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Tropical Fruit Discussion / guy in Colorado growing tropical/subtropical fruit in greenhouse, agroforestry

« on: October 11, 2017, 04:38:06 PM »

Highly relevant to this forum, I'm surprised nobody posted this before me! This would be boring, but the agroforestry aspect is wonderful.
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/gy5ejy/how-one-man-is-managing-to-grow-tropical-fruit-in-the-rocky-mountains

Tropical Fruit Discussion / pocket knife tough enough for durian

« on: August 31, 2017, 02:49:48 PM »

My wife wants me to buy her a folding pocket knife for everyday use but she said it needs to be strong enough for opening durians. We're dealing with a lot of premature/windfall durians this season, so I can see how this will be handy to process them in the field for seeds. I don't know much about knives, so maybe someone here has advice? I understand that many small knives are engineered for sharp slicing but can't handle bending or prying, so maybe there's a beefier blade type out there?

Tropical Fruit Discussion / Malagasy Garcinia

« on: August 07, 2017, 07:49:20 AM »

I don't see any previous discussion of these species. This paper talks about 32 species of Garcinia in Madagascar.
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/Portals/0/staff/PDFs/rogers/Sweeney&Rogers_Novon_v18_2008.pdf

"When broadly circumscribed, the genus Garcinia L. contains more than 250 species (Jones, 1980; Stevens,
2006) of mostly small- to medium-sized dioecious trees and has a pantropical distribution with centers of diversity in Madagascar and Southeast Asia."

"Thirty are endemic to Madagascar, G. anjouanensis is endemic to the Comoros, and G. livingstonei occurs in Mayotte and Africa."

Tropical Fruit Discussion / fruit walls

« on: December 26, 2015, 12:22:56 PM »

This should be of tremendous interest to the boundary pushers and urbanists here. A nice article about the now uncommon technique of using stone/brick walls to control microclimates in orchards.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html