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I 'm looking for achachairu seeds.I can pay for them or send you seeds/scions.
BK achachairus in Australia are grown in a dry (1000mm/yr) subtropical climate and Bangkok is much warmer and probably a little wetter.
BK the odd thing about where the big plantation is in Australia is that in spite of being 21/22 latitude the Burdekin delta is mapped as a northerly island of subtropical climate due to very cool winters.It sounds like they can handle hot,tropical climates as you point out.
Passionfruit - BK don't let them wrinkle and just eat fresh as they are a flavicarpa.As the vine ages, and in summer the fruit will be sweeter.Mg,sulphur and potash also help the taste.The yellow is better.
I have a few fruit in the fridge I could polish off tonght and send some seeds your way.Message me with address.
BKK, we did you get this info that Achacha will fruit getting full sun 1-2 hours a day? And can anybody confirm it?I got more Achacha than any other fruit ( Jim West and Australia). I can definitely use them if the shade factor is true. Otherwise I have too many.
Quote from: DurianLover on January 23, 2014, 08:48:56 AMBKK, we did you get this info that Achacha will fruit getting full sun 1-2 hours a day? And can anybody confirm it?I got more Achacha than any other fruit ( Jim West and Australia). I can definitely use them if the shade factor is true. Otherwise I have too many.DLI accompany this tree for several years, IS IN FULL SUN ALL DAY, is the best achacha in Brazil, see the videoCONHEÇA O ACHACHAIRÚThe taste of this fruits is the perfect combination of the sour and sweet, You can not eat only one fruit
Quote from: DurianLover on January 23, 2014, 08:48:56 AMBKK, we did you get this info that Achacha will fruit getting full sun 1-2 hours a day? And can anybody confirm it?I got more Achacha than any other fruit ( Jim West and Australia). I can definitely use them if the shade factor is true. Otherwise I have too many.It is garcinia humilis or laterifolia, some websites also call garcinia intermedia as achachairu but i call that lemon drop mangosteen.http://zoom50.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/achachairuachachagarcinia-humilis/http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=359.30;wap2
Quote from: bangkok on January 23, 2014, 08:29:45 PMQuote from: DurianLover on January 23, 2014, 08:48:56 AMBKK, we did you get this info that Achacha will fruit getting full sun 1-2 hours a day? And can anybody confirm it?I got more Achacha than any other fruit ( Jim West and Australia). I can definitely use them if the shade factor is true. Otherwise I have too many.It is garcinia humilis or laterifolia, some websites also call garcinia intermedia as achachairu but i call that lemon drop mangosteen.http://zoom50.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/achachairuachachagarcinia-humilis/http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=359.30;wap2None of the above. Achachairu, at least the type of achachairu you are talking about, is a as yet uinnamed species. All those other species names are incorrect and refer to totally different plants.
Quote from: fruitlovers on January 24, 2014, 03:25:23 AMQuote from: bangkok on January 23, 2014, 08:29:45 PMQuote from: DurianLover on January 23, 2014, 08:48:56 AMBKK, we did you get this info that Achacha will fruit getting full sun 1-2 hours a day? And can anybody confirm it?I got more Achacha than any other fruit ( Jim West and Australia). I can definitely use them if the shade factor is true. Otherwise I have too many.It is garcinia humilis or laterifolia, some websites also call garcinia intermedia as achachairu but i call that lemon drop mangosteen.http://zoom50.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/achachairuachachagarcinia-humilis/http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=359.30;wap2None of the above. Achachairu, at least the type of achachairu you are talking about, is a as yet uinnamed species. All those other species names are incorrect and refer to totally different plants.Oscar did you eat all of them and if so which one is the best tasting? Strange that so many fruits are called achachairu. I think i have garcinia humilis now and also lemon drop which should be less sweet. This is all i know about them. If i ever see the fruits somewhere i will buy them for sure, can't wait to taste them.
Oscar,I know this issue has been discussed a lot on this forum, and since you are one of the members with the greatest amount of experience, I shall ask you my question.Knowing that the scientific names G. humilis, G. laterifolia and G. brasilensis, are often misapplied to the Achachairu, in your experience examining and tasting the plant/fruit, when someone presents you with an Achachairu and gives it one of the aforementioned scientific names is it usually the correct fruit, i.e. from Garcinia sp., or is it the fruit/plant from the named species and not a true Achachairu? For a specific example, Jim West sells seeds of G. humilis with the common name Achachairu. Do you know if he is selling the Achachairu (Garcinia sp.) or G. humilis (Hatrack fruit)? I do not mean to pick on Mr. West here, since even Wikipedia says that G. humilis is the Achacha Richard
Any ideas on planting distance for Achacha? I only have info on height and some pictures of commercial Queensland farms to go by, but I think they keep excessive distance in Australia.
I also read the discussions about the different names for the achachairu.Lemon drop is another fruit then achachairu on the above movie.But what i was wondering is if the rest of the achachairu's or achacha's all taste/look the same or not. I mean the variety's from Bolivia or Brasil or Australia.
Oscar,You say it will fruit in LOTS of shade? Amazing!So it could be an understorey tree in an ultratropic food forest beneath a very large fruit tree?Ricardo said it gets 8 metres wide after 30 years, but how tall would it get, so I get an idea where to place them in our food forest here?