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Excellent!!!
Looks sweet!
Well done
Thanks! Mi luv it here :)
Congratulations
gorgeous!
have fun!!!!!!!!
Mazel Tov !!!!!
Cap
Lol. How u know I am Jewish? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by captaind
Looks great!! How far from Negril?
Very nice! I wish you the best. Have you decided what to plant on the 10 acres?
The place looks fantastic. I hope it helps fulfill your dreams.
Regards,
Bob
Awesome, keep posting, we are all pulling for you!
Thanks everyone. It's Petersfield area so maybe 45 min drive from Negril. I have not yet decided what to plant. More fruit trees, definitely. And various vegetables, focusing on those I like to eat. Avocados if it's possible to get mature trees that can bear fruit soon. (Love the big Jamaican avocados!) Don't need to make money off the land, just looking to grow my own food naturally and organically on my own farm.
When I'm more set up I'll announce a housewarming party on this forum.
Peace and love,
Richard
Great interior space and the exterior is enormous! Is that an electric garage door? Probably dreaming, but I feel like I've never seen one before in Jamaica.
From seedling, you could have avocado (pear) harvest in 5 years. Sooner if you graft - awesome skill, my Grandfather had a tree making two kinds of USA pears (hard brown, soft yellow) and another making limes, lemons and oranges!
keep posting so us dreamers can live vicaroiusly through you. Congrats looks lovely!~
Loads of electric garage doors around...though frustrating to see how fast they rust out here with the salt air. :concern:Quote:
Originally Posted by Odinson
Yes, I have an electric garage door. And yes, the house is big. All the rooms are big, and 2 of them have a high vaulted ceilings that are good for keeping it cool. And man, if I play music with my Bose speakers, the acoustics are amazing. Without carpet or furniture or curtains, the music bounces off the walls and ceiling of those big rooms and it sounds like I am in a concert hall. Maybe I'll just leave it unfurnished for the acoustics :).
What I don't see a lot of here but I am interested in getting is solar panels to generate my own electricity. I'm all about renewable energy and sustainable living.
Grafting, hmm. So how does that work, graft bearing branches of avocado onto some other tree species? I'll have to check into it. I'll also get some mango trees and more breadfruit trees and whatever else I can buy at the nearby nursery.
After a week of living here I decided I am happy living like a Jamaican with no A/C and no hot water. If I open the windows and let the breeze blow through it is very comfortable at night, even in July. Actually more comfortable than my house in Boston this time of year, as in the US houses are built in a way that traps heat. One way I am un-Jamaican is I like to sleep with windows open. Mi nah understand how so many Jamaicans sleep with windows shut tight and a fan blowing hot air around. Also, why don't Jamaicans have screens on windows? Such a simple inexpensive thing and it keeps the mosquitos out. I need to screen up all my windows - high on my to-do list.
I love listening to the sounds around me at night. A mix of animal sounds - crickets, tree frogs, dogs, farm animals - together with music wafting in from neighbors. It's really nice.
A big difference here that I'm still digesting is the level of security in most Jamaican homes vs in the US. I grew up in the New York suburbs, and then moved to Boston suburbs, in neighborhoods with houses and lawns. Where I came from almost nobody had fences around their property, and the few that did were regarded as un-friendly/un-neighborly. Houses generally had no more than a door-handle lock and were trivial to break into; I had to break into my own home in Boston a few times due to forgetting key. Farms in the US usually have no fence around them and nobody goes in to steal crops. Here, on the other hand, I already feel like I'm living in a fortress, with grated windows and padlocked gates, and everyone is telling me to also build a fence around the whole property with a locked gate in front. People are telling me that absence of a fence will be taken as an invitation to come steal my fruit. Really? I don't like feeling like I am all locked in & keeping the world locked out. But I guess one does what one needs to do. Oh well, I'll work it out.
Anyway, really enjoying my new life.
Peace and love,
Richard
Yup, I was dreaming. Its been months, I obviously need to get back to JA to refresh my memory. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bnewb
I was worried about praedial larceny too (worried for you). They do say fences make good neighbors.
There are a bunch of grafting how-to's out there, on the youtube for instance. I wish I saw my Grandfather do it, I only enjoyed the results.
You are basically using a well established tree as root stock. Generally, you cut into the grown tree, stick a branch of the desired tree into the wound and then bind it. Many roots feed the new growth and it matures rapidly. Have fun!
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What a beautiful house and magnificent lands. Congratulations to you.
Praedial larceny is estimated to cost Jamaican farmers up to $6 billion annually.
https://jis.gov.jm/praedial-larceny-...ganised-crime/
The reggae artist Winston Hubert McIntosh was born in Petersfield, and later on, when he lived in Jamaica's capital Kingston, he changed his name to Peter McIntosh (Peter Tosh).
Richard maybe take up reggae!
Very nice!
Wow, beautiful!
Congratulations, it looks lovely. Be careful with wet feet/flip flops on those shiny tiles! You will get used to the grillwork :) and yes you need to add and use security measures; that's just how it is. Magnetic door screens are nice for the exterior doorways/keeping flying bugs out. If you are there year-round you will learn the subtle season changes. Having some land is wonderful. I wish you all the best!
Per your interest in solar - start studying! US Solar Institute in Florida offers training courses, each segment is a week long, hands-on. I met the founder years ago when he had started a training school in Jamaica. There's also the aspect of storage batteries so you can have juice at night. Learn as much as you can so you can maintain and trouble shoot it, as well as verifying any hired work done to it.
Re: Leaving the place empty at times: especially in the early years it would be wise to come-and-go frequently on an irregular schedule. Keep your arrival and departure dates to yourself, then you will observe what happens when you are away. Its better for the house too, you will catch maintenance issues early. Ten acres is a sizeable area to keep track of.
Hi Richard,
Adding to Lola's thoughts on security you might want to consider some trail cams spread around your property. You can get them fairly inexpensive online or at WalMart (apx. $50-$100 per cam). Buying 10 or so might be a good addition to your game plans. The images are quite good and stored on internal SD cards and powered by 6 or 8 AA batteries. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words!! Gives you a chance to see what's going on while you aren't there.
Thanks for all the great advice, Lola and everyone.
I am proud of myself:
I already planted 6 fruit trees on my land.
Mango, avocado, starfruit, orange, lime.
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Make sure you sprinkle some overproof around those saplings and they will grow mighty!
So very happy for you & your family - beautiful home & there is nothing like acreage !!!
Wonderful ! Looks SWEET!
Congrat's !! Look's Great... Enjoy.
Try air layering...Quote:
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here are some pics of how I air layer my ackee trees (and all other fruit trees)...use wet sphagnum peat...wait about 3 months, or until sufficient root growth appears...will immediately start bearing fruit...
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That is very cool!!
That's really interesting. Wonder if it would work with Azaleas.
In Jamaica, that would be "no problem"............lots of rain and sunshine ............... just like SWFL ......... VERY thing grows ......... next door is a "pear" tree (avacados) that produces 100's of pears....... don't know what do with all of them............. just down the other way is a wonderful lady who has a ACKEE tree with a BUMPER crop ........ and she invited us to harvest the crop as she staying on the east coast of FLA. WINNER WINNER jerk chicken dinner ! !