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« Reply #650 on: June 21, 2013, 07:43:03 PM »
Hi Guys, I am Francisca from the Canary. I live at 500m high in a dry place (less than 500mm for sure), with 5 months drought every year, even more if you do not count when the rain is just wetting the surface.  My place is steep and I cultivate in terraces + between rocks on the hill.
+10°C in winter mornings, and +30°C in summer.
BUT we have Calima! then it can be sooo hot, and with dry wind. This is a desert wind with sand.

The natural trees around are Canary pines and drago trees. Well, also almonds grow wild.
Then it is a matoral, a little like California or western south Africa.
I was going to forget the many opuntia, great fruit, great pads, great water tank ;)

Oh! Of course my local money is Tagasaste seeds! lol :) They are supposed to be well known now all around the world, but actually, the Tedera we have is much smaller but more drought resistant. Bitumina bituminosa, its resistance vary according to its origin.

I have an orange and avocado and mango orchard, + papaya, banana, apple (Anna, Golden Dorsett, Fuji), kaki (persimmon), almond, manzanilla olive, lemon, jujuba, canistel, chicle, black zapote, mulberry, fig, nispero, lulo, arbol de tomate, pitanga, lili pili, guava, guava fresa, natal plum, passion fruit... About 100 trees. I slowly remove some orange trees, they are old and some are too ill, and they need too much water.

Also veggies and non fruiting trees, I have made a few tea trees from seeds.
I also need the necessary for hens, as I do not want to buy any bad stuff that I don't know what's in. I have chayamansa and moringa, and sorgho and amaranth...

I look for all type of small fruits and nuts that are water wise. I am already happy, but I will be even more when I can eat without going out of the finca! I have already resigned for coconut oil, I will always buy it!

My only problem will be for chocolate, except if I find a variety that can stand +9°to12°C as minimum winter temps. I hesitate to get anacardo (cashew nut), might not be warm enough...

see read yah!

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« Reply #651 on: June 21, 2013, 10:40:10 PM »
xisca, of el chocolate in neerland, gow chocolate in greenhouse, ¿can you built a greenhouse and grow cacao in you backyard?
 Also, the mexican varieties are so resistent to the fresh temperatures like in canarias.

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« Reply #652 on: June 22, 2013, 08:45:23 AM »
Thanks, I will make a post at the right place, so that I can enquire about the right variety. Sure I can have a green house, but this is a pity in a good climate, and my place is large, natural and beautiful, with stone walls all around...

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« Reply #653 on: June 22, 2013, 09:37:43 AM »
Bienvenida Xisca!

Where are you lacated? In CI at 500m over sea level you will have a very hard time growing tropicals. In your case, I would focus on growing sub-tropicals and temperate fruits. You say you are growing mango, did you ever get them to fruit at your location?

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« Reply #654 on: June 24, 2013, 05:15:02 PM »
Greetings,  I play at yardwork but in Fruit trees Figs are my Joy.  I planted a " Zumwalt Fig Tree " about 5 years back and it's 12 ft tall, a Brown Turkey 5 years, Black Italian 4 years, White Marses 4 years & " KOK Fig Tree " last year. The Kok Fig is named after my friend that gave me the rooted tree. The " Kok Fig first crop fuit is the size of a pear or tennis ball but the Zumwalt Figs is sweeter.

Due to drought conditions in central Alabama this is my first fruited crop to mature.

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« Reply #655 on: June 25, 2013, 07:25:18 AM »
Hi All,
My name is Brad and i live outside of New Orleans in Kenner
i have a decent size lot for the suburbs, but , have been thinking of moving to the city
so most of what i planted recently is in pots.
But, since i own a few rental properties i actually planted a few things there.

I purchased a "Caribbean Red" Papaya from  the store a couple of years ago
planted some seeds, forgetting about them, and now i have several Papaya trees.
and i LOVE papaya.
Incidentally, if anyone knows what the fruit and trees will be like
the "Caribbean Red was an F1 i am pretty sure....
So, i dont know what went into making it, or what the parents were
I have had about 5-6 fruit from these trees and they are very good though...

I am always looking for interesting fruit trees and herbs
especially tropical or rare.

right now, i am looking for...
marang - or a tasty Jackfruit or cempedak
Lucuma
Camu Camu


Anyway, i also like medicinal herbs, fruits
anything healthy, and anything tropical :)

I have ( heres a few)
several Guava
Lychee (just popped up from seed)
Sapote (seeds)
Passionflower vine (2x edilus 10ft)
Satsuma (very large prolific tree)
Avocado
Mamey Sapote - 8 inches

growing - -
Baobob D. (SEEDLING)
Acacia S. - (just planted)
Mimosa H.. - (just planted)
Bixa A.. - (just planted)


Calea (dream herb)
Sun opener (relaxing tea- herb)
Catnip
Korth (Kratom)

several sweet and hot Peppers

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« Reply #656 on: June 26, 2013, 01:59:29 AM »
Hi. (ohoh, the devil is here)

Im a male but Im also sharing this "frukt" with my wife. We moved to portugal last fall and now we are planting and planing our fruitgarden. And, since we dont know so much about fruit-trees we wanted to join this forum. Great stuff!

We like to eat fruit all day and nothing else. We will see how that goes. Its not that we dont like the taste of cooked food, its just that we are convinced that eating fruit is the best way to nurse the body we live in.

So,, to us its important to find fruit-trees that can produce fruit to us all year around. We already have Loquat and orange doing a good start. And we dont think May until december will be the problem. The problem will be in the winter and early spring. Well well :)

Please feel free to give us tips and advice. We would like to plant more (sub)tropical plants and we are currently looking on fruitlovers to make an order. Our place is great because we dont seem to have frost here while other places on algarve had -7.

We have 3 hectars of land. Its a big hill sloping down to a river that has start to dry out. This river will be gone in 1 month i think and this year it was wet. We have been thinking of making a borehole but we want to try without. We have a matermine and its coming water there all year around. We have only sunpanels so a pump would need more of that stuff, and we want to try without so that we want be depended on buying sunpanels and div.

Me and my wife are not really wife and husband because we have no ring and church :) We have a daughter thats 2,5 year old. Many people would call us boring i think. We dont drink and goes to parties. We rise early and goes to bed before 22.00. But i dont think we are boring. We have great humor and we are talking about something important instead of all the shit they talk about in parties :) We like music, we like art. We like alternative lifestyle and alternative people as long its not only a surface and you are welcome for a visit in our caravan whenever its not taken already.

Things we planted:

Nectarines, peach, pear, apple, plum, cherry, mango (keith, osteen), sapodilla (i think), macadamia, bananas, lichi, persimmons, datepalms, avocado, gueva, kiwi, tamarillo, passionfruit, cherimoya, figs, mullberry, apricots, pitanga.

I maybe forgott about someone but please help us fill that list :)

piz
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« Reply #657 on: June 27, 2013, 03:24:12 PM »
Hi. I am Tom in central Alabama USA. I am a master gardener and love trying to grow citrus in Montgomery.  I have a farming background. We had cotton, cattle, pecans and soy beans. Also some timber. The citrus forum.up is,having a lot of problems and it may get shut down. I have enjoyed it very much and this forum came to my attention as a good citrus site.

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« Reply #658 on: June 29, 2013, 09:06:36 AM »
Bienvenida Xisca!

Where are you lacated? In CI at 500m over sea level you will have a very hard time growing tropicals. In your case, I would focus on growing sub-tropicals and temperate fruits. You say you are growing mango, did you ever get them to fruit at your location?

Yes they do fruit! And I also eat my papayas and my bananas... I am located in a barranco in the west/ north west of la palma. I just avoid to plant tropicals that come from rain forests, because here it is dry. Sure, I water, but it must be saved carefully...

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« Reply #659 on: July 01, 2013, 11:04:26 AM »
Hi everybody

My name is Devin
I work for the FAA air traffic controller, I am married with 5 great kids!
I live in Homestead, FL and love to grow fruit trees and tinker with tomatoes n veggies in the winter.
I love to fish and dive for lobsters in the summer and in the winter I go shrimping when I can. I try to grill out at least once or 2 a mont and have started to use my ugly drum smoker that I made. I speak fluent Spanish and English.
Thanks for letting me be a part of your forum I have found a ton of useful info here in the short amount of time that I have been reading posts

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« Reply #660 on: July 01, 2013, 12:38:31 PM »
Welcome Camilo, Brill, Brad, Piz, Tom and Devin!  Look forward to your posts on the forum.
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« Reply #661 on: July 02, 2013, 01:25:23 AM »
Hello, I'm Illia. I live way up north in Washington, where not even our summers are warm enough to grow something as simple as tomatoes without a greenhouse.

I've been into growing tropical fruits/vegetables for 2 years now and am quite passionate about it. I use my house, my greenhouse(s), and whatever I have available to grow various citrus including Kaffir Limes, Limequats, Oranges, Lemons, Grapefruit, and Blood Oranges as well as multiple Miracle Fruit plants, dozens of Bananas of various types, two different species of Ice Cream beans, seedling Carambolas, (star fruit) Sugar Cane, Passionfruit, Galangal, Turmeric, Roselle, Cassabanana, Lemongrass, Cinnamon, and Jackfruit. My wishlist is a long and slowly shrinking list of various things that I'm too excited about, and always find a way to squeeze into my "jungle" of a greenhouse. (though I'm in the works of constructing another)
Growing tropical edibles in a non-tropical place. Always hungry to add more to my collection too!

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« Reply #662 on: July 02, 2013, 01:37:17 PM »
Welcome everyone that recently posted. A lot of new interesting members, look forward to future discussions.

frukt,

Have you looked into growing perennial Cucurbita ficifolia. It has produced for me into the winter in Southern CA (USA). It can also be grafted with squash, melons, etc.
Grow mainly fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

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« Reply #663 on: July 02, 2013, 04:42:39 PM »
Hi, my name is Brett. I am from Palm Beach County, FL, USA. I grew up around fresh tropical fruit but I never cared for it much as a youth... I remember throwing it at other kids ('Orange wars' broke out in my neighborhood at least once) and squeezing the pits out, but not really liking it.  I spent 4 years in Asia and I fell in love with the durians, mangosteen, mangos, rambuttans, etc. So now I am happy to live in a tropical climate!

I just now started growing fruit, and have a few small "trees" in my yard that don't bear.

My other hobbies include Thai and asian cooking, yoga, drumming and surfing.
 
Hope to meet some of you at the local festivals and events.

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« Reply #664 on: July 04, 2013, 07:05:35 PM »
Hi, my name is Mike. I'm new to growing fruit trees. My wife and I live in SW Florida. She is from Vietnam and i'm originally from Ohio, lived in North Carolina for 20 years prior to moving to Florida. She introduced me to exotic fruit about 15 years ago. Love it! We just started planting trees at our new house this month. I love the forum, lots of experienced growers here.

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« Reply #665 on: July 10, 2013, 04:18:31 PM »
Hello all,
My name is Nan and I am newbie to growing tropical fruit plants. I've been  stalking  this site and the Garden Web forum for information on growing mangoes and am so excited to get my first grafted Nam Doc Mai. I did order from TT and will see how the tree looks when it arrives. I am in Austin Texas and will be growing my mango tree in a large container since we do have frost during winter. Other plants I am growing right now are, plumeria and Mali Chat  Jasmine. I also have a 3-year mango Kent seedling from the fruit I bought at Costco. I know that any fruit I get from that  will probably not taste great but hey, it's a pretty plant ;)
Thank you for all the useful information I've read so far and looking forward to more!

Nan
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« Reply #666 on: July 17, 2013, 04:00:49 AM »
I am Lisa and I am growing my first avocado tree from a seed.  I have never grown an avocado from a seed before, and in 2011 I stuck the seed in a pot that had something else in it and then I forgot about it."Eh...forget about it.."  And I did!  About six months later I saw a shoot coming up, and as a curious grower, I waited and when I saw a leaf, I checked my Sunset Western and identified the leaf as an avocado leaf.  Well, I was busy and didn't check it out any further, and I let it grow.  Then the winter came and I kept covering it with a garbage bag, and then when the sun would come out during the day I would uncover it, back and forth, back and forth, until one night I forgot!  Yep, it froze.  But, I didn't pull it up, because you have to wait and see...maybe it would come back?  Well, the good news is, it did come back.  In fact, it sprouted two shoots off to each side, and now it is about one foot tall.  The top leaves are about as long as the tree is tall.  So, I always heard that a grower has to have a male/female tree within so many miles (?) in order to have your tree "pollinated".  If anyone has any info on that, I would like to know.  Also, I read this evening that I am suppose to cut off the top leaves so my tree will "bush" out?  Any advice?  Next, I have this annoying squirrel that refuses to leave my tree alone.  Now that it is taller I don't have as much problem with the dumb rodent trying to dig up the seed, but about once a week I have to bury the hole the little bugger has dug trying to get at the seed.  I think I will have a coronary if I come home and see my tree chewed up.  Still open to advice.  I have been out of California for ten years, and all I miss are artichokes, avocados, and my oldest son!

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« Reply #667 on: July 17, 2013, 03:20:15 PM »
aloha!
my name is Micah and i love to grow and eat things that are from our earth.  i live in waipio valley hawaii with my wife and two kids.  we grow taro and over 100 tropical fruits and nuts.. im always trying to expand the garden with other pleasantrees. ive been surfing the net for years looking for sources of the rarities from around the world. i have a small seed permit for importing seeds to grow. i love the fact that we do a service to all mankind by growing these treasures to perpetuate them for future generations all the while eating healthy saving money and helping our earth/air/soil...seems to me a win win situations. i growing the seeds of the trees i feel worthy to spread out on the island.  my family does a horseback riding trip by the orchards with samples sometimes as this helps spread the word of these tasty treasures. :)

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« Reply #668 on: July 17, 2013, 04:41:47 PM »
Welcome Brett, Mike, Nan, Lisa, and Micah!

Nan:  You may wish to check that Austin is warm enough during the winter to not kill a mango tree.  Or be prepared to protect it from the cold during winter.  Search the forum for cold protection ideas.  I don't recommend growing a mango seedling, see comments below.

Lisa:  It is recommended to only grow grafted Avocado trees because it can take 20 years (if at all) for a seedling avocado to fruit and their is no assurance the quality of the fruit will resemble the fruit that the seed came from.  In addition, certain avocados are more cold tolerant than others.  You should be able to buy grafted trees from a nursery in your area.  Otherwise, you may be able to have Pine Island Nursery ship one to you.  It is cheaper to buy a grafted tree, than to pay someone years later to $300+ to "top work" your tree to graft a known variety onto your tree.

Tipping is good once the tree has gotten a certain size to encourage lateral growth.

Micah:
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« Reply #669 on: July 18, 2013, 02:26:47 AM »
aloha!
my name is Micah and i love to grow and eat things that are from our earth.  i live in waipio valley hawaii with my wife and two kids.  we grow taro and over 100 tropical fruits and nuts.. im always trying to expand the garden with other pleasantrees. ive been surfing the net for years looking for sources of the rarities from around the world. i have a small seed permit for importing seeds to grow. i love the fact that we do a service to all mankind by growing these treasures to perpetuate them for future generations all the while eating healthy saving money and helping our earth/air/soil...seems to me a win win situations. i growing the seeds of the trees i feel worthy to spread out on the island.  my family does a horseback riding trip by the orchards with samples sometimes as this helps spread the word of these tasty treasures. :)

Now you've done it Micah! Joined the biggest fruit junkie group ever. You may be sorry because now you'll find out you don't have every fruit on the planet yet planted at your place.  ;)
PS where's my golden horse apples?
Oscar

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« Reply #670 on: July 19, 2013, 12:11:14 AM »
Hi there

My name is Jared and I don't grow (NYC apartment, couldn't if I tried), but I do have a love for hunting down fruits I've never had before. I travel a lot for work. Last winter I spent three months in Malaysia and was coming across so many new fruits that I decided to create a youtube series reviewing what I found. I am, I admit no expert in this field, but its a fascination of mine and I hope to learn more from this forum. The series I made is called "weird fruit explorer" if you'd like to take a look.

 
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« Reply #671 on: July 19, 2013, 12:42:02 AM »
Hi there

My name is Jared and I don't grow (NYC apartment, couldn't if I tried), but I do have a love for hunting down fruits I've never had before. I travel a lot for work. Last winter I spent three months in Malaysia and was coming across so many new fruits that I decided to create a youtube series reviewing what I found. I am, I admit no expert in this field, but its a fascination of mine and I hope to learn more from this forum. The series I made is called "weird fruit explorer" if you'd like to take a look.

Jared, welcome!  You might meetup with LycheeLuva on this forum, he is also in New York City.  I think he is trying to grow some fruit trees indoors.
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« Reply #672 on: July 20, 2013, 10:35:36 AM »
Thanks Mr Clean! I'll look him up.
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« Reply #673 on: July 20, 2013, 11:06:27 AM »
Hello everyone,
  I have a mature charanja tree on my property that bears a wonderful crop of fruit each fall. I have been able to start some seedlings from this past years fruit and I found this site while researching the charanja.  I live in north Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, so I was quite surprised to find such a nice citrus tree growing untended when I purchased this land.
  I look forward to learning about growing tropical fruit and sharing what I learn about my charang as they grow.

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« Reply #674 on: July 20, 2013, 11:11:34 AM »
Hello everyone,
  I have a mature charanja tree on my property that bears a wonderful crop of fruit each fall. I have been able to start some seedlings from this past years fruit and I found this site while researching the charanja.  I live in north Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, so I was quite surprised to find such a nice citrus tree growing untended when I purchased this land.
  I look forward to learning about growing tropical fruit and sharing what I learn about my charang as they grow.
Grant, welcome! Where in North Georgia are you? We have a cabin about 10 minutes from Helen in Clarkesville...