The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thank you! Appreciate your efforts to save us some money.

While preparing my dream list of equipment and hearing from all of you as to what should be added to the list and what you all loved to use, it dawned on me that we have a pretty decent sized group here who all purchase this equipment. Then i thought, if I owned a company and had 1,000+ people in my target demographic that I could reach simply by offering a discount (even if it is only 5%), I would do it in a heartbeat.  Consequently, I reached out to a few companies that make some of the items we love, asking to see if they would offer a discount to forum members.  I sent the emails out only an hour ago and have already heard back from Barnel who is willing to offer forum members "wholesale pricing which is significantly below ON LINE pricing" through one of their online distributors (http://www.pnetools.com) .  I am trying to work out the details as to how we would have the discount applied (online code, phone order mentioning the forum, etc) and will let you guys know as soon as I have the details hammered out. 
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[/size]Still waiting to hear from Felco and Vaca shears.  I have a pretty good form letter locked and loaded so if you guys want me to reach out to any other companies, just let me know.  [/color]

I made a quick run down to Pine Island today and visited the Treehouse Nursery. I was blown away seeing
so many gorgeous tropical fruit trees. I was looking for a 7 Gal Biew Kiew and they must have had at least 40.
Next to them were 50 - 1007 Gal Lychees. Mago trees were everywhere and I can't wait to get back down to
check them out.

I checked with PI and they won't have any available until probably some time next year. I have heard good things
about both nurseries and have made 2 very satisfactory purchases from TT. I'm looking forward to trying PI in the future.

Thanks.

Earlier I posted that TT has one 3 Gal  Biew Kiew longan left. Apparently, admin thought I was trying to
make a sale as my post was deleted.

Please know that I don't work for or have any affiliation with TT. I am a social worker in St. Petersburg, Florida and
had been looking to buy a  Biew Kiew. I just happened to see that they had 2 for sale. I purchased one and thought
I would share my find if anyone else was looking.

My apologies if my post appeared to be sales related.

Michael

I would agree that it does not look like a Kent. All of my Kents are a darker green with red (not orange) coloring at the top.

Quote from: cmichael258 on October 31, 2013, 09:12:12 PM

Any Pomegranate tree growers here?

I just purchased a small Sirenevyi from Green Sea Farms and it arrived today, just
as it was getting dark. From what I could see, it looks very healthy as it only took
one day to get here.

I plan to keep it pruned to have a tree rather than bush shape and would appreciate any
tips regarding fertilizer, etc.

Thanks!

never grown any pomegranates myself, but my grandparents in india ha a massive thirty foot tall tree that produced tons a year. Note past tense. The next door neighbor installed air conditioning and set it up so the hot air blew right onto the tree. The tree died.

I've been wanting to grow pomegranates here, though. Is the cost of pomegranate trees from them reasonable? they seem to have a good selection.

It's a small 1 gal. plant and the cost was $15 + shipping. Cindy was most helpful and they do have quite a variety.

I'm using two 4'x4'x8' on each end with one 4'x4'x8' in the middle with 1'x4' pieces nailed on top
in an H pattern. The Carlos was planted in 1998 and is a good producer. I did cut it back quite a
bit in March and yield wasn't quite a much this season.

As previously mentioned, the Higgins isn't a self pollinator, but I have had a few grapes a couple
of seasons that were larger than the Carlos but smaller than normal large Higgins size. 

Very nice selection. That Lemon Zest is impressive. What's your fertilizing secret?

Thanks Harry

It's a Sweetheart, and is in a pot. I also noted a tomato plant was wilted so I added water to both.
I checked back a few hours later and most of  leaves had uncurled.

Great! Thank you.

Thank you Murahilin. I did switch both of the 3 gallon plants to larger pots.

"I know this is an older post but I wanted to say if you have not yet IDed this species, several wild diospyros are listed as poisonous. Including true D ebenaster. I have been trying to grow several members from this family and just found out that a species I have been trying to cultivate known as blueberry bush, D Glauca I believe is also listed as poisonous. Such a shame with such a cool name, I have 8 trees and don't know what to do with them"

Send them to me for my squirrels