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Goldenseal Posted at 11-17 12:06
I couldn't get a good look at the leaves. My co -worker in Orlando had 3 large avocado trees. Oh yea, I love them. He would bring me bags of avocados, all I wanted. I can't figure out why they are so expensive? It's the same with papayas . They seem almost a weed. I grew them at my house in Florida and would get over 50 papayas a plant. I gave them away to everybody. I grew the Hawaiian kind. Pineapple is the hard one to figure out. It takes to years to harvest and they are cheap on the mainland. $2.99 here. They cost more in Hawaii. I grew 2 types of bananas. I didn't have a big yard so I had to wait some on them. I would visit my buddy who had an acre of bananas. Before I'd leave, I'd get the machete and cut me a bunch. I grew 2 types of oranges, pineapple, Key lime, figs, Surinam cherries, jabuticaba, loquat ,jelly palm and cactus for the fruit. I never tried to eat my bamboo.
Aloha GS,
Yeah, I looked at the video again and noticed that the leaves were skinny almost like a mango leaf. But that one young avocado told me what month that flight was in. BTW, that landing was before I had discovered EXPO!
Bananas and pineapples take two years to give fruit and then you have to cut the banana tree down and pull the pineapple plant after harvesting the fruit. But the pineapple top can be planted to give a baseball pineapple (small pineapple) that again takes two years. We do that a lot here.
Most commercial bananas are cloned. You have to go through a hundred fruit to find a single seed. The soil substrate is also important. Toxins express themselves late, just when the fruit should be ready (toxins turn the fruit black). And you have to cut the bananna flower as soon as it starts blooming because it is drawing energy from the fruit.
Our pineapples cost more in Hawai'i because they are imported all the way to the middle of the Pacific. They just recently shut down the last pineapple plantation and it was only for pineapple juice. There are no commercial pineapple operations in Hawai'i anymore. But, if you want to trespass, you can find them wild in the old pineapple fields. (I used to steal them in my old surfing days when there were still plantations.)
Papayas are much more easy and take about a year to fruit. But, we have birds that love that first sign of yellow. Once your crop is showing yellow, you have to start sacrificing the junk papayas and screen the good ones if you can. They actually have short papaya trees that allow you to tend papayas without using a ladder. There are also football size papayas but the flavor is no where near a sweet as the smaller ones (so far but they are working on it).
Some farmers here in Kahalu'u have recently started growing cacao. We have at least one press plant and I think there may be another one (not sure). That is going to be good. I have already tried the product and it is ono!
Because apples and cherries require a frost to bloom, I keep trying to see if someone on the Big Island can try growing them high enough up the mountains to give fruit. So far no luck. BTW, have you heard about the vertical farms in New York and other big cities? They sell their product (hydroponics) to the upscale restaurants in the city. That started in the orient and caught on from there.
Keep at it! We do not have enough agriculture in the world!
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