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BMc

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Finger Lime - Rambo
« on: March 24, 2015, 09:27:43 PM »
The company responsible for the bulk of recent fingerlime releases is due to release a new cv called Rambo this year. This one is noted as the toughest and among the most prolific types ever trialled, let alone released, and comes with a 'you kill it, we'll replace it free' guarantee!

Unfortunately, as its major quality as so far advertised is its unkillability, it will likely be a high oil, low quality type, very similar to the Rainforest Pearl, which is a beast of a tree but the fruit is just unusable.

Two other new cvs are due for release too: Aromarama and Lontong, and I'll likely give these a trial in pots to see if they are any good. I'm not really fond of the overly aromatic types, so Aromarama may not be up my aisle and I have no real info on Lontong yet, but it is also the word for compressed rice, so its probably a white variety with neutral oil and flavour, but that's just a guess.

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Re: Finger Lime - Rambo
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2015, 11:00:28 PM »
The company responsible for the bulk of recent fingerlime releases is due to release a new cv called Rambo this year. This one is noted as the toughest and among the most prolific types ever trialled, let alone released, and comes with a 'you kill it, we'll replace it free' guarantee!

Unfortunately, as its major quality as so far advertised is its unkillability, it will likely be a high oil, low quality type, very similar to the Rainforest Pearl, which is a beast of a tree but the fruit is just unusable.

Two other new cvs are due for release too: Aromarama and Lontong, and I'll likely give these a trial in pots to see if they are any good. I'm not really fond of the overly aromatic types, so Aromarama may not be up my aisle and I have no real info on Lontong yet, but it is also the word for compressed rice, so its probably a white variety with neutral oil and flavour, but that's just a guess.


I Wouldn't say RP is totally unusable. The fruit make good non-lethal projectiles for fruit tree raiding birds from time to time.

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Re: Finger Lime - Rambo
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2015, 10:57:52 PM »
I find it interesting that rainforest pearl gets such a bad rap, yet they sell out the Pemberton, Western Australia ones at big prices in Perth.
Maybe they grow tastier in the cool of Pemby than QLD/NSW where the other varieties are so much better.

I also noticed that on the Pemberton finger limes facebook page they are producing a range of colours with Green/Clear/Pink/Red insides, the skin also varies Black/Brown/Red.
(don't know how to post photos here, but they have a great one on facebook)

As far as I've read all of their trees are rainforest pearl grafted trees, and they put it down to variations in the soil and microclimate. 



 

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