A Mango Superbloom | Weather, Pest & Disease Stress, 12/30/24

[@yenicarol82]

Mulch=cover. Your food forest is full of living mulch! What an aspiration for our small backyard garden. Thank you for the tour.

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Cover=usually better than mulch🐸❤️thank you

[@Mary-z7x]

Wow!! Mr Eric look amazing thanks for sharing

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Hi Mary, I hope you guys have a great 2025🐸❤️🙏🏼thank you

[@chessman483]

Awesome as always. You are 100% correct living roots are the best mulch. I saw a study recently that showed that living roots were up to 500% more efficient at turning soil around than compost or dead mulch. I’ve been super keen on living roots. Yes I use some chop and drop , but that’s just to help my system get going. We have an enormous mango tree on our place ( one of the few that were on our place on arrival) we have been harvesting lately and only got about 200 mangos. We have had well over a 1000 in years passed. I was thinking of giving it a major major prune this year as we simply can’t reach the mango. What’s your thoughts on pruning a tree like this. I’d find it offensive if someone said they would introduce hydroponics to my place. People are clueless, that’s for sure.

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Pruning too much could prevent any fruit next year, you got all those cows, give it a bunch of manure, cow manure makes them fruit🐸sometimes I just have to laugh at some of the stuff people say, I am not sure what the infatuation with hydroponics, they thought they would grow Bananas that way, lol🐸❤️thank you, Happy New Year

[@AndyParadise561]

"Your Oak Forest needs watering!" 😂😂😂

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Yes, lol, I thought I have heard it all🐸happy New Year Andy❤️

[@AndyParadise561]

@floridanaturalfarming3367 Happy New Year Eric!

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

@@AndyParadise561 🐸

[@scottburgle4889]

A lot of people are saying that there is a very severe cold front coming in January. Projecting 20 degree weather to southern Florida. If something like this does happen will you do anything to protect certain species of trees and other plants you have or do you believe that since you have the correct microbiology your plants would survive without any help?

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

I get my weather from the news not what people are saying and the weather channel does not show below 40 and yes I will not do anything to protect the trees, it has been 31 here in Vero in the past and our Cacao held fruit to maturity without any issues. I do not stress during drought and I definitely do not stress from cool weather.🐸❤️Thank you

[@mrsuarez430]

Mines , blooming too chances are early varieties might bloom twice this year

[@mrsuarez430]

(Edward)

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Last year mine repeated blooming 6 times and it was too hot for set on their last bloom, looks like all 270 of ours are blooming in unison now , early, mid and late, all looks good for the next 10 days🙏🏼🌱🐸❤️thank you

[@consumedbywürms]

would the jaguar cacao grow in deep shade as well? i have a good amount of oak trees on my lot and therefore a lot of shaded land

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Yes that’s where I plant all Cacao🐸❤️thank you

[@icya5844]

Wow I hope you have the property still come mango season, I would love to purchase a few if you happen to sell them :)

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Yes we definitely will be selling delicious Frog Valley Farm Mangoes in 2025🐸❤️thank you

[@Mary-z7x]

@@floridanaturalfarming3367 We will definitely miss it!! I know your new place will be successful also.

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

@ thank you Mary🐸❤️

[@icya5844]

How exciting. I have loved the garcinia's and starfruit ive gotten from you but mangos are my favorite fruit. I cant wait to

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

@ excellent🐸❤️