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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.
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. ..
Quote from: DurianLover on January 30, 2015, 10:11:22 AMI 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.
...It's not only very tall, but also very wide.
Quote from: fruitlovers on March 07, 2015, 03:45:59 PM...It's not only very tall, but also very wide.Right, in other words a monster! Sort of like an Albizzia, no?
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.
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.
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.
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.