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sorry,, never received your email,,
OK, answered your PM. We can try that.
Does anyone have a phone number for the research station in Pak Chong?
สถานีวิจัยปากช่อง สถาบันอินทรีจันทรสถิตย์ ฯ อ.ปากช่อง จ. นครราชสีมา 30130 โทร 044-311796
This is their facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E0%B...73512076089689
A mobile number as well
081-4702382,
Also try this dude who seems to be in the mix with them
https://research.rdi.ku.ac.th/forest...aspx?id=360028
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ijsrsk@ku.ac.th
044-311796
Thanks for the info.
Last week (before the holiday) we tried to call. There is still no answer at the 044 311796 number & the 084702382 number does not exist, at least according to the recording.
I tried the facebook link and it says "Sorry, the page isn't available" & the additional website listed just comes up as Bad Address.
I guess I'm not meant to have a Haas avocado tree. 5555
If anybody else has any other info, please advise.
Thanks, Mook
Update...
Pak Chong answered their phone this morning.
They are currently not taking orders and when they do, if you place an order, the minimum is 50 trees. If I had room for fifty trees, I probably would, but , alas, I do not.
Anybody in Eastern Issan want 47 trees?
I didn't think so.
Back to square one, unless I want to drive 7 hours to Muak Lek for 2 or 3 trees.
In Honduras I have seen the Trees up to 30meter, don't ask me what breed they were. Scruffy surface fruits. I am planning to get some around my house to give some shade.
I guess they are pretty gutter friendly as they are not loosing much leaf.
Great thread. I'm looking for a specific variety caled the GEM pygmie (spelling?) avocado. It get's it name from the guy that created it. I'll have to look it up again to supply a link.
It's a short grafted tree that produces something close to Haas avocado but a lot shorter but still produces a lot of fruit.
Has anyone else heared of it and is it available here in Thailand?
I have a townhouse but do have enough space for a fairly big pot and it should do well.
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Just a little misunderstanding here i think. Hass are a very sound commercial fruit, last well in transport and on market stalls. Reed are a very good fruit, but definately unsuitable for commercial market due to their unsuitability for travelling and shelf life. This is the reason that growers keep them for themselves. Markets will not buy them.
Not quite correct info here. I grew HASS avo's in sub tropical SE Qld where it can get very humid. They are also grown in tropical north Queensland. So i think that Hass will grow anywhere in Thailand given right conditions i.e they need to be on slopes as they do not tolerate wet feet.
I see that most posts are 1 year old, so assume that interest has waned by now.
However here are a couple of things to know about Avo trees, if anyone is interested. First they need to be in drained soil, so slopes are really important. Otherwise if the soil is wet root rot will occur, they will probably become infected with the fungal pathogen Phytopthora a root disease which cannot be cured. One should apply gypsum around the tree which supplies calcium, this supresses the formation of the Phytopthora spores, keep all mulch away from the actual tree trunk
A sign that you have this disease, leaves will turn yellow/brown and begin to drop. A healthy tree will grow quickly after the first 2-3 years and can grow up to 40 ft to 80 ft., a very nice shade tree which does not shed messy leaves. good luck.
HD, tiy are correct in so many ways about AVOS not liking wet roots but you can still grow them in POTS.
Howdy~ Did you ever locate the necessary avocado tree stock you were sourcing? Last year we were on holiday in the north and saw a couple of varieties. Also, some place in the mountains the year before to the west of Chaiyaphum and further west and north of Tak. Wasn't looking for them at the time just noticed and bought fruit because I am addicted to guacamole and ceviche. I took my wife to the USA last spring and we ate avocados almost daily. (One daughter has a tree in her yard across from a giant orchard. Her land was probably in avocados before development. Another daughter has a neighbor that has more than he can eat and she gets them during the season) My Isan wife was not familiar with them until a few years ago until she was spoilt by me. So much so that I have decided to put in a few trees. So now I am on a quest to obtain some varieties for planting on the slopes of a new large L-shaped pond and next to a couple of other ponds on our land. Any help or information from any of y'all would be gratefully appreciated! Thanks~kw
Frankly, locally grown avocados seem scarcely worth the bother. The ones I have sampled were pitiful efforts, tasteless and watery without any decent texture.
Useless for anything, really, beyond making some second rate guacamole.
I've had a variety of different avocados here in the last 15 years here and I think the MAJORITY of the local Thai avocados are better than anything I've had from NZ or OZ. My only complaint is not being able to get up North to get the Thai variety.
Nonsense.
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