Longan and guava

Visited the same nursery again yesterday and this time I forked out RM 100 for 3 items: one 6' tall longan tree (RM75), one 3' tall seedless guava tree (RM15) and 4 bags of "good soil" for RM10. At first I was looking for laichi but the guy said laichi isn't suitable in malaysia so he introduced longan which according to him the fruit will be big and the seed is small. 'sweet or not?' was my question to him. He answered: 'very sweet'. So, deal! I was happy with the plant because it has bear quite a number of fruits and they are about the size of guli. Pretty happy with that actually. At home later in the evening, I deepened and widened the hole that I already made a few days ago, poured a bag of so called "good soil" in the hole, followed by the longan tree. I emptied another three bags of soil surrounding the based of the tree and applied some pressure to consolidate the soil.

I did the same to the guava tree. Soaking the soil with plenty of water was the last thing I did before I went in my house for dinner.

My Mango Tree Not Doing Well

Nearly two months since I bought my mango tree and planted it on my home soil no new leaf has been seen. Don't even mention the flower! Let's wait and see its progress.

My ciku tree, contradictory, doing very well. New leaves sighted almost every way and the flowering was just too good to believe. Unfortunately, polinated flowers did not stay. It is sad to see young fruits fell. So far, only one fruit managed to stay and it was the one came along with the plant two months ago. It measures around 1 cm across and I hope it will keep growing.

My Very First Fruit Trees

I bought two fruit trees in May 2010; one Ciku tree (or sapodilla) and one mango tree from a plant nursery opposite RRIM Sungai Buloh main entrance. It costs me RM 40 for the ciku and RM75 for the mango. The price reflects the height of the plant; the mango tree was double the height of the ciku tree. I planted the ciku tree into the land on the side of my house a few days after I bought it. The mango tree was fruiting well at the time I bought it but for some reasons, the fruits all fell down prematurely. I think that is becasue I left the tree on a concrete floor for too long (approximately 1 month). Even with the poly bag still on and I watered it every evening the heat from the concrete floor might have dried the water out the limited amount of soil in the poly bag.