Attacking Edwards

I can't believe I did it but I finally chopped off a big section of trunk from Edward. I'm hoping all the vitality will now go into the four branches. I was motivated to prune this way because part of the trunk, that I cut off, was dead and I didn't think it would provide good strength as it got bigger. No more pruning for Edward until at least he's three feet tall.

Below, I grafted two of Edward's scions onto a Kent seedling that I grew and replanted.

As an experiment, I grafted a tiny portion of Edward onto this manila seedling (below).

Group photo after I rearrange the plants.

Voila.

Update May 20th, 2012

Glenn

Valencia Pride

Val is totally lop-sided. Don't know what to do?

Graham

Pickering

Lancetilla

Lance's new leaves.

Edward II

I'm tempted to prune off the middle growth, so that the lower branches can take off.

Julie #1

Julie #4

Julie won't stop blooming. Its driving me crazy.

Lemon Zest

I'm torn as to whether or not to chop this guy in half?

Carrie

Young A

I can't seem to get this guy to branch out nicely.

Young B

This guy has had scale problems for as long as I had it. I really hate scale.

Manila

I tipped it, so that it would branch out.

Update May18th, 2012

Julie #4

Lancetilla

Group Shots.

I topped this seedling to encourage branching.

I smelled the sap from this Kent seedling and it smelled good. I wonder if I could keep it alive till its fruits, would it taste good?

Update May 9th, 2012

Lancetilla

The length of each flush on Lance shows that is quite vigorous.

Julie #4

Wow, the tiny fruit nubbin is getting bigger.

Valencia Pride

New flush of leaves.

Lemon Zest

I see tiny leaf bud along its truck "thinking" of pushing out but not sure if it will?

Update on growths.

Julie #4

Found another tiny fruit nubbin on Julie.

 Lancetilla

 Lance is pushing out some potentially hefty buds.

Valenica Pride

Flushing out new leaves.

Soursop

My Soursop seedling germinated.

Yea.