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To: greeneyes

We have bananas coming in. I really wonder how commercial banana growers survive as the plants fruit so seldom

The latest crop of mangoes was filled with worms. They’ve never had those before and I am not sure there is much I can do about it.

We also have watermelons and the ever present papayas.

Something, probably beetle grubs killed my cannas


5 posted on 02/24/2017 5:21:10 PM PST by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: Fai Mao

We don’t have the weather to grow most of those fruits. While the climate is ok for watermelon, can’t grow those either. Some soil borne disease is what I’m thinking.


8 posted on 02/24/2017 5:24:51 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Fai Mao

“The latest crop of mangoes was filled with worms.”

Just from my experience with growing apples, cherries and peaches, you probably need to spray or trap a certain fly that is laying eggs in your mangoes at the right time in their life cycle.

Up here in Wisconsin was have an Apple Maggot Fly that does that to apples, but you can spray when your apples are the size of a quarter, or hang red (the color attracts them), sticky traps to trap that particular fly.

If you have fruit, the pollinators have already done their thing, so spraying at that time won’t harm anyone but the culprit you are after.

I’d ask others in your area what they do to prevent that.

P.S. So jealous that you have mangoes! My fondest dream would be to have my own Avocado tree...but I don’t want to move to any of the states/countries where I can grow them, LOL! :)


76 posted on 02/25/2017 10:14:09 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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