Fruit I want to grow-

Black-Turkey Figs
Goji Berry
Service Berry
Sea BuckThorn
Inga edulis ~ Ice cream beans
Hot Peppers
Tobacco
Bamboo
Raspberries

Food Crops-

Pumpkins
Watermelons
Spinach
Collard Greens


Locations-

"House-Garden"-
Tobacco
Rare Peppers
Raspberries
Goji Berry

"Hub's"-
Bulk Peppers
Food Crops

"Brown's"-
Bulk Peppers
Food Crops

"Village of Stone"-

Black-Turkey Figs
Bamboo





I basically want to grow the best fruits with the most nutrients and vitamins... can anybody think of any other super fruits?


*edits soon! I gotta go to work!*

pomegranite

I planted a service berry tree for the birds a few years back. Can/do humans eat the fruit, too?

lw

O ya def.!

Ever heard of the Native American food "Pemmican"...

It's made mostly of service berries.

Wolf Berry is the Native American cousin of the Goji Berry!

-Matthew

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/ ... 55637.html

purslane is also a good one. Just make sure you get the golden purslane since it contains less oxalic acid since its a common cultivated variety. Purslane contains vitamins: A,C, and E as well as a small amount of omega-3-fatty acids.

Excellent!

Anybody got any more suggestions?

Part one:
Asian fruit produces the sweetest in the world.

Common in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia and Bali are the fruits of durian or thurian (Durio zibethinus), Durian or thurian. smells horrible and is an acquired taste and not allowed in hotel rooms.

Other fruits include: rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum), langsat or lansa (Lansium domesticum), and lamyai or longai (Euphoria longana) are also cultivated on Koh Samui. The mango is also common throughout SE Asia as well as in India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon). In fact, world wide there are more than 150 types of Mangos.

The first, a market of fruit on Koh Samui:

Top row: apples, lemons, pineapples, mancoot.

2nd row: Langsat or lansa, coconut and rambuttan,

3rd row: Lamyai or lamgai and more rambutan



From the tree of the coconut (Cocos nucifera) coconuts ready to produce Copra, the meat of the coconut.



And from the betel palm, betel nut fruit, a stimulant chewed by 1/10 of the world's population.



boomer

see below for more fruit and tobacco coming soon.

Part two:
A photo of some of the Thai fruit.

The number one sweetest fruit is Mancoot, known in English as Mangosteen, It is a purple (muang in Tha)P colored fruit the size of a small ball, with a pulpy texture and in the center is a white embryo grape like to grapefruit 3 to 4 sectioned piece center. And is super sweet. Also grows in Australia imported from Thailand and other regions of Southeast Asia and India.

Mancoot or Mangosteen.



Common in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia and bali are the fruits of durian or thurian (Durio zibethinus), Durian or thurian. smells horrible and is an acquired taste and not allowed hotel rooms.

Durian or thurian.





boomer2

Part three:
Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum), a strawberry looking fruit which usrelated ti keichi, but not very sweet.







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Part four:
Langsat or lansa (Lansium domesticum), a very sticky, yet very sweet fruit with a wooden shell. Also related to leichi.



Lamyai or longai (Euphoria longana). Although this fruit bears the Latin genus name of Euphoria, it is not as sweet as mancoot or Langsat. This fruit is also very sticky and is also related to leichi, as are mancoot, rambutan, and langsat.



Boomer.

I am sorry I cannot find any photos of Passion Fruit or guava. Passion fruit is an execellent mix in orange juice.

But those are the best fruits in the world, expecially the mango, which I also cannot find my disc of those last three fruits.

Part five:
Now Teo,

You mentioned that you would also like to grow tobacco.

Kingdom: Plantae. Division: Magnoliophyta. Class: Magnoliopsida. Order: Solanales. Family: Solanaceae. Genus: Nicotiana. Species: tabacum.

Thai tobacco is called baiya, and a cigarette is called baiya-soob.

The wooden tool used for chopping the leaves into a cole-slaw type of vegetables is known as a lumpaeow.

In the late spring and early summer, I spent three months on my Muslim friends coconut grove plantation and water buffalo farm in Ban Thurian growing and processing 50 kilograms of Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco for local cigarettes similar to Bugler, Top and Bull Durham. roll your own in homemade bamboo paper cigarettes.

Since I am currently writing a paper with Dr. Mark D. Merlin on Thai tobacco, I cannot post a lot of images. although I have taken over 500 images of this process for my personal records.

I will but share with you and Spirit Plants, a few images of the process of manufacturing roll your own cigarettes.

Here is one of the two small fields behind my friends home where we grew this tobacco.



And this is my friend Mr. Boon (pseudonym)



holding two types of tobacco leaves. The rural farming peoples of Thailand and Samui produce two types of tobacco. One small leaf type and a 2nd larger leaf variety, each with a distinct taste.

In the late 1980s, I shared a bamboo-rolled thai cigarette with my friend from Ban Hua Thanon, Mr. Sawat.

Boomer2

see next 12 images posted below in 3 additional posts of the cultivation of rural grown tobacco in Thailand.

Part Six:
Preparing the leaves for rolling which are then tied with a string from a plant.



A grouping of rolled tobacco leaves ready for chopping.



The wooden tool chopping the leaves into a cole-slaw-like type of vegetables is known as a lumpaeow. It has been used for more than a thousand years for several thai plants and vegetables. Usually made from teal.

The rolled leaves, tied with natural plant fiber is placed in the hole of the upright portion of the lumpaeow and the the processor chops the rolled leaves into a pile of stringy tobacco to prepare for the curing process. Later I will post a few images of this wooden tool this afternoon when I am not so busy. Been up since 1:30 am and it is now 4:47 am. SO I am tired and trying to finish this thread for now.



boomer2

9 more images to go

Later today.

Part seven:
Two more images of the chopping of the rolled leaves of tobacco.





This last image of the chopping in this post shows an elderly lady.



She sits there every day while everyone else works around the farm and chews betel nut. Just like the song in the Rogers And Hammerstein movie, South pacific, You might say, "she is always chewing betel nut."


She always offers me a wad. I have chewed it a couple of times but do not like it. It too is used for stamina.

boomer2

Part eight:
Preparing the chopped tobacco leaves for curing.

As the processor chops the tobacco into a cole-slaw like matierial, a girl sits onthe edge of the shaded shed and holds a bamboo screen tray across her laband balances the tray with her foot, using her toes to keep it steady.

Her job is to take the tobacco and spread it across the bamboo screen as it is prepared to be placed into the sun for dry curing.

Three images:







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