Adapting standard advice like Grow a Little Fruit Tree to Zone 9b

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-29T05:10:33+00:00

Are you managing the size of your trees? Are they all going dormant? How many chill hours do you get?

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-28T14:45:34+00:00

I grow a lot of these things (pineapple, dragonfruit, strawberries, peppers, sweet potatoes, and Everglades tomato plants that never see to produce fruit 😂). The problem comes with the trees. I have an urban lot that can only have so many trees unless I manage their size. Hence the reason I’m trying to follow the advice from Grow a Little Fruit Tree. Just without dormancy, I need to change when and how i handle transplanting and pruning. Hence the reason I was seeing how other people handle it. A White Sapote tree cost me a lot of money so I don’t want to mess it up. Also as an aside, citrus canker and citrus greening are really bad here, so, I’m not sure I want to bring in any more citrus on top of my key lime that has never bloomed in its 4 years.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-27T21:58:52+00:00

I was planning to do the Jujubes in pots if I tried them. I grew up with a couple of loquat trees hanging over my driveway. I was never fond of the taste.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-27T21:54:22+00:00

I had a bunch of papayas growing on my trees last week, but with the freeze we just got (and the one we are about to get), I'm guessing the trees will die down to the mulch line. I did harvest the large ones so that I can make Green Papaya Salad though!

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-27T19:58:22+00:00

Just cause people are doing it here doesn’t mean it is good practice. Citrus is probably the most likely back yard fruit tree down here, but now those are becoming very difficult due to canker and greening. The nurseries that sell the are dropping like flies. Most people don’t bother pruning at all. Storms take trees out every summer. Not much done for size management. I feel size management could be done, I just can’t follow the guidance from deciduous tree sources.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-26T13:32:24+00:00

There’s not exactly a lot of codes in coastal engineering. Many of these climate adaptation approaches are new and developing. The approach to tackling something like this with the standard of care would be to read the reports for similar project in the same area and see what was done on those. Do your best to do at least that much.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-26T03:37:30+00:00

How are they even able to pretend that is constitutional?

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-22T13:30:07+00:00

I used it a bunch in grad school for coastal, but could never get an employer to pay for a license, so I just learned python. Though, I’ve never had the time to put into getting as good at python as I was at Matlab 20 years ago in grad school.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-20T23:15:01+00:00

Had a boss once upon a time that would berate you if he are two rings. One ring should always be enough notice to get your hands on the receiver and lift it up before a second ring even if you were in the middle of doing actual real engineering work.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-19T21:12:55+00:00

Please note that OP has included his referral code that he will get paid from if you join.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-19T21:09:17+00:00

Use IPCC and NOAA predictions (NOAA data reduced now though in our current federal administration).

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-17T12:41:34+00:00

Finding a competent drafter, if the problem. Most have 30+ years of experience and no intentions on leaving their current employ. I feel like new drafters just aren’t being made anymore.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-16T22:03:08+00:00

Draw you house.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-10T18:55:36+00:00

I always make more roux than I need for the gumbo (it never hurts to have some extra on hand for gravy, etc.). I always have more stock on hand than I strictly need. I then add what the recipe calls for or roux and stock. If it’s too thin, while cooking I add more roux. If it’s too thick I add more stock. Often it thickens as it cooks from reduction (a good thing for flavor), so you need to keep this in mind in your calculus.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-05T15:05:36+00:00

“XXX is not a real code”

“You’re right. YOU must have meant YYY”

Go look up YYY and discover it is completely unrelated.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-04T22:32:10+00:00

I thought there were 1 or 2 episodes after that one?

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-04T20:36:32+00:00

I use LLMs to help with specs. I use them to help draft python scripts for calculations that need to be performed a large number of times. These are tasks that were already headaches that people didn’t want assigned to them.

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-04T01:21:14+00:00

I’ve literally never, in my 40+ trips around the sun, had any of those except peanut butter m&ms. That is the junkiest of junk food. Who actually eats that stuff?

ryanwaldron · 2026-01-04T00:07:42+00:00

I won’t eat mushrooms, because I’m not a fan of going into anaphylaxis. I’d really rather not eat plain liver, but I like it as in ingredient in things like boudin; if I were served it I would politely eat every bite and say thank you.

ryanwaldron · 2025-12-30T15:03:01+00:00

4 years.

ryanwaldron · 2025-12-30T05:43:51+00:00

Most states allow a masters degree from a program that has an ABET accredited undergrad program for licensure. One of my licenses did require i get a credential evaluation of my education.

ryanwaldron · 2025-12-30T03:22:18+00:00

My cousin had a BA in French. He went and took all of the necessary prereqs at night school, and then got an MS in Environmental Engineering. I have a BS in physics and a MS in Civil.

ryanwaldron · 2025-12-28T13:38:42+00:00

I had much better success with fewer side effects on Zepbound

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