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Not a normal plant/grass related substance to my knowledge. Fertilizer spill or over-application? Like ammonium sulfate/ 21-0-0 or other pui chemi.

Big Smile Dental Clinic (brand new location in Faham district, on the east side of the river, just south of Superhwy 11) 053 247 500 Dr Supachai and son Dr Supaphan. fluent English, good communications/explanations/no overselling, reasonable pricing, modern equipment and procedures. Our family dentist for 20 years. I just had an extraction, 700 baht. I've had crowns and other work over the years, wife and daughter too. Tell them Don the tree doctor sent you.

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Sansai "honey bucket" truck

As a former first responder paramedic ambulance attendant, it is my opinion that you can blame a drunk for everything and you would be correct 90% of the time.

And across the street and West a couple of blocks from Sriphat OPD: DEAR HEARING CENTER No. 203 Suthep Road Suthep Subdistrict, Mueang District Chiang Mai Province 50200 Tel : 053-904-082 Email : [email protected]

https://sriphat.med.cmu.ac.th/en/doctor/detail/45

Stronger fragrance of the two is ton bpeep/Indian cork. Ton ratchapruek/golden shower, (the national flower of Thailand) has a more subtle fragrance in my experience. Nicest fragrance? matter of opinion, and there are many more possibilities. And if you include shrub and vine forms, what about jasmine, gardenia, rose, rangoon creeper, and more. Strongest and most intoxicating fragrance, how about laylavadee, fragipani. I like Plumeria obtusa, the evergreen species with very sweet fragrant white flowers and oblong rounded leaves. Fragrance will be influenced by soil quality. Good growing conditions, soil fertility and water management allows plants to reach their genetic potential, and positively affects frangrance, as well as other qualities.

That picture starts at sunrise, coffees cup in one hand mud-tube stick in the other, dog and cat following along doing their own inspections, small hobby farm, 10 rai, 52 mango trees, 73 lamyai, palm and plumeria collections, banana, papaya and veggie plots, water pond, bore well, storage tanks, pumps and irrigation system, 500 meters of fencing. Plus spray truck and tree pruning crew. Good life but a lot of hard work. Retired now. Picture small yard, watching the grass grow, exercising, cooking, cleaning, and some tree care and hort consulting.

Yes Visa credit card. I had bilateral monofocal lense replacements at Sriphat and now wish I had forked out for multifocal and hopefully ditching the glasses. No big problems, a whole lot cheaper, but 2 - 3 months later I still needed some correction for distance vision (not way off, just a little fuzzy), as well as for reading and computer. 18,000 for high-end progressives at Vision Center.

Yes Visa credit card. I had bilateral monofocal lense replacements at Sriphat and now wish I had forked out for multifocal and hopefully ditching the glasses. No big problems, a whole lot cheaper, but 2 - 3 months later I still needed some correction for distance vision (not way off, just a little fuzzy), as well as for reading and computer. 18,000 for high-end progressives at Vision Center.

Regarding the red wigglers and MJU Farm, I don't think they do shipping, its walk in only as far as i know. In fact I don't think they are normally in worm sales business, they make the worm compost for their cannabis operation, and also sell the products to growers. My friend walked in with a special request. Try Tony Worm Farm. (I have no direct experience) Worm Farm (Thailand) (wormcompost.blogspot.com) Your termite situation sounds formidable. With established colonies on your property I don't blame you for hiring professional pest control to save your home. Even then it can be an ongoing challenge. I know from experience that termites love mango tree heartwood and you have to keep on top of it with pro-active, preventive management. I have a program to suggest: 1. Spray a preventive barrier on the lower tree trunk with a pyrethroid insecticide. This is called "bark banding". The material is not organic program compatible (in case you are going for organic grower certification), but it is relatively low toxicity for people and pests, and its not systemic so it won't enter the tree conductive tissues and translocate up into the flowers and fruit. Organic insecticide/botanical repellents will not have much residual effectiveness, but a pyrethroid, like permethrin, cypermethrin or especially bifentrin will provide one to six months residual, depending on the mixing rate of concentration. Chaindrite Stedfast 30 is widely available and has an active ingredient of bifenthrin. i have to do some numbers to remember my mixing rate for this specialized appliation. The label rate for garden foliar and home perimeter spraying will not be strong enough for effective control. I'll PM you. Pyrethroids are highly toxic to fish and to honey bees, but you will not be spraying your fish pond, waterways or the foliage and flowers of the trees. Use standard PPEs for pesticide use to keep spray off your skin and face, long pants shoes and socks, long sleeves, mask, eye protection and gloves. Since you will be spraying only below chest level, there shouldn't be much spray drift. Spray early morning, avoid windy days or times of day. Keep kids and pets away until spray has dried. Buy a small hand pump sprayer. The yellow and blue ones at Home Pro are good. Adjust the nozzle to a narrow cone spray pattern, not too wide or you will overspray the trunk. Not too narrow or there will be too much jet pressure and the spray will bounce back. You want to coat the trunk until just before runoff starts to occur. Spray the lower 1 to 1.5 meters and drench the soil right around the base. Also spray drench any open cavities, stubs and pruning cuts that are starting to decay. You don't have to spray higher because termites don't fly in or advance downward. They advance through 'mud tubes' from the soil grade going up. 2. Alternative: Watch for mud-tubes going up the tree trunk. (The common subterranean termites I've known, will not advance in a tree trunk internally unless there is a basal cavity. where they can enter the inactive, decaying heartwood directly from the soil.) The mud tubes will be visible on the outside of the trunk. When we had a mango orchard i walked it daily and knocked off mud tubes with a stick whenever I saw them starting up the tree trunk. If you are diligent with this, at least once a week. You may not need #1. the bark banding. Then you can stay 100% organic methods. Bag your mango fruit as it nears ripening to prevent fruit fly infestation. My compost gardener in Canada tells me worms don’t like things too dry or too wet. She also says veggie-scrap compost must be mulched with leaves or clippings. I think she is referring to African night crawlers or other compost-heap worms, and not red wigglers in wet garbage. I see them in gooey manure and veggie scrap slush, quite happy and multiplying and doing their thing. Maybe you need to read up on worm farming and vermicompost, methods and materials before deciding which system to use and what kind of worms to order. For mulch material, any organic matter you have, leaf litter, banana leaves (they dry up in a few days) rice hulls, coconut fiber, etc will do. If aesthetics matter and you don't want it too rough looking, then use the finer materials or your finished compost for mulch. Or buy a garden grinder. Mulching is better than turning the soil for aeration. Excessive tillage can be detrimental, mulching or cover-cropping is better for soil and plant health.

That's what I say, buy the Honda bladed brush cutter. You won't need any repairs or parts for a few years. Unless its abused.

Thank you! this is good advice. Fipronil is a highly effective termiticide but should only be used in closed systems, eg., subsurface soil injection systems. It should not be used in open soil, open air spray applications. Permethrin and other pyrethroids (bifenthrin, cypermethrin, alpha-cypermethrin, imiprothrin) are considered "least toxic" and safer than the older generation insecticides (organophosphates, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and carbamates), but pyrethroids are not totally harmless, they can and do present some health hazards and environmental contamination. Use conservatively only as necessary, keep kids and pets away until spray substance dries, and follow Mutt Daeng's wise advise on using PPEs when mixing, handling and spraying. Chaindrite Stedfast 30 is bifenthrin active ingredient, one of the more powerful pyrethroids with longer residual effectiveness than most, up to one year. Twice a year applications is probably adequate control for most situations. Chaindrite Crack and Crevice aerosol or Baygon equivalent, is useful for conservative spot spraying with a spout. Insecticidal soap, and ant chalk are useful for some situations. There are organic program options, botanicals like neem seed oil extract, rosemary and clove and other essential oils, but the problem is that they have limited residual effectiveness (that's why they are organic program compatible, less persistent in the environment) so more frequent applications are needed, like every two weeks. Sanitation and exclusion are important components of IPM, integrated pest management. Clean up pest food sources, don't feed them and they won't come. Close the door, screen the windows, fill cracks and gaps in entry routes. Birds, lizards, cats, snakes, predatory insects, parasitoid mini-wasps and some other critters and microbes are important biological control agents. Don't kill them off with indecriminate pesticide spraying, like with fipronil.

aroma therapy tree = flower fragrance that is intoxicating and healing. Cost of small trees is minimal, 150 - 500 baht. Moving up in size to 2 - 3 meters height or so, with a 30cm root ball, something you can handle and plant yourself, maybe 1000 - 1500 baht. Larger than that 2000 and up for a nice specimen with delivery and planting included. Other medium size flowering trees relatively easy to grow, consider ton bpeep, Millingtonia hortensis, Indian cork tree, ton ratchaphruek, Cassia fistula, golden shower tree.

Soil-borne pathogens and root-rot are predicable and preventable, whether its papaya, or other species like durian that are highly susceptible to fungal and water-mold root decay. You can't just plant any tree on any site and expect smooth sailing. I miss the redwood forests and oak woodlands of my home in California. But I'm not planting redwoods and oaks here. (Growers planting durian in din-neow (poorly drained sticky clay rice fields) are going to have a sad and expensive realization in the long term when Phytophthora root rot advances and starts taking out trees). For any tree crop, ornamental and shade tree plantings, first comes good growing conditions. For root-rot sensitive trees, choose sites with sandy loam soil that drains well. If you don't have these conditions then maybe you will not be able to grow certain trees into maturity and prime productivity years. Know what you are planting and what ideal cultural conditions are required. Plant on high ground or on mounded soil, or top of large furrow rows, so they don't stand in wet soil for lengthy periods of time; thats when root rot sets in. The root crown is often the most susceptible anatomy. Don't "research" devastating plant disease after the fact. Get informed and be pro-active, do the research before you plan and plant. Next comes good soil and water management. If you depend on rainfall, and seasonal irrigation is not possible, due to site conditions or budget restrictions then you will have some challenges and serious limitations in tree health, growth, flowering, fruiting and productivity. Build soil fertility and don't rely on high NPK, high salt index chemical fertilizers, which are detrimental in the long term. Build % soil organic matter, benefical soil biology, humus and humic substances as a primary goal. Tree health, productivity and drought resistance will be the result. FYI: "Humic substances play a vital role in soil fertility and plant nutrition. Plants grown on soils which contain adequate humin, humic adds (HAs), and fulvic adds (FAs) are less subject to stress, are healthier, produce higher yields; and the nutritional quality of harvested foods and feeds are superior. The value of humic substances in soil fertility and plant nutrition relates to the many functions these complex organic compounds perform as a part of the life cycle on earth. The life death cycle involves a recycling of the carbon containing structural components of plants and animals through the soil and air and back into the living plant. Man became distracted from the importance of organic compound cycling when it was discovered that soluble acidic based N P K "fertilizers" could stimulate plant growth. Large industrial concerns took advantage of the N P K discovery to market industrially processed "fertilizers" from mineral deposits. Continued use of these acidic fertilizers in the absence of adequate humic substances (in the soil) has caused many serious sociological and ecological problems. Man needs to reconsider his approach to fertilization techniques by giving higher priority to soil humus. Humic substances are a good source of energy for beneficial soil organisms. Humic substances and non humic (organic) compounds provide the energy and many of the mineral requirements for soil microorganisms and soil animals. Beneficial soil organisms lack the photosynthetic apparatus to capture energy from the sun thus must survive on residual carbon containing substances on or in the soil. Energy stored within the carbon bonds functions to provide energy for various metabolic reactions within these organisms. Beneficial soil organisms (algae, yeasts, bacteria, fungi nematodes, mycorrhizae, and small animals) perform many beneficial functions which influence soil fertility and plant health. For example the bacteria release organic acids which aid in the solubilization of mineral elements bound in soil. Bacteria also release complex polysaccharides (sugar based compounds) that help create soil crumbs (aggregates). Soil crumbs give soil a desirable structure. Other beneficial soil microorganisms such as the Actinomyces release antibiotics into the soil. These antibiotics are taken up by the plant to protect it against pests. Antibiotics also function to create desirable ecological balances of soil organisms on the root surface (rhizoplane) and in soil near the roots (rhizosphere). Fungi also perform many beneficial functions in soils. For example, mycorrhizae aid plant roots in the uptake of water and trace elements. Other fungi decompose crop residues and vegetative matter releasing bound nutrients for other organisms. Many of the organic compounds released by fungi aid in forming humus and soil crumbs. Beneficial soil animals create tunnel like channels in the soil. These channels allow the soil to breath, and exchange gases with the atmosphere. Soil animals also aid in the formation of humus, and help balance the concentration of soil microorganisms. A healthy fertile soil must contain sufficient carbon containing compounds to sustain the billions of microscopic life forms required for a fertile soil and a healthy plant. A living soil is a fertile healthy soil. Humus functions to improve the soil's water holding capacity." Dr Robert Pettit ORGANICMATTERPettit.pdf UN Tropical Organics.pdf

That's a very good point, "Wrong Tree Wrong Place" is first on my list of common tree problems. Many people make that mistake, even landscape architects/garden designers who should know better. https://www.fertileearthlandcare.com/top-ten-tree-problems/

Tweechol Botanic Garden at Horizon Resort Tweecholbotanicgarden They have a great palm collection. ห้องประชุม สัมมนา จัดเลี้ยง ทีมบิวดิ้ง ที่ Horizon Village & Resort , Chiang Mai On Hwy 118 (CM - Doi Saket - Chiang Rai) on the left, about 6km past the 121 outer ring road. The adjacent hotel has a decent buffet breakfast and lunch too.

Your Garden of Eden sounds nice. Saraphi climate and soil has some good qualities, and some of the best trees and gardens I've seen in CM. To insure plant health, longevity and resistance to pests and diseases, consider going full route on progressive soil improvement in line with the incredible emerging science and practices being made known through the Regenerative Agriculture movement. There is a revolution in ag and horticulture going on. (See Kiss The Ground, Soil Food Web School, Advancing Eco Agriculture and other resources. There is a Regenerative Agriculture discussion on the Farming In Thailand forum, which has a lot of links to YouTube videos and reading materials.)

I'm concerned and wondering why the failures with coconut palms. I'm always puzzled when I hear something like that, It shouldn't be that way. I have a personal record of near 100% success with planting thousands of trees in landscapes and reforestation programs. Its all about appropriate species selection for the site, compatible plantings and irrigation, and growing condtions, good preparation, proper handling and planting technique, mulching and follow up with soil and water managment (not too much or too little). Local laborers tend to brutalize trees in the transporting and transplanting, and don't take responsibility for results. A lot of that is due to property owners looking for cheap plants and services. In my early career I was a foreman of a tree moving crew and the company I worked for guaranteed transplant health and survival for a year with a maintenance contract, so we had to take our professionalism seriously. New transplants, no matter how well they are handled have undergone extreme physiological stress and can be very vulnerable to any water deficit/drought stress, and can be highly susceptible to plant pests and diseases. So extra attention to follow up management, frequent monitoring, and early intervention for any problems is essential. Coconut palms need good water management while a new root system is established, and they can be attacked by coconut rhinoceros beetle and red palm weevil which are killer pests.

The tree suppliers near San Kamphaeng Hot Springs that you may be referring to are located in Mae On district near Huai Bok lake, near the intersection of roads 1317 and 4042. You can get there from San Kamphaeng on 1317, or from 118 past Doi Saket town, right on 3005, sign for Mae On. The attached photos have some signs with phone numbers. There are all sizes of trees and shrubs. The bigger trees are all traumatized, stubbed back in the tops and dug with extremely small root balls. Let the buyer beware. I didn't get prices.

From a recent discussion on the Farming forum:

I've use Dear Hearing Center in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Chonburi. Go to the main office in Bangkok if you can, they are the most complete with tech and repair services on site, the other branches do testing and orders, but send the work to the main office: 326/3-4 Sukhothai Road, Suanjitralda, Dusit, Bangkok 10300Tel: 02 – 668 – 1300 Fax : 02 – 668 – 1304Email: [email protected] But there are other branches throughout Thailand: OUR BRANCH — DEAR HEARING I recently made an expensive mistake and drowned a Signia in-ear device (over $2000. in the US.) by putting it through the clothes washer and dryer. The Dear branch in Chiang Mai provided replacement with a Widex device for 35,000, testing, smartphone app and all. The service was professional and efficient, perfect fit first time, and the quality of the device is the best I've had. (I'm saving up to replace the other side, which survived the washer and dryer to some extent, but with some loss of clarity.)

Same 4 pack of GS apples at Lotus Ruam Chok yesterday. They don't taste full flavor, obviously not high nutrient density (per taste buds not refractometer) , and barely ripened, harvested too early as is necessary for long distance imports. Some prefer Pippins for apple pie. Granny Smith, I think she was neighbor of Aunt Jemima, who washed with Dr Bronner castile soap, who bought his boots from Doc Martin.

Magnolia champaka, 11 months growth with good organic program management. My aroma-therapy tree.