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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Diploglottis
« on: February 02, 2015, 07:50:22 AM »









Found a bucket full of small leaved tamarind today. They are nice sized fruit and have plenty of flesh. Whereas most species in diploglottis are like a dry lychee in texture, these are actually a lot like a Surinam cherry in texture. These tasted pretty good, with a Surinam cherry crossed with acerola taste with a capsicum or tomato overtone. The acid in thiese wasn't pverbearing and they will make a killer chutney! Also picked up a few yellow fruited ones, which are quite bland in comparison.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Achachairu and Wampi
« on: February 01, 2015, 07:54:24 AM »
Trying to responds to pms. Just have to clarify postage issues with my post office.
Here are a few pics of wampi. Yeem pay is round, guy Sam is longer.







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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clausena lansium (wampee)
« on: January 31, 2015, 09:41:32 PM »
Yeem Pay is the best by some way. The Guy Sam is okay - it's sweet and sour with a strong spicy flavour. Like someone put a bit of cayenne pepper in there or something. Yeem Pay is like a very sweet candied lemon rind is the best I can do with a taste description.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clausena lansium (wampee)
« on: January 31, 2015, 09:18:53 PM »











A few images of the fruit. The fruits this year are seedier than normal with 2-5 seeds per fruit. If grown in isolation they often have seedless fruit, and about the same size. The round is Yeem Pay. The elongated one is Guy Sam.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone growing cinnamon?
« on: January 29, 2015, 10:49:46 PM »
There is a good sized one at the scented garden at the entrance of the botanic gardens. Opposite the huge Ylang Ylang tree.

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No. Send it to me instead!  ;)

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Achachairu and Wampi
« on: January 28, 2015, 11:43:04 PM »
I'll try to take pics before my kids eat them all and post them into the thread in the main discussion board. The cultivars are Guy Sam and Yeem Pay. Not particularly rare in Oz, but by the sounds of it there is a dearth of good wampi material elsewhere. IMHO, The Yeem Pay in particular is right up there with the best of what I would describe as the lemony type fruits, which include the south American garcinia, baccaurea, lansium, etc. Yeem Pay is sweeter than any of these. The main drawback is size, which is small lychee size.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clausena lansium (wampee)
« on: January 28, 2015, 07:01:28 PM »
My two grafted Wampi are fruiting now. I have a spicy type and a large and very sweet type. The sweet one is an amazing fruit. Neither have the strong vegetative aromatic qualities that plague many old seedling types. Guy Sam is the spicy type and Yeem Pay is the sweet.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Achachairu and Wampi
« on: January 28, 2015, 06:55:22 PM »
I have access to Achachairu (Garcinia sp. often called Garcinia humilis) and superior strains of Wampi (Clausenia lansium). I have both the spicy and large and very sweet varieities of Wampi available. Any interest?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: casturi's fruits
« on: January 27, 2015, 08:06:38 PM »
You should post this in the tropical fruit discussion section, not the "Off Topic" area.  Your message won't get as much viewing here because this is where everyone goes to engage in political arguments.  :)   BTW, I've tried these fruits and don't particularly care for them.

You don't like mango? Casturi tastes just like mango. Only down side is they are small. One of the best of the non-indica species.

How does it rate compared to maprang? Is it viable for the subtropics? Certainly looks delicious.

They can grow in the sub tropics. I know of one tree growing. I had the Daleys one, which didn't seem to be the same as the fruits always fell full sized but green and never went black or brown. I gave that one away as I have other green mangoes. I haven't really looked into it, but I know in places like Rocky a few decades ago there was a passion for a 'variety' called Java Black, which I've often wondered was the same as casturi. A recently retired colleague of mine described the fruit as small dark and sweet, so I cant think of what else it would have been.

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I gotta say, that biriba is almost as ugly as the fingernail...

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Looks like just one of the stems is growing crooked and is tied to the other branches to support or straighten it. No big deal. You would probably cut that one off anyway.
It doesn't look too big to move. You'd need heavy equipment though. Dig wide to find major roots, then you could use water to bare root before trying to retain at least a decent amount of tap root. Obviously when the tree is dormant is when you'll have the best chance. It depends on the equipment you have available though.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Does anyone know of this fruit?
« on: January 26, 2015, 04:26:44 AM »
Melastoma affine?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 5.5lb marang
« on: January 25, 2015, 04:11:07 AM »
Wow Mike looks beautiful, I can almost smell it from here!

Better go check your fuel cap is closed then! 😜

Of that fruit has the sweet banana marshmallow mangosteen taste some of the Phillipines ones have, then that would be 5.5lbs of heaven!

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Looking good Adam! BTW got to see very big junglesop tree at Jim West's place. Still not fruited, but i guess he'll be first one outside of Africa to fruit it. I'll try to post a photo of the tree later.

Don Gray had grafted Junglesop for sale in 1993. I'm not sure if they were fruiting at that point, but that was over 20 years ago, so there should be some already fruiting in FNQ...?
http://rfcarchives.org.au/Next/PeoplePlaces/GrayProperty11-93.htm

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Has anyone ever heard about the seedless junglesop they were trying to locate a mother tree of in Zaire in the mid 1990s?

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Spicezee
« on: January 22, 2015, 06:54:41 PM »
Using that calculator my chill hours are:

Below 45 Model: 0 chill hours
Between 45 and 32 Model: 0 chill hours
Utah Model: -1965 chill units
Dynamic Model (experimental): 0 chill portions

So, I guess getting a reliable crop from this tree is probably out of the question here?


Bruce

you have to change the dates. so the winter of 2014 in Biggenden from 06/01/2014 to 09/30/2014 had 245 chill hours. here are some other weather stations in IQUEEN and chill hours

jImmY'S 51
Coorparoo 8
Ashgrove 30

La Habra 22 chill hours 25 for homestead FL to date. I'm beginning to wonder if this is going work.

Thanks for that JF. Ashgrove is the closest so 30 chill hours it is! I'm guessing 30 chill hours is not gonna cut it?

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Spicezee
« on: January 22, 2015, 06:52:38 PM »
Its pretty incredible. I put one in two years back. Fruited well first year and nothing held this year. Conflicting reports on its chill requirements have led me to give it a go. If I don't see decent fruit next year I'm gonna have to dig it up. Its vigorous here, but is not attacked by the same pests as peaches and nectarines, so its almost perfect if the whole fruiting thing works out...

I hope yours bears in abundance!

Mine came with small fruit and held them, but I  was not  able to repeat this success having tried bunch of things. Lasted 2 years in my patch, ended up on the bonfire in the end.  I don't have a good track record with prunus though.

Ot, but you should consider getting the dwarf coconuts from daleys if you haven't already, mine have been racing along and haven't been bothered by the cold whatever. Does this man they will bear? No. But it's a good sign. They're definitely worth a shot in Brisbane, mine aren't even really in a frost protected spot.At worst I'll end up with a pretty palm tree I guess.

Mine set a few dozen small fruit this season but all fell at almond size. Gulf series plums fruit fine, but I'm guessing these are higher chill.
I've got the green and gold malay dwarf. The green is much more vigorous than the gold. There are producing talls around Newmarket, so I'm hoping these will be fine a few kms away.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Spicezee
« on: January 22, 2015, 02:14:48 AM »
Using that calculator my chill hours are:

Below 45 Model: 0 chill hours
Between 45 and 32 Model: 0 chill hours
Utah Model: -1965 chill units
Dynamic Model (experimental): 0 chill portions

So, I guess getting a reliable crop from this tree is probably out of the question here?

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Doesn't look like black Sapote. Aren't the seeds always brown? Something just don't look quite right. Black Sapote can be any size, I have one no bigger than chicken eggs but beautifully sweet.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: meyer lemons
« on: January 20, 2015, 05:21:06 AM »
I had to cut my tree down as it is a magnet for fruit fly here. I had to plant real lemons as the flies won't attack a true lemon, but will happily live off Meyers all winter. 😞 I heard the variegated version doesn't grt attacked though, but it isn't very vigorous or productive. Has anyone tried it?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Celebration of Tropical Fruit
« on: January 19, 2015, 06:22:16 PM »
Is it good Mike?
The yoga and fire twirling make it sound a bit like a fruity lifestyle show. I'm sure some of the talks would be well worth the trek up.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit Trees that can Tolerate Soggy Soil
« on: January 16, 2015, 08:04:34 PM »
Achachairu. The fruit are less sweet if they are in foot deep water while ripening, but they don't seem to be bothered by damp spots, or seasonal inundation at all. The season is just starting here 😃

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I tried the thornless young berry as blackberries never worked out here. Plenty of fruit, but the thing grows faster than any weed, spreads like mad, self layers way too quickly, suckers, and self seeds very time you miss a fruit. The suckers and seedlings are not thornless and are a real pain in the butt, but the kids love the fruit, which comes in an otherwise pretty lean time.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Spicezee
« on: January 16, 2015, 04:49:56 PM »



Here is mine. When perfectly ripe they are amazing. Less than perfect ripeness will yield bland mealy fryut. Like I said, it's got one more year to show if it is a worthwhile producer in my climate.

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