The Tropical Fruit Forum

amaqeq they are pretty poxy looking, half-arsed fruit that are not pollinated or ripened in the case of the first.I doubt there are good quality dwarfs in queensland as they are mostly planted in the ground and trimmed to be kept small.The commercial growers who sell them are most concerned about getting the highest prices when they are sent to places like Sydney and Melbourne for sale in Asian market in particular.Indian,Sri Lankan,thai and vietnamese people pay extra for good quality jacks and malaysian people pay a high price for chempadak.

amaqeq the usual way to keep jacks small is hard pruning and even the most vigorous types can be kept under 3m.Grafted ones usually fruit at a smaller size but those in the pix are very small to be fruiting.I have heard of true dwarfs but not seen them.A friend had a small fruiting jack in a pot but it took off when he planted it out.Some Sri Lankan papers advise of types where seedlings are routinely fruiting at 18 months.I bought a 1.5m seedling on special in a pot that was labelled orange crispy but it turned out to be a yellow sloppy and fruited in its first year of being planted out at broomstick thickness.3 or 4 years until fruiting is not unusual for healthy seedlings and 2 to 3 years for vigorous grafted plants.

On some farms they let them flourish until their second year of fruiting and then cut them right back to be short trees or espaliered.It is hard to know fruit quality rom the photos.

Welcome Bonakyon,I too am a keen fisherman,crustacean lover and gardener.People here are friendly and welcoming.One acre can fit and awful lot of fruit trees and I'm sure you're putting a hit-list together of your wants.Before too long I bet you have it an edible jungle.
Cheers
Mike T

Oscar mine are not doing as well as others I have seen.I visited a house last year with 6 year old duku,langsat paete and langsat utteradit trees covered in fruit and keep seeing beauties around that make mine look ordinary.A few years ago I told an acquaintence not to put in seedling longkong and duku as they would take too long to fruit.His are fruiting in their 6th year and my grafted and marcotted ones are dragging their behinds.
I am looking forward to them coming good and producing tremendous amounts.I have another 4 year old and 2 year old longkong.

Tim thanks for the suggestions and I will try raisins and jam but I am better at drinking wine than making it.Invariably most get wasted as they all come on together.

amaqeq, I am an ecologist/zoologist by trade but have no postgrad. botany quals.I do fewer field surveys these days mostly riding the desk and shuffling paper.I see alot of wildlife and most of it is small here.Other tropical places have a more diverse assemblage of wildlife.There is a good botanic diversity and probably due to the asian communities here,many asian ruits have been brought in.

Maybe Oscar but I was below 50f last night and Kuranda was about 40f min.I have looked at Miamis' temps and extreme mins and would still be optimistic.The ones in my yard  were not slow.I might be a bit warmer than Hilo overall but perhaps cooler in summer. Perhaps I need to get a bunch of the park ones and send them to you and florida folk just to see if these ones perform any better.
Mangosteen would struggle in Florida but those small leafed ones like in northern thailand and commercially at mission would be worth a shot.
Durians vary alot in cold tolerance and as I have said before forget montong,chanee,gaan yeow,D24,D101 and a thousand others.Durio macrantha, red prawn and the 2 laplaes have hardiness form on their resumes' and I would be confident in predicting the survival and even fruiting of at least one of these in Florida.If I get some macranthas and red prawns next season we could put it to the test.I have only 1 tiny sprouting long laplae.

We are just slow learners and bad at chasing bucks.In cyclone scrubs candle nuts spring back with a vengeance and can be the dominant tree.50, 20 or 10 years on you can see uniform sized stands of candlenuts and trace them to a particular cyclonic event.They sprout,stay small for many years under the rainforest canopy waiting or their chance.It happens that way with many rainforest trees while waiting for sun.The common term for these little dormant trees is oscars. 

They are a very common rainforest pioneer tree here  routinely getting 120ft +.No one would ever grow one in their yard and the nuts litter the rainforest floor uncollected for the wildlife to dine on.

Steven I suggest that when you are up to your neck in jackfruit action that your alter-ego becomes jackfruitshouter.

Thanks for the pix BMc I am a slow learner but I get it now.In the picture is the common ones around that look like aurea,trompo etc that I have in the kitchen.The round one was better and moister by the way.

Thanks Oscar and great picture.

The biggest seeds in the smallest leafed mangosteen strains kept moist in sealed bags will last pretty well.This is hard to control if you're ordering seeds (nucellic inclusions).