Concerned about HLB (Citrus Greening)? We can help bring your Citrus grove back to a healthy condition with improved fruit quality and higher production even with the disease pressure of Citrus Greening (HLB). Yes, you can reverse declines, promote greater production, higher Brix, more pound solids and increase profitability of your grove. Let us share […]
Did you know that one of the secrets (among others we discuss) to produce up to 30% more fruit in an orange grove is to apply boron twice per year? This was discovered all the way back in 1949 in an article published in the proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society. Every year, boron […]
Potassium magnesium sulfate (SPM) and/or magnesium sulfate are excellent fertilizer materials to use during flowering, along with other needed minerals. Many products designed specifically for flowering are loaded with magnesium sulfate. The magnesium helps keep the sugars flowing all the way to the day of harvest, and sulfates are a plus. Sulfate compounds help actuate […]
Be careful with nitrate fertilizers as a source of nitrogen, because they reduce beneficial soil microorganisms needed for mineralization of fertilizer nutrients and may delay or even prevent flowering. Since about 30% of the energy from photosynthesis is used to assimilate nitrates, energy will be taken away from the flowering process with nitrates. Not only […]
Muscadine grapes are now ripening in the woods. Yes, we have “big” Muscadine grapes for sale at the nursery.
Friday, September 2, 2016 Thursday, September 1, 2016 Yesterday, another grove received an application of easy to spread, organic (OMRI listed) Azomite® volcanic mineralizer in granulated form. It has an amazing combination of minerals, all at the right levels, including 65% of available silicon dioxide (almost always limiting in sandy & very high organic soils) […]