Sunday, March 31, 2013

Going home and repotting.

So far I've moved Glenn, Carrie, Edward, Julie, Lancetilla, Lemon Zest, Graham, Valencia Pride & Pickering to my new home. I repotted Edward and Lemon Zest into 10 gallon Geopots.

During repotting of Edward and Lemon Zest, I discovered that most of the medium was dry. I was surprised! I guess my water regiment at work was barely keeping the plants alive!? I am wondering if the fabric pots simply allow the soil to dry out fast?
Any rate, I'll be more thorough about watering now that my mangoes are home.
I potted them up in a simple mix of coir and Optisorb diatomaceous gravel; with a little Kelp meal, glacial rock dust, Osmocote and Mycos.
 Because most of the moisture was at the top, Edward was growing roots upwards. The root structure did look fibrous, so I guess the fabric pot does root-prune.


I had enough planting medium to pot up Lemon Zest.
 Roots were trying to grow through the bottom of the Gro Pot.
 Root structure seems okay.

Edward with an inch layer of bark mulch.
 Lemon Zest with bark mulch too.
Et voilá.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

New mangoes

Friday March 29th, I got my new mangoes.
Maha Chanok #5 and Harvest Moon #2
 Harvest Moon and Maha Chanok
Maha Chanok
 Harvest Moon 

Repotting into mix of Moltan Optisorb (diatomaceous rock) and Cocotek coir. Added Kelp meal, Glacial Rock dust and Mycos.
Maha Chanok #5
 After bare-rooting both mangoes, I potted them up in backyard.
 They'll stay in these 10 gallon Geopots pretty much for good.
 I also repotted Harvest Moon #2
 Harvest Moon #2 in Geopot.
I'm gonna slowly start transplanting all my mangoes into Geopot or Gro Pot 10 gallon fabric pots.

Mango update.

Maha Chanok pruned.

Spirit of 76 flushing out nicely.

Juliette's new growth.

 Harvest Moon

Southern Blush flushing out nicely too.

Friday, March 22, 2013

The kids.

Harvest Moon

Spirit of '76

Southern Blush

Irwin

Coconut Cream

Julie #5

Juliette

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Continued growth continued.

Harvest Moon

Julie #5

Southern Blush #2

Spirit of '76 #2

Juliette 

Monday, March 11, 2013

Continued Growth…

Harvest Moon

Southern Blush #2

Spirit of '76 #2

Julie #5

Juliette
Et voilá.

Friday, March 8, 2013

New growth

New growth on Harvest Moon.

 Spirit of '76 #2 new growth.

Southern Blush #2 push out three new shoots.

Julie #5 is also pushing growth.