tim armstrong Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Does anyone have experience of growing dates here?. I just saw a video of a Thai farming operation somewhere near Changmai, that looked very organised. I thought it would be too wet and humid, but apparently not so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSmurf Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Did'nt believe dates would grow hete as they need to be pollunated by a particular fly that does not live here.. Unless I read an April fools day spoof? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 About two years ago i went to the "House and Garden " Exhibition at Impact Centre and there were a couple of nurseries dealing with date palms.I Haven't any details any more but i think they were based around Korat. The owner of one of the nurseries spoke passable English and he had several varieties that were being developed for the Thai climate. I nave seen many of the dwarf date palm (phoenix roebeleniii ) growing as ornamentals in BKK so the phoenix spp will survive. As for fruiting i think they can mechanically pollinate the flowers/fruit . There was a topic posted on TV a few years ago on this subject so do a search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rice555 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Hello All, if you play around with the TV search function on the farming forum, you you can see some pics of(I think) soidog2's date trees and some growing info. Sat. I went shopping downtown Korat and bought a Ag Mag because it had info on growing melons, but it also has 4-5pgs article on growing dates. Look at the picture! rice555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim armstrong Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 Thanks guys, very useful. I'm still on the trail of the wife's doco. Unfortunately all in Thai, but easy to follow the ideas. I will post again if I find out more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosha Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 I remember seeing something about them on a discovery channel. The farmer had 1 male plant to 100 female trees. He was hand pollinating them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosha Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Did'nt believe dates would grow hete as they need to be pollunated by a particular fly that does not live here.. Unless I read an April fools day spoof? Wind pollinated in the wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rice555 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Hello All. www.datepalmthai.com rice555 it's in Thai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceyummm Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 soidog2 is doing well with his date trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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