The Tropical Fruit Forum

It's that time of year again.. I just paid for the upcoming year's internet services required to keep the forum Ad and cost free to all our members. I once again am asking for donations only to cover the cost of the actual charges to run the site..  If you donate please be sure to make it known in a post below so others know how much is being collected.  I have attached the receipt for the total paid bill for reference. Thank you on behalf of all our member's in advance to any of those who choose to support the forum this year!

Paypal funds to ******************(use gift feature to avoid fees if at all possible.) Once the funds have reached the total I will delete the Paypal info and cease to collect any further..

Total costs paid to Godaddy for 2020.. $459.87

UPDATED : In order to go to a secure website I had to upgrade our Hosting to Deluxe Hosting with cPanel.  We were charged a one time migration fee of $99.99 in addition to the Deluxe Hosting.  Please send any small donation you can, for now this is all out of pocket for me. In the next few days our site will be migrated over to a secure platform and will eventually have the "secure" lock to the right of the url in your browsers search bar.  This will allow us to appear in Google searches again and secure our site in general.


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Links to paid receipt below..

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We have reached our goal! Thank you for all the contributions, from big to small they all make it possible to remain a public site!

A special thanks goes to Tropical Acres Farms and BFG Tropical Fruits and Plants for their repeated, very generous support of the forum.

Please hold off on sending any additional donations.

It's that time of year again.. I just paid for the upcoming year's internet services required to keep the forum Ad and cost free to all our members. I once again am asking for donations only to cover the cost of the actual charges to run the site..  If you donate please be sure to make it known in a post below so others know how much is being collected.  I have attached the receipt for the total paid bill for reference. Thank you on behalf of all our member's in advance to any of those who choose to support the forum this year!

Paypal funds to xxxxxxxxxxxxx (use gift feature to avoid fees if at all possible.) Once the funds have reached the total I will delete the Paypal info and cease to collect any further..

Total costs paid to Godaddy for 2019.. $228.56


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I'm staying in the area.. Smaller yard. I have already started multi grafting a mango and avocado tree, built two dragon fruit trellises, and started a potted collection.

Just made the payment to GoDaddy.. We are good for another year...


A special thanks to all who donated.. BFG Tropical Fruits and Plants (Palm Beach County), Tropical Acres Farms, Inc.(Palm Beach County), and all who posted here.. Without your support we would all lose a great place to communicate!

Its that time of year again folks.. Our web host costs for another year of advertising free tropical fruit discussion.   The admins of this site hope that we can continue to provide this service and not sell out to the corporate machines that fund most sites.  I have attached the screen shot of what it will take to keep us going.. If we dont get it paid by the 25th of December we lose the site..

The total needed to raise for this calendar year is $177.39.



Once you send a payment post the amount you have donated if you wish to this post and once we reach the goal I will use the money to pay the web host immediately.  I will also post a screen shot of the payment made..

Thank you for your support...

The total for one year would cost $192.56.. That covers the hosting and the forums web address. 

My paypal account is under my email ___ALL DONE___, as I mentioned before make your contributions public by adding to this post what you send.  Once the bill is paid I will post a receipt showing the funds being used to fund the forum!!

Thank you in advance for helping keep the forum alive, well, and AD free for another year!!

Good growing..

My TBC is without blooms or signs of them either..

We have raised $58 dollars in the past couple hours! Thank you to all who have donated.. As stated above the email is the account to fund in paypal. 

I have some lemon zest that look like this w mottling. Is it a sign of uneven ripening? Because it is definitely that on some my sweet tart mangoes/  Some of which get half green and half yellow

Patrick's foliar feeding 2012. He might have updated editions.  http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=241.msg2849#msg2849

I have still been using pretty much the same mix.. I limit copper to wet months primary on the mango trees in flower/fruiting cycle.  I didn't invent the mix I use, I basically copied what Bill Whitman spoke about in his book and incorporated PhytoFos.  If you have Whitman's Book the article is a "Letter From Bal Harbour- Minor Element Sprays for Major Plant Growth"(pg.263).  The same information is also provided in many IFAS and other TF related docs and studies.  Whitman was actually using a lot more Cu and Fe in his mixes than I am.  Have I seen results? Absolutely.  Have I seen any lack of fruit because of vigor? Only in lychee, but my trees are only 4 years old and we have has dismal years overall lately in South Florida.  I have never burnt leaves or had adverse reactions either.  The overspray can easily be spotted on nearby lawns within a week or so, the lawn shows areas that appear sprayed with dark gloss green paint. 

Gary recommended not growing the E-4, did he tell anyone why? Is it a lack of resistance to disease or poor production? He said it was difficult to grow, I assume that means it wont get a name and release.... Shame, its a good one for sure!

It also helps to use a rain stick during dry season to induce thunderstorms.  I would inoculate the soil with fertilizer at the same time though.  I actually did plant a lot of my trees with mychorrizae just because (Murahilin duped me into it).  Its magic stuff!

Incredibly they also can produce oranges from time to time!

https://youtu.be/pkYNBwCEeH4