All right. We're looking at a little planting here of pineapple little pineapple stand, it's been stretched out to cover a little bit area so that they have more room to fruit. Got papaya, in between John's here and now, this is the platform I'll tell you about later. This is a eventually hopefully going to be partly for a welcome center for the local tourists to come by and to look at this. All of this work that's been done. And we've got another citrus here and flowering and some exotic locals and got some more flowering trees, something from Thailand.
They're not sure exactly. But I'm just going to flip through and we've got a dragon fruit cluster here. Some flowering vine. But the dead cheap tree it's only 10 years old but it's quite big. And he's showing you this to show you this large jackfruit that's sitting overhead I'm not sure if you can focus in on that. Let me change my ISO see if we can, if you can see that right.
A banana stand. Afghanistan banana stand. No fruit as of yet but lots lots of bananas, more papaya here. And what you see is basically a jungle. It's the tropics and we're feeling it. It's hot, it's humid, and I'm going to take you down through and show you as much as I possibly can.
We've got another mango here again, another dwarfed mango stout stem, and then I've, I've pruned all this suckers off the bottom of it and Taken and cut some of these suckers off the top as well to where you just have a cluster of food producers in the middle and you get the tree back into fruit producing mode. That's the strategy. Another large banana stand here. And this might be custard apple, I'm not sure this wispy tree right in front. But it was flowering, doing well. behind here, we've got the plant, the tree that I believe everybody should be planting these days.
Which is the avocado and it's doing well. It is actually dying slowly. But I went in, cut back what I could have this, the trunk from the stem, and it's coming up nicely. And then we've got what they call Chico right in front of us. We've got another citrus variety behind there. Let me continue down here slowly.
I'll try not to make your heads spin again bananas and then coming down the hill and another dwarfed mango right in front of another Chico. Similar in the family of Lachey, you see some of the fruits there if you can focus on that a giant mango which was blown over you see it laying over there, but managed to survive somehow. So I did a lot of pruning on that and it's, you see it's growing lots of new shoots. These mango. By the way, mango once you get mango established, they are bulletproof. Here's another citrus.
If I can get out into the sunlight a little more, I can Give you a better view of that. A little leaning over but still doing well. And then maybe a sugar Apple from Thailand here. And I'm not sure all every single tree that is here, we've got a couple of mangoes side by side. Again, another dwarfed one that used to be a lot taller, I cut it down to where it can focus. Here we have a tangerine tree, and it's got loads, it had loads of flowers.
We're going to see massive fruits on this later. And this is part of the tourist trail coming down through there. Another branch of of the trail so that people can come and see how this has been done and how to do this. So at the base of all the trees, if you'll notice there is mulching a mulching ring of dead tree to breeze. Any kind of wood debris spin thrown down there, the leaves, of course now the greens are coming up. But during the dead dead summer when we had no rain, we had a drought.
This was helping to protect the trees from succumbing to the to the heat and the loss of moisture. This is another tree which I've taken out of the ground over there right right next to it. And this will be a very nice bench because it sits quite stable. So we're just being practical about it, another mango and with its mulch ring, mulch area underneath. Now we come down here, this is the bottom of the hill where there's a runoff, there's a stream down here, and during the rainy season it does run water but right now it's dry, but it is still a moisture area and then Is year round. You are now seeing the creepers the parasites starting to take over again the coconut trees and again more bananas they're off in the distance.
So there's just a plethora of all kinds of different life forms here. What you're looking at right there in the middle is a teak and that teak has undergone some damage as well but still still hanging in there. That's a young teak right there. Okay. We do have a breadfruit right in front of us if you can make that out. There's loads of flowers, UIC Young's youngsters starting there, oh, pardon me, correction and is a very large Noni tree, noni.
Noni is something you also want to grow because they are also bullet proof. They are very good survivors. What we've got here right right there as a form of the in the Akasha family it's a tamarind tree and if you know anything about the chamber uproot these grow to be prolific with fruit bears and they're also very good growers but it got really leaned over on the by the storm and still is still is making its way back on a nice large size tree here which being spindly on the roots, it's very flexible and did not get snapped. Luckily for it now here's a young papaya. A lot of these are local that just are volunteers. They just grow and so we don't know if they're going to be a good fruit.
Local variety tends to be kind of iffy. What you've got right here in the screen is tired tapioca root, tapioca being of several uses worldwide again, there's that leaning mango from the other direction. We've got another avocado in front of us here and one behind it. And here is a grove that I had cleared out earlier a grove of Tarot route and across the the rise of trees there you see a lot of bananas and various trees. Now there, there's our There's our breadfruit in between the bananas. All right, and we're looking again at banana.
So when those start to produce, we're going to be quite happy indeed. Another mango, we're looking at They're so not loads of mangoes they come from different countries. JOHN has planted most all of this by seed out of his pocket things that he's brought over in his luggage. Another Taro right here. Bananas in front, another banana stand right there. This is really growing because I used to build a walk through here without any encumbrance.
And I think this is a sugar apple. I don't remember. I don't recall Sen. Another Tarot standard that I had cleared out earlier, coming back gracefully. And here we have another tree that I don't know. I have forgotten maybe that's a sugar Apple as well. And here we've got a citrus So all of these have been mulched at the base but now that the green is coming back so much, you can't see the mulch which is a great thing is the soil is is going to be protected.
Here, again is something I'm not sure of, as maybe that's another mango different kind with a longer leaf. Now, I want to show you something. This is Noni, this is a Noni tree that's laid over if you can make that out. And what you do with Noni, just for tip, Noni drink, Noni smells and tastes terrible, however, and the workers are back, building that Welcome Center. I'm going to show you a Noni that's about ready to pick. You wait until they're white.
You get a bunch of these you collect a bunch of these up and put them inside in the shade until they get started. Keep bugs away from them. And then you take any put it in a blender, not a juicer, put it in a blender, blend it all up, very liquefy it, and add raw, organic honey just enough to take away the taste. Not sweet. And then you can, you know, make a gallon or five gallons at a time. And then you can bottle those off and sell those, give them away, have them yourself.
They are a tonic of the gods, folks. And believe me, when you start drinking these things, you eventually will get used to the taste, especially if you have faith in what they are going to do for you. So I'm coming around now to the backside. And we see somebody up there and there's the platform and here's an idea, maybe an inspiration. Before I get on that we plan today, a young avocado in here with that was actually just a shoot off of off of