Falling mango...our hail in trinidad

[pugboy]

I’ve seen parrots take a bite of a greenish mango and shake it up and cause it to fling to the side a good distance too, so don’t assume you parked a lil way off that you safe.

[88sins]

I’ve seen parrots take a bite of a greenish mango and shake it up and cause it to fling to the side a good distance too, so don’t assume you parked a lil way off that you safe.

I used to have that problem.
Shoot one or two of them and they figure out to avoid that tree real quick

[aaron17]

Mango in season....just had one fall in front of me while driving...nearly hit my front.. a big one

[axe]

I have a mango called Kiew Sa Wei from Thailand. It can be eaten green...sweet even though flesh white.
When ripe even ants cover it on the tree to eat it. People often say it's too sweet.
I was able to acquire a mango variety called Nam Dok Mai. A Thai variety too, ranked in the top 10 in the world.
The number one variety is Alphonso from India but I don't think anyone has that here.

Post any exotic varieties you all got

[De Dragon]

I have a mango called Kiew Sa Wei from Thailand. It can be eaten green...sweet even though flesh white.
When ripe even ants cover it on the tree to eat it. People often say it's too sweet.
I was able to acquire a mango variety called Nam Dok Mai. A Thai variety too, ranked in the top 10 in the world.
The number one variety is Alphonso from India but I don't think anyone has that here.

Post any exotic varieties you all got

Only have a solitary grafted Julie in my yard, but my grandmother had a turpentine, that was memorable from my childhood days.

[ftitan]

I have a mango called Kiew Sa Wei from Thailand. It can be eaten green...sweet even though flesh white.
When ripe even ants cover it on the tree to eat it. People often say it's too sweet.
I was able to acquire a mango variety called Nam Dok Mai. A Thai variety too, ranked in the top 10 in the world.
The number one variety is Alphonso from India but I don't think anyone has that here.

Post any exotic varieties you all got

I have the thai as well, tastes better green tbh. You get it from the exotic dealer in tableland or what? And we have nam doc mai #4 in trinidad, which splits open on the tree so it's the undesirable variety.
It have alphonso here. La Vega owner have it but he not selling or trading.

[timelapse]

There's a variety called Imperial that I see being sold some times.Is that a legit breed?

[ftitan]

There's a variety called Imperial that I see being sold some times.Is that a legit breed?

Yeah that's the official name. Pretty big mango.

[axe]

I used to work la Vega so I got the mangoes from there.
The guy in table land expensive...but he has great stuff.
Bought a grafted rambutan from him $400 but it then died

[axe]

Have to find out about the Alphonso

[axe]

Ok. La Vega has some young trees in Alphonso...not bearing yet. No plants for sale either.
Truly amazing

[ftitan]

I used to work la Vega so I got the mangoes from there.
The guy in table land expensive...but he has great stuff.
Bought a grafted rambutan from him $400 but it then died

I'd recommend against buying from the tableland man tbh. He's a scammer with trades and he stole alot of his exotics from La Vega owner by bribing workers behind the man back.
The "grafted" rambutan is a very badly air layered branch. I fed up tell him how to do it properly and he said he wasting too much branch space the correct way, therefore less money for him. A proper rambutan air layer supposed to be over 3 feet long and have a 100% sucess rate.
Go by mootilal for exotics. He has a few mango varieties too.

[axe]

Who is motilal?
I got some New Grant too...

The grafted rambutan is approach grafting not airlayered.
I have done both myself

[meccalli]

I believe it can be air layered, however i am familiar with the approach graft method similar to what's done for caimete. I honestly don't see what's the big rage over alphonso, it is complex flavoured i guess but it's like a carrie in terms of that sharp piney taste. My favourite mango is still a julie grown properly on low nitrogen and high K inputs.
Attempting to do a frankenstein mango tree currently, starch is set and julie recently started pushing buds.

[pugboy]

I buy some lychees from chankas last week,
Best fruit for me, rambutan is joke compared

Too bad they won’t bear here

[axe]

We made lychee bear in LA Vega even though it's subtropical.
We stressed a mature tree by ring barking

[meccalli]

We made lychee bear in LA Vega even though it's subtropical.
We stressed a mature tree by ring barking

They've done it in india as well, cincturing in the case of lychee induces flowering by the induction of vegetative dormancy as would be the case in the subtropics during chill periods. They also experimented with applying regulators like potassium nitrate and ethrel similar to forcing in mangos.

[pugboy]

i hear it have somebody with a durian tree
lavega have one ?

We made lychee bear in LA Vega even though it's subtropical.
We stressed a mature tree by ring barking

[axe]

Yes la Vega has..used to sell about 50 dollars a pound last time I heard. But you have to eat it there and give them back the seeds

[ftitan]

Who is motilal?
I got some New Grant too...

The grafted rambutan is approach grafting not airlayered.
I have done both myself

Oh ok. Air layer works 100 for me. Approach takes too long to heal imo.

The Mootilal brothers is a supplier in Sangre Chiquito. I'll buss a file here. You know all those facebook plant sellers who sell stuff in droves? Like they post lists of things with pics and expensive prices. They all go by Mootilal and buy those exotic/normal fruits. Buy it for 40-60 and resell it for 150+ online. They tell me how they have to hide things when those sellers pass, so the small man could get a plant afterwards too. Real honest people.
Tableland man and the new grant person who I think the exotic fruit shed or something, buys from Mootilal too.

[pugboy]

lol
real back room scenes

Yes la Vega has..used to sell about 50 dollars a pound last time I heard. But you have to eat it there and give them back the seeds

[Chimera]

Who is motilal?
I got some New Grant too...

The grafted rambutan is approach grafting not airlayered.
I have done both myself

Oh ok. Air layer works 100 for me. Approach takes too long to heal imo.

The Mootilal brothers is a supplier in Sangre Chiquito. I'll buss a file here. You know all those facebook plant sellers who sell stuff in droves? Like they post lists of things with pics and expensive prices. They all go by Mootilal and buy those exotic/normal fruits. Buy it for 40-60 and resell it for 150+ online. They tell me how they have to hide things when those sellers pass, so the small man could get a plant afterwards too. Real honest people.
Tableland man and the new grant person who I think the exotic fruit shed or something, buys from Mootilal too.

link an address or contact number na

online i only finding Motee & Sons in grande

[axe]

We need that number

[pugboy]

somebody got a lime tree for me from them
turn out real good, nice big limes

this after 3 other attempts at other “grafted” purchases-fraud

[axe]

I'm seeing the Names Mahasedath and Patrick Motilal online on a magazine...but no contact number

[ftitan]

edited, PM for #

[axe]

Ftitan do you have any airlayered rambutan for sale?

[ftitan]

Ftitan do you have any airlayered rambutan for sale?

Nope, most I doing these days is trading the excess plants.

To stay on topic, anyone ever try maprang? It's a relative of mango and is literally a tiny mango

[axe]

La Vega has that. But they don't sell...I've never tried it

[axe]

Best mango for me is a half ripe kiew sa wei
Ridiculously sweet.
The real bad is the tree and fruit real susceptible to anthracnose....constant spraying