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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #50 on: January 30, 2015, 09:36:42 AM »
Yes they will be huge, is that what you want it to be? Then you can't pick the fruit i guess.

Does it work to topprune them? When i toppruned a breadfruittree it died after that.

Yours also has a sidebranche that grows low, mine also made them but they disappeared again.


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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #51 on: January 30, 2015, 10:11:22 AM »
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #52 on: March 07, 2015, 02:05:53 AM »


Today I tried pedalai and compared it to keledang which you can see a few bulbs of here with the pedalai.The pedalai is very nice especially this large bulged type.I found the keledang better and the tangy dried apricot taste very appealing.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #53 on: March 07, 2015, 02:27:29 AM »
Mike, you never cease to pull out the big guns over and over and over again!
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #54 on: March 07, 2015, 04:07:27 AM »
Really bright color on that keledang. And that pedalai looks to be really nice sized!
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #55 on: March 07, 2015, 04:24:54 AM »
The pedalai tree has good sized ones as I saw last year , or was that the year before? Anyway this is the only one I have so far and would have been over 2 lbs. The 2 keledangs were smaller perhaps a pound and a quarter.The keledangs might be from a different tree on the same farm because as you observed Oscar the flesh was almost glowing with colour.I did a double take when I cracked the first one.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #56 on: March 07, 2015, 04:28:07 AM »
Correction the uneaten portion of pedalai was just put on the scales and is 900g.It would have been around 1.4kg or 3lbs  fresh.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #57 on: March 07, 2015, 05:14:30 AM »
Correction the uneaten portion of pedalai was just put on the scales and is 900g.It would have been around 1.4kg or 3lbs  fresh.

Can you get shots of the whole fruit with something to show scale?
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #58 on: March 07, 2015, 05:32:09 AM »
No Oscar it is messed around with brown old skin as I got a reject that was good inside still.It is night and the keledangs are ripped apart.
Hang on I'll flap the skin over and try.


It doesn't look round now and the skin turned out worse than in real life.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #59 on: March 07, 2015, 05:35:07 AM »
Thanks. That looks huge. The ones i've seen here are about 1/4 that size.
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #60 on: March 07, 2015, 05:44:46 AM »
I have never seen them less than a pound.Like an old rambutan when the hairs shrivel and skin loses colour they don't look as good but I'll take anything of fruit I like.
Trees on farms would have larger fruit but I was told this is a large and good quality selection.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #61 on: March 07, 2015, 11:28:24 AM »


I topped this tree later. Don't want it shoot  for the sky. My another pedalai has been topped by the wind at about 4 feet high. Highest side branch took role of the leader. I had yet another  3 meter tree I did not want, cut at the ground level and now 2 leaves coming out from trunk. This species are hard to kill. You can prune any way you want. ..

That's good to know.  Don't have a Pedalai, and am not sure I want one. A friend had his enormous tree removed last year because it was dominating several other trees in the vicinity.  Cost him a small fortune to do so-several thousand dollars. :o

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #62 on: March 07, 2015, 03:45:59 PM »


I topped this tree later. Don't want it shoot  for the sky. My another pedalai has been topped by the wind at about 4 feet high. Highest side branch took role of the leader. I had yet another  3 meter tree I did not want, cut at the ground level and now 2 leaves coming out from trunk. This species are hard to kill. You can prune any way you want. ..

That's good to know.  Don't have a Pedalai, and am not sure I want one. A friend had his enormous tree removed last year because it was dominating several other trees in the vicinity.  Cost him a small fortune to do so-several thousand dollars. :o

It's only going to dominate if planted too close to other trees. Most people just don't realize how big it will get when planning distances. It's not only very tall, but also very wide.
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #63 on: March 07, 2015, 06:01:49 PM »
...It's not only very tall, but also very wide.

Right, in other words a monster!  Sort of like an Albizzia, no?

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #64 on: March 07, 2015, 06:26:27 PM »
...It's not only very tall, but also very wide.

Right, in other words a monster!  Sort of like an Albizzia, no?

Albizias get much bigger. Not dangerous like an albizzia in wind because pedalai is not brittle, and the branches and trunks don't get as monstrously large and heavy as albizzia. Also albizia probably grows 20x faster than pedalai. Doesn't seed and make little seedlings everywhere like ablizia. But  pedalai isdefinitely not the kind of tree to grow in a pot in your condo yard of suburbia. In a 1 acre lot or preferably 3+ acres or bigger it's doable. Also it can be topped and pruned, like any other tree.
BTW, for the unsuspecting gardeners, marang will also become a giant tree. Not as big as pedalai, but a whole lot bigger than breadfruit.
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #65 on: March 08, 2015, 04:43:53 PM »


Today I tried pedalai and compared it to keledang which you can see a few bulbs of here with the pedalai.The pedalai is very nice especially this large bulged type.I found the keledang better and the tangy dried apricot taste very appealing.

Spectacular ! very beautiful

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #66 on: March 08, 2015, 04:44:56 PM »
According to Australian artocarpus guide, pedalai is fastest growing artocarpus, 2 meters a year. It did exactly that.  Planted one year ago, at about 6 feet height with just 2 leaves at the top after wind stripped the the rest from lower trunk.  Remarkable growth spur.
Marangs for example much slower. About 5 feet after 2 years. I don't think, I will hit a predicted target of fruiting within 5 years with marang.



This is a tree of more advanced stage, growing wild, by the roadside.



Very nice !

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #67 on: March 10, 2015, 05:49:03 PM »


Artocarpus can be kept quite small and productive and some selection are just more compact anyway.Feast your eyes on this keledang and notice the large fruit and small tree.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #68 on: March 10, 2015, 05:51:18 PM »
Oh yeah it is the mother tree of  keledang seeds I sent to people when other keledang didn't make the grade.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #69 on: March 10, 2015, 06:03:54 PM »


Even pedalai can be kept at a size which is smaller than the wild examples.This developing one has a some sunburn and you can see it is from the large fruiting type.

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #70 on: March 10, 2015, 06:11:57 PM »


Artocarpus can be kept quite small and productive and some selection are just more compact anyway.Feast your eyes on this keledang and notice the large fruit and small tree.

Is it really a selection that is small or just one that has been pruned consistently every single year? I've seen the lanceifolius tree here and it is another huge artocarpus. But yes any tree can be bonsaied if you take the time to do it. Even the giant sequoias make nice bonsais!
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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #71 on: March 10, 2015, 07:19:08 PM »
Looks like I want one!

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #72 on: March 10, 2015, 07:45:52 PM »


Artocarpus can be kept quite small and productive and some selection are just more compact anyway.Feast your eyes on this keledang and notice the large fruit and small tree.

Very nice ! Very beautiful !

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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #73 on: March 10, 2015, 08:01:23 PM »
This size is what i'm after but i guess it was much bigger and pruned back. This is a perfect sized tree for my city garden.

I read somewhere that pedalai can fruit in a pot in 3 years or so, i will try that since i sure don't want a huge tree.

If mine won't fruit i can always plant them in a park or garden somewhere.


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Re: Pedalai looks like a giant rambutan
« Reply #74 on: March 10, 2015, 08:31:54 PM »
This size is what i'm after but i guess it was much bigger and pruned back. This is a perfect sized tree for my city garden.

I read somewhere that pedalai can fruit in a pot in 3 years or so, i will try that since i sure don't want a huge tree.

If mine won't fruit i can always plant them in a park or garden somewhere.

What comic book was that?  ::) Or was that in another one of your fairy tale books?  :o
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