Today It's Like The Tropics - Rain, Heat, Humidity!

[@karlacoco2821]

Your garden is beautiful very healthy plants for the kind of weather you have . I garden the same way wood ships chop and drop. Enjoy your garden 🪴

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Thanks for watching!

[@Kimm_99]

Wow!! Beautiful garden.!

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Thanks for visiting

[@helnbak08]

Beautiful!! Yess you are right about being in the garden. Oh what a blessing. As a Christian I believe we were all made for the garden. It is so so wonderful being the steward for these wonderful trees and plants. They give so much health and healing, food and medicine and spiritual wellbeing. What a great steward you are George.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Thanks!

[@lyonheart84]

Great update as usual George. Here in the Southeast of the UK we've already had the average rainfall for the WHOLE of January in the first 4 days, and believe me we consider a normal January a very wet month 😂😂🤪🤪

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

That's amazing Brett. Stay dry and warm!

[@738rh]

Is this a nursery, your homestead? Looks amazing

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Neither. Just a suburban garden that's grown and expanded over 20 years.

[@tropicaltreelover]

Your gardent looks amazing!! Sorry to hear its doesn't warm up for you.I am struggling with the extreme heat at the moment its been so humid and hot! But my tree is loving it and i already picked my mango still green but its large enough.Oh by the eay with kangkong you can pinch it and leave 2 cm off the root,it will branch out and you get more kangkong,the more you pick the more its grow.I found that event with extreme heat i get,if i dont give it a green house effect its doent grow ss fast for me. I have been picking my early long egg plants , its survived the winnter and very productive.Great to see all those topical doing alright for you,event the summer hasn't been great.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Thanks for the tip with kangkong, I did the same with my papaya. Amazing that you have a Victorian mango already! I'm not complaining about the weather personally, but tropicals really benefit from consistent heat which I don't get. Most people around the world would totally love having my climate, it's not too hot, not too cold, and natural disasters are extremely rare. We've had the AC on only twice in the last 3 months!

[@tropicaltreelover]

@@RealLifeFruitopia You welcome.Also if you apply fish and bone every four week it's will grow faster too.I would love to have! Melbourne weather at the moment.My mango fruits early .It's amazing how 5-10 C make a difference to tropical fruit tree.Your white sapote done fantastic! I got 7 in ground and only four is doing well in term of growth because the rootstock is more mature than the other three that I bought from Daley.

[@dingdonglong803]

Regarding your curling mango leaves, that is called a mixed bloom where there are leaves on a flowering panicle. The leaves curl because they are under developed because the tree is spliting some energy into the leaves and some into the flowers. Why this happens? One thought is it might be due to fluctuations weather or temperature. You can let it grow out but the leaves will die when the panicle shrivels up. Nice update, love your videos.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

That makes sense. Thanks for sharing!

[@Hydreii]

I thought Melbourne's summers were unbearably hot and the rest of the year was unstable, but it seems like I was wrong ! I'm glad to see your plants are doing well despite the chilly weather. I'm a bit late on the videos because I was busy, but I still wanted to ask... People told you they struggle with pineapple guava in Belgium, Austria, etc ? I'm in north eastern France, less than an hour drive away from Belgium, the climate is colder here in winter than in Belgium, and pineapple guavas aren't particularly difficult. I've been growing them for a few years now, and they're surprisingly tough ! They've survived -12°C just fine so far, even though this year there was a lot of snow at my place, and temperatures were below freezing for 18 days (even during the day, temperatures were around -1°C to -5°C). Citrus are indeed hard to grow here though. I didn't get any casualties among my in-ground citrus this year, despite the prolonged frosts, although there was some cold damage (dead branches and leaves), but the trees will recover. Yuzus, Prague Chimera mandarin, Ichang papedas, and trifoliate orange hybrids are the ones that grow best where I live. I'm still experimenting with other types of citrus, such as a promising orange variety that survived -6°C and a frozen pot in my unheated greenhouse, and different types of cold tolerant mandarin hybrids. Watching your videos for the last few years inspired me to dare grow these "impossible plants" in my region.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

You're right, Melbourne summers used to be hot and dry as far back as I remember, however in the last 2 years we've had wet and somewhat humid summers. I'm really surprised that your pineapple guava survived -12C, was that inground or in a pot? You've done incredibly well with growing citrus in such harsh cold conditions!

[@Hydreii]

@@RealLifeFruitopia I see, well at least temperatures are nice now. Climate change really does weird things... My pineapple guavas are all in ground ! I don't think the roots froze thanks to the mulch though. They're planted close to a south facing wall, except for one of them which is a bit more in the open. A few of the leaves got a red coloration to them after the harshest frosts, and the two youngest trees did lose about five or six leaves, but that's it, I've never seen any real damage on them. I think people underestimate how tough they are ! Thanks ! I'm looking forward to harvesting my first citrus fruits ; my largest tree flowered last year so hopefully I'll have fruits in 2024

[@Patrick-ye3wn]

Hi George, great idea with the white sapote ice cream! What is you and Kim's recipe? It has been a very rainy start to summer here in Melbourne. but it will get warm soon! Just because it has been rainy the last couple of summers, it doesn't mean it will be like this every summer - climate change is causing the weather to become more variable.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

My partner makes it smiliar to this recipe, except using vegan condensed milk instead of coconut milk with sugar. www.edithdourleijn.com/vegan-white-sapote-ice-cream/

[@ellenha6723]

I’m a big fan of your channel and watch all your videos. I live in north Florida and growing tropical fruit tree is hard. Got 6 fruits trees died last winter but not giving up. lol

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Well thank you for watching all my videos, that means alot! I like your spirit, yes, don't give up!!

[@gergc36]

I have a white sapote that’s two feet tall, and it’s about to hit 21F here in Texas. Is it better to leave it there and cover it, or dig it up while it’s small and keep it inside til the freeze passes.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Double wrap with thick frost cloth and lay straw on dirt.

[@helnbak08]

Also I think with the pomegranate they are waiting for the mediterranean summer this year you are having subtropical summer.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Pomegranate does well in the tropics too. My neighbours Wonderful is looking good!

[@FAST3RCA]

hmmm weird your florigon mango still not showing any sign of new growth. Mine seem to be showing another new growth on the tip.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

I'm positive it'll flush soon. We've had only 3 days of real heat and it's already midsummer!!

[@marisaphoenix1893]

Lol the climate ‘experts’ are total clowns who know nothing. Is anyone still listening to ‘the experts?’ 🤔😂

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

It's science!

[@marisaphoenix1893]

@@RealLifeFruitopia 😂 exactly