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New Way To Deleaf For Me

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Patty came by a few days ago not only deleafed my girls but the whole forest/jungle. There is now a bed of leaves 3" thick. Never been in a hurricane where the forest was shredded. This reminded me of a tornado with the sound and the selected damage. One valley south looks like a large bomb went off and flattened everything while mine just damaged some trees.Need to go south and find some herbs for next year as mine was hit hard 6 weeks early. But thank GOD the family is safe,all animals but the burro accounted for. Just an extra week of work. Suerte JK
 
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JK,I have a good friend who went to his second home in tepic to change out some waterpumps in his mango grove right before the storm and we havent been able to contact him since,glad you are well.
 
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His wifes sister called today,they are all fine,luis was happy to get the water on the mangos,Hes off to sayulita to fish in the morning.
 
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Jalisco Kid said:
Patty came by a few days ago not only deleafed my girls but the whole forest/jungle. There is now a bed of leaves 3" thick. Never been in a hurricane where the forest was shredded. This reminded me of a tornado with the sound and the selected damage. One valley south looks like a large bomb went off and flattened everything while mine just damaged some trees.Need to go south and find some herbs for next year as mine was hit hard 6 weeks early. But thank GOD the family is safe,all animals but the burro accounted for. Just an extra week of work. Suerte JK
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Holy schnikeys! I'm glad to read you're alright, but very sorry to read about the crop.
 
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Just returned from a trip south to visit a friend and make sure his house was still up. I thought we were hit pretty good. There is a 20 mile stretch of snapped trees up to a meter thick,groves of mangos snapped into about 5 ft up,papaya fields that look like a field of stumps. In that 20 miles about 2 km inland not one fucking leaf on a tree.It looks like the jungle was sprayed with agent orange then nuked. My friend who lives on the beach in a beautiful Arroyo was so damaged it hurt your heart. When I got back I was so drained I felt like I was coming down from some psychedelics.The only thing good I saw was the government was working everywhere and doing a good job. I have no clue how much help there will be for all the shattered farms soon.
Suerte JK
 
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That sounds like what El Yunque looked like after Hugo. It was absolutely decimated. After that the new life that came forth was unbelievable. Species that hadn't been observed in decades came back to the mountain. But no one is farming on El Yunque. I bet it's times like these that people are happy that Mexico requires 2yrs of military service, as I recall a friend's retelling of his experience after the big quake in Mexico City back in the 80s.

How long does it take to get trees like papaya and mango producing again?
 
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Those were all mature groves of mangos, They really start producing after 6-8 years. All the papayas will need to be replanted.Weird year we were in, a bad drought even though we were hammered by a storm that dumped 10 in on us in March which everyone here said it was a first. Then last friday a week after the hurricane we had 8 in dump on us over night ruining what fields were spared from the hurricane.
But where the real damage acurred in the forests I would think the evasive brush full of thorns will enter. It will come back we figure after 5 years. Though a lot of 50 year old trees are lost. It is/would be a good time to invest down south, there is a valley down there that reminds me of Kauai every time I go surfing down there.
suerte JK
 
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