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My achacharu was sourced through Bill Whitman. It has been fruiting for probably 15 years. I have 5 large trees with branches up to 7m long. Bolivians buy it and like the quality.Selling rare fruits is a speciality of mine. I introduced salak to CR and it is a strange fruit to try but I have established a good market for it, on my own. Every week people come looking for 'fruta serpiente'. I have established demand for champedek, marang, and many others. All this is accomplished through enthusiastic sampling. Mangosteen is not very well known either. Every week I have to sample a lot but the response is better than with most other new fruits.Achacharu is a good fruit and it is commercial, we eat it and sell it. But, based on my experience, it will never equal the sales, at the same price, as mangosteen. Durian doesn't have a very wide appeal but it makes up for it with a better price and a particularly dedicated consumer.I would be interested to hear of someon else's experience selling Achacharu. I am currently ripping out rambutan and planting other fruits focused on the farmers market. I am currently planting more salak, pululan, durian, tampoi, marang, Mamey, and others. I would plant more Achacharu if it worked better for me but I'm going to stay with the 5 trees I have.Peter
I have very good soil with lots of organic material. I am using biochar with microorganisms. Even though my soil ph is 6.1 I am doing some amending with calcium carbonate.I am looking forward to testing commercial sales of g. Prainiana some time in the next weeks.Saludos
The cherapu and Achacharu both need to be pretty ripe and not picked too early. In a way, the cherapu is kind of like a persimmon with the thin, soft skin and the texture of its pulp. When the fruits are truly ripe I have gotten a positive response but selling crates could be different, we'll see.I remember someone showing me a skinning technique that eliminated the sap but I hardly remember that now. Ripeness is key as is the case with Achacharu.It seems to me that there is not a lot of variation between seedlings in either specie either.Peter
Yes, I have a Brix meter. My Achacharu aren't really ready yet this season. The fruits are mostly green still and we haven't picked to sell so far. I could maybe find something representative. What's the brix of your material?It's a funny season with mangosteen almost done now, durian over early, pulusan starting before rambutan. And very little from lansium. Jak, champajak, and champedek have been phenemonal.Peter
The only thing I don't like about the achachairu is the aborted seeds that most have in addition to the large viable seed. I'm fine with the one big seed but most that I have tried also have two smaller aborted seeds that makes it harder to eat the fruit.
I used to live in Mississippi and had to buy a lot of tropical plants online. I've used this site called plantogram before and they sent me two pretty healthy tree. They often have the Achacha tree in stock but right now it's out of stock. I see a 3 gallon for $130 as of now.https://plantogram.com/product/achacha-super-fruit-tree/