back then I was doing Ironman triathlons and racing bicycles so I had a bit of an emaciated look 🤣. These days I can afford to carry a lot of extra muscle.
We just sold our office machine/ technology business and I'm almost done with my transition term. I am so looking forward to following my passion and love of tropical fruits and farming and see where it takes me. IMO Gary is an under rated mango and one of my favorites. As always we enjoy your videos, Tom, I Love me some Bass fishing as well.
This guy right there is an agricultural genius, has just about everything on his farm, the only thing I've not seen is some animals like chickens goats and so on,i just love this gentleman, his a very flamboyant man. Keep on riding my boy!
Hey Tom: Great video as usual! Thanks for the honorable mention! When I was there a couple weeks back, I pointed out that your Julie was starting to blossom. Well the panicles have grown quite a bit since then and I think you will enjoy some of your own Julie this year. Of course, the way that Nohe loves the Julie, I will have to supplement your tree with some of mine!😢 Remember to allow a branch of that tree that you are top working for my wife. She loves that mango. The Maha Chanook is one of my favorites also. That section of your personal garden is really going to be just gorgeous! Can’t wait to get back down there! PS: I heard you guys are having another “Fruitful Five + 1”, very soon!! That’s gonna be awesome!
I have a lot of new avocado seeds sprouting. However, I'm noticing something bizarre with one of them. The seed looks very greeen, but the leaves look white. The tiny stem is just starting to come out. But I'm 99% sure that it's a rare type of avocado that has white leaves. Currently, it looks like a tiny white flower is coming out of the seed with a thick stem. I heard these types of trees are called albino avocados. Fascinating, just like your videos!
So, today is my birthday. I'm 16! I'm old enough to get a drivers license in some countries, but not in Bulgaria. My oldest avocado is about 30 months old, but it feels like I put it in glass of water and planted it yesterday. The avocado is still trying to bud, but I can tell that it's struggling. The top half inch of the stem has turned black and moldy. However, there is one thick bud and it's somewhat promising. It was one of my worst Bdays ever, but I still had a great time. I got 2 Fs, unfortunately. I've got 3 mango seeds. They were looking amazing. I decided to water 2 of the more established ones once. I was being so careful, but somehow they GOT ROOT ROT. I'm shocked, but I guess it's the stupid soil.
Okay now...when all those mango trees go to fruit, I would love to sample each one...lol Love it! Question, what's the best rootstock for mango cuttings and avocado cuttings? Tfs -T
I can't wait to eat them all. For mango people in florida like to use turpentine variety. For avocado not so much but people do like Lula and Waldin seeds.
You make me so jealous getting to grow tropical fruits outside! A question I’ve always had though, how do you deal with hurricanes? Id imagine a good cat 3 or a 4-5 could easily destroy an orchard, so is there anything you do to protect your trees or is it just left up to god? I’d be so worried every hurricane season!
There's a few vids from 2017 that show the damage from Hurricane Irma which was 200 miles away but still knocked down 200 trees on our farm and tens of thousands in the area. Even a tropical storm can be strong enough to shake all our fruit off the tree and we miss a year's crop. There are some things we can do to mitigate damage such as pick all the fruit if it's ready and send it to market then prune the trees really low. Another way is to focus on early season fruit so your crop is picked by hurricane season. Another technique is when a hurricane is coming you cut halfway through the main trunk of each tree so it snaps in half instead of pulling out at the roots...if the hurricane misses the cut will heal. A direct hit from a cat 3 or above would be devastating. Billions in lost revenue for the area. There's not much you can do about that except start over.
@@SleepyLizard wow. That’s alarming! I’d imagine with climate change causing ocean temps to rise it will be more and more of a concern going forward. It’s such a shame too. Florida has some of the most unique environments on earth. Plus where else are you going to be able to grow tropical fruit! Not here in MA haha. That’s so interesting to hear about the cutting technique! I’d never thought of that in a million years but it’s so ingenious! Here’s hoping for a quiet hurricane season!
@@Danny_Does_Drawings we are on a giant ball of iron that's been evolving for 4.5 billion years and will continue to evolve for another 7.5 billion before it is engulfed by the sun. I'm gonna enjoy my unfathomably small chance to experience life and roll with the punches. (tree farmers think on longer timelines 🤣)
First off Great video as always. Second you mentioned an Everglades grape tomato is this different than what you mentioned in your previous videos or is it the same as just the Everglades tomato?
Hey. Nice video. Been following you for a few weeks now and watch all the videos. Quick question, should I be ripping off flowers from avocados that are small in 3 gallons?
I live in palm coast. Ive always wanted to grown an avocado tree. Just started with a seed today. But i also want to buy one...any one where i can buy one?
How do you work on your farm and not getting mosquitoes bites? I am relatively new to Florida and I don't have much shade in my yard but when it's not so hot in the evenings I am getting some bites, I don't know if it's mosquitoes or something else. I really want to do something in my yard when it's not so hot. Any advice? My husband sprays our yard to kill insects but he said it won't work on mosquitoes long term
mosquitos don't like me. Dont' get me wrong if I'm in the everglades after dark I'll get bit but for the most part I'm one of them lucky people who they leave alone. Also we don't get a lot of mosquitos on the farm
@@EffectivePickyEatersSolutions she gets bit up if we're out in the everglades after sunset but here on the farm there aint a lot of mosquitos. she dresses the way she dresses to protect her skin from sunlight
