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I've yet to see the fruit or taste it, but I've been shocked by the precocity of my small grafted Silas Woods. It's about 6 months post-graft, 18 inches high in a gallon pot, and has 5 flower buds on it now. Kevin
Makok would probably be a good one to try to propagate from seed. The makok is super precocious, and that precocity seems to translate over to sexually propagated offspring. My neighbors planted out a makok seedling, and it started to flower within like 3 years at a height of about 5 feet.
Quote from: Cookie Monster on September 21, 2012, 10:59:45 AMMakok would probably be a good one to try to propagate from seed. The makok is super precocious, and that precocity seems to translate over to sexually propagated offspring. My neighbors planted out a makok seedling, and it started to flower within like 3 years at a height of about 5 feet.You say three years from being planted...how many years from seed germination to the point where it was planted out?
In comparing texture, the Silas Woods, Makok, and Alano are all smooth with very low to no stone cell content.As far as flavor, Silas Woods is the mildest, Makok a little more brown sugar flavor but Alano is by far the sweetest with the most brown sugar flavor.
yes, silas woods is my favorite of the 3 rating on flavor only, due to the fact that it's mild.Quote from: bsbullie on September 21, 2012, 01:14:02 PMIn comparing texture, the Silas Woods, Makok, and Alano are all smooth with very low to no stone cell content.As far as flavor, Silas Woods is the mildest, Makok a little more brown sugar flavor but Alano is by far the sweetest with the most brown sugar flavor.
How about the "Brown Sugar" variety. How does it compare taste/texture wise to the rest? Seems like tall trees.
Quote from: Cookie Monster on September 21, 2012, 02:11:03 PMyes, silas woods is my favorite of the 3 rating on flavor only, due to the fact that it's mild.Quote from: bsbullie on September 21, 2012, 01:14:02 PMIn comparing texture, the Silas Woods, Makok, and Alano are all smooth with very low to no stone cell content.As far as flavor, Silas Woods is the mildest, Makok a little more brown sugar flavor but Alano is by far the sweetest with the most brown sugar flavor."Mild?" Lightweight... Sorry could not resist.
Silas Woods is a decent sap but has some serious issues with limb breakage. A grower friend of mine actually replaced all his Silas Woods trees with other cultivars because of this.
Interesting. The only issue I've had with limb breakage has been from the raccoons which absolutely adore the sap's and climb the trees to get at them. They seem to eat about 75% of my makok crop. My wife gets so mad at the raccoons (los mapaches) that she has talked about yanking the makok to spite them :-).Quote from: Squam256 on September 21, 2012, 09:44:39 PMSilas Woods is a decent sap but has some serious issues with limb breakage. A grower friend of mine actually replaced all his Silas Woods trees with other cultivars because of this.
Quote from: Cookie Monster on September 22, 2012, 12:17:48 PMInteresting. The only issue I've had with limb breakage has been from the raccoons which absolutely adore the sap's and climb the trees to get at them. They seem to eat about 75% of my makok crop. My wife gets so mad at the raccoons (los mapaches) that she has talked about yanking the makok to spite them :-).Quote from: Squam256 on September 21, 2012, 09:44:39 PMSilas Woods is a decent sap but has some serious issues with limb breakage. A grower friend of mine actually replaced all his Silas Woods trees with other cultivars because of this.Cookie Man - do you have a Silas Woods? Not including storm damage or from human or animal damage, I have only seen limb breakage from actual fruit overload in a Silas Woods. While Makoks do produce a lot of fruit on each limb, I have seen a lot of Silas Woods producing more. In any event (whether SW producing more than Makok or vice versa), since I have only seen the limb breakage with a SW, I would have to think that the limbs are just naturally weaker or more brittle in a SW, giving it a more natural tendency to breakage from weight..