The Tropical Fruit Forum

Here is a pic of mine. It's pushing 8ft tall. I was hoping to get some fruit by next year.

Thanks Rob looks like I'm going to have to add it to the yard.

If you have the chance to go back in the summer I would say yea go in June/July it is a great place to visit. 

Thanks! Now I have to fill it it with some nice landscaping stuff to complete it.

Thanks for all the help guys. So optimally wish I had a bigger yard but my back yard is out of space and wife wasn't letting me touch the front yard until now lol. So I planted the Jabo which I have had for about 3 years now in a pot (got it from you Jeff). I ended up planting it where I was asking about 4ft from the house north facing between two windows smack center of the house. I plan it on being an ornamental mainly (what I told wife)and of course hoping for some fruit. This area does get some sun throughout the summer but not much now as the sun sits further to the south this time of year. And I am also planning on keeping it nicely pruned they are truly beautiful trees. I will try to get a picture up tomorrow.

How invasive are the roots of a Jabo. I am planing on planting one close to my house in between two windows and about 4 feet from my wall will this be ok? I'm trying to redo my landscape and Jaboticabas are so ornamental I want to include it in my plans. Thanks!
Ron

They look great! How's it taste Jack?

So thanks to Coconut I had the pleasure of trying side by side a Taiwan Purple and a Late Noel F2 Big Red sugar apple. Both fruits were beautiful on the outside and I had some doubts whether they may even be the same fruit. Both fruits were about the same size just under 1lb and had a slight give to them. When I cut them up as you can see from the pictures the Taiwan purple held up more than the Late Noel which seemed to just fall apart into gelatinous  like pieces. The Taiwan purples flesh was firmer and lighter in color however the taste to me was rather bland and not very sweet. I had doubts as to whether I cut into it a little to early. I had another Taiwan purple the next day which I let ripen even more and the results were similar a little sweeter than previous one with firmer texture than the Late Noel but still somewhat bland and not too sweet. The Late Noel's flesh reminded me of what I was used to a sugar apple being like with a sweet gelatinous mushy flavor and texture which was always awesome to me until I tried the Boca chewy. It had a good sweet flavor and I noticed me preferring it over the Taiwan Purple in this tasting. One interesting observation was on the seed count, the Taiwan Purple 42 and Late Noel 70.  Overall and looking at the bigger picture, in all my recent sugar apple sampling I have been doing lately I would highly rate the Burmese Red over both of these fruits and I think it is in a class of its own. I'm curious to hear Sleepdoc's opinion once he gets to try the Burmese Red and Boca Chewy he got ahold of.

Do you have them in full sun? At that size they seem to do much better in partial to mostly shade.

Sleepdoc and I got so into the flavor, texture, color, and taste of the Boca orange snob we forgot to take pictures. It was definitely the best jackfruit I have ever had. We dug into it bare handed no oil and at the end I remember talking about how my hands were a little sticky but clearly any other jack and our hands would have been a total mess. Clearly minimal to zero latex on this fruit totally unbelievable. So when I left home I didn't even wash my hands and drove down 30 min to Miami. When I got home my hands were as soft as a baby's but no latex to be found on my hands or the steering wheel of my car. The carpels are large firm and very thick and meaty with a great flavor. Went straight up to the top of my must have trees period.

So Coconut was again generous enough to give me some of his fruit to sample. I received a huge 2lb 1 ounce Phet Pakchong a Boca Chewy sugar apple, two Taiwan purple sugar apples, and a late Noel F2 big Red sugar apple to sample for his breeding program. Coconut has to be one of the most generous people I know when it comes to sharing fruit and am glad he has chosen me to be one of his guinea pigs (fruit tasters) for his breeding program. In this post I will be reviewing the Phet Pakchong and comparing it to the Boca chewy which was already reviewed in another thread. The other fruits are not ready yet and will be reviewed soon.

Phet Pakchong is an Atemoya that I have heard a lot of great things about and is considered to be one of the best atemoyas around. It definitely did not disappoint in the looks department. What a stunning and beautiful fruit. It weighed in at a whopping 33 ounces by far the largest atemoya/sugar apple/cherimoya I have held. The flavor was mild almost bland semi sweet atemoya with hints of vanilla. The flesh was as smooth as silk with a firm texture similar to that of a cherimoya however flavor wise it was definitely missing the kick in sweetness and complexity that I get from the Boca Chewy.

I don't know if I am becoming an annona snob with all these amazing fruits I have been sampling lately but the Phet Pakchong which would have been at the top of my list two months ago did not compare too the intense sweetness and taste of the Boca Chewy. Not taking anything away from the Pp which I think is great and a must have in every collection and one that I will definitely be getting myself but if I had to choose between the two hands down it would be an easy decision for me the Boca Chewy all the way. The seed count from both fruits was 42 for the Pp and 62 from the Boca Chewy which was half the size of the Pp. So even though the Pp had fewer seeds and was twice the size of the Boca Chewy I still was quick to gravitate to the Boca chewy during my tasting. Coconut has something special with the Boca chewy that I hope you guys will soon get to taste.

That looks huge. Can't wait to see pics of it open. I'm guessing 51 lbs