Pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana) flowers.
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Cherries on the bark beetle-caused malnourished, unshaded branches (to right) are blushing fast (May not be very good cherries). The resident blue jays should stick to those branches.... they ignore the metallic tape with malice in their dinosaur eyes...
Pineapple Guava (Feijoa sellowiana) flower bud. These flowers are going to be huge.
Fruit Tree Irrigation: an Experiment
For several years I’ve watered my fruit trees using a Generation 2 Rachio controller and their irrigation method called “Flex Daily”. This method relies on many variables, a few of which I can only make good guesses at. For example, my soil’s Available Water Capacity from the U.S. Soil Survey. Flex Daily on Rachio is really designed for watering lawns, and I don’t care about lawns. I water fruit trees with unevenly spaced emitters.
For Earth Day, bees on the elderberry and the avocado.
Got to pay attention to notice avocado flowers. Our “Bacon” Avocado tree is flowering. Our “Mexicola” variety is not— too bad because they’re type A and B so would have pollinated each other.
Think we might get cherries in mid to late May! A few tree branches have extremely undersized leaves because of bark beetle damage starving the branches of resources. Mainly from metallic bark beetles. Two branches completely died last year so they got lopped.
Got a few Apricot fruits to set... in a few weeks they may drop as the tree balances its energy.
It’s high time we start taking photos behind the flowers. Apricot flower.
Cherry tree in full bloom.
