The Tropical Fruit Forum

Beautifull orchard and i think you will need to make metal tags for the manny paw paws.
Be carefull with the wood chips thogh => Armillaria.

Here in Romania ( the biggest plum producer in the world) the Pluots,plumcots ,etc  would be considered mislabeled because they are not real plum ( Prunus Domestica) hibrids .
They are american plum hibrids wich we dont even consider those plums and we call them ,,corcoduse,,( mirabelle fruit) not ,,prune,,( real plum,Prunus Domestica).
None of the pluots,plumcots have real plum genes in them.
 
EDIT: they are not even Myrabelle ( Prunus domestica var Syriaca) hybrids with apricot but instead they are hybrids made with Prunus Cerasifera ( myrobolan used as rootstock)  or Prunus Salicina ( a chinese ,,plum,, thats a soird of a chinese Myrobolan) and apricot.

I ate a lot of eurasian sparrows in childhood ,when i was stupid and hunted everything that move.
My dream was to hunt a rare,white sparrow ,albino.
Never seen one.
Now i have probably 50 sparrows that nest on my house roof and around the house.
They eat my dog food pellets and even the cat pellets but i cant get mad on them for that.

A week ago i left the window open to my greenhouse and 3 sparrows got inside the dome then got skared and one couldnt find the way out.
I got out of the dome so that she doesnt feel stressed by my presence so that she finds the way out wich she did.

Soak them in water 24 hours ,then put them in a ziplock bag with wet peat moss and keep them in the fridge for 40-80 days.
When you take them out and feel warm enviroment they should germinate.

Culprit discovered (just got another one, more on the way): Eugenia reinwardtiana / Cedar Bay Cherry. 

Remarkable how much it tastes like plum. Only real criticism is I'd like a better flesh to seed ratio.

Have you tryed a plum X apricot cultivar?
These hibrids are on par with mango probably betteer as i live in a temperate place,i have a big such hibrid tree and i eat like 2-3 fruits per year from the tree while mango i ate houndreds in a year from supermarket.
The hibrid tree is soo good all the fruits get eaten before i do,even the half rotten one that fall from the tree are eaten.

In my orchards i plan to let 10-15 % of the crop on trees for the birds to eat in winter.
I also have a giant cherry tree ,Prunus Avium ,that i keep especially for blackbirds.
I dont mention the houndreds of big Mirabelle trees and american plums from my fence ,wich are heavy bearers that probably make 2-3 tons of fruit per year and i dont colect them ,just keep these trees for the birds.
I get soo much fruit that i have to ferment them to make moonshine or compost ,but the mirabelle,american plum and cherryes are too much work to colect.
I make compost from apples,pears and quince( i have a quince tree that makes like 400kgs of fruit per year ,alone).

Not to forget the sour cherry forest with houndreds of trees on the hill slope.They are high quality fruit ,but because theyre in a slope i dont colect them and leave them for the birds.

An idea to prevent you becoming poore because of the birds ,is to plant more trees, for you and the birds.

Anybody have experience with regular brewers yeast ( thats also used for bread) as fertiliser?
Yeast is nitrogen fixer but needs carbon and a fast available carbon like sugar so basically you trade sugar for nitrogen by growing yeast ,just like nitrogen fixing plants do.

Interesting concept.  Wonder how the seals, etc. hold up over 10-20 years?

I just replaced a 15 year old Grundfos 1 HP pump which was working fine with a 3/4 HP, keeping my old one as a spare.

The seal its the membrane and its made from high quality,highly resistant rubber .Asside that ,the coils are also enclosed in resin so even if water would get under the rubber seal ( impossible) it wont do nothing to the pump.

I bought a russian diaphragm pump that was installed in a well and worked a lot for 35 years and the rubber its in perfect shape.Its a laboratory type of rubber,one you might expect to find on the ISS.
The pump worked perfectly with only the cable joint being slightly affected ( cracked).
It worked for 2 more years in my well before failing due to the old cable so 37 years of work .

But its not over iet as i plan to rewind the coil and cable of this pump then use it again.
This man from UK i think ,its the only one that speak using english language about these pumps,except me here.
Because these pumps are rare in the UK, he rewinded the coils of his pump altough one such pump brand new costs just 30-40 dollars and i think cheaper than if you buy the copper wire and the epoxy resin.
Somme info he offers its flawed ,that the pump needs a 20 minute break after 1,5 hours of use.They can work non stop and it says even in the operating manual .
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My pump doesn't work anymore. When I turn it on it has a buzzzzz sound.  what would be the problem? It work for a a year or two and then not working anymore.  Maybe my brother didn't install it correctly?

Depends on what type of pump it is.But if you say it makes that noize and im assuming its a pump that has a rotary motor,i suspect its toasted .Water got into it and it burned.
Its also possible ,if it has a motor that has carbon brushes ,that the brushes got consumed and they need replaced.
What type of pump is it?

Best water pump for such height its a russian diaphragm pump.Vibtation pump they are called.They have no moving parts no bearings and its just an electromagnet.
Its a more efficient technology than having a pump with brushless motor.This is ,,bearing less,,.
These pumps can easily pump 90 meters height ( they can do more but they are made to work at max 10 atm because if they had bigger pressure it would explode the pipes).

They can work non stop,last decades and they consume just 250-300 watts per hour wich is verry efficient for a flow of 10 -20 litters per minute at such high pressure.
The best deep well submersible pump design in the world.
Shurflo and Grundfos look like toys compared to these russian diaphragm pumps.
Also one such pump costs just @ 30-40 dollars wich is insanely low priced for a 10 Atm pressure diaphragm pump with reasonable flow,made from metal.

This is how it looks and its a rare ( non existent basically) pump used in the western europe and USA,Canada,have never heard of them.
West Europe and North America use much more complicated well pumps that cost a lot more and consume more current and are bad designs that fail a lot faster.

Russian pumps are soo much ecological and economical that all the otther well pumps should be banned by the Paris agreement and we should all use these diaphragm pumps like we switched from incandescent light bulbs to LEDs.

Nice project.
Hope the expensive fan fogger works well for you and you get enough rain to sustain your cooling sistem.
RO water is also an option in case its needed and if you can afford to buy that fan you can afford to pay the water from the RO installation also .
Or polyphosphate filter better wich will stain your plant leaves but we do that with foliar fertiliser anyway.

Cant tell for sure from the pics but looks like a loquat tree.