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My seedlings fruited at 4 and were covered in fruit in their 5th year.I know some seedlings take longer to fruit and grafting would probably shave a couple of years off.
Grafting a Annonaceae shouldn't be difficult; likely just no-one has ever tried it before?
Quote from: Mike T on July 24, 2014, 08:17:16 AMMy seedlings fruited at 4 and were covered in fruit in their 5th year.I know some seedlings take longer to fruit and grafting would probably shave a couple of years off.Don't think that is typical. Mine have been super slooooooow growers, and have yet to fruit after a whole decade in the ground!
Quote from: fruitlovers on July 24, 2014, 06:06:44 PMQuote from: Mike T on July 24, 2014, 08:17:16 AMMy seedlings fruited at 4 and were covered in fruit in their 5th year.I know some seedlings take longer to fruit and grafting would probably shave a couple of years off.Don't think that is typical. Mine have been super slooooooow growers, and have yet to fruit after a whole decade in the ground! Same here Oscar , Mike must have 10 green fingers .....
Quote from: luc on July 24, 2014, 06:22:56 PMQuote from: fruitlovers on July 24, 2014, 06:06:44 PMQuote from: Mike T on July 24, 2014, 08:17:16 AMMy seedlings fruited at 4 and were covered in fruit in their 5th year.I know some seedlings take longer to fruit and grafting would probably shave a couple of years off.Don't think that is typical. Mine have been super slooooooow growers, and have yet to fruit after a whole decade in the ground! Same here Oscar , Mike must have 10 green fingers .....Maybe he got the seeds from that same eBay seller that has mangosteen that fruits in 16 months?
Quote from: fruitlovers on July 24, 2014, 06:36:34 PMQuote from: luc on July 24, 2014, 06:22:56 PMQuote from: fruitlovers on July 24, 2014, 06:06:44 PMQuote from: Mike T on July 24, 2014, 08:17:16 AMMy seedlings fruited at 4 and were covered in fruit in their 5th year.I know some seedlings take longer to fruit and grafting would probably shave a couple of years off.Don't think that is typical. Mine have been super slooooooow growers, and have yet to fruit after a whole decade in the ground! Same here Oscar , Mike must have 10 green fingers .....Maybe he got the seeds from that same eBay seller that has mangosteen that fruits in 16 months? I have read 5-6 years on some websites before kepel fruits.On hawaii everything takes longer to fruit then in Thailand or Australia. Might be the climate, soil, water or the farmer.....
On hawaii everything takes longer to fruit then in Thailand or Australia. Might be the climate, soil, water or the farmer.....
Quote from: bangkok on July 24, 2014, 07:19:34 PMOn hawaii everything takes longer to fruit then in Thailand or Australia. Might be the climate, soil, water or the farmer.....I have often heard this & always wonder about it. I wonder if it is that our climate is more moderate here -- we don't get extremely hot weather -- & maybe some stuff really likes the heat and can grow faster when it has it? Of course, on our side of the big island, we also get more rain & overcast weather so less sun to help plants grow vigorously.John
Like Bangkok said,it might be the climate, soil and water or the farmer.But i think it might be the climate and soil.In my place in central java,kepel fruiting once a year...but in Sumatra and Jakarta, Kepel fruiting twice in a year.I got this information from my contact...in last February,Kepel in Sumatra and Jakarta are fruiting,and now it's fruiting again.
There is nothing special about my climate or soil and I didn't look after them.Ones in a council park also boomed and grew quickly and I got fruit off those 2 yesterday from their second crop of the year.I think it may have something to do with the selection which is the preferred of 3 brought from Java in the 1970's.I sent seeds to a Brazilian member a few weeks ago who also got some fro maryoto as they told me a few days ago.They insisted the seeds must be from different species as they were so different.
Quote from: Maryoto on July 25, 2014, 10:17:05 AMLike Bangkok said,it might be the climate, soil and water or the farmer.But i think it might be the climate and soil.In my place in central java,kepel fruiting once a year...but in Sumatra and Jakarta, Kepel fruiting twice in a year.I got this information from my contact...in last February,Kepel in Sumatra and Jakarta are fruiting,and now it's fruiting again.Wow that is strange. Yogjakarta is not that far from jakarta so how can it fruit twice in jakarta? Here in Holland some farmers use CO2 carbondioxide (in greenhouses) to speed up the growth of plants. In city's like Bangkok or Jakarta the CO2 levels are higher then in the forrest allready. Maybe the kepel in Jakarta fruits twice because of the high CO2? Or maybe they are another variety of Kepel? Can you also sell those seeds Maryoto?It's interesting why some tree's fruit twice a year. I read that avocado's also fruit twice in Borneo and some other islands as well. That has never happened in Florida as far as i know. Achacha in ultra-tropics can fruit whole year around is what i read.
Some ultra tropical species cannot tolerate wind. I've never been to hawaii, but the state is made up of small islands so it would seem it's often very windy. Maybe that's part of the more slow growth ...