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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« on: August 05, 2018, 10:06:07 PM »
i bet if you called TT they’d try to blame the grower instead of fess up to the cr@p they pull on a regular basis
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GLPg tag:Just bought some organic lychees in whole foods yesterday.
I paid about $8.99 for a quart of them. Not sure the actual weight.
BTW they were excellent.
Just for a frame of reference, have you had fresh lychees before not from the grocery store?
"Redland Raised - Organically produced Lychee at Green Groves for Bee Heaven Farm. Fresh from Florida."
Website for the farm is listed www.green-groves.com. Organic certification #0167GLP.
Will be making a trip to South Florida sometime over the next week or so for work, so I'll make the run to a few of the mango growers on the forum and a few members to pick-up / drop-off some plants for some exchanges. I'll probably make a stop at a Lychee farm as well. Is there anybody who you would recommend that I stop at? Like I said, these were excellent - nice combination of sweet and tart. I ended up eating 3 or 4 of them and my eldest son ate the rest. He is a soccer player and very particular about what he eats so for him to finish off the fruit is a win for me.
I haven't seen any market that sells sweetheart
they are excellent on a hot day. crisp and refreshing. my wife loves the taste.
in 9b i grow them in containers but must keep them
indoor or heated when temps dip below 40
I recently bought 4 wax apple trees and plan on keeping them in pots for the next couple years. Mine is about 6-7 feet tall. You worry me when you say it needs to be indoor or heated when it's below 40. Could you elaborate on this ? I live in bradenton and it's a 9b/10a zone and last year it dipped below 40 a few times.
Mark, I talked to aeromist and they said no issue gravity feeding RO water to my 1/3gpm mist pump. So I have one of my barrels feeding the pump now with RO. Seems to work fine. I was getting calcium on the fans and figured may as well try it with RO. Seems fine, just have to make sure the RO keeps up with the pump size and usage.
Thanks for the info again. Have decided to not include a water softener before the R/O knowing full well I'll be replacing filter membranes often.
Yeah, those Japanese methods are pretty wild Andrew. Just wonder how they would hold up after 10 years or so. Note, they can't be getting a lot of light but look at that production, sheesh!
That is looking suhhhhhhweeet. Is that redwood framing? You could easily install very efficient DIY vertical wet pads each side of the door.
If I had to do it all over again and wanted to produce fruit hortizonally rather than vertically I'd learn and do the japanese way for mangos, avocados, cherimoyas, etc. My greenhouse columns are 10' with a roof peak at 18'. Wish they were 8' to cut down on heating costs and maintenance.
Check out page 22 and on. http://www.hawaiitropicalfruitgrowers.org/conferences/2016/2016_JohnYoshimiYonemoto_PruningforAvocadoandMangoProduction.pdf