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Quote from: Waterfall on June 26, 2016, 07:21:41 AM
Which part of Australia would you be visiting?
Primary NSW, as well as Sydney and Canberra. Not much details yet.

In Sydney if you visit a place called Cabramatta you will find lots and lots of Asian fruit markets selling all kinds of tropical fruits. I'm not sure if this link will work but here are a couple of photos I took last time I was there https://www.facebook.com/urbanfruitfarmer/posts/1757345371217666

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Winter tropical fruits of AU?

« on: June 26, 2016, 07:21:41 AM »

Which part of Australia would you be visiting?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Questions about planting Achacha

« on: May 26, 2016, 07:38:37 PM »

video of Achacha plantation downunder.

https://youtu.be/th_9Pcfsv4U

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: when your wife agrees to let you have a hothouse

« on: May 24, 2016, 06:31:10 AM »

I keep mine above 10°C which is not hard since it is only really big enough for 1 mature tree or several small plants. The 10°C is to keep the soursop happy.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: when your wife agrees to let you have a hothouse

« on: May 23, 2016, 07:10:51 PM »

Quote from: jmc96 on May 23, 2016, 05:16:13 AM

When buying the plastic, get a roll of repair tape. you'll need it with all those Ironbarks closeby. Mine is full of holes because of the same problem. By the way, where are you? I'm on the coast between Sydney-Newcastle.
Ninety percent of mine was completed a year ago.

Are you monitoring temps? are you heating it in winter?

It looks great by the way.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: when your wife agrees to let you have a hothouse

« on: May 23, 2016, 01:18:25 AM »

Wow looks like a decent size, you should be able to fit a lot in.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: About me

« on: May 20, 2016, 06:46:29 AM »

Hello and welcome, I am in Sydney too.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mini-greenhouse project

« on: May 12, 2016, 06:42:38 PM »

Quote from: Delvi83 on May 12, 2016, 01:26:17 PM

Congratulation....during sunny day i think you'll have almost summer temperature in your greenhouse...it's small, near to the house and the Sydney Sun is high also during winter

Thanks, my logs from last year show a typical day time temp of around 27 C during winter inside the greenhouse, overnight it never drops below 10 C.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mini-greenhouse project

« on: May 12, 2016, 07:32:52 AM »

It's almost winter again downunder so I have put my soursop back in the greenhouse along with a pair of dwarf jackfruit seedlings (Nangka Mini) and some sapodilla seedlings I want to graft onto once they have grown some.

I have lots more garden photos on my facebook page too https://www.facebook.com/urbanfruitfarmer/?ref=bookmarks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Tamarillo care

« on: May 06, 2016, 12:13:52 AM »

Tamarillos grow really well for me in Sydney, keep them out of the wind and they don't need full sun.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: The science behind mango vegetative vs flowering flushes

« on: March 12, 2016, 07:01:37 AM »

I have 3 mango trees, all too small to be trying to hold fruit but they do flower. This summer just gone I gave them all lots of chook poo and all I got was vegetative growth and no flowers. I will keep doing this until I think they are big enough trees to hold fruit.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: is black sapote the most tasteless fruit in the history of fruit

« on: January 07, 2016, 09:50:13 PM »

Seems to be a polarizing fruit,

I took mine out of its prime position in the ground and stuck it in a container then gave that spot to a mango tree after reading about the bland taste.
Then my friend sends me some fruit off his tree and I just fell in love with the taste straight away! I don't mind that its in a container now though, it seems easier to keep the water up to it and position it out of the wind.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mini-greenhouse project

« on: December 22, 2015, 12:34:50 AM »

Some photos taken today.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mini-greenhouse project

« on: December 21, 2015, 04:37:40 PM »

Quote from: JeffDM on December 21, 2015, 03:10:23 PM

Great looking setup, but are there any concerns about moisture build up that close to the house?
Oops, just looked again and noticed that it was next to the garage, but I would still be concerned about moisture.

Thanks, I sloped the pavers away from the garage so any water will run away from it toward the garden. The garage is standalone, not connected to the house. It is not heated either so the only condensation that forms is inside the greenhouse and the garage remains dry.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: mini-greenhouse project

« on: December 21, 2015, 04:34:56 PM »

Quote from: Easefirst on December 20, 2015, 11:43:32 PM

I wonder, how your soursop is doing?

I will upload some photos soon.

It never really stopped growing through winter inside the greenhouse but very slow growth, mostly the trunk grows not a lot of leaves. At spring time I put it back outside and the growth sped up but still slow. Now its summer here and the growth has become very fast, the tree has a lot of large glossy leaves growing on it.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticabaholics Anonymous

« on: December 13, 2015, 04:42:47 PM »

We just finished eating all our first grimal harvest (see photo), I enjoyed them so much I have purchased a coronata. Finding space for it will be difficult, do they do well in containers or will it grow more rapid in the ground?