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Citrus => Citrus General Discussion => Topic started by: Sylvain on February 21, 2018, 07:49:39 AM

Title: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on February 21, 2018, 07:49:39 AM
After more than three months of work at eight hours a day and 7d / 7 (and many nights too) here is finally the backup of the Citrus Growers Forum. It is far from being completed, but I am going to continue to work above. The function "Search" will be functional only when the site will be indexed, what can take several weeks.
Many of the images hosted on images hosts disappeared as on all forums. >:(
You can indicate me the errors by specifying the address of pages.

http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com (http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com)

Send the news to all your citrus growers friends!
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: brian on February 21, 2018, 09:19:47 AM
Thanks!   
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: luak on February 21, 2018, 10:27:37 AM
This very interesting seeing my name starting in 2010 or so. It is Kind of goovy name that I choose. It is a interesting read.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: mikkel on February 21, 2018, 10:29:14 AM
Thanks Sylvain!
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Millet on February 21, 2018, 12:14:37 PM
Sylvain, it took you much much much work.  Thanks for all you did.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: A.T. Hagan on February 21, 2018, 12:21:58 PM
A big round of applause for doing this!

Thanks!

Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: fyliu on February 21, 2018, 01:56:23 PM
Great work. Thanks!
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: JJROSS54 on February 21, 2018, 06:33:11 PM
This is so cool, this was the first forum I joined and learned so much from the good people there.
Thanks for doing this.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Citradia on February 21, 2018, 07:56:56 PM
That's wonderful, Sylvain! So nice to see our old posts again. I saved the link to my home screen.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: luckycloud on February 21, 2018, 09:17:57 PM
So interesting. And looks like a lot of very useful info there. I wonder what ever happened with this: http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopic0469.php (http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopic0469.php)
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on February 22, 2018, 02:35:30 AM
I repaired the link in that page (viewtopic0469.php). You car read the whole story.
The Prague chimera is probably the greatest discovery we made for the north countries growers!

What happened since that time is on this forum: http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=23499.0 (http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=23499.0)
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: eyeckr on February 23, 2018, 03:42:39 PM
This is such great news Sylvian. A lot of us 'old timer' citrus enthusiasts shared a lot of information and also learned a lot on the Citrus Growers Forum. I'm very happy to see that all that knowledge has not been lost forever thanks to your hard work. Thank you!!
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Walt on February 24, 2018, 01:20:23 PM
I have read books and many journal papers on citrus, but much of what I have learned of citrus is from that website.  Thanks for making it available again.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Marcin on February 25, 2018, 06:19:24 AM
That's a great piece of work, Sylvain! There's a lot of valuable information on that forum.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on February 25, 2018, 01:20:46 PM
Thank you very much to all!
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: cory on March 01, 2018, 09:34:27 PM
Thank you Sylvain.  I will be using this a lot.  I appreciate all your work that you put into this.

Cory
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Darkman on March 02, 2018, 12:11:05 AM
An incredible feat!

I had nearly 1000 posts on there and now I can revisit and store that data on a Word doc.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: MarcV on March 25, 2018, 02:09:23 PM
Thanks Sylvain, must have been an immense work!
If it is of any use to you, I have backups of some threads that I was particularly interested in that contain more recent posts, including pictures.

Threads including...
pigmented hybrids from italy
Citrus hybrids I never heard of

and the threads of my own collection.

Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on March 26, 2018, 07:18:05 AM
Yes please.
Do you have my Email address?
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: MarcV on March 26, 2018, 01:46:43 PM
Yes please.
Do you have my Email address?

I don't think I have it... unless it's the one on the citrus pages web site  :)
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on March 27, 2018, 06:06:16 AM
I sent you a PM.
Don't forget to tell me the exact place in the site arborescence.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on August 14, 2018, 12:02:41 PM
MarcV, I rebuilt this page:
http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopicf9a3-2.php (http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopicf9a3-2.php)
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: justjoan on August 15, 2018, 04:01:22 PM
WOW :), THANK YOU
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Laaz on September 26, 2018, 03:01:44 PM
Good job Sylvain.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on September 27, 2018, 10:19:58 AM
Thank you very much.
Coming from you, you can imagine that I appreciate it even more!
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sven_chinotto on October 07, 2018, 08:04:52 AM
Awesome!

Every couple of months I was rechecking if the forum got magically active again but it never did. :(
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Laaz on October 07, 2018, 08:10:57 AM
The forumup software was horrible. The site would go down for days at a time & you rarely got a response from support. I just got really fed up with the headaches...
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: luak on October 07, 2018, 12:00:23 PM
Sylvain, doing so much to help out a lot of folks and also important to see some of the members coming back . This forum  was just incredible. Laaz just didn’t know how valuable he was, when he started.
A true forum like this would be incredible exciting. All of a sudden old names pop up again, these folks got me started in citrus.
Millet, you should remember the one and only "Buddinman". I talk to him last year and early this spring.Then there is Joe Real.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Glenn 50 on October 10, 2018, 02:08:20 AM
Thank you. A tremendous effort on your part.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on October 21, 2018, 01:53:45 PM
I changed the search engine from Qwant to Google. The indexing is much faster.
Now the site is fully usable.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: SoCal2warm on October 21, 2018, 02:23:41 PM
Make sure you archive things again and update it because several interesting threads have been added since you first created the archive.

Also I don't know if there's any way to make sure the images all get saved. Maybe even a double back-up, because images have a way of getting lost over time. (In my experience, looking back at archives that are over 6 years old)
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on October 21, 2018, 04:41:01 PM
> Make sure you archive things again and update it because several interesting threads have been added since you first created the archive.
If you heard of some new treads, send them to me and I shall update the site.

> images have a way of getting lost over time.
No, all the pictures are hosted on the site. The ones missing were lost before I made a backup.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: mehmetsaygin on October 23, 2018, 06:42:59 AM
Well well well, the best news I got for a while, Citrus Growers Forum is alive with all the information :) You did a wonderful job Sylvain, thank you very much.
I just learned about TropicalFruitForum from Mike, homecitrusgrowers.co.uk, and it is a great surprise to see old names from the CGforum.
I was not an active information provider there but I had the chance to illustrate the logo at top :D
It is good to see everyone is around, especially after I read Laaz had health problems.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Millet on October 23, 2018, 03:38:57 PM
Mehmet, I still remember the citrus planting design for your father's grove you once posted..  Welcome to the forum.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Laaz on October 25, 2018, 07:51:22 AM
Found some of the old artwork.

(http://oi66.tinypic.com/wkl9b8.jpg)

(http://oi65.tinypic.com/9bc976.jpg)

(http://oi63.tinypic.com/mjwspe.jpg)
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: mehmetsaygin on October 25, 2018, 08:39:01 AM
I forgot that I made these too, I only remember the logos :) Thanks Laaz.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on October 25, 2018, 11:11:58 AM
And this one:
(http://pafranceparamoteur.free.fr/datas/perso/Agrumes/vieux%20logo.gif)
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Laaz on October 25, 2018, 03:20:16 PM
Yes indeed.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sven_chinotto on October 26, 2018, 05:17:14 AM
The most famous banner icon ever. :D

Saw so many amazing things people did to grow citrus around the world. Can't remember who, some in Latvia, that had build his greenhouse underground for winter. Brilliant!
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on July 01, 2019, 01:34:57 AM
FABULOUS NEWS!

The Citrus Growers forum is resurrected from its ashes!
Citrus Growers v2 (http://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com)

Still under construction, but not for long.
You are all welcome! Users of the "old" forum are invited to use the same name and avatar. This permits to follow the threads from the old to the new forum.

Long life to Citrus Growers v2!

Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Laaz on July 01, 2019, 04:15:02 PM
Yes, we are back up & running.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Bomand on July 03, 2019, 08:45:29 PM
I like the new forum. Hope Buddinman will venture over. Spoke with him recently....he is 88 years into it and does not lecture or teach anymore. He is taking it easy in his latter years. He is my mentor and I was a hungry student. A citrus guru of magnitude. Wish him well.
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: Sylvain on July 27, 2019, 08:36:51 AM
A new header is added on every page of Citrus Growers Static (http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com)
"Breaking news: the Citrus Growers Forum is reborn from its ashes! Citrus Growers v2.0 (http://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/)"
Title: Re: Citrus Growers Forum
Post by: will2358 on August 08, 2019, 12:36:45 PM
http://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/ (http://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/)