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Here are some pics that I took this past weekend of jackfruit trees fruiting below the graft at Excalibur.

Hey,
I am working on a list of fruit trees and sources for seeds and trees and I need help in making it the most complete list possible. I have it in a google doc right now and everyone is welcome to add to it.  Feel free to anything you would like to it. Please do not delete anything. Thanks!

Here is the google doc of it:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoy4d4hcUHo3dGppM3kyc2RXYmtxQUxTS2FUSXhPZmc


Number of fruits on list: 895

Since there are many threads with people posting about their new mango trees I figured they could all be combined into one thread.

Here is a book on growing, harvesting, and processing jackfruit. Click on the gear in the top right corner to download the pdf.

http://books.google.com.my/books?id=xSO59fMhdcMC&lpg=PR1&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here is a book on the monkey orange. Strychnos cocculoides. Click on the gear on the top right corner to download the pdf.

http://books.google.com.my/books?id=OM-f8gRtlbAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP2#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here is a field manual on growing, harvesting and processing the fruit.
http://books.google.com.my/books?id=elR0GYBSKrkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here is a book about Pouterias. It's in Spanish. Maybe someone will spend a few month and translate it for me....

http://books.google.com.my/books?id=2SHDWrt0NPkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here is a book all about tamarind. In the right corner click the gear button and select download pdf.

http://books.google.com.my/books?id=QhtZLMVPLIIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Great book on jackfruit. Just like the annona book I posted, this has tons of info. In the top right corner you'll see a button that looks like a gear. Click that and it has a choice to download pdf.

http://books.google.com/books?id=NwcKlmkud6UC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

I once saw a picture of a jackfruit with flesh that was a deep red.

The closest to red that I've seen in person is in the pic below and it was only a orangeish-red.

What is the most red colored jackfruit that you guys have seen? Please post pics. Only of jackfruit you've actually seen yourself though.

Edit: I can't find the pic. I am looking.

Here is an interesting article about the new snail that is damaging to plants, homes, and human health in South Florida. I haven't seen any of those snails yet myself. Has anyone else?

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/29/v-print/2610615/fight-is-on-against-giant-african.html

To keep things organized and easy to read, please limit each topic to one recipe. It will allow members to search for, comment, and ask questions specifically for that one recipe much easier.

Here is an interesting chapter of a plant breeding book about mango breeding. Click here

Here are my notes about mango hand pollination:
1) In the afternoon of the day before you plan to do the hand pollination remove all opened flowers from the panicle and then place a bag over the entire panicle.

2) The next morning, remove the bag and identify all the hermaphrodite flowers. Remove all other flowers. Take off the anthers from the hermaphrodite flowers.

3) Pollinate with male flowers.

There you go. A simple guide to mango hand pollination. I took those notes from a presentation Dr. Ian Bally did at TREC about his work with mango breeding. I know I had another pdf somewhere that I found with good detailed pictures of mango hand pollination. I think I may have sent it to a few members in the forum a while back. Maybe they still have it. If I find it, I will post it.

Mango hand pollination is probably the best way to breed mangos if you are trying to get a specific cross. I think they said they had over 99% correct breeding rate, meaning that what they thought they crossed ended up being what they did in fact cross most of the time.