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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cushman mango trees
« on: April 05, 2012, 10:35:21 AM »
I recieved the Cushman mango trees yesterday, have only 2-7 gallons left and 1-3 gallon, so if anyone needs them let me know before they are gone. Thanks Mike    7-gallons have extra thick trunks look nice!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Cushman Mango
« on: March 31, 2012, 04:09:25 PM »
Thanks, I am just not set up for shipping,one man operation hard to just keep up with the local stuff.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Cushman Mango
« on: March 31, 2012, 02:54:06 PM »
I don't remember who it was either on this site or GW that was looking for Cushman Mango trees,we will have some 3 and 7 gallon sizes available on wednesday 4/4 they are $25 and $50 for anyone interested,send me a message or call thanks Mike

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tog Bi Kon Mango??
« on: March 31, 2012, 08:11:33 AM »
I appreciate all the info,thanks folks! Mike

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tog Bi Kon Mango??
« on: March 30, 2012, 04:37:42 PM »
didnt think i would find it on my spell check.lol

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tog Bi Kon Mango??
« on: March 30, 2012, 04:26:32 PM »
Thank you for the info I will pass it along,much appreciated  thanks again Mike

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / citrus greening cure?
« on: March 30, 2012, 03:20:19 PM »
Good article in the Miami Herald about a possible cure being developed for citrus greening using spinach genes,interesting read on what is being done. will be tested soon in Okeechobee county,scientist has been working on it in Texas.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tog Bi Kon Mango??
« on: March 30, 2012, 01:44:22 PM »
Lol,personally I have never heard of it, don't know if its for real or a made up name for something else.got me curious.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Tog Bi Kon Mango??
« on: March 30, 2012, 01:05:30 PM »
Have a customer with a mango he purchased called Tog Bi Kon, at least it's the spelling i got, anyone have info on this variety I can foward? any help would be appreciated, habits,taste etc.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Compendium of tropical fruit diseases book
« on: February 24, 2012, 12:35:46 PM »
THANK YOU

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Compendium of tropical fruit diseases book
« on: February 23, 2012, 09:05:34 AM »
fairchild is selling this book, any opinions on it?? is it worth the money??

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Biowash soap
« on: February 16, 2012, 03:12:57 PM »
We use it, while its expensive we have no complaints so far, i wouldnt say it can cure all ills,but for the most part we have had good luck with it.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: really excited for this year's mango festival
« on: February 13, 2012, 08:27:53 AM »
We go every year, you never know what varieties of trees they may have that are difficult to find anywhere else, be awesome if we can plan a get together there for the people on this forum,this way we can all meet. hopefully see many of you there.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Citrus Tree Smuggling
« on: February 11, 2012, 08:34:24 AM »
There is an article about a South Florida nursery smuggling citrus trees to a handful of states up north.article is in the Sun-sentinel.com,gee whatever happened to good old fashioned dope smuggling?? 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: WHICH CULTIVARS ARE JUST RENAMED OR THE SAME, ETC?
« on: February 07, 2012, 09:48:55 AM »
Quote from: adiel on February 07, 2012, 09:23:26 AM
If we catch a nursery involved in renaming cultivar names or changing tags on a tree to make the sale, etc, this should be reported to the forum.  This will help the Tropical Fruit collection community.  It would help filter out the people doing this and help us fruit collectors.  Maybe making a sticky where an incident/multiple incidents by different confirmed users can be reported?  This would have to be done carefully as abuse can occur.  Maybe only administrators can post to such thread after an incident is confirmed?

Thanks,
Adiel
Agree, I have a handful of trees myself that we have lost either tags or cant be sure of the variety from either age or storms ripping off tags,I would not sell them, in fact we have about a half doz mango trees that we keep for customers looking for a cheap tree that dont really care about the cultivar and are happy to sell those at our cost, we call it our "take your chance lot" you have to be pretty sleazy to just name something to make a couple of bucks.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: WHICH CULTIVARS ARE JUST RENAMED OR THE SAME, ETC?
« on: February 07, 2012, 08:39:59 AM »
Quote from: Sleepdoc on February 07, 2012, 08:00:09 AM
How about when a nursery changes a tag on a tree just to sell it to you?

Still quite unhappy about that one.

Me " Do you have any Lemon Zest, AKA 27-1 from Zills" ?

Them  " Haven't heard of the one, but I can order it for you if they sell it"

Me " OK, great"

2 wks later ..

Them "We got your tree" 

Me " Great, I'll come pick it up today"

So I go pick up the tree.  I am in a rush, so I just load it up and go.  Looks to be nice and healthy.  A few days later when I go to plant it, I notice the pot is marked LM .... Hmmnnn ... And there is a string, like a PI string that usually holds a name tag without a name tag .... Hmmnnnn  .. And it does have a metallic tag with Lemon Zest written on it .. Hmmnnnn

Seems to me like it is a LM and they re-tagged it LZ just to make the sale ... Hell, I would never know right???

So a few months later, I purchased a real LZ from Jeff Hagen.  Totally different than what that other nursery sold me.   Now I really don't mind having both, but I sure can tell you I don't like being lied to, and I will never buy from that nursery again...
How hard up do you have to be to lie about a tree to make $10, I can't believe someone nowadays owning a business would play that game,sad to say the least.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Have you considered growing Myrciaria vexator??? I love this jaboticaba relative
« on: February 05, 2012, 09:54:34 AM »
We have one we got at Fairchild last year,agreed it is a beautiful tree,can't wait for it to bloom,I heard the fruit is very good.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Australian Finger Lime
« on: February 04, 2012, 02:44:19 PM »
G.S.I. In Homestead has them 305-248-1924

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus Greening
« on: February 04, 2012, 02:05:04 PM »
I agree, that is why i have not carried any citrus product,I remeber quite a few nurseries having to dispose of their entire inventory of citrus with the canker fiasco,I hate to lose biz,but I would rather lose biz than customers or have to sell a tree that has no shot at surviveability. i guess I will stick with what we have been doing and focus on that. Thanks for all the imput

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus Greening
« on: February 04, 2012, 10:15:33 AM »
We have been wary of carrying any citrus just for the fact of the horror stories some nurseries have gone through,also I don't want to sell customers overpriced trees that have no shot of survival.

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Citrus General Discussion / Citrus Greening
« on: February 04, 2012, 08:50:32 AM »
Just curious how big a threat folks on this forum believe citrus greening to be in south Florida, from a little of what I have obsereved it seems to be pretty prevelant throughtout Dade and broward county, I keep having customers ask for citrus trees and I have been cautious to carry any just because I think with this Greening it is unwise to invest the money in either trees for a yard or inventory for my nursery. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, Thanks Mike

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Emerald Mango
« on: February 03, 2012, 11:45:19 AM »
 I remeber how it was sold and advertised by Faichild I just want too see if anyone on hear has actually tasted it, very curious.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Emerald Mango
« on: February 03, 2012, 10:47:32 AM »
That's when we purchased ours, and in fact for the very diesease resistant reason,so I guess we will see, just really curious about the taste.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Emerald Mango
« on: February 03, 2012, 10:36:16 AM »
yes, both are flowering,they are about 2 years old,they flowered last year also but they didnt hold any fruit. now we will see this year.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Emerald Mango
« on: February 03, 2012, 09:50:25 AM »
trying to get some info about emerald mango, if any has tried this variety?? we have 2 in ground would appreciate some info on taste and growth habit. Thanks Mike

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