Bangkok thanks for being our Google master and savior once again, but i need info from reliable source, not some obscure website. Once someone writes something everybody else pollutes the internet with copy cat text. Just because it is mentioned few times somewhere does not give credibility to the fact.

Does anyone have any yeast or yeast extract formulations that you have tried? Did you see any improvements in your plant health or growth rate? Thanks
Simon

Quote from: bangkok on March 17, 2015, 05:16:43 AM

Quote from: Radoslav on March 17, 2015, 03:48:13 AM

Is there a chnace to buy this palm in Europe?

You can grow it from seed if you like.

I googled about them and now i see that those brown coconutthings on the market are toddy palm nuts...

Do you want a whole one?

But also in Holland or Germany i can't find them on internet. I'm pretty sure though that some palm specialst sells them in Europe.

I read that there are in fact 3 seeds inside one nut, so maybe if those seeds are small enough to travel inside big padded envelope without rising too many questions from customs, I could buy one seed if you will have it for sale.

Is there a chnace to buy this palm in Europe?

Am I the only one who doesn't feel comfortable with this? At what point does the line between useful information exchange and almost sabotaging a business gets crossed/blurred? It's not like we are talking about HD or Lowes here that can withstand (and also fight back online) against negative web portrayals..rather this is a smaller business in a very niche market and community that may be severely affected.

Also while I'm sure most of the intentions here are genuine to help members of the forum here, who really knows if there aren't direct competitors here with different aims.  I like to learn of the posters' good and bad experiences with nursuries and those experiences already come through where necessary within conversations on various thread topics. But a whole topic and title dedicated to bashing a business seems harsh (no matter how true).

I've never used TT, and have no horse in this race...but I'll tell you straight up that I've had pretty bad experiences with two of the more highly celebrated nursuries here on this forum..one in South Dade and one up in Western Palm Beach Co (and for Citrus another highly regarded nursery that ship from Tampa area)..but I chalk that up to noone is perfect ESPECIALLY operating in a space like this with living tropical trees,lots of them, shipping etc.

That's not to say they shouldn't be held to account for errors and poor service, and that as customers we should just shut up and take shoddy service, but there's no better way than this? I'm no legal expert, but I'd be careful if this was my website, as to where the line is about slander.

Just my 2 cents.....

WTF?

Quote from: bangkok on March 14, 2015, 12:17:24 AM

In Thailand (and i guess more neighbouring country's) Yac means giant.

Quote from: Mike T on March 13, 2015, 08:13:18 PM

I have only about 100 trees not counting counting all the smaller ones and veggies and replace non performers routinely.I don't plant giants and easy to get stuff, or what people I know we'll grow if I can get them easily. I have a lot of long term fruit growing friends and the farmers referred to are actually friends or there are long term connections.The people I get fruit from in the market mostly I know reasonably well but I have to buy some fruits. Swapping also gets me a fair bit.

I probably have been optimistic with cold tolerances and time to first fruiting.We all extrapolate from what we have seen read and from what we are told.The durian example was from looking at a large report that evaluated factors including cold tolerance of clones. I see fruiting durians at altitude on the Atherton Tablelands and check the lower temps they must have tolerated.I look at the Miami profile for weather compare to laplae, other places I know and the written material and think why not.  Soil aside and how prolonged these temps are I was surprised when Adams macrantha seedling died in 38f.Seedlings in pots may not be the ideal measure.
I have actually seen many trees progress to fruiting from planting and can document exact time frames.The 5 years fro9m planting out until fruiting for mangosteen and durian happened in my yard twice for each.

Mike we had a mangosteen farmer from Australia give a talk at a fruit conference here. He told us that of 1000 mangosteen trees he planted on his farm about 5% fruited in five years. About 80% fruited in about 8 years. This was with a very consistent and heavy fertilizer program. In very large populations of trees you can see that there is a big difference from fruiting times of individual precocious trees and the average time it takes most trees to fruit.