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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: A theft on the horizon
« on: August 13, 2022, 05:58:01 PM »
Like Roblack, I couldn’t help but see a younger, silly, less thoughtful me. I would talk to them, tell them how much work it is and how excited you are. Offer to give them a taste when they are perfectly ripe and tell them why they shouldn’t be picked early.

Better to have local allies then create a challenge out of it.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: growing Sweet Tamarind
« on: February 14, 2022, 03:33:42 PM »
There are some planted here as street trees and they seem very manageable in that setting. I know the trees can get big but these ones have been there a long time and must be lopped periodically. I have grown the seeds from the trees easy enough and they seem find with minor frost, I don’t know how much cold they can take beyond that though.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: South/Central Florida Cold Fronts
« on: February 01, 2022, 11:44:04 PM »
As above, two of my white sapote died due to wet feet. Wasn't even flooding, just soggy ground that didn't get a chance to dry out for a week.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yard Macros
« on: September 09, 2021, 04:22:07 PM »
Oh bugger :(

Will be interested to hear your thoughts after the tasting.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Question about australian atemoyas....
« on: September 08, 2021, 05:01:43 PM »
Hilary White is a bit harder to get here but Paxton prolific is very common. I even saw a bunch at Bunnings (our big hardware/home chain I guess similar to Home Depot) last week.
They might not be as easily available up north where Gone Troppo is.

I though Paxton prolific was over there though, more commonly with the name KJ pinks there?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yard Macros
« on: September 07, 2021, 07:09:03 AM »
They look great Rob :)
Are they the first achacha flowers?

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The charger model shown is a real ass kicker, good for long runs and multiple wires.


The pic show the Solar power source with 2 terminals connected to 2 wires. So the high voltage is between these 2 wires, then why the need to connect one of these wire (green terminal?)  earth ground? If the coon went under the green wire then there was no shock?

Also, when the pole is wet (from rain or sprinkler), why the wet pole doesn't short out the two high voltage wires?

I can’t see what you are talking about on Mark’s pic but the circuit is made along the wire, through the animal and through ground.

Connecting the negative and positive terminals to two separate wires would be a very bad way to do it, you are then relying on the animal to make contact with both wires before it gets a shock.

Here’s a pic of my energiser, I use the post it sits on as the ground. Needs a clean.



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Hot wire here just means electric fence like is used everywhere for stock. Is it something different elsewhere? Am I missing something or are others? You would use more that a single wire to stop them going over/under to answer a question asked above.

It will work just fine I imagine though I have no experience with raccoons.. I use it all the time around my property for protecting chickens and for my dogs who eat/destroy everything. I just use a little solar energiser that sits on a star picket (our version of a t-post). I use the hi-vis wire/tape and because dogs are trainable, I can just put the wire/tape anywhere I want the dogs to stay out of and whether it is energised or not they will respect it. It’s cheap and very effective temporary fencing and I have used it in so many different configurations. The solar/battery ones are very convenient compared to the mains powered energisers.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Guabiju pruning
« on: August 07, 2021, 01:03:54 AM »
Thank you Scott, exactly what I was hoping to hear :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Guabiju pruning
« on: August 06, 2021, 05:27:59 PM »
A friend gave me a nice guabiju to plant out and I’m currently deciding on a location. A search told me it gets big but elsewhere I read it can be used as a hedge. Is it similar to jaboticaba in that it can be kept very small?

Thank you

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Question About Tree Paint
« on: July 17, 2021, 04:49:06 PM »
Mango grows straight through paint for me on mature branches (only done a few though). I just use cheap watered down latex paint. Is IV organics superior in some way?

As Rob said you only need to paint the top/part facing the sun anyway.

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Are you growing or know anyone growing honey gold around Brisbane? Are the reports of heavy disease suceptibility in this area accurate?

Yep, I top worked a kp summer before last. I’ll let it fruit properly for the first time this year but did let fruit develop last year before removing and didn’t notice anything. I hear Alphonso isn’t great here either but never had one.

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I wonder if the taste is dependent on location. 

It has to be. I know Mike was baiting a bit here but seriously some of the cultivars that seem fine elsewhere taste very different (I assume) here. I am no KP fanboy but there must be something to it, whether it is climate or soil or whatever. I know the older USA cultivars are nothing like the new superstars, but they are still grown there and are preferred there to things like KP. I am really keen to try some of the newer superstars and expect them to be a cut above.

My 4 year old who has no idea about cultivars was NOT a fan of keitt, palmer, Kent or brooks. I eat them but wouldn't buy them again. KP, maha and honey gold are good and she loves them.

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I think it’s over there known as KJ Pinks.

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Paxton prolific is a type pinks mammoth that doesn’t require hand pollination. Ugly but delicious :)

Atemoya are more of a sub tropical fruit but heat tolerance varies. I know Mike has mentioned African Pride doing ok in the tropics while some others didn’t.


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Yeah you really need a heat source or thicker coverings than frost cloth down there. I did some tests with data loggers and frost cloth and found while it was enough up here, it only kept them slightly warmer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Pf_n86cZI&t=3s

Firstly, great video, and good to see another Aussie on here. I love data driven information that shows empirically how much of a difference cold measueres make in the wild.

Secondly I thought that the difference provided by your (much thicker) frost cloth was quite sigificant. I bet in colder temperatures this difference would be even more pronounced.

Unlike your trees mine are on concrete pavers, with some right up against the brick wall of the house. These should act as a heat sink much like the water container with your jackfruit. The pots themselves are mainly black and should also absorb some heat during the day and hopefully radiate through the night. 

Although the frost cloth is quite thin, I have purchase 4 strands of 300 xmas bulbs which I will wrap around the pots and stems, and should radiate even more heat upwards overnight.

Here is an idea of what I have undercover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVRIRDRf8FU, not quite as well put together as your own, but we do what we can!

Thanks for the kind words. Really keen to see how it goes with your trees. You are certainly right that the concrete/brick walls will hold heat, a lot more than my barrels of water. You might indeed get enough buffer to avoid damage in the lows at which point (as others said) it’s the lack of heat during the day that’s the challenge.

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Yeah you really need a heat source or thicker coverings than frost cloth down there. I did some tests with data loggers and frost cloth and found while it was enough up here, it only kept them slightly warmer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Pf_n86cZI&t=3s

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seedling Ross Sapotes and Canistels
« on: April 17, 2021, 05:05:04 PM »
I have really liked Aurea and Bruno canistels, yet to try a Ross. The other canistels I’ve had are a bit dry though if I didn’t know of the better types I wouldn’t mind.

Mike do you know the origin of Bruno? I got a grafted tree from Steve recently after trying the fruit a while back and liking it a lot.


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I had an air layered Kwai muk. It was incredibly weak compared to seedlings planted nearby and died after a few weeks. I might have just got a bad one or maybe it was a bad spot? Cant say much with a sample size of one.

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I only ever check this section despite also growing and enjoying citrus. I just don’t think to check/keep up with the other section. I bet many others are in a similar boat and further splitting would compound the issue. Splitting is really only necessary when threads are disappearing to page 3,4,5 in the first hours, that doesn’t happen here.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit Post
« on: March 18, 2021, 04:20:10 AM »
I went topless for a short while haha. Some cultivars have heaps of aerial roots and could support a decent amount of weight. Others have almost none. I ended up making tops to slip over the concrete posts once it was obvious that most wouldn’t just support themselves.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mexican sunflower
« on: March 11, 2021, 05:03:40 PM »
My main hedge (60m ish) is just uphill of a tree row (between two rows) so usually let it just fall on the row. On the uphill side I usually clump it up and put it under the trees. Makes a nice, airy mulch.

I don’t mind the look of it as mulch but chip does look nicer. It mostly breaks down here before the next trim but that might not happen there.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mexican sunflower
« on: March 11, 2021, 03:42:25 PM »
Double post.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mexican sunflower
« on: March 11, 2021, 03:29:52 PM »
I don’t have Tithonia but I do have a lot of vetiver. I use a blade similar to Brad. I know Shane said he had a good experience, but I found the tri blade style to be very average and changed to the circular blade style with good results. Either will cut straight through fencing with a decent trimmer (ask me how I know, doh!). I imagine results would be similar for the Mexican sunflower.

Vid here if you are interested - https://youtu.be/So113KLVInk

Sorry Brad I don’t have any chipper advice. I would have assumed it would be fine with a decent chipper but don’t know the plant.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruiting Barbados Cherry from seed.
« on: February 23, 2021, 04:06:43 AM »
Cuttings are so easy, finger sized with a few buds and stick them in a pot. I don't even protect them, just out in the open.

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