fruit trees salt tolerance sydney (forum)

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Hi,

can anyone give me some ideas on salt tolerant fruit trees (approx 100m back from the beach in sydney so salt spray)
citrus seem to be ok.
avocados?
persimmons?
peaches?
mangoes?
others?
thanks

Time: 26th October 2011 9:05pm

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Nick says...
Gday dave2096, im about 150m away from the beach and my trees, including a persimmon, mulberry, cherry, plum, apricot, peach, nectarine, fig, mango, guavas, feijoa, carob, pomegranate and bananas, all go great! How exposed is your house? :)

Time: 26th October 2011 9:14pm

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BJ says...
Loquat, kwai muk and the not too tender garcinia/rheedia species (Madruno, Bacupari, Imbe, Yellow Mangosteen) all seem to cope well with salt.

Here is a table that might help a little, though it's based on Florida's coastal growing conditions, but salt tolerance is generally the same anywhere:
http://www.sarasotafruitandnutsociety.org/information/selectingtreesforsalttolerance.htm


Time: 28th October 2011 10:58am

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amanda says...
It's a good list BJ. I would swap loquat and passionfruit around tho...(based on my experiences here with salt...)
If you have a good water supply Dave (ie: scheme with little salts in it) and soil that drains well - then you have a big advantage there.

Time: 28th October 2011 11:42am

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Dave2096 says...
Ok thanks for rEspones.

Still unsure about avocados. Thoughts?

Time: 2nd November 2011 3:56pm

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amanda says...
Avocados do not like salt at all Dave2096.. :( Mangoes, macadamias, loquats, jaboticabas, persimmon, wampee and custard apples are my most sensitive plants - with leaf margin scorching without adequate flushing rain water (from the heavens or my tanks)
Some advice Mike gave me re: using blood and bone as their fertiliser...has really helped things.

Much depends on your local conditions tho...my scheme water is also salty and we are a semi arid zone...so I have to be very careful of adding more salts thru fetiliser choices (we on a windy hill above ocean with a rusty house!)
Luckily I have free draining sandy loam which flushes well. I use liquid gypsum in summer and also gentle liquid fert's (if I can afford them - like Seasol and Powerfeed) in summer also.

I would never use my salty tap water to hose off my trees - but u might have a great tap water - so you can rinse them..?

It might be worth trying one plant first and see how u go...

Nobody has mentioned mounding as a way of getting around salt build up near the feeder roots...something I might try one day.

Time: 2nd November 2011 4:59pm

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Brendan says...
Hi amanda & Dave 2096, the garden guru here recommends powdered gypsum (& liquid) around avocados to help displace the salts.
He says to add gypsum at 4 handfuls/ sq m, and water in.

Time: 3rd November 2011 7:34am

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Brendan says...
Reed avocado with 'leaf-tip-burn'. Note the new growth above this burnt leaf.
Pictures - Click to enlarge

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Time: 6th November 2011 8:32am

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amanda says...
Hey Brendan....I have never seen an avocado growing in Gero, full stop :-( This might be the northern limit for them over here...

Time: 6th November 2011 12:39pm

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MaryT says...
Hi Dave 2096 Avocado is no problem at 2089; I see them here (they get big!) so I imagine there's no problem for you either.

Time: 6th November 2011 1:54pm

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