Here’s some information on this variety for the other Australians on the board. There aren’t many grafted jacks readily available here and little information on the ones we can get. The tweed crisp is a seedling selection from tropical fruit world in Duranbah NSW. It is available by mail order as a grafted tree from Daley’s nursery in kyogle nsw.
Tree: pretty standard looking tree, larger leaves than some of the selections from North Queensland. Seems to withstand cold well. I have an amber seedling grafted to the tree and that 1/4 of the tree looks pretty sad in the winter. Haven’t had any troubles with dieback on pruning.
Fruit: This tree is still small but carries a lot of fruit. I took 6 green and 9 ripe fruit this year. Avg ripe fruits about 15 pounds. Flesh is bright orange on fruit that have just ripened and light burnt orange when really ripe. Latex is present but not copious amounts. Texture is crisp. Flavour is pretty standard, I find it improves with a day or two of refrigeration. It’s very sweet but my brix meter has taken a walk, so I’ll see if I can get a reading later.
This is the tree, might be about 4 years old.
I picked and cleaned 3 fruits totalling 24.6kg
Cut fruit showing latex after 5 minutes
Quartered and cored
Total cleaned bulbs, all seed/inedible bits removed 7421g (30.2%)
Total seeds 1024g (4.2%)
Sample of cleaned bulbs. Seem more orange in real life but close enough.
Hopefully that’s mildly useful to anyone considering getting one of these from Daley’s.
Rob