The Tropical Fruit Forum

I am interested to see how yours looks.  I am realizing that when all the lemons come at the same time I can't use them all so only getting a few per crop is okay with me.  I will have to keep buying them from the grocery store most of the time.

How does the dead scion harm it?  I figured I could leave it as-is until I have a use for it

I had no idea cambuca was notoriously long to fruit until I read this thread and went digging.  Mine is about 2ft tall... long way to go I guess.  Maybe I'll get lucky and get one of the early fruiting ones.

Mike T, my interest in keledang originally came from a forum post where this Australian guy swore it is the bee's knees 

A Prince Amongst Artocarpus



Better than a kwai muk,marang,pedalai or lakoocha? You bet it is.Smokey apricot,chempadak,with a hint of fruity caramel.



It is a great fruit alright, with not latex or aftertaste and can be eaten quickly.Kids love them and oddly there is little smell.Keladangs sure are a classy fruit.

Do these need a different variety as pollinator?  I am not understanding why you want to graft mature scion onto it now that your seedling is finally flowering.

I ask because I have a seedling olosapo (no flowers yet) and if it needs a pollinator I will have to keep that in mind!

That is amazing, I assumed the non-waxy leafed artocarpus would require high humidity.  My house is about 20% relative humidity in winter with the heat running.  Some plants handle it okay but others decline quickly if I bring them indoors, but they are happy in the humid greenhouse.

I have a bunch, sent you PM

Millet,

  Certainly I would love to try this rootstock if you are having success with it.  Odd that we are all finding meiwa to be so finicky.  I am thinking I will try ordering another meiwa this year once I have some new rootstock ready and immediately cut some budwood from it and try grafting.  I have never ordered budwood specifically I am a bit more comfortable with the idea of having a donor tree on hand... even if it might be a short lived one.

Is 6mo a good amount of time to let them refrigerate?  I have some I put in last summer, might be time to try sprouting them?

Wow Brian,

Amazing you and others are growing these trees in greenhouses. I’m amazed that someone has fruited marang in a greenhouse. I’ve been completely unsuccessful in controlling their size. Kwai Muk and keledang seem much easier to manage. Many folks here successfully keep breadfruit as a small garden tree that fruits but mine is huge.

Aloha, Steph

My marang has not fruited yet, but I am hopeful that it will be able to.  If people have compact fruiting breadfruit trees that is really impressive! They are tip bearers, right?  So even with pruning the new growth has enough time to fruit, nice. 

I have been trying to get a keledang growing but despite getting some nice looking seeds, some already starting to germinate, they always die off for me before even putting out a shoot.  Hopefully somebody will sell starter seedlings and I can go that route instead of messing with seeds. 

I read study about rootstock for ornamental citruses in pot  and the result was, that the best rootstock is volkameriana, especially for lemons. It gaves compact crown and intense flowering. Oscar Tintori nursery uses exclusively volkameriana for lemons and mandarins.

Radoslav, I had never heard of volkameriana so I looked it up.  The first overview I found describes it as being highly vigorous, like rough lemon, and producing large but poor quality fruit.  Are you sure this is being used for compact lemons?  It sounds like a bad candidate for that given the vigorous description.

Brian, I just realized you have the seedless nagami kumquat fruits. How does the fruit taste compared to the regular nagami (with seeds)?

It tastes identical to regular nagami to me.  So I see no reason to grow seedy nagami when you could grow seedless nordmann.   If you would like to try growing it I can send you some budwood.