Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 3.2.
Salt tolerance of different fruiting trees. Adapted from Campbell and
Goldweber (1985) and Maxwell and Maxwell (1985).
Good
Moderate
Fair
Poor
Carissa (Natal
plum)
Coconut
Tamarind
Date palm
Akee
Bignay
Black sapote
Canistel (egg fruit)
Cattley (strawberry)
Guava
Fig
Governor's plum
Imbu (
Spondias
tuberosa
)
Indian jujube
Jackfruit
Jelly palm
Key lime
Loquat
Mayan breadnut
Monstera
Pineapple guava
Pomegranate
Prickly pear
Pummelo
Purple mombin
Rose apple
Sapodilla
Spanish lime
Tangerine/mandarin
Wax jambu
Atemoya
Barbados cherry
(Acerola)
Cherimoya
Cherry of Rio Grande
Citrus (rootstock
dependent)
Custard apple
Grumichama
Illama
Imbe
Kei apple
Kumquat
Mamey sapote
Miracle fruit
Mulberry
Otaheite gooseberry
Persimmon
Pineapple
Pitomba
Soursop
Sugar apple
Surinam cherry
Wampi
White sapote
Ambarella
Avocado
Banana
Caimito (star apple)
Carambola
Cashew
Jaboticaba
Longan
Lychee
Macadamia
Mango
Papaya
Passion fruit
Strawberry tree
fairly broad range of adaptability and are grown in a wide variety of soil types,
provided other factors are favourable. Ideally the best soils and irrigation
waters should be used and, as with other crops, proper management is always
important to obtain an ei cient and sustainable production.
It is normally assumed that fruit trees need a soil profi le that is at least
0.5 m, and ideally more than 1 m, deep, so that roots can grow down to that
depth. This is not always the case since many tropical fruit trees are shallow-
rooted. In instances where the soils are much shallower, either because parent
rock is near the surface or because the water table is close to the surface, good
profi table production can be obtained. Fields with a shallow water table can be
drained or fragile parent rock can be cracked by ripping. Soils with a 'caliche',
a natural hard, crusted layer of calcium carbonate found in arid zones, can be
ripped or a hole bored through to allow root penetration.
