The Tropical Fruit Forum

Dan, how old is your Mangana Mamey? How does it handle the cold??

Picture full grown trees when planting.. Also I starting planning on how much maintenance I would want to create 15years from now.. My age then, and whether or not you have good waste removal in your community.. That you dont have to really process the debris (size requirements, bundling, limits to amount per week).  I guess the standard high density planting would be no less than about ten feet on center between trees??

For those who are concerned..
We have plenty of storage space for huge lists, so no excuses! Let's see your lists!!
 If Harry can do it anyone can! (kidding Harry)..

At our current rate of growth we have used about 1/1000000 of the current storage space, and are locked in for years to come!

It takes a little work, but as Murahilin stated, if you use the [br] in between each entry in a notepad or other word processor with single spaces between entries, then copy and paste the whole text into the "Fruit Trees" field under the forum profile tab, it works really well!

Its pretty much a standard in any modern forum that involves collecting!

It looks like all that you have left is the rootstock? The leader (center) was probably the grafted selection.. Although is that a flower spike remnant in the first picture?

Maybe top work the shoots?? Clean up the center..

Nice Ones!!

Chop it back about a foot above the graft in spring...

I hope the plants all get this memo!

I totally agree! Any information provided without knowledge of where its grown is pretty useless...

Mike! We welcome you here of course.. Please keep us up to date! Feel free to get involved, we are glad to have Bender's Grove represented.

Thanks for the offers! We will be sure to take you up on them! Here is an example of what a submitted photo would look like on the website..




We would not descriminate on layout, Photoshop can extract a piece of fruit from a pretty crappy background, Noel is famous for great presentation.

I would like to extend a sincere thanks to everyone for joining and being so active in building this forum and making it into something really special.  Murahilin and I had spoke back and forth about creating this forum starting with a discussion in the elevator at HoJo's in Mayaguez PR in August of last year. Over the past few months we discussed different ways to best create a really enriched format, one that supports all types of media with a user friendly interface.  By using the basic platform SMF, we created a cost effective way to create this forum at no cost to the user.  The way I see it, murahilin's history of killing expensive plants far exceeds the cost of the forum.  We also purchased an additional domain name, www.internationaltropicalfruitgrowers.com to be used to create a type of one-stop source for tropical fruit enthusiasts to get opinion-free up to date information on the worlds tropical fruit "collection", with photos of leaves, tree habit, cross-sections of limbs to show cadmium layer structure, latin names, origins, pictures of the fruit, and so on.  Being that this is a very intensive list of information, we may ask members of the forum to contribute photos and manuscripts for review, editing, and final approval to be used on the database.  Any information you provide will be credited back to you, allowing everyone the chance to be part of this new website and historical venture!

Patrick/pj1881