THE FARM 3

[Tad]

hahahahahahah the very least I could do!!!

[Tad]

putting a few buckets of dirt in the trailer to pot up some sabal uresanas

[Tad]

[Tad]

scoop it up

[Tad]

spraying weeds gettin ready for fert and irrigation in the field

[Tad]

spray tank

[Tad]

powered by pto driven roller pump

[Tad]

super technical and highly calibrated mixing sysytem

[Tad]

uresanas ready for a bump up into 3 gal

[Tad]

roots

[Tad]

into the new pot, a long spring and summer with a dose of fertillizante and these wont even look like the same palms.

[Tad]

now we swap out the sprayer for the fertilizer spreader

[Tad]

all hooked up

[Tad]

fertilizer

[Tad]

enough in the bucket to load the spreader 2 times

[Tad]

spreading the fertilizer

[Xavierdlc61887]

HONCHOOOOO thats what i use to kill weeds its the same as round up but i think less expensive

[Tad]

one of my favorite flowers

[Tad]

from the river our water is pumped into irrigation resivoirs and canals

[Tad]

thru a series of checks

[Tad]

thru gates and valves

[Tad]

underneath roads , to a series of pipe lines

the writing on the pipe is localese for "the gringo who lives here is crazy"

[Tad]

into the bonnet also known as a "tortuga"

[Tad]

down the field in pipes

[Tad]

and onto the rows of palms that are damn thirsty today!

[Tad]

"trachycarpus wont grow in the valley"

hehe thats a qoute from a "expert" palm guy that is a trashycarpus expert,  another reason you will NEVER hear me refer to myself as anything but a lowly grower!

[Tad]

once the field is irrigated and dryed again these meds are on their way to Dallas Tx to one of the local nurseries there.

[Tad]

cidp's too

[Tad]

sign seems to be working, the mysterious van loads of people have not been coming in and driving around the farm.

[Xavierdlc61887]

hey tad i saw that sign and now i know the response u gave me on that PM hahah its all good your farm is awesome sorry i didnt stay long my dad was starting to get sick again ok well your farm is better in person just the little glimpses i got   but its was all good and hey do those irrigation resivoirs do they have some tilpia.... it would be awesome to raise them and then when they get big bammmm nice in the grill hahah ok well i sent u a PM read it and sorry for the long run on sentence its that im so hyper with what i saw and what i recieved thanks alot and hope to see ya again .... and yes if im gonna be a in the palm business ima need wayyyyyy more hahahha now i have a taste of what u have awesme thanks

[Tad]

Glad you liked it fernando, sorry to hear about your dad, hope he gets better.

good luck with your palms.

Tad

[Xavierdlc61887]

yes i hope so too thanks and do u ever have any get togethers in your farm or do any meetings that i can go to like other people here in the forums make or theres not that many people here in the valley???? ok well thanks again for the invite and hope to go again soon

[Tad]

no more meetings, sorry, too much stuff dissapeared after the last meeting we hosted so no more big groups.

[Xavierdlc61887]

hmmmm well thats too bad well its alright....someone does a good deed and they take advantage.... sorry to hear that well i was gonna ask u how much do those varigated agaves americanas go for i recieved 18 cuttings/bulbs,rhizomes,whatever they are called and they have taken root now just gotta pot them up in bigger pots ok well i saw yours and they are beautys i want to go back and see the rest of what u got...also i saw some banana plants...what varieties do u have???? i have dwarf cavendish,williams cavendish,orinoco,and just got a dwarf brazilian well if i get some pups ill give u some to start your own mats k well i cant thank u enough for inviting me and sharing your plants with me ....thats my dream to own something like what u have one day

[Tad]

i walked out the house and found this character lurking around my bismarckia!

Odessa Tx very own JIMBIZ from here on the board, thanks for shopping with us Jim!!

[Tad]

woooo hoooo a box from india

[Tad]

fancy labels!! ???

[Tad]

hmmm none of the stickers say fragile

[Xavierdlc61887]

whats in it???? open them open them

[Tad]

wooooo hooooo just what I always wanted .... a bunch of folded up newspapers from mumbai!!