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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: July 20, 2012, 04:47:53 PM »
Beautiful photos, robguz24.  Quick question regarding your Fig tree, do you know which variety that is and how does it do for you in HI?
It was a White Kadota fig. It grew quite quickly and well, but I ripped it out last fall and now have a naranjilla and a dwarf red banana in the same spot. The fig fruit was average and virtually impossible to harvest at the right time. Too hard and they wouldn't ripen well inside the house. Soft at all and they were already infested with fruit fly larva. When you open them up they kind of look like larva anyway, so it was even harder to tell if I was about to get a mouthful of maggots. So it was more trouble than it was worth for me.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: July 20, 2012, 03:01:43 PM »
Aloha all!
I'm Rob from near Kalapana on the Big Island of Hawaii. Just discovered this forum and am really enjoying it. I have a small lot that is jam packed with tropical fruit trees and some others, including a good number of native Hawaiian plants, and 32 varieties of bananas. My hobby is now paying for itself by selling what my partner and I can't eat at my neighborhood farmers market. It's amazing how much food one can grow on about 5000 sq ft!
I keep a little web page about my efforts here -> http://robguzman.com/Rob/Hawaii_native_plant_and_food_garden.html

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I have a Julie here on the Big Island of Hawaii, not far from Oscar. I'm about 1/3 mile from the coast and it's usually breezy. I think they taste wonderful, but my partner was less impressed. I have only that and a Glenn, and I've gotten many times more fruit off the Julie, and it has stayed a smaller tree so far. Anyway, count me as a fan of it.

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I have tasted and grow atemoya, soursop, and rollinia here in East Hawaii. I would grow cherimoya, but it does not fruit at my low elevation where it rarely gets below 65F.

My favorites are cherimoya and rollinia. I don't know specific varieties of any of those I grow or have tried. Also recently tried a sugar apple, which I didn't like enough to every have again. It was too mealy and too many seeds. But it made me recognize how atemoya are a cherimoya-sugar apple cross.

Soursop I've recently started harvesting, and learning when to harvest. They really have to soften in order to become more sweet and less stringy. They can be delicious but a pain to eat.

Recently harvested my first rollinia, and it was just a wonderful vanilla custard. Best one I've had!

Here in Hawaii I can find these all for sale at farmers markets, but only occasionally and they are all pretty expensive compared to other fruits. Just started getting my atemoya to fruit for the first time by hand pollinating it. Can't wait to eat them all!

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