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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for Jackfruit seeds ( Red morning, Excalibur red, Mai 3)
« on: August 20, 2020, 12:53:47 AM »
I'm interested as well.
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I am looking for this also. I got some scions from the last sale but I failed to get them to root, I want to try again
If you do want another variety, Angel Red is my favorite so far. Super dark red color, a tart refreshing sweetness, and extremely soft seeds.
Ras baale grown mostly in Coorg and Canara districts of old Mysore, present Karnataka, India. Please note that the word 'baale' means banana. It is also the rarest and costliest banana in the Indian market and hard to find. Not cultivated as a commercial crop in farms due to higher chances of succumbing to fungal (wilt) disease. But is grown in few home gardens.
Just an opinion here, I've been growing both for a few years. To me, pitangatuba is horrible. I even just tried it with miracle fruit. Absolutely horrible. It has an apricot taste for about a second & a half after miracle-fruit. However, I had to spit it out quickly as the intense sour was flipped over to intense sweet, and not in a good way. It is ornamental though, but not worthy to grow as an edible. Worse than suriname cherry.
Pitomba is pretty good. I currently have ~50 fruit on my bush. It is more edible, but also just a novelty fruit.
Pitangatuba was pushed a few years back at the rare fruit meetings and on this forum. Sure, may be improved variety, however, it is a stinky sour fruit not worthy of growing other than as an ornamental.
I've been bagging the fruit to protect them from birds.
Bird feeders are not, they are actually squirrel feeders.
A lesson from bagging fruit, thin heavily. Then you have less, but bigger fruit to bag. This makes the chore easier.
Dwarf musa Orinoco. Mostly because it is the only banana I can get to fruit. But it is very good and actually getting fruit is more than half the battle, right?
FHIA-03 AKA sweetheart is my favorite. Produces one or two pups at most, tolerates drought and poor soil better than other bananas, is one of the more attractive plants, relatively wind tolerant,highly disease resistant, does not lean to the point of needing support, and bears faster than most. Fruit quality is excellent but fruit are not large. Best overall variety in my yard so far.
Are you able to amend with ironite?Mine was fine in a pot when it got down to 34F (1c). I put it in ground last Feb with shade cloth on all side but not top, and it is doing fine. Our 8.5+ ph soil however is causing iron deficiency.
I have 2 trees and get hundreds of fruit every year.
I really like the fruit. I let them melt in my mouth and it's just like
a spoonful of peanut butter. Allot of people don't like it?
My wife and kids don't like the fruit. My oldest son said it reminds him
of boiled peanuts. He likes boiled peanuts but not this fruit?
Shpaz, thanks for the suggestions, the leaves on one of your photos are those of the tropical guava. I, too, have had no difficulty with cuttings of the tropical guava, but still interested in rooting cuttings of the feijoa. Certainly worth a try!
shpaz, what type of guava are you speaking of??
I have had decent success rooting tropical guavas, but NO success rooting feijoa/pineapple guava (in perlite!!)!
Also, does anyone know if strawberry guava (psidium cattleyanum) roots from cuttings? I have a branch that broke on my bush, and is barely hanging on there. I'd hate for it to go to waste.. maybe air layer it?