I did visit the Nursery Website
Had several interesting Muscat flavor grapes.
But most were not available.
It’s very difficult to import grapes to my State.
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Jose,
This thread’s main purpose is for new members to introduce themselves.
Could you please create a new thread in the General Fruit Growing category to discuss your fruit experience?
You posts will get more views and members can benefit from your experience.
Thank you.
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Yes mamuang , you have reason.
Best regards
Jose
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David, I know you are eager to talk with me about grapes, which despite not being one of my favorite varieties, is a subject that I know quite well.
Please we will respect the forum rules, and we will transfer these types of conversations to the general forum.
We are young and we have a lot of time to talk about fruit trees in the general forum.
Just one last note.
If in Spain you are caught rooting grape varieties, without using rootstock resistant to phylloxera, and above all you say it in an open forum " consider yourself died" hahahahahahahaha.
Uffff, it is a practice very, very, very not recommended.
This will be my last intervention here.
Best regards
Jose
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So good to see all the new members arriving here
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thanks to everyone here for posting such congenial introductions, plus beautiful photos and life stories. Been a member here for so long but for so long didn’t want to (dis)grace the occasion by posting mine. Admittedly owe some members a bit of info as to 1) what i am and 2) where i’ve been doing…
anyway, my name is rafael and just like many members here, i have a green thumb, or at least i pretend to have one. And hoping someday to have two…
have been married ~25 yrs and been a dad for just about as long. And like many here, i also have a laundry-list of hobbies and interests. Started cultivating greens as a 4 yr old, which got interrupted by ‘adolescent/manly’ stuff as bikes, gunpowder, etc, which didn’t last long. Apparently my testosterone levels declined just as quickly as it peaked, reverting me to my childhood endeavors–resumed growing greens in my late teens. Heck even diversified to flowers… you just can’t get more “manly” than that, lol!
spent about half my “growing years” dabbling in ultra- or sub-tropicals(from herbs, to fruit trees to torch gingers, to orchids ad infinitum) in the isle of luzon, philippines, while the next half i spent on temperate/xerophytic species here in las vegas, nv. And yes, have grown papayas and avocados for years, and have grown them from seed. If been posting so much about temperate species in this forum, it is because this forum is predominantly about temperate species. If this was a tropical fruit forum i’d go by the name of bananarambutan instead of jujubemulberry!
unfortunately don’t have selfies with papayas/avocados–simply because averse to having photos taken of myself, but below should be evidence of my island experience. My tropical version of flora and faux-na in the middle of manila. Bromeliads, heliconias, and tree ferns should be enough proof 
also raised a multitude of pet species, from dogs, to chickens, to lovebirds, tortoises and even electric eels/scorpions/spiders… Found these old photos with my forest tortoises and cuora box turtles
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Grest story and pics Rafael! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Kevin 
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Great post. Gotta love the spitting cobra statues!
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Rafael was compelled to post here after interrogation from me 
Those cobras are amazing, BTW. Did you build those ?
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which felt like a KGB deposition, just kidding.
and yes, built those hamadryads. Chicken wire, copper tubing and iron rebars gooped up with cement slurry. Nothing fancy. My dad wouldn’t let me have pet snakes so made them instead
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Folks,
May I ask for your cooperation, please? This is the INTRODUCTION thread.
Apart from introduction and welcoming posts, please refrain from turning this thread into a question and answer fruit growing session. We have plenty of categories to handle your fruit and non-fruit questions.
This thread is already very long. We would like this to be an introduction/welcome ONLY thread. All posts that go beyond this (such as fruit, garden or other posts) should be started in the appropriate categories. Not only will this keep the Intro thread on point, but it will make the fruit related questions more likely to be seen by other forum members.
Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.
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They are so striking and beautiful Rafael. I am a fan!
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thanks Jenna, quite flattered, but this rafael is not exactly michelangelo. Heck he is not even raphael…
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Hi, i have a small raised bed garden with a 12 x16 unheated greenhouse where i grow some tomatoes and peppers. I’m located on the north Oregon coast.
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Welcome Steve!
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Hi Steve! Get ready to grow more…this forum does that to you! I’d love to have a good tomato right now.
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Hi Mike! Welcome and may God bless you and your fruits this year! Happy new year!
- Brian
Hi Jose! Welcome and may God bless you and your fruits this year! Happy new year!
I’m Bonnie, listed as Vermonter2, now located in Halifax in very southern Vermont, up in the hills so Zone 5a. Grew up in Vermont but spent 30+ yrs in the Boston area. Have been interested in fruit since age 12 +/- when on a Vermont hilltop I stumbled across a very old apple tree, the apple red with tiny white specks, fabulous flavor and texture, and had no idea what it was. In recent years have learned more about heirloom apples, there are some great resources (orchards and people) in New England.
The one effort at fruit growing in the Boston area was a peach tree, didn’t know about pruning to control height so ended up spraying the “dwarf” tree from the second story window of our Victorian house. Between squirrels, leaf curl and brown rot (the squirrels would take a bite out of each peach, toss it on the ground (not ripe enough despite a red blush) and move on to the next)–so my husband and I removed the tree.
I always wanted to grow more fruit so at our retirement property (24 acres) we cleared some 2nd growth forest, removed a lot of stones, and now have a small orchard plus berries. I’ve become more interested in European plums, which led me to this forum. We’re currently growing plums, cherries, pears, peach (bears and raccoons have gotten their share of the latter), currants (largely black, so wonderful for jam), gooseberries (ditto), raspberries red and black, Marionberries and Hazelberts. Scott Farm in nearby Dummerston VT grows over 130 varieties of heirloom apples (sold at our local food coop as well) so I haven’t planted apples.
Have been trying figs (after renting a house in Provence with 2 huge fig trees, with fruit so ripe the Magpies were diving in to help themselves–the ripe figs were a revelation, I never knew…!!). After tiring of watering figs in tubs twice a day and having the weather turn cool/cold before the crops fully ripened most years, I stopped temporarily. Am looking at in-the-ground planting, but would need to have some structure to provide late season warmth, maybe a removable not-quite-greenhouse.
I’m new to forums and posting, still have to figure out what and how to do everything, I’m not computer savvy. Given time constraints, will just repeat what I saw someone else mention, that Fedco Trees has scionwood, esp. apples but also pears, and the listings online show photos of each apple–accurate pictures because Fedco Trees founder John Bunker (scionwood probably coming from his orchard) is one of the country’s apple experts. People wondering if they have, for ex., the true Ashmead’s Kernel should check out the photos. Deadline for ordering scionwood is February 19.
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