Resources

Media & Publications

General:

• CTAHR publications and Information Central
• Tropical fruit tree propagation guide

Avocado:

• 'Sharwil' avocado identification

Banana:

• Banana bunchy top virus pamphlet
• Banana bunchy top virus CTAHR pub

Cacao:

• Grafting cacao (VIDEO)
• Black pod rot of cacao
• Making chocolate
• Farm and Forestry Production and Marketing Profile for Cacao
• CATIE Catalog of cacao clones

Coffee:

• Coffee berry borer management (2015)
• Growing coffee in Hawaii

Lychee:

• Girdling lychee
• Lychee fruit bagging
• Lychee post-harvest guide
• Growing lychee in Hawaii (including propagation, pruning, management)

Macadamia:

• Tissue sampling: macadamia nut (VIDEO)
• Grafting macadamia
• Inset and mite pests of macadamia
• Processing macadamia nuts at home

Mango:

• Floral manipulation in mango
• Mango anthracnose
• Mango powdery mildew
• Mango disease and their control
• Grafting the mango in Hawaii

Papaya:

• Papaya fruit maturity chart
• Anthracnose in papaya
• Minimizing on farm papaya damage
• Insect damage on papaya
• Major papaya diseases
• Is organic papaya threatened by cross-pollination with GE papaya?
• Why papaya fails to fruit

Tissue, soils and diagnostics:

• How to collect tissue samples (VIDEO)
• How to take soil and tissue samples
• Testing your soil
• Recommended nutrient levels of tissue for common plants in Hawaii
• Collecting samples for diagnostics

Website Links

Macadamia nut:

• Information for Hawaii's Macadamia Nut Growers

Coffee:

• Welcome Coffee Growers! Event and Extension Programs

Others:

• Edible Crops
• CTAHR Farm Food Safety
• CTAHR Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program
• CTAHR Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Graduate Program
• CTAHR Agricultural Diagnostic Service Center (ADSC): Soil, tissue, pest ID
• Agroforestry: Trees of Life, Trees for Life