooltherapy keep a close watch and best wishes.

@@cooltherapy Also, once the outer petals split and are yellow you have to use you finger to ope the 3 inner ones and do the pollination. then close them back. The technique is shown on YT videos. If you pollinate then more flowers will appear in not they will fall off and you wont get any more.

Gus would be more succesful than me on YT.

@@cooltherapy Everything starts small. Keep up the good work and you will succeed! And sounding like Gus is not bad. It is very nice hearing your voice.😁

Thanks. I'm trying to build a good alibi on here... got to justify all those grow lights in the garage in case they come knocking on my door.

@@cooltherapy 😂

You sure dont know how to eat mangosteen..you dont need a knife ..if its perfectly riped you just have to pull the green stem then it will leave a hole that is the time you'll push it open😅

Tropical ideally, or sub-tropical. But I'm growing them in USDA zone 5, have to bring them indoors in the fall.

Japanese beatles have appeared on my radar. You're right, it's time to wake up my killer instinct.

That's the idea.

I'll keep it in this one until I can no longer manage it with annual root pruning.

Indeed. I would say it's perfetcly ripe, but it really depends on personal taste.

You can also try to separate the embryos before germinating the seed.

I just did a quick research, it is also said to work against spider mites, will try. Thanks!

An old timer, huh?

There's the tremor/earthquake method also.

Thank you for watching anyway.

For tree seedlings, fabric pots are a pain in the neck when the time comes to remove the seedlinfs from the pot. So I make my own plastic air pruning pots: the pots in the video are air pruning pots, the seedlings also have denser feeder roots around the central tap root.

Only thing is normally you need both a male and female to flower & fruit unless you get a hermaphrodite.😊

Indeed, but for now I don't look past the coming winter.

Updates will be coming.

Glad you enjoyed.

Firm to the bite, but not too hard.

Thanks @bonnienay979 - Grow lights are too expensive. I use regular T8 LED lights, with temperature of 6000K ("white light"). The higher the wattage, the better (more LED cells, more light, but more $).

Thank you so much for that info!! Again your plants look amazing. Looking forward to more of your videos.

Sorry, difficult to tune when I'm drunk.

I will try to post more.

Gracias.

Some people do not like the smell of durians.

I can't disagree with you. In zone 5 the growing season is very short, so I gave in to the temptation of fertilizing...

Let me know if there are any subjects you would like me to talk about, will try to cover them if I can.

I used the same fertilizer on the other fruit trees I planted at the same time as the mango pawpaw, they did just fine. Somehow, the mango pawpaw could not take that. I probably should have lowered the concentration. I did have a bag of the chicken manure pellets, but I wanted higher NPK values.

Glad you enjoy.

It's a grafted tree, no fruit yet. Most of my other tropical plants are seedlings, I will try to post some updates.

If it's a south facing fence, try some less cold hardy trees, like asian persimmons.

@@cooltherapy I love the idea. My fence is west facing. The one spot that is south facing, I planted a Chinese (Korean) mulberry, hardy to zone 6.

With a pond liner drainage can be an issue after a heavy rain.

@@cooltherapy the pond liner covers the sides and overlap the bottom by few inches. But in the middle it’s cut to allow drainage.

I guess you don't have problems with the roots of the trees around like I do then (drainage vs invasive roots). I am experimenting with a new concept now...

@@cooltherapy I do not have this issue. Please keep us posted.

Thanks!

Did you start it from seed?

I use regular LED lights, mostly at 5000-6000 K ("white light"). I'm also experimenting with warmer lights on some trees.

Thanks!

If you had a snowstorm today, we were probably in the same mindset.

@@cooltherapy it’s all good. 😀🇨🇦

With current inflation rate, a more permanent alternative is needed.

I'm in zone 5.