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On 4/26/2019 at 10:17 AM, Cronopio said:
Good idea! I'll pm you.
I replied to your message, look in your message box.
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20 minutes ago, Go Solar said:
My quote above......I did mention about the road ruggedness......and FYI, small 2 wheel drive pickups and SUV's go down there all the time, just takes some getting used to. If you didn't want to go that way, you definitely wouldn't want to go the other route....however, you could park in the square and walk it from the pueblo, in 10 minutes, and the folks there would probably load their truck and drive a couple of sacks back out to where you parked.....
Don`t know how long it`s been since your SUV passed that way but it was simply not possible for our van to pass down that road after the first half of a kilometer. My experience, maybe yours has been different. Yes, I think if we want worms that badly from the guy, we would walk from town. As you say, it wouldn`t be that far and it is a rather bucolic scene - old abandoned adobe houses, animals everywhere, quiet. For now, we`ll be ordering worms from Mercado Libre.
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For those considering going to the worm guy outside of Tlachichilco: we tried getting to him today, confirming in a tienda in town that there is indeed a worm guy just outside of Tlachichilco on 16th of Septiembre. We drove down 16th de Septiembre going out of Tlachichilco. However, our van had to stop about halfway there due to the road becoming slowly but surely impassable. The rest of the "road", actually a rude pathway, would only be traversed by foot, horse or someone taking a chance with their small 4 wheel drive vehicle. We could not find the road that is shown on Google going from the carretera to this person`s house. If anyone finds a local supplier for red composting worms or worm castings, please let me know!
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7 hours ago, Go Solar said:
Take a drive out there, bd - I'm a solar guy, not a worm poop or compost expert! 😉
Yes, will do. Have you been there yourself or heard about it from someone else?
Thanks for all your help, GS.
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23 minutes ago, Go Solar said:
Take a drive out there, bd - I'm a solar guy, not a worm poop or compost expert! 😉
Yes, will do. Have you been there yourself or heard about it from someone else?
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1 hour ago, Go Solar said:
Daylight hours.....10 to 4 should be OK, Sat AM likely also. Pretty informal place, just holler HOLA when you get to the gate.....there is a small house on the property. The finished black earth (and worms) is under the shade canopy on the west edge of the property. Yes, about 1.5 km from the turn off onto 16 de Sept from the carraterra.
Finished black earth as in worm castings?
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1 hour ago, Go Solar said:
Daylight hours.....10 to 4 should be OK, Sat AM likely also. Pretty informal place, just holler HOLA when you get to the gate.....there is a small house on the property. The finished black earth (and worms) is under the shade canopy on the west edge of the property. Yes, about 1.5 km from the turn off onto 16 de Sept from the carraterra.
The gate is on 16th de Sept.?
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13 minutes ago, Go Solar said:
Here's the map coordinates; these local old roads are in tough shape, so plan to take an SUV or something rugged with some ground clearance....it is easier to go in through the pueblo of Tlachichilco, and continue to follow 16 de Sept east, than to turn south off of the carraterra directly above it.
20.335515, -103.078470
Coming from Chapala, 16 de Sept appears to be the first street going into Tlachichilco? The worm farm appears to be just over km from the carretera? Any idea of their "hours", particularly if they`re open on Saturdays? Or is this a "it`s open when it`s open" kinda place?
Thanks so much, GoSolar!
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7 minutes ago, Tiny said:
When I left click on the blue button with a "G" on it, it asks to translate the whole page. Check that.
When I do that, I only get a small blank window with "Translate" next to it.
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21 minutes ago, Go Solar said:
There IS a "worm farm" and compost / black earth operation at lakeside, just east of Tlachichilco, south of the carraterra on the old callejon to Mezcala. Will post back here with the link to the exact location. And you can stop in at Focaccia on the way for a snack or meal.
Thanks, I would love the link since I travel that area but am not aware of the old road to Mezcala. Is it the road labeled Juarez on maps?
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6 minutes ago, Tiny said:
Go to a page that is in Spanish. One of the rows toward the top of the browser should have a button for the translator. Click on it. It should ask to translate the whole page.
There is a way to do it automatically but I am not using my PC now so I will check later.
I do not see that option.
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12 hours ago, Tiny said:
I added the Chrome extension, Google Translate, to my Chrome browser.
Do you know how to add an extension to Chrome?
I added it but how do you use it in a website? When I click on the icon while in a website, the window that comes up is empty, nothing to translate. If, one at a time, I have to select each phrase then drop it into the window, it does not seem worth the trouble.
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On 4/25/2019 at 7:57 PM, dichosalocura said:
For a free remedy, if you have plant pots on the ground, water the area real good around the pots (because this is the dry season) and check early the next morning before it gets hot. And check what you find. With just a few they will lay eggs and reproduce rather quickly in the right conditions. Or try laying card board down in a shady area and keep it moist, within a few days they will come. Make sure the cardboard is laying over plenty of wet leaves or mulch to attract them.
Have done my scouting. As many have found in their area, there are no worms on my property.
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On 4/26/2019 at 10:51 PM, Tiny said:
What browser do you use? There are ways to translate the web pages.
I use Chrome. Any ideas for translating the Mercado Libre site?
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11 hours ago, Cronopio said:
Good idea! I'll pm you.
I didn`t see a pm. I`ll be ordering the worms as soon as I can figure out the Spanish on the mercado libre site! When I have them, I`ll try to pm you.
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3 hours ago, Cronopio said:
I, too, am looking for some red worms for composting. Very interested in any responses!
Cronopio, happy to go in with you on an order from mercado libre. I don`t need even their minimum order amounts of 1 kilo.
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2 hours ago, Tiny said:
Wow, Tiny, thanks! I didn`t know the right words for Mercado Libre. Ordering now.
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Does anyone have few composting worms they can give me for starting a very small vermiculture system for my kitchen waste? Gracias.
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On 4/14/2019 at 2:36 PM, lynski said:
Just booking now for two weeks in June. I don't like the heat so I want to come at the hottest time of the year to see how well I tolerate it. I'll be back several times over the next 8 months and each time we'll try a different area.
The first two weeks in June are hot like May is, but the last 2 weeks are cooler because of the rains.
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On 3/29/2019 at 1:41 PM, AngusMactavish said:
Up to 15 megas, woohoo, Telmex is way faster here in Chapala.
PS, this is with WiFi located on the other side of the house.
Only immediately around the plaza. 10 mbps everywhere else.
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"the lake is toxic, children are dying and crime is rampant"
The lake right now is so full of fish they jump out of the water. Fishermen are having a great time throwing their nets in and in a matter of 30 seconds coming out with a dozen fish big enough to eat. These were my observations last Sunday sitting by them for a while. They had big smiles on their faces. Is the lake toxic? If you dived down to the bottom of the lake and sucked in the muck, you probably wouldn`t live long but heavy metals are...heavy. They don`t migrate much. But you don`t get a fish year like this with a toxic lake.
Some of the children in the east villages are dying of kidney disease. My husband works in those villages and he says that so far there isn`t a consensus about what is causing it. The drinking water is inadequate, the carp in the lake have been reported containing mercury and the nutrition of these people is piss poor. These things are known. There are people working on this, there have been studies done but much more needs to be done. Why isn`t it being reported? Because here, the problems of the poorest of the poor don`t get reported. You have to go to these places, speak Spanish and come to be trusted to find these things out.
Rampant crime? You`d have to point it out to me because I haven`t seen it. None in the area I live in. There`s been a few murders reported in the larger area. More than anywhere else? The statistics don`t show it. As far as I know, the impact on people`s lives is about nil.
I`m happy as a clam here and nothing in recent memory has affected this one jot.
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I stand corrected. Thank you for the clarification.
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13 hours ago, dichosalocura said:
Black sapote might be a form of the persimmon, but I believe they are in the same family and a distant relative would be the avocado. I am still looking for those blue java bananas. I recently saw a video that they are growing them happily in Costa Rica now. Hopefully, they will make it to Mexico soon. I have the red Surinam Cherries, they taste really sour and turpentine like. But if you get the black variety (available on mercado libre) they are supposed to be much sweeter. Talking about cherries, I ordered a Jamaican cherry tree last summer on mercado libre. The fruit is supposed to taste like a cross between cotton candy and sugar cubes and be very juicy with very fine strawberry like seeds and to produce year round. Check it out. Mine is just going into the flower stage, later I will reveal how the fruit really is.
Sapote and persimmon are in the genus Diospyros, family Ebenaceae. They are not related to avocados which are in the family Lauraceae.
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On 11/21/2016 at 8:33 PM, mudgirl said:
What they call black sapote is actually a form of persimmon.
No, black sapote is not a form of persimmon. They are 2 very different plants and 2 different species in the same genus. As the potato and eggplant are 2 species in the Solanum genus. The potato is not a form of the eggplant.
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