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jeffreyp
07-11-2010, 12:04 PM
some pics I took today of a banana plantation around the corner from where I live..sorry the pics kinda suck but they were taken with my old iphone..there's also some dragon fruit cactus growing in the adjacent field.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/jpicazio/19ef0e65.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/jpicazio/006f7bf3.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/jpicazio/87cffa30.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/jpicazio/090f69bd.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/jpicazio/DCP_0176.jpg

d road, royal palm beach, fl - Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=d+road,+royal+palm+beach,+fl&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=D+Rd,+Loxahatchee+Groves,+Palm+Beach,+Florida+33470&gl=us&ei=TPo5TO2MLoL48AbJ4-2lBg&ved=0CBMQ8gEwAA&ll=26.722266,-80.273011&spn=0.000581,0.001183&t=h&z=20)

imclueless17
07-11-2010, 12:36 PM
That's really awesome. I love the last pic of the flowering naner!

DaveE
07-11-2010, 01:05 PM
Very cool, thanks!

Nicolas Naranja
07-11-2010, 02:30 PM
Those belong to the Khins

jeffreyp
07-11-2010, 03:23 PM
Nick do you know them? It appeared there were are least two different cultivars of bananas.

Abnshrek
07-11-2010, 07:28 PM
Very Nice Pic's. That's a lot of nanners & dragon fruit. :^)

Nicolas Naranja
07-11-2010, 08:06 PM
Nick do you know them? It appeared there were are least two different cultivars of bananas.


No, I do research on a lychee/longan farm down the street on North road, and I pass by that farm every time that I go out there. I know that they grow Thai Bananas they were just in an article in the Palm Beach Post about how crappy the lychee market was right now.

Loxahatchee tropical fruit growers stung by depressed prices (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/loxahatchee-tropical-fruit-growers-stung-by-depressed-prices-791053.html)

jeffreyp
07-11-2010, 08:51 PM
interesting, I remember looking across the street at all the lychee trees.

Rmplmnz
09-17-2010, 07:24 PM
No, I do research on a lychee/longan farm down the street on North road, and I pass by that farm every time that I go out there. I know that they grow Thai Bananas they were just in an article in the Palm Beach Post about how crappy the lychee market was right now.

Loxahatchee tropical fruit growers stung by depressed prices (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/loxahatchee-tropical-fruit-growers-stung-by-depressed-prices-791053.html)

Nick,

Do you know what variety all the (relatively) new grove plantings on Krome Avenue in Homestead are?

Chris

Nicolas Naranja
09-20-2010, 02:26 PM
All the bananas on Krome that I have seen are Nam Wahs either the tall version or the dwarf version. People do still grow platano Burro down there but given the potential to make about $10k/acre on Nam Wahs most of what you see new is going to be Nam Wah. The field that is on the right hand side as you come in to agricultural area past Kendall is definitely Nam Wah.