Great videos and what a beautiful area you live in, this is a dream for me. I'm a retired landscape contractor and I miss working out in the field, you've put together a wonderful farm and it's a pleasure watching everything you've built. It definitely puts ideas in my head and I will continue to watch and will be back in Thailand come October. My Thai lady friend and I put 3000 miles on our motorbikes earlier this year. What a beautiful country Thailand is and l look forward to making it my home soon. I'm definitely going to put Kanchanaburi on my list of places to visit. Hopefully I'll be visiting the nice hot springs you took a dip in. Thanks for sharing...
8:00 I am so ready to get to this part of the farming. Still in the development process. Not farming Durian alone, but a test farm for the region. I like your channel, looking forward to more content. TThanks for sharing. 🍈
That is really good farmland in your area. The entire area was prone to flooding before the dam was built upstream. Reclaimed river bottom makes great farmland.
Thanks for sharing your little slice of paradise. Sorry you're getting a few trolls in your comments; misery likes company, I guess. I hope you keep it up!
You should consider multi-root grafting method to speed up growth and tougher trunk. Combining 2-3 plants together, the root system will spread wider, absorbing more nutrient so the tree will grow fast, strong, healthy and produce more fruit.
If you plan to go high density and control the size of the trees 7x7 is the max spacing . If you plan on just letting the trees grow big not controlling the size by pruning then you may want to consider 9x 9 or more
Hi Terry,hope you’re well. Regarding young saplings,I noticed a lot of nursery are double,triple every 4 root system grafted onto a single species eg, Monthong. Does having few more grafted root systems together helps with stronger growths and healthier trees? What’re your thoughts?
@@TMDurianfarmer Thank you Terry. Just a note on saplings, have you try growing or produce your own seeding? I’ll have to purchase the first stage of planting but thinking of producing my own saplings further down the tracks. Do You know anyone that sells just the seeds itself? If you do,can you pass some contacts to me please. Thanks again.
Still slowing watching all the old videos getting caught up, 1 per day.... I was wondering, who is providing most of the knowhow? You or the Thai Family?? Your techniques are so different from how the Thais in Chanthaburi trained me up....
It comes from me and my wife I've compiled a lot of info and techniques and I'm using them.we have these government paid speakers that come around providing the latest and greatest on new techniques growing and caring for durian .it's definitely different from the older style of farming durian
@@TMDurianfarmer over the last 15 years I have come to the conclusion that the Thai Universites have in my opinion the best Agricultural programs on earth. I have seen the Department of Agriculture come to town and guide local farmers to up their game and the results are usually Yielding the most tasty fruit on earth. If your lucky enough to find the spots you can stumble upon the best Pineapple on earth from Huay Moon Uttaradit, (better than Hawaian Pineapple) The best "Giant" Lychee on earth from Fang in Chiang Mai, The Amazing phuang Manee Durians from Makam in Chanthaburi, or of Course the best Mangos on earth being the Thai "Nam Dop Mai" Mangos from Phitsoniluk. As unbelieveavle as it sounds, The Thais have even mastered whats now the best Sweetest strawberries on earth growing down near Lom Sak in Loei provence, You can get an entire kg and not even have a single sour piece. That was a hard faught battle and the Loei Strawberries were just horrible until about 7 years ago. The Japanse still hold the crown in Melons and the Americans still have the best Oranges on earth, (Piticularly with some of the rare less profitable species). But im sure there are some very skilled Thais at those universities working on those too. I believe I will stick with the old techniques for now just to play it safe, , and perhaps devote my next 30 or so trees to putting your technique to the test, I guess the taste tests several years down the road will be ultimate deciding factor :-) Do Any of your neigbors have anything ready to sample?? I consider myself a connensieur and I've never tried a Kanchanaburi Durian Maybe I'm missing out. Mong Tongs from the various localities are always a different experience.
Hi Terry,hope you and the families well? What’s your opinion on seedlings or grafted durian plants,Malaysia or Thai? Malaysia durian seems more expensive and people say tastes better. I’m undecided on where to get it from or it doesn’t matter as long as the plants are the Species you want and it’s a healthy plant?
@@yanfamilyandi3221 as long as it's healthy 👍 If you're planting it in Thailand what I found is Thai varieties do much better than Malaysian varieties here. Thai varieties are much more drought resistant like monthong .
@@TMDurianfarmer Sorry Terry, I should’ve mentioned that the farm is in Laos but thank you for the info. I have no issues about water as there is a natural spring runs through the farm all year round even in the driest part of the year but I’m just worried about the sheer dry heat during summer,”will the heat alone eventually kill the tree even if we water enough? Have you experience this issues before, if so,how did you or other farmers overcome these problems?
@@yanfamilyandi3221 that's what I'm talking about the heat and the dryness .that's why a Thai variety will work best . I would try monthong .I have mk on my farm and it does not do well in the dry months . My monthong does just fine . You can try Malaysian variety but I think it will die . The weather in Malaysia is much more humid year round and lots of rain
I set up a french drain system that drains into my pond with the first land I bought the new land did get some standing water for a day or two .The good thing is my soil is Sandy loam so it dries out fast . The way I set up my drain system for the farm I will be able to direct any standing water to the system with a little backhoe work once we get to the end of the raining season
Good question,👍 I planted grafted Saplings and they produce fruit as early as 4 years from time of planting .If you plant from seed it takes 6 to 8 years to produce fruit
I beg to differ. Look at how many views your videos are getting. Mark my words. This market will become flooded. 180 Bart per tree . What's that? Chicken feed. Do you think you're the only Falang who can afford $9 Australian for a tree? Mate ,no offence but you're really not thinking. Many Thais are also far richer than any of us Falang. I havnt watched your vids for months. Now I return to see you've not changed your ways. You're picking up a few bucks on RU-vid but lose much more than that when market is flooded. But hey don't listen to me and many other experienced Falang who've lived in Thailand for 20 or more years trying to warn you. Just keep doing what you're doing. Again,no offence,just being honest. Enjoy
