The eye of Hurricane Milton missed us by 200 miles but the storm was so strong we sustained some damage to our farm. Get your Sleepy Lizard avocados at: www.guacfarm.com
I'm in SW Florida. We got some pine trees and some banana plants knocked down. Papaya plants wrecked. But our buildings and mango and avocado trees did great! Thankful to have been spared much damage!
In Cape Coral right now going through this. It's a nasty storm for sure, and a real downer after Ian so recently. I did bring in my smaller potted avocado and mango trees though. Those outside are ready to endure the storm. Best wishes to you over there on the east coast. .
Hey Tom.... I live in SWF. Rode the storm out last night. Thought about evacuating, but gas stations were running out of gas and I didn't want to get stranded out away from home with an empty tank riding out the storm in my truck on the side of the road. So I stayed home. Hunkered down and listened to the wind beat against my house all night. All is good though. No damage to the house, but lost a few banana trees and lots of avocados blown off my tree.
Develop a market for "factory seconds" avocados. Maybe restaurants who could use them for guacamole. Or peeled, cut, bagged, and frozen. Find some Vietnamese cafes who could use them for avocado shakes. Maybe a food processing plant can puree and can them as avocado spread.
@@greatergood3706 There is such a market. Restaurant supply companies, and even Costco Business, have frozen bags of avocado, all cut into assorted chunks . There are bags of guacamole, premade, and ready for food service use. Grocery stores sell guac and avocado dip. All of those products are probably supplied by Hass growers.
Tom I am glad everything is cool with you, I am glad milton did not affect you that much….and thank you for your report….you are the reason why I am hopeful for my hass avocado trees( I have two)…..someday I will get fruit….as far as the size of Florida…hummmm….California is three times bigger…ok…ok..your avocados are way bigger than ours…
you have the same issue in California, people make plans to travel to San Francisco and they think they're gonna drive to San Diego for lunch...till they get there.
It's funny, I chatted with you and your friend on a recent Live and you told me the Choquettes(sp?) I bought were on the early side for eating. By the next day, it was Wonderful! I was raised adding a little salt and mayo to my avocados, and absolutely fell in love with this beauty! Only problem here is that I live alone and have 4 1/2 avocados left. :) My neighbors may be beneficiaries of a couple. :)
I’m up in Merritt Island. I was very surprised how strong the winds were from Helene as well, even though it was hundreds of miles away, and Milton passed right over my head this morning, heck of a storm.
Partner with SE Rykoff and US Food Service. Take all of those scarred avocado, process them into a paste, and package them into pastry bags. Then distribute them to hotels, airports, school cafeterias, and jails. The cooks could decorate cakes with them, or use them for avocado toast.
ALWAYS cut all the leaves off the banana and papaya trees prior to a storm. Since I had to prune my trees in December, I did it for the last 3 days. I’m in the path of the storm. It’s already a terrible situation and I’m 2 or 3 hours away from getting the storm over my house. Either way, I hope everyone will be safe. Good luck my Floridian brothers and sisters.
Hi. i was concerned about your farm. Glad you could avoid the worst. Hope the people affected could recover fast. Excuse my boldness and I hope you would not take offense, and i know you usually uses the grafting technique to plant avocado trees with rootstock from seed and the scion from grafting the productive variety. But i want to point another advantage of this technique, is the fact that rootstock from seed develope a better root system from a taproot (with a primary apical dominant root downwards) than a variety that come from a cutting clone (weaker and subsuperficial roots), and therefore, among other things, less vulnerable to strong winds. I think that is another good point specially at your latitude. Greetings!
As a farmer from a country who often hit by typhoons here in the Pacific, our way ofsaving bananas and other trees, we semi haircut our trees as prevention. We dont gamble.
I had a banana plant fall over today but that's all that happened. I was in Andrew where the window blew in and a tree went through the roof, A tree fell through the roof in hurricane Wilma. A ficus tree fell against the house in Irma. It will be interesting what will happen to my trees on my lot in Hendry County. There's a massive sapodilla tree at my friend's home. I need to see if they have fallen off tomorrow.
Yo Rabbi Lizard I hate to correct you because you are 3X smarter than I am but bananas are technically plants not trees. I know that you know this already but others don’t especially kids and that’s the only thing that matters. Love everything you are doing. You remind me so much of my old favorite dynamic uncle.
@@SleepyLizard Holy shiiiite I have to look those words up and I am a doctor. You got me for real. OK I looked up both. Amazing I never knew either word. But Ped usually refers to the foot but the meaning has no foot connection. But I now know you also have ESP because you used that word to show a Podiatrist how dumb he really is!!! Uncle Rabbi Lizzard maybe some day you’ll come and visit my 270 mango and 30 avocado patients in Kendall. PS you are the first lexicographer I’ve ever known.
I have family all over Lee county some of My family that are in fort Myers in a hotel right now just lost there house on the Charlotte harbor from Helene . Around 1pm they where hit by tornado no power since 1pm
Good to hear and see not much damage, just with your banana trees, hopefully the storm lowers its intensity and thus ensures your sapodilla remain safe on the tree, as for the Monstera deliciosa, isn't that plant a shade plant? It seems like you have it out in the open, receiving sunlight on those sunny, clear days. As for tossing those Choquettes you said that supermarkets wouldn't take them because they're scarred, this Mexican will take them, 😂especially after seeing that video or short where your missus and you tasted the Choquette.😋👍
So happy to hear that you are 230 miles away, and safe.
thank you Shecky
I was thinking of you, glad you weren't affected badly
Thank you
Thanks for sharing Tom. Milton is just leaving east coast today. 🙏😎🏝🏖
I yelled "Nooo!" every time you threw an avocado to the ground. I'll gladly go pick em up 😂
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Reckon!
me too
Exactly. I'd buy them.
@@GreenJustin8 you can get a box at www.guacfarm.com
so glad you guys are ok Tom !
thanks for having my back
Good to see that you and the family are safe n sound .
yeah, looks like we got though another season
Glad you guys are doing well, Tom. Stay safe!
thank you
So glad you and your crop is good.
me too
I am so glad to hear that you are not going to be affected dramatically from this hurricane. :o)
we're good...didn't even lose power last night. like I said in the vid we were 200 miles from the eye.
I'm in SW Florida. We got some pine trees and some banana plants knocked down. Papaya plants wrecked. But our buildings and mango and avocado trees did great! Thankful to have been spared much damage!
I was so glad to read the news this morning to learn the intensity went down and the storm blew through quickly
Sad to see the damage, but it is good that you and your family is safe. Thanks for the video!
it's not much damage at all. similar to what a big thunderstorm will cause
Glad Tom you are good. God bless and protect Florida ❤
thank you
In Cape Coral right now going through this. It's a nasty storm for sure, and a real downer after Ian so recently. I did bring in my smaller potted avocado and mango trees though. Those outside are ready to endure the storm. Best wishes to you over there on the east coast. .
Hey Tom.... I live in SWF. Rode the storm out last night. Thought about evacuating, but gas stations were running out of gas and I didn't want to get stranded out away from home with an empty tank riding out the storm in my truck on the side of the road. So I stayed home. Hunkered down and listened to the wind beat against my house all night. All is good though. No damage to the house, but lost a few banana trees and lots of avocados blown off my tree.
sounds similar to what we did with Irma. Glad you are ok
@@SleepyLizard Thanks man. Glad you guys didn't get hit.
Glad to know it didn't reach your side. Well done 👏
we dodged another one.
I hope you went back and picked up those delicious avocados that you tossed. Those choquettes were big. Looks like you really know how to grow them.
I did not 😭
Thank God!!!
yes
Glad you’re ok, saw the news says along 320 damages, good you’re ok🙏🙏
I dread the morning news
Develop a market for "factory seconds" avocados. Maybe restaurants who could use them for guacamole. Or peeled, cut, bagged, and frozen. Find some Vietnamese cafes who could use them for avocado shakes. Maybe a food processing plant can puree and can them as avocado spread.
let's do a little thought experiment: I will sell you my seconds and you can do the rest of your suggestion. Does it still seem like a good idea?
If there was such a market, Tom would have pursued it
@@SleepyLizardlmfao 😅
@@greatergood3706 There is such a market. Restaurant supply companies, and even Costco Business, have frozen bags of avocado, all cut into assorted chunks . There are bags of guacamole, premade, and ready for food service use. Grocery stores sell guac and avocado dip. All of those products are probably supplied by Hass growers.
Tom I am glad everything is cool with you, I am glad milton did not affect you that much….and thank you for your report….you are the reason why I am hopeful for my hass avocado trees( I have two)…..someday I will get fruit….as far as the size of Florida…hummmm….California is three times bigger…ok…ok..your avocados are way bigger than ours…
you have the same issue in California, people make plans to travel to San Francisco and they think they're gonna drive to San Diego for lunch...till they get there.
Take care! Saludos from Belize!
thank you.
I hope you and your family are okay. You're very lucky it's gonna miss you. Stay safe!
we are good
What's up buddy glad you guys are doing well stay safe buddy and be happy buddy and I'm pretty much sure you guys will 👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️✌️
yep!
It's funny, I chatted with you and your friend on a recent Live and you told me the Choquettes(sp?) I bought were on the early side for eating. By the next day, it was Wonderful! I was raised adding a little salt and mayo to my avocados, and absolutely fell in love with this beauty! Only problem here is that I live alone and have 4 1/2 avocados left. :) My neighbors may be beneficiaries of a couple. :)
yeah with avocados it's feast or famine. I'm glad yours were good the next day and you are going to have some happy neighbors!
I’m up in Merritt Island.
I was very surprised how strong the winds were from Helene as well, even though it was hundreds of miles away, and Milton passed right over my head this morning, heck of a storm.
yes they cover the whole state
glad you made it through rather well
turns out Helen knocked down more branches the week before
Partner with SE Rykoff and US Food Service. Take all of those scarred avocado, process them into a paste, and package them into pastry bags. Then distribute them to hotels, airports, school cafeterias, and jails. The cooks could decorate cakes with them, or use them for avocado toast.
lemme know how many you want and when you'll be by to pick them up and I'll give you a quote. You'll have to source the pastry bags yourself.
@@SleepyLizardlmao 🤣
@@SleepyLizard will that be a FOB quote?
@@chinatownboy7482 once you buy them they're yours 🤣
ALWAYS cut all the leaves off the banana and papaya trees prior to a storm. Since I had to prune my trees in December, I did it for the last 3 days. I’m in the path of the storm. It’s already a terrible situation and I’m 2 or 3 hours away from getting the storm over my house. Either way, I hope everyone will be safe. Good luck my Floridian brothers and sisters.
storm has passed, we're good. Bananas are my lowest priority crop...I pretty much let them grow on their own.
Very nice video ❤❤
thank you
Don't throw away those two nice avocados...go get them!!
they belong to the squirrels now
Good info as always
thx Tucson
Im glad to see u are Ok buddy im watching on the media hows big that hurricane
thank you, yeah it passed well north of us and moved fast. lotta rain and wind but minimal damage. I sent you a customer, did they ever reach out?
I didn’t know bananas grew in the state of Florida
like weeds
Hi. i was concerned about your farm. Glad you could avoid the worst. Hope the people affected could recover fast.
Excuse my boldness and I hope you would not take offense, and i know you usually uses the grafting technique to plant avocado trees with rootstock from seed and the scion from grafting the productive variety. But i want to point another advantage of this technique, is the fact that rootstock from seed develope a better root system from a taproot (with a primary apical dominant root downwards) than a variety that come from a cutting clone (weaker and subsuperficial roots), and therefore, among other things, less vulnerable to strong winds. I think that is another good point specially at your latitude.
Greetings!
yes, that's why we graft onto seedlings instead of air laying or rooting cuttings.
As a farmer from a country who often hit by typhoons here in the Pacific, our way ofsaving bananas and other trees, we semi haircut our trees as prevention. We dont gamble.
yes we would have taken different action if this was going to be a direct hit but for this storm we were way on the outer edges
Glad you good!
us too!
God bless your brother, hope everything is o k.
we are good. power didn't even go out.
Interesting as always. Now go pick up those beautiful fruit. 😊
plenty more on the ground now after the wind 😱
I had a banana plant fall over today but that's all that happened. I was in Andrew where the window blew in and a tree went through the roof, A tree fell through the roof in hurricane Wilma. A ficus tree fell against the house in Irma. It will be interesting what will happen to my trees on my lot in Hendry County. There's a massive sapodilla tree at my friend's home. I need to see if they have fallen off tomorrow.
💪
Be safe
thanks
Yo Rabbi Lizard I hate to correct you because you are 3X smarter than I am but bananas are technically plants not trees. I know that you know this already but others don’t especially kids and that’s the only thing that matters. Love everything you are doing. You remind me so much of my old favorite dynamic uncle.
I've been called avuncular in the past and I consider that a compliment, thank you. As for plant vs tree I strive to avoid pedantry on this channel
@@SleepyLizard Holy shiiiite I have to look those words up and I am a doctor. You got me for real. OK I looked up both. Amazing I never knew either word. But Ped usually refers to the foot but the meaning has no foot connection. But I now know you also have ESP because you used that word to show a Podiatrist how dumb he really is!!! Uncle Rabbi Lizzard maybe some day you’ll come and visit my 270 mango and 30 avocado patients in Kendall.
PS you are the first lexicographer I’ve ever known.
@@weiss613 🤣
We made Jasmine rice 🍚 mixed with Pollock avocado 🥑 this morning 🌄
that's twice in two weeks no isn't it?
@SleepyLizard yes, got to use those avocado 🥑
no hurricanes near my avocado trees
good
well thats good you will be okay at the farm
thanks for looking out Frosty
@@SleepyLizard i just finished insulating my greenhouse with bubble wrap today. its been 50 in there during day with temps in high 30's or 40 at night
I live in Central Florida and I got a huge amount of avocados knocked down. St. Lucie got 3 tornadoes in 25 minutes
we had a small tornado nearby but only downed bananas which is normal for us in a storm
I live in Pullman, WA, send me 2 dozen of your avocados that have minor skin flaws. I'll pay for them. We only get 3"-4" tiny avocados 🥑 up here.
you can buy them at www.guacfarm.com
@@SleepyLizard i saw that, I'm referring to the ones you were throwing out on the ground, lol
I have family all over Lee county some of My family that are in fort Myers in a hotel right now just lost there house on the Charlotte harbor from Helene . Around 1pm they where hit by tornado no power since 1pm
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I wish I can grow avocado's like you. Im in socal and they always die.😢 Any instructions would help.
heck yeah! subscribe to the channel and you'll find dozens of vids to get your started.
@SleepyLizard thank you, stay safe and God bless 🙌 🙏
Im Malaysia we call sapodilla as chiku.
do you have a favorite variety?
@@SleepyLizard I don't eat them unfortunately. I dislike the the gritty texture of it.
@@MrDannyArcher yes like a pear. I love that grit
Good to hear and see not much damage, just with your banana trees, hopefully the storm lowers its intensity and thus ensures your sapodilla remain safe on the tree, as for the Monstera deliciosa, isn't that plant a shade plant? It seems like you have it out in the open, receiving sunlight on those sunny, clear days. As for tossing those Choquettes you said that supermarkets wouldn't take them because they're scarred, this Mexican will take them, 😂especially after seeing that video or short where your missus and you tasted the Choquette.😋👍
this monstera are all under avocado trees so not full shade but not full sun either, plus they provide their own shade with them huge leaves
this is not good, huricane too strong, Me hope raspberry okay
yes
The scarred and ugly avocado are edible. Sell them as "scratched and dented" with free shipping.😂😂😂😂😂
we've got a market for the scared ones.
Next time, keep the Hurricane name out. Noone likes clickbait. Very distasteful.
Your comment makes you seem very arrogant.
That makes no sense. Haters gonna hate!!!!
Dude, people have lost everything. Noone cares about your banana trees. I watch your channel, but please.
this is your second comment on this video. I think you are jealous of me aren't you.
So why are you watching it? He said he sympathizes with them early in the video. Stop being a hater
@@alexmurphy4040 thank you Alex, you are 100% correct