The Tropical Fruit Forum

Will it grow well in my climate? Do you know the hardiness?

And I dont know what to trade with?

Im also little worries about this. Maybe cause melons are my number one food staple 

Somebody no about melons from spain, if they are good and clean or if there are lot of fake sugar and toxics?

I was thinking of one thing about citrus trees and there fungi problems. Normally you say that one shouldnt throw citrus peel in the compost. This is because it prevents bacterial and fungus to grow, at least rapidly.

Maybe its natural for the citrus to always have some antibacterial peel on and in the ground. Or something similar....
Because we dont throw our citrus peel in the compost then we through it under the citrus tress.

 
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And the others havent answered yet.

Beautiful picture on fruits and flower. This is really inspiring to see. Please keep posting that stuff

And do you still have seeds from Plinia Edulis? something more?

Hi. Im looking for this fantasic mix of Vasconcellea:s

And i live in europe.

Is it possible to find here, I read they grow in italy. Could it be possible to grow the Vasconcellea:s and get the hybrid by myself?

Power of urine. Im this guy that dont like to "cheat" and I have to produce everything myself. Well, there is limitations but fertalizer have never been one of them. Because i dont have a proper toilet i dig big holes and uses them for a while. And while im fertelizing it I also cover with grass or woddy stuff. Then I plant a tree in that hole. That is a good start.
The pee is a real good fertalizer, my garden is pretty young and everything is growing thanks to pee, because in the garden its not so nice with number 2. As people write its best fermented but If you are sharing with everyone then its no problem.

If you ferment you can also ferment some urtica either with or by itself.

I also have a mushroom growing here that is a famous root stimlator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisolithus_tinctorius

Plans need mostly energi to grow but carbon is also essential. I gather material and put around my trees. In these way the will have both but if you use only pee then sometimes you might complete it with something. Cooking-extraktions from wood for example.

Im so glad to hear all the information. Your words are gold!

Thanks for the warm welcoming! Im actually not portuguese but swedish. But its to cold there and Im enjoying the algarve sun full time now

I will look at your posts and try to catch up on old posts, looking at your beautiful trees.

big thx

I need some advise about chosing jujube.

I want to have nice trees that give nice fruits. They dont have to be superbig but they should be able to satisfy me and my need for fruits. I guees the taste is more important.

I found these cultivars http://www.tytyga.com/Jujube-Trees-s/1855.htm

...and I get very interested in that Li and Lang plant together. Im also think of ordering it to my parents in sweden because it looks so hardy.

But then i know how I sound when I want to sell something. I searched around little on the forum on jujubes. It seems like many people have "wild" jujube seeds and that they are very satified with that. I dont spit in the glas, I need no fancy fruits

And would a wild seed of chinese strains take the climate of south sweden? Its like new york maybe in climate....

Its more expensive to buy a plant but then it gives more fruit and it will give it to me a least one year before.

What would you choose?

Hola amigo That was interesting to hear and im very thankful for that info. Then it seems like i should experiment a lot more. But to many seeds in one time and i get confused

I havent been hanging here for to long but it seems to be few growers from south of europe. Is it because of the language?

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