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depends on what you buy, if you buy seeds. 2 years to first fruit. if you buy saplings, depends on how old the sapling is, i purchased 1 sapling, approximately 2 or 3 months old. i doubt i'll get fruit off of this this year, but next year for sure. reminder - you can harvest the plants twice per...

Buenos Días, Estoy haciendo una pesquisa sobre la aplicabilidad de la jatropha para la producción industrial de biodiesel. Alguien me puede decir si la glicerina obtenida del proceso es toxica como las semillas de Jatropha o la toxicidad de estas se va con la pasta resultante de la extracción del aceite...

I'm intending to plant Jatropha trees in Vietnam. I want to export Jatropha seeds for extraction. But, when I research and caculate, the FOB price come up to about 220-250USD/MT. I wonder if I would be able to sell my seeds at that price. Please help me!

just got in 15 packs of jatropha seeds from echo.org yesterday, they were supposed to average 4 to 8 seeds per pack. I opened 2 packs and planted 24 seeds yesterday, ran out of planters. today i stop at the nursury and pick up some more. 31 trees growing so far. man do i need to find some land for sale...

India will begin to export jatropha-based biodiesel to Europe. As far as I know, this is the first commercial biodiesel made from jatropha. Article here. Naturol to export biodiesel to Europe BS Reporter / Hyderabad June 12, 2008, 17:58 IST Hyderabad-based Naturol Bioenergy would export 10,000 tonne...

just for future reference, the diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil. while technology marches onward, I still think peanut oil would probably be the best in lubrication, MPG, and quite a few other factors I havent even thought of, such as life expectancy of gaskets, rings, etc. but then again...

A s f a r a s t h e t r o p i c a l c o u n t r i e s [ m a i n l y B r a z i l - p l e n t y o f l a n d and w a t e r ] a r e c o n c e r n e d , apart from Jatropha Seeds, the C a s t o r Se e d s and theB i o m a s s [any w a s t e ( f r o m t h e Eth a n o l M a n u f a c t u r i n g U n i t s ...

this was included in one of Dr. Miller's (Texas A&M University) emails to me this morning. Quote: We have planted all our jatropha from seed. We do this by planting them in Speedling pots, then transplanting from the field. This is very important in growing them, as the root system of a plant...

im learning a lot more about biodiesel these days, I had NO CLUE they turn biodiesel into jet fuel. there are about 5 types, (i think) of jet fuel, add that to how many airlines have sold out, gone bankrupt or simply closed their doors in the past few months. (most of this from my very first issue of...

for those of us interested, i think we need a new forum heading that just tracks the daily price of diesel in different areas. might be fun to see how fast it rises or how long it takes to get to x price. $8 a gallon $10 a gallon $30 a gallon $ one arm, one leg, 2 pints of blood, your firstborn, all...