The Tropical Fruit Forum

do you use the bookmark feature?  not sure why it took me so long to start using it, seems rather useful.  right now i have around 50 bookmarks.  i wonder who has the most?

honestly i’d love it if everyone’s bookmarks were public.  if you live in the same type of climate as me, and/or collect the same types of fruits as me, i’m sure that plenty of your bookmarks would be useful to me... and vice versa.

having access to each other’s bookmarks would lower our chances of overlooking the best threads/fruits.  overlooking the best things is one of the worst things…

Flora notes of soursop, sweetness of pineapple, a Note of Fuji apple, mango, banana, passion fruit combined; why the hell I did not plant this three decades ago???

he was referring to whitman fiberless soursop, which certainly isn’t the best in terms of cold tolerance…

I am tire of loosing my award winning whitman fiberless & countless superior A. Muricata to Florida countless freeze that kill my joy.  I embark on a quest to find the perfect A. Glabra pond apple, the perfect dwarf coconuts, the perfect A. Montana to replace all my A. Muricata.  A. montana is a very prolific producer, but tree can be quite massive if not mantain; its practically disease resistant & newer selected strains are producing fruit that will soon rival other esteem Annonas by me & a few fruit fanatic brothers in arms in North West Florida.

there’s always room for improvement, so what's "best" changes often, which makes it challenging to keep up with everything.

so let’s try collaborative bookmarking.  basically we’ll share our most useful bookmarks with each other.  this might, however, result in a long list of bookmarks so the big question is, which would be the best way to order them? 

1. voting
2. donating

voting is fine if you merely "like" coconut’s threads, but if you LOVE them, then donating is more useful, in theory.  the more money you donate for his threads the more attention you'd draw to them and the more you would help this website and community grow.

perhaps you’re not convinced.  well, one of the most effective ways to decide whether something is the best is to conduct a side-by-side experiment, like so…

reddit
sheet

i created that reddit group (aka "subreddit") specifically for our bookmarks.  if you don’t already have an account you can sign up with your google/gmail account.  then you just copy and paste the urls of your most useful bookmarks into the group, if they aren’t already there, by clicking "post" and then the link tab (titles are automatically generated).  we can vote each other’s bookmarks up, or down.

the google sheet is for the donation approach.  1st you’d make a donation to the tropical fruit forum, for example $5, and then you’d reply to this thread like so…

$3, bookmark url #1, durian, breeding, florida
$1, bookmark url #2, california, subtropical, garcinia, cold
$1, bookmark url #3, grafting, annona

i’d update the google sheet accordingly. 

admittedly this won’t be a perfect side-by-side experiment but hopefully it will help clarify the difference between these two ways of collectively determining what’s important.  at the very least it’s a good opportunity to share our most useful bookmarks with each other.

Bookmarks are nice. I use them for old threads that are good, but dead. I don't see a reason to donate to promote the best bookmarks.
Just make a thread Titled "Best Bookmarks" and have people post their favorite bookmarks with a brief description of the thread. No reason to donate more when the donations are already covered unless there's a need for more money to support the forum. Just my take.

Bookmarks are nice. I use them for old threads that are good, but dead. I don't see a reason to donate to promote the best bookmarks.
Just make a thread Titled "Best Bookmarks" and have people post their favorite bookmarks with a brief description of the thread. No reason to donate more when the donations are already covered unless there's a need for more money to support the forum. Just my take.

good but dead?  hmmm...

I found an old post of Harry's on gardenweb today that talked a fair bit about Kwai Muk.  It got me to thinking about its potential as a rootstock for jackfruit here in southern California.  I wonder if it might impart a bit more hardiness to its jackfruit scion in marginal growing areas.  Does anyone have experience, or even second-hand knowledge of interspecific grafting of Artocarpus?  I have a Kwai Muk coming from Bryan at Montoso Gardens already, and I may have to experiment.  Mwa ha ha ha!

Thanks for posting, Luc.  I assume that this species must vary considerably in quality because I have had people tell me it is not worth growing and others say it is very good.  I tried it for the first time about a week ago and it was very tasty.  Anyone know if this can be grafted onto other Artocarpus roostock? (since I don't have any Kwai Muk rootstock)  I guess that might also speed up the growth rate a little as well...

John

I'm curious if anyone in California has figured out which Artocarpus is the most vigorous for use as rootstock.  Right now I'm growing seedlings of Jackfruit, Wild Jack, and Kwai Muk, and of the three Wild Jack (A. hirsutus) grows the fastest for me.  I haven't tried grafting any Artocarpus yet, and I've heard in general it can be a bit tricky, but I'm willing to try if one might be a good rootstock for some of the more rare Artocarpus species that generally don't do well in our climate.

i also want to know the answer.  so at least four people want to know the answer, does this motivate you to try grafting kwai muk and jackfruit?  what if 100 people want to know the answer?  100,000?

reddit makes it easy to see how many people want to know an answer, but it doesn't reveal how urgently they want to know the answer.  for that we need donations.  then, and only then, will we be the most helpful to each other.

does the tff truly need more money?  well, how much money do you think that the tff should spend on advertising?  should it spend enough to put up 1 small billboard in 1 small city?  or should it spend enough to put up 10 big billboards each in 100 big cities?