Hey Tom.... I live in SWF. Rode the storm out last night. Thought about evacuating, but gas stations were running out of gas and I didn't want to get stranded out away from home with an empty tank riding out the storm in my truck on the side of the road. So I stayed home. Hunkered down and listened to the wind beat against my house all night. All is good though. No damage to the house, but lost a few banana trees and lots of avocados blown off my tree.
I'm in SW Florida. We got some pine trees and some banana plants knocked down. Papaya plants wrecked. But our buildings and mango and avocado trees did great! Thankful to have been spared much damage!
In Cape Coral right now going through this. It's a nasty storm for sure, and a real downer after Ian so recently. I did bring in my smaller potted avocado and mango trees though. Those outside are ready to endure the storm. Best wishes to you over there on the east coast. .
Develop a market for "factory seconds" avocados. Maybe restaurants who could use them for guacamole. Or peeled, cut, bagged, and frozen. Find some Vietnamese cafes who could use them for avocado shakes. Maybe a food processing plant can puree and can them as avocado spread.
@@greatergood3706 There is such a market. Restaurant supply companies, and even Costco Business, have frozen bags of avocado, all cut into assorted chunks . There are bags of guacamole, premade, and ready for food service use. Grocery stores sell guac and avocado dip. All of those products are probably supplied by Hass growers.
Tom I am glad everything is cool with you, I am glad milton did not affect you that much….and thank you for your report….you are the reason why I am hopeful for my hass avocado trees( I have two)…..someday I will get fruit….as far as the size of Florida…hummmm….California is three times bigger…ok…ok..your avocados are way bigger than ours…
you have the same issue in California, people make plans to travel to San Francisco and they think they're gonna drive to San Diego for lunch...till they get there.
I’m up in Merritt Island. I was very surprised how strong the winds were from Helene as well, even though it was hundreds of miles away, and Milton passed right over my head this morning, heck of a storm.
It's funny, I chatted with you and your friend on a recent Live and you told me the Choquettes(sp?) I bought were on the early side for eating. By the next day, it was Wonderful! I was raised adding a little salt and mayo to my avocados, and absolutely fell in love with this beauty! Only problem here is that I live alone and have 4 1/2 avocados left. :) My neighbors may be beneficiaries of a couple. :)
ALWAYS cut all the leaves off the banana and papaya trees prior to a storm. Since I had to prune my trees in December, I did it for the last 3 days. I’m in the path of the storm. It’s already a terrible situation and I’m 2 or 3 hours away from getting the storm over my house. Either way, I hope everyone will be safe. Good luck my Floridian brothers and sisters.
Partner with SE Rykoff and US Food Service. Take all of those scarred avocado, process them into a paste, and package them into pastry bags. Then distribute them to hotels, airports, school cafeterias, and jails. The cooks could decorate cakes with them, or use them for avocado toast.
As a farmer from a country who often hit by typhoons here in the Pacific, our way ofsaving bananas and other trees, we semi haircut our trees as prevention. We dont gamble.
Hi. i was concerned about your farm. Glad you could avoid the worst. Hope the people affected could recover fast. Excuse my boldness and I hope you would not take offense, and i know you usually uses the grafting technique to plant avocado trees with rootstock from seed and the scion from grafting the productive variety. But i want to point another advantage of this technique, is the fact that rootstock from seed develope a better root system from a taproot (with a primary apical dominant root downwards) than a variety that come from a cutting clone (weaker and subsuperficial roots), and therefore, among other things, less vulnerable to strong winds. I think that is another good point specially at your latitude. Greetings!
I had a banana plant fall over today but that's all that happened. I was in Andrew where the window blew in and a tree went through the roof, A tree fell through the roof in hurricane Wilma. A ficus tree fell against the house in Irma. It will be interesting what will happen to my trees on my lot in Hendry County. There's a massive sapodilla tree at my friend's home. I need to see if they have fallen off tomorrow.
Yo Rabbi Lizard I hate to correct you because you are 3X smarter than I am but bananas are technically plants not trees. I know that you know this already but others don’t especially kids and that’s the only thing that matters. Love everything you are doing. You remind me so much of my old favorite dynamic uncle.
@@SleepyLizard Holy shiiiite I have to look those words up and I am a doctor. You got me for real. OK I looked up both. Amazing I never knew either word. But Ped usually refers to the foot but the meaning has no foot connection. But I now know you also have ESP because you used that word to show a Podiatrist how dumb he really is!!! Uncle Rabbi Lizzard maybe some day you’ll come and visit my 270 mango and 30 avocado patients in Kendall. PS you are the first lexicographer I’ve ever known.
I have family all over Lee county some of My family that are in fort Myers in a hotel right now just lost there house on the Charlotte harbor from Helene . Around 1pm they where hit by tornado no power since 1pm
Good to hear and see not much damage, just with your banana trees, hopefully the storm lowers its intensity and thus ensures your sapodilla remain safe on the tree, as for the Monstera deliciosa, isn't that plant a shade plant? It seems like you have it out in the open, receiving sunlight on those sunny, clear days. As for tossing those Choquettes you said that supermarkets wouldn't take them because they're scarred, this Mexican will take them, 😂especially after seeing that video or short where your missus and you tasted the Choquette.😋👍
