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This pedalai selection is the pride of the rare fruit council but I am yet to try it.People speak very highly of it.
Wow Mike, it looks great. The flesh looks like marang. Lets us know how it tastes.
Quote from: msk0072 on April 10, 2013, 01:50:55 AMWow Mike, it looks great. The flesh looks like marang. Lets us know how it tastes.Yes pedalai tastes very similar to marang. Some like it even better than marang.
Luc More like 4 to 7.This tree is grown at Tully with 160 inches of rain a year and winter temps dipping to 40f and it took 5 years there.This selection does pretty well at the cooler end of this species tolerances.They are pretty productive and really don't need as much rain as that.I think there is much variation in most artocarpus species.This variation is quite noticeable in terms of fruit characteristics and cold tolerances.
They are pretty productive....
Thanks for the posts, Mike. We'll be anxious to see your post when you actually get to try this superior clone. I'm also happy to hear of your estimated time to fruiting. I plan on putting in several (and also a number of other Artocarpus spp.) and I had been hoping on something in the 10 yr range for pedalai. I have a neighbor who had an Artocarpus that was 22 yrs old and enormous. I have misplaced my notes (one move too many) but I think it was elasticus if I recall correctly. It had never borne fruit for him & he was going to take it out.JohnQuote from: Mike T on April 09, 2013, 07:18:53 PMLuc More like 4 to 7.This tree is grown at Tully with 160 inches of rain a year and winter temps dipping to 40f and it took 5 years there.This selection does pretty well at the cooler end of this species tolerances.They are pretty productive and really don't need as much rain as that.I think there is much variation in most artocarpus species.This variation is quite noticeable in terms of fruit characteristics and cold tolerances.
Oscar I checked back with the grower for any further information on this pedalai.He confirmed that it first fruited at 5 years which is 2 earlier than expected from local experience with this species.He described it as superior to any marang and desribed it as an improvement on other locally available pedalai in just about all characteristics.He went on to say his farm went down to 3c last winter and it has been cooler in the past and the tree showed no ill effects.It also handled a cat 5 cyclone (winds to 300km/hr) better than all other fruit trees including sapodilla and jackfruit.
Here's a Pedelai that was growing like a weed in the Florida Keys. The grower removed all of the local soil and replaced it with a good soil. It had not fruited yet but was killed by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 before it had a chance to produce. It was an amazing looking tree!