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August 4, 2012, 9:30 am: Foothill Chapter Meeting

Los Angeles Arboretum

The legendary Jim Nietzel will come to teach us about Mangoes. He will demonstrate Mango grafting, seed planting, scion selection, and discuss varieties and care of mangoes. He will be bringing some scion wood, so plant your mango seeds now and keep them warm so you have something to graft onto in August!

Lecture Hall “A”. The easiest access is straight through the Gift Shop, then down the stairs to the right in the adjacent building.

Jim was the first volunteer in CRFG history. By that I mean he was volunteered into leadership by his peers at the time to register the organization with the state of California. That seems to be how leaders are chosen in the San Diego club. He resides in San Diego where he continues to propagate and develop new fruit varieties on his 2 acre property. Some varieties he developed over the years include Big Jim loquat, Neitzel pitaya, Big Sister and Sabor cherimoya.

Stop by to enjoy some mangos and talk about rare fruits!
« Last Edit: August 01, 2012, 11:54:25 AM by Tim »

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fyliu,

Thanks for posting this, I will try to make it out. I have mango seedlings now :), most will be ready to graft in august.
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There's a mango ice-cream social at this month's San Diego meeting but the topic is citrus or something. It's the 4th wednesday of the month. Maybe you could get seed from there.

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There's a mango ice-cream social at this month's San Diego meeting but the topic is citrus or something. It's the 4th wednesday of the month. Maybe you could get seed from there.

Yeah still looking for poly seed mango varieties.
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null zero I will get u some seeds!

mango mango mango and not a poly seed to plant!
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The SD meeting next week will be mainly Kent mangos, so no poly seeds. Maybe if we point out the fruit bearing advantage of polyembrionic mangos more people here will start growing them.

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It's getting close to the date so decide whether to attend now. CRFG meetings are always open to the public. Just show up at the right time and enjoy the talk.

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I'll be there.  Who else is going?

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I'll be there.  Who else is going?

Bill
I'll be there for sure. He doesn't come here very often and it's getting more difficult for him. He wasn't sounding too good for the last couple of months. I'm glad the passiflora expert offered to drive.

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I assume this is going to be video recorded? I would love to see it on youtube. I don't believe I can make it, I have other commitments during the day  :'(.
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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2012, 04:34:45 PM »
Okay I will bring a video camera. It's not as good as being able to ask your own questions though.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2012, 07:40:26 PM »
Well, how was it?  I really wanted to go to this but ended up having to work.  Did anyone from the forum make it?

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2012, 07:52:57 PM »
I kept thinking it was 10am and got there at 10 to start recording. Where is a good place to upload videos? I've used my my web hosting account in the past. Not sure if there's a better way. YouTube?

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2012, 08:53:42 PM »
YouTube
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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2012, 09:46:14 PM »
YouTube would be great.  How long was the presentation?

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2012, 11:22:08 PM »
a little less than 100 minutes. There were some questions at the end and some ranting about rats towards the middle.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2012, 12:37:46 AM »
a little less than 100 minutes. There were some questions at the end and some ranting about rats towards the middle.

so where is the link?

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2012, 01:04:58 AM »
I kept thinking it was 10am and got there at 10 to start recording. Where is a good place to upload videos? I've used my my web hosting account in the past. Not sure if there's a better way. YouTube?

I have heard good things about Vimeo.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2012, 01:37:03 AM »
It'll take some time to convert and upload. I guess youtube wants me to upload the 6.7GB video. Maybe I'll just reduce it to 400MB and put it on my web hosting for now. It should be ready tomorrow.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2012, 01:43:04 AM »
Thank you very much for doing this. Hopefully there is some good info for us California guys.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2012, 02:23:05 AM »
It will appear here when it's available, probably tomorrow afternoon. http://s90032380.onlinehome.us/wordpress/

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2012, 09:21:36 AM »
It'll take some time to convert and upload. I guess youtube wants me to upload the 6.7GB video. Maybe I'll just reduce it to 400MB and put it on my web hosting for now. It should be ready tomorrow.

I use Windows Movie Maker to convert the video to a youtube ready format http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/movie-maker-get-started, then I upload it to youtube. Much easier that way than uploading the raw video file to youtube first.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #22 on: August 07, 2012, 05:44:40 PM »
Thanks. I normally use Format Factory to convert videos to 480x272 flv files. Previously I used Hamster which is gave a bettter resolution but the new version stopped supporting the format I want.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #23 on: August 07, 2012, 10:02:50 PM »
thanks for the video fyliu....I wanted to stop by Saturday but it was too early for me.

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Re: August 4 Mango varieties and techniques with Jim Neitzel - CRFG Foothill
« Reply #24 on: August 08, 2012, 01:31:40 PM »
Thanks for the video.  I've watched some of it and will watch the rest today.  Some interesting info.

Bill