fruit picker?

[ElysianWort]

Aloha all! Short of searching online, does anyone know where I could purchase a fine quality fruit picker on this island? One that extends at least 30 feet or so and enable me to harvest my lychee fruits they are slowly beginning to ripen again, yay! I've seen pickers like that out there, so I know they exist.

[james weatherford]

Garden Exchange, Keawe St., Hilo.

[Lodestone]

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Originally posted by ElysianWort

does anyone know where I could purchase a fine quality fruit picker on this island?

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The 13th Amendment specifically forbids...wait...oops, my bad. You're discussing something entirely different. Carry on.

[alaskyn66]

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Originally posted by Lodestone

The 13th Amendment specifically forbids...wait...oops, my bad. You're discussing something entirely different. Carry on.

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[pahoated]

Home Depot has these, generally for bigger fruit.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/True-Temper-1.../100466198

The tines could be squeezed together for scraping lychee off the branch into the basket. When are lychee supposed to be ripe?

"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"

[ElysianWort]

Thank you pahoated and James. I will check garden exchange. However the one for sale pictured in the Home Depot link is not even close to fine quality. That picker is more on the lower end of the spectrum, toward rubbish and barely functional for fruit like lychee. I know because I've owned them. The one I saw was extendable with a sharp shearing, closing blade function at the end like a super long pruning shear.
Lychee are ripe when bright red.

[mikewj]

Correct me if I'm wrong; I thought both Lychee and longan are brownish in color. Rambutan is the red, hairy one?

[jrw]

There is a garden place over by the zoo that has fruit pickers when you turn off hwy 11 turn on the first road on the left. Go about 1/4 down on the right. Sorry cant recall the name.

jrw

[lquade]

farmers co-op. has some nice ones! hilo town. besides all the fertilizer and containers they have great tools.

[pahoated]

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Originally posted by ElysianWort

Thank you pahoated and James. I will check garden exchange. However the one for sale pictured in the Home Depot link is not even close to fine quality. That picker is more on the lower end of the spectrum, toward rubbish and barely functional for fruit like lychee. I know because I've owned them. The one I saw was extendable with a sharp shearing, closing blade function at the end like a super long pruning shear.
Lychee are ripe when bright red.

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They are showing the wooden version one here and they are in Hawaii.
https://wellbeinghi.com/got-plenty-lychee

Also shows how much they are selling per pound. Yes, I knew about it needing to be bright red when ripe. A guy gave me some a few years ago that were green, tried them and didn't think they were good at all. Funny thing is he was Thai and he thought they were delicious. Then I got some good ripe ones last year and now know how delicious they are when fully ripe. The ones around here ripen from May to July, looked it up. My interest is from looking at a tree that is getting loaded with fruit.

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