Recent content by gdgross

Will do, thanks Meadowlark! (It was the cheapest one they had at Home Depot 🙃 )

Well I gave my soil a test near the avocado tree, and it looks pretty neutral: Suppose I’ll be wanting to get some ammendments to make it slightly more acidic?

Thanks I’ll have to figure out how to give my soil a test. Never done this!

When mine grows I'll mail you a pit, lol. This little tree is a graft of an F0 generation scion grafted onto an F1 generation seed/rootstock, both from my parents huge, well producing, delicious, 100+ year old fuerte avocado tree. i hope mine becomes half the tree theirs is!

Cool looking grafts! never grafted a succulent, I imagine it's the same principle though; gotta line up that cambium, or whatever the succulent equivalent is?

TBH, I'm not 100% what kind of figs - I got the scions from a local friend, she thought maybe turkey figs, maybe there's golden one in there too. I'll be ok with anything other than the tiger figs I have on those branches now. There are already two branches of missions grafted on from 2 years...

Thanks guys. I’ve been conservative with the fertilizer - one small application of about half of what I’d normally do, using the liquid soluble Romeo fert. I did do a light application yesterday of organic chicken manure, but it’s so fresh I could probably get rid if most of it if I needed to...

Thank you!

Hi guys, Geoff (gdgross) from the other place joining over here too. (thanks @Tetters for the heads up) Current green excitement/concern is about my fig grafts and baby avocado tree: Avocado looking slightly yellow with some brown on the leaf edges developing. Added a bit of organic...