Our family has two good opportunities to purchase

[TamooMeadows]

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Originally posted by MarkP

Free advice from the internet, and worth every penny. It is really important to recognize just how exaggerated and sometimes downright worthless free advice can be when offered by those with no experience and no vested interest in whether the info is accurate.

I have gotten several truckloads of mulch from the dump and have never to my knowledge gotten LFAs. At least I am not troubled by them yet. The ants were detected at several locations around the perimeter of the green waste recycling area but have not been reported directly in the mulch, which is probably too hot for them. I do worry every time though. I have a small jar of peanut butter. I put some on sticks that I put in the mulch at 4 locations before I leave the site. I stop at Home Depot to look around and give the ants a chance to find the bait. I have never detected ants yet. If I did I would take the stuff back to the dump.

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I am going to pass along your trick okay? I have spoke with a lot of people about the mulch, every single one was afraid of taking home any compost because of ants. Your tip will surely help many out who desperately need soil who cannot afford to purchase truckloads.

This forum is incredible!!!!

[OpenD]

Yup, I got LFAs in a load of compost from Hilo. Didn't catch them in time, wound up having to spray heavily, which I really hated. So much for the "organic" compost. Arrgghh.

[bananahead]

40X more land on same side of island and you cant decide

do you want a yard or land?

plus that 1/2 acres lot is near the ocean with cliffs, not good swimming beach kine ocean...

thats what the Big Islands about, land!
Im up MtView... get a single pigdig on my property 2-3 times a year, and have some electric ants in some palm trees that I kill once a month (5 minutes)... woopy, they arent bad its the wilds oh no! lol

Mangos dont grow well? lol a deal breaker ?? Mango trees take time to grow up many many years, they like the lowlands... buy the large lot and get your mangos for free if you just have the right friends or visit an eco-village down in lowerPuna and they make you take avos and mangos before you leave (by the shirtfront full)

another reason ...the 20 acres will (should) have many native plants and birds,,, the 1/2 aces will not have a single one

I just read the posts... its a no brainer IMO but I see you made the 'other' choice oh well good luck!

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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[Carey]

Congrats!: as for small lot gardens, your new lot is HUGE compared to ours, and ours produces like crazy...

Mangoes, get a couple of anthracnose resistant varieties for best east side results...look for the small - med. sized trees, but you can keep them pruned down (some mangoes still want to eventually be really big trees, but they are not as persistent as some other trees, like non-dwarf avocados, that will try to grow 20' every year...

Great news for you - PlantIt Hawaii has their fall sale on Nov. 1 &2 when their nursery stock os for sale to the public - so visit their web & figure your future trees...& most dwarf varieties do produce quite nicely! http://plantithawaii.com/

[TamooMeadows]

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Originally posted by bananahead

40X more land on same side of island and you cant decide

I just read the posts... its a no brainer IMO but I see you made the 'other' choice oh well good luck

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I know, ridiculous right []

Members participating on Punaweb have been so friendly, supportive and kind. We could have chose either location I believe finding just as wonderful neighbors as you all are here. The quick decision was based on a bit more than mangos....I do love them though. I am very grateful and deeply appreciative to each of you for allowing me to crash your forum.

[TamooMeadows]

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Originally posted by Carey

Congrats!: as for small lot gardens, your new lot is HUGE compared to ours, and ours produces like crazy...

Mangoes, get a couple of anthracnose resistant varieties for best east side results...look for the small - med. sized trees, but you can keep them pruned down (some mangoes still want to eventually be really big trees, but they are not as persistent as some other trees, like non-dwarf avocados, that will try to grow 20' every year...

Great news for you - PlantIt Hawaii has their fall sale on Nov. 1 &2 when their nursery stock os for sale to the public - so visit their web & figure your future trees...& most dwarf varieties do produce quite nicely! http://plantithawaii.com/

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I am EXCITED!!!! I cannot express my thanks enough for your goodwill. Do you have any opinions on Dragon fruit? They are really beautiful. That is about all I "Know". We have about six feet wide, 290 feet long ownership of land at the top of the berms. There are already a couple avocado trees producing. I was pondering mango, dragonfruit, papaya up there. What do you think? Also there is a 40ft lychee tree. Can we replant it?

[Carey]

Dragonfruit like to drape on things (you will see them lounging on stone walls, fences, arbors)

The first dragon fruit plants brought to the island (actually on the first ship FROM their homeland of cent/south America TO Asia) were off-loaded in Honolulu due to their near-death condition...some of these did flourish, but were not fruit bearers, so there are many plants around all of the islands that do not produce fruit....

The other thing about them is it seems that either due to their high cost, or the affinity of fruit flies to them, most growers cover the fruits in those little horticultural bags ... papaya will definitely grow there...as to the lychee...40ft is kinda WAYYY huge to replant (just the root ball alone would be massive....of course cutting back the crown & roots (kinda like what bonsai growers do) would have an outside chance of maybe working...but the tree would probably take as long to get over all of it (if it made it at all) to make just planting anew worth while...