February is when ya can really help ya trees with some tripple 13 here is how we do it and you have seen some of the results
Cappy & Pegody's World: Here We Grow Again
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February is when ya can really help ya trees with some tripple 13 here is how we do it and you have seen some of the results
Cappy & Pegody's World: Here We Grow Again
Cappy I do the same to my citrus and a couple of fig trees not in the chicken pen. Those in the chicken pen get a good helping of "chicken fertilizer". By the way I use an old boat shaft that's about 7 foot long and weights around 60 pounds. Like you I find it getting heaver so I think I'll make a light weight model.
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I do the same as well Cappy, just on the citrus trees though. I have an old pry bar about six feet long, 1 1/4" in diameter, roughly 50 pounds. Fertilize in March here.
The only other bit of advice I have is buy what you need and use what you got. It doesn't keep well and looses strength fast.
Cappy, over here in North Alabama we have this stuff called red clay. You want to come over here and stick that thing around my trees for a day? Unfortunately the tool won't go into the ground but about 2" and then you start to cuss it. It is hard to drive a piece of rebar in with a sledge hammer. Do you have any other suggestions?
Same thing here in north Georgia, except now it is frozen solid too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tadpole!!
Same thing in North Louisiana except we got iron ore mixed in. . The only thing I can do is spread it on the ground around the drip line. That works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tadpole!!
Great report Cappy.....thats how I do mine also......also have to fertilize all my crepe myrtles and my magnolias that way too
I bet they beautiful G our myrtles are going great with out. and we got no magnolias. I only live a mile off the Mississippi river the deepest hole I ever dug was around 4 ft deep and it was still top soil. I only feed the ones that give out alot of fruit and nuts I figure they need more help than stuff that just stands there looking pretty.
Cappy.....it takes fertilizer to look pretty too.....very important
My goats got out a couple of years ago after a hurricane. They didn't run off, but wondered around the citrus trees and ate all the lower branches off. The following Spring I had the best crop ever. I wonder if the pruning helped as well?
I aint pruned mine in a couple years but I guess I should they are starting to dag the ground. This is a good time to do that as well.
Cappy,
Read your blog...so you recommend the triple 13 and zinc for pecan trees? I have only one wild pecan tree, produces nuts every year, not very big ones mind you, but this past year had really bad leaf gall, and very few pecans. Any suggestions?
Well I aint no expert for sure and your county agent is a free service for ya. I do know however that pecans need lots of zinc and my usta be sugar cane field of a yard is poor of it. Zinc is good for stopping black spots on the nuts and such and generally fortifying and making the tree healthier so It couldn't hurt. Those small native pecans are tough to crack but can be very rich and oily nuts and very good. There are several growing along the river around here that were planted back in plantation days. The nuts are small and hard but very good.
Leaf galls are fairly common on trees and scrubs - a plant tissue developed from the activity of insects or fungi. Won't hurt the trees at all, and won't effect the production of the fruit/nut. The black stuff on the pecans is natural. Tannins produced, and is something we deal with in dealing with large trees. With my trees in excess of 60 - 100 feet tall, the tannin is everywhere during fruit/nut production. Falls on the vehicles outside, garden bench, other plants/flowers, everywhere. Everything is black. After all is done, I always do a serious pressure washing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squiggyfreud
Thanks guys I will hit it with fertilizer and see what happens.