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Posted by marinfla 10 South Florida (My Page) on Wed, May 4, 11 at 23:07
HI Everyone,
I decided to finally follow up on starting this thread so we can all introduce ourselves (put our faces and personalities with our names).
My name is Marin. I am an OB/GYN ARNP and Certified Nurse Midwife. I am married and have 3 kids (22, 20 & 16), a border collie and a sulfur crested cockatoo. I have lived in Deerfield Beach, Florida since 1983 when I moved here from NJ where I was born and raised. I decided to move to Florida after a trip here for Spring Break that year because of the warm climate, the palm trees, the beautiful beaches and mostly because of the Mangoes!!! My hobbies include snow skiing (get my 15 days of powder per year), fishing, scuba diving, camping, traveling and growing tropical fruit are at the top of the list.
I am looking forward to knowing more about everyone!
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 Thats me with my daughter at Mounts Botanical in WPB. I live just west of Mounts in Haverhill, I have lived in South Florida for 35 years. Im the general manager of a truck shop in Palm Beach, we provide the sheriffs office with all their diesel repairs, as well as other private and government agencies. I have a three quarter acre yard that I have nearly overfilled with 75 varieties of fruit and an assortment of other non-edible tropicals. |
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| This is me and my two youngest girls (I have 4 young kids) standing next to a kiwi plant. I grow a ton of temperate fruits in my minute brooklyn yard and i also grow lychees, mangoes, jaoboticaba and citrus which i bring indoors for the winter. |
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| Just me and my plants over here, no kids yet. Started getting into collecting fruit trees and exotic fruits in 2007. All my fruit trees are grown in containers of various sizes. -Stephen |
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| Marin, this is a great idea...Nice to meet and actually "see" and put a face to a name! NOT my mango tree unfortunately...was taken from a grove on Merritt Island.
 Nancy |
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| This is me with Eunice in her grove last month, MadDog took this picture LOL 
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A gr8 idea actually ,,
Thx Marin for applying it ,,,
My Name is Amr ,, i live in Egypt ,, i work as an Attorney ,, got my LLM from Indiana University ( state of indiana ) ,, i lived in newyork for a while during college ,, i love growing tropical and subtropical trees since i visited singapore in 2004 and tasted tropical fruits for the first time ,, |
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| @ pj1881 I am envious of a 3/4 acre yard. Mine is the size of a postage stamp. So small I think my neighbor may have burped the other night and woke me up j/k :) You are not too far north of me. @ lycheeluva... 4 young kids and you still have time for all your trees in a cold climate. Very impressive! I am guessing you enjoyed that nor-easter after Christmas that paralyzed NJ and NY for days? Cute kids :) @ nullzero... remind me where you are located. I forgot. Your trees really look great and I really love the half barrels! I will have to get some of those. I am impressed with how tall your banana tree is. @ nancy...that is an awesome mango tree. Is it a pickering? the leaves and growth pattern kinda look like it but the mangoes not so sure. It is so nice to put your face with your name and posts. Keep up the good work....fighting with mother nature each winter is keeping you young and pretty...I don't see worry lines :) @ jeff... I don't think I have ever seen a trunk that thick on a papaya tree with branching...or are there two different trees in front of one another. Hey Maddog you're supposed to tell them to look at you and say cheese! :) @ Amr... great picture!! So cool to meet people from other countries and customs with the same love of fruit trees. And congrats on attaining democracy. Some day when you're bored you'll have to drop me a line about how that event changed your way of life if it did. Nice to meet all of you! |
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| Marin, The edible container garden is located in Mission Viejo, CA. The picture of the banana tree is older from fall of last year. The tree is taller and thicker now and fruiting bananas. I am planning on taking some updated photos of it this weekend. |
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| I'm Tony, aka..."SWRancher," The picture below is of me last summer with my cache of mangos from the Fairchild Mango Festival. I live to the far west of Fort Lauderdale, FL in Southwest Ranches which is the last town on the eastern edge of the Everglades. My yard is almost two acres and has various tropical fruit trees planted, mostly mangos. My two main hobbies are fruit tree gardening and muscle cars. 
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| I also live in SW ranches, two main hobbies being fruit trees (mainly mango) and high horsepower street cars... Hanging out under a Valencia Pride..
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| nice to see so many pics. keep em coming. Amr- would love to hear a first hand account of whats going on in your country. if you are bored one night, please post. |
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| Awesome...Some really CUTE kids on this thread as well...and a cute dog too! So nice to see you all! SWRancher, I need some of those mangoes,lol... Marin, plenty of wrinkles believe me,lol...I can't remember what that mango is? That picture was taken a couple of years ago when we were on vacation and went to Kennedy Space Center. Unfortunately, the gentleman that owned that grove (he was in his 80's) passed away last year I think?
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Nice to meet you all in semi-person. This is me with my youngest (of two kids). When not wandering around my yard picking fruit, I've been a lawyer for the past 32 years. Although I've done litigation for most of those years, in recent years I have opened a traffic ticket defense firm. For those slightly legally challenged drivers here in Florida you can find me at: http://florida-ticket-defense.com
I hope anyone planning to be in South Florida will make arrangements with me to stop by to take a yard tour and taste what ever might be available to try. Harry |
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| Hello everyone, Marin, I'll take a frontal picture when my mango collection is half as good as everyone else, I'm embarrassed! I live in La Habra California the home of Hass avocado and Ott mango, if that makes it any easier to locate.....my intention is to grow some of the newer cultivars you guys grow in South Florida, being a former Floridian myself. Glenn, Hayden, VP and Manila seedlings do very well in SoCa. They are not as vigorous as you Floridians are accustom, we'll see how Alfonso, Mallika,Lancetilla, and hope to add Pickering and Maha Chinook to my collection soon, turn out in the next few years. Beside mangos, I hope to fruit a grafted Magagna Mamey in the next few years, so far so good! Harry, I might take you up on your offer - of course, if I can convince my wife - and visit you soon. JF |
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| I have met some of you and look forward to meeting others! I'm in Missouri, where I have practiced Family Medicine since 1988. My fruit spends the winter in the GH...about half of it comes outside for the summer and another half lives permanently in ground beds, even through the summer. Shown are wife/partner and 2 of the 3 bear cubs, visiting NYC to see the 3rd bear cub march in the Macy's Parade last T-giving. 
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| Great pictures everyone...SO great to "see" you guys and your beautiful family as well! I would really LOVE to tour your tropical paradise Harry! I'll let you know if I'm in your neck of the woods. |
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| It is nice to put some faces to forum names. This is a pic of me, my mom, niece, tired son and wife. I own a precious metals company (minting and selling silver and gold products nationwide). My hobbies are gardening, playing the drums, and hunting down the varmint-cong that stalks my fruit. : ) 
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| Well here's the back of MangoDog's (Gary's) book cover! Amr - exactly where am I standing?????? (i've forgotten!) 
...and his partner Joe.....(I couldn't find one of us together!)... 
Gracie when she finds a blanket..... 
Amber from a couple years ago.... 
I live and work with my partner in the Executive Search Business (McCormack & Associates) as an accountant in our home office in Palm Springs California with a mango growing habit that just won't quit! With the two dogs and a couple of grown kids in their late 20's - one married and one in non-televised rehab (!) I'm into "green" - solar electric panels on the roof, recycle everything, only CFL lightbulbs for every socket....lol....and spiritual poetry. I'm a long term Truth Seeker/Meditator who gave up and now just lives in the moment and simply watches things grow. Never been happier in my life. I mean....WHAT is there besides love and mangos!!!!!! Thanks Marin for doing this.....you all look EXACTLY how i did NOT expect you would!!!!!!!!!!!!! (except Puglvr....her extreme kindness and warmth, even through torturous frosts, comes through even now....) I just wanted to say I truly enjoy everyone's story and their sharings in this extremely respectful and helpful forum and I'm so glad to see such wonderful, fruitful (!) use of the internet like this - can anyone feel our connection through the medium? I can..... TheEverlovingMangoMuncher |
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Gary ,, i was standing on your left :D ,,
nice pics though ,,
glad we saw each other so that we would expect how we look like while talking to each other ,,
regarding what is going in egypt right now ,, well ,, no body knows :D ,,,
its still cloudy but maybe sunny afterwards ,, Amr |
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| HaHa Amr!!!!!!!!!! (I thought that was you!) Yeah, that's it, Abu Simbel.....what an incredible history you have.... And I have noticed Egypt pretty much out of the news lately
as other "Hot" headlines take it's place....I haven't even heard much about Libya in the last week or so... I LOVED your country by the way (did I say that already?)
The people were very friendly - especially the youth..... MangoLassie |
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I'm Bryan, I'm 31, born and raised in Astoria Queens where I majored in Criminal Justice at John Jay University, worked for the Dept. Homeland Security for four years where I traveled a lot but didnt get to see much.
After my father passed in 2006 I inherited this property, resigned from my job, moved down here and tuned out for a while. I began planting fruit trees about two years ago when researching tropical landscaping ideas and the fruitscaping bug inevitably hit.
In 2008 I was hired by a financial firm which sponsored me to become a registered representative (stock broker), passed my series 7 securities exam and have been growing my book of business ever since. All of my clients are UK based with their portfolios invested mostly in American companies or funds. 
me hugging my Rainbow Eucalyptus tree this morning
I plan on attending the Broward Rare Fruit Council sale next Saturday, Fairchild mango festival July 9, and the Fruit and Spice Park Redland fruit festival June 11. If you see me dont be afraid to say Hi. 
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Thx Gary for your nice and kind words ,, really appreciated :DD
And Libia ,, :( |
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Pugluvr,
That tree is a Keitt...it is by the front gate of the Ensey grove. : ) BluePalm |
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| and the tree to the right is a Carambola. Haven't been to that grove since the '09 season. Hope they faired ok this winter. They have some unique varieties there. |
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| Hi Bluepalm, I should have known you would know :o)...Funny I thought Keitt would be much larger. Thanks for jogging my memory, I'm sure Ed told me what it was when I took that picture but my memory is not as good as it used to be...I hope the Mango trees you planted there is doing well! |
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| its a rarity to see me vacuuming, so when I do it becomes a big time photo opportunity :) 
w/ wife and daughter: 
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| I work in IT here in Chandler Arizona, originally from San Diego but we moved out here in 2007 due to the low housing costs.. (our mortgage here for a 3k sq ft house is the same as our rent back in san diego for a 1 bedroom duplex!!!) |
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| My kids said they don't like the picture I posted that was taken with my cell phone and said I should put a different one on here. So for the kids, here is a picture they said looks just like me whatever that is supposed to mean. from left to right: Husband, Max Weinberg, daughter-Erica & ME
 and this is a picture of the attack bird who will run off fruit thieves if you bribe him with pizza.
 I have really enjoyed reading everyone's posts!
Thanks for posting!!!!
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| PS Everyone's pics are great!! Bryan that rainbow eucalyptus grew huge in record time!! Harry just let me know when would be the best day of which weekend to come for a tour... I will put it on my calendar and make it happen!! I am really looking forward to it. |
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| Nice to meet all of you. I apologize for not introducing myself earlier. I've been busy helping my dad get our new house ready to move in and at the same time studying for finals I had in college in the last couple of weeks. My name is Alexi, 21, born in hialeah, FL; Cuban family, (Spaniard if you want to go further back into my family tree, lol) I'm majoring in Biology in Broward College and planning on becoming an Optometrist. I just planted a couple of trees at the new house(grafted Brogdon avocado and grafted Pace mamey sapote). The trees that are still in pots, which I will plant in the near future are glenn mango, kent mango, valencia pride mango(all mangoes grafted), passion fruit, manzano banana, ornamental banana, soursop(guanabana 10 inch seedling), sweetsop(Thai lessard sugar apple or anon seedling) and for in front of the house a approximately 3-year-old pantin mamey seedling. Once we have settled and planted all the trees I'll take some pictures of my new yard and trees. Tropical fruits is practically the hobby I enjoyed since I was a toddler and my other hobby is... [IMG]http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m575/tropicalgrower89/039.jpg[/IMG] |
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| Here you go Tropicalgrower89...so your other hobby is restoring cars? 
Marin, GREAT picture of you and your family! I Love your Cockatoo parrot! Lol...how he's holding the pizza! He or she is adorable! I had a friend that had a Cockatoo and I'll never forget what she said
when they scream "they can peel the wall paper off the wall,lol...does your parrot talk? |
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| Hi Nancy, That bird eats well...pizza, lamb chop bones, buffalo chicken wings, mashed potatoes & fish heads are some of his favs. Scream??? LOLOL his screeches can take out your ear drums one skin cell layer at a time while you painfully watch the wall paper peeling LOL And my family begs me to get rid of him. I tell them "it's my insurance policy that after they graduate college and get on their feet with a good job and some money in the bank that they won't want to live live here until they turn 40yo" :)
PS..... My Pickering kept 2 mangoes, Carrie 4 & I already ate the only po pyu kalay.
Lancetilla not sure yet...still dropping :(
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| Marin...LMAO!!! Too funny! Glad you were able to eat one ripe mango already...how cool that Cogshall and Carrie are blooming again...I've never had any mango bloom twice this late in the year...very cool! LMK if they fruit again...I hope so! Good luck with the rest of them. |
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| Thanks for your help puglvr1. Yeah, I like restoring them and modifying them. I'm more of a mustang/ford guy, but I like classic muscle cars also. Lol A Cockatoo that likes eating pizza. That's funny. I like all types of parrots. They all are very smart and I think the African Grey parrot is the smartest out of all. |
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| Hello, it's a pleasure to meet everyone. As always, I appreciate and value everyone's expertise and wisdom. Your willingness to share knowledge is what makes this place so great. At the risk of repeating someone else's statement, THIS IS THE BEST FORUM there is. Tim Family photo from last X-mas
 A bit more recent of the girls :)
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It's good to see the faces attached to every ones plants. So, I posted a pic of Max and I(Jeremy) checking out the Emperor lychees plumping up nicely.
As a kid, I would sit in my parent's Bing Cherry tree and stuff my cheeks until I couldn't move...ahhh, memories! I started the hobby with temperate fruit trees/bushes and that was a gateway to subtropicals/tropicals. Other hobbies/activities include Gardening, snorkeling, woodworking, and the list goes on. I am a professional ferret whisperer, and day trader. Bonus points* for anyone that finds the little Nam Doc Mai fruit growing in the pic. *- Points have absolutely no value aside from bragging rights. |
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| Hi all. Great to see faces! I'm Angela. I moved to FL from Seattle, for the sunshine=) I bought a house a year and a half ago and have embarked on creating a fruit landscape as my evening & weekend hobby. During the day I'm a software engineer for an Artificial Intelligence company - as of yet I have not created Skynet;) Seems I take a lot of pictures of my yard, and almost none of me. Here's a picture of me last year at Fairchild. 
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| Great pictures everyone!! SO Nice to meet and see you all! Wow! I want some of those Jackfruits SunW!! |
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| Going to the Mango Festival last year was so great. That was the first time I'd seen a Jackfruit on a tree - so cool! I won't be able to make it this year, but I'm envious of those of you who are going. |
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| Well, here is a picture of me doing what I love the most....crawling around under my house changing out the plumbing. Before any of you ask, no you cant help, all this fun is just for me. 
I'm Ethan BTW, I'm a Sag, like long walks on the beach and snuggling on cold days. :) I've got to be one of the luckiest people alive, I have a beautiful wife, wonderful daughter and am weeks away from the arrival of my son. I've alway been into growing plants and moved a large plant collection around during the college years. Bonsai and natal plum led me to mangoes which led me to eugenias which......well you get the point. I'm standing next to a Morro blood orange with lots of baby oranges on it. It is nice to "meet" you guys and see all your cute kids, rainbow eucs and animals. It is funny how my mental picture of you guys was different or right on in some cases. I think I saw that guy in the 3rd photo on "America's Most Wanted" -Ethan |
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| and having seen ethan with his face uncovered, i can tell u, this pic is a vast improvement. just kidding ethan darling- u r an adonis. |
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| Lol...for a second when I saw that outfit on Ethan I thought I was watching the Dustin Hoffman "Outbreak Movie"! ROFL!! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Outbreak (Ebola like Virus ) Movie...
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| 'having seen ethan with his face uncovered, i can tell u, this pic is a vast improvement' Thanks LL, there was an expression in college by people majoring in communications...."they have a face for radio". This is why I'm so lucky, somehow I managed an amazing wife. Pug, I wish it was ebola (j/k), it would be much more fun than crawling around on my belly in very tight spaces through muck that I'd rather not think about. Rewiring the house was a joy in comparison. -Ethan |
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| Good man, Ethan. It's nice to hear someone tootin the horns about their spouse :-). Jeff |
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Ethan, congrats on the new arrival!
Warren |
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Thanks Jeff, she makes it easy.
Thank you Warren, he is not here yet but very very soon. cheers,
-Ethan |
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| Great pics everyone! Tim (esco socal) your kids are gorgeous! Angela (sun worshiper) Great picture. You look just like I imagined...yes it's a compliment if you were wondering :)
Those jakfruit are pretty awesome too. Ethan (red sea me) I now will never complain again about the ugly scrubs I wear to work after checking out your getup !! lycheeluva you are hilarious :) BluePalm I think your mother must be drinking formaldehyde. I had to go back and look at the order of who was who :) Jeff Hagen....where is a picture of the infamous Jeff Hagen? |
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| PUGS - I was IN that movie, OUTBREAK - I think I was a patient on a gurney or something - I was a TV/Movie extra in the early 90's in Hollyweird.....Hoffman and who else.....Morgan Freeman were in it? Yep I've worked with the best......lol..... now THAT'S a strange life I can attest to. They used to call us "Furniture that eats!" How flattering.... :) mangoMongrel |
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| MangoDog are you serious? I never know if your kidding around...you have a great sense of humor!! If its true that is SO wild and very cool,lol...thanks for sharing! |
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Hi- I am Gwenn and I am a total computer illiterate. My husband does all my pictures, and he has been unavailable for a number of months now, so you won't get to see me. But I wanted to say hello from PR. My husband and I moved down here to escape the cold of NJ. Pharmacist by trade, I now only work a few hours/week. The rest of the time, I am playing in my yard (I wish!). We have a guest house and 9 acres in the rain forest.
I really enjoy this forum, and learn a lot from it. It is nice "meeting" you and hope to actually meet some of you in person this summer in Florida for the Mango fest. |
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| Pugles....tis true, tis true....and I've got the Star Trek Borg pictures to prove it.....just not now in digital form so as to post here.....sorry...i'll figure out some way, though....yeah, we all have our unique pathways, don't we? Gwenn - you lucky duck! Nice acres in Puerto Rico!
I'd be planting like there was no tomorrow..... MangoD |
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| Hello Everyone. It's so nice to see pictures. My name is Kristy and I live in PA. I started planting tropical fruit trees in pots around summer 2006. I really love the idea of having my own trees producing fresh fruits for me year after year. Of course that's not true with some trees. Other than planting the trees I also love to eat tropical fruits. I think I spent more money on tropical fruits than on handbags and shoes. Here is a picture of me with all the fruits I brought back from Florida trip. 
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| Wow Kristy that is a great picture. What a beautiful collection of fruit.....yummy looking. Nice to meet you! |
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| What a HAUL Kristy!! I'll be right over...I'm sure you need someone to help you eat all those :o)...Nice to meet you as well! |
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did you just leave your clothes in FL and pack all that in your suitcases? -Ethan |
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| Hehehe...this was last year picture. I took just enough clothes and two big suitcases so I can bring the fruits back...lol. The longan was so cheap so I bought 30+ lbs. There's this wholesale place in Homestead near Robert is Here that have tons of longan trees and other tropical fruits. I wish I can go back but might have to wait a while since I am 35 wks pregnant. |
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| Kristy - the one who paints with fruit! You look like a savvy buyer, too....so what do you grow in your cold Pennsylvania climate? How about some of those pictures????? Welcome to the TF forum - super nice folks here - when they're not crying over frost or lost fruit!!!!!!!! :) MangoMongrel |
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| I didn't take any recent pictures of my garden. I do have a blog with all my tropical fruit trees. Here is my list: 2 lisa atemoya
2 gefner atemoya
3 sugar apple and 3 seedlings sugar apple
2 sapodilla hasya and makok
2 mangoes nam doc mai and carrie
1 caimito
1 sweetheart lychee
1 soursop
1 Indian jujube
1 guava
1 santol
2 dwarf june plum
1 Barbados cherry
1 surinam cherry
2 big pot of dragon fruit...without fruit
5 or 6 different figs
that's all i can remember now. :) |
Here is a link that might be useful: My Blog
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| 35 weeks! Almost there, good luck with your new fruit lover Kristy. -E |
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| Congrats Kristy...won't be long now! Soon enough you will have a nice little helper to help you care for all your fruit trees. |
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| LOl...I'm already planning for him to help me carry these trees in and out to the deck. Thanks everyone. I will take some pictures when the weather is nicer. It been raining all week. |
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| Thanks for the nice compliment Marin. Fun that I look the way you imagined. I'm not sure I really imagined how people looked at all, but your picture was a surprise. How do you keep your nails so beautifully manicured? I'm always munging mine up playing in the dirt with the plants=) And I love your hair - such gorgeous curls. |
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OH Angela.... you have to see these nails after a busy day in the yard or on re-potting days. I have messed them up pretty bad a few times, smashed a few and have turned them yellow many times from digging in the dirt with no gloves :)
Fish guts and dirt don't scare me!
Your hair looks pretty curley too.... But I need to get your hat sense!
I am planning to go to the USDA Chapman Field Field Day Saturday June 4th for the Lychee Tasting....are you planning to go? Ayone else going?? |
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| Marin, I never liked hats until I moved to FL. But now I pretty much never go out without one=) That lychee tasting sounds awesome - let us know how it is. Too far away for me to make it tho... |
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| Ok, you guys shamed me. finally found a pic of my wife and I together...the big dude next to me is my cousin from France. 
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| Marinfla - I just realized my comment about how you didn't look like I expected sounded rather....um.....insensitive. What I meant to say was you look great, but my image of you before was just different - forgive me if I hurt any feelings. You look Fahbulous, actually, in both pictures!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mangodog I couldn't even find the post you were referring to and I never remembered being offended about anything LOL so I guess I never took it wrong!
I think we should try to plan a tropical fruit forum meet and greet in person!! And any of you that haven't added you picture/ introduction....you should :) and Jeff?? :) |
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Sat, Sep 24, 11 at 17:54
| Jeff Hagen is an international man of mystery and a tropical fruits genius all at the same time. He even buys books on how to prune big ol mango trees right at the hip notch. He knows how to graft little sprigs (not kidding here) and big branches due to practice practice practice, the same way you get to Carnegie Hall (old joke) He lives in the same humble burg as me (Tamarac Fl) but cannot devote the time he wishes he could to tropical fruits because he is busy coding coding coding as in writing computer code, to earn his family's daily bread. He is married to Elsy who is his equal in tropical fruits. They both tend to their mini-nursery and mini-grove with five large mango trees, canistel, lychee, big joboticaba tree, persimmons, lemon drop mangosteen, carambola, jackfruit, muchos papaya and banana and plantain which are so weed like invasive and easy to grow. Lots more stuff like Cherimoya and Sugar Apple but.... I have bought mango trees from Jeff so I am not impartial. Jeff would not write this so I did My knowledge of tropical fruits took a quantum leap when I met Elsy and Jeff last summer and bought a Nam Doc Mai and Pim Sen Mun that Jeff grafted |
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Thanks Zands :) Someday...maybe the mystery will be solved :)
PS if you don't have a Jackfruit and want one let me know. I just sprouted a bunch Mai-3 Jackfruit seeds that Rob gave me and the pots all have little green babies popping out of the soil after 2 1/2 weeks! |
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What is it about tropical fruits that makes us all so dang good-looking?
My picture is from a couple Thanksgivings ago. In person, of course, I'm tall and thin, handsome, and have all my hair.
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RE: Tropical Fruit Forum Meet and Greet
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| LOL......and a funny guy, too! mangoDOG |
RE: Tropical Fruit Forum Meet and Greet
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| @ mangodog- sniffing the good stuff right from the bottle will do that to ya :) Nice to see you Dan :)
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RE: Tropical Fruit Forum Meet and Greet
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| PS ----Dan the Tebow is doing great, Thanks again |
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