***THE FARMERS CHED***

[kcgilll]

[kcgilll]

Blue waters growing short trees like that in orange grove right be highway
They gonna make real money soon, it is a big project
Surprised u guys didn't know about it
Just look behind the tree opposite the new massy store

Think they should be bearing by now

[hustla_ambition101]

They gonna take the bottled coconut water industry by storm.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

If a bottle of regular water from bluewaters is $5 and some places $6.

How much them gonna sell coconut water for, $15? cause off brand stuff is $13 and a number of of them is not even pure coconut water, scammers does mix it with sugar water etc.
I hope bluewaters don't put me out of business though cause I have 150 coconut trees coming up and I wanted to bottle them and sell.

[hustla_ambition101]

You have machinery to process and cleanse and label your product ED? There are a lot of mini marts and bars in your area, so they could be your market

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^ nope don't have any machinery to do any of this as yet, the plants will take 5 years before they start to produce and I only have a handful of big trees right now just 6 tall ones the other 150 are small ones. I got rid of all my Orange trees etc to make way for Coconut I should have done it long ago, orange is seasonal, coconut is monthly salary.

My brother has about 300 coconut trees. Luckily he only sell wholesale to people who come and pick it. So all the bars and restaurants by me is all mine, spoke to the owners and they said they will pay $10 a bottle wholesale and 1 coconut almost fills a bottle, thats pretty good if you think about it. But I am not sure how to go about to pasteurize, cleanse and label. Its only now that you have mentioned it that I know about this I always thought people just cut it and use a regular strainer and funnel. hmmm

Any idea where I would get this machine to buy?

[hustla_ambition101]

Ok, gave you a bit of misinformation there.......coconut water is cooled out of the nut, not heated.....google has a lot of info

ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1418e/a1418e00.pdf

that link has a nice manual for a small operation and amazon/ebay etc should have all the stuff you need in terms of machinery

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

^ thanks dude that is some really great info there.

[TrinbagoMan]

https://www.facebook.com/moj666wyo/vide ... 448961251/

[York]

DAIS THE REAL THING DEY BOI!

[TriniAutoMart]

Blue waters growing short trees like that in orange grove right be highway
They gonna make real money soon, it is a big project
Surprised u guys didn't know about it
Just look behind the tree opposite the new massy store

I believe that Caroni 1975 Ltd. was also growing these short trees before they were shut down.
That is why I said that there must be some plants out there.

[York]

What's the spacing for coconut trees like 20-25ft ? Have a couple of acres and this sounds interesting...

[R.P.J]

Lately I am.seing plenty ants and other creatures around my home what could I use to spray the yard.

Also I want to spray the grass what should I use?

[Chimera]

Regent/fastac

[X_Factor]

any particular species of grass you wanna kill?
the hardest two are nutgrass and white head

used one called weedless with a sticker and had good results with that

[GRIM]

Regent/fastac

if you have dogs/cats lock/tie them for a day before using fastac cause it kinda dangerous to them
regent = frontline so that safe and it works

any particular species of grass you wanna kill?
the hardest two are nutgrass and white head

used one called weedless with a sticker and had good results with that

nutgrass impossible to killl unless you remove the nut/bulb but i find mapcid does a good job at keeping it down for a while

white easy to kill but if it making seeds that is whats troublesome, some basta/herbinate and paraquat/sunquat does melt out most grass, except nutgrass.
after the grass melt out just spray back with a pre-emergent.

[Chimera]

It have a specific chemical for whitehead. When i go home i will check the name on bottle.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

What's the spacing for coconut trees like 20-25ft ? Have a couple of acres and this sounds interesting...

I plant 15 feet apart. A bit too close but should be fine, won't stop them from bearing or anything like that. A couple acres should get you 200 trees. Each tree produces atleast 30 nuts a month so 30x200 = 6000 nuts a month.

If they buying wholesale and don't have to climb since the trees will be short you looking at minimum $3 a nut wholesale which is $18,000 a month and you hardly have to do anything except spray the grass every 5 months.

I gonna bottle and sell cause its $10 wholesale for half liter bottle cold. And I have quality nuts so 1 nut filling a bottle.

[Ronaldo95163]

Took some shots of the lime trees im growing today





Was wondering when would be this best time to transplant them into bigger pots?
Also what would be the best way of going about removing them from the bucket without damaging them??

[X_Factor]

unless ur keeping them in pots, put them in the transplanting bags
when its time to put them in the ground the soil may break up while trying to get it out of a pot and plant could die
vs just tearing a bag and keeping soil intact
imo, u should transplant asap
larger they get harder to get out properly without damaging root structure


best way to get them out atm, cut the bucket in half

[Chimera]

Yup jigsaw or hacksaw and cut that bucket off.

[eurogirl]

Took some shots of the lime trees im growing today





Was wondering when would be this best time to transplant them into bigger pots?
Also what would be the best way of going about removing them from the bucket without damaging them??

Bag them

Give them a week or two

spray with antifungal

Graft them

presto orange trees !!! unless its the big Tahitian / persian lime then KEEP them !!

ppl go come pick it off ure tree

[X_Factor]

a grinder or careful use of a circular saw can get the job done quick
even if u heat up an old knife

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

What kind of vegetables does Namdevco buy? do they buy Ocra? anyone here has done business with them? would they buy 4000 Ocras at a time?

I planting about 1200 Ocra trees and would need a way to get rid of those pickings quickly, but I am also thinking perhaps its a bad idea to plant too much of the same thing, main reason for Ocra is because its a hard though plant. Easy to maintain and produces every other day. Any other suggestions besides Ocra? the vege stall in my area advised me on cucumbers and eggplant as they would like to get those, offcourse easier said than done eh. Eggplant is catch ass to bear, tried that sheit and only a handful of trees bear, most drop flowers and produced nothing. Was a quantum waste of time and money if you ask me.

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BTW this talk about planting by moon, does that even work or is all superstitious nonsense? ah keep hearing people say well the tree eh bear cause I eh plant it in dark night and all this crap. But I found no real scientific evidence to suggest the moon has anything to do with crops.

[York]

What kind of vegetables does Namdevco buy? do they buy Ocra? anyone here has done business with them? would they buy 4000 Ocras at a time?

I planting about 1200 Ocra trees and would need a way to get rid of those pickings quickly, but I am also thinking perhaps its a bad idea to plant too much of the same thing, main reason for Ocra is because its a hard though plant. Easy to maintain and produces every other day. Any other suggestions besides Ocra? the vege stall in my area advised me on cucumbers and eggplant as they would like to get those, offcourse easier said than done eh. Eggplant is catch ass to bear, tried that sheit and only a handful of trees bear, most drop flowers and produced nothing. Was a quantum waste of time and money if you ask me.

eggplant needs soil and foliar fertilizer to help it to hold the flowers, 2 week spray for insects/pests and fungal treatment spray. red potash works wonders for bearing. it all depends on the soil and what nutrients you need to supplement.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

^ I see, hmmm the soil on my side is sapat soil I think they call it is a type of clay soil, heard its excellent for stuff like cassava etc

Will try what you said and see if it works

[Ronaldo95163]

Thanks guys

One question wrt cutting thr bucket

Wouldn't that just leave a bucket shaped mass of soil with the plants in it if I cut the bucket out from around it?

How would I go about separating the plants further from this as I plan on putting them individually into really large pots.

[Chimera]

Buctril for whitehead

[hustla_ambition101]

ED, you can't just walk in off the street and sell to NAMDEVCO, they have rules.