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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: In the market for atemoya -at Rusty's that is
« on: June 01, 2018, 05:43:45 AM »
Looking good Mike :) dropped by my local to pick some up after work today and they were out. Hope they get some more in.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tropical cherry - ID please?
« on: May 30, 2018, 04:49:09 PM »
Looks like Acerola/ Barbados cherry.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Red Ball Lychee
« on: May 28, 2018, 08:47:03 PM »
Does anyone know anything about this variety? I have seen it mentioned on Australian lychee resources and trees sold here recently.

Is it renamed and if so what is it? Looking through info maybe Sum Yee Hong? Any information on chill requirements?

Apparently the fruit is quite large at 40g. Not huge but if that's an average it is certainly decent.

Thanks for any info!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's this atemoya? Big but not Mammoth
« on: May 26, 2018, 02:52:15 AM »
Good info Mike. I too grow and am a mammoth fan and have a tropic sun here too.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's this atemoya? Big but not Mammoth
« on: May 26, 2018, 01:46:29 AM »
Keen to see a pic of the inside Mike. I would have thought mammoth or one of its relatives/sports. If they are all regular shape though, odd.

Kinda does look like the jumbo AP posted by KH above. It may just be me, but I see a lot less AP in shops now days and if that variety is chewier, and tastes the same as regular AP, then I’m guessing that’s not it.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Please help identify these atemoya at new nursery
« on: May 18, 2018, 09:30:49 PM »
Not Paxton's Prolific. That's a fairly popular variety here.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Blue Java banana experiences
« on: May 13, 2018, 01:48:32 AM »
Quote from: SonnyCrockett on June 08, 2017, 10:29:27 PM
Planted 4 Nam Wah and 2 Blue Java at the same time same size March 2016.  The Nam Wahs are much more vigorous than the Blue Java for me.  They've really won me over.  Each Nam Wah is already fruiting size or close to it with 5-8 pups each (some of which I separated).  The Blue Javas are half the height and a third the diameter with three pups each.  Reading online, it looks like most people with both plants ended up preferring the taste of Nam Wah.

I see the exact opposite of this here. Nam wah is a nice banana, but the blue java consistently out produces it. Requires propping though.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Dade white sapote
« on: May 12, 2018, 11:48:24 PM »
Hi All
Can anyone comment of the vigour of Dade? I have read conflicting information. I want to plant ot on 4.5m (15ft) spacing as I do mangos and jacks (pruning).

Thanks for any info :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Has anyone fruited Marang in south florida?
« on: May 10, 2018, 06:53:23 AM »
Quote from: Rob P on May 09, 2018, 08:35:38 PM
Hi all, as I live in the southern hemisphere my Marang fuits from late Feb. to mid April depending on the season (late summer to mid autumn here in Australia). So if anyone in the US wants seed to plant in your spring I can probably help out next season.

Hi Rob
Where in south east qld are you?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cactus fruits that taste good (sweet), other than Dragon Fruit/Pitaya
« on: May 06, 2018, 06:43:06 AM »
Planted some koubo/Peruvian apple cactus today :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=11s&v=rc4geRz_SDU

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pakistani Mulberry Tree Too Big
« on: April 28, 2018, 04:48:58 PM »
Quote from: greenman62 on April 28, 2018, 03:45:25 PM
Ulfr
if the leaves are turning yellow due to water
you can put cardboard around the trunk in a circle
(keeping it 3 to 4 inches away, not letting it hit the trunk)
and put some mulch on top... it keeps moisture in.
or, you can grow a ground cover the shade the soil....
peanut is a good choice.  Peanut is a nitrogen fixer, the nitrogen feeds the tree also.

Hmm not sure that one was meant for me?

Mine look great :)

That red shahtoot I mentioned is actually a white mulberry (M. alba). I know you can’t use black mulberry rootstock, they are incompatible. Not sure if the actual red mulberry (M. rubra) would work for white varieties, I have never actually seen red mulberry the species here.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pakistani Mulberry Tree Too Big
« on: April 27, 2018, 09:12:31 PM »
Too right Palmcity. I'll add a bit here about my favorite mulberry.

The red shahtoot (what we call pakistani mulberries here - don't know why) is much less vigorous than my white and I prefer the taste. They are an awesome tree. Here they are grafted onto normal white mulberry rootstock and I have followed suite by grafting my own onto white mulberry as well. I imagine they must have a root issue to bother with grafting? I'm not sure on that but had the rootstock so it didn't matter.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pakistani Mulberry Tree Too Big
« on: April 27, 2018, 07:27:35 PM »
They take the pruning fine and you get plenty of new growth. I have found they don’t heal larger wounds well though.

A bit late now but I have found the best solution is a winter prune and a summer prune after fruiting (which also generates a new crop). I keep mine about 8 feet when pruned.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Barbados cherry
« on: April 23, 2018, 05:26:28 AM »
The one we grow here is called Florida sweet but that may well just be a made up name to sell trees.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Artocarpus collection and spacing
« on: April 21, 2018, 06:48:02 PM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on April 21, 2018, 06:39:39 PM
Quote from: Ulfr on April 21, 2018, 04:59:24 PM
You mentioned doing serious pruning. Pruning is apparently very effective with jacks but not sure about the others. With consistent pruning Oscar could those spacing be reduced?

My grafted jacks are planted high density and spaced 15-16ft. I am hoping this is doable long term, time will tell.

I guess you also have the problem that stuff grows more quickly there and so would require higher spacing.
Pruning is effective on all. The only question is, will you really do it consistently? Moxt people lax off after the trees get big, and then they get out of control.

I will (can’t speak for op). I use the same spacing for mangoes currently and only have a half acre to play with. Doable at my spacing you reckon?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Artocarpus collection and spacing
« on: April 21, 2018, 04:59:24 PM »
You mentioned doing serious pruning. Pruning is apparently very effective with jacks but not sure about the others. With consistent pruning Oscar could those spacing be reduced?

My grafted jacks are planted high density and spaced 15-16ft. I am hoping this is doable long term, time will tell.

I guess you also have the problem that stuff grows more quickly there and so would require higher spacing.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: black sapote variety
« on: April 21, 2018, 04:30:16 AM »
Are you after size or flavor? Out of the ones I have tried I *think* Bernicker was slightly more flavorful though that could well be in my head, the differences are very minor to me. I would probably prefer larger fruit (so Flying saucer, Mossman etc).

I have just planted a Tahiti which I currently know nothing about other than it is fairly large as well, time will tell.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: who grows Kwai Muk?!
« on: April 20, 2018, 06:35:54 AM »
Edit: Just realized how old this post was. I'll leave my post anyway, might be interesting to someone. Sorry Mango Stein, don't know the answer to your question.

I had a decent one about 7ft tall and only about three years old I think. It grew fast and had a lot of male flowers but hadn't fruited at the time of its demise (I had to move it and it suffered).

Thought I would share this pic of a decent specimen at the local botanical gardens.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: I've become a big cempedak fan
« on: April 18, 2018, 04:15:52 AM »
I have a cemp here in the ground in its second year outside. It may never fruit but it has survived in about the equivalent of 10a or b

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: which is the real mahachanok? two trees
« on: April 11, 2018, 12:25:07 AM »
Mahachanok grows a lot more elongated than those on the second tree in my climate. Kinda hard to see shape of the fruit on the first tree but it does look closer.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Reed seedling avocado
« on: April 10, 2018, 11:27:21 PM »
Quote from: simon_grow on April 10, 2018, 09:29:59 PM
That’s awesome,I love seeing seedling trees produce fruit. My friend also has what I believe to be a Reed Seedling. It produces large fruit but the seed is huge and it takes a long time for it to ripen. The fruit has some resemblance to your dads Fruit.

Simon

Very similar Simon  :)

Your tree looks great Dylan. Bearing well!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Reed seedling avocado
« on: April 10, 2018, 08:53:47 PM »
Thought I would share a 32-35ish year old avocado at my folks house. Dad planted this one there from what he thinks was a reed fruit. Tree has never really been managed as you can see.

Flavor is great but seed is large. Fruit is about 500g on average. I only had one that was a bit past it to cut open but it shows the seed/flesh ratio.

 I am going to graft it onto my multi-grafted tree here and preserve my dad's *Jim's Avo* haha. Nothing happening to my folks or the original tree anytime soon but will be nice to have at least a branch on my property :)












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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Artocarpus lacucha - plant or not
« on: March 17, 2018, 04:07:58 AM »
Quote from: Mike T on March 17, 2018, 03:11:06 AM
They are smaller than mango trees and taste a bit like sloppy apricot. They don't need to x-pollinate, are fine with clay soil and at least as resilient with wet feet as mango. They are pretty good so plant it. They are under-rated and have nice fruit.Kwai muk is another Aetocarpus which is very good and should be planted more.

Good info Mike

I have heard there are Kwai muk and then there are Kwai muk. Do you no know a source that has quality genetics over here? Are they usually seed grown? I had heard cutting some where but seems weird for artocarpus

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is White Sapote really *this* productive?
« on: March 10, 2018, 07:17:45 PM »
Certainly a productive tree and I can imagine a single tree that might be that productive, but there is no way to manage and harvest a hectare of 16m trees, and that spacing would be tight/shady (if I am picturing that right in my head). A 16m tree is big...

Jackfruit would have to be up there for production.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bundy Special Mango
« on: March 10, 2018, 03:55:50 AM »
Over the years has there been any more information on this one? Was going to make a thread until I realized one already existed. I have a great little grafted tree growing thanks to scion wood from a member here. I know his fruited this season so perhaps he will share a bit about them.

Are they being produced commercially in Australia? My local fruit shop gets a lot of different varieties in but none of these so far.

What is the fruit like?

Thank you

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