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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jake Mace & John Kohler meet & greet tomorrow sunday @ L.A.
« on: May 15, 2017, 11:06:57 AM »Not trying to slander anyone. For the record, gardening is my past time. Regular job is dr. Shamus is worse than Jake. Hi new nickname on the Internet is shameless. He makes even worse claims. I guess, the other thing I don't like is that there are really good places out here for fruit trees, tropicamango, a tropical concept, RSI nurseries. These are great places to buy, the owners have a wealth of information and will talk you out of purchases if they think you are going to kill a tree. But, because they don't go shirtless on the Internet or completely nude, they are all just old foggies that don't know what they are talking about.
If you have to educate yourself first to figure out what parts Jake and shamus say are true, versus total bs, then I wouldn't say they are good people to learn about gardening.
Andrew, you seem like you've been gardening long enough to be able to discern the differences between good and bad horticultural techniques. Why not use what you have learned to discuss the bad techniques and practices that you claim Jake and Shamus make in order to educate newer gardeners? Criticism and accusations are easy to make, especially if they are broad and general without specific details.
When I try to help our newer members out with questions they have, I try to give them very specific answers but it is Extremely difficult because in order to help people diagnose an issue, you have to know their exact growing conditions because what may seem like something minor and insignificant such as the pH of the water can have drastic effects on the plant. Trying to help out members by answering questions is an arduous task and one answer does not fit all situations.
Take for example the hypothetical question a new member might ask "why are my leaves yellow"? First you have to find out their growing conditions such as the pH of their water, soil, how and what they fertilize with, etc... From my perspective, Jake, Shamus and John are helping gardeners by making their videos and although they may not give you all the specific information on how to grow a plant to its full potential, they are giving out more information than a keyboard warrior that only points out very general flaws in other people's advice or instructional videos.
I am not and I don't claim to be an expert gardener, in fact I'm a newbie compared to some of the founding fathers and mothers of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association but I still like to help people where I can. Sometimes I will give out wrong information because I miss typed, miss read the question or any other number of reasons but other members more knowledgeable than myself will often correct my mistakes and explain why my rationale was in fault and in doing so I learn from my mistakes.
It is easy to cry wolf but the more beneficial and practical approach would be to do the leg work and fix the issue by calling the animal control people.
Simon