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Thanks for sharing your expirience oscar. How old was your achachairu before it fruited?,William
By some stroke of luck there was some overlap with my achachairu fruiting and Luc's Garcinia fruiting. So today was finally able to make a side by side comparison of the two fruits. They are both very fine and pleasant fruits to eat. But really they are quite different, especially in texture. Luc's is very soft, like a sauce. In today's tasting it tasted and smelled like pear sauce mixed with apple sauce. The achachairu is firmer textured. Today's tasting gave me a better impression of Luc's garcinia. The nice thing about it, apart from good size, and not clinging to the seed, is that you can select stage at which you eat it. If you eat it when it's just starting to get soft it still has a little bit of tartness, and the taste is almost as complex as the achachairu. So i've raised my rating of Luc's fruit one notch to 86 and achachairu stays at 88. The skin of Luc's has just a bit of bitterness, so i tried making a drink from it's skin and will compare with the drink made from achachairu.
Do you have a list of all your numerical ratings? Curious what beats Acachairu
Quote from: CherimoyaDude on August 01, 2020, 11:22:47 PMDo you have a list of all your numerical ratings? Curious what beats AcachairuYou mean ratings for garcinias or for all fruits?
Do grafted/seedling types of these garcinias affect time to fruit and/or fruit size?
I’m wondering what anyone thinks about my Luc’s tree. It’s about 6 years old and 5m tall. It flowers nicely and frequently. These photos were taken today. The flowers have always fallen off, never producing a single fruit. It is the only one in the vicinity. I have another that is far away and hasn’t flowered as it hasn’t really grown like the one in the photo. People say that single trees set but this one sure hasn’t. Peter
Quote from: Hylo on August 30, 2020, 05:51:47 PMDo grafted/seedling types of these garcinias affect time to fruit and/or fruit size?IDK anwer to your question. I would suspect fruiting would be faster from grafted trees. But grafting would have additional advantage of selecting for good types. It seems there is quite a bit of variation from different mother trees in the wild, as to size, shape, and even exterior color. Also some may be dioecious and others not. And some may be light producers and others heavy producers.
Quote from: fruitlovers on August 30, 2020, 08:21:59 PMQuote from: Hylo on August 30, 2020, 05:51:47 PMDo grafted/seedling types of these garcinias affect time to fruit and/or fruit size?IDK anwer to your question. I would suspect fruiting would be faster from grafted trees. But grafting would have additional advantage of selecting for good types. It seems there is quite a bit of variation from different mother trees in the wild, as to size, shape, and even exterior color. Also some may be dioecious and others not. And some may be light producers and others heavy producers.I reckon you're correct...selected grafts can improve taste and should bear earlier, although I wonder if grafting affects fruit size like in other Garcinias?I found this from https://www.agrifutures.com.au/farm-diversity/mangosteen/ regarding farm plantings of G .mangostana -"Grafted trees are occasionally produced, but although they are reported to be earlier bearing, the trees are small and produce smaller fruit compared to seedling trees. Grafted trees are rarely used for commercial production due to their low vigour, but are ideal for backyard production."Can anyone report if fruit size is smaller on grafted Lucs?
I’m thinking a transplant is too risky. I’ll wait until the other tree flowers then try pollinating. It will be interesting to compare the flowers. I could graft from the other tree as well but, in any case, I want to see it flower first.Thanks,Peter