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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2018, 02:57:00 AM »

Can be a really excellent fruit. Doesn't taste anything like mangosteen. Actually i like the achachairu better than mangosteen. I didn't use to be so crazy about them, but seems like the tree produced much better quality fruits as it got older. Or maybe it was just the fert it got that year?

Then a good question might be which fert it got that year? I have a long way yet to taste mine from the seeds you sent me one year ago (still some of them are sprouting after 12 months in the pot, not winter protection), but any info is useful regarding how to improve taste of our fruit. :)
Forget now, but any balanced fertilizer is going to help. The fruits were not just tastier, but also much bigger in size.
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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2018, 01:22:14 AM »
The taste has been great so far but these are the last of them

We put some in the fridge to judge any changes in taste and they have similar to the ones that didn’t but skin did look worse and bigger percent of  bad ones


On the bright side auchacharu seedlings coming soon
@WGphil did you get these from Linda's in Texas? Did any of them sprout yet? I planted mine around 9/7 and none appear to have sprouted yet...

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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #27 on: September 27, 2018, 09:47:29 AM »
None so far

Not sure of how long they take to germinate

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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2018, 04:15:38 PM »
The taste has been great so far but these are the last of them

We put some in the fridge to judge any changes in taste and they have similar to the ones that didn’t but skin did look worse and bigger percent of  bad ones


On the bright side auchacharu seedlings coming soon
@WGphil did you get these from Linda's in Texas? Did any of them sprout yet? I planted mine around 9/7 and none appear to have sprouted yet...

Depending on temperature (and likely other factors) they can sprout in 2 months or in one year.

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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2018, 04:54:31 PM »
Would any of the souther cali growers recommend growing them from seeds that came from California fruit? If so does anyone have California seeds for sale?
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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #30 on: September 28, 2018, 05:11:05 PM »
Would any of the souther cali growers recommend growing them from seeds that came from California fruit? If so does anyone have California seeds for sale?
Don't think it's been fruited yet in California?
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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #31 on: June 28, 2019, 10:45:04 AM »
Can it survive to -2ºC frost or so?
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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #32 on: June 28, 2019, 08:17:04 PM »
I've been slogging through this 109 page Achachairu growers manual in Spanish from Bolivia.
https://frutales.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/o20-el-cultivo-de-achacairu.pdf

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Re: Achachairu Growing Information Please
« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2019, 12:10:59 PM »
Got about a half dozen seedlings

Traded one for a cambuca

Planted one in ground and trying to get others larger