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Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« on: November 05, 2019, 02:30:32 PM »
I am doing a presentation tonight on the Fruits Fruits of Costa Rica at the Calusa Rare Fruit Exchange in Ft Myers. Meet up at 6:30 and talk at 7pm. 

2166 Virginia Ave Fort Myers, Florida 33901

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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2019, 08:03:49 PM »
Dang, I wish this was posted a day or two ago so I could've made plans to go!

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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2019, 09:52:59 PM »
Good talk tonight ,nice photos to!Their were other forum members present they came to hear Josh.

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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2019, 05:07:03 AM »
I am doing a presentation tonight on the Fruits Fruits of Costa Rica at the Calusa Rare Fruit Exchange in Ft Myers. Meet up at 6:30 and talk at 7pm. 

2166 Virginia Ave Fort Myers, Florida 33901



Sounds like an interesting topic. Any chance you could upload the talk to Youtube?

Cheers!

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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2019, 05:25:44 AM »
Can someone list some of the fruits mentioned ? When I was in Costa Rica the best I had were mostly of Asian origin , excluding peach palm and cherimoya

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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2019, 04:21:36 PM »
Can someone list some of the fruits mentioned ? When I was in Costa Rica the best I had were mostly of Asian origin , excluding peach palm and cherimoya

It was more showing the different regions and what markets, fruits and collectors are around. I give a brief history on ANAI and give a shout out to Peter Kring.

It wasn't about native fruits at all. Lot's of rarities from collections and also some more commons stuff found at markets.

Durian, dabai, safou, emerald cacao, cupuasu, unidentified Pouteria, aguaje, chupa chupa, chempedak, abiu .......... a bunch of different stuff.
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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2019, 04:24:08 PM »
Good talk tonight ,nice photos to!Their were other forum members present they came to hear Josh.

It was so awesome you came out, I really appreciate it! There were some heavy hitters there. I'll come down and buy some fruit soon.
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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2019, 01:17:40 AM »
Great job Josh. Winning!
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Re: Fruits of Costa Rica talk tonight in Ft Myers
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2019, 10:39:58 AM »
I was fortunate to meet both Josh and Ben at my project this year. Yes, we grow a lot of SE Asian fruits as the climate in our region of CR really favors them.
We do grow many native fruits as well. Some are well known like sapodilla and mamey. Others are barely known in Costa Rica like olosapo.
Thanks for the visits and reports.
Peter