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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone growing rare artocarpus?
« on: February 26, 2024, 11:57:09 AM »Even in South FL, it can be challenging to grow the rare artocarpus.
Breadfruit, jackfruit, the hybrid, kwai muk, and lakoocha are pretty bulletproof down there
What's tougher is the marang, cempedak, and SE Asian ones. To my knowledge, no one has done pedalai. But marang has been fruited.
Greenhouse wise the ultra tropical ones can not be fruited due to size restrictions. Now this is just a generalized rule, and some artocarpus stay smaller, eventually they still get too big for the regular greenhouse. Also, some artocarpus like the pedalai only fruit on mature leaves. And when you prune back a tree in the greenhouse, it forces them to make more immature leaves. So, it's a never ending cycle (ask my friend)
Now you could do jackfruit, hybrid, kwai muk, lakoocha, and some Chinese artocarpus in a greenhouse. Although they will get big eventually, pruning can make it happen. And these tend to fruit at smaller sizes also.
Tropical Fruit Hunters in Ohio fruited jackfruit, and several members here have some nice sized artocarpus up north too.
I know of a S. Florida grower with a 25 ft+ pedalai but it hasn’t flowered last I heard.
Do you know if the grower that fruited marang is on here? I would love to as a few questions.