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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« on: January 27, 2012, 11:27:23 AM »
Naval Oranges
Lychees
Apples
Grapes (seedless)
Bananas

Tomatoes arent bad either, they make a good sauce!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango Tree Splitting
« on: January 27, 2012, 10:25:15 AM »
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..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: MEMBERS AND NEWBS...PLEASE HELP US, AND ME!! PUT ZONE of AREA!
« on: January 27, 2012, 09:41:37 AM »
This map can be misleading, according to it I am in the same zone as South Miami. With Tropicals, the difference of 3-5 degrees is night and day.  They should try and make it more detailed, as I saw 26 degrees just last winter, and 25 the year before that!

Patrick

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Amazing Jaboticabas
« on: January 26, 2012, 10:02:15 PM »
Nice Ones!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Your potting mixes for mangoes, citrus and more
« on: January 26, 2012, 03:39:29 PM »
Quote from: natsgarden123 on January 25, 2012, 09:07:38 AM
PJ- I bought a Fairchild in a nice pot from you-I think it was one you were expecting to keep in a pot?  I havent planted it in the ground.  What kind of mix is it? How often should I be watering?  I may be planting it in the ground but I havent decided it yet. Thanks
Nat :)

That was potted in a gritty mix intended for long term pot life.  If you transplant it you need not worry, it will not effect it in the ground.  Otherwise, water every two or three days (maybe half a gallon)..

Patrick

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pruning main trunk of a Mallika mango tree
« on: January 26, 2012, 01:44:12 PM »
Chop it back about a foot above the graft in spring...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Stolen Trees
« on: January 26, 2012, 01:41:37 PM »
Good information... Sure they will make their way up this way sooner or later!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« on: January 25, 2012, 04:37:00 PM »
I hope the plants all get this memo! ;)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: I have a disease! Need ID
« on: January 25, 2012, 10:58:08 AM »
I have similar ones here in WPB FL.  Mine are more symetrical with even craters and a light pink coloring. I believe mine are a type of scale?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: MEMBERS AND NEWBS...PLEASE HELP US, AND ME!! PUT ZONE of AREA!
« on: January 24, 2012, 04:12:07 PM »
I totally agree! Any information provided without knowledge of where its grown is pretty useless... ??? ???

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Your potting mixes for mangoes, citrus and more
« on: January 24, 2012, 10:53:03 AM »
I began using Fafard's 3B mix, it seems to work really well and holds moisure nicely also.  I attempted to switch to "The Gritty Mix", spent a small fortune massing the ingredients, and eventually found that it made my trees look like they were growing in a bag of gravel.. I guess it all depends on the future intentions of the grower, whether you plan to plant the tree out, or maintain it in a pot.  Also, depending on how the mix is composed, you can create a lot of work for yourself by requiring more watering.  I like the even distrubution of the Fafard mix when it comes to the transport of nutrients and watering.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Advertising
« on: January 24, 2012, 10:47:59 AM »
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.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Advertising
« on: January 24, 2012, 09:52:35 AM »
We do not charge for adding marketing information on this forum. 
We do ask however that you maintain activity on the forum in return. 
The intent of allowing for trade information posts was to provide a service for active members. 
Active forum members will be identified by the highlighted green message titles.  We do welcome all venders to post!

We hope all will understand this policy, we are trying to avoid becoming a commercial site.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: A Sincere Thanks..
« on: January 19, 2012, 09:17:28 PM »
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.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: last purchase
« on: January 19, 2012, 04:34:57 PM »
They are supposed to be pretty hardy trees when it comes to transplant.  I have seen trees that were uprooted in a hurricane and left to die grow sideways.  Gene Joyner here in WPB Florida has one that if were upright would stand about thirty feet tall! It holds the record for the continent I believe.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / A Sincere Thanks..
« on: January 19, 2012, 12:45:16 PM »
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

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hello !
« on: January 18, 2012, 12:15:40 AM »
Will you look at the size of the Rollinias on that guy! (sounds like something you'd hear in Bangkok)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit Injuries
« on: January 17, 2012, 08:17:49 PM »

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: did garden web take down the post about this forum? (so petty)
« on: January 17, 2012, 02:40:11 PM »
Quote from: lycheeluva on January 17, 2012, 01:00:52 PM
pj- why did you link to garden web?

I am trying to correct my Negative Karma

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: did garden web take down the post about this forum? (so petty)
« on: January 17, 2012, 12:45:12 PM »
Post Freely Here! This isnt occupied Tibet!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Palm Beach Rare Fruit Council Plant Sale! March 24,2012
« on: January 17, 2012, 12:44:01 PM »
Huge Plant Sale Saturday March 24, 2012 at the South Florida Fairgrounds.
 9 AM - 2 PM. Hundreds of fruit trees, herb and spice plants to choose from.
 Also selling 50 lb bags of 8-3-9 fertilizer made especially for south Florida soils.
 Arrive early for the best selection. Free admission to the Fairgrounds.


Here is the info they emailed out:

"Fruit Tree Sale Presented by the Rare Fruit Council- Palm Beach Chapter at the
South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Boulevard, West Palm Beach, Florida 33411.
Saturday March 24, 2012.
9 AM to 2 PM.
Large selection of mangos, bananas, avocados, citrus, lychees, canistel, jackfruit and hundreds
of other tropical fruit trees, also herb & spice plants.
Arrive early for the best selection.
Any questions call 561-716-6816."

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: did garden web take down the post about this forum? (so petty)
« on: January 17, 2012, 12:40:11 PM »
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/tropicalfruits/


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: did garden web take down the post about this forum? (so petty)
« on: January 17, 2012, 12:11:27 PM »
With all the advertising money they make you think they would update the forum instead of scanning it for my post! Go figure... Karma is a bitch!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Puerto Rico 2011
« on: January 17, 2012, 12:05:12 AM »

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What matters to you in a mango variety?
« on: January 16, 2012, 11:57:10 AM »
Good point! Corrected!!

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