Author Topic: Introduce Yourself (Read 234057 times)

HMelendez · « **Reply #1300 on:** May 19, 2016, 11:15:38 AM »

Farouk aka Jabuticaba welcome to the forum!

You are right Adam!....Great name!.....

DeeMango · « **Reply #1301 on:** May 30, 2016, 09:55:13 PM »

Hello All,
I'm Dana (aka Dee) from St. Pete FL. My husband has been lurking for a while and has learned a lot from all you mango growers and lovers. So thanks for all the help you have already given us!

Hellolychee88 · « **Reply #1302 on:** June 07, 2016, 05:22:19 PM »

Hello,

I am Katie from Pennsylvania, and I have been getting so much help from this forum (But it is first time to introduce myself). I am a novice in tropical fruit trees but I am very excited to start growing one

EvilFruit · « **Reply #1303 on:** June 07, 2016, 05:29:53 PM »

Welcome to TFF Katie & DeeMango.

JonathonForester · « **Reply #1304 on:** June 17, 2016, 09:46:44 AM »

Hi everyone,

I've been on here for some time stalking the forum and occasionally posting. I've been growing and fruithunting for about 8 years with a 4 year period of light activity while apartment living. I love growing food and fruits are as satisfying and exciting as it gets. Even worked at Top Tropicals ( I see a lot of mixed feeling on here but I enjoyed my time and it really helped fuel my passion at the time) doing grunt work for a year..7 years ago when i first started out. I'm here because i love tropical fruit and I'd like to transition to building my own personal fruit farm in a few year. In the mean time I'm growing on a smaller lot and growing more seedlings that fruit producing trees. I'm here to learn and make friends. The Name is Jonathon and I love this world that is fruit hunting and growing.

Cheers

apiosiscool · « **Reply #1305 on:** June 21, 2016, 10:21:56 PM »

Baja_Traveler · « **Reply #1306 on:** July 07, 2016, 11:03:21 PM »

Hey Everyone,
I Just found out about this forum thru Simon_Grow as we were talking about Mango's and my Tebow being hit and miss on growth. I'm hoping to learn grafting from him and improve what I have in the garden.
To date I've been mostly growing the usual standard and heritage veggies with a few not-so-common varieties like rat tail radish, pineapple and goji berries thrown in. My big claim to fame in the neighborhood has been my four Macadamia nut trees, which I harvest every fall, roast and make chocolate coated macadamias for everybody at Christmas. By the look of the trees right now, I'm going to need more than the 18 pounds of chocolate I used last year...

simon_grow · « **Reply #1307 on:** July 09, 2016, 10:53:54 AM »

Welcome to the TFF all new members! There are lots of very friendly and knowledgable people on this forum so don't be afraid to ask question and share your interests. I've found that the more I open up and share my likes and dislikes, the more I'm opened up to new varieties of fruits and veggies that I may not have otherwise known about.

Our friendly forum members love to see pictures of what you have growing so post away. I've often found by posting pictures that the more experienced members can easily spot nutrient deficiencies or pest/disease issues that one might not have otherwise even knew existed. Sit back and relax, it's going to be a fun ride!

Simon

Zpusher · « **Reply #1308 on:** July 11, 2016, 11:16:06 AM »

Hi everyone!

My name is Moses, been lurking for a while. Ive learned so much from my lurking already. Everyone's so knowledgeable and friendly! I'm glad to be a part of this forum. Im interested in zone pushing and Hardy tropicals and container gardening. I have a small but growing tropical container garden in a small zone 8 backyard.i hope to learn much more from all of you!

FlyingFoxFruits · « **Reply #1309 on:** July 12, 2016, 12:43:00 PM »

Quote from: Zpusher on July 11, 2016, 11:16:06 AM

Hi everyone!

My name is Moses, been lurking for a while. Ive learned so much from my lurking already. Everyone's so knowledgeable and friendly! I'm glad to be a part of this forum. Im interested in zone pushing and Hardy tropicals and container gardening. I have a small but growing tropical container garden in a small zone 8 backyard.i hope to learn much more from all of you!

You are the epitome of the customer/grower I'm trying to reach out to.

Zone pushing, container growing, fruit trees!

Welcome to the group my friend...

this is the place to come if you want to get to the next level.

Facebook might have lots of fancy widgets, but it's just not the same...it's like the walmart of forums. I love the TFF because it's more ma and pa...oldschool, with raw information, and a pure dedication to Tropical Fruit...no bull$!+ advertisements and offers to boost your post for $5.

AndyNZ · « **Reply #1310 on:** July 20, 2016, 03:38:02 AM »

Kia ora,

I'm Andy. I life in Far North New Zealand.
I want just grow everything that's worth growing in my 10a climate zone (-1ºC to -3ºC frost for an hour in some years).
I have experience in container grown fruit and nut trees (with root restriction bags).
Plants in my collection:
Asimina triloba - Asimoya (2)
Casimiroa edulis - White Sapote (2)
Carica papaya x C.pentagona - Babaco Hybrid - 'Rainbow Valley'
Coffea arabica - Coffee
Cyphomandra betacea - Tamarillo - 'Bold Gold','Ted`s Red'
Dovyalis hebecarpa x D. abyssinica - Tropical Apricot
Diospyros kaki - Persimmon - 'Matsumoto Wase Fuyu','Fuyu'
Ficus carica - Fig (5)
Juglans neotropica - Tropical Walnut (4)
Morus alba x Morus ruba - Mulberry Hybrid - 'Hicks early'
Morus macroura - Himalayan Mulberry - 'Red Shahtoot'
Morus nigra - Black Mulberry - 'Queenie'
Parajubaea torallyi var. torallyi - Bolivian mountain coconut (2)
Punica granatum - Pomegranate - 'Eversweet' (2)
Sechium edule - Chayote with almost spiny free fruits
Xanthoceras sorbifolium - Yellowhorn (2)

And a couple of additional (not really interesting) temperate fruit trees and climbers.
I'm looking forward to buy some seed from forum members to get more hardy tropicals.

Meaghan · « **Reply #1311 on:** July 24, 2016, 02:17:51 PM »

Hi everyone!

Just found this forum, we have been growing tropical (and not tropical) fruit trees for a year now but we expanded from just a couple trees last year to a few dozen trees this year. We're in north-central Florida, zone 8B, so we keep the majority in pots (we tried a few in ground last year and had mixed success). Right now, we've got the following in pots:

Mango: Kent, Southern Blush, Nam Doc Mai, Pram Kai Mea, Lemon Zest, Duncan, and Coconut Cream.
Avacado: Day and Florida Hass
Lychee: Sweetheart and an unknown variety.
Guava: standard pink/red apple
Longan: Kohala
Rambutan: Arka Coorg Arun
Mangosteen
Pulasan
Maprang
Charichuelo

And the following in ground:
Mango: Nam Doc Mai, Kent, Southern Blush, and Duncan
Avacado: Brogden
Orange: Valencia and Wasington Navel
Lemon: Meyer
Banana: Willams
Guava: standard pink/red apple
Pomegranate: Sienevyi
Kiwi vines: Issac and Vincent

Not tropical but we also have these in ground:
Peach: Suncrest and unknown varities
Nectarine: Mericrest
Plum: unknown varities
Apricot: Royal Blenheim
Cherry: Bing
Apple: Fuji and a golden variety
Pear: Bosc and Bartlett
Pear-Apple hybrid: Shinseiki

We also have a few sprouts and seeds, including Arka Coorg Patib Rambutan, Lemon Cattley Guava, Sapodilla, Sugar Apple, Gac, Salak, and Makak that I'm going to work on sprouting this summer. I also have some dragonfruit cuttings but I had no luck rooting the ones I had last year so I don't hold out hope for these either.

Ornamentally we have pulmeria and hibiscus of several varieties in pots as well.

I joined to get somet tips and tricks, we're going to stick with containers on the ones that are in pots just due to the mixed results last year of growing tropicals in ground because we had a really bad series of freezes and lost a couple despite covers, heat lights, etc. I'm even considering uprooting the Brogden and citrus since we don't have backups in pots, but I don't know how well that would go as they have been growing in ground for over a year now. At some point I'd like to learn how to graft too, but I know that I'm nowhere near ready for that!

I'm probably not going to be super active, because we have a small farm (goats, pigs, poultry, etc.) along with day jobs, but I thought I'd say hello!

AnnonaMangoLord45 · « **Reply #1312 on:** August 19, 2016, 12:59:59 PM »

Hello, might be late to the scene, but I'm a SoCal 13 year old who grows the following

Taiwan century guava
Ruby Supreme guava
Taiwan Pearl Guava
Page orange
Mandarins
Mangoes (Pickering,VP, and Keitt)
Soursop
Vanilla
Cacao
Loquat(2)
White Sapote
Sugar Apple
El Bumpo Cherimoya
Atemoya
Hak ip lychee
Meyer lemons
Mexican papaya
Banana
Passion fruit
Dragon Fruit
Monstera deliciosa

Will get more soon! Pleasure to officially meet yall

Vincent · « **Reply #1313 on:** October 07, 2016, 10:04:25 AM »

Located in Punta Gorda,FL. My name is Vincent. Atemoyas, lychee, jackfruit, mango, sugar apples some of my favorites. Recently planted out several trees.

DimplesLee · « **Reply #1314 on:** October 07, 2016, 10:59:08 AM »

Just wanted to welcome all the new TFF members

LaCasaVerde · « **Reply #1315 on:** October 20, 2016, 10:49:29 PM »

I live in Pensacola Fl and am growing dekopon/shiranui, blood orange,navel oranges, meyers lemens, xie shan, owari, ponkan, hamlin oranges, apples Anna, golden dorsett, en shimer, sugar cane, methley plums, persian limes, barbados cherries, all sorts of blackberries, mission and arbequina olives. Experimenting with new forms of cold frames. I love citrus and all its challenges in particular and am currently studying dekopon in ground performance here at 8b 9a.

Jon · « **Reply #1316 on:** October 23, 2016, 12:49:32 PM »

Hi everybody,
My name is Jon, and I would like to start off by thanking all those that are responsible for creating this wonderful forum, thank you for having me.
I am an animal and plant love her with it and fences on tropical fruits and tropical trees that I try and grow in my inside room in our house in New York.
I have been growing for many years house plants and for the last 10 years on and off Jack fridge and mangoes from seeds but have never seriously set up a grow room like I have presently done.
Presently my grow room as for fixtures of a 4 foot long T5 fluorescent bulbs, one is set up on the ceiling overhead and the others are on three sides of the plant area. I am presently growing jack fruit from seed a mango from rootstock and a rainbow eucalyptus that I just purchased a month ago. I look forward to sharing the little I know and learning as much as I can from all of you folks that have far more experience than I do. For work I have been a teacher of meditation and various forms of yoga , for the last 45 years, I enjoy working with people that want to experience direct realization through light prayer and meditation in a natural setting and a natural lifestyle.

Jon

ijichan · « **Reply #1317 on:** November 01, 2016, 12:47:45 AM »

Hi all,

My name is Ian and firstly I would like to sincerely thank all those responsible for creating and moderating this wonderful forum.
I stay close to the equator in the tropical island of Borneo, so we are fortunate to have a selection of tropical fruits year round.
I have just started getting more interested into permaculture and would like to feed my plants as organically as possible.
I also look forward to learning on the various cultivars of tropical fruits which I can plant in my garden and suitable growing and maintenance methods which i can do during the weekends so that my family (and sometimes neighbours) can enjoy the resulting harvest.

Among the tropical trees previously grown or growing in the garden
- Guava (psidium guajava crema)
- Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
- Mango (thong dam? cultivar)
- Dragonfruit (Pitaya blanca)
- Jambu (Syzygium samarangense)
- Soursop (Annona muricata)
- Sugar apple (A. squamosa)
- Cooking plantains (Musa x paradisiaca)
- Tahitian lime (Citrus latifolia)
- Fijian longan (pometia pinata)
- Coconut
- Papaya

KelzKhaos · « **Reply #1318 on:** November 12, 2016, 05:05:51 PM »

Hello all!
I'm Kelly & I'm very new to both the forum & the world of tropical fruit growing. I have a few basic tropical fruit plants bananas, guavas, pineapple & dragon fruit, but nothing extreme yet. Unless you count the sulcata tortoise who owns the yard. I'll probably be lurking & learning mostly but thought I should at least introduce myself.

Daintree · « **Reply #1319 on:** December 02, 2016, 11:01:33 AM »

Quote from: KelzKhaos on November 12, 2016, 05:05:51 PM

... Unless you count the sulcata tortoise who owns the yard. I'll probably be lurking & learning mostly but thought I should at least introduce myself.

Hi Kelly! I have been thinking about getting some sort of reptile, such as a tortoise, for my greenhouse, but I worry that it will eat everything in sight. What does your tortoise eat, and do you have to fence off your plants?

Thanks!
Carolyn

roblack · « **Reply #1320 on:** December 04, 2016, 08:31:28 AM »

Hi everyone. Just joined recently and am happy to have found such a great meeting place for fellow plant enthusiasts. I'm growing a mix of fruit trees in-ground and containers, as well as vines, berries, veggies, herbs, and lots of flowers. Seems there is always room for another tree, despite what my wife says. Zone 10b, so lots of possibilities here.

Of the fruits that I am growing, I have not ever tried many of them. That is changing, and haven't regretted growing anything yet. I just like finding something different.

My old landscaper told me I couldn't graft more than one variety of mango on rootstock, and dampened my dreams of a multi-mango dream tree. Thank you TFF members for paving the way on what was obviously not an original idea. Now I am planning on doing some top work on my Glenn and Nam Doc Mai #4.

Looking forward to learning lots here, sharing info, seeds, and cuttings.

8ofGac · « **Reply #1321 on:** December 12, 2016, 10:44:08 PM »

Hey, Guys for two weeks i have been trying to register to the forum. Finally got in. couldn't get in because of the fatal error notice i was getting while trying to register. posted my introduction in the wrong place anyway i am 21 years old from Texas new to growing anything that is a plant. Already started 3 golden Thai papaya seeds for next year. looking forward to buying more fruit seeds and plants .

Guayaba · « **Reply #1322 on:** December 13, 2016, 09:33:46 AM »

Hello Everyone,
I have been lurking for a while and decided to sign up because there is so much good information and advice on this forum for growing tropical fruit. I live in San Diego, California about five miles from the Pacific Ocean, so winter nights can be cool/cold and summer days are much warmer than on the coast. This provides me a nice microclimate to grow subtropical fruits as well as plums. My latest obsessions are Annona and Jackfruit.

Bob

FruitFool · « **Reply #1323 on:** December 15, 2016, 02:43:45 AM »

Hi, All,

I have been visiting this forum last few months but it did not let me register till now.
I am based in San Diego, CA and have small yard.

I love fruits, especially Mangos and Sugar apples. Started to buy and taste chrimoya fruits from grocery/Atkins nursery recently.
Just started getting trees, I have Lemon Zest and Mallika Mango, African Pride Atemoya, Sirneyvi and Parfianka Pomegranate and Peter's honey fig, Kishu and Gold Nugget Mandarin, all in pots, most in 5 gl. Wishlist -- sweetheart lychee, 4 season longan, GA 866 Jujube, Big Red Sugar apple, El bumpo cherimoya.

Hoping to learn from forum gurus and contribute.

Thank you,
FruitFool

mangomongo · « **Reply #1324 on:** December 16, 2016, 06:50:44 PM »

Why do I feel like I'm standing up at an AA meeting for the first time? ( not that I've ever been to AA, I am of Irish decent so it would just be another awkward family reunion) All jokes aside I'm pretty sure I have a sickness and the only cure is more mango trees. It all started at my local tropical nursery, there I was with good intentions to pick out a mango tree for shade in my front yard like about half of south Merritt island, with there 50+ year old monster trees. At first it was the sweet taste of a Valencia pride and wow what a big mango. the next thing I knew I was back the next day with my wife, tasting and buying a Coconut cream, Carrie, Glenn, and a Kent. From there it only got worse. looking for room in the yard and cutting down sterile non fruit trees to get my fix by planning out and researching the next tree. Alas, I am running out of yard space with my 15 trees, some not even in the ground yet and contemplating what I would give up if I found a new one I cant live without. I can only assume this echo's a similar scenario for most of us here. Thank you for your support. "I AM JASON AND I HAVE MANGO FEVER"

All that being said, I am also a Firefighter for Orange county and If we can ever get a contract I will probably spend my raise on mango trees, fishing rods, boat parts, and Irish whiskey. The other 10 percent I will probably waist.

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