Introducing WikiFruit.com!

[murahilin]

We now have a new site WikiFruit.com. It was created because a few members of the forum suggested a place where growing locations and other such information on the fruit trees could be added by anyone. A wiki is the perfect tool for a large group of people to add information over time. The site is still in its very preliminary states (Not even a logo for it yet!) but I decided to open it up to everyone to check it out and maybe even start creating some articles. Unlike wikipedia, you will need to register an account to add just to avoid any possible defacing of the site.

Members can add such information as where they are growing, techniques that have worked well for them, what fertilizers they are using etc. It is really open to add whatever you want about the tree without needing supporting evidence. I hope the information remains accurate but I would like to encourage anecdotal evidence to supplement the articles. We are using the same license as wikipedia so we are allowed to "borrow" information from their site to use on wikifruit.com. I would only encourage the borrowing if you wrote the article yourself, otherwise write us a new one!

Please feel free to let me know what you think.

[jason (palo alto)]

Nice!
Over at Cloudforest we started a MediaWiki (http://www.cloudforest.com/wiki/Main_Page) but never really got much data into it. Turns out those pesky things called jobs got in the way. One plugin we are enforcing though is the Semantic and Semantic Forms plugins. That allows for easy data mining and easy form based data entry for inexperienced users.
One of my goals with the wiki (Axel the site owner did most of the work) was to be able to write some scripts to pull out plant info sheets which could be printed out. These could be used for things like informational pamphlets or, in our case quick bag stickers for our scion exchanges with blurbs for each variety.
We haven't really entered much data (newborn baby + job = no time) we got hungup on creating templates for different fruit, hopefully you surpass ours quickly.

[lycheeluva]

nice- i will def add my observations growing lychees in containers

[bsbullie]

nice- i will def add my observations growing lychees in containers

Please do not add reference as to eating the seeds    The seed the size of an ant ?  Must be large ants 

[lycheeluva]

i never said anything about seeds the size of ants

[bsbullie]

i never said anything about seeds the size of ants

Sorry about that LL  , I thought you had mentioned that in a previous post when referring to swallowing the seeds....of course, now I can't find the post.

[Tim]

i never said anything about seeds the size of ants

Sorry about that LL  , I thought you had mentioned that in a previous post when referring to swallowing the seeds....of course, now I can't find the post.

you're referring to the seedless lychees thread

[Squam256]

Good stuff

[bsbullie]

i never said anything about seeds the size of ants

Sorry about that LL  , I thought you had mentioned that in a previous post when referring to swallowing the seeds....of course, now I can't find the post.

you're referring to the seedless lychees thread

Thanks, thats it, and it was simon_grow who said, "I've never had a seedless lychee but I did on several occasions have lychees whose seed was the size of about an ant."

[fruitlovers]

I think probably ants are better to eat than lychee seeds!
Oscar