From Brazil , 5 meters from seed 2006 . No idea what it is .

Any comments on this product ? Is supposed to bring back to life half dead plants ....

Normally the lichee we ( Mexico ) export has to have a minimum of 20 grams .

Has anybody heard of these improved "monster " Litchee's  ?

A friend of a friend is trying to import these ( plants ) from a Chinese producer and asked me if I could help with an import permit which is impossible to obtain here in Mexico.

After so many years growing tropical fruit I am still in the dark about this subject . I never got a satisfactory answer in other groups , so I am trying again here .

Our dry season is here , for the next 7 months , and I will have to water . Putting in a drip line .

I learned the hard way that watering litchee when in flower is a NO NO ! Now that a lot of Eugenias and Myrciarias are starting to flower I am affraid watering will provoke growth and abort the flowers .

Your input will be appreciated , thanks .

Can you folks help a member from Maui where to get this permit ,

Last year on TV we had all these programs about armageddon etc.., this year it's about preppers . So , walking trough the orchard , I realized if the SHTF I would still starve to dead even with hundreds of fruit trees . I am not a prepper but rising food prices scare me a little . Not even touching the safety of the food we buy....GMO , pesticides , contamination and name it....

I am sure some of you are growing other things also besides fruit . For the moment I only have yuca and sweet potatoes ( camote ) What is the deal with this Taro , some sites say that all parts of the plant are poisonous ?

What else do you guys grow or suggest .

This is for the engineers in the group .

I just realize that i will have to install a water-tank ( thinking of 1000 liters ) on the new lot , no rain for the next 8 months .

How high do I have to place it to have enough pressure by gravitation to make several sprinklers work at the same time ?

Another possibility would be a pressure pump fed by a solar panel ...not familiar at all with these and also probably expensive here in Mexico .

Drip irrigation is another option but it is gonna be a mess for 2 reasons :

- Lots of impurities in the water coming down from higher up in the mountains . A filter can remediate but then I do need a pump I think .
- Several hundreds of Zingiberales and a minimum of another 50 fruit trees will be planted , can you imagine the web of tubing in the ground...

I am counting on you guys and girls...

What I am looking for is a fast growing edible fruit , or similar , that will also provide some shade and if possible can improve the soil .

First I was thinking of Papaya , not good since they deplete the soil ....on the other hand they can provide income .
Then bananas...risk of getting virus in the soil....I never had this problem so far but people warned me about this .
Then moringa ....not really familiar with it , have one in too much shade and not doing well .

Any other options ?

I have about 7 - 8 trees in the ground , one of them has entire elliptical leaves not like the usual trilobed type .
This tree also is a lot more vigorous than the others . Could that be some other variety ?
I must say that the marangs come from 4 different places , Ecuador - Honduras - Borneo - Malaysia .

For unknown reason my 2 Santol died a few years ago . The trees were already 4 - 5 meters tall . I kinda blame it on being right next to the dispersing area of a septic tank
Fortunately I gave a plant to a fellow collector , this has flowered 2 x no fruit set yet.
Today I got a call from a guy that I met several years ago asking me to stop by and identify some of the fruit trees I gave him.

To my surprise the first I noticed was ( see pic of the leave ) an other Santol , gorgeous tree , 6 - 7 meters tall , he said this one also flowered 2 x , no fruit set .

Now I want to make some airlayers , not the easiest on these trees , appears to take about 6 months for the roots to grow .

Is there any other tree this could be grafted on