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Re: Introduce Yourself
« Reply #1275 on: February 23, 2016, 02:08:29 AM »
Hi Chad

Welcome to the forum.  Always happy to have new members on board to share info with.  Hope you enjoy the forum as much as I do.

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« Reply #1276 on: February 29, 2016, 11:24:49 PM »
My name is Mark, I live in Rochester Washington zone 8. I love to grow plants that have no reason to be in my zone. I love the challenge it brings. I am growing some bananas, a pineapple, and avacado. Just recently sprouted some papaya seeds from a store bought fruit. And currently have some Musa Velutina seeds waiting to sprout(planted 2/27/16) Also have some seeds of San Pablo Red Custard Apple that should sprout any day. Those seeds came from my good friend Hector who also turned me on to this site. Thank you Hector! I love the site already!

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« Reply #1277 on: February 29, 2016, 11:28:21 PM »
*wave* Chad and Mark - I think I am the resident fruitloop here (cuckoo permie gardener)... Musa from seed that requires heaps of patience.
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« Reply #1278 on: March 01, 2016, 12:01:38 AM »
*wave* Chad and Mark - I think I am the resident fruitloop here (cuckoo permie gardener)... Musa from seed that requires heaps of patience.
Fruitloop! I love that! Thank you!
This is my first try with musa seeds. I got the heat mat, thermostat, and timer. My little system is working perfectly. Just need time for the seeds to do their thing.

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« Reply #1279 on: March 01, 2016, 06:23:04 AM »
My name is Mark, I live in Rochester Washington zone 8. I love to grow plants that have no reason to be in my zone. I love the challenge it brings. I am growing some bananas, a pineapple, and avacado. Just recently sprouted some papaya seeds from a store bought fruit. And currently have some Musa Velutina seeds waiting to sprout(planted 2/27/16) Also have some seeds of San Pablo Red Custard Apple that should sprout any day. Those seeds came from my good friend Hector who also turned me on to this site. Thank you Hector! I love the site already!



Welcome Mark!.....


Finally!.....LOL....


There is a lot of knowledgeable members here, with a lot of experience.......I love the forum!......There are some forum members that you will recognize them!.....


What type (name) of avocado you have?.....Those San Pablo Red Custard Apple Seeds will sprout any time now!.....

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« Reply #1280 on: March 01, 2016, 10:52:10 PM »
My name is Mark, I live in Rochester Washington zone 8. I love to grow plants that have no reason to be in my zone. I love the challenge it brings. I am growing some bananas, a pineapple, and avacado. Just recently sprouted some papaya seeds from a store bought fruit. And currently have some Musa Velutina seeds waiting to sprout(planted 2/27/16) Also have some seeds of San Pablo Red Custard Apple that should sprout any day. Those seeds came from my good friend Hector who also turned me on to this site. Thank you Hector! I love the site already!



Welcome Mark!.....


Finally!.....LOL....


There is a lot of knowledgeable members here, with a lYot of experience.......I love the forum!......There are some forum members that you will recognize them!.....


What type (name) of avocado you have?.....Those San Pablo Red Custard Apple Seeds will sprout any time now!.....

Thank you Hector!
The  avocado  I grew from the seed of a store bought fruit. I have no idea which one I have. My pineapple is the same way. Grew the top from a store bought fruit. Sometimes I just have to try to grow the seeds that would normally be tossed out. One seed that gives me the most trouble is the seed from a mango. I have tried over and over with that one. I get them to sprout but never leaf out.
I am hoping that the San Pablo Red Custard Apple seeds do sprout soon. I will check them again tomorrow.

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« Reply #1281 on: March 02, 2016, 09:52:32 AM »
My name is Mark, I live in Rochester Washington zone 8. I love to grow plants that have no reason to be in my zone. I love the challenge it brings. I am growing some bananas, a pineapple, and avacado. Just recently sprouted some papaya seeds from a store bought fruit. And currently have some Musa Velutina seeds waiting to sprout(planted 2/27/16) Also have some seeds of San Pablo Red Custard Apple that should sprout any day. Those seeds came from my good friend Hector who also turned me on to this site. Thank you Hector! I love the site already!



Welcome Mark!.....


Finally!.....LOL....


There is a lot of knowledgeable members here, with a lYot of experience.......I love the forum!......There are some forum members that you will recognize them!.....


What type (name) of avocado you have?.....Those San Pablo Red Custard Apple Seeds will sprout any time now!.....

Thank you Hector!
The  avocado  I grew from the seed of a store bought fruit. I have no idea which one I have. My pineapple is the same way. Grew the top from a store bought fruit. Sometimes I just have to try to grow the seeds that would normally be tossed out. One seed that gives me the most trouble is the seed from a mango. I have tried over and over with that one. I get them to sprout but never leaf out.
I am hoping that the San Pablo Red Custard Apple seeds do sprout soon. I will check them again tomorrow.


Hi Mark!


I sent you a PM!.....

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« Reply #1282 on: March 02, 2016, 04:25:51 PM »
Hi everyone, I'm Joe from the SF Bay Area. I got into tropicals 3 years ago when I found a YouTube video proving you could grow (and fruit) bananas in my area. Bought a few pups from the guy who made the video, and before I knew it I was obsessed with all things tropical. I had already been growing lots of citrus and deciduous fruit trees, but now I've got cherimoya, macadamia, white sapote, and avocados doing really well (and of course the bananas, which have multiplied).

With over 100 fruit trees I don't have much room left, but this year I'm adding some Jaboticabas to the yard, thanks to the wizard at Flying Fox Fruits. I love finding stuff that can survive outdoors here in 9b, but it's obvious that I'm going to need to build a greenhouse in the very near future.

This forum is awesome and I'm excited to finally be more than just a lurker!

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« Reply #1283 on: March 02, 2016, 04:58:12 PM »
Joe,
great to have you on board

it's nice folks, like yourself, that have got me addicted to the periscope community.

I'm on there for about 30min -1hr a day, trying to promote my business, and spread awareness about tropical fruits....while acting like a clown!

haha, it's much funner to have an audience when your doing monotonous work by yourself (like watering plants, or fertilizing)!

thanks for joining!

Hi everyone, I'm Joe from the SF Bay Area. I got into tropicals 3 years ago when I found a YouTube video proving you could grow (and fruit) bananas in my area. Bought a few pups from the guy who made the video, and before I knew it I was obsessed with all things tropical. I had already been growing lots of citrus and deciduous fruit trees, but now I've got cherimoya, macadamia, white sapote, and avocados doing really well (and of course the bananas, which have multiplied).

With over 100 fruit trees I don't have much room left, but this year I'm adding some Jaboticabas to the yard, thanks to the wizard at Flying Fox Fruits. I love finding stuff that can survive outdoors here in 9b, but it's obvious that I'm going to need to build a greenhouse in the very near future.

This forum is awesome and I'm excited to finally be more than just a lurker!
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Re: Introduce Yourself
« Reply #1284 on: March 04, 2016, 05:29:02 PM »
Replied to the wrong thread, sorry.

Waves hi to all~
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« Reply #1285 on: March 05, 2016, 11:22:10 AM »
My name is Mark, I live in Rochester Washington zone 8. I love to grow plants that have no reason to be in my zone. I love the challenge it brings. I am growing some bananas, a pineapple, and avacado. Just recently sprouted some papaya seeds from a store bought fruit. And currently have some Musa Velutina seeds waiting to sprout(planted 2/27/16) Also have some seeds of San Pablo Red Custard Apple that should sprout any day. Those seeds came from my good friend Hector who also turned me on to this site. Thank you Hector! I love the site already!



Welcome Mark!.....


Finally!.....LOL....


There is a lot of knowledgeable members here, with a lYot of experience.......I love the forum!......There are some forum members that you will recognize them!.....


What type (name) of avocado you have?.....Those San Pablo Red Custard Apple Seeds will sprout any time now!.....

Thank you Hector!
The  avocado  I grew from the seed of a store bought fruit. I have no idea which one I have. My pineapple is the same way. Grew the top from a store bought fruit. Sometimes I just have to try to grow the seeds that would normally be tossed out. One seed that gives me the most trouble is the seed from a mango. I have tried over and over with that one. I get them to sprout but never leaf out.
I am hoping that the San Pablo Red Custard Apple seeds do sprout soon. I will check them again tomorrow.


Hi Mark!


I sent you a PM!.....

I got it. Thank you Hector!

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« Reply #1286 on: March 05, 2016, 11:27:46 AM »
Hi everyone, I'm Joe from the SF Bay Area. I got into tropicals 3 years ago when I found a YouTube video proving you could grow (and fruit) bananas in my area. Bought a few pups from the guy who made the video, and before I knew it I was obsessed with all things tropical. I had already been growing lots of citrus and deciduous fruit trees, but now I've got cherimoya, macadamia, white sapote, and avocados doing really well (and of course the bananas, which have multiplied).

With over 100 fruit trees I don't have much room left, but this year I'm adding some Jaboticabas to the yard, thanks to the wizard at Flying Fox Fruits. I love finding stuff that can survive outdoors here in 9b, but it's obvious that I'm going to need to build a greenhouse in the very near future.

This forum is awesome and I'm excited to finally be more than just a lurker!

Hi Joe, I just joined myself. This forum is awesome!

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« Reply #1287 on: March 16, 2016, 08:18:08 AM »
Hi everyone, I'm Joe from the SF Bay Area. I got into tropicals 3 years ago when I found a YouTube video proving you could grow (and fruit) bananas in my area. Bought a few pups from the guy who made the video, and before I knew it I was obsessed with all things tropical. I had already been growing lots of citrus and deciduous fruit trees, but now I've got cherimoya, macadamia, white sapote, and avocados doing really well (and of course the bananas, which have multiplied).

With over 100 fruit trees I don't have much room left, but this year I'm adding some Jaboticabas to the yard, thanks to the wizard at Flying Fox Fruits. I love finding stuff that can survive outdoors here in 9b, but it's obvious that I'm going to need to build a greenhouse in the very near future.

This forum is awesome and I'm excited to finally be more than just a lurker!


Hi Joe!

Welcome to the forum!....

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« Reply #1288 on: March 25, 2016, 01:43:03 AM »
Hello all, my name is Edward and I live in Central Florida (zone 9). This past year I tried my hand with figs and decided I wanted to turn my yard into an edible yard. I have a star fruit tree I grew from seed (think I killed it this weekend when I moved it), and a couple pineapple and banana plants (which have yet to produce). I am hoping to learn a lot here and to pick everyone's brains from time to time. I don't get out much. I suffer from social anxiety and agoraphobia, so I might be starting with buying seeds of various tropical fruiting plants. It will give me something to do.

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« Reply #1289 on: March 25, 2016, 02:11:55 AM »
Hello Good People!!!! :D

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« Reply #1290 on: March 25, 2016, 06:20:06 AM »

*wave* Hi Edward, welcome to TFF! You can learn a lot and pick everyone's brains just don't eat them  :D  - I know, bad joke...

Hello all, my name is Edward and I live in Central Florida (zone 9). This past year I tried my hand with figs and decided I wanted to turn my yard into an edible yard. I have a star fruit tree I grew from seed (think I killed it this weekend when I moved it), and a couple pineapple and banana plants (which have yet to produce). I am hoping to learn a lot here and to pick everyone's brains from time to time. I don't get out much. I suffer from social anxiety and agoraphobia, so I might be starting with buying seeds of various tropical fruiting plants. It will give me something to do.
Diggin in dirt and shifting compost - gardeners crossfit regime :)

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« Reply #1291 on: March 25, 2016, 06:20:53 AM »

Hi Kage - welcome to TFF!  :)
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« Reply #1292 on: March 25, 2016, 01:14:09 PM »

*wave* Hi Edward, welcome to TFF! You can learn a lot and pick everyone's brains just don't eat them  :D  - I know, bad joke...

You know brains don't taste very good without hot sauce!!! I prefer my homemade hot sauce made from Datil peppers.

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« Reply #1293 on: April 08, 2016, 11:31:45 PM »
Hi, I'm Nick from the UK, living in Brighton. I've just started my own online nursery selling tropical fruit plants and seeds for UK and Europe area. I grown using 2 polytunnels and also have a whole room in my house set up as a grow room with 6 dual spectrum HPS grow lights. I grow at the moment, grafted mangoes (nam doc man and keitt), air layered lychee (unknown variety), lemon drop mangosteen, theobroma cacoa, herrania balaensis, grafted attemoya, cherimoya, jackfruit, surinam cherry, pitangatuba, grated stone ruby guava, dwarf cuban guava, strawberry guava, mangosteen, sugarcane, various bananas, pineapples, cas guava, grafted carambola B17. I've also started to teach myself tissue culturing techniques. Having to now move house......as i've run out of room to grow any more plants!! My dream is to build a tropical "house" where I can literally grow everything to fruiting size.......Regards Nick

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« Reply #1294 on: April 25, 2016, 08:19:15 AM »
Hi, I'm Nick from the UK, living in Brighton. I've just started my own online nursery selling tropical fruit plants and seeds for UK and Europe area. I grown using 2 polytunnels and also have a whole room in my house set up as a grow room with 6 dual spectrum HPS grow lights. I grow at the moment, grafted mangoes (nam doc man and keitt), air layered lychee (unknown variety), lemon drop mangosteen, theobroma cacoa, herrania balaensis, grafted attemoya, cherimoya, jackfruit, surinam cherry, pitangatuba, grated stone ruby guava, dwarf cuban guava, strawberry guava, mangosteen, sugarcane, various bananas, pineapples, cas guava, grafted carambola B17. I've also started to teach myself tissue culturing techniques. Having to now move house......as i've run out of room to grow any more plants!! My dream is to build a tropical "house" where I can literally grow everything to fruiting size.......Regards Nick

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Hi Nick, welcome to TFF! 8)
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« Reply #1295 on: May 10, 2016, 12:40:14 PM »
Hello all!
My name is Derek and I have a growing collection of fruit trees in South FL.  I grew up down here and I enjoy growing and eating tropical and subtropical fruits and herbs/veggies. I've lurked on this forum for years and have finally decided to join the fun.

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« Reply #1296 on: May 11, 2016, 08:03:06 AM »
Hello all!
My name is Derek and I have a growing collection of fruit trees in South FL.  I grew up down here and I enjoy growing and eating tropical and subtropical fruits and herbs/veggies. I've lurked on this forum for years and have finally decided to join the fun.


Hi Derek and welcome to the forum!...

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« Reply #1297 on: May 11, 2016, 11:35:39 AM »


Really??  Weren't you able to get a better banner promoting the forum?  It looks like a picture out of the 80's.

The '80's was a great time for fruit to be eaten! This pile of fruit kinda looks like a ramp, not the vegetable but one I could see the legend of FFF kick flipping over , mullet & ripped butt rock T flapping in the wind , munching Jabo's off a healthy sized branch Cob'O Jabo style .

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« Reply #1298 on: May 18, 2016, 11:29:43 PM »
Hello All fellow Fruit growers!

I am Farouk from Sydney, Australia (Fairfield East) aka Jabuticaba, an I.T Desktop Support engineer working for a non for profit organisation, I am a fruit grower my self, love to grow rare fruits (Rare to my location) here in Sydney such as Jabuticaba, Sapote (Black P & White), Inga & other common fruits such as Figs, Feijoa, Dragon Fruit, Citruses (Blood Orange), Persimmon, Surinam Cherry (Red & Black), Pears, Pomegranates, Bananas (Common & Ladys Finger), Quince, Miracle Berry, Loquat, Peaches, Apples, Mulberry, Mango & an attempted Purple Mangosteen.. (let's see how far it gets, growing for the thrill/fun of it - paid almost $80 to get it to me in soil seedling with about 6/7 leaves 20cm approx) I planted it this Autumn in ground in the chickens paddock, so hmm very bad timing it's alive that's all I can say for now as you can expect & holding up through the cold, the challenge is yet to come in June at its coldest.
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« Reply #1299 on: May 19, 2016, 11:11:03 AM »
welcome!

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Hello All fellow Fruit growers!

I am Farouk from Sydney, Australia (Fairfield East) aka Jabuticaba, an I.T Desktop Support engineer working for a non for profit organisation, I am a fruit grower my self, love to grow rare fruits (Rare to my location) here in Sydney such as Jabuticaba, Sapote (Black P & White), Inga & other common fruits such as Figs, Feijoa, Dragon Fruit, Citruses (Blood Orange), Persimmon, Surinam Cherry (Red & Black), Pears, Pomegranates, Bananas (Common & Ladys Finger), Quince, Miracle Berry, Loquat, Peaches, Apples, Mulberry, Mango & an attempted Purple Mangosteen.. (let's see how far it gets, growing for the thrill/fun of it - paid almost $80 to get it to me in soil seedling with about 6/7 leaves 20cm approx) I planted it this Autumn in ground in the chickens paddock, so hmm very bad timing it's alive that's all I can say for now as you can expect & holding up through the cold, the challenge is yet to come in June at its coldest.
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