Quote from: Radoslav on April 04, 2014, 04:51:59 AM

I have a nice malay apple seedling. How long it usually takes from seed to first flowers?

Here 3-5 years, but in colder climate can take longer.

Thanks, the pot with the tree is outdoor during spring, summer and fall and indoor during winter, so will see.

http://www.tropicaflore.com/fruitiers-exotiques

I just found this one on the web. In france, i am looking for avocado-plants grafted and online availlable in europe.

http://www.tropicaflore.com/nos-packs-de-plantes/collection-d-avocatiers-greffes-rares.html
I think this is a cocktail avocado-tree for sale

http://www.willemsefrance.fr/plantes/fruitiers/fruits-originaux.html
Another online seller in France

Here is one specialized mostly on avocado in Sicily:
http://www.aguacate-vivai.it/

As far as I know, all tropical fruit trees in European online shops come from nurseries in Spain and in case of subtropical trees from Italy.

For example, here is the online seller from Czech Republic.:  http://www.pawpaw.cz/component/option,com_virtuemart/page,shop.browse/category_id,20/Itemid,26/lang,czech1250/
They recently imported huge collection of different mango trees from Malaga. They also sale avocado trees originated from Malaga.

Most of grafted tree producing nurseries are situated in Malaga region in Spain, or south of Italy. Also some nurseries are in Sicily.

Yeah, fruitlovers
that Philippine Pointed eggfruit looks great, I would like to buy few seed, if you have some for sale.

Quote from: fruitlovers on March 13, 2014, 04:01:44 AM

Quote from: Coconut on March 12, 2014, 11:38:10 PM

Ricardo did you send my seeds today?? It look dam peachy delicious. I will ax my low chill worthless peach now.

Ricardo do they make a moonshine out of this fruit?
Are the fruit tree wood good for smoking fish & fowls?

Moonshine = alcoholic drink.




Please remember people in other non-english speaking countries usually don't understand slang words.
FYI practically every fruit in Brazil seems to be made into some type of wine, liquor, or other alcoholic drink.

I thought moonshine drinks are usually made of the methanol instead of ethanol. Ethanol was illegal in 30s and that's why people went to the methanol for the recreational use but, in the end it caused eye damage and was very toxic.

I think we all agree that is al capone (made a fortune from alcohol ban) is a great cultivar name, don't you agree ?

 

Are you sure about methanol??? It is i extremely toxic, no chance to drink it without serious damage or death.

36 is pretty common here in BKK and it is not even summer yet. That sure is no problem at all.

What the max. temp is for a durian i have no idea. For a greenhouse you should have the roof opened automatic, my grandfather had that 35 years ago allready, works without electricity. It also closes automatic but i still don't know how it worked.

Most likely powered by actuator piston/cylinder filled with some liquid with good temperature extensibility. If temperature is increasing - volume of the fluid is encreasing too and pushing piston from the cylinder and piston is lifting the window. When temperature is going down, volume of the fluid is decreasing and piston is going back. This is how it works on greenhouses.

Quote from: Mike T on March 10, 2014, 04:02:09 AM

http://www.goldendrop.com.au/

Here is a local winery that makes a killing, just look at the prices.

Quite a few fruit farms have one day a week touring and fruiting tasting so still are production oriented. Some also have several markets including restaurants, resorts, juices, purees ,local and distant outlets.

Here's the usual trend here, and i think probably in many other places:
Build one or two units for guests to stay in, have fruit tour one day a week, to "supplement" farm income. After seeing profit from the supplement, in second year, build 4-8 units for guests to stay in, have tours twice a week. After success of that, enlarge number of units even further, have tours every day, keep the farm as a mere show piece, and buy all or most of the fruits used for the eco tourism from other farms. Reality of the situation: farming cannot compete with profits, and ease of profits, made from tourism.

 I think this is a common trend around the world, Noone can make the same money in agriculture and industry or services. Especially family farms are not for those, who want to  earn a lot of money a and still have a lot of time to spend those money for yourself - it doesnt work this way. After the fall of socialism, where agricultural production was concentrated to big companies, political leaders thought that we should go back in time - divide those huge agricultural companies back to small family farms. But time showed, that young generations do not want to spend lifetime from the morning to the evening, 7 days in the week workoing hard on the  family farm, while they can earn 2x more money in industrial company or service and still will have a lot of free time for fun.

Yes, that theory of hairs is mine  , so not sure if it is true, but I saw this tactic in another plants so, maybe it works, and of course, I will water the soil too, if I see leaves bowing down.

I have hundreds of different tropical and subtropical plants in pots, but artocarpus integer is one of the most problematic to keep alive.
I guess, that this plant does not like water in soil at all. May be this is, why it has furry stem and leafs - for collecting air moisture.
Now I have two seedlings of some thai chempadak, and I am watering them only when they bow down  leaves.  And this is the way, how I am able to keep them  alive - months ago I tried to water my third plant more and it died after one week.

Did you send me something?

I am really upset with customs policy at all, hundreds of elephants are killed because of  tusks, hundreds of rhinos are killed, tons of drugs are traveling around the world and customs are using their capacity and resources to hunt small packs with few fruit seeds.

Just asking - what is the difference between high quality finger lime cultivar and poor quality finger lime?

Just as a curiosity. I came across this article, where seedless chempedak is mentioned.
http://www.thestar.com.my/Story/?file=%2F2006%2F7%2F23%2Fnation%2F14903426&sec=nation

I am still dreaming of a big resort somewhere in the ultra tropics with a huge fruitgarden where they grow all artocarpus, hundreds of different mango's , all durians/pomelo's /abiu and so on. There the guests can taste all the fruits from the garden for free. I sure would go there on a holiday, even if it was in Oz or Hawaii or anywhere. Eating fruit all day, walking between the fruittree's and hanging at the pool. If i win the lottery one day i will build a resort like that in Thailand.

Mekarsari Amazing Tourism Park - largest fruit park in Indonesia. The total area is 265 ha and has more than 100,000 plants which consist of 78 families, 400 species, 1,438 varieties and 37,000 trees. One of the biggest tropical fruit garden in the world. They also grow nangkadak, cempeka and pedakka hybrids in their collection.
http://indotravelinfo.blogspot.sk/2011/04/mekarsari-amazing-tourism-park-biggest.html

Yes, but have to be careful with watering during winter (I killed my beautiful mangifera caesia this way) and also very careful with repoting, according to my experience mangifera plants have very sensitive roots - easy to harm.