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Tropical Fruit Discussion / wild passionfruit id
« on: January 25, 2023, 02:20:59 PM »
any use?






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Durian soil preference
« on: June 21, 2022, 06:51:27 PM »
red dirt with drainage, high humidity + equatorial heat..  grown on artificial mounds and in steep moutains.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: tree id, artocarpus?
« on: June 11, 2022, 10:03:06 AM »
Definitely not marang or pedalai. Not even close. Frankly does not look like artocapus family. Maybe close relative of artocarpus family like Prainea Limpato can have similar leaves.

thank you now I remember it is Artocarpus lakoocha

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / tree id, artocarpus?
« on: June 10, 2022, 09:42:31 AM »
hi I thought i plant sone rare artocarpus here, maybe marang or pedalai.

but never seen any large leaves. 

any ideas what this is and maybe can confirm it is not pedalai?






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Acai not fruiting
« on: June 01, 2022, 05:38:27 PM »
thanks, maybe that is the problem?

I just got back to farm and only seeing these dried inflorescense.

I see a new one about to open so I can see if any flowers.

Will it skip flowering in first year of producing inflorescense?

You say is has been flowering but I don’t see a photo of any flowers.
It should be self fertile.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Acai not fruiting
« on: June 01, 2022, 05:07:16 AM »
Hi planted a bunch of Acai a few years back, gardener killed most of them woth weedwhacker.

One is alive and lots of sucklings too, and just excited to be back on farm and see it is flowering.

However not even a single fruit.

Can anybody help to see if this Acai is self pollinating or have any advice?












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the leaves look a bit big for jackfruit seedling

champedek fuzzy, can't make out from your photo if leaves are fuzzy (not waxy)

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fuzzy leaves?  did you plant or throw any artocarpus seeds?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Durian Theft in Hilo Hawaii
« on: February 18, 2020, 12:11:26 PM »
one k9 could likely track it anywhere on island, the amount of people with fresh durian has to be very limited over there right?

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your fruits should get much larger, and the skin is not good, similar to mango skin.

smaller olive sized fruits with better looking skin and edible flushes is spondias pinnata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondias_pinnata#/media/File:SpondiasPinnata_9907.JPG


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Questions about planting in sandy soil
« on: January 24, 2020, 01:30:15 PM »
story of my life here, I only plant trees after digging a 6-8 foot pit, till I hit the good sand which the water table flows through. 

Many stunted trees I dug up underneath and found the source of the problem was rocks or clay fill, low quality fill, they cause drainage issues, but also cause drought issues, as the problem is a disconnect with the water table.

If you have rock it needs special treatment but since this is a house lot you may have some unusual fill dirt maybe even fill rock. Some places add fill which is special stuff which compacts for a stable foundation and may include some clay. I am building and they use this under the foundation plus compacted it with a 19 ton vibrating 'steam roller' which packed it very tight. You need to get a post hole digger and go down about 2 feet to actually see your soil profile. You might ask around folks who were there when houses were built and check who has had success to emulate what they did. Just because one tree died doesn't mean it was a soil problem, could have been aftercare or even drainage issues.
On a house lot a mixture of uncut grasses and weeds may not be easy to achieve.

Organics are great and I use them plus a diversity of companion pants and legumes but I highly recommend starting with a full slow release total fertilizer with micronutrients. The one I use is called Nutricote Total.
I put a double handful directly in the hole before planting. DO NOT do this with ordinary fertilizer. However, this one is 100% slow release and lasts through the rainy season for six months. I think the benefit is that the fertilizer is directly under the roots and slowly released with no chance of washout or burning. I have planted seeds directly on top of a spoonful of this fert, it does not burn. It is very popular with the nursery trade. I do not see permanent harm using synthetic fertilizer and have observed good soil microbiology and legume nodulation on soil which has had this fertilizer added.Best of all I have never had any nutrient deficiency symptoms

https://www.arysta-na.com/Nutricote/files/NUT_18-6-8_PIS.pdf

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Coconut opener
« on: January 22, 2020, 06:30:04 PM »

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Breadfruit Tree Help
« on: January 22, 2020, 06:27:15 PM »
you may want to check the drainage and ph

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Which fresh mulch for mango tree?
« on: January 11, 2020, 04:19:33 PM »
I have plenty of experience with causarina mulch as a former tree trimmer.   These mulch usually consisted of a lot of shredded pine needles and thin branches, usually mulch piles will kill grass due to lack of sunlight and heat, but causarina mulch effects grass much more, you can see a border 2 feet from the mulch can die back, and grass will come back very slowly where this mulch has been (even if for 48 hours or so)

Perhaps other pine species are much better, but I do believe all types of pines have chemicals which are  herbicides against new trees and grass.  As an evolutionary strategy Pine is not competing with grass, but other trees.

So I would just warning anybody who thinks about using this mulch to tread carefully because there is some special chemical characteristics of causarina pine mulch, perhaps enough to kill a papaya tree.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Which fresh mulch for mango tree?
« on: January 10, 2020, 02:55:04 PM »
mango real susceptible to root rot, root disease, and boring beetles at the trunk if soft and wet.  So I would be real light on the tree and 3' from the trunk.  Also boring beetles do love mulch to lay eggs.

Pine mulch is not good for anything usually until is fully composted, there are chemicals in the needles which will kill grass, so trees won't like it.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: help with fruit ID
« on: January 10, 2020, 02:48:53 PM »
Most Thai people don't know about Elephant apple.   But in all cases about trees that are in Thailand, nobody is more knowledgeable than the Thai people, so much more information can be gained from Thai language resources. 

Some english resources for example will only cite "medicinal value"
but then you can go to a site like

https://medthai.com/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94/

And they will actually tell you what medicine to make, how to make, how to apply, etc..  However dosing information is usually not mentioned.. so not a complete resource.

Interesting fact is that these trees are actually eaten by elephants, so they will occur all along the routes of elephants near jungle, mountain, and especially waterfalls and fresh water.

They are especially hardy, and if you see one sprouted near the tree (a near guarantee) then pinch it out and put it in a container, it is a very attractive potted plant, that is also very hardy like Banyan.


The roots seem to have a very similar medicinal value to willow, however medthai lists number one reason to plant "Matad"  (don't confuse with Mahat) as---

นำมาใช้ประกอบอาหารเพื่อรับประทานมาตั้งแต่โบราณ เช่น การทำเป็นแกงส้มมะตาด แกงคั่วมะตาด หรือนำไปทำอาหารอื่น ๆ หรือใช้ผลสดจิ้มกินกับน้ำพริก[3] กลีบชั้นในที่มีลักษณะอวบอุ้มน้ำ ใช้จิ้มกับเกลือกินได้ ให้รสหวานอมเปรี้ยวเล็กน้อย

Used as food since ancient times, cooked in the "Gaeng Kua Style" (note below), or ripe fruit is eaten with chili paste, or the petals can be eaten with salt for a sweet and sour taste.

"Gaeng Kua" style is when you are making a curry, first you stir fry (Kua = roast) the spices and meats before adding water/coconut milk.

I imagine to roast this harder fruit it would be chopped up finely first like how other curry pastes incorporate minced ginger, lemongrass, chili, etc.

With this amount of information available, don't be afraid to eat some ripe petals next time, but if you want to cook the ancient curry, then you might want to research some more on portions and if you are using green Matad or ripe Matad.

Sadly I only learned this much later after studying the one I had in a pot, and one of the Thai gardeners thought it was a weed in the pot and tossed it when I was away.  I collected my seed from a remote national park and haven't been back since.


Heres a tree I found in North Thailand
Never seen it anywhere in the past
Any help with ID is appreciated

Thanks





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: khao taeng-kwa pomelo
« on: January 03, 2020, 03:47:01 PM »
is this a new remarketing campaign on the well established:

ส้มโอสายน้ำผึ้ง  (Honey Pomelo Strain)  ส้มโอขาวน้ำผึ้ง (White Honey Pomelo)

 or is this ส้มโอขาวแตงกวา (White Cucumber Pomelo) different?

Personally Had my mind blown by a white/natural/honey colored Jabong here in Hawaii.  Was a superior large juicing grapefruit I think Jabongs are from the Phillipines.

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I planted single quadrangularis vine, set fruit, but I have other passionfruit vines on the property that could have cross pollinated it.

Hi all growers!
i m planning to plant two plants of passiflora quadrangularis, and i have a little hesitation because it is generally described as not self fertile. But what if i plant two of them close to each other? will they pollinate each other? Since this is said to be very common a plant in the tropics, what is your experience?
By the way, if i plant two passiflora ligularis next to each other, will they pollinate each other?
Thank you!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New fruits
« on: December 16, 2019, 01:13:44 PM »
Kei apple from bark inversion



And possible first peanut butter after 3 years of continual flowering



my pb fruit plant was very slow to acclimate to being planted, coastal lowlands with flooding heavy clay, planted in shade of bananas plenty manure & weeding.  Took about a year for very little fruit.  3 years in the bush has about tripled the size as the potted plant's original size and fruit set is very good.

Perhaps wind, rain, or just shock kept the fruit from setting early on, but now the bush is doing very good.

So don't be discouraged from very little fruit being set, even though bush is full of flowers.

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cool, wonder what type of tree that is, the grass jelly I've had before but never thought to grow it!
Seems like a good idea, especially if the brush type can be grown in dry season in between monsoons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platostoma_palustre

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Carambola Juice
« on: November 23, 2019, 08:37:23 PM »
perhaps commercial fruit growers could heat it at low temperatures adding sugar and water or some other chemical process and convert the oxalate to something else?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Carambola Juice
« on: November 23, 2019, 06:11:15 PM »
kidney stones may be one thing, but I think one of the articles was showing necrosis of the kidney


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Guava from taiwan
« on: November 19, 2019, 03:24:31 PM »
if your really wanting a big sweet crunchy one, head to Loei, they have the best guava in Thailand, their climate is best for it, being a bit more subtropical like Hawaii.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Most Outrageously Delicious Canistel Ever
« on: November 19, 2019, 03:22:13 PM »
also interested Oscar, I had a horrible Canistel from Frankies, and now I'm convinced mine I planted from seed will be horrible as well.

On Maui I had great canistel, paired with cheese and crackers was amazing.

That Maui canistel looked like Abiu in shape, so much that my friend gave me an Abiu and I assumed it was the same variety.

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