Winter has finally arrived, the security-guards wear socks  and jackets at night, the dogs wear vests against the cold and mosquito's went on holiday!

We don't even need airconditioning and it is possible to wear a polo-shirt without sweating at noon! The car-tyres have to be pumped, and people regret their cars don't have any heating at all 

Now the mango's can start to bloom totally and the swimminpools can be closed for a while (as long as the ice don't break them).

The men even don't need ice-cubes in their beer and the women see a good opportunity to wear the latest fashion from Korea with long sleeves, they even don't wear short skirts these days 

Life in the tropics can be soo hard. 

Is anybody using zeolite and what are your experiences with it?

I am looking for seeds of these plants. If you have something of the list then let me know and tell me what i can send you from Asia.

Eugenia brasiliensis Grumichama

Achachairu garcinia brasiliensis or laterifolia

kepel fruit stelechocarpus burahol

Capuassu theobroma grandiflorum

Jaboticaba hybrid myrciara cauliflora X

Yellow giant dragonfruit or a nice red/orange variety

Icreambean inga feuille edulis

Abiu pouteria caimito

annona kampong mauve

averrhoa carambola var Hart dwarf starfruit

I bought some (booth#7 i guess) big round avocado's grown in Thailand and they taste pretty good. I expected it to taste more watery but it was almost as good as a hass from Australia. They are much cheaper then hass though and much bigger.

What is the best WI avocado that might grow in Bangkok? I need some more tree's now    and allready cut down some palmtree's to make space.

My avocadotree had been overgrown by another tree so it was in shade for some months. Also it was laying on the ground. ( I was in Europe).

I pruned the other tree so now it gets full sunshine again but some leaves are getting brown now which worry's me.

Is this sunburn or maybe some other problem?

http://www.pohonbuahnursery.com/2013/02/putosan.html

I was checking this website and found many fruits i have never heard of. Why Thailand does not have a website like this?

The putosan looks like a pulasan but is it the real pulasan?

http://ucanr.edu/sites/Pomegranates/files/164443.pdf

After a very long search i finally found a grafted avocado tree. The seller thought there was only 1 type of avocado so that is what i bought.

Can anyone identify the variaty?

I want to plant it in the raised bed on the last pic, i thought of making a high mound of black soil and put it in the middle. The bed has holes all around but i doubt if the drainage is good enough during the rainy season. Do you think the roots will rot? Some variaty's have a rotting-free rootstock but i have no idea what i bought. I want the tree to be around 10-15 feet high max and multigraft it next year if i can find scions. Should i cut the tip off allready to train the tree to stay small and wide?

I read that i have to cover it from full sun, summer is coming soon here and will be very hot. Should i paint the trunk, make a shade-net or maze around it? I will be abroad during that time so i want to prepare all now.

The soil under the bed is heavy clay.

I can also put the tree in a big pot but then i have the same problems and the raised bed is much bigger then any pot. In the bed are also passionfruits, heliconia's and the soursop which is growing there right now will move to a big pot.

The place has full sun all day.

http://rfcarchives.org.au/index.htm

I just found this site and really like it. Anything you want to know is there.















"Estoy en mi primer año de español y mi libro de texto y mi profesora dicen que una chinola es una naranja agria, pero las paginas web dicen que es una fruta de la pasión. ¿Cuál es correcta?"

Today i bought dolomite which contains 20% of MgO

On wikipedia i read that MgO solubs not good in water, it needs an acid to solube.

Then in a plantshop i saw wood vinegar for sale. This is a new product it seems.

 http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.echocommunity.org/resource/collection/F6FFA3BF-02EF-4FE3-B180-F391C063E31A/Wood_Vinegar.pdf

Wood vinegar is an acid and also good for soil and plants.

Can i use dolomite (i have the finest powder availlable) together with wood vinegar to improve my clay soil? Or is it better to only use the dolomite with water?

Today i felt the soil of some plants that i put in the full sun in a black plastic pot. The soil was very warm, so warm that i wonder what the max. soil temperature can be.

Can all tropical tree's stand  very warm roots or is it better to use a stone pot or another color as black?

Here it is winter now and i want to put some pots in the full sun permantly. I will use big clay pots then but in summer the sun here is much stronger and it is much warmer then now. Is it better to cover the pot against the sun or is it no problem if the soiltemp gets pretty high?

I have the plan to make an underground wateringsystem myself.

I still have a lot of the 20mm (3/4 inch) black flexible sprinklerhose and want to dig it in the soil. With a hot needle or drill i will make small holes in the hose and lay it underground so the hose is 20cm (18 inch) away from the next hose and covers all the soil.

Does this work well or is it better to buy the sweating hose that we can buy in the store which is for underground watering?

The underground sweating hose from the store drips very slowly so the wateringtime has to be very long to soak the soil. I want a faster system because my sprinklersystem sprays about 10 minutes a day now and that is long enough for me. It also sprays the orchids above the pond so i would like to connect it to this spraycomputer.

For the tree's in big containers i also would like to use the homemade hose with holes in it, just dig it in the pot and i hope it will work for many years.

Did anybody make an underground system allready and has some advices/experience?

Tree's that are bought here mostly have been in the shade all day in the shops.

Should i let them get used to the sun by keeping them in the half shade for a while or just plant them in full sun next day after purchase?

I get different advises here so i don't know what to do.