Thanks to all for your warm comments!
here are a few answers regarding some questions that came up
Wow Sam you really have a nice setup. I noticed what looked like vanilla bean vines in one of the shots, have you made your own extract? I do not understand French, but I do understand delicious fruit, good work !
the vanilla bean vines you can see on some shots are not grown by myself. They are grown by the owner of the land where i am developing the nursery. So no i have not made my own extract but he does make it though he rather sells whole vanilla pods prepared in different ways (curing varies from one type to another). The one considered to be the best preparation being the frosted vanilla "vanille givrée" where vanilla pods are allowed to reach full maturity on the veins picked one by one when they reach this stage and then kept to sit in a shaded and ventilated area for few months till they blacken and develop some kind of small crystals in their inside.
this property is located at sea level on the south eastern side of the island where we have a humid and wet tropical like climate.
very nice video! the quality of the production was very professional.
Thanks for sharing the video...I know you'll soon be introducing some new incredible fruits to Reunion 
the film makers are doing some great job indeed. Their program is dealing with environmental issues. It is my second time working with them and i appreciate their friendliness and professionalism.
Samuel,
Loved the video keep up the great work. Enjoyed the annona grafting scenes.
The scenes may look good but the result was rather poor. Not more than 10% of this grafting trial was good. It was my first attempt with green grafting annonas and i can't say i am much convinced. Either i have done something wrong or the climatic conditions following the grafting were so wet that it could not help... to me ending winter/early spring graft of hardened bud sticks is much more of a sure shot with annonas
Great vid! Lucky I speak french 
Do you have a subtropical climate? Are you growing mangosteen and chirimoya at the same location?!
no mangosteen can be grown here from sea level up to around 400 m elevation. Cherimoya would start from 400m but would really be worth being grown from 600m to higher elevations. Shots were made at different locations on the island. The place where one can see cherimoya trees is on the west coast at 900 m altitude. It is the only orchard i know about on the whole island! Then you will only find a few trees scattered here and there in backyards.
Actually all the fruits (except sweet lillikoi) you can see on the video were taken in some friends backyards. I haven't yet any fruiting trees on my own. Coming very soon
Thanks for sharing Samuel. I enjoyed it a lot even though I didn't understand a word.
Tomas
basically i have been presenting my work as nurseryman aiming to participate in the efforts of developing fruit crops diversity on the island. I am saying that not only lychees, mango and citrus can be grown in Reunion and that too many species have been left aside as it is the case for cherimoya, canistel, chikoos...without talking about all the recent introductions and the ones that still need to be done. Saying that all this represents a great potential for the future of Reunionnese fruit history.
Nice place you have there Samuel! Is that Passiflora alata in the beginning? Is that hearts of palm being chopped in your kitchen?
yes P. alata, and palm hearts: this specie is called here the white palm tree (
Acantophoenix alba and it is endemic to the archipelago of Mascareignes. It tastes much better compared to pejibaye.
Bravo, Samuel, et bonne chance pour l'aventure qui a l'air de bien demarrer d'ailleurs. Et ravi d'avoir un francophone parmi nous.
moi également ravi de savoir que je ne suis pas tout seul ici
et de découvrir des compatriotes expatriés?
Magnifique!
You really live in a nice area and your plants look amazing. Do you plant the grafted cherimoyas or do you sell them?
Keep up the good work
right now i rather sell the grafted seedlings encouraging people living at high elevations to plant this wonderful fruit. I planted a few trees on another plot not showing on this video that is located at an intermediate altitude around 300m above sea level. But i would need another plot much higher to be able to to grow some kind of cherimoya orchard who which i may try to achieve since it is my favorite annonas ...at least from the one i have tried.
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