Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
Sorry to piss you off, but those are awful trees for 8 year olds. they look like 4 year olds. Poor girth, and even more importantly, poor canopy. Purely down to lack of care, and lack of the correct fertilisers and amounts. Also that output of cup (my missus calls that style "fried eggs") is ok on the very first tapping session spread over a week or two on newly opened trees, but thereafter ie 3 weeks on, into tapping you should be getting a cup full per fortnight minimum. Sorry.
Think I'd take the governments cut down money if they were my trees.
Thai way, stick them in the ground, fertilize with hope. Jim
Yeah Jim the tree's are not yours ,the land is not yours ,this is just one of the reasons why I would never ever contemplate going into farming here in Thailand, but come to think of it that goes for any other business which involves dealing with Thai's, be it family or otherwise , heard and seen too many horror stories for the thought to enter my head for even a milli second ,the way I view it is that I have a good standard of living without the stress and worry ,of course there are success storys here without a doubt but I ain't worked for over 35 years to take a risk with my hard eared money here with people who's outlook on life in general is light years away from mine